Ready Set Stamp: Submissions Wanted!

Craft Stamper Magazine is looking for submissions for their Ready, Set, Stamp feature on the following theme for the September issue of Craft Stamper. If you've always wanted to see YOUR card in print, now is your chance!! 

       Colours: Burnt Orange, Umber, Golden Yellow, Deep Maroon.

 Deadline for submission: 24th May 2016

· Please email your submissions to cs@traplet.com

· Please put 'Ready Set Stamp' followed by the theme in the subject line

· Please note that due to the number of submissions it's not possible to contact every entrant individually - if you have not heard from them within one week, your submission has not been successful. Please try again with a different card!

Guidelines:

· Please make cards only for this gallery.
 . Please do not use stamps that are discontinued for this article.
. They do not accept cards ONLY created with digital stamps for this feature. Digital stamps MUST be used in conjunction with rubber/polymer stamping to qualify.

· Cards which are selected need to be posted to the Craft Stamper offices in the UK.

· This call IS open internationally.

· Note that they do choose artwork as it arrives, so please don't wait until the last minute to submit if your cards are ready.

· Cards will be returned at their expense, along with a complimentary copy of the magazine in which your card features. Note this can take approx. three months.

· Please follow both the theme AND the colour scheme when creating your cards. You can add black, white and metallics to any of the schemes. The ideas given are simply that, ideas, and do not have to be followed to the letter!

· Text for this article is required (don't worry - it is short!) and should be entered into the document provided – this will be sent to you if you are selected.

Good Luck!!

This weeks Outlawz Challenge

Sunday - CAS: Snowman
Monday - Greeting:Inspired by Holiday Movie
Tuesday - Color:

Wednesday - Sketch:

Twisted Thursday: Girly Girly
Friday - Coloring Challenge: Color Inspiration
Saturday - Paper a la Mode: Anything Goes

This weeks Outlawz Challenge

Current Challenges

Sunday - CAS: Anything Goes
Monday - Greeting: Music (anywhere on your card)
Tuesday - Color:

Wednesday - Sketch:

Twisted Thursday: Girly Girly
Friday - Coloring Challenge: Color Inspiration
Saturday - Paper a la Mode: Anything Goes

I do not know about you but I just love Tuesday's colours and can definitely see myself using it to create my own gift wrap for Friday's challenge with a musical card for Monday's challenge, how about you?

This weeks Outlawz Challenge

Sunday - CAS: Woman Power

Monday - Greeting: Burnishing

Tuesday - Color: 

Wednesday - Sketch: 

Twisted Thursday: Anything Goes

Friday - Coloring Challenge: Anything Goes/Optional Christmas Twist

Saturday - Paper a la Mode: Frame Your Image

Outlawz Challenges

Outlawz will be so happy if you decided to join in!  So what are you waiting for come join in at:  http://outlawzchallenges.ning.com.  They have some exciting challenges for you with montly prize draws!  So come by each week to check out the challenge as they change  weekly. The Outlawz team want everyone to have fun with the challenges, so if you have any questions, please ask :)  Here is a few guidelines though to help you if you do decide to come play....

Challenge Rules

1. Your projects must be new. No back linking (cannot be posted anywhere prior to the posting of this challenge)
   
2. You can enter the challenges as many times per week as you like...BUT...you can only link ONE entry per week into the monthly Inlinkz.
3.  Please post your own creations only to the challenges
4. In order to be eligible for the site's monthly prizes, you must link us up with the Inlinkz so...LINK US UP!! :)

Directions for entering a challenge:

1. Go to the box under "Reply to this":
2. At top of the box, you will see "link" with a light blue square next to it. The square is for entering your image. When you hover your cursor over the top of it, it will say "Image."
   
3. Click the light blue square and add your photo.
   
4. Set width to 400 pixels.
   
5. If you are using a link, enter it into the link box.
   
6. Click ADD REPLY.
7. After you place your card in the challenge, add it to the gallery and tag it with the appropriate code, given at the beginning o each challenge
   
8. Last, enter it into that months Inlinkz located in the menu bar, at the top of every page, right under The Outlawz header. Click on the Inlinkz tab, then click on the "Month Inlinkz" tab, then the "Add your link" blue bar now enter your link. 

