You’re Imperfectly Perfect!

Happy friday everyone!

I’m excited today, cause I’m going to do something I’ve never done before,
and I’m actually a bit scared if you’d even like it LOL

I was soooo happy with how my BitterSweet image came out after drawing and coloring,
that I’ve ordered a T-Shirt with this print on it.
You can find the stamp here

I received it last week, and OMG it’s awesome!
Great quality of fabric, the colors rock, and it even has a little bit
of shimmering in the colors.

The text in the banner says: I’m Imperfectly Perfect, cause that’s what we all are!

So here’s the scoop…
You can win a T-Shirt with this design on it in your own size!!!
YES, one of you can show to the world that you’re like everyone Imperfectly Perfect!

- So this is what you’ll have to do to enter this AMAZING give away!!-

* Order for $10 or more in The Stamping Chef store
* When you do, you’re automaticly be entered into the give away.
* If you order twice from now till June 21st you’ll be entered twice etc.
* Open worldwide! So everyone can join!
* The winner will be announced after June 21st.
* The winner is able to choose size and color.

So I hope you all will try your luck to win this awesome shirt!!
Spread the word so we can reach as much people we can!
I ♥ my shirt so much I didn’t even throw it in the laundry yet LOL.

Have a great weekend!!

♥ Tamara

Saturday Spotlight Designer

 Hello and a Happy Saturday to everyone!!

 

We are so glad you stopped by to visit as we share our  Saturday Spotlight Designer!!

 

Please join us as we welcome Deanne Clarke-Saunders as our Spotlight Designer!!!

Hi, My name is Deanne Clarke-Saunders. My hubby and I are currently living in Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada. We are both originally from Newfoundland and we miss that wonderful island of ours. I’m currently not working but I’m an elementary teacher.  I’ve always LOVED crafting and creating. Right from childhood, I loved crayons, pencils, paper, scissors, and glue. I always had fun when I played with those materials. So, I decided to continue that fun and scrapbook and make cards! I love being creative and enjoy using my imagination

 

Here is Deanne’s card featuring All Done which you can pick up in the store here 

You can see more of Deanne’s fabulous designs on her blog

 

Every Saturday we  feature a follower of The Stamping Chef as our very special  

Saturday Spotlight Guest Designer

If you would like to be a Spotlight Guest Designer – send us an email to infothestampingchef@mail.com

Simple add Saturday Spotlight Designer in the subject line and we will get you on our calendar!!

 

As a Spotlight Designer you will be able to chose an image from the The Stamping Chef store and share a little about yourself and your creation right here on

The Stamping Chef Blog.

 

 

 

 

Tutorial Thursday – Aluminum Foil Not Just for Left-Overs Anymore!

Welcome, its Lynne here one of The Stamping Chef’s Sous Chef’s  to The Stamping Chef’s Tutorial Thursday and today’s project is will be a total surprise for you . . . . yes, Aluminum Foil is no longer just for kitchen use or left-overs anymore!!!! If you happened to see my project yesterday, you might have noticed that I had made a card using aluminum foil as my “metal” accent. Just in case you missed it . . . . .

The image I used is from The Stamping Chef and is Steampunk Hat which was colored with my Spectrum Noir Markers and then chalked around the edges to give the vintage look. For further instructions, please, stop at my blog, Her Craftiness, posting for The Stamping Chef Challenge, Metal.  We, at The Stamping Chef hope you would want to submit your own version of “METAL” at TSC Recipes on FaceBook

HINTS, TIPS, and HOW-TO’s:

• I used my Cuttlebug and the above card is my Steampunk embossing folder which was then “inked” with a stamp pad to accentuate the embossing
• aluminum foil actually cuts with your paper cutter as long as the blade is not a worn-out blade but instead one that is faily new
• depending on the amount of embossing that your folder is depends on how many layers of aluminum foil – I recommend at least 2 layers of foil – below are samples of 1-layer, 2-layer, and finally 3-layer  

• isn’t fantastic how amazing they all look with something that everyone has in their house at little or no additional expense???

Now, your question, how to adhere to your card - 

• you need to glue your base that the aluminum foil needs to be adhered to first. I find that using my ATG gun works the best and holds it best with little or no tearing
• if you are adhering anything to the aluminum foil, I find that puff-dotting my item to the foil works best
• aluminum foil gives a great look to sew many different style of cards such as the “steampunk”, but also for Halloween, for mirrors, along with shabby chic – the only restriction is your imagination!!!!
• reminder that it is fragile and treat it as if it were tissue paper!

I had first seen this technique on Canadian Nickel’s Blog and just knew it was something I wanted to do and hope that perhaps you do also!!! 

 God Bless you and thank you ever sew much for stopping by today! We love reading comments and would love to read yours . . . .

Much love, hugs, and friendship

Lynne

Metal Challenge

Hi and welcome to another challenge at The Stamping Chef.  We  want to thank you all for taking the time to participate in our challenge and we hope to see you all from now on.

Before we get into the details for today’s challenge we have a winner and top 3 to pick, so with out further adu, the winner of the celebrations challenge is…..

