April Challenge 4/17

Hello and welcome back to our Challenge Blog post!  Let’s start with announcing our March Challenge results!

The winner of our March Challenge is…. Yukiko!

Yukiko colored our Floral Border stamp wonderfully and created a perfect shaker card with a bright and contrasting blue background that compliments her floral border beautifully.

Congratulations, Yukiko! Please email us at thetonstamps@gmail.com to claim your gift certificate and details on being our guest designer for our May Challenge!

HONORABLE MENTIONS

We wanted to showcase three additional projects that especially stood out to us:

Ceal did an amazing job of coloring her Haute Wedding Dress and creating a beautiful Dahlia pattern within the dress!

Dana’s adorable bear card is perfect in composition and layout and the story behind her card is so culturally informative!

Ericka watercolored our Dahlia Close Up and created beautiful green contrast on each leaf.

All of the entries were so creative and gorgeous and we’d like to thank everyone who participated for our March Lucky Challenge!

For this month’s Challenge, there is no particular theme- Anything Goes!

Anything Goes so long as you use The Ton stamps and other Ton products as the focus of your project!

The prize for this challenge will be a $50 gift certificate to our shop!

RULES:

To participate in our challenge, create a paper crafting project using a theme of your own choice since Anything Goes this month! You may use any of our team’s cards for inspiration but it’s not required!

1. You must use a Ton product as the main focal point of your card or tag.
2. Display the cue word/inspiration photo on your blog post and include a link to this challenge in the body of your post.
3. You must link up your card and post to the In Links link up tool contained in this post.
4. There is no limit to the number of projects you wish to enter into the challenge.
5. The winning project will be chosen based upon detail, composition and aesthetics.
6. Enter your card by April 30, 2017 by 12:55pm EST.

So let’s check out the projects by our team and our guest designer for this month! Returning this month as our wonderful guest is Olga Podobaeva!

Guest Designer: Olga Podobaeva

Stamp Sets Used: Wild Peonies, I Got You

Vera

Supplies Used: Fresh Cut Poppies (Coord. Outlines) stamp & dies, Brushed Hugs die, Guava Shortcake Sequins

Tae Eun

Supplies Used: Sending Peonies stamp, Brushed Hugs coordinating die
Ink: Arctic Sky, Cali Blue, Soft Garden, Deep Emerald, Crystal Pewter
Couture Mix: Cinderella’s Ride, Flamenco Sunset, Winter Thaw, Glass Slippers sequins

Emily

Supplies Used: Poppy Garden Background, Bokeh Burst Heart stamp set, Bokeh Burst Round (stamp + die)

Gilding: Metallic Silver and Call Me Maybe Red sequins, Red Foil Paper

Jenny

Supplies Used: Sweet Macarons (stamp + die), Macarons, Beautiful Butterflies 1 (stamp + die), Polka Dot Cling Background

Inks: Caviar Hybrid ink, Hampton White Pigment ink, Ballet Slippers Dye, Hollywood Star Dye

Sequins: My Tutu Mix Sequins, Glass Slippers Mix Sequins.

Lisa

Stamps: Honey Bears, Bokeh Burst Round, Scripty Greetings, Minor Stripe Cling
Dies: Honey Bears
Inks: Rose Quartz, Soft Garnet, Red Sangria

Janette

Supplies: Dahlia Close-Up, Brushed Thanks (stamp + die)
Inks: Violet Fringe, Grape Crush
Gilding: 5mm & 7mm Dew Drops

Brenda

Supplies Used: Dahlia Close Up, Thoughtful Poppies, Cotton Candy Puff Couture Mix

Mayline

Supplies Used: Brushed Love, Brushed You

Mayline

Supplies Used: Brushed Love, Brushed You and Macarons

Eunji

Supplies Used:Beautiful Butterflies 1 Dies, Bokeh Burst Heart Dies, Double Stitched Circle Dies (Large), Silver Glitter Paper

LauraJane

Stamps: Bokeh Burst Heart, Rose Terrace Cling Background, Freestyle Stripes Cling Background, Dahlia Close Up Cling Background,
Dies: Bokeh Burst Heart Coordinating dies, Double Stitched Rectangle Dies (Large)
Inks: Cobalt Breeze, Hot Tourmaline, Caribbean Turquoise, Soft garden
Couture Mixes: Beach Waves Mix, Mint Frosting mix Other: Glitter tape

Did you enjoy the gallery of inspiration? Start linking up your projects now for this month for a chance to win a $50 code to our shop!