BITTER SWEET Goodbyes!

PLEASE SCROLL DOWN JUST A BIT FOR THIS WEEK'S CHALLENGE!

This week's challenge brings tons of fun, creativity and tears as we here at Stamptacular say goodbye to two of our team members.

PAULA has been with Stamptacular since the very beginning! She has blessed us week after week with her FABULOUS creations, love, support, hard work and dedication! I'll never forget the sinking feeling I got when I opened up her e-mail telling me that she felt that she needed to step down from the team because doors are opening for her and taking her into a new direction. As happy as I am for her I couldn't stop the tear from running down my cheek knowing that this day would come and I'd have to say goodbye to a very respected and valued team member! Paula, please know you will definitely be missed and will always be considered a part of the SSC DT! Love ya!


We are also saying goodbye to another member of our team, SARAH. Sarah joined our team a year ago and has decided to step down due to her super busy day-to-day schedule. She has graced us with her many spectacular challenge creations and creativity and I hope has enjoyed every moment she's had on the SSC DT! This last year has been a true joy! Saying goodbye is never easy, so I won't! Instead, "It's see ya in blog land!"

Hugs and Kisses to you both!

Challenge #78: SEASON's CHANGE!

This week’s challenge is going to be so much fun! We can’t wait to see what you create!

This week's challenge is a…

SEASONS CHANGE!

For this week’s challenge you will create a card or project using as many colors as you’d like BUT only colors you’d see in the FALL! Your choice of what you create! …Oh, and don’t forget to STAMP! Afterall, we don’t call this STAMPtacular Sunday for nothing!

You will have from now until midnight (EST) October 2^nd, 2010 to complete this challenge and post a DIRECT LINK to your submission into our InLinkz in order to be entered into the drawing for this week's fabulous prize donated by:

MAGNOLIA-LICIOUS

Here are this week's Design Team submissions:

**September’s Guest Design Winner**

HEATHER

For your chance to be a Guest Designer for the Stamptacular Sunday Challenge all you have to do is enter at least THREE of our challenges during the month and your name will be put on our ballet. The Design Team will then vote amongst the eligible participants for their favorite and the one with the most votes will be invited to be the Guest Designer for an entire month! It's that simple!

SARAH

PRISCILLA

PAULA

MARIANNE

LEONIE

GEMMA

DEE

CHERI

CAROLYN

ANNETTE

ADRIA

To enter your submission please add your name and DIRECT LINK URL into InLinkz below! PLEASE do NOT add your name to InLinkz unless you have completed this week’s challenge and posted your submission on your blog or some other online gallery! However, if you’d just like to let us know that you’ve checked out our blog or want to comment on the DT submissions for the week, please feel free to leave us a comment in the comment section of this post. We’d love to hear from you!

IMPORTANT! If for some reason InLinkz does not appear at the end of this challenge post, PLEASE leave us a comment with a direct link to your submission in the comments of this post so you can be entered in the weekly drawing!

HINT: For a DIRECT LINK URL all you need to do is publish your submission on your own blog then click on the title of your post. Once the post is open just copy and paste the http:// address that is in your search engine. This will link your work specifically for THIS challenge and will make it easy for everyone to find it throughout the week no matter how many posts you’ve posted to your blog after your submission. Hope this helps!

September 19th Top 3 WINNERS!

As promised...each week Stamptacular will now choose three participants to win our fabulous Top Three Badge to display on their personal blogs! Will it be you? You’ll never know unless you jump right in and join our Stamptacular FUN!

Our winners from the week of September 19^th are:

Yenni @ http://scrapcollector.blogspot.com

Suzi @ http://wwwsuzies.blogspot.com

Kathleen @ http://kookaburracrafts.blogspot.com

Please e-mail me at misscill@yahoo.com by midnight Wednesday September 29^th, 2010 with your e-mail address so I can send you your badge in hopes that you'll display it proudly for everyone to see when they visit your own blog!

Hope you'll join us again soon for some more Stamptacular fun!

Hugs,
Priscilla

WINNER of Challenge #77: GRID CHALLENGE

CONGRATULATIONS to Sally from http://sallyscreativecorner.blogspot.com. You are the winner of the Stamptacular Sunday Challenge #77: “Grid Challenge!”

Please send me your full name and COMPLETE, including your country, address as it should appear on the envelope and your e-mail address, via e-mail to misscill@yahoo.com so we can forward your information on to our sponsor and get your fabulous prize on it's way to you! If I don't hear from you by midnight (EST) Wednesday September 29^th, 2010, you will forfeit your prize and I will be forced to redraw a new winner!