2.  Jennifer Scull

Congratulations you are the lucky winner of 3 digis of your choice from the store.  Please email Tanya and Tamara at infothestampingchef@mail.com to obtain your images.  Also please grab your bad below to place on your blog 

and now for our top 3.  Please grab the badge below your names to place on your blog.  Great job everyone!!

 34. Gale

14. Mian Hahne

24.  Leeann

Congratulations everyone!!

and now on to this week’s challenge.  This week’s challenge is METAL….create a card/project this has an metal incorporated somewhere on it.  Here is what the team came up with this week

Jearise

Laura

Lisa

Michele

Sharon

Shell

Valou

Sandy

Zenita

Jennyfer

Lynne

New Release Tuesday

Good Morning everyone!  Time for another new release here at The Stamping Chef,  a little later than normal but it’s here none the less   I also want to give you a heads up that there will not be any new releases next week so make sure to check back in two weeks for new images.

On to today’s releases.  The first one is Sip and Relax

and once again the team has made some amazing creations this week with this image

Amanda

Jennyfer

Lisa

  Sandy

Shell

Vicky

and our second new release this week is Keep the Faith

and of course some more amazing projects by the Chefs

Carolyn

Jackie

 

Kimberly

Laura

Lisa

Sandy

Tina

Monday Spotlight

Good Monday for everyone!

Hope you’ve had a lovely weekend.

We had loads of fun last week with our “Keep Calm, and be Geekie” over at our Fan Group.

Our fans could request a new digi which they had to use for their project.
This week it was Keep Calm, and be Geekie!

The entries were so Nerdy and Awesome, that it was really hard to pick a winner!

Kezzla Brown made this lovely card, which has a school feeling to me with the colors.

So we’re going to name her winner of the week, and she can pick out a digi from the shop!

If you want to play along with our group challenges, just hop over to our FB group
cause this week we’re going to use a 80′s, Powerful Punk-ish digi

The image for this week is “Punk Power” and also the theme of our challenge.
This image will be free from monday 12pm CET till tuesday 9am CET.
After that our members will receive a 50% discount coupon to enter the challenge still.

So I hope we can welcome you to our group, and to see all your TSC Projects!!

Have a lovely week!!

♥Tamara

Saturday Spotlight Designer

Hello and a Happy Saturday to everyone!!

We are so glad you stopped by to visit as we share our Saturday Spotlight Designer!!

Please join us as we welcome Sylvia Anderson as our Spotlight Designer!!!

Hi everyone, my name is Sylvia, I live in the northeast of England.
My daughter got me interested in cardmaking many years ago, but I actually started making them about 4 years ago, when I joined a craft group in my area (Crafty Crafters) I am now their secretary, we have lots of trips to craft venues.
I’ve tried most crafts, but cardmaking is my favourite, because the possibilities are endless & I never get bored.
I am on the Design Teams for Emma’s Crafty Challenge, LEJ Designs & The Crafting Café.
Thank you for giving me the opportunity to be a Saturday Spotlight Designer.

Sylvia’s Fabulous card sharing Rock My World found here in the TSC store

You can see more of Sylvia’s fabulous designs on her blog

Every Saturday we feature a follower of The Stamping Chef as our very special
Saturday Spotlight Guest Designer

If you would like to be a Spotlight Guest Designer – send us an email to infothestampingchef@mail.com

Simple add Saturday Spotlight Designer in the subject line and we will get you on our calendar!!

As a Spotlight Designer you will be able to chose an image from the The Stamping Chef store and share a little about yourself and your creation right here on
The Stamping Chef Blog.

Thursday Tutorial with Sandy

Thursday Tutorial Hi friends, Sandy here with another Thursday tutorial for The Stamping Chef and featuring the Chef’s digi-stamps.

A couple of weeks ago I posted a card for TSC and got a couple of requests on how to do the criss-cross fancy fold.  Here is the card that I did featuring BABYDOLL (she is a freebie at TSC store)….

As you can see, the front folds are cut at an angle and open to reveal the cute image and sentiments.

So lets get started…

• start with a 12×12 double side card stock
• cut in half, giving you 2 pieces of 6×12 card bases

•  score at 4″ and 8″ horizontally

• now the card magic… measure down 4″ and lightly pencil mark along the outside edge
• flip and do the other side, measuring down 4″
• using your paper trimmer, place your paper diagonal on the trimmer lining up the 4″ score line at the top with the now 4″ pencil mark on the side and cut
• that’s all there is to it, a very easy card to make

•  For this card, I did it a little different than the first one
• I place adhesive along on side and bottom of card and folded making it a criss-cross envelop
• using a border punch, paper flowers and the scrap triangles, added a little embellishment to the front

•  the mat sizes are… 3.75″x 5″ (white), 3.5″x 4.5″ (pink), circle with digi stamp is 3.5″ big
• digital stamp used is All Girl (she is a part of the “Expresso Yourself” line found HERE)

Hope you liked this quick and easy card project.  We would love for you to follow The Stamping Chef Blog and see the new releases along with the current challenge (animals/pets) that we are having.  Also if you want to hop over to The Stamping Chef Store there is a current t-shirt promotion going on right now!

Hope you have a blessed day and thanks for stopping by,

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