Design Team Call

Wanted crafters who love to use stamps in their projects.

As soon as I started stamping I became fascinated with how versatile they were and how many different ways they could be used. No surprise that I went on to start to designing stamps and create my own stamp company. I am again looking other crafters from a range of backgrounds and crafts to join a design team. Requirements include:

1. Commit to 3 months involvement with the team. June July and August 2014.
2. The ability to produce 3 projects for each month.
3. Good photography skills for taking pictures of your projects
4. Projects posted with social media: Facebook, your personal blog, Oak House Studio Blog
5. Participation in our blog, including writing your own posts.
6. Participation in this year’s one stamp event. Details of last year can be found on the website. The provisional date for this year is in September, but you will have your kit in time to make ahead of the date if need be.
7. Promote Oak House Studio products and challenges as widely as possible.

Does that sound fun?  If it does, it’s about to get better.  Here’s what I’ll do for you in return:

1. The stamps, plus inks and embossing powder sent to you in advance.
2. BONUS parcel chosen by YOU to be sent out on completion of the 3 months.
3. Link from our blog and Facebook page to your personal blog
4. My undying gratitude and amazement for your creations

What do you need to do to enter?  That’s easy too!

1.  Submit photos of 3 of your most favourite projects that highlight your own personal use of stamps, and links to your blog or gallery to oakhousestudio@gmail.com (Projects do not need to use Oak House Studio products, but we’d love it if they did!)
2. Submissions must be received NO LATER than Sunday 27^th May 2014.
3. Write up a quick bio about yourself, mentioning why you’re interested in being on the DT, what experience (if any) you have with DTs, and why you love stamping. Tell me about the groups you belong to and any classes you attend or teach.
4.  Wait impatiently as I collect the submissions and choose who I can use for this project.
5. I will keep your details on file and will contact you if I think you may be able to help us with design team work in the future.

April Challenge - Texture

Polymer clay embellishment on a note book.

It's the 14th so time for a new challenge. This month is a little different I would like you show me texture. We have many stamps that are great for texture.
Maybe you can stamping into UTEE, or polymer clay or texture paste or anything you can think of.
Usual rules apply, you have until the end of the month and you may enter up to 3 times.

This months prize is a £40 gift voucher to spend on the website on any thing you would like.

Triple embossing 

Simple embossing

Floral Challenge winner

I really love my garden and plants and flowers play a big part in my life and I think this probably shows in the stamp designs I produce. So no surprise then that I chose floral for last month's challenge. Even less surprise that I loved all the entries. You can increase your chance of being the new owner of our challenge prize by putting in multiple entries. The floral challenge winner did just that and put in several great entries and here is just one, our winner is Barbara Cleggett.

I will be announcing another challenge later in the week with news about how you can get more involved with Oak House Studio blog and the design team generally.

March Challenge.

It is the 14th today so time for a new challenge in 2014. March brings Mother's Day and the Spring Equinox and so what better topic than flowers. At Oak House Studio we are well know for our floral stamps, so dig out your Oak House Studio stash and make us a project on a floral theme. As usual you have to the end of the month to share your entry with us. Either post on your blog or leave a photo on our Facebook page. Please remember to tell everyone what products you have used.
Then leave us a comment on this post to tell us where you entry is. You can enter as many times as you like. Each Project Photo will be one entry into the drawer.
This months winner will be the first person to own a brand new stamp design.

Here is just a snap shot of how the design team sometimes all think alike, I say "floral" and three people do a variation of yellow roses! But even then they are all different! More inspiration from the design team soon.

Winner to February Challenge.

Well this was our first of this kind and I have to thank the Design Team for all their card projects and our customers for all their projects too. I have a great time even if I didn't quite as much crafting done as I intended.
I have written out all your entries and persuaded Bob the dog to help me pick a winner.
Oh you want me to tell you has won... The winner of the February Challenge is Christine. Christine I will be in touch on Facebook to organise getting your prize to you.
I will leave you with two more projects from the Senior Design team. SuzeJo Murphy has been busy with the double daisy set which is always my first choice when I want to get arty. Finally Barbara Daines with her favourite butterflies.

Citrus Themed Card, inpsired by everyone entries.

I started this project with 3 two inch squares cut from scraps of mount board and a precious 2 inch square piece of stampbord.

I used lemon yellow ink direct ti the mount board and to the stampbord.

I stamped the linen square stamp on to two of the card squares and on to the stampbord.

On the stampbord I added some daffodil ink to the edges. I added Mountain Ash leaf images with Spirng Green pigment ink.

To complete the card I used a 6 ich square card base in yellow. I sprayed a 14cm square of stamping card with Citrus Orange ink in a Bottle. On a another scrap of card I sprayed lots of Citrus Green ink and moved it around with the linen stamp. Whilst the ink was wet I spooned on clear embossing powder for texture. This was cut to 2 x  6cmsquares to create the smaller mats

The final touches were a sentiment and a charming butterfly.


I  hope that has inspired you to dig out your Oak House Studio stash and get an entry into the challenge.

Thank you for all your entries, and thank you all the kind words about my Oak House Studio goodies, it makes the hard work really worth while.

Lynnda

New Challenge for February

 Welcome to another challenge from the team at Oak House Studio.
It looks like we may be doing a few challenges so I have written a set rules that will stand for all challenges although each challenge may have some twist.
The twist this month is an extra special prize. I will be putting together a gift box with ink pads, inks in a bottle and embossing powders and of course stamps!! There will be at least £60 worth of product in the box.  So now you want to know what you have to do.

Well our theme is citrus colours, you can make any project you like as long as you follow the colour theme AND you use at least one Oak House Studio product. So you could use our lovely citrus inks in a bottle or maybe you will use one of our Pigment inks in spring green. Maybe you will use one of our stamps and someone else's inks!

Whatever you decide to do, we need to see your project, so post it on your blog and leave us a comment with a link direct to your blog post. Make you sure we know which Oak House Studio products you have used.
If you haven't got a blog you can post your project on our facebook page but again remember to tell us what Oak House Studio product you used.
The challenge will run until the end of the month.
I am off to get the design team started on making some projects to inspire you.