Our Cousin Carmine

Looking very cool on this tag, hoping to attract the girls is Our Cousin Carmine. The large words are Rub-ons applied before the distress stain background. Great technique as the rub-ons resist the ink and really seem to pop. Finished with a bit of machine stitching round the edges.

Stamps used.

Cousin Carmine
Daniel's Hearts

Thanks for visiting the blog today, Carol x

Bookmark

This weeks challenge is text and I {heart} to use text on my stuff. I made a bookmark for this weeks challenge with a script stamp on the background and stamped on book pages. Hope you like :-)

Stamps used:

Upward Bound

Reach Your Goals

Fax to Wolfgang

Thanks for stopping by!

Pretty Zara

Good morning Stampotique friends and followers.  Today I am featuring a card using the adorable Zara bunny called "Pretty Zara".  Hope you like it!

Hope your day is crafty!!!

JENN

www.jaxbeanstalks.blogspot.com

Freda

This is our last week having Nicole Maki, we have loved seeing her creations this last month!

Here's her creation for the current Designer's Challenge to use text.

Thank you for stopping by and hope you will join us over at Stampotique Designer's Challenge for our current text challenge.

Tetewea on a Tag

Tetewea peeping through a torn hole on a tag.

Stamps used

Tetewea
Sometimes I pretend
Seaweed

Thanks for visiting, Carol x

A Monster's Guide to Happiness....

Hello Crafties.....
Sarinda here with a fun meandering book "Monster's Guide to Happiness" More info on my blog for you. Thanks for your support. Wishing you a creative weekend.
Sarinda

Journal Page

Another Journal Page I have send away :-D

Stamps used:

Perl

Toby

Kamona

Alphabitties

Vintage Script

Thanks for stopping by!

Stampotique Sponsoring The Altered Alice

Created by Sue Davies

We are currently sponsoring the last challenge over at The Altered Alice, join us for your chance to win a $30 gift certificate for stamps at Stampotique.

"Chapter 27 will be the last regularly scheduled challenge here on The Altered Alice. Due to pressures of work, health, and family activities I am not able to keep up with running the monthly challenges any longer.We will continue to have random challenges, Alice posts and Linky tools so you can show us your Alice and perhaps some blog candy now and then, but it will not be in formally scheduled challenges. Please continue to subscribe and to share your Alice artwork! The last post is still open for you to share old Alice favorites.

Anything goes, so show us your best! We will begin on Mother's day, May 12 and end on Father's Day, June 16. Your last day to submit projects will be Friday, June 14. Multiple entries are encouraged but each must be on a separate post. For our last challenge, only Wonderland projects are allowed!"

A special event ..

On april the 30th Willem-Alexander was crowned king of the Netherlands. Although I am not really into royalty I thought it would be fun to make my april calender pages reflect to this special event and in the colours of our country. But with a twist of course ... Willem-Alexander and Maxima in Stampotique style.

These are the stamps I used for my pages: Crown, Crown quote, Banner, Toby and Minky girl

May Guest Designer: Nicole Maki

We bid farewell to our April guest designer Debbie, we are thrilled she joined us this past month and loved seeing her creations with Stampotique.

For May, I'm excited to introduce an amazing artist, Nicole Maki.  Her canvases are out of this world and I think you all will love what she creates with Stampotique. Hop on over to Stampotique Designer's Challenge today to see Nicole's pink & turquoise creation for this week's challenge.

Hey everyone, I’m delighted to be here, rubbing shoulders with the talented crew of Stampotique. Pinch me, I must be dreaming!

I’m Nicole, a color-loving, mixed-media artist from the western United States. 

In a fit of creating, I produced three boys in two and a half years (no twins!)  - they are now 16, 15 and 14 and possess a dark talent for growing out of shoes and emptying the fridge. In a joyous bit of karmic balance, I’m also mom to an 88 pound couch-warming mutt named Bubby who has my penchant for napping, snuggling and general quietness. My husband Chris and I have been married for eighteen blood-tingling years after a whirlwind two month courtship that culminated in our immigrating from Canada to America mere days after our honeymoon. 

We homeschool (which kind of explains the mummified chicken buried under our basement stairs) and I write on occasion for money. Sadly, I've only managed to sell articles on learning and parenting not my scandalous choose-your-own-adventure novels for grown-ups about reality TV. Bummer. 

Collage, art journalling, stamping and card making have been an essential part of my life for more than a decade. The cards never stick around long though, there's always someone I know who could use a little happiness when they open their mail. Paint is my worst addiction and I've rarely met a piece of packaging that doesn't beg to be up-cycled.

Recently I’ve been focusing the bulk of my creative time on mixed-media collages that I sell online, through Etsy, and at craft fairs.

My work can be seen in Memory Makers, Scrapbooks Etc., Family Fun, Home Education, ScrapStreet, Scrapbook News & Review, Art Journey Journal and the books Mod Podge Rocks!: Decoupage Your World and A Card a Day by Paper Crafts Magazine .

