December Colour Challenge - Bright & Bold

Welcome to the Rubber Dance Monthly Art Stamping Challenge!

Our challenge is all about colour! Each month we bring you a gorgeous colour scheme to kick-start your muse. 


Both our winner and Pick of the Month will get badges to proudly display on their blogs. Winners will be announced on our blog on the 7th of the following month, so remember to check back to see if you won! 

  • We'll draw an overall WINNER at random who receives an an amazing grab bag of unmounted Rubber Dance stamps worth 25 Euro! (that's over $30!)
  • The Design Team will choose our favourite entry - our DT Pick of the Month. 
  • Any entries using Rubber Dance stamps will get a special mention!

For December our colours are bright and fresh blues, purples and pinks
In addition to our colour scheme we also have an optional THEME:
BIRTHDAYS (if you want to)
(for example, use a birthday themed stamp, make a birthday gift, create some pretty packaging)

There's a very special reason for our theme this month, as December is Bibi's birthday month (Bibi owns and runs Rubber Dance). So we decided to dedicate this challenge to all those folks whose winter Birthday is overshadowed by Christmas celebrations and put them in the spotlight!

Please take a quick look at the rules below before you create. Don’t worry, there aren't many rules and they are not complicated.

Need some inspiration? Check out these examples from our fabulous Design Team! They have used our new birthday stamps which you can find on our brand new website: www.rubberdance.com

By Irit

By Majo

By Susanne

By Gabriele


By Helen (video tutorial here)

By Steph

Join our challenge!

All you have to do is:
1) Create something with this month's colour scheme and theme (if you want to use it)
2) Add your linky below before the closing date
3) Add a link back to the Rubber Dance blog to your entry post


GUIDELINES:
  • This is an art stamping challenge so all entries need to include rubber stamping (no digi stamps please).
  • Using stamps from Rubber Dance is NOT necessary to join.
  • Entries need to use the colour scheme provided – you are welcome to add neutral colours like white, black, cream or metallic to the given colours.
  • Entry is via the linking tool only. We are very sorry that we can't accept email entries.
  • Please provide deep links to your actual project post, not just a link to your blog (to do this, click on the title of your blog entry and copy/paste the URL that appears in your browser's address field).
  • Please link only to new work – don’t backlink to previously made art.
  • You are welcome to combine our challenge with up to five additional challenges.
  • You may join our challenge with up to five entries as long as they are on different blog posts and linked up separately.
  • PLEASE consider turning off word verification on your blog if you would like to receive comments from the Design Team as this makes our job much easier.
  • Following our blog is optional, but appreciated :-)
We reserve the right to remove entries that don't meet these requirements.


    Colour scheme for December:
    Bright and bold blues, purples and pinks

    Closing date for entries:
    Midnight December 31st, Central European Time (= GMT+1 or EST + 6)

    Have fun! We can't wait to see what YOU come up with! :-)

    Greetings from the DT & Staff at Rubber Dance
    www.rubberdance.com


    Our next challenge will be announced on January 1st
    at 1 minute after midnight CET (= GMT + 1, EST + 6)

    Any questions? Please use the comment field below or email Bibi at stamplist@gmail.com

    We will need a minimum of FIVE different people to enter in order to draw any winners.

    Comments

    Craftyfield said…
    Love this month's colours, plus it's a relief from the Christmas colours! Lovely Birthday cards from the DT.
    Tuesday, December 02, 2014
    Bibi Lindahl said…
    Thank you! These are my fave colours - I got to pick since it's my birthday allll month long! LOL
    xox
    Tuesday, December 02, 2014
    Boo G said…
    Happy Birthday, Bibi. Your new website is so pretty. I can't find the link for the challenge.
    Tuesday, December 02, 2014
    Unknown said…
    Sorry Boo - I have now added the link
    Tuesday, December 02, 2014
    Bibi Lindahl said…
    Thank you, Boo!! :-)
    Sunday, December 07, 2014
    TwinkleToes2day said…
    Awesome colour combo and gorgeous DT inspiration as always :o) xo
    Thursday, December 18, 2014
    Bibi Lindahl said…
    Thank you, Twinkle! And thanks for entering your cool tag!! :-)
    Tuesday, December 23, 2014
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