Stampotique Designer's Blog

Introducing Our February Guest Designer- Dina Wakley

2012-02-01T00:01:00.002-05:00

We have some exciting guest designers lined up for 2012 and without further delay, introducing our February Guest Designer, Dina Wakley.

I am Dina Wakley and I live in Glendale, AZ with my hubby and 3 fellas. I love everything about art...making it, learning about it, teaching it. A fun tidbit...many years ago, I heard about this strange craft called "stamping," and I found a local store and wandered in. That store happened to be Stampotique (back when Carol had a retail location). I stood in the store and I must have looked overwhelmed, because the amazing and kind owner, Carol, asked me if I wanted to take a beginner's class. I said yes, and I signed up right then. I remember it cost $10. And that, my friends, is the beginning of it all! I had been scrapbooking for a couple of years, but stamping was a whole new ball game. Stamping led to art journaling and mixed media....and to where I am today. I had little disposable income but I was seriously addicted to Carol's store, so I sold old CDs and books at used bookstores and then high-tailed it over to the store to spend my cash. I think I went to the store two to three times a week. Finally Carol said to me, "I think we're becoming friends..." hee hee. I adore Jim & Carol and love all things Stampotique!

You can visit me on my website: http://dinawakley.com

Here is a colorful creation from Dina:

Stamps used:
Honeycomb Background
Lissi
Midge

Making use of ink spills

2012-01-31T01:02:00.001-05:00

Winter by Daniel Torrente

Sentiment by Carol's Collection

I like to keep a sketchbook to mop up any ink spills or to save any ink left on a stencil, so this is how this page started out:

I added Winter by Daniel Torrente and coloured her with Distress Inks. She looks so miserable and dejected, I couldn't resist adding my favourite sentiment from Carol's collection. This one makes me laugh out loud!

Thanks for looking!

Kate

The Time is Now

2012-01-30T00:01:00.002-05:00

One last creation from our fabulous January guest designer, Laura Liddell- Guest Designer . This is super cool, love how she created the wings.

Stay tuned for February first as we announce another great guest designer!

1/25/12: Gingersnap Creations (Green)

2012-01-26T00:01:00.001-05:00

This is the third week over at Gingersnap Creations and this week is their Color Challenge - Greens!

Laura Liddell- Guest Designer

Gez Butterworth

Jane Wetzel

Maria Sabina Raita

Willy Anderson

Want a chance to win some Stampotique stamps? You have three chances this week with our current Stampotique Designer's Challenge (stampotique stamps only), Gingersnap Creations and Macabre Monday. Play along with us for your chance to win.

To play along with the Gingers and the Stampotique team, visit the challenge post!

SDC47: Altered Items

2012-01-25T00:01:00.001-05:00

Join us over at Stampotique Designer's Challenge for our current challenge to alter an item.

Our January guest designer, Laura Liddell shares with us her altered mobile art.

She has used Camembert packaging to hang the mobile from.

Stamps used: Octopet 6124, Smushasha 6121, Smumauha 6120, Smushallaum 6122.

Love how this is a mobile, this would look great hanging in the studio as a wonderful source of inspiration!

hidden message card by Joanne Wardle

2012-01-22T13:29:00.002-05:00

Continuing the "try something new" theme for the Happy Daze challenge, I thought that sometimes the easiest way to give something new a try is to copy something you've seen in a magazine.

I'm cheating a little here as I'm copying my own idea from my article in this month's Craft Stamper Magazine, which used Stampotique Stamps

The card is a tent fold card with a gap at the top to hold a strip of card.
I used the wonderful moon girl, as well as Daisy Daisy, hearts Cubed and Each life.

The instructions are in this month's craft stamper magazine.

Use your Favorite Papers at Gingersnap Creations

2012-01-19T08:56:00.001-05:00

This is the third week over at Gingersnap Creations and this week is their Random Redhead Challenge - Favorite Paper!

Artwork by Willy
using Daniel's Hearts and Love You Heart
from Stampotique Originals

Artwork by Gez Butterworth
using Whisker Monster with Sign
from Stampotique Originals

Artwork by Jane Wetzel
using Smile
from Stampotique Originals

Artwork by Kim Howard
using Living
from Stampotique Originals

Artwork by Kaz Boughton
images from Stampotique Originals

Artwork by Laura Liddell
using Stampotique Originals
Bird Legs (9077)

To play along with the Gingers and the Stampotique team, visit the challenge post!

Macabre Monday

2012-01-16T01:00:00.002-05:00

Stampotique is sponsoring Macabre Monday, so play along for your chance to win a $30 gift certificate for stamps.

The challenge is "Chic Freaks"... participants are to create a dark/Halloween/Gothic project or card utilizing a "freak" as the main image while maintaing a "chic" look overall.

A few of our design team members are joining in on the fun and this is what they created:

Gez Butterworth

Willy Anderson

Jane Wetzel

Want a few more chances to win some goodies? Stampotique Designer's Challenge is hosting a challenge (Stampotique only stamps) as well as Stampotique is sponsoring Gingersnap Creations this month (use any stamps).

The Owl and the Aperture by Joanne Wardle

2012-01-15T12:42:00.002-05:00

This is a card that I made for the Less is more challenge which is Birds, but it's also One Layer week. I've decided to (yet again) mess with my one layer card by cutting an aperture. This time a circular(ish) one. I really don't like cutting circles, they never quite work, so don't look to closely!!
I stamped the bird, then drew around a circular object. I used a craft knife to cut sround the detail of the owl and then the reamining part of the circle.
I've stamped the sentiment inside the aperture.

both stamps are by Stampotique.

Gingersnap Creations (Ribbon)

2012-01-12T00:01:00.001-05:00

In addition to your chance to win a $30 gift certificate at Stampotique Designer's Challenge, you also have a chance to win over at Gingersnap Creations. This week the Random Redhead challenge is to use ribbon and our team has put together some samples using Stampotique and ribbon:

Gez Butterworth

Jane Wetzel

Karen (Kaz) Boughton

Kim Howard

Maria Sabina Raita

Nellie vanLeeuwen

Willy Anderson

Laura Liddell- January Guest Designer

We'd love to see you join us over at Stampotique Designer's Challenge or at Gingersnap Creations for your chance to win a $30 gift certificate for Stampotique stamps.

trying a new technique by Joanne Wardle

2012-01-08T16:56:00.000-05:00

The challenge theme at Happy Daze this month is "something new"
I saw this technique on Pinterest recently and knew I had to try it.

It's so quick and easy, yet I think it's really effective. Just stamp, cut some detail with a craft knife and then just tear!