Thanks for joining our challenge fun!

Hugs,
Priscilla

Challenge #77: GRID Challenge!

This week’s challenge is going to be so much fun! We can’t wait to see what you create!

This week's challenge is a…

GRID Challenge!

For this week’s challenge you will create a card or project that incorporates a GRID pattern in some way or another. How you do it is completely up to you! Oh, and don’t forget to STAMP! Afterall, we don’t call this STAMPtacular Sunday for nothing!

You will have from now until midnight (EST) September 25^th, 2010 to complete this challenge and post a DIRECT LINK to your submission into our InLinkz in order to be entered into the drawing for this week's fabulous prize donated by:

SIMON SAYS STAMP

Here are this week's Design Team submissions:

**September’s Guest Design Winner**

HEATHER

For your chance to be a Guest Designer for the Stamptacular Sunday Challenge all you have to do is enter at least THREE of our challenges during the month and your name will be put on our ballet. The Design Team will then vote amongst the eligible participants for their favorite and the one with the most votes will be invited to be the Guest Designer for an entire month! It's that simple!

SARAH

PRISCILLA

PAULA

MARIANNE

LEONIE

GEMMA

DEE

CHERI

CAROLYN

ANNETTE

ADRIA

To enter your submission please add your name and DIRECT LINK URL into InLinkz below! PLEASE do NOT add your name to InLinkz unless you have completed this week’s challenge and posted your submission on your blog or some other online gallery! However, if you’d just like to let us know that you’ve checked out our blog or want to comment on the DT submissions for the week, please feel free to leave us a comment in the comment section of this post. We’d love to hear from you!

IMPORTANT! If for some reason InLinkz does not appear at the end of this challenge post, PLEASE leave us a comment with a direct link to your submission in the comments of this post so you can be entered in the weekly drawing!

HINT: For a DIRECT LINK URL all you need to do is publish your submission on your own blog then click on the title of your post. Once the post is open just copy and paste the http:// address that is in your search engine. This will link your work specifically for THIS challenge and will make it easy for everyone to find it throughout the week no matter how many posts you’ve posted to your blog after your submission. Hope this helps!

Operation Write Home Challenge WINNER!

CONGRATULATIONS to Linda from http://cardchallengesandmore.blogspot.com/. You are the winner of the Stamptacular Sunday OWH prize that was up for grabs! Thank you so much for playing along with us last week and for taking the time to send your fabulous cards to OWH in honor of their Birthday Celebration!

Please send me your full name and COMPLETE, including your country, address as it should appear on the envelope and your e-mail address, via e-mail to misscill@yahoo.com so we can forward your information on to the wonderful people over at OWH and get your fabulous prize on it's way to you! If I don't hear from you by midnight (EST) Wednesday September 22^nd, 2010, you will forfeit your prize and I will be forced to redraw a new winner!

Also, could you PLEASE be sure to put OWH WINNER in the subject heading of your e-mail to ensure that it doesn’t get lost?

Thanks for joining our challenge fun!

Hugs,
Priscilla

September 12th Top 3 WINNERS!

As promised...each week Stamptacular will now choose three participants to win our fabulous Top Three Badge to display on their personal blogs! Will it be you? You’ll never know unless you jump right in and join our Stamptacular FUN!

Our winners from the week of September 12^th are:

Debra @ http://designsbydj.blogspot.com

Fiona @ http://lildaff.blogspot.com

Lisa @ http://bylisac.blogspot.com

Please e-mail me at misscill@yahoo.com by midnight Wednesday September 22^nd, 2010 with your e-mail address so I can send you your badge in hopes that you'll display it proudly for everyone to see when they visit your own blog!

Hope you'll join us again soon for some more Stamptacular fun!

Hugs,
Priscilla

WINNER of Challenge #76: SKETCH Challenge!

CONGRATULATIONS to Arte from http://artebanale.blogspot.com. You are the winner of the Stamptacular Sunday Challenge #76: “SKETCH Challenge!”

Please send me your full name and COMPLETE, including your country, address as it should appear on the envelope and your e-mail address, via e-mail to misscill@yahoo.com so we can forward your information on to our sponsor and get your fabulous prize on it's way to you! If I don't hear from you by midnight (EST) Wednesday September 22^nd, 2010, you will forfeit your prize and I will be forced to redraw a new winner!

Thanks for joining our challenge fun!

Hugs,
Priscilla

Challenge #76: SKETCH CHALLENGE!

This week’s challenge is going to be so much fun! We can’t wait to see what you create!

We are also helping Operation Write Home celebrate their birthday this week! They have decided to celebrate all month long and asked us to join them!