 

Dialy Challenges:

I hope this will interest you.  I will be posting a little more on each challenge shortly.

 

Crafty Challenges

 Sometimes it's just nice to have to 'think outside the box' for the sake of it and to make something you may not otherwise make so I use challenges for this and sometimes even combining more then one for a specific project.  I do not nessarily enter the challenge as some of the challenges have rules I can not really bother to follow and it feels like the "papercrafting" polivce will come for you if you dare stray from there rules.  It can however be a great way to expand your stash if yous tick to all their stringent rules.

You have to remember a few things if you are going to enter challenges though like:
Linking to your actual creation, by this they mean the actual blog post with it in and not your entire blog. You can understand this rule as you may make a post a day and the challenge blog may not get round to viewing your creation for a week or two and have to scroll through looking for your entry which consumes a lot of time. It is also advisable to link back to them or at the very least a mention to the challenge name and challenge host.


Some challenge blogs will not even consider your entry if the links are not done correctly so have a quick read of all the rules and if you want to be considered for the prizes, do this correctly.  Most of the time there will be a tutorial or explanation on the challenge blog of how exactly they would like it done.

I will be updating the challenge regularly as I find new challenges because I think it is a great way to get you out of a crafting rut and challenge you imagination to make the most of all your craft stash.

Weekly Challenges:

Splitcoast Stampers

• MONDAY  Try a New Technique Clean and Simple Cards  Scrapbook Inspiration
• TUESDAY Color Challenges Teapot Challenges Digital Scrapbooking
• WEDNESDAY Card Sketches Scrapbook Variety
• THURSDAY Ways to Use It
• FRIDAY Free for All Mix-Ability Scrapbook Sketch
• SATURDAY Inspiration Challenge
• SUNDAY Featured Stamper
• MONTHLY Christmas Cards Scrapbook Goals Cards for a Cause
• ONGOING Virtual Stamp Night Virtual Scrapbooking Night
• ANNUAL Hope You Can Cling To Dare to Get Dirty

 Outlawz Challenges

• MONDAY Greeting Card Challenge
• TUESDAY Color Challenge
• WEDNESDAY Sketch Challenge
• THURSDAY Optional Twist
• FRIDAY Alcohol Markers
• SATURDAY Paper Ala Mode
• SUNDAY Clean and Simple

DailyDare4U

 The Daily Dare lists team challenges only as there are too many independent demonstrator challenges to include them all.  It is a ver comprehensive list though.  They also have a list of places you can find Card Sketches from.

Card and Craft Challenge list

Another stunning list with tons of challenges.

Monday

The Pink Elephant
Mojo Monday A card sketch challenge created by Julee Tilman in 2007 on Poetic Artistry before moving here in 2009.
Stamp with Fun!

Monthly Challenges:

Kaarten-maken-met-Tiets 

Here you can find a lovey card scketch as well as a Digistamp Challenge

Next time I will be telling you more about Design Teams and the criteria most Organizers would like you to meet, so till the next time practise your craft, enter challenges and send your creations into magazines to get published.

Looking for challenges

Here is a good place to find them, Julia have them listed with challenges for each day from various blogs. Also visit her blog, Creative Makes, to she how she makes the most of them.

Marie Curie Create a Card for Cancer Care campaign 2009

Just a Quick update on my challenge to myself. I decided that I needed to create and donate 200 cards this year, on Monday me and David went to drop off the first 127 at our Eastbourne branch (54 Terminus Road, Eastbourne). So if you are in the area feel free to go have a look and maybe donate some yourself. I am currently working on the rest and will be posting photo's of these shortly.

For more details about how you can get involved in the Create a Card for Cancer Care campaign 2009 visit www.create-a-card-for-cancer-care.org