August Challenge: Stamps & Die Cuts

Welcome to the August challenge! We’d love it if you’ll join us for the entire month! Each month we have a theme, and for August, our theme is STAMPS & DIE CUTS. You can use stamps by other companies to create projects that you enter to our challenges, although if you have our stamps in your stash, we'd be tickled if you use them -- and we've tweaked the prize a bit to encourage you to use our stamps if you have them!

Put your own spin on this month's theme -- as long as you use stamps in your projects (as opposed to projects without stamping whatsoever) and you incorporate die cuts (die cut shapes, die cut stickers, die cut chipboards, etc.), we'd love to see them!

PRIZE

The winner (as voted by the design team) receives 2 stamp sets of her choice if her project has STAMPlorations stamps in it. If there is no STAMPlorations stamp in the winning entry, the winner receives 1 stamp set of her choice. The other stamp set will go to a participant who used STAMPlorations stamps in her project. The winner also gets to be a guest designer in our next monthly challenge. (Visit the shop to see the available stamp sets.)

A TWIST IN OUR CHALLENGES

Participate in all 3 challenges we host this month and you'll be in the running to win this prize package courtesy of our sister shop, All About Scrapping.

City Sidewalks Parcel Tags and Snow Day Wood Shapes by Pink Paislee

INSPIRATION PROJECTS

Our guest designer is Karen Dunbrook, who was our July Challenge winner. Check out her blog to read more about the gorgeous card she created for this month's challenge.

Guest Designer

KAREN DUNBROOK

using SUBWAY ART BUILDERS: Create

"Thanks so much to Shery and the design team for choosing my card and inviting me to be the guest designer for August. I love stamping; it has become quite an addiction. I have to say that happened when I discovered Splitcoast Stampers and created a gallery there. Many cards later, I started my blog called Snippets. Anytime I can find snippets of time in my day, I love getting inky and playing with stamps."

And here are the projects that the STAMPlorations girls created. Clicking on our names will take you to our personal blogs where you can read more about how we created our projects. We hope they’ll inspire you and we're excited to see what you create!

CORNELIA

using Oh, Christmas Tree!

DEBRA

using SKETCHED: Cupcake

MARIA F.

using VIGNETTE: Art Deco Border Builders

SHIRLEY

using Boxed Blooms and Bold Sentiments, VIGNETTE: Live Love Laugh, and Sentiment Builders: Happy


VICKI
using Sentiment Builders: Celebrate and VIGNETTE: Celebrate Artsy

MONIKA

using VIGNETTE: Celebrate Artsy and Boxed Blooms & Bold Sentiments 

DEEPTI
using VIGNETTE: Trendy Feathers

KYLIE

using VIGNETTE: Retro Mod Shapes and VIGNETTE: Chevron and Arrows

SHERY

using Bloom Sketches

NONNI

using Boxed Blooms & Bold Sentiments and Holiday Hexagons

READY TO PLAY?

• Create a card, tag, mini album/scrapbook cover, layout, home decor item, or any paper craft that features STAMPS & DIE CUTS. Any style is welcome — CAS, shabby chic, vintage, grunge, and so on. Post your creation on your blog and submit it by 11:55 p.m. PDT on Saturday, August 31. Don’t have a blog? You can post a photo of your project on your Pinterest page, Flickr, or any public online gallery. (Please note: If the theme isn't obvious in your submission, we reserve the right to remove your entry.)

• You must use stamps (rubber, cling, clear, digi — from any company) in your creation(s).

• Copy the link of your blog entry where you have your project posted and enter it to the linky found at the end of this post. Remember to link directly to your blog post, not just your blog URL. (This will make it easy for us to find your submission and leave a comment. Please turn off word verification as well.)

• Include a text link back to this challenge post in your blog post and encourage other paper crafters to participate.

• You can submit a maximum of 3 entries for this challenge.

• You can submit your creation(s) to other challenges — as many as you want.

• Be a follower of our blog to qualify for the prize.

• And lastly, have a great time creating your project!

We'll announce the winner and top picks on Thursday, September 4, here on the STAMPlorations™ blog and on the All About Scrapping page on Facebook. That’s it…we look forward to seeing what you create! 

~ The STAMPlorations™ girls

PS: Check out the stamp sets we're releasing this month and in September! Preview them here! Bloom Sketches will be available starting next week and the September stamps will be available at a special pre-release price starting August 20.