The stamp is from Jo Capper-Sandon's range at Stampotique.

my wish for the new year by Joanne Wardle

2012-01-06T01:22:00.003-05:00

Unfortunately I missed the deadline for the design team post for the current challenge, due to being quite poorly.
so here it is!

and my wish is ...Happiness.
The challenge at stampotique is "wish for the new year".
I decided to decorate a bauble with the Happy Definition from stampotique. This can then go on a bottle as a gift for a new year party host. I like the idea of giving decorations at new year, as people still have their trees up.

I stamped the definition repeatedly onto creamy/brown tissue paper, then tore it up (to remove the birthday bit of the definition. I attached this to small bauble with mod podge, left to dry and then sprayed with varnish.

1/4/12: Gingersnap Creations (Use a Set)

2012-01-05T00:01:00.002-05:00

Stampotique is thrilled to be sponsoring the Gingersnap Creations challenge for the month of January. Play along over there to have 4 chances to win a $30 gift certificate for Stampotique stamps.

Gingersnap Creations challenge is to use a set or a line of stamps. That's right! You know you have a particular line of stamps that you love or a particular set that always comes to hand. Get them out and start stamping!

A few of our design team members are playing along this week with the Gingersnap Creations team. Please visit them to read about the details of the challenge and can't wait to see what you all create!

Laura Liddell-Guest Designer

Don't forget to visit Gingersnap Creations and join us there for your chance to win.

A New Year!

2012-01-02T00:01:00.000-05:00

It's the start of a new year and that can only mean one thing .... yes, it's time to get my calendar pages ready for 2012! Although we haven't had any snow this winter in my part of the world, January is a good month for snow, so with that in mind I chose to use Snowy Fran by Daniel Torrente to decorate my page.

You can read more about the calendar challenge on my blog here.

Happy new year everyone!

Kate

Happy New Year! January 2012 Guest Designer

2012-01-01T00:01:00.002-05:00

Help us ring in the New Year with our January guest designer, Laura Liddell. Here's a little info on Laura:

I live in the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire, UK, with John, my partner of many years and our 2 daughters who are now 17 and 15. I love the area in which we live. It is so beautiful nestled between two salmon rivers, the River Severn and the River Wye. Our home is situated on the borders of Herefordshire and Wales.

I feel I am a person with little emotional baggage with a joy for life. I feel I have learned to smell the roses. This saying is on my list for a journal page soon.

I have always been creative and before the children were born I designed knitwear and exported mainly to America and Japan. The landscape around me was very much the inspiration behind many of my designs. Taking colours from the every changing seasons and countryside around us. I found a niche in the market for hand knit menswear and sold to many prestigious stores. The colours I used appealed to this market where I would combine up to 30 different yarns together to create a subtle design full of texture.

When my first daughter was born it coincided with the markets weakening and deadlines were too stressful with a young baby, so I decided to wind up the business. It was also a relief not to have to create in straight lines anymore, which is the structure of knitting.

I came to stamping about 6 years ago. Prior to this I would make up creative projects to do with my children and for my job in family learning. I must admit I love stamping. I love how instant it can be and how one stamp can be used in so many different ways. It has opened up so many peoples creativity and made this part of their life accessible. It is the closest thing I have found as an adult to be like playing as child. I love to combine humour into my creations. There are not many days when I do not find time to play.

Laura joins our current challenge to celebrate the New Year with her creation here:

Her creation uses Starbird with Chick 3059 and Peace on your Wings 8875.

Happy new Year, hope you will join us for our current Stampotique Designer's Challenge here.

Put on your Party Dress!

2011-12-30T16:34:00.000-05:00

I hope that you enjoyed a Happy Holiday with your friends and family! I've been a bit of a slacker as far as stamping goes for the last couple of weeks, but this week I enjoyed stamping for fun and playing in some of the challenges over at Splitcoaststampers. Today the challenge was to Break out the Party Dress.

Janet Klien's Pretty Party Dress is the perfect image for paper piecing. I stamped the image on the pretty paper from Splendid collection by Authentique. Don't you love the coordinating papers? It makes designing cards with multiple designer paper so easy! I cut a tiny tag from my Tim Holtz die and added a diction cardstock sticker, also from Authentique. Scalloped punches add a little punch for a border and some foliage from a Sizzix Sizzlit adds a little more dimension.

If you're donning your favourite Party dress to ring in the New Year, enjoy a fun and safe evening.

Wishing you all the best in 2012

Vicki

A wish for the new year.

2011-12-29T04:00:00.000-05:00

Karin by Daniel Torrente

Alphabitties by Jill Penney and Daniel Torrente

Crow Line by Jill Penney

All for Stampotique Originals

I made this page in my art journal in response to Nellie's new challenge over on the Stampotique Designers Challenge blog. Nellie has set us a challenge of 'what's your wish for the new year?' This challenge is a fabulous way to kick-start your creativity after the busy festive season, so come and join us!

Chicken In

2011-12-28T00:01:00.001-05:00

I think this is one of my all time favorite images and sentiments from Stampotique. I love the bold birds, they are easy to color or paper piece and the sentiment...it cracks me up every time.

Hope you are all had a wonderful Christmas holiday! We are still enjoying a few days off here from school and work so going to keep this super short today.

Chicken In on You Card

Stamps: 2070 Bold Birds and 8935 Just Chicken In from Stampotique Originals

Cardstock: More Mustard, Not Quite Navy (Stampin'Up!); A Blanc Check (Clear & Simple Stamps)

Patterned Paper: My Minds Eye Stella Rose Hattie Papers

Inks: Not Quite Navy (Stampin' Up!), Copic YR16

Embellishments: A Blanc Check twill ribbon (Clear & Simple Stamps); dimensionals (Stampin' Up!)

Little notebook

2011-12-21T02:29:00.004-05:00

I have so much fun lately in making this little notebooks. They are ATC size, hard cover books that I buy ready made and decorate. For this one I used these Stampotique stamps: Marci, Hanging hearts, Daisy daisy, Floral flutter and Word collage.

If you want to see more of these books please visit my blog

Have fun stamping!
Nellie

Last minute gift by Joanne Wardle

2011-12-11T07:38:00.000-05:00

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To fit in with this month's challenge of gifts, cards and tags, I decided to share my last minute gift ideas. I often give Amazon vouchers as gifts, but any voucher that prints out onto an A4 sheet of paper will work.

I simply fold the voucher into thirds both ways to create a "z-fold" and then add covers (8cm x11cm) (be aware that the cover is attached to the top left corner of the voucher so make sure that there isn't any important information there.

The covers can then be decorated anyway you like. I have used Stamps from Stampotique.

Christmas monster atcs'

2011-12-09T11:49:00.000-05:00

Snowy greetings! Since I am not making all my Christmas cards this year, I am trying to have a little fun here and there! Alas...Kira Nichols monsters! I have a friend who is just starting to collect artist trading cards so I thought these would make a cute gift. Key keeper, Whisker Monster with sign and Hug Monster! Yay!

Hope she likes them! They were all colored with copics, cut out and placed on inked up cs. TFL!