This week, not only will you be entered into our normal weekly drawing, just for participating in our challenge this week, for a fabulous prize donated by Mo Manning's Digital Pencil but you also have a change to win another fabulous prize package from OWH! All you need to do is send in the card you make from this week's Stamptacular Challenge to one of the addresses provided in the link below, leave us a comment letting us know you sent it in and VOILA...you'll be entered into BOTH drawings!

This week's challenge is a…

SKETCH CHALLENGE!

For this week’s challenge you will create a card or project that uses the sketch provided! Your choice of what you create! Feel free to flip it, flop it, rotate it, etc…as long as we can still see the original sketch in your finished creation! …Oh, and don’t forget to STAMP! Afterall, we don’t call this STAMPtacular Sunday for nothing!

You will have from now until midnight (EST) September 18^th, 2010 to complete this challenge and post a DIRECT LINK to your submission into our InLinkz in order to be entered into the drawing for this week's fabulous prizes donated by:

MO MANNING’S DIGITAL PENCIL

$15.00 Gift Certificate

ALL DT creations were created with a Mo Manning design this week!

ALSO...this week we are glad to be helping OperationWrite Home celebrate their birthday!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY OWH!

Operation Write Home is an organization that sends blank handmade greeting cards for all occasions to deployed service members to write home on. They’ve mailed approximately 500,000 cards so far—and are still going strong! Our challenge to you is to make cards to send to them for our nation’s heroes.

Links:

Website: http://operationwritehome.org

Shipping addresses: http://operationwritehome.org/mailroom

Birthday Bash: http://operationwritehome.org/birthday

Party signup: http://operationwritehome.org/partysignup

Basic guidelines: http://www.owhhomefrontblog.org/p/about-owh.html

Stars & Stamps inspiration blog: http://www.owhstarsandstamps.org

Anyone creating a card and sending it to one of the OWH addresses will be entered in a special drawing to win this fabulous prize, in addition to being entered into our regular weekly drawing for this week's Mo Manning Gift Certificate: (please leave us a comment in the comment section of this post to let us know you sent out your card so you can be entered!)

Here are this week's Design Team submissions:

**September’s Guest Design Winner**

HEATHER

For your chance to be a Guest Designer for the Stamptacular Sunday Challenge all you have to do is enter at least THREE of our challenges during the month and your name will be put on our ballet. The Design Team will then vote amongst the eligible participants for their favorite and the one with the most votes will be invited to be the Guest Designer for an entire month! It's that simple!

SARAH

PRISCILLA

PAULA

MARIANNE

LEONIE

GEMMA

DEE

CHERI

CAROLYN

ANNETTE

ADRIA

To enter your submission please add your name and DIRECT LINK URL into InLinkz below! PLEASE do NOT add your name to InLinkz unless you have completed this week’s challenge and posted your submission on your blog or some other online gallery! However, if you’d just like to let us know that you’ve checked out our blog or want to comment on the DT submissions for the week, please feel free to leave us a comment in the comment section of this post. We’d love to hear from you!

IMPORTANT! If for some reason InLinkz does not appear at the end of this challenge post, PLEASE leave us a comment with a direct link to your submission in the comments of this post so you can be entered in the weekly drawing!

HINT: For a DIRECT LINK URL all you need to do is publish your submission on your own blog then click on the title of your post. Once the post is open just copy and paste the http:// address that is in your search engine. This will link your work specifically for THIS challenge and will make it easy for everyone to find it throughout the week no matter how many posts you’ve posted to your blog after your submission. Hope this helps!

September 5th Top 3 WINNERS!

As promised...each week Stamptacular will now choose three participants to win our fabulous Top Three Badge to display on their personal blogs! Will it be you? You’ll never know unless you jump right in and join our Stamptacular FUN!

Our winners from the week of September 5^th are:

Gloria @ http://craftergm.blogspot.com

Chris @ http://twinklesglow-glowbug.blogspot.com

Nina @ http://macaulay-arts.blogspot.com

Please e-mail me at misscill@yahoo.com by midnight Wednesday September 15^th, 2010 with your e-mail address so I can send you your badge in hopes that you'll display it proudly for everyone to see when they visit your own blog!

Hope you'll join us again soon for some more Stamptacular fun!

Hugs,
Priscilla

WINNER of Challenge #75: Distress It!

CONGRATULATIONS to Jackie from http://jackies-space.blogspot.com. You are the winner of the Stamptacular Sunday Challenge #75: “Distress It!”

