Portraits

I made this card for the new Less is more challenge. This week there's a cardsketch. I used these Stampotique stamps for my card: Stitch, Dweeze, Mink, Carol's flower large, Carol's flower small and Dream in color .... I colored them with Tombow markers. They are so much fun to work with.

Have fun stamping!
Nellie

Join in the Fun!

Just in case you aren't a follower over at Stampotique Designer's Challenge, you may want to jump over there to see what fun things are going on...here's a sneak at what fun we're having.

Join us for Stampotique's Magical Mystery Tour today.  Why a Magical Mystery Tour?  Comment on all the blogs and along the way we have 2 mystery prizes to give away.  Along with your tour you will see all the creations from our current challenge.

Additional Prizes and a chance to be our August GUEST DESIGNER

Come join us in the fun here.

So Hot Together!

There's still time to play along with the CAS challenge here on the SDC Blog, why not join us for your chance to win a Stampotique GC!

I stamped the hearts in Red on my White card base, then stamped Toby and Gooseneck on a scrap piece of White (mask if needed), add color with markers.  Add sentiment with SAMJ.

Details:
Stamps - Stampotique Gooseneck, You two are So Hot Together, Daniels Hearts, Toby
Ink - Red, Ranger Black Archival, Marker
Card Stock - White, Black
Other - SAMJ

Easy Christmas card

I have been having so much fun with the current challenge over at the Stampotique Designers Challenge blog. I challenged myself to make a quick and simple Christmas card.. nothing like starting early!

 Stamps used: Noel Dog and Merry Everything

There is still time to join in the fun over at the Stampotique Designers Challenge blog. Hope to see you there!

Happy crafting. Gez ♥

more clean and simple......

I made this really simple card for the one layer wednesday challenge, using
altered hello and holes border

My son also coloured this card (using Frogs) for his fathers day card, he's only 8, I think he did a great job!

A simple card

A simple card today that I made with these gorgeous Stampotique stamps: Pickin' and Go confidently.

I made 2 backgrounds with distressinks. I stamped the imagestamp on one of them and punched out the hearts. Then I stamped again on the other background and cut out the women and children. I added them to the card with 3d-tape (see detail picture) and finished stamping the quotestamp.

Quick and easy ..
Have fun stamping
Nellie

Stampotique Journaling

Alphabitties by Daniel Torrente and Jill Penney

Medium bee by Jo Capper Sandon

Mary by Daniel Torrente

I always enjoy using Stampotique images on my journal pages. Here I chose to add 'Mary' after colouring her with distress inks. As this page is about my never ending battle with work / life balance, the phrase 'busy bee' popped into my head so of course I had to give her some bee wings:

And I'm loving these 'Alphabitties', they make a fantastic addition to a journal page because they look as if they have been drawn by hand. They are all different sizes and a random collection of upper / lower case - right up my street!

Thanks for looking, Kate

Canvas circles

 

SMUSHASHA 6121, SMUMANHA 6120, SMUSHALLAUM 6122 and OCTOPET 6124
all stamped onto canvas, coloured with Inktense pencils, machine stitched around and then torn into circles.........mounted onto journal page!
See more on my blog HERE
Sue Roddis

Cube

Today I'm showing a stamp by Susan Mahoney who has lots of really cute/odd creatures within her collection of stamps in the store. You can view her collection ~{here}~

I've used ~{8575 Cube}~ and made a simple card that includes a doodled frame. I've coloured with Copics and added Glossy Accents to the balloon and his eyes.
I also used my most favourite birthday greeting stamp ~{9005 Happy Birthday}~.

Kaz xxx

Insects

This week I'm the guest host of the Take a Word challenge with theme 'Insects' and this card is my entry.
Stamps I used are all Stampotique Originals:
big bee (3008), medium bee (3000) and splatter long (3014).

Dream in color ...

The past week I got spoiled with a lot of new Stampotique stamps. This is the first card I made with them.

The background is sort of a "happy accident". I made a background with pastel crayons and gesso and wanted to give that a little boost with some alcoholink. But that gave large ugly spots. In a last attempt to rescue it I immediately splashed quit a bit of blending solution over it. The colors started to blend and my background ended up like this.

