Serendipity Stamps is proud to announce the new design team! We had so many talented ladies apply and wish we could've chosen everyone. It was a difficult choice, but here they are!! Be sure to visit their blogs and congratulate them!
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Summertime challenge
I love Summer! No schedules, lots of sunshine and beautiful colors. I also love this classic Impression Obsession butterfly set called Butterfly Counts. I've used it over and over and this time decided to use my all time favorite color -- lilac. The saying reminds me to take time to just relax and enjoy the moment.
The IO design team has lots of great summer creations sure to inspire you to relax! Be sure to visit their blogs and celebrate summer!
Laura Fulcher
Julie Koerber
Dina Kowal
Daniela Dobson
Tina Werner
Jeanne Streiff
Shirley Ross -- our awesome blog hostess
Friday, May 15, 2009
Surprise!
Happy Birthday Mitra!
Mitra Friant, the owner of Impression Obsession, is celebrating her birthday today and the design team got together to surprise her by showering her with birthday wishes! Be sure to stop by each blog and join in the celebration .
Hope you have a fabulous birthday, Mitra!!
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Design Team Call -- Serendipity Stamps
Design Team Call – Deadline May 22nd, 2009 Serendipity Stamps is seeking applicants to expand our Design Team. Check our Gallery for an idea of the quality we're seeking. All email for the Design Team Call MUST be sent to SerendipityDT@yahoo.com.
Skill Set
A successful applicant must possess the following qualities:
- Exceptional design, technique, and attention to detail.
- Flexibility in design level – be able to create a variety of designs that will inspire new, intermediate, and seasoned stampers. A simple design can be great as long as it’s not amateur.
- Good photography, scanner and computer skills. You must be able to photograph and/or scan your art and send me upload-ready files, in a variety of resolutions. Ideally you must be adept at using Adobe Photoshop, or similar graphic editing software.
- You must be able to send/receive emails, upload images, adjust photo file sizes, and use Yahoo Groups.
- A commitment to being published and to promoting Serendipity Stamps via blogs, forums, magazines etc. SS has a definite “look and feel”. If our images do not appeal to you, please do not apply.
- Techniques – Your medium is flexible, but over 50% of our images lend themselves to coloring and that talent is important. It’s great to use all the latest products and I definitely encourage that, but I have a soft spot in my heart for the old stand-bys that will appeal to new stampers who just bought a couple stamps and only have a set of old colored pencils or watercolors to work with.
Team Requirements
Each team member must fulfill the following requirements:
- Participate as a Serendipity Stamps Design Team member for an initial period of 6 months . June 09 through November 09.
- Each month, complete at least 2 projects using only Serendipity Stamps.
- For each project, provide a materials list and simple step-by-step instructions
- Email these projects to serendipityDT@yahoo.com
- Upload these projects to the Serendipity Stamps blog, the SCS gallery and/or your personal blog
- Mail the original or a duplicate of the projects to Serendipity Stamps each quarter. Exceptions may be granted for large or elaborate projects. (I have enough of these items sitting around the shop!)
- Prepare 1 one-page project sheet per quarter. This would include photos, materials list, and well-written instructions. All saved as a one-page .pdf file.
- Create projects in response to SS Challenges. These will be part of your 2 project/month commitment, not an additional requirement.
- Serendipity Stamps reserves the right to use images of projects, actual projects, and associated instructions on our website, our blog, in advertisements, as submissions to print magazines, online magazines, and on printed idea sheets that we send to customers. You will be given full recognition as the designer and creator of each project.
Team Rewards and Benefits
- As a member of Serendipity’s Design Team, you will receive a Welcome Kit. This will include $75 in Serendipity Stamps. This will include a selection of stamps specific to our first SS Challenge as well as stamps of your choice (individual, unmounted cling stamps)
- Each quarter you will receive a $50 spending allowance plus a set of stamps for that quarters’ challenges.
- When SS releases new images, you will receive a full set of these images.
- You will be featured on our website/blog as a Design Team member.
- A link to your blog from www.serendipitystamps.com.
Applications
Please note that your ability to comply with these instructions will be judged as part of your application. Follow instructions or you will not be selected.
To apply, email images of 5 projects that illustrate your particular talents and skills. Image files must be 300 dpi and no more than 600x800 px each.
- Include projects that would inspire stampers of a variety of skill levels.
- Projects can be cards, scrapbook layouts, jewelry, altered objects, or home décor items.
- While I love to see Serendipity Stamps in action, your submitted projects do not have to be made with SS stamps.
- Include step-by-step instructions and materials lists with submitted work.
In addition please submit a bio of yourself including:
- a photograph of yourself
- a paragraph about yourself that describes why you are applying for the SS DT and a little about yourself.
- the techniques or mediums you like best and how do you see using these with our images?
- how long you’ve known about SS and any experience you have with our line.
- information about participation in other past or current design teams.
- affiliations with specific stamp and/or scrapbook stores/businesses.
- a link to your blog.
- contact phone number and the best time to call, and your time zone
- a mailing address for you – it can be a PO Box or a street address.
Email applications to serendipityDT@yahoo.com with “Serendipity Stamps 2009 Design Team Application” as the subject. Your application should be simply an email with attachments – pdf, jpg, or doc files.
Application Deadline: May 22nd, 2009
Design Team Announcement: May 29th, 2009
Term of Agreement: Initial appointment is for a 6-month period.
The fine print: Serendipity Stamps reserves the right to make any changes to both the selection process, requirements, rewards or management of the Design Team at our own discretion. Be assured that we will operate with all respect and appreciation of your time and efforts.Thursday, March 19, 2009
Challenge time!
This Impression Obsession challenge is all about friendship, so I thought I'd use a color combo that I normally wouldn't to celebrate my friends. Must admit that I sort of like the way it turned out!
Using rose red, butter yellow and celery green on a chocolate brown background, I stamped everything in the same chocolate brown, paper pieced the center red flower, added some sparkle with a stardust pen and then finished it off with clear jewels. Simple and easy!
Be sure to check out the IO team blogs for more fun friendship cards:
I'd also like to thank Michelle Giraud for joining us for the past 3 months as our guest designer. She has added tremendous creativity and inspiration with her cards and I'm so glad she was part of our team!
Sending a big welcome to Shirley Ross, who is our new IO blog host. She's already posting lots of fun cards and awesome tutorials and we're glad to have her with us!
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Can you believe it's March already? This year is just flying by! It's time for another Impression Obsession challenge and this time it's celebrating good luck, so I thought it was a good reason to use this new "Clover Tree" now available on the IO website by artist Leigh Hannan. I'm in awe of her art, she has such a creative imagination! Don't you wish you could grow a good luck tree??
I simply stamped in black ink, then colored in with markers(no Copics yet! I used Bic Mark-it markers) and accented the stars with a yellow Spica Glitter Pen. The shamrock jewels have been waiting for something like this image, I thought they were a perfect touch.
Be sure to check out the IO design team blogs to see what good luck they come up with :)
And for some fun IO info -- check out the new IO blog! There's a special announcement waiting for you! But hurry, it's a limited time!
Thanks for stopping by! See you soon!
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
a friend like you
Here's a card using another set of the new Sarah Phelps clear stamps from Impression Obsession. The flower pot is stamped with teal ink and the flowers are just quickly colored in with Prismacolor pencils. I used one of the flowers on the teal paper for a random background and added some of this cute teal and green ribbon that I'm now out of and can't find anywhere(do you know where I can buy more??).
And now a challenge for you......go create a card for a friend, mail it and put a smile on his/her face!
Check out these blogs for more IO Spring flowers(if their newest card isn't posted yet, please be sure to check back!):
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