Making use of ink spills

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

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)

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

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

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

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