These are the Stampotique stamps I used for this card: Marci, Carol's flower large, Carol's flower small, Dream in color, Hope definition, Dream definition and French text.

Have fun stamping!
Nellie

Framed!

it's one layer week at Less is more, with the theme "in the frame"
One of the way to get around the flatness of one layer cards, is to think about instead of adding stuff think about taking it away.

This Stampotique stamp was perfect for the theme, and i decided to cut away the background to make the little guy really standout. To make him stand out further I added some colour to the inside of the card by sectioning of a piece, brayering on some colour, and then stamping a splatter stamp.

The image is coloured with pencils and I have added some grey shadow around the frame to try to lift it. The "whatever" word, just seemd so perfect to use for this little guy.

all the stamps are available from Stampotique

More calendar art!

Bold birds by Maryse Carrier

Alphabitties by Jill Penney and Daniel  Torrente

Every month I make a double page spread in my large Moleskine art journal and include a small square to write on every day. I love to use Stampotique images to decorate my pages and this month I chose Bold Birds by Maryse Carrier. Don't they look cute?! I also used Alphabitties by Jill Penney and Daniel Torrente to stamp the month - I just LOVE the randomness of these letters!

Here's my finished page ready to go:

If you want to read more about this, visit my blog here. Byeeee. Thanks for looking, Kate

More Lovebirds

I am loving using the Lovebirds stamp at the moment and made a card for a crafty friend using her favourite colours.

I swiped Distress Ink pads directly onto a sheet of white cardstock to make a masterboard & randomly stamped the cardstock with the honeycomb & heart flower stamps. I cut out a piece from the masterboard to fit my card. I then added a computer generated verse & the gorgeous Lovebirds stamp. Perfect for any wedding anniversary!

Stamps used: 

5508 Lovebirds

8116 Honeycomb background

9107 Heart Flowers

Thank you for looking. Gez.

Quickie Card

You can't beat making a quick card, especially if you can make one for a male I find. For this one I have stamped ~{6028 Framed}~ and ~{9005 Happy Birthday}~ directly onto the card blank, coloured the image with Copics, then masked them before inking over using a stencil.

Kaz xxx

Acetate Flower

There's still time to play along with the SDC Acetate Challenge!  I created an Acetate Flower for the challenge, adding Alcohol Ink to the acetate then stamping the Honeycomb Background in Coffee Archival and added some Ranger Espresso Acrylic Paint before heating the acetate.  The Stampotique sentiment can be found here.

Details:
Stamps - Stampotique
Card Stock - World Win Petallics , Chocolate
Ink - Ranger Coffee Archival, Chocolate Chip
Other - Acetate, Tim Holtz Tattered Floral Die, Ranger Espresso Paint Dabber, Sponge Dauber, Alcohol Inks, Heat Gun, Glut Gun, Making Memories Button, Gems, Ranger Charm, EK Success Scallop, My Minds Eye Stella and Rose Paper, Scor-Pal

Designer - Lisa Somerville

Happy Unbirthday

I made this card for the Crazy4Challenges Inspiration Challenge. For details, please see my post HERE
Have a wonderful weekend!

Vicki

Escape the ordinary ... bla bla bla

A simple card made with Ranger distressinks (my favorite inks in case you didn't notice yet ...).

I stamped Linda on plain white paper with masked the image. Then I sponged the background with distressink Worn Lipstick, Peeled Paint and Broken China. I sprayed some water in my hands and splashed it on my card to get the stains. I stamped Bla bla bla with the black ink and removed the mask. I colored the image using the same colors of distressink. Glued it on matching paper.

I stamped Daniëls hearts on a matching pink card with the Worn Lipstick ink. I stamped it on white paper that I colored just a little with distressinks too and cut out a couple of hearts. Glued the whole together as shown. Finally I stamped the Escape the ordinary .. stamp with black ink.

Have fun stamping
Nellie

Grrrumpy canvas

I've made a mini canvas using a phrase I found on the net and felt it suited Grrumpy, especially with his hat on. He needed a friend and Perl looks as if she feels this way too!

