Jane here - Today it is my turn to choose the theme for the new challenge and I have chosen a nice, easy one - ANYTHING GOES. Why not share your makes with us? It can be absolutely anything at all, as long as it includes some stamping and no digis. And as always, there is a $20
Alleystamps voucher for our favourite. Don't forget, you only need to make ONE item for our challenge, although of course you are free to make more if you wish to.
Now my lovely teamies
Christi and
Zoe thought I was making it too easy on myself by picking Anything Goes, so they gave me an extra challenge, all of my own. That tasked me to use my very oldest stamp, which in my case is this PSX Celtic Knotwork stamp, one I've used many, many times over the years but had been lying idle for a long time.
To go with it, I chose some very old stash too. In fact, I thought I'd completely lost this paper - I bought it when we were on holiday in Bangkok, way back in about 1998, and lost it as soon as I got home. Eventually I thought I must have thrown it away with the packaging from the souvenirs, a great pity as it was one of two huge, giftwrap-sized sheets, of hand made paper. So I was delighted when my recent craft room declutter produced it, tucked down behind a rarely-moved cabinet.
The paper is so beautiful that the stamped image needed no more embellishment, anything more would have detracted from the lovely paper. So if you discount the 16 years spent trying to find the paper, this was an extremely quick card to make!
If you'd like to use YOUR oldest stamp, too, it would be great fun to see what you unearth, but there is no need to do that (it's just me being nosey and wanting to see what's lurking in your stash). Here are the Anything Goes cards from the rest of the team
Now, before you rush off to make lots and lots of cards and things for this fortnight, let me tell you of one extra little rule that we've introduced
for this challenge only. We don't usually have a lot of entries to our challenges, which gives us all time to visit each one and study it properly, and we're a bit worried that by having an "Anything Goes" challenge we might get swamped with entries and not be able to devote as much time to you all. So just for this two weeks, we'd like to see
no more than two entries per person, please.
Late edit
We have not had an entry before linking back to a page where you have to be member or give your email address. As a result we have agreed if any of can comment we will and the entry will get full consideration for the winner and top 3.
