Use your Favorite Papers at Gingersnap Creations

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)

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!

Macabre Monday

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

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)

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

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

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)

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

Gez Butterworth

Karen (Kaz) Boughton

 

Maria Sabina Raita

 Nellie vanLeeuwen

 Willy Anderson

Jo Capper-Sandon

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

A New Year!

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

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!

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.

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

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

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

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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'

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!

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

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