June 2016 – Stamp, Ink, Paper Challenge

SIP Challenge 54 – Colors from Sandy!

Hello friends! Are you enjoying the summer if you are here in the states?! I know I am! I love the warm weather! I know that some of you have had much hotter weather than I think anyone should have! I still think it beats snow! I saw a video of a guy baking cookies on his dashboard! I’ll bet it smelled good in there! Thanks so much for playing along with last week’s CASE the Designer Challenge! Your cards were all awesome and congratulations once again to the Design Team picks! For our fifty-fourth challenge we have a floral theme!! You have until Sunday evening at 8:00pm on July 3rd to enter your project. Winners announced on Monday, July4th! 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…

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 53!

Happy Monday! The start of a new week with new possibilities! We hope that you all are enjoying your summer weekends, I know that I am! The weather in the New York area has been great! Thanks to all of you for playing along with last week’s CASE the Designer Challenge!! we had so much fun seeing your interpretations of our cards! Now here are this week’s Design Team picks:

LeAnne – Wee Inklings

Sandy – I adore LeAnne’s CASE of my card! The big, bold sunflower is just awesome, I love the sentiment in the center, and the stitched die cuts add so much detail. Congrats!

Kathie – Stamp with Kathie

Maggie – Kathie Durgan. Not because she cased my card, but for taking the card up a few notches. The added elements make it so much more spectacular and a card that I’m going to CASE myself! 🙂

Robin – Songbird Designs by Robin

Carolyn – Beautiful sympathy card, love the colours you chose and Lisa’s card does make a great design for your card. Congrats!

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 53 – CASE The Design Team!

Hello and welcome to this week’s Stamp, Ink, Paper Challenge! We have some exciting news! We are adding another talented member to our Design Team! Please help me welcome Crystal aka Super Stamp Girl! Crystal has been playing along with us for quite a while and has been a weekly DT pick quite a few times! If you want to know more about her click on the Design Team button at the top of the post! Welcome to SIP Crystal! We are so happy to have you with us! For our fifty-third challenge we have a fun CASE the Designer Challenge for you!! Pick one of the Design Team’s cards and CASE it!! You have until Sunday evening at 8:00pm on June 26th to enter your project. Winners announced on Monday, June 27th! 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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Prize Winners for Challenge 52!!

Hi everyone!! Thank you all for playing along with us for our One Year Anniversary Challenge! Your cards inspire us just as much as ours are meant to inspire you! As we said we are going to have three winners of prizes from our amazing Design Team! If you are a winner please send an email to sipchallenge at gmail dot com with your address so we can get your goodies out you! Now here are this week’s Design Team picks:

Maura – Splitcoast

Tina – I just love her subtle yet beautiful watercolor wash backdrop for her flower wedding card! Her color choice and splatters are just perfect!

Kathy – Stamps at Play

Andrea – Kathy, I just loved your cute and fun coffee card! Being a coffee lover myself I was drawn to your card! You also used one of my favorite Stampin’ Up! Papers!!

Christ Q – SchauzerCrafts Creations

Justin – I love the simplicity of your card Christy! That Ombre pineapple is so cool and really pops off the card! The sequins don’t hurt either! 🙂

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 52 – Card Maker’s Choice and One Year Anniversary!

Hello and welcome to the one year anniversary of the Stamp, Ink, Paper Challenge! Can you believe that it has already been a year?! We have had so much fun creating the challenges and seeing all of your beautiful work that you share with us in the gallery each week! To thank you we are going to have three giveaways! All you have to do is enter a card in this week’s challenge! We hope to have some participants from Australia where Carolyn will be suppling the goodies! And the other two winners from this week’s challenge will get some goodies from the rest of us! Everyone has something to add to the prize pack! You can find out what each person is giving by checking out their blog and to make that easier we have a Hop for you! If you click on the NEXT button and the very bottom of this post you will go to JK Cards and start the hop from there! For our fifty-second challenge we have one of your favorites!! Card Maker’s Choice! You have until Sunday evening at 8:00pm on June 19th to enter your project. Winners announced on Monday, June 20th! 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 51!

Hello there! Did you all have a nice weekend?! I know that I did! The weather was really nice if not a bit windy, but the Stamp, Ink, Paper store is really close to the water so it’s always a little windier there! Tomorrow is our fifty-second challenge! We are a year old! To thank you all for sticking with us we will be having some fun things planned for you! Make sure that you come back tomorrow to see what we are doing and what the next challenge is! It’s a favorite and we want as many of you to play along as possible! Thanks to all of you for playing along with last week’s Sunsets Challenge!! I love that some people took the challenge literally and some used the colors!! Way to go!! Now here are this week’s Design Team picks:

Crystal – Super Stamp Girl

Andrea – Your card is beautiful. The colors are soft and serene. There is so much detail and color to this! Fabulous job!

Lisa – Scrapbook Driver

Lisa – Lisa your card is just gorgeous. I am so looking forward to my vacation out west next week, and this just makes me even more excited. SO pretty!!!! It looks just like my memories of Montana and the mountains!!

Maura – Splitcoast

Dena – I love the sponging used to create the sunset on the water with the sailboat. I really like the blue and yellow tones used. Gorgeous results!!

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 51 – Sunsets!

Hello and welcome to this week’s Stamp, Ink, Paper Challenge! We want to thank Jan for being our Guest Designer and sharing her talents with us for the month of May! Now it’s time to welcome our Guest Designer for June, Jeanna Bohanan! Jeanna has been a Stampin’ Up! Artisan two years in a row and is currently on the TGIF Challenge Design Team! We are so happy to have Jeanna with us this month! As you know our fifty-second challenge is coming up next week and we are going to be doing some fun things to celebrate! For our fifty-first challenge we have a gorgeous sunset inspiration picture!! You can use the image colors for inspiration! You have until Sunday evening at 8:00pm on June 12th to enter your project. Winners announced on Monday, June 13th! 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 50!

Hi all! I hope that you had a nice weekend! The warmer weather is finally here and I’m loving it even if it did rain most of the day in NY! Thanks to all of you for playing along with last week’s Sketch Challenge!! We so enjoy seeing all of the different way you use it to make your gorgeous cards!! Thank you!! Now here are this week’s Design Team picks:

Steph – Perry Papercrafts

Ginger – I just love your creation with the sketch this week! Beautiful choice of papers and that triple layered butterfly is gorgeous! Thank you so much for playing along with us this week!

Yapha – Stamps & Scraps with Yapha

Maggie – Yapha, you’re card instills so much pride and it’s what AMERICA needs right now! I love anything that shows our Red, White, and Blue!

Jan – Scrapbooking Stuff

Carolyn – I really like how you turned the sketch and used elements to make your male card. Wonderful.

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! 🙂