I’d love it if you visited me at my blog, www.madebynicole.blogspot.com

Warmly,

Nicole

Stampotique Sponsors Cupcake Inspirations Challenge

Stampotique is excited to be sponsoring a yummy challenge at Cupcake Inspirations Challenge this week.  Each week they have a fantastic cupcake inspiration photo.  This week, they have a great color combo inspired by chocolate-y goodness.  Be sure to check it out and enter before Saturday, May 4th at noon.

A few of our designers have created some amazing things with the color combination. 

Kaz Boughton

Sarinda Jones

Carol Fox

Astrid Stulemeijer

Jane Wetzel

Sam Read

Nellie van Leeuwen

Susan Davies

Hope you will join us over at the Cupcake Inspirations Challenge for your chance to win a $30 gift certificate for Stampotique stamps.

Fit for a Princess

Here's something very different for me and I'm quite nervous sharing this. Firstly I played with some paper clay, never done that before! Secondly I've used just one stamp, I don't think I've done that before either, I usually use as many as I can on each creation. 

The inspiration for this came one evening after doing the washing up, I usually take my ring off and put it down somewhere even though I wear rubber gloves. One evening I thought I had lost my favourite ring and I just thought that this had to stop as it wasn't the first time. So I go my thinking cap on and came up with this. The paper clay was really easy to use, I painted it when it was completely dry and added some silver leaf and the lovely daisies which are part of the Daisy Daisy stamp. I finished off with a coat of gloss medium for protection.

Now I'll always know where my ring is.

I hope you like it, Sam xxx

Journal Pages

I love to make art for (and of course to receive from) others :-D So I have started a circle journal on a Dutch art journal forum. Everyone has chosen a theme in which they want to receive their pages.These are two pages I made.

Theme Hearts

Heart Shirt
Daniel's Hearts

Theme Fairy Tales

Dorothy

Toto

Scalloped Laced Border

Journey Collage

Thanks for stopping by!

Birdy Friends

I made this arch for another DT I am on and thought I'd share it here too:

I love the way that my Stampotique stamps work so well with their chipboard goodies!

The stamps I've used are ~{Stack of Birds}~, coloured with DI's as watercolours and ~{A Friend's Touch}~.

Kaz xxx

Gez hopes to get a spring feeling by choosing "Flowers" as this weeks theme for the Stampotique designer's challenge. I think we all can use some colour and sun! Here is the card I made for this challenge. I used  some of the wonderful Stampotique stamps from the new release and one of my favourite old ones: Spidergrass, Wildflower verse, Daisy daisy. I sponged the background with blue and green distressinks and stamped with distressinks too. I coloured the flowers with a white gelpen.

Have fun stamping!

Nellie

Smile Bottle

Our April Guest Designer, Debbie Reid shares with us her Smile Bottle for the current Stampotique Designer's Challenge to "Focus on Flowers".

 - Stamp used: Smile

- old bottle covered in tissue paper that was sprayed with Dylusions Ink Sprays

- Tim Holtz Tattered Florals

- smaller flowers from Dollar Store sprayed to match; Smile was stamped on card stock, then scanned to make smaller to fit the tiny flowers

- ball chain is Tim Holtz

- pink bottle cap with Smile stamp

April Guest Designer- Debbie Reid

I apologize for not getting the announcement of our April guest designer up yesterday-you know I didn't want to fool you all when we shared with you how excited we are to have Debbie Reid with us in April.

So excited to be here! I live in Halifax Nova Scotia Canada with my amazing husband, Mike, and our fur baby, Abby, a 12-year-old Abyssinian cat. I am the Library Manager at The Chronicle Herald newspaper.

I have been a paper crafter since 2007.  I scrapbook, make cards, tags, canvas and journal art.

I'm on my third scrapbook of concerts I have attended. I came across a cigar box with ticket stubs in it one day and I had just started taking scrapbooking classes, so I decided to scrap them. 

My first concert was The Guess Who in 1975. My second concert was Fleetwood Mac in 1977. It cost $12.00 to see Fleetwood Mac in 1977! I also save the concert review, and I try and take a photo of Mike and I at the concert. I just finished a layout for a concert we attended last month. A local band by the name of The Trews. 

I'm also starting to put together a Genealogy scrapbook.

My style is vintage, shabby chic, distressed, Tim Holtz. Not too much into “cute”, although, I like cute cards, but not making them.  I make cards for fun and for family occasions mostly. I am partial to tags.

I am on the Design Team for The Stampsmith, who make photo image stamps.

So thrilled to be a guest designer for Stampotique! I love the very different and unique stamps they carry.

You can see more of my creations on my blog: http://scrapsfromabroad.blogspot.ca

I Made It Myself!

Debbie

Happy Easter!

Happy Easter everyone!

 Stamps used: Easter Bunny, Pretty Zara, Tree & You are the truest friend

                   I hope the Easter bunny calls to visit everyone this weekend.

 Happy creating, Gez

Big Whoop

We want to say a big Thank you to our guest designer for March, Belinda Spencer for sharing her creativity with us month. We've had fun seeing her creations each week and look forward to seeing her creations in the challenges.

Here is a little extra project I created for this challenge just because I really do love any excuse to use my stencils!!

