April 2016 – Stamp, Ink, Paper Challenge

SIP Challenge 45 – Welcome Baby!

Hello and welcome to the forty-fifth Stamp, Ink, Paper Challenge! Thank you for sharing you fun beachy cards for last week’s Inspiration Challenge!! For our forty-fifth challenge we are welcoming baby!! We all need baby cards, I’ll need one this July when a new niece or nephew arrives! The Design Team has come up with some awesome cards to get you started! You have until Sunday evening at 8:00pm on May 1st to enter your project. Winners announced on Monday, May 2nd! We can’t wait to see what you come up with!

And here is this week’s challenge badge…

And here is what our talented Design Team has come up with…

Dena Rekow

Off this week!
Maggie Mata

Let us know what your thoughts are by leaving a comment below! We can’t wait to see your creations and look forward to choosing picks for this week! Again, the challenge winners will be posted on Monday! Thank you and have a crafty week! 🙂

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Winners for Challenge 44!

Hi all! Starting off another week with nice weather, hopefully the same is true for you! Thanks to all of you that participated in last week’s Inspiration Challenge! Your cards all had that nice beachy feel to them and we loved them all!! Now here are this week’s Design Team picks:

Maria – Swim, Bike, Run and Stamp

Ginger – Maria your card is stunning! Love the image you used and your watercoloring is awesome. The knot you used was perfect for your card! Thank you so much for sharing the tutorial to make it.

Gail – Greetings from Gail

Carolyn – I love how your lighthouse in your watercoloured seaside scene protrudes into the skyline. Beautiful!

Elizabeth – Crafts By Happy Stamper

Andrea – I love the creativity of the fish bowl! The card really resembled coastal living!

Congratulations to the winning picks! Don’t forget to get your badge below and we hope to see you back here tomorrow for our next challenge! Enjoy the rest of your Monday! 🙂

SIP Challenge 44 – Inspiration!

Hello and welcome to the forty-fourth Stamp, Ink, Paper Challenge! Thanks for playing along with last week’s Sketch Challenge!! We enjoyed seeing your interpretation of the Sketch!! For our forty-fourth challenge we have a fun Inspiration Picture!! It’s actually the Fire Island Light House that is not too far from me on Long Island! You can use the beach theme or the colors to inspire you! The Design Team has come up with some cool cards to get you started! You have until Sunday evening at 8:00pm on April 24th to enter your project. Winners announced on Monday, April 25th! We can’t wait to see what you come up with!

And here is this week’s challenge badge…

And here is what our talented Design Team has come up with…

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Winners for Challenge 43!

Happy Monday!! It was a nice sunny weekend here on the East Coast! I hope that you all had nice weather and a good weekend by you! Thanks to all of you that participated in last week’s Sketch Challenge! It’s so cool for us to see all of the different interpretations of the sketch! Now here are this week’s Design Team picks:

Vicki – It’s a Stamp Thing

Sandy – Vicki’s gorgeous coloring stole my heart! I love that beautiful bloom and the pretty colors.

Jan – Scrapbooking Stuff

Carolyn – Your pretty butterfly first caught my eye perched upon the lovely green leaves. Very elegant!

Kathie – Stamp with Kathie

Maggie – I love the how you cut each flower and paired the colors with the English Garden DSP. It’s bold and rich and the butterfly in Hello Honey balances it all out. LOVE IT!!!

Congratulations to the winning picks! Don’t forget to get your badge below and we hope to see you back here tomorrow for our next challenge! Enjoy the rest of your Monday! 🙂

SIP Challenge 43 – Sketch!

Hello and welcome to the forty-third Stamp, Ink, Paper Challenge! A big thanks to all of you that created those beautiful cards for last week’s Color Challenge! They were absolutely amazing! For our forty-third challenge we have a nice simple sketch!! You can keep it simple and elegant or go all out! The Design Team has some great inspiration for you on both ends of that spectrum! You have until Sunday evening at 8:00pm on April 17th to enter your project. Winners announced on Monday, April 18th! We can’t wait to see what you come up with!

And here is this week’s challenge badge…

And here is what our talented Design Team has come up with…

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Winners for Challenge 42!

Hello friends! I hope that you enjoyed your weekend! We have been experiencing November like weather here, go home April, you’re drunk! LOL! Thank you all for playing along with our color challenge! You guys knocked it out of the park! Now here are this week’s Design Team picks:

Laurie – Stamping Up North

Tenia – What a super rad card!! 🙂

Kathy – Faithful INKsprirations

Tina – I can’t help but smile at that sweet creature holding those balloons! I also love the different shades of blue in the fish and the overall balance! Well done Kathy, congrats!

Manuela – elasdistrict

Andrea – What an unexpected creation and the perfect card for a book lover or even a teacher! Congrats Manuela!

Sarah – Essjay Cards

Justin – I love the way that Sarah stamped the flower, it has such a graphic feel to it and the heat embossing on vellum, one of my favorite ways to add a greeting! Congrats Sarah!

Congratulations to the winning picks! Don’t forget to get your badge below and we hope to see you back here tomorrow for our next challenge! Enjoy the rest of your Monday! 🙂

SIP Challenge 42 – Colors!

Hello and welcome to the forty-second Stamp, Ink, Paper Challenge! Today we welcome our Guest Designer for April, Tenia Nelson! Tenia is a talented paper crafter from Denver Colorado. She is on a number of different Design Teams and we are so happy to have her with us this month! You can visit Tenia’s blog HERE!

A big thanks to all of you that shared your amazing cards with us for last week’s Wedding Theme! For our forty-second challenge we have a soothing Color Challenge!! I love blues, they make me think of the water and summer which can’t get here soon enough! You have until Sunday evening at 8:00pm on April 10th to enter your project. Winners announced on Monday, April 11th! We can’t wait to see what you come up with!

Now here is this week’s challenge badge…

And here is what our talented Design Team has come up with…

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Winners for Challenge 41!

Hello everyone! I hope that you enjoyed your weekend! We had some wicked wind here in NY yesterday! Oh Spring where did you go?! Thank you all for playing along in our Wedding Theme Challenge! What an awesome collection of cards! Now here are this week’s Design Team picks:

Laurie – Stamping Up North

Dena – I love the simple color combo and all the beautiful punches against the partial-embossed background. Just gorgeous, Laurie!!

Roseanne Mulhern – Heartfelt Stamping

Andrea – I love the tag, colors and embossing! Your bow is adorable! Great Job!!

Eva – Eva Bussom

Lisa – Just love Eva’s card. I love the layers, the embossing, the colors. Beautifully simple.

Congratulations to the winning picks! Don’t forget to get your badge below and we hope to see you back here tomorrow for our next challenge! Enjoy the rest of your Monday! 🙂