Swedish Collage Challenge Cards!

Today is the day!

Its time to share the Swedish collage challenge cards!

We are really happy to see the nice turnout from our challenge. Id first like to share with you all the cards our design team came up with. I found it interesting how much of a challenge we all felt it was. When I first proposed this idea to our team I thought it would be a simple project, but it turns out being a free spirit doesn't come as easily to us over here as it does in Sweden! I think we definitely pulled it off though.

Easy or not you have to admire the cards our team and customers came up with!

Design Team Cards:

DT member Juliana Swanson

DT member Lydia Fiedler

DT Member Lori Tecler

My card -Tracey B.

This first card was my attempt at the Swedish collage style. I went thru a couple of "drafts" of this card. Eventually settling on this final version. I thought this was going to be my "warm up" card but time got away from me getting ready for shows and filling orders so this has turned out to be my only challenge card but definitely not my last Swedish collage style card!

DT member- Maria Levine

DT Member - Natasha Trupp

DT Member- RoseAnn Reynolds

DT member -Andrea Cloutier

DT Member - Donna Baker

DT member- Donna Duquette #1

DT member- Donna Duquette #2

And here are cards from our friends and customers:

Hattifin

Tesa

Vanessa Yu

Rachel Henahan

Katie

Maureen Wong

Rebecca

Stephanie Severin

Susan Nilsson

Lauri Ingram (card closed)


Lauri Ingram

Linda


Linsey Rickett
Evelina

Dawn Saenz de Viteri

Jeanette Tettiz

Joan Hajak




Lauri Ingram

Elin


Ellen Smith

Ellinor Bergdahl

Emmy Brannstrom


Eva Andren

Erin Atkins
Allison
Carolina Buchting
Carolina Buchting
Carolina Buchting

Zarah

Even though this is a Starving Artistamps Company sponsored challenge we did open the challenge up to non-SA projects so everyone could play! Zarah's card features stamps designed by Nina! I thought it would be a fitting way to end this challenge in the same way the whole trend got started over here... With Nina Aslund, our first Swedish customer and pioneer of the Swedish collage style movement!

Nina's cards are such an inspiration to us. Her blog is wonderful (even if you do need a translator!) http://krumelurkonst.blogspot.com/ and this incredibly talented lady has also just finished her internship and is now a 100% full fledged DOCTOR! Everyone visit Nina's blog and congratulate her!!

We have had such a great turnout in both the states and over in Sweden including several friends who thought they would try out our challenge even though they do not own any Starving Artistamps stamps. Here are a whole bunch more cards and blogs for you to check out featuring other various company images:

Ribenaruby http://ribenaruby.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2008-09-19T00%3A49%3A00-07%3A00&max-results=7

Gunilla Molin http://pysseloprat.blogspot.com/2008/09/swedish-collage.html

Julia Lundmark http://zimla.wordpress.com/2008/09/30/tavlingsbidrag/

Lina Kinell http://www.linakinell.se/#post83

Johanna Berg http://miss-spring.blogspot.com/

Jennifer Love http://ohmycuppycake.blogspot.com/2008/09/not-really-my-stylethis-is-long.html

Jessica http://quick2blush.blogspot.com/2008/09/surfs-up-swedish-collage-style.html

Ruby http://ribenaruby.blogspot.com/

Ros http://stampandscrape.blogspot.com/2008/09/swedish-collage.html

melanie http://www.smartie-artie.blogspot.com/

I hope that I didnt leave anyone off who emailed us their cards, if we did please resend your projects to strvingartistmp@aol.com with a link to your blog post or gallery.

And now to announce the winner of our drawing chosen by random number generator......

Congratulations to Jeanette Tettiz!!!

Please email us your shipping information and which stamp sheet (or set) you would like!

We CHALLENGE You! -Swedish Collage

We are running our first ever company sponsored challenge and we are inviting all of our wonderful customers and readers to participate! The challenge will run until October 1st. Everyone who participates will be put into the raffle and one person will be chosen by random number generator to win YOUR CHOICE of one FULL SHEET of Starving Artistamps or DoodleFactory unmounted rubber stamps!

Here is your challenge should you choose to accept it!

If you are a regular visitor to our gallery you have on numerous occasions come across artwork shared by our customers. More than half of those are shared by our swedish customers and involve a style we have come to name the "SWEDISH COLLAGE STYLE". We challenge you to share a card with us that shows your version of the swedish collage style. Our design team will also be participating and their projects will be featured here and in our art gallery.

There are several key points which regularly appear in swedish collage style stamping...

• the shape of the card is SQUARE



• a bold mix of PATTERN PAPERS is used



• CHIPBOARD titles (in any language!), BUTTONS and/or STAPLES are often incorporated into the design



• COLOR COLOR COLOR the more color the better! (this is not your regular vintage style collage frequently done in the states! Ban the brown!)

Think you are up to the challenge?

Here is how you can participate. From now until October 1st email us a link to your blog showing your version of the swedish collage style challenge card. Please include your name in your email. We will post links to your blogs here and in the gallery.

Here is our email for questions and submissions: strvingartistmp@aol.com

Below are a few examples of some of my personal favorite swedish collage style cards.
Still not sure what swedish collage style stamping is? Visit our gallery and click the customer shared artwork link: http://www.starvingartistampsgallery.blogspot.com/

To make winning fair to all, each participant will get one entry into the raffle. We would LOVE it if you were inspired to do more than one card, but its still ONE PERSON per RAFFLE ENTRY.
But just imagine all the good karma that might come your way if you were kind enough to share more of your art with the community and we would be especially grateful if you helped us SPREAD the WORD about our challenge!