Hug Monster tag!

2011-12-08T04:46:00.000-05:00

A tag is a great way of using up those little left over scraps of patterned paper you just can't bare to throw away!

I've made a tag and included one of Kira Nichols gorgeous new images from Stampotique Originals called Hug Monster and the gorgeous sentiment Merry Everything! by Kristen Powers.

Stamps used: Hug Monster & Merry Everything!

also Splatter Long

Thank you for looking and taking the time to leave a comment if you get the chance. Happy crafting. Gez.xx

Yesterday

2011-12-05T12:43:00.002-05:00

Today a simple card in natural colors. I made the background with craftpaper and a white pencil. The girlstamp is stamped on a leftover piece of alcoholinkpaper and so are the small flowers. These are the stamps I used: Olive rose, Carol's flower large, Carol's flower small, Today is a gift .. and Word collage.

Have fun stamping!
Nellie

Ruby shoes!

2011-12-04T03:16:00.000-05:00

The nights are getting darker.. so are the mornings now! What better way to spend the evenings than to start making Christmas cards.. I know lots of people have been busy creating already! I do like to be traditional and try and keep Christmas in December! ;-)

I've had soooooo much fun using the FAB new robin stamp that's just flown into the UK craft shops brought to you from Stampotique Originals brand new artist Kira Nichols this lady is SO talented.. go check out her other NEW designs HERE! you won't be disappointed.

Here is my first card of the season.

Stamps used: Birdy Shoes by Kira Nichols

& Merry Everything! by Kirsten Powers

The gorgeous patterned papers are by cArt-Us.. I couldn't resist inking and distressing them! and adding some Xmas Red Stickles glitter to the robins trainers!

Thank you for calling today and leaving a comment if you get the chance.

Have a great weekend. Gez.xx

2011 CD Calendar - December

2011-12-03T00:00:00.000-05:00

Can you believe December is here already!!!!????
This is the last insert for this year's CD calendar!!
Drop by my blog to see the rest of the pages during the past year!
This has been a fun project... one I'll keep doing each month!

Stamps by Stampotique Originals:
Santa Baby, Xmas 5-sided Cube

Zentangle Drawing with Connie

2011-12-02T00:01:00.000-05:00

Our November Guest Designer, Connie Baever had one last creation to share with our readers. She creates these super artistic Zentangle drawings and has created one with some of the Stampotique stamps.

She used the Smashallaum 6122 stamp along with Text Stars 3027 from Stampotique.

Snowflake Party Dress

2011-12-01T00:00:00.001-05:00

Lisa here today, letting you know there's still time to play along with this weeks Stampotique Designers Challenge for your chance to win a $30 Stampotique Gift Certificate! For more details click here!

To create my card, I stamped the Dress on a piece of Bo Bunny Snowfall paper, then attached it to the hanger with Glue Dots and adhered to the paper with Dimensionals. The sentiment is stamped on scraps, adhered to Chocolate card stock then the base card with dimensionals.

Details:
Stamps - Stampotique
Ink - Ranger Coffee Archival, Ranger Distress Ink Gathered Twigs
Card Stock -Caramel, Chocolate
Other - Bo Bunny Snowfall Pattern Paper, Hanger, Glue Dots, Dimensionals, Ink Blending Tool, Texture Fades Embossing Folder, Big Shot

Designer - Lisa Somerville

Art Journal Page

2011-11-30T00:01:00.000-05:00

Here's a Art Journal page from our November Guest Designer, Connie Baever.

The page is made in an old book. Gesso is applied directly to the book
page, and after she stamped and wrote the text she covered the page with Aqua
Pastels and water.

The art journal page uses the Smashallaum 6122 from the Daniel Torrente an Jill Penney line of stamps from Stampotique.

Don't forget we have our Stampotique Designer's Challenge going on right now using Non-Traditional Christmas colors. We hope you will join us using your Stampotique stamps.

Give yourself a hug

2011-11-29T09:52:00.001-05:00

I love this little monster, designed by Kira Nichols for Stampotique Originals. Made the background with Distress Stains.

Stamps I used are all from Stampotique Originals: Hug Monster (4007), Give Self a Hug (4010), Kisses (3023).

Christmas Tags

2011-11-28T00:01:00.001-05:00

Need some more inspiration for some non-traditional Christmas colors?

Check out these stunning tags from our November Guest Designer, Connie Baever.

You see all those fabulous details on the tags such as the film strip and the absolutely gorgeous jeweled snowflakes?

Hope you will join us over at Stampotique Designer's Blog for this week's challenge to use non-traditional colors with your Stampotique stamps.

We Three Kings by Joanne Wardle

2011-11-27T06:55:00.000-05:00

As Christmas rapidly approaches, I find the need for quick and easy cards gets more urgent.

Here's an easy one made with one simple stamp from stampotique.

I have coloured the card with pencils, highlighted with glossy accents. I have also used some gilding flakes to accent the bands around the crowns. I finally finished with some gold cord.

Laugh

2011-11-26T01:03:00.004-05:00

For this tag I used the cute Floating dog from Kira's new images. Isn't he cute this little doggie? These are the other stamps I used: Dogs laugh, Altered Laugh and Hanging hearts.

Have fun stamping!
Nellie

Non-trad Christmas

2011-11-24T00:01:00.001-05:00

Mink by Daniel Torrente

Splatter Long and Hearts cube by Jo Capper-Sandon

Sentiment by Carol's Collection

all for Stampotique Originals

I'm loving the latest Stampotique Designers challenge - to create a non-traditional Christmas card. Anything non-traditional is right up my alley! This card is very similar to one I have made before but I wanted to make a Christmas version because I just love Mink's sullen expression and it goes so well with the sentiment. This card would be perfect for a real scrooge, and we all know one of those!

Have a look here if you fancy playing along with this fun challenge.

Bye for now, Kate

Merry Christmas

2011-11-23T00:01:00.000-05:00

Join us over at Stampotique Designer's Challenge today for the start of our new challenge to make an untraditional Christmas creation (no red/green).

Our guest designer this month, Connie Baever, has created this stunning Christmas card, love how she went with a monochromatic color scheme on this.

So many wonderful details on this, the film strips and snowflakes, the metallic ink. Gorgeous!

Want to join us, you have until 12/13/11 at 5 p.m. to join in using your Stampotique stamps. Link up over at the Stampotique Designer's Challenge blog.

Misunderstood

2011-11-22T12:00:00.000-05:00

Don't you just love the new monster images by Stampotique's newest Artist, Kira Nichols!

The monster is stamped in Black Archival on Watercolor paper, then masked. To create the BG on both panels I used the Watercolor Distress Technique, using Ranger Distress Inks in Mustard Seed, Peeled Paint and Rusty Hinge. Once dry, I removed the mask on the monster and stamped the sentiment in Ranger Black Archival. To add color, I used STAEDTLER Karat Aquarell Watercolor Pencils, using Gamsol for blending, then added highlights with STAEDTLER Triplus Fineliners. For the background panel, I added the Honeycomb in Ranger Black ink, and the Hexagon in Gesso.