This is going to sit in my craft room to make me smile when I feel how Grrrumpy looks.

I've used:
~{6071 Perl}~,
~{5165 Grrrumpy}~  and
~{5609 Conehat}~

For details of the chipboard and mask, visit my blog.

Kaz xx  

moda

From the Mall, is the current challenge at gingersnap creations.
"mall"- not a word we Brits use, but I think I know what it means, I watch enough American telly. Anyway, I took this challenge to mean anything from a shopping trip. So I used this label from some clothes, and used it to make a card.

I've used girl with the heart purse, from stampotique. She was my first ever stampotique stamp. I used her to enter a stampotique challenge and wons some more stamps, that's how it started, and now I'm on their DT, talking of which this card would actually qualify for the current acetate challenge, but I can't enter that as I'm on the DT.

I attached the tag to the card with an eyelet.

tiny heart card

I love this week's challenge at Less is More. where you have to make a card using either one of the corner squares or centre squares of a card and leave the rest as white space.

I decided to pick the square I thought would be most difficult. Top Right. I decided that I needed something to either float or hang there to make it work.

I made a 2 inch mini card with bow heart from Stampotique



I think this would work well as a gift tag.

Passion for Fashion

This card has been made for the challenge blog ~{Daring Cardmakers}~ with the theme of Passion for Fashion.

What could be better than Bee bringing Bird Legs a matching handbag for her shoes and hat? The stamps have been coloured with Copics and the background coloured with Distress Inks.
~{9005 Happy Birthday}~

~{9077 Bird Legs}~

~{9044 Handbag Bee}~

~{3046 Floral Flutter}~



Kaz xxx

my first ever art journalling

I have been thoroughly inspired by the very talented Kate Crane to try my hand at art journalling. This is something that so "isn't me" but I wondered if I could make it so.

So I've journalled within a card that is very much me. I'm so into using the torn sticky edge of post-it notes at the moment, to create a random edge frame on a one-layer card.

I stamped medium bee from Jo's range at Stampotique, then masked the bee and the background.
I then inked with malted milk ink . . I applied this with blending foam and also stamped Hexagons (although these don't really show)
I then left the masks in place and drew random lines. I'm not yet ready to jounal my own thoughts so I used those of another

When the first summer bee
Thomas Moore

When the first summer bee
O'er the young rose shall hover,
Then, like that gay rover,
I'll come to thee.
He to flowers, I to lips, full of sweets to the brim--
What a meeting, what a meeting for me and for him!

Then, to every bright tree
In the garden he'll wander;
While I, oh, much fonder,
Will stay with thee.
In search of new sweetness thro' thousands he'll run,
While I find the sweetness of thousands in one.

I wrote the words in my normal handwriting, allowing them to go over the edge, so you only get a snippet.

Finally I removed the masks, stamped Daisy Daisy, coloured the flowers and bee body with markers and added stickles to the wings. as a bee is an insect I am entering this for Crazy amigos' insect theme.

Love Key Chain

Have you joined us over at our newest challenge, you still have until tomorrow?  Valerie has challenged us to make use of items that might otherwise be destined for the landfill by re-using them or repurposing them into a unique piece of art.

Our May guest designer, Nine created this cook key chain out of a piece of cloth.  Love how this looks on the cloth and how she shaped it to a tag.

Hope you all have a wonderful week!

simple butterfly

oooo one of my favorite themes at Less is More this week....Butterflies
butterflies are so easy to use, but I have tried to do something a little bit different. I wanted my butterfly's wings to extend beyond the edge of the card, but I didn't want to just stick it on (first of all have you ever tried cutting out antennae?

so, I started with a square card, stamped the butterfly and then drew a line down each side of the card 1 inch from the edge, up to the the wings, I then cut along the line and around the wings.

to do the embossed dots, I stamped another butterfly and cut it out and then drew around it on the reverse side of the front. so I knew where the edges were, and then used a fiskars embossing board to emboss the dots by hand.

