Blessings

Here is a bookmark created as a gift for an avid reader in our family.

Portland by Stampotique

See my blog for more details.
Happy Holidays!
Val :)

People Person!

A fun card I created in the last couple of weeks. For details, please visit my blog!

www.summerthymestudio.blogspot.com

Robins

Made this card for the Sunday Postcard Art challenge with theme 'Robins'.
Stamps I used are all Stampotique Originals:
3028 - swirl stalks
5120 - sunny days
6112 - tree
6113 - oh my dear

Just a little Cupcake

This is the last creation from our November guest designer, Janet Klein.  It's an adorable cupcake tag with some bling.

If you haven't joined us for our Blingy Bling challenge and your chance to win a $30 gift certificate from Stampotique, now is your time to join.  This week is it is a Stampotique only stamps week.  We always enjoy seeing the awesome creations that the players come up with, so I hope you will join us.

A big Thank you again to Janet for her fabulous creations!  

Stamps: 9213  Just a cupcake

Oh My Dear card

I love this ~{Oh My Dear}~ stamp, I think it's the antler gloves. I shall be using him a lot this Christmas.

I've coloured him with Copics and used MME papers with Bazzill card. The greeting has been printed and doodled.

Kaz xxx

ATC Galore

Have you ever seen so many beautifully bright colors displayed so perfectly?  I absolutely love the vibrant ATC's that our November Guest Designer, Janet Klein has created along with the ATC box.  

If you haven't joined us for our Girly Girl challenge and your chance to win a $30 gift certificate from Stampotique, now is your time to join.  This week is it is a non-Stampotique requirement to play.  We always enjoy seeing the awesome creations that the players come up with, so I hope you will join us.

Fleur de Girls (Girly) ATC's and ATC box: Stamp, Stitch and Collage.

Waltzing Fleu 9045

Daff 9022

Fleur Belle 9047

Fleur de Girl 9049

Fleur de Girl #3 9070

Grow 9003

All Stitched Up

A faux stitched tag using the Stampotique Kisses stamp instead of stitches :0)By colouring the edge of the stamped kisses in a slightly darker tone it creates the impression of panels, that along with white highlights makes for a fab stitched effect.



Coloured using Copic markers, I also used Mary and a bird from the Birds and Bugs Cube.

For further details on this piece please check out the post on my blog :0)

Many thanks.

SDC19: Girly Girl

Kim Prince is our hostess over at Stampotique Designer's Challenge today and here is what she wrote - "I am so excited to be offering the challenge this week! It has been a dark and dreary week here in Halifax, with so much rain it's crazy! So, I would like to challenge you all to make something using a girly girl theme! I know your cards will bring some much needed sunshine to us all! This challenge