March Technique Challenge

Thank you to everyone who played along with our sketch challenge last month - winners will be announced later this week, but we wanted to kick of the challenge first to give you all as long as possible to play along so we're kicking it off today.

This month we have a fun technique challenge for you - USE A STAMP, A DIE & A STENCIL.

You can make anything you like as long as you use all 3 of those products with the added twist that they can't be designed to go together - that is you can't count a die that cuts your stamped image as your die for this challenge, same for the stencil.

So for example if you stamp a bird, colour it with a colouring stencil and then cut it with the matching die, you can use it on the card but you would also have to die cut a branch to stand it on and use a stencil for clouds in the sky.

Get it? We hope that makes it clear. Our challenges are designed to make you look at your supplies in a new way.

Tara created a card using an Altenew stencil with their new Shimmer Paste and paired that with a Waffle Flower floral die along with one of their sentiment stamps and their Script Texture stamp for added background detail. One die, one stencil and two stamps - see? You can read more about how it was created over on our store blog here.

Now it's your turn to get creative with A STAMP, A DIE, AND A STENCIL....

Whilst we'd love to see products we sell in store (there are over 25,000 to choose from!), you can use any products to play along as long as you use the theme of the challenge to inspire you. [No back links - new projects inspired by the challenge only please]

You have until 11pm on 31st March to play and can play multiple times with different projects if you'd like to.

YOU CAN WIN A £10 STORE VOUCHER if you are selected as our favourite. So what are you waiting for? Get out your stash, get crafting and add you link using the tool below:

YOU DO NOT NEED A BLOG TO LINK UP YOUR ENTRY - you can link from ANYWHERE online you can post an image and get a URL - so you can use Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest, Flickr or any website you own. As long as you can provide a link the linky tool will link it up. We just cannot accept entrants by email as we cannot do the linking for you.

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