Details:Stamps - Stampotique Originals Whisker Monster with Sign, Honeycomb , Hexagon
Ink - Ranger Distress Ink Gathered Twigs, Ranger Black Archival, Ranger Distress Stain Mustard Seed, Rusty Hinge, Peeled Paint, STAEDTLER Aquarell Watercolor Pencils, STAEDTLER Triplus Fineliner
Card Stock - Watercolor, Summer Sun, Black
Other - Gesso, Heat Tool, Non Stick Craft Mat, Prima Distress Tool, 3L Dimensionals

Designer - Lisa Somerville

Bookmark

2011-11-14T01:00:00.000-05:00

I made this bookmark with distressinks in the colors, Crushed olive, Thumbled glass and Broken china. I used these Stampotique stamps: Thinker, Carol's flower small and Dream definition. Quick & easy and it makes a wonderful little gift.

Have fun stamping!
Nellie

explosion of colour by Joanne Wardle

2011-11-13T07:04:00.000-05:00

For this month's challenge theme at Happy Daze I have made this one layer card, using stamps from Jo Capper-Sandon's range at Stampotique. These Splatter stamps are perfect for the theme. I have used distress inks for the colour.

Underwater Wonder World

2011-11-09T00:01:00.000-05:00

Join us over at Stampotique Designer's Challenge today for our sketch challenge hosted by Lisa. She uses Smushallaum #6122 in this underwater wonder world.

Our guest designer, Connie Baever has created this phenomenal card with great colors.

Queue

2011-11-06T12:13:00.003-05:00

Made this card for an alphabetswap: the Q from Queue.

Stamp I used: Stampotique Originals (9085 - bird legs small).

Party!!!

2011-11-04T14:47:00.004-04:00

This week, on wednesday to be precise, the counter for the number of bloghits for my blog, past 100.000! That's reason enough to throw a small party :-) that's why I made this Stampotique card, for which I used these stamps: Dance party break up, Hanging hearts, Splatter long and Gussie up' ...

To thank everyone who visited my blog over the past few years there's a little give away. So visit my blog to have a chance of winning this card and a small goodiebag.

Have fun stamping!
Nellie

Peace on your wings

2011-10-29T03:22:00.004-04:00

I love this Angelboy stamp. So I chose him to be on the first Christmascard I made this year. And itsn't that Peace on your wings quote beautiful? I made the background with distressink and water.

Have fun stamping!
Nellie

Christmas with non-Christmas stamps by Joanne Wardle

2011-10-23T06:30:00.000-04:00

You don't always have to buy special Christmas stamps to make your Christmas cards. Sometimes you just have to look at the stamps you have in a different way. This general tree from Stampotique, can easily be made to look wintry with simple colouring, and the addition of white flower soft or glitter. The tiny bird from Jo Capper-Sandon's range can easily be made to look like a robin redbreast with the appropriate colouring

Boo

2011-10-22T15:42:00.000-04:00

I haven't made a lot of halloween cards and had these cute images from Stampotique. Perfect little scary kiddos! I definitely need to make more of these now that I've used these, they would make great little ATC's.

This card is a 5.5 x 5.5 and I used the Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge 139 . I hand wrote the "BOO" on the banner..

Hope you have a great weekend! We don't have any sports planned today so I'm hoping to do some shopping for the kids, it's gotten too cold too fast and all the pants we tried on this past weekend-the kids have outgrown them ALL.

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Card Details:

Stamps: Corie 9217, Frankie 9219, and Skullboy 9221 from Stampotique Originals

Cardstock: Going Gray, SU! retired designer papers, Neenah White

Inks: Memento Tuxedo Black, copics, Pumpkin Pie, SU Journaling Marker

Embellishments: black twine, seam binding, dimensionals

Beware Shadowbox

2011-10-21T00:01:00.000-04:00

Roc is here to share a shadow box she has created.

Roc used the following stamps for her shadow box are:

Mary #6054 (but i cut her head off and shortened her legs),
Halloween cube #2 #6110 for the skeleton head and the pumpkins

Tree stamp #6112 and
Picket Fence #6090

Goth Garland

2011-10-20T00:01:00.000-04:00

Amy Wellenstein has created this very cool Goth Garland which would be perfect for this upcoming Halloween.

Amy used a variety of stamps for her garland:

7121 - antique border

Candle boxes

2011-10-18T01:15:00.000-04:00

Today 2 boxes with scented candles which I made with Stampotique stamps and Tombow markers. For the green box I used these stamps: Smile, Carol's flower large, Carol's flower small and Living is not enough ... For the pink-purple box: Marci, Daniel's hearts, Dream in color and Two hearts are better than one.

Please visit my Blog to see a third box made with Jo Capper-Sandon's stamps.

Have fun stamping!

Nellie

Spooky Treat bags...

2011-10-17T13:34:00.000-04:00

"jammin!"

Gettin in the "spirit" ??...he he he! the Halloween spirit that is! Here are some spooky treat bags made with some very cool Daniel Torrente images... "Minky girl", and "two sticks"...

I just grabbed some brown craft bags and inked them using some TH masks then stamped over them. The tops of the bags are stapled down with black netting and a colorful tie die material. Did I mention the black rubber mouse and fake garlic? :) These were really alot of fun! tfl! Jane W.

alcohol ink and acetate flower by Joanne Wardle

2011-10-13T06:41:00.001-04:00

The new challenge at gingersnaps is to use alcohol inks. to be honest I don't use mine very often, but I don't know why.

To make this card I stamped Carol's flower from Stampotique onto acetate with stazon, then on the reverse I applied various colours of ranger alcohol inks with a blending tool. I then glued this to the card, to which I had already added a ribbon (by threading through the card), glued on a button.

Tag time!

2011-10-12T06:04:00.000-04:00

Mink by Daniel Torrente

It's tag time over on the Stampotique Designers Challenge blog and Nellie has challenged us all to create a tag or to use a tag in some way on our art. Well, I love making tags anyway and often use a bit of left-over inky card to make a tag which I then often turn into a little hanging. These tags are a couple of extras I made once I got on a tag roll for Nellie's challenge!

Heart Shirt by Daniel Torrente

Splatter Long by Jo Capper-Sandon

Crow Line by Janet Klein

Don't forget to visit the Stampotique Designers Challenge blog here if you want to play along.

Thanks for looking!

Kate

Ghouls just want to have fun!

2011-10-11T10:48:00.002-04:00

I created this fun card for the Colour Challenge over atSplitcoaststampers today. The colour combination is Pumpkin, Eggplant and Turquoise. All strong colours, so I wanted to try to get a good mix of each.

