Wednesday's With Claudine - Week 4 Anything Goes

Merry Christmas Eve! and welcome back to another Wednesday with me and the Stampotique Designer's Challenge. This is the 4th week with the "Anything Goes" Challenge. This one ran through the entire month of December. 

The passed two week's I have given you a bit of a recap on my year with Stampotique, it has been a lot of fun going through some of my projects over this year. 

This week I wanted to make something new so i decided to make a cell phone case. I just got the new iPhone 6 and I needed to make me a shiny new case with my Stampotique characters. 

I always buy a clear case and just make my own background. 

So without further delay, here is my new case:

I used the Stampotique stamp - Moth Fab by artists Daniel Torrente and Jill Penney

and also Whatever... - Carol's Collection

I just love how my case turned out, nice and bright just like I like it. The great thing about it is, I can change it whenever I want and it's always original. 

Merry Christmas everyone!!

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butterfly collage art journal page

Apologies for being AWOL last week, work was manic, including the weekends!!  Life of a teacher eh!

But this weekend just gone I made time to play around with some stamped collage elements in my journal.  I'm particularly enjoying using pencil on my journal pages

This weekend I'm meeting up with crafty friends so they'll be more journaling happening I'm sure :)

Stampotique stamps used:

paris postcard  #8964  Carol's Collection

small butterfly  #3018    by Jo Capper-Sandon

baroque background  #7109  Amy Wilson-Wellenstein

numeric  #7164  by Amy Wilson-Wellenstein

SDC 167 Masculine - Wednesday's With Claudine

Good morning all, we have a new challenge this week for you over at Stampotique Designers Challenge Blog and our hostess this week is Kim Howard

I know a lot of people have trouble with masculine themed cards or journal pages, I know I do.

Stampotique Stamps I used for this project are:

French Journal Page - By France Papillon

Angel Boy - By Daniel Torrente

Feakin' People Person - From Carol's Collection

I decided to do a small journal page for this one and I used a jelli print that I had made several months ago (gotta love those gelli prints)

if you would like to see a little of how this was created hop on over to my blog 

HERE

thanks again for coming by

Claudine

Stampotique Sunflowers

Really enjoyed making this little postcard :)  After using a stencil with spray inks I added colour with ink on a sponge and some background stamping.

The flowers were stamped in grey and added to the postcard (I just love that black and white contrast with colour!) before finishing it off with a suitable quote.

Stampotique stamps used:

text block #3    by Amy Wilson Wellenstein

sunflower large  by Janet Klein

sunflower medium  by  Janet Klein

living is not enough   by Carol's Collection

SDC 164 - Birds or Animals - Wednesday's With Claudine

Hello all and welcome back to the blog. Today starts a new challenge over at Stampotique's Designers Challenge Blog

Our lovely hostess is the wonderful Sue Davies and she is asking us to make something With Animals or Birds. 

I decided that I wanted to make a card for my parents anniversary. Their anniversary isn't until New Years Eve but I figured I'd work on it early.

Birds have always been the theme for their anniversaries and my Dad has this tradition of giving my mom a set of two birds every year. Usually they are little sculptures or ceramic figures but she has one for every year they have been married. I think it's such a sweet tradition.

I just recently got this stamp and as soon as I saw it It reminded me of my parents.

I used Stampotique Stamps

Treemates - by Artist Kylie DiOrio 

Kylie has some wonderful bird stamps and I just love them all

Two Hearts..One Love - By Carol's Collection

Carol has some really awesome sayings in her stamp collection

Here is my card

I hope my parents like the card, I think this stamp is just so sweet. 

Have a wonderful day everyone

Refresh It - SDC163 Wednesday's with Claudine

Wow, it's already September!! Time is flying this year

It's time for another Challenge over at the Stampotique Designer's Challenge Blog and

this week our hostess is Kaz over at Slightly Wonky Crafts and she has a wonderful challenge for us. She is asking us to "Refresh It" Use one of those older stamps that you haven't used in awhile and give it a new lease on life.

How fun! I have so many stamps that I just love but one of my very first stamps I ever bought from Stampotique was 

Prom Queen - By Artist Daniel Torrente and Jill Penney

I also used another stamp that was one of my first buys

Whatever - By Carol's Collection

I decided the make a tag for this challenge

I just love bright colors and I love how vivid the background has come out on this one. I did some sewing around the edges and over the wash tape and "Whatever" word.

Thanks for coming by, I'll see you next week!!

stencilled tag

I got some new stencils the other day and really enjoyed playing with them alongside my Stampotique stamps.

And being me, that play involved a tag.  After laying down a colourful background I went for clean and simple imagery (I just love these sunflowers and am so glad I have both, they work so well together).

I'm thinking it'll work well mounted on an art journal page made from some of the papers I made yesterday.

Stampotique stamps used:

sunflower large  #9256  by Janet Klein

sunflower medium  #9257  by Janet Klein

paris postcard  #8964  Carol's collection

delivered to ...

I joined in a mail art swap this week and it inspired me to make another envelope!  The first one I made is now on it's way to Florida!!  When I passed it to the man in the post office to put a stamp on it he just said "oh!" when he saw it was full of colour and put the stamp in the middle, next to the address, so this time I made a space for one!!

I stamped 'dog' by Roc Nicholas (I just LoVe this stamp) over various bits of writing from the junk mail and bills that come through the door!  I thought it would be quite fun to use letter ephemera for my mail art!

'Paris Postcard' gave some great texture in the background, along with some stencilled ink, rub on letters and a touch of washi tape.