This time I have created a more grungy card with an adorable, spooky little Batboy. The background is made up of torn book paper pieces with Gel Medium scraped across a diamond pattern stencil with a palette knife. Once dry I have added various Distress Inks and Glimmermist and stamped the Bla Bla Bla quote in black Staz On. Lastly I added my pieced together Batboy with some wings added from Lovelyarethesound.

Thank you so much to everyone at Stampotique for inviting me to be guest designer once again. I adore these stamps and looking forward to a lot more stamping with them!!

Happy stamping everyone.

Cheers

Belinda

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Stamps used:

Batboy #6077

Bla Bla Bla #6001

Lovelyarethesound #6147

Have a wonderful Spring

Going with an Easter theme this week, while my card doesn't have the Easter greeting, it has an Easter theme with this cute little "bunnies".  This is one of my favorite images, just love the little peeps peeking out of the basket.

Kept my card very CAS this week,  using a solid paper from one of my paper packs as my background and used a small piece of May Arts Woven Burlap as my "tab".

Hope you all have a wonderful Easter this weekend, enjoy the time with family and friends.

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Card details:

Stamps: Blueberry Bunnies in a Basket 6098, Wonderful Spring 5314 from Stampotique Originals

Cardstock: Crumb Cake, Chocolate Chip, Regal Rose, solid background paper unknown

Inks: Dish All the Dirt Brown, copic markers

Embellishments: none

Cutest Pup in the Block

My last memory glass cubed world was quite popular so I thought I would make another, this time it's really tiny measuring just  1 inch x 1 inch. 

I have to confess to being slightly addicted to this little dog stamp at the moment, it's appearing on nearly everything I make, it's just sooo cute!

The stamps used are Toto, Heart Flowers and Medium Bee. They were all stamped on to shrink plastic and coloured with Prismacolour pencils.

I hope you like it?

Wishing you a very lovely day, Sam xxx

Spring Themed Card

Our guest designer Belinda shares with us a little more on her spring card here:

I love it when spring finally arrives!!

It may have something to do with the fact that I hate summer with its threat of bushfires here as well as slithery things waiting to freak me out around the farm. So I decided to create a card that shows how happy I am that we made it through summer and that spring is here.

I created a scene on my card with patterned paper, tearing the green spotty paper for the grass. I stamped Baby Fleur 3 on various papers and cut out and pieced together. I created multiple layers of petals around its sweet little face and curled them slightly at the ends to create more of a 3D effect. I stamped the Garden Block Background onto some white cardstock and cut some clouds and individual words from it to add to the card as spring means flowers to me. Next I added some tiny bees as well as the quote .

Cheers

Belinda

Stamps used:

Baby Fleur 3 #9147

Garden Block #9061

Medium Bee with Tiny Bee mounted on side #3000

The Earth Laughs in Flowers #9016

Getting Sketchy by Jenn Cochran

Good morning Stampotique friends and followers.  What a great week it is!  And to add to it...there is a fabulous Sketch Challenge happening on the Stampotique Designers Challenges blog.  Visit it HERE. 

The sketch is from my teamie Maria.

I have used two Stampotique Originals Stamps: Happy Birthday & Zara's Gift.

Love this little bunny!

Designer Paper: Authentique

Ink: Memento

COPICS

Twinery Twine.

Created for Stampotique Originals 

By Jenn Cochran

Magical Wish Card

Here is my card based on the awesome sketch for this week’s challenge over at Stampotique Designer's Challenge.

I created a multi-layered background using various mediums including gesso, book paper, gel medium, Distress Ink, Glimmermist, and Faber Castell Gelatos. I stamped the “Lovelyare thesound” image #6147 on various pattern papers and pieced him together. The sentiment comes from the “Tall Word Collage” #7167. 

You can see a tutorial on my blog on how I created this card.

http://happyscrapspace.blogspot.com.au/

Cheers

Belinda

Stamps used:

Lovelyarethesound #6147

http://www.stampotique.com/stamp/penney-torrente/6147.html

Tall Word Collage #7167

http://www.stampotique.com/stamp/words-letters-numbers/7167.html

Happy Birdy Up

I've made this card for my youngest niece, Lucy, who is 14 today.

I didn't make it easy on myself though as this required masking and stamp positioning, but she's worth it (if I don't say that I'm in BIG trouble).

I've used the birds from ~{Birdy Up}~ individually and sat them on or hiding behind ~{Tenticurl}~.

The birds are coloured with Copics and there's a hefty amount of doodling to finish off. The greeting is my favourite ~{Happy Birthday}~.

Kaz xxx

Stampotique Sponsoring Southern Girls Challenge

Today Stampotique is excited to partner up with Southern Girls Challenge in sponsoring the current "Tag You're It" Challenge.

You can read more about the challenge here and join us for a chance to win a $30 gift certificate for stamps.

Jane Wetzel

Sam Read

Nellie van Leeuwen

Gez Butterworth

Maria Sabina Raita

Susan Davies

Kaz Boughton

Sarinda Jones

Carol Fox

Make sure to link up your tags over at Southern Girls Challenge for your chance at the $30 gift certificate.