I used Frankie, Corie and Skullboy for my spooky scene, coupled with the Ghouls just want to have fun sentiment. Such sweet little ghouls and very easy to colour with my Twin Touch Markers.

The colours I used on the images are as follows

Frankie's Pumpkin Head_YR-31 Y45 and YR23

The Purples: P85 and RP87

The Turquoise B67 and BG61

The Skin

R139 and R131

Green Shading GY163-Eye Shading BG178

Ground Shading WG5

All markers from Shinhan Arts

Additional Supplies: Cardstock , Top Note Die, Circle Punch, Ink-SU

Ribbon, Bat Punch and Fence Punch-Martha Stewart Crafts

Happy Stamping!

Sleeping Beauty

2011-10-10T00:15:00.001-04:00

There's still time to play along with the Stampotique Humorous Birthday Challenge - grab your Stampotique images and join us!

I started out by stamping Minkygirl in Black Archival on Watercolor paper, then created a Mask from Eclipse Tape and placed it over my image. To add color, I pressed Ranger Distress Stains in Barn Door, Rusty Hinge and Mustard Seed onto a Non Stick Craft Sheet, and spritzed with water, then pressed my stamped side into the inky pool, lifting to try, then reinking to cover any white space. Once dry, I removed the mask and color the image with an H20 Brush and Markers.

Details:
Stamps - Stampotique Minkygirl, Sleeping Beauty
Card Stock - Red, Yellow, Black, Watercolor
Ink - Ranger Black Archival, Distress Ink Gathered Twigs, Markers (Red, Yellow, Pumpkin, Blush)
Other - Non Stick Craft Sheet, H20 Brush, Spritz Bottle, Heat Gun, Eclipse Tape, Ink Blending Tool

Designer - Lisa Somerville

a "Stella" Hallowe'en by Joanne Wardle

2011-10-09T01:59:00.001-04:00

In previous posts I have used Stella Sitting on various props, and have used masking to achieve this. I know that a lot of people find masking a bit too "faffy", so for this card I used the simpler "cutting out" method!!

I just stamped Stella, the broom and hat, onto white card coloured with pencils and cut them out.

I made the moon background by cutting out a circle mask (by drawing around the inside of a roll of sellotape), then applied black soot and pumice stone distress inks with a cotton wool ball. I
removed the maks, applied a litle more pumice stone ink, for clouds. I stamped happy (from Happy unbirthday) and old english Hallowe'en. I glued Stella and her accessories in place.

All of the Stamps are from Jo Capper-Sandon's range from Stampotique Originals.

Faux Tintypes

2011-10-08T00:01:00.001-04:00

Amy Wellenstein has created these faux tintype pieces (faux tintypes) using Splatter 8832, Clover 6086 and Karin 6108.

Love how these look like they are framed!

Autumn Splendor

2011-10-07T10:34:00.000-04:00

For this card, I created a background with this Beautiful Leaf Stamp. First I stamped the leaf in rust on the card base. I then stamped the leaf with versamark ink onto the shipping tag and heat embossed with gold powder. I added a few splatters in Tea Dye Ink with the Splatter Long stamp and then sponged over with Rusty Nail and Scattered Straw. The sentiment enjoy life was stamped on rust and sponged with Rusty Hinge ink All Stamps are from Stampotique Orginals. My Two fibers included Crumb Cake Seam Binding and Natural Hemp Twine. Embellishments: Skelton Leaves, Vintage Brad and a clip! I really enjoyed creating this Autumn Card because I TOTALLY love Autumn and I don't really tend to create backgrounds and such!

Happy Thanksgiving to my Canadian friends and a safe and relaxing weekend to all

mistletoe bird house by Joanne

2011-10-06T01:01:00.003-04:00

The new monthly challenge at Happy Daze is Christmas or Hallowe'en.

The design team were given these tiny little wooden bird houses to play with. Unsurprisingly I kept mine simple. The only stamp I used is Jo's Mistletoe stamp from Stampotique.

Check out the instructions and what the rest of the design team did on the Happy Daze blog.

Spooky Printer Tray

2011-10-05T01:00:00.003-04:00

I used a selection of stamps from the September 2010 Release to make this chipboard Mini Printer Tray.

I have used:
~{Web}~ on the background for one square
the spider and 2 birds from ~{Birds and Bugs Cube}~
~{Tree}~
all of ~{Halloween Cube 2}~
and the bat and skull from ~{Halloween Cube 1}~

I coloured these with Inktense pencils and they have all been stuck with silicone glue to allow dimension. Some have Crackle Accents on them for interest.

Kaz xxx

Altered Envelope

2011-10-04T00:01:00.001-04:00

Roc has created an altered envelope this week and WOW! Look at the amazing colors on this envelope!

She used the Relaxin' stamp set as the main image and the pumpkins are from the Halloween cube #2- 6110. The Tree 6112 can be faintly seen in the background along with the Spirit definition #7077.

Drop Roc a line at her blog and let her know what you think of her altered envelope.

To be a star ..

2011-10-03T01:49:00.000-04:00

I am so fond of quote and sentiment stamps and I absolutely love the Stampotique ones! For this card I made an alcoholink background that I stamped on with Stazon Jet black. This odd card template is one of my favorites. These are the stamps I used: Angel, Text stars, Twinkle, twinkle .. and To be a star .

Have fun stamping!
Nellie

Joyful Atc

2011-10-02T03:56:00.002-04:00

Stamps used: Joyful, & Splatter Long

I stamped Joyful onto white cardstock and inked around the edges adding water to make the ink run slightly and distress the background dabbing with a cloth.

Joyful was stamped once again onto more white cardstock then I cut around the image and mounted her on foam to add some dimension... the ribbon and flower are from my craftbox.. simple but so much fun.. one of my favourite stamps!

Thank you for calling and leaving a comment if you get the chance.
Happy crafting. Gez.xx

Welcome Our October Guest Designers

2011-10-01T00:01:00.003-04:00

Stampotique Originals is THRILLED beyond belief to have not one, but TWO guest designers this month!

Here is a little bit about each of them and you will love what they will be sharing this month for both our challenges and some additional projects they each created! Watch out for their debut's next week.

ROC NICHOLAS

Roc Nicholas is a self taught artist who lives in Brodheadsville, Pennsylvania. She works out of her home based art studio wheres she also teaches art and stamping classes. She loves to experiment and uses a variety of different media, but loves to include rubber stamps, when creating her art. Roc was a contributor to the book “Good Mail Day: A Primer for making Eye-Popping Postal Art” as well as other art and international stamping magazines. You can see more of her art on her blog at www.whatsuproc.blogspot.com

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And one of Stampotique's very own designers is joining us this month as well:

AMY WELLENSTEIN

Mixed-media artist Amy Wellenstein is drawn to the printed word, the graphic image, and the stories they tell when combined. She specializes in collage, jewelry, and paper arts. Formally trained in metalsmithing, Amy constructs intimate contemporary pieces of sterling silver filled with bits of ephemera, found objects, and vintage beads. The results are tiny narratives to bless and adorn the wearer.