Please send me your full name and COMPLETE, including your country, address as it should appear on the envelope and your e-mail address, via e-mail to misscill@yahoo.com so we can forward your information on to our sponsor and get your fabulous prize on it's way to you! If I don't hear from you by midnight (EST) Wednesday September 15^tht, 2010, you will forfeit your prize and I will be forced to redraw a new winner!

Thanks for joining our challenge fun!

Hugs,
Priscilla

Challenge #75: DISTRESS IT!

This week’s challenge is going to be so much fun! We can’t wait to see what you create!

This week's challenge is called…

DISTRESS IT!

For this week’s challenge you will create a card or project that uses some sort of distressing technique. Sand it, scratch it, wrinkle it, ink it, etc...you decide! Have fun and make sure you stamp somewhere on your project!

You will have from now until midnight (EST) September 11^th, 2010 to complete this challenge and post a DIRECT LINK to your submission into our InLinkz in order to be entered into the drawing for this week's fabulous prize donated by:

MY FAVORITE THINGS

$25 Gift Certificate

Here are this week's Design Team submissions:

**September’s Guest Design Winner**

HEATHER

For your chance to be a Guest Designer for the Stamptacular Sunday Challenge all you have to do is enter at least THREE of our challenges during the month and your name will be put on our ballet. The Design Team will then vote amongst the eligible participants for their favorite and the one with the most votes will be invited to be the Guest Designer for an entire month! It's that simple!

SARAH

PRISCILLA

PAULA

Created with a MFT design!

MARIANNE
Created with a MFT design!

LEONIE
Created with a MFT design!

GEMMA

Created with a MFT design!

DEE

CHERI
Created with a MFT design!

CAROLYN

ANNETTE

Created with a MFT design!

ADRIA

Created with a MFT design!

To enter your submission please add your name and DIRECT LINK URL into InLinkz below! PLEASE do NOT add your name to InLinkz unless you have completed this week’s challenge and posted your submission on your blog or some other online gallery! However, if you’d just like to let us know that you’ve checked out our blog or want to comment on the DT submissions for the week, please feel free to leave us a comment in the comment section of this post. We’d love to hear from you!

IMPORTANT! If for some reason InLinkz does not appear at the end of this challenge post, PLEASE leave us a comment with a direct link to your submission in the comments of this post so you can be entered in the weekly drawing!

HINT: For a DIRECT LINK URL all you need to do is publish your submission on your own blog then click on the title of your post. Once the post is open just copy and paste the http:// address that is in your search engine. This will link your work specifically for THIS challenge and will make it easy for everyone to find it throughout the week no matter how many posts you’ve posted to your blog after your submission. Hope this helps!

Stamptacular Design Team!

I know you've all been waiting patiently, at the edge of your chairs, for the new Design Team members to be announced! I am so sorry that I am just now posting this information. I actually went out of town to visit my mom and completely forgot to schedule this post when I scheduled everything else. Silly me!

Well, without further ado, the members of the Stamptacular Design Team are as follows: (NEW members are in larger font and have are clickable so you can check out their fabulous work!)

Adria
Annette
Ashley
Betty
Carolyn
Cheri
Danielle
Dee
Gemma
Karita
Leonie
Lisa
Marianne
Priscilla

Welcome aboard ladies! It is an honor to have you on the team!

August 29th Top 3 WINNERS

As promised...each week Stamptacular will now choose three participants to win our fabulous Top Three Badge to display on their personal blogs! Will it be you? You’ll never know unless you jump right in and join our Stamptacular FUN!

Our winners from the week of August 2^9th are:

Basslady @ http://bassladycreations.blogspot.com

Brigadier @ http://brigadiers-kinkerlitzchen.blogspot.com

Debbie @ http://debbie-lovepapercrafting.blogspot.com

Please e-mail me at misscill@yahoo.com by midnight Wednesday September 8th, 2010 with your e-mail address so I can send you your badge in hopes that you'll display it proudly for everyone to see when they visit your own blog!

Hope you'll join us again soon for some more Stamptacular fun!

Hugs,
Priscilla

WINNER of Challenge #74

CONGRATULATIONS to Gosia from http://2kotowo.blogspot.com. You are the winner of the Stamptacular Sunday Challenge #74: “Pretty In Pink!”

Please send me your full name and COMPLETE, including your country, address as it should appear on the envelope and your e-mail address, via e-mail to misscill@yahoo.com so we can forward your information on to our sponsor and get your fabulous prize on it's way to you! If I don't hear from you by midnight (EST) Wednesday September 8^th, 2010, you will forfeit your prize and I will be forced to redraw a new winner!

Thanks for joining our challenge fun!

Hugs,
Priscilla