I coloured the butterfly with pencil and blended. I did a grey shadow with pencil and blender to lift the butterfly from the card. I also added a light glittering to the wings with stickles.

up to this point the card is still one layer, but then I felt the need to add some words, so it's not one layer anymore!

Both of the stamps are by Stampotique.

2011 CD Calendar - June

I am trying to will the butterflies into my yard this year, so I have created a new page for my CD calendar using Stampotique's new Large Butterfly by Jo Capper-Sandon on this gorgeous paper from Webster's Pages!  I'm really enjoying creating a new page for my calendar each month - it's nice to have a scrappy calendar propped up in a cd case on my desk all the time! :)

Large Butterfly by Stampotique

Please drop by my blog for more details.
Have a magical day!
Val :)

Denim Party Dress

Hi, Lisa here today sharing the card I created for the current Stampotique Recycle Challenge. I stamped the Pretty Party Dress in Black Archival on the Jean Shirt, cut it out, cutting off the hanger.  I stamped the Damask in Stormy Sky Distress Ink to add a pattern to the jean material.  I added the dress to a Tim Holtz Hanger and added it to the card with dimensionals.  To create the Flower, I dyed a piece of the material with Ranger Distress Stain (Fired Brick) and cut with the Tattered Floral Die, added a pattern with the Mesh background stamp.  To finish off the card, I added some Faux Stitching to the Cosmo Cricket papers and added the fun sentiment, also from Stampotique.

Details:
Stamps - Stampotique
Ink - Ranger Black Archival, Ranger Stormy Sky Distress Ink, Black Marker, Ranger Pumice Stone Distress Ink
Card Stock - Black, Red
Other - Big Shot, Tattered Floral Die, Rhinestone, Ink Blending Tool, Craft Sheet, Craft Mat, Piercing Tool, EK Success Scallop Punch, Denim, Piercing Tool, Ranger Distress Stain Fired Brick, Cosmo Cricket Circa 1934

Designer - Lisa Somerville

Lovebirds

Today is a special day for me as I celebrate my 21st Wedding Anniversary! What better way to celebrate than to use one of my favourite Stampotique Originals stamps to craft a handmade card for my other half!

Stamp used: Lovebirds

 

Wishing everyone a happy day!

Under water

I made these trinchies a little while ago for a swap with "dots" as a theme. The background is made with different colors of sprayinks. I coloured the images with watercolor paint. Don't you just love these mermaidstamps? Please click on the image to enlarge and see more detail.

Here you can find all the Stampotique stamps I used: Smumanha, Smushasha, Smushallaum, Word collage and Daisy daisy.

Have fun stamping!
Nellie

Leftover paint

It's amazing how far leftover paint on a sponge will go!

 I was working on something else today, there was paint leftover in a sponge so I used it to colour this page, then to stencil through a circle stencil and some sequin waste.

I stamped HEART SHIRT 6046   onto an old book page, cut him out and glued him in place. Add the words and some black painty lines and circles and there ya go!!
Sue Roddis.......JABBERWOCKY

one layer bee card

tell me, is it really narcissistic to CASE your own cards?
In this month's Craft Stamper Magazine I have part 2 of a 6 part series of one layer cards. I decided to make something similar to the card in the magazine for this week's One Layer Wednesday Challenge.

The theme this week is Circles.

can you see the circles on my card?

well I think the splodges are circles. I hope I can get away with that.

All of the stamps are from Jo Capper-Sandon's range at Stampotique
medium bee with small bee mounted on the side #3000
splatter blob #3013
splatter long #3014
happy unbirthday #3036
abstract foliage #3031

Arty greetings card

I had great fun using Kim's sketch to make a birthday card for a crafty friend. It's her birthday today!

click to enlarge

Stamps used: Arty & Splatter Long

I coloured Arty with Copic pens. The patterned background paper is by Basic Grey. I also recycled an off-cut from a paint colour chart!

I just knew I loved Kim's sketch! It's also the theme for the current challenge over at Stampotique Designer's Challenge.

Thank You for calling & leaving a comment if you get a chance. Happy crafting. Gez ♥