Stampotique Designers Challenge 166

Happy Wednesday all, I'm so happy to be here to show you my project for the new challenge

over at Stampotique Designer's Challenge Blog

The theme is Halloween this time and our wonderful Carol has chosen this one. All of us here at Stampotique love Halloween.

In fact our Facebook group is having an ATC Halloween swap for October, won't you come by and join us?

For my project this week, I created the ATC and also a coordination card for the Facebook swap

I used Stampotique Stamps:

Hazel Jester and Clothes Text - By artist Linda Peterson

Halloween Cube - By Artist Daniel Torrente

Here is the ATC I created, I printed out the saying from the computer

and here is the ATC with the coordinating card

This was fun and I just love how Hazel is so proud in her Jester costume!

Thanks for coming by the Designer's Blog today, make sure to check back everyday for a new inspiring project by one of the designers.

back to my art journal

Been playing in my journal again :)

I used some 'scratch paper' as the background for my page then played with my Stampotique stamps.

This is in my 'paperback book' sized journal which I got from Paperchase aaaaaages ago but love for it's different size.

Stampotique stamps used:

2 nuages (fr)  #9248 by Janet Klein

row of numbers  #7213  by Amy Wilson Wellenstein

numeric  #7164  by Amy Wilson Wellenstein

barcode  #10019  by France Papillon

raindrops  #5820  by Magda Polakow

dog  #2433  by Roc Nicholas

rain text  #12022   by Linda Peterson

daisy, daisy  #3002  by Jo Capper-Sandon

Flowers and a Bookmark - Wednesday with Claudine

Happy Wednesday to ya, thanks again for coming by and spending this time with me once again

 

I hope your having a great week.. Today marks another new challenge over at Stampotique Designers Challenge Blog and this week our wonderful hostess is Kristin and she has chosen the challenge "Flowers" 

Even though it's the end of August we still have a few flowers here in Colorado. It's sad though because soon it will become colder and our flowers will go dormant for another winter.

I decided to make a bookmark for this project and I wanted it to have the flower by artist 

Janet Klein called - Sunflower Left

I had originally created something else for this project and didn't like it so I cut this flower out of my original project so I could still use it. No waste! haha!

I also used one of my favorite stamps by artist 

Linda Peterson called Hazel Jester

All of the Hazel stamps are so cute but this one is my favorite, Hazel Jester definitely has that cuteness factor

I created an "arm" and "hand" for my Hazel so it would look like she was standing there holding this flower, although I'm not so great at drawing I though it turned out ok. LOL

Thanks for coming by and have a great day.

dreaming on a journal page

Still working in my little passport sized Moleskine journal but with only two pages left it's very nearly complete.  I switch between working in different sized journals depending on my mood, so I must be going through a small journal phase at the moment!!

This isn't want I originally intended for this image but that's the great thing about journaling, ideas flow as you work with the imagery (and I still have my original idea to work on!!).

It makes me think of the story of 'Where the wild things are' for some reason!!

Stampotique stamps used:

Dreamer  #12003  Linda Peterson

2 Nuages (Fr)  #9248  Janet Klein

Grow your dreams  #7231  Maria Sabina Raita

Sunflower medium  #9257  Janet Klein

Baroque background  #7109  Amy Wilson Wellenstein

a journal page

I love it when I have a nearly finished journal (which doesn't happen often!) as it gives me the oomph I sometimes need to get journaling!  This is my passport sized moleskine journal.

I couldn't find my gelli plate but did find a cellophane packet so inked it up, sprayed it with water and printed it onto my gessoed page.

Some added depth of colour using a sponge .... and that's where I forgot I was taking step by step photos!  Oops!

There's a bit of text stamped in the background for added texture, then I stamped 'Daniel's hearts' in black directly onto the page.  They didn't stamp well in the centre so I stamped them again on another inked up piece of paper, cut them out and added them to the page.

A little quasimoto and a quote and my page was done.

Stampotique stamps used:

Daniel's hearts  #6109  Daniel Torrente

Quasimoto #3  #6015  Daniel Torrente and Jill Penney

Antique Description  #7228  Amy Wilson Wellenstein

Whole Heart  #12011  Linda Peterson

Using Newspaper or Magazine - Wednesday with Claudine

Hello all, it's that time again, time for another challenge over at 

Stampotique Designers Challenge. This week our wonderfully talented Magda Polakow is our hostess and she has chosen the theme "Use a piece of magazine or newspaper"

You would think this would be an easy challenge

but for me, I don't use newspaper or magazines

very much. I mostly use stamps in my backgrounds

so this was tough for me.

Needless to say I scoured over my newspaper from the passed few days looking for a good piece.

I found something in the Michael's add of all places haha! 

SO I decided to make a postcard for my piece and I went with the following Stampotique Stamps:

Hazel Jester - By artist Linda Peterson

Clothes Text - Also by artist Linda Peterson

I used a piece of printed card stock for my background and added the "flowery" piece of newspaper that I tore out of my Michael's add

This is what it looked like from the start

I then added some painting and washi tape

I heat embossed my text and Hazel and colored them with colored pencils (I made my Hazel a bumblebee to show her in a costume)

Lastly - I added a flower with a button center

Here is my finished postcard

Because Bees like flowers I just love my magazine piece in the background there. 

I hope you have enjoyed my project for today and hopefully all the bees are buzzing around in your neck of the woods because that means it's warm and there are lots of flowers out.

what a lovely background!

Stampotique do some great background stamps and one of my particular favourites at the moment is baroque background.  I even dug out the embossing powder for this project :)

 

Stampotique stamps used:

baroque background  #7109 by Amy Wilson Wellenstein

antique description  #7228 by Amy Wilson Wellenstein

star flower  #2021 by Maryse Carrier

whole heart  #12011  by Linda Peterson

my goodness, Sarah's made another card!

My little girl was 17 this week and as she's just finished a dance show Hazel dancing was the perfect image!

I used one of my new stamps 'Baroque background' for the grass, and Janet's lovely clouds cover up all the black smudges I can't help but add to my cards!!!

A few sparkles in the daisies and I was happy with my card.  Sorry for the short post, it's sheer madness at work at the moment!

Stampotique Stamps Used:

Dance  #12024  by Linda Peterson

Baroque Background  #7109  by Amy Wilson Wellenstein

Daisy, Daisy  #3002  by Jo Capper-Sandon

2 Nuages (Fr)  #9248  by Janet Klein

Be Your Own Superhero!

Today's card features more of my favorite new stamps from the Fall 2013 release fromStampotique Originals! These are from designer Linda Peterson. I am so in love with her sweet little pointy-headed people!!

And isn't that sentiment just THE BEST? Love it!! The image is 12012 Superhero and the message is 12013 Superhero Text. I colored it with my Copics and made it crazy bright and happy with papers from Lori Whitlock for Echo Park and Amy Tangerine for American Crafts. I have developed a new theory in my crafting - my theory is that clouds make anything cuter. I went with that theory on this card. :-)

Thanks for stopping by!
Libby

More Hazel Love!

Today I have another Hazel image to share. Love love love these new Stampotique images!! They are so adorable!

Love with your whole heart. How sweet is that? Not only do I love this line of Hazel images, but all the messages are fantastic, too! Today I used 12010 Hazelheart and 12011 Whole Heart. Hazel is colored with Copics, with a little Stickles bling added to her heart.

Thanks for stopping by!
Libby