A CHALLENGE FOR JANUARY 2015 - SCENIC STAMPING

Happy New Year all.  Thanks for reading our blog through 2014, and thanks always for your kind comments, and now on with 2015, and our first challenge of the new year.

The subject for the challenge has been chosen by Coco, and is the title of 'Scenic Stamping'.  We would love it if you would show Coco your support by linking in an entry before the end of January.  Basically the title suggests that you create some kind of a scene involving at least one of our products in the make.  The scene might be made using just one of our collage stamps, or might incorporate several of the items from an Elements plate, or might use several of our different stamps combined together - to tell a bit of a story.  I think it is a really good subject to choose, and gives lots of scope for experiment.

Here are the usual guidelines to follow:

CHALLENGE GUIDELINES

To enter this month's Crafty Individuals Challenge please put together your chosen project, which must include at least one Crafty Individuals product please, then post your Challenge project on your Blog, before the end of the month, and include a link back to this Blog.  Leave a link in the URL box displayed in this post to take us directly to your Challenge project, which will then appear on this Blog as a thumbnail image - so we can all see your wonderful arty work.

At the end of the month Coco will set about choosing five lucky participants, each of whom will win a CI rubber stamp of their choice, and don't forget that as per usual, once you have linked in your creation, you can also claim a lovely 25% discount code to use on anything you purchase from the CI Website, which will be valid until the 10th of February.

Go for it, and enjoy the challenge x

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As always we look forward to seeing your entries - you will be in with a chance of winning a free stamp, and you will also be able to obtain a cool 25% CI web discount.  When you have linked in your entry please email us at info@craftyindividuals.co.uk to obtain your special code, and then go shopping!

And now its time for a bit of inspiration to get you creatively focussed.

Lets start with some makes by Coco herself to inspire.  I love this scene she has created very cleverly with Christmas themed stamps..

 

CI-254 makes an appearance here, plus CI-421, and several more.  A great work of art.  Then I have a tag scene, again by Coco, to show that the idea can be fairly complicated, as above, or quite simple, but still creating something of a scene...

Laury has used the same stamp in her winter's scene, and has added some very pretty trees and stars to the card too....

And the final piece of scenic stamping inspiration tonight is by lovely Joanna....

.... very pretty in pink, and totally fabulous!  The focal stamp here is CI-331.

Hope you begin to get the idea, and of course without your support we couldn't run the challenge.  So please join in, and we do so look forward to seeing your ideas linked in above!!

Lots more to follow,

Jean x