Since 2001, Amy has taught collage, jewelry, and paper arts workshops in Arizona, California, and New England. Her work has been featured in Somerset Studio magazine, several books, and other paper arts publications.

Amy lives in Peoria, Arizona with her scuba-diving husband and TWITCH the cat.

Bee Notebook

2011-09-29T00:01:00.006-04:00

Our September guest designer has been as busy as a bee creating some fun projects to share. Here is her latest creation.

Bee Notebook by Wendy Price

Supplies Used:

Stampotique stamps (Hexagon & Big Bee)
Derwent Inktense Watercolor pencils
Archival Jetblack Ink
twine
cardboard
graph/lined paper

Instructions:

Using a stamp positioner, stamp hexagon image repeatedly on white cardstock.
Color with watercolor pencils
Cut a piece of cardboard to 4 x 8.5 inches. Fold in center.
Cover cardboard with stamped paper. Trim edges.
Trim graph paper and notebook paper down to 4 x 8 inches.
Place graph paper and notebook paper in cover. Fold and punch holes in spine.
Loop twine through the holes in the spine. Tie with a bow.
Stamp bee on white cardstock and color with watercolor pencils. Cut out and add to cover of book.

Wendy: Thank you so much for sharing your talent with our readers, we are so happy you joined us as our guest designer this month!

splashy dragonfly card by Joanne Wardle

2011-09-27T05:36:00.001-04:00

This as a really simple card I made with Jo's new Dragonfly stamp (again) and verse from stampotique. I created the simple background by doing a very small spray of adirondack sprays in 3 colours. I then used the same blue spray with a paintbrush to colour the dragonfly.

Wish Upon a Star

2011-09-26T01:00:00.023-04:00

I've used 3 of the new stamps by Jo Capper-Sandon and one from the last release to make this one layer card. Jo has made her stamps so that they can all be interchanged which makes them so versatile.

I have used:
~{Stella}~
~{Wish Word}~
~{Jo's Star}~, and
~{Great Moon}~.

They have been coloured with Copics and the background is Dusky Concord Distress Ink.

Kaz xxx

Totally spooked!!

2011-09-25T04:56:00.004-04:00

Here is a card made using Janet Klein's new Cooper ghost. What a great character he is!! Other stamps used are Daisy Daisy and Swirl Stalks. All available from Stampotique. The number stickers are also from Stampotique and can be found here.

Hope you like him. For more details please check out my blog.

Jo x

Black & White card

2011-09-24T03:28:00.003-04:00

Have you seen the latest challenge over at the Stampotique Designers Challenge blog?

Group 2 have been sharing their inspiration with everyone this week.. don't forget this week is also a non-Stampotique stamps week and your chance to win a $30 gift certificate for Stampotique stamps. Hope you can join us.. Here is a card I am sharing with you today..

Stamps used: Dragonfly, Dragonfly verse & Tangled

Thank you for calling and leaving a comment if you get the chance.

Have a lovely day.. Gez.xx

CAS-ual Friday meets Stampotique

2011-09-23T00:01:00.005-04:00

Today Stampotique Originals is sponsoring the CAS-ual Fridays challenge.

We are always Clean And Simple and our theme is Mostly Monochromatic, 3 + 1. Use at least 3 shades of the color of your choice monochromatically and then add Chocolate Brown.

Stampotique will be giving away a grab bag of stamps worth $30 for this challenge.

Join our team by showing off your Monochromatic 3+1 card over at CAS-ual Fridays Challenge.

Here are some of what the team created:

Vicki Garrett

Dogs laugh ...

2011-09-22T15:01:00.000-04:00

Isn't he cute this little doggie with his tulip from the new September 2011 release? I made this real quick and easy card for Crazy amigo's, a Dutch challenge site. I used distressinks and water for the background. These are the stamps I used Tulip and Dogs laugh. I used the quotestamp one line at the time by masking the rest of the words and using a stamp ruler to get the words in the right place.

Have fun stamping!
Nellie/

Giant Daisy in Dusty Concord

2011-09-21T04:00:00.003-04:00

Maybe this card looks not simple but it is very simple. Just one ink (Distress Ink Dusty Concord), water, a brush, a Crafter's Workshop stencil (mosaic squares mini) and 3 stamps.

Stamps I used are all Stampotique Originals: giant daisy (3058), small butterfly (3018), french text (3016).

ATC

2011-09-20T07:19:00.000-04:00

Sweetmoves by Daniel Torrente

Splatter long by Jo Capper-Sandon

French Text by Jo Capper-Sandon

Sun Design by Maryse Carrier

Here's a colourful ATC (artist trading card) I made using the new Sweetmoves by Daniel Torrente. She's a little too large for an ATC but I didn't let that put me off!

I used ink sprays to create the background and then stamped Splatter Long and Sun Design in Distress ink to add more texture. I add a couple of baubles by stamping French Text onto a spare piece of card, hand drew a couple of circles. cut them out and added them to the ATC.

I found the words in an old book of quotes. Some of you may recognise them as they are taken from an English folk song ......

Dance to your Daddy

My little lassie

Dance to your Daddy\When the boat comes in.....

Busy Bee Layout

2011-09-19T00:01:00.000-04:00

Busy Bee Layout by Wendy Price

Instructions:

Using a stamp positioner stamp hexagon repeatedly on cardstock. Color with pencils.
Trim stamped cardstock down to 4.5 inches. Adhere to layout and machine stitch.
Cut quote using Street Sign Cricut Cartridge. Adhere to layout.
Stamp bee image twice. Color in and cut out. Adhere to layout with foam adhesive.

Supplies Used:

Stampotique stamps (Hexagon & Big Bee)
Derwent Inktense Watercolor pencils
Archival Jetblack Ink
Cricut Street Sign alphabet
kraft cardstock

More Rain?!

2011-09-18T01:00:00.007-04:00

Hello :0) Long time, no see :0)

Its that time of year again- darker evenings are creeping in quickly for us here in the UK and the solemn moods creep in with the lack of sunshine.

Hope you like this card. One for when someone's day hasn't quite gone to plan.

I used Daisy,Daisy, French Text, Swirl Stalks, Tree, Moon Girl and the new Rain Rain. Drew my own brolly and swing. For further stamp details (codes and links etc) please check out the post on my blog.

The rainy splashy effect is made by splashing water onto a water based ink background.
Thanks for dropping by.

Jo Capper-Sandon

Dare to stand out ...

