Challenge #177 Gold & Silver

Happy Tuesday from Georgia! 
How are you enjoying our Christmas in July theme? Bet you're getting ideas for your holiday cards {although I know some of you have already finished yours for the year}.

Don't forget to check out the Christmas in July category in our webstore, you'll get 15% off everything in that category with this coupon code: SNOWJULY.

We continue our Christmas theme with a popular metallic holiday color combination...

GOLD and/or SILVER

Check out these gold & silver designs by our talented DT sweeties:

Carolyn LaBille

Irit Shalom

Kendra Sand

Tamara Morton

We'd love to see a gold & silver creation you've made (cards, scrapbook pages, mixed media, ATCs, etc.), so come and join the fun! You could win a $20 shopping spree for goodies at SweetStamps.com's online store by playing along in our challenge! Click here for our complete Challenge Rules.

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Our Monthly Technique Challenge is Painter's Tape Backgrounds and runs through July 14th. Come join us and check out what our DT Sweeties made! View ALL the monthly challenges here.

***Don't forget to check back later this week for more inspiration from our DT Sweeties and monthly Guest Designers!***

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Happy Stamping! 

Have a super sweet week!

 

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Steampunk Necklace

Hello my fine feathered friends!

I thought I'd try my hand at steampunk, and I'd love your feed back!

Let's make this!

What you need:

Acrylic charm

Gear Necklace

Cord Necklace

Pinch Bail

Enamel Adhesive Fluid

Enamel Powders: Victorian Bronze, Vintage Black, Aged White

Enamel Gels: Gold, Copper

Glastique

E600 Glue

Word Sticker (Tim Holtz), sparkling ultra fine glitter (My Stamp Box), mica chips (USArt Quest), metal gear brad (Eyelet Outlet), alcohol inks (Ranger), clamp or clothespin.



What to do:

1. Peel the blue protective stuff off of both sides of the acrylic charm. Ink up the front with alcohol inks. 

 

2.  Punch out the gear and coat the two larger gears with enamel adhesive fluid. Coat one gear with Vintage Black powder and the other with Aged White powder. Heat to melt the powders and activate the adhesive. Coat the remaining gear and the little turn key with gold 3D Enamel Gel. Coat the two circles that punched out of the gears with Copper enamel gel. Let dry.

3. Once your gears are completely dry and set, cut the prongs off the gear brad and use a little E600 to adhere it over the largest gear. Clamp together for a few minutes to ensure a secure bond.

4. Paint some glossy Glastique onto the acrylic charm. Sprinkle with the sparkling glitter and mica flakes. Let dry and then use a soft paint brush to sweep off the excess.

5. Paint the back of the sticker with Glastique and add it to the bottom edge of the charm. Coat top of sticker with matte Glastique.

6. Use the E600 glue to adhere the gears to the charm (I use a toothpick to put the glue onto the gears). Clamp down (put your clamp on the metal gear so you don't mar the surface) for a few minutes to be sure it's good and stuck. Add the two copper circles, the bail, and put onto the necklace. There ya go!!

Silver or Gold Winner

The winner of SweetStamps.com's challenge #91 Silver or Gold is...

Piali

Congratulations!

Please contact me for your winning prize of a $20 shopping spree for rubber stamps at SweetStamps.com.

Thank you to everyone who joined in on the challenge, we hope you had fun and will join us again — we have a new challenge every Tuesday, and also a new monthly technique challenge!

Challenge #91 Silver or Gold

Hello crafty friends! It's time for another weekly challenge at SweetStamps.com. This week's theme is...

Silver or Gold

We'd love to see your creation, so join in the fun! Remember to use a SweetStamps image on your creation to get an extra chance at winning $20 of rubber stamps from SweetStamps.com. Rules are listed in the sidebar and instructions can be found at the bottom of this post.

Take a look at these creations from our design team sweeties this week:

Bonnie Brown

Calypso Bastian

Dawn Bennett

Jacki Randolph

Joni Mastronardi

Kendra Sand

Linda Jover

Shelly Schmidt

Tamara Morton

 Sandy Fredrick

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WIN FREE STAMPS! 

Join our weekly challenge

You can use any stamp on your challenge entry, but if you use a SweetStamps image, you will get two entries into the giveaway! To enter the challenge, please add the URL to your actual blog post or online gallery to the InLinkz at the end of this post. Please do not link to your main blog; we want to be able to find your post to leave you comments. Also, please link back to our blog.

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Remember, you can only enter the challenge one time, use a SweetStamps image to get an extra entry in the challenge. Please limit the amount of challenges to 10 (including ours).  You must link back to us in your blog post.

Please turn off word verification so we can leave comments on your challenge entry!

Next week's challenge theme is Thank You. I hope you'll join us.

Happy Stamping! Hope your week is super sweet!

P.S. Check out our NEW Monthly Challenge on the menu above