I can't wait for my mail art to pop through the door, it really brightens my day when a decorated envelope appears amongst the mass of common white or brown ones!!  Head over to my blog 'The Art of Moodling' if you'd like to see my other envelope :)

Stampotique stamps used:

Dog by Roc Nicholas #2433

Horse by Roc Nicholas  #2408

Paris Postcard   Carol's Collection  #8964

horse with his head in the clouds

This is one of my new stamps I just LoVe him!  He came in a fabulous parcel earlier this week

The background is some left over sprayed and stencilled paper.

Stampotique stamps used:

numeric by Amy Wilson Wellenstein  #7164

horse by Roc Nicholas   #2408

paris postcard from Carol's Collection  #8964
2 Nuages (Fr) by Janet Klein  #9248

I liked him so much I made another tag.  It's over on my blog 'The Art of Moodling', if you'd like a look!

Orange and Pink - Wednesday's With Claudine

Happy Wednesday to you, so glad to have you here today and thanks again for stopping by the Design Blog

Today I have an Orange and Pink card that I made for the new challenge over at the Stampotique Designers Challenge Blog.

Our new challenge was chosen by the wonderful Corrie and she has asked us to use Orange and Pink in our creations this time.

For these cards I used the Stampotique Stamps:

Barcode and Barcode Text - By Artist France Papillon

Ignis Heart and Ignis - By Artist Magda Polakow

Happy Happy Happy and Happy Head Appliances Cube - By Artist Daniel Torrente

I hope we're never too old - Carol's Collection

Blocks - By Artist Maryse Carrier

If you want to learn a great technique for stamping the barcode with the text there is a wonderful tutorial over on our youtube channel by the very France Papillon HERE

I decided to do two cards for this week's challenge - Here is a photo of both

Thanks again for stopping by, take care and have a wonderful week!!
For a tutorial on how these two cards backgrounds were done, make sure to check out my blog
Claudine's Art Corner

Monochromatic - Wednesday's With Claudine

Happy mid-week (Wednesday) to you, I hope your having a wonderful week

I've been messing around in my craft room and creating some classes for my teaching schedule but I always have time for my favorite Stampotique blog posts.

This week our wonderful Tanja is challenging us to create with Monochromatic in mind. This means all the same color just maybe different shades of that color.

Be sure to check out the Designers Challenge Blog for more inspiration and to link up your creation

This week, I am using Stampotique Stamps -

Give The Dog A Bone - by Maryse Carrier

Poochas Gracias - From Carol's Collection

Monochromatic is tough for me because I like using many different colors and shades but I had a great time creating this card and figuring out what I wanted to do with it. 

I hope you will come over and join us for this challenge

Have a great day!!!

claudinesartcorner.blogspot.com

Using Acetate - Wednesday's With Claudine

Good Day everyone! How are you all doing today? I wanted to take another moment to "Thank You" all for coming by and commenting on mine and all the design team member's posts. We really appreciate your support for Stampotique

This week over at the Stampotique Designer Challenge Blog  our wonderful and talented Corrie has challenged us to use some  acetate in your projects. 

Make sure once your creation is done to head over and link it up for a chance to win a Stampotique gift certificate

For this challenge I am using the following Stampotique Stamps:

Bard - By Amy Wilson Wellenstein

Footprints - Carol's Collection

I put together a postcard for this challenge and used acetate for the wings and also the heart

For more details on how I made this postcard please visit my blog

Claudine's Art Corner

Thanks so much for stopping by and have a wonderful day!!

a page in my art journal by Sarah

This square journal has lots of my favourite pages in, but some pages that I didn't like.  This one started off covered with torn text paper over which I'd rolled a marble dipped in paint.  I was trying out different things!!

Not liking it I gessoed over most of it, leaving some of the page with the original paint, and gessoed over it again, and again!  Some splatters of blue ink (because the bottle was a bit clogged up) and some transfer letters and I was beginning to like it!

Now there's a reason why you must never work on an extremely tidy desk (well, that's my excuse anyway!).... I had this bright pink painted paper nearby so stamped up a few 'time square' and added them to my page, along with some hydrangea punched flowers and an apt quote!!

Stampotique stamps used

Time square

row of numbers

Ecclesiastes

Another Stampotique Scrapling by Sarah ...

... although this one's not a mini book.  I trimmed this one in the end and think I'll add it to a journal page.  It looks like it'll work on a page using warm colours.  Head on over to my blog and let me know what you think!

I typed the phrase out on an old typewriter.  It came from inside a fortune cookie - we've never had fortune cookies from the chinese takeaway before but my phrase was quite apt for me!

Stampotique Stamps used

Midge

giggle

journey collage

PS Thanks to all those who let me know that they'd made scraplings before, it was great to visit your blogs and see them, and thanks also to those who let me know they'd never heard of them, it made me feel sooooooooo much better :)

Sarah

Stampotique scraplings by Sarah

I just discovered scraplings!!  They seem to have been around a long time but they'd passed me by until now.

If you've not come across them either, they are the by-product of turning an A5 card into a square.  I love working 'small' so these were right up my street, especially since I added some pages using pamphlet stitch and turned them into mini books :)

Stampotique Stamps used

Carrot

Happy, happy

Abstract foliage

The 'fabulous' scrapling started out as a very plain one, with just the single word stamped on the front.  The idea was going to be to be very black and white on the outside, and full of colour inside (I colour copied some journal pages and trimmed them down to make pages)

It evolved a bit after I added the word 'smile' though!!

Stampotique stamps used

fabulous

keep calm

Let me know if you've made any scraplings recently, I'd love to see them!

Sarah

Friendship

I {heart} the sentiment on this Stampotique stamp, "Life is nothing without friendship". I think this card can be used for ANY friendship occasion - Birthday, Miss You, Thank You, Congratulation or Just Because..



Details about this card can be found on my blog, just click HERE.

Hugs!!