2011-09-17T01:42:00.001-04:00

Another "10-minute" card from me. I stamped Heads on colored paper and colored some of the faces with my Tombow markers. Then I stamped Dweeze, one of my favorite characters, on white paper. I colored him with the markers too and cut him out (that accounts for most of the 10 minutes..). Glued him to the background and added the printed words.

Have fun stamping!
Nellie

Grrumpy Tag

2011-09-16T01:00:00.000-04:00

Rain rain go away

2011-09-14T01:00:00.001-04:00

I was asked recently to do a guest spot on my lovely crafty friend ~{Kathy's Sketch Blog}~ so I thought what a fab opportunity to share the love of the new stamps!

I used ~{Under The Parapluie}~ which seems to be a very firm favourite of the DT, combined with ~{Rain Rain Go Away}~ which is apt for those of us here in the UK as we approach Autumn at breakneck speed!

I also used part of ~{Daisy Daisy}~ by masking off the rest of the stamp, then added a few white highlights. The main image is coloured with Copics.

Kaz xxx

Whotcha doin?

2011-09-12T13:22:00.000-04:00

It feels like summer is over here in the Netherlands. It's almost autumn when I look out of my window so time for a with an autumn feel to it. I coloured the images with Tombow markers. These are the stamps I used: Rocky, Daisy daisy, Web, Birds & bugs cube and Whotcha doin.

Have fun stamping!
Nellie

Stella and the dragonfly

2011-09-11T04:29:00.001-04:00

This is my piece for the little black dress challenge at Happy Daze. Anyone who has visited my blog will know that my little black dress technique is pencil colouring on kraft card and using my home made stamp positioner to combine stamps to make one layer cards.

I've used these techniques with some of my new favourite stamps from Jo's new collection from Stampotique available from Happy Daze in the UK
Stella and dragonfly are both fantastic stamps to use individually, but combined I think they create something quite magical.
To achieve this effect, stamp Stella first, then create a stella mask from a post-it note, use a stamp positioner to make sure that the dragonfly is in the correct place and stamp the dragonfly.
colour with pencils, and add the quote also from Jo's collection.

Under the Parapluie-Clean and Simple!

2011-09-10T07:21:00.000-04:00

A quick share of this CAS card I created. For all the details, you can visit My Blog

Stamps:

Under the Parapluie

Rain Rain

Beautiful dreamer

2011-09-09T01:00:00.003-04:00

Another tag with a new stamp (Mela) from Stampotique. Used Distress Stains Wild Honey and Fired Brick for the background. The circles are sponged with white acrylic paint. The stamp is coloured with distress inks.

Stamps I used: Mela (6134), dream definition (7065), word collage (7155).

BFF by Joanne Wardle

2011-09-08T05:23:00.000-04:00

I made this card using stampotique stamps for the Gingersnap Challenge
I wanted the card to Say BFF and I liked the letters from Stampotique's altered fabulous stamp. To use just these letters, I stamped the stamp onto copy paper and created a stamp mask for each letter as shown. to use, ink the stamp and then attach the mask with tape to the block.

Stamp the stamp (using a positioner if required).
In this case I stamped the letters and girls onto patterned paper, and added "forever" from the word collage stamp.

New Christmas stamps

2011-09-07T01:00:00.003-04:00

I was really pleased to see a Daniel Torrente Snowlady in the new release of stamps as I love my snowman. The only thing is, I am limited to only a few people on my Christmas card list who would like them, so I've done 2 similar cards using different styled Snowpeople.

On this card I used the new ~{Snowy Fran}~ alongside ~{Snowman}~ and a couple of heart shaped baubles from ~{Hanging Hearts}. I've masked the stamps to form a 'scene' and saved myself a lot of cutting!

On this card I've used the new ~{Snow Family}~.

Both cards are coloured with Copics and have snowflakes of Viva Decor Glitter Liner, which is fab as you get great dimension. There really is only a little bit of colouring involved so they are quick to do. I like that!

Stella Sits pretty.... (by Joanne Wardle)

2011-09-06T07:26:00.001-04:00

...pretty much on anything!

well in previous posts I've had her sat on a broom and a star, and if you keep an eye out this weekend I will have her sat on a dragonfly, but today I've sat her on stampotique's toadstool stamp. And if you were wondering what else you can do with the dragonfly, I have given her a set of dragon fly wings. This is a one layer card, achieved with careful use of masking and stamp positioning (but isn't as hard as it sounds)
I have doodled the edge, not something that I'm particularly great at but I'm pleased with how this turned out.

All of the Stamps are From Jo Capper-Sandon's range at Stampotique.

Wish I could Fly

2011-09-05T01:00:00.003-04:00

Made this tag with the new stamps from Stampotique. Used the shaving foam technique for the background. The stamps are coloured with distress inks.

Stamps I used: Jordan with love (6138), bat like wings (6131), fly word (3049).

Wish upon a Star

2011-09-04T01:50:00.002-04:00

This week at less is more it's a colour theme, and it's metallic. I decided to use a simple metal charm on my card, which I think works well with Jo's Wish Word Stamp from the new releases at stampotique.
I've also used the freebie star stamp (also designed by Jo for Stampotique) from this month's Craft stamper, to make a stencil, which I have sprayed through with Crafter's Companion's Spray and sparkle (iridescent) much like I did on the book cover in my last post. You could also do this with the star stamp in Jo's new range, it's the same but substantially larger (I'm lucky enough to have both)
it's hard to photograph this, but it looks lovely in real life.

Playing with colors

2011-09-03T01:10:00.003-04:00

I love distressinks and I love the effect of combining different colors of them. So once I made one of these cards I wanted to see the effect of another colorcombi. And then I just couldn't stop so I ended up with these six ..

Obviously the design is simple. You mask a piece of white paper on two sides leaving a blank part to ink up. Sponge two colors of distressink and splash with a little water before removing te mask. Ink up Grass with one of the colors of distressink you used and stamp it twice without reinking. To finish of stamp Quiet place

Have fun stamping!

Nellie

Bee My Guest...

2011-09-02T00:01:00.000-04:00

Wow! Check out this wonderful creation from our September Guest Designer, Wendy Price and here's what she had to say about her darling card:

Bad play on words (lol) but today I'm so excited to be able to announce that I'm the September Guest Designer at Stampotique! (squeal) If you haven't checked their site out yet you're missing out! They have some seriously COOL stamps.

I pulled out Big Bee 3008 and Hexagon 3006 to make this card. The Hexagon stamp creates a fabulous beehive image complete with texture and shadowing but I wanted the design of my card to be simpler, so I stamped the image on the backside of the cardstock and cut out the hexagon shapes. I've been wanting to get a hexagon punch to play around with them in layouts. I'm excited to see I can get the same effect with the stamp and scissors instead. I simply laid them out on the card until I found a pattern I was happy with.

I stamped the Big Bee in Archival Ink and then colored him with Derwent watercolor pencils. After he was colored, I cut the image out and adhered it with pop dots.

