January Colour Challenge - Frosty Blues


Welcome to the Rubber Dance Monthly Art Stamping Challenge!

Happy New Year! We're starting this brand new year with a brand new challenge with brand new colours and an optional theme 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 January our colours are silver and icy tones of blue
In addition to our colour scheme we also have an optional THEME:
FROST/WINTER (if you want to)

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! We have all used stamps from the Winter Wonderland set, which you can find on our brand new website: www.rubberdance.com


Above makes by Bibi


Journal page by Katy (step-by-step tutorial here)

Tag by Gabriele

Tag by Majo

Join our challenge!

All you have to do is:
1) Create something with this month's colour scheme and optional 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 January:
    Feeling Frosty with icy blues and silver

    Closing date for entries:
    Midnight January 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 February 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

    Comments

    Craftyfield said…
    Lovely colours and great inspiration pieces for this challenge.
    Best wishes for the new year!
    Thursday, January 01, 2015
    TwinkleToes2day said…
    Ooh, these are all gorgeous pieces! I think the colour palette makes them all so elegant. I admire the use of photographs on some of them and I love the random stamping of the 'Let it snow' card. You've been very busy Bibi.
    Happy New Year to you; may it bring you good health, happiness and prosperity ((hugs)) xo
    Sunday, January 04, 2015
    Joan said…
    sorry, I posted my card twice by mistake !
    Monday, January 05, 2015
    Bibi Lindahl said…
    No problem, Joan - I have deleted the second one. Beautiful card, btw!! Thank you so much for joining in! :-)
    Monday, January 05, 2015
    Bibi Lindahl said…
    Thank you, TwinkleToes! I hope to see a frosty entry by you this month :-)
    I wish all the same to you for the new year, with sugar on top! Hugs back :-)
    xox
    Monday, January 05, 2015
    Bibi Lindahl said…
    Glad you like it, Craftyfield! I look forward to seeing your entry this month .... ;-)
    Happy New Crafty Year!
    xox
    Monday, January 05, 2015
    froebelsternchen said…
    Fabulous examples by the DT!
    Happy New Year to all of you!
    Monday, January 12, 2015
    Kristiina said…
    Love these colours! Please, if someone could take away my extra posts, I clicked on the picture several times, because nothing seemed to happen, and now there are many :)
    Monday, January 12, 2015
    Bibi Lindahl said…
    No problem, Kristiina - I've removed the extra ones :) Thank you for joining!
    Monday, January 12, 2015
    Bibi Lindahl said…
    Thank you, Susi! And thank you for joining our challenge this month!
    Happy New Crafty Year! :-)
    Monday, January 12, 2015
    johanna said…
    love this challenge! These Colors are my favorites!
    Thursday, January 15, 2015
    Bibi Lindahl said…
    Thank you for joining us, johanna! :-)
    Friday, January 16, 2015
    Lynne Mizera said…
    I LOVE this color challenge... and this challenge really inspired me to use colors I don't normally use and to create something I am truly proud of ...Thank YOU!
    Saturday, January 17, 2015
    Bibi Lindahl said…
    Thank YOU, Lynne! So glad the challenge inspired you to use different colors than you're used to - that's what our challenge is all about - challenging and inspiring! :-D
    Love your canvas!!! Thank you so much for joining our challenge and for your kind words in that post!!!! It means the world to me to hear from happy customers!! *HUGS*
    XOX
    Saturday, January 17, 2015
    Karen P said…
    I had issues entering and it's entered me twice! Will try to delete it and if I can't will you do it please? Many thanks for a fab challenge and gorgeous regular inspirations Karen x
    Wednesday, January 28, 2015
    Karen P said…
    So sorry it won't let me delete it! Grr, thank you!
    Wednesday, January 28, 2015
    Bibi Lindahl said…
    Sorry to hear you had issues when entering, Karen. I've deleted the second one, so no problem :-)
    Thank you so much for playing along! Very glad to hear that you find inspiration here!!
    xox
    Wednesday, January 28, 2015
    Karen P said…
    Thank you so much Bibi! Not your or the blog fault just blogger being a little naughty I think and yes I get a whole lot of inspiration here - hence my second but new blog, my thanks to all of you x
    Thursday, January 29, 2015
    Bibi Lindahl said…
    You're welcome! My design team keeps inspiring me, too! :-D
    Thank you for entering one more bjuty! Luvv it!
    x
    Friday, January 30, 2015
    Shilpa Nagaonkar said…
    Thank you DT for this wonderful color challenge and inspiring posts. I thoroughly enjoyed working with color scheme !!
    Saturday, January 31, 2015
    Bibi Lindahl said…
    Glad you liked it! Thank you for playing along with your beautiful spread!
    XOX
    Saturday, January 31, 2015
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