Happy Canada Day to all you Crazy Canucks!!

First let me thank all those that participated in this challenge. There were SO MANY ENTRIES! They were all beautiful! Thanks so much for participating!! So without keeping you all in suspense any longer the winner of this challenge is......Betty Wright! Congratulations! Please forward your choice of a Class Act line of rubber stamp to Carol along with your address to sales(at)classact.ca

We are running another challenge, and how fitting for Canada day.

This is going to be a color challenge using Red, White and Green. That should give you many options for your creativity.

Rules for this Challenge:

Must be made using rubberstamps

You do not need to use a Class Act or Chapel Road Artstamp for the challenge, but if you do use one of our stamps, it gives you two entries for the draw instead of one. We know you love to stamp, but please....one entry per person. If you want to do more than one project, we would be happy to put them on our website. :) The winner receive a stamp of their choice from the Class Act Stamp Line.

Just add the link to your blog post or project below by using the “Add Your Link” button!
Project deadline is Thursday July 14, 2011 at 7:00p.m.

Leave a direct link to a new project, using any image..

Now to inspire your creativity are some of the Design Team creations.

To find out the “how to” on their projects, just click on their name above the project.

Sue Allen















Sheila Bartlett




















Chelsea Barnes

Double Dose of Sue

Hi everyone! We get another double dose of Sue today (mainly due to my slacking...sorry, Sue!) Good thing we can never get tired of her work :)

Greetings
With the summer weather finally back it's time to think about sea and sand again...not sweaters and socks! When I looked at this Seahorse stamp it screamed Zentangle at me! (Sometimes my stamps do that) This one is perfect because a lot of the detail is already done..all you have to do is fill in some of the spaces and do a background. The coloured part is the actual stamp and I left the background uncoloured so the Seahorses would be more visible. Some cheesecloth (I love that stuff!) and some starfish stickers were all that was needed. I really like using the vertical greetings from the Class Act Stamps line. They fit into tiny awkward spaces perfectly.
Enjoy the sun as much as you can...the snow seems to last such a long, long time!

Sue



Greetings

A woman's work is never done. I guess a Mermaid's isn't either. Time to wash the barnacles out of your dainties and delicates. This was a real 'brain-burner'..but loads of fun using all sorts of different techniques. The Mermaid was coloured with prisma pencils and OMS then carefully cut out. After the card was made she was popped up on foam dots, stuck on the rock and blinged beyond her wildest imagination. The rock is a piece of gray cardstock torn and crumbled and swiped with a gray ink pad. For the water I used alcohol inks on glossy cardstock then torn towards me to simulate white caps. The sky is sponged using a torn paper towel (rather than a piece of paper). I think it gives a nicer detail to the clouds making them more believable. The birds are tiny check marks using a black marker. Finally a dolphin sticker, pieces of scrap fabric and a starfish were added. Sure hope she gets her laundry finished before it rains!

Stay Cool
Sue

Here we are already the third week into June and it is time for another Chapel Road challenge.
First like always, we would like to thank all that participated in the Class Act Challenge. Now to announce the winner (drum roll please)
the winner is...............Christine. Please contact Carol at sales(at)classact.ca and let her know which stamp you would like from the Class Act Stamp line. We will get this out to you once Canada Post gets back to work. A little patience may be required LOL

So onto the new challenge.
This challenge is to have a vintage look to it. Some wonderful ideas from our Design Team have used our newest images and some older images. All are wonderful!!

Rules for the Challenge
Must be a vintage theme using rubberstamps.
You do not need to use a Class Act or Chapel Road Artstamp for the challenge, but if you do use one of our stamps, it gives you two entries for the draw instead of one. We know you love to stamp, but please...one entry per person. If you want to do more than one project, we would be happy to put them on our website. The winner will receive a stamp of their choice from the Class Act Stamp Line.

Just add the link to your blog post or project below by using the “Add Your Link” button!
Project deadline is Thursday June 30, 2011 at 7:00p.m.




Now onto the Beautiful Creations from our Awesome Design Team. To find out the “how to” on their projects, just click on their name above the project.

Barbara Washington



















Gini Williams Cagle




















Suzanne Czosek

















Holly Brown















Chelsea Barnes

Greetings

The new releases for June are all kinda 'fishie'! LOL I can't say that I have ever wanted to be a Mermaid (it must be awkward when you are on a girls day out and they all want to go shoe shopping) but this Mermaid was so much fun to colour and accessorize it wouldn't matter! I coloured her 'tail' with prisma pencils and then used perfect pearls to give the scales some iridescence. Her hair is done the same way. Peel-offs were used to accessorize her top and all that jewellery. The background was sponged with various blues on glossy paper then put through a cuttlebug folder. The ground is a piece of sandpaper (going into DH's workshop again!) with the edge torn and a piece of cheese cloth added. Various shells stuck on top and the seaweed is torn pits of tissue paper. A die-cut finishes the frame.

The weather is looking good this week so get outside.

Stay cool
Sue

Good Mornin' Bloggies!!

Well, another challenge is done, and we have another winner. First let me thank everyone that participated. ***“THANK YOUUUUUUUU”***
The winner of this challenge is Deb. Congratulations!!!! YAY!! Please contact Carol at sales(at)classact.ca and let her know which CLASS ACT stamp you would like, along with your address.

With all this great weather, we thought it was only fitting to bring out a new stamp release! Woo woo!! This release consists of gorgeous mermaids, some fun friends, and a something you don’t see everyday.............mermen.
Check out the new images here!
The next challenge will consist of a sketch challenge which is below. Let your imagination go WiLd for this and have some fun!! For this, see the picture below (pink) and follow that layout! See the DT creations to guide you further.


To enter, you do not need to use a Class Act stamp in order to play along, but like always, if you use one of our stamps in your entry, you will receive two entries for a chance to win a free Class Act rubberstamp of your choice. One entry per person please.

Just add the link to your blog post or project below by using the “Add Your Link” button!
Project deadline is Thursday June 16, 2011 at 7:00p.m.

Leave a direct link to a new project, using any image..




Now to inspire your creativity, here are some creations from our design team. For instructions, please click on their name above the project.
Have a great weekend, and get those entries in for your chance to win free rubbah!

Sue Allen















Sheila Bartlett


















Claudine Poch

















Chelsea Barnes

Greetings

A friend gifted me with this fabulous label. She said when she saw it she thought of me! I am not sure whether I should be chuffed or miffed because when she saw garbage my name just popped into her head! I guess I will go with the first one. The Count stamp was an obvious choice to accompany it. There is also a wonderful Lady stamp that would make a great companion stamp for say an anniversary or wedding card. I stuck the label down on black card stock with double-sided tape and embedded it with an embossing folder. The Count was stamped in versamark and heat embossed with Class Act embossing powder, trimmed and distressed around the edge and mounted on a piece of red card stock. The ribbon treatment uses a piece of very sticky double-sided tape. The ribbon is ruffled as you lay it down. I like to use a bamboo skewer to keep the folds even. The greeting was made using my Dymo label maker.

Hope everyone is enjoying the first Canadian holiday long-weekend of the summer. Otherwise known as the 'two-four' weekend. Somehow I have a feeling that Queen Victoria would not be amused!

Enjoy your blessings.
Sue

Chapel Road Challenge

Shiver me timbers fellow Bloggers!

Let me first of all congratulate the winner of the last Challenge which is..................THERESE! Congratulations, and thank you all for participating. Would the winner please forward their address to Carol at sales(at)classact.ca along with your choice of Class Act stamp.

Now as you can probably tell from the opening statement, Class Act line of shttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.giftamps has new pirate stamps online and ready for their adventures in the stamping world! Check them out here! Seriously...is anyone as excited as I am to see the next Pirates of the Carribean movie? Okayyyy, so they should have ended it after the 2nd...or 3rd...movie...but if they're going to keep giving it to us I'm going to continue watching!!

Also online are the new stamps that make you move...........with gears that is. The DT has done a few samples using this line of stamps, and have done an awesome job as they always do! You can check the samples and stamps out here.

Now!! On to the Challenge:

This is an Male-oriented ANYTHING GOES challenge.
Whatever you want to make is fine with us, as long as it is using rubber stamps, of course, and appeals to the guys!
To enter you do not need to use a Class Act or Chapel Road stamp, BUT (like always) if you use one of our stamps for your project, you will have two entries for the draw to win a stamp of your choice.

One extra way to get an extra entry is to refer a friend to our blog to participate in the challenge but make sure the person lets us know that they heard it from you!
The winner will receive a Class Act stamp of their choice.

Just add the link to your blog post or project below by using the “Add Your Link” button!
Project deadline is Thursday June 02, 2011.




Now without further adieu, the DT’s wonderful creations to help inspire you!
For instructions on their projects, just click on their name and it will take you to their blog on how to create it.

Suzanne Czosek








Holly Brown



















Gini Williams Cagle



















Chelsea Barnes



















Barbara Washington



















Woo woo woo!!! Happy Long Weekend, Canucks!!