September Guest Designer: Wendy Price

2011-09-01T00:01:00.000-04:00

Help us in welcoming our Guest Designer for September, Wendy Price. Here's a little more about Wendy:

I am so excited to be joining the Stampotique Design Team this month! My name is Wendy Price and I live in southern New Jersey with my husband and kids. I've been scrapbooking and stamping for over 8 years now. I love the creative outlet that papercrafting provides and try to spend a bit of time in my studio everyday!

Stop by Wendy's blog and give her a warm welcome, wait until you see what she has been busy creating with Stampotique stamps!

Another simple card

2011-08-30T01:00:00.001-04:00

This quick card was made just with stamping and doodling.

I stamped ~{9173 Hutching's}~ (so stylish) and ~{9005 Happy Birthday}~onto the card blank and masked them, then I used 2 shades of inkpad on ~{7134 Mesh}~ and doodled some details before adding a button and thread.

Kaz xxx

Good Things, Good Thoughts

2011-08-29T09:42:00.000-04:00

Have you had a chance to play with us yet at our current Stampotique Designer's Challenge to create a bookmark? If not, here's your chance to win a $30 gift certificate for Stampotique stamps.

Our August guest designer, Barbara Washington created this corner bookmark for the current challenge using 9012 Good things, Good thoughts and 3007 Jasmin

Show us your favorite Stampotique stamps and join us for our current challenge to make a bookmark, hope to see you there!

Mix and match!

2011-08-28T12:57:00.000-04:00

I love to mix and match bodies and heads, so to make make the calendar page in my art journal this month I used the head of Clover and the body of Heart Shirt which I coloured with Prismas. Fun!

Thanks for looking, Kate

Olive rose necklace

2011-08-22T09:25:00.000-04:00

I bought a lot of stylestones a couple of years ago. They are perfect to stamp on. For this one I used Olive rose and Dream definition. I stamped the image on the stylestone with chalkink. Heatsetted it and colored it with inks and Tombow markers. I stamped the dream definition partly over the image. To finish it I coated the stylestone with several layers of clear embossingpowder, took some matching beads and made a necklace of it.

Have fun stamping

Nellie

Blah...Blah...Blah...

2011-08-21T03:05:00.000-04:00

Hi, Lisa here today and I wanted to let you know that there is still time to play along with this weeks Stampotique Designers Challenge, we'd love to your your altered page! This weeks challenge is open to ANY stamp company, but if you have Stampotique images, we'd love to see you use them!

Here's my altered page using Ranger Distress Stains and Color Wash Sprays and an assortment of Stampotique images

To create the BG, I used Ranger Distress Stain in Forest Moss, Wild Honey, Tumbled Glass and Fired Brick, once dry, I stamped the Honey Comb BG in Gesso, then spritzed lightly with Stream Color Wash. The majority of my images are stamped in Ranger Black Archival, the Tree and Mesh BG are stamped in Coffee and Bla Bla Bla was stamped in Vermillion. To add color to the Fence, I painted it with Picket Fence Distress Stain. Sheer and Toby are stamped in Black Archival then colored with Distress Inks. I added some doodles throughout the page with White Gel Pen, and added Scattered Straw Ink to age the page.

Details:
Stamps - Stampotique
Ink - Ranger Distress Ink Faded Jeans, Fired Brick, Walnut Stain, Scattered Straw, Ranger Coffee Archival, Black Archival, Vermillion Archival, Distress Stain Picket Fence, Fired Brick, Forest Moss, Wild Honey, Tumbled Glass, Color Wash - Stream
Other - Journal Book, Gesso, Ink Blending Tool, White Gel Pen, Non Stick Craft Mat, Spritz Bottle, Heat Tool, H20 Brush

Designer - Lisa Somerville

XoXo

2011-08-20T03:01:00.000-04:00

Two lovebirds are they...Minky girl 6125 and Heart Shirt 6046? This card was created by our August Guest Designer, Barbara Washington. She also used Altered XOXO 7238 and Abby's Hearts 9105 to finish off the background of the card.
Leave a little love for Barbara and let us know how much you love her card.

Hello!

2011-08-19T03:01:00.000-04:00

We have one more adorable creation to share from our July guest designer Annette Ward. She used this darling stamp from Maryse Carrier called Hello!

Love how beautifully this is colored and the little hello sentiment in the bottom corner is perfect.

Thanks Annette for being our guest designer for July, it was great having you!

"happy happy" that would be me!

2011-08-18T23:12:00.000-04:00

Love this "quasimoto 3" and "sun design"! This card is how I felt today....gosh I had a GREAT day! Sometimes when you really need that "good day" it comes along..... I got lucky! tfl!

New Home card

2011-08-17T09:58:00.000-04:00

I've made a quick and easy new home card and the phrase on the stamp is perfect as my sister's friend lives in America.

I added two different coloured inkpads randomly to ~{7134 Mesh}~ so it's nice and uneven, then stamped ~{5094 The road to a friend's home is never long}~ on a separate piece of card and coloured it with Copics.
It was finished off with 3 gems and some doodled frames.

Kaz xxx

Go Wild

2011-08-15T16:11:00.000-04:00

Made the background with Distress Stains and the dots with Tando's Sequin Waste Mask and white acrylic paint.
Stamps I used are from Stampotique Originals: don't fence me in (2147), galvanized (8111).

Rocky, a quick and easy card

2011-08-13T15:04:00.000-04:00

Here is a real quick and easy card. I stamped Stampotique's Rocky and masked it. Then I splashed ecoline in 2 colours on my card with a brush . I removed the mask and coloured the image with the same colours of ecoline. Finished by stamping the Stampotique Freakin' people.. stamp in black. Less than 10 minutes work.

Have fun stamping
Nellie

Baby Wipe Swipe background by Joanne Wardle

2011-08-10T06:31:00.000-04:00

I made this for the gingersnap challenge to make a card using baby wipes.

To make the background I wrapped some babywipes around the edge of my acrylic block and dabbed it onto a multicoloured inkpad. I then wiped this across the card to make a simple but colourful effect. I then added lots and lots of stampotique stamps using the same inkpad.
I finished with a girl stamp and a hello for a general greeting.

a little thank you by Joanne Wardle

2011-08-09T08:37:00.000-04:00

Here's a little one layer thank you card I made. to find out how I achieved the stripey colours come back tomorrow..

stamps used
dotted dragonfly
thank you

A Bee in My Bonnet

2011-08-08T04:00:00.000-04:00

I've made this canvas based on something my niece said recently and I have lost it to her already! I guess that's a complement!

I've used ~{6071 Perl's}~ body and thought if your head was being stung you may well become swollen, so she now has ~{6086 Clover's}~ head. I've used a chipboard beehive as a hat and then used loads of ~{3000 Mini Bees}~ including the offending one coming out of the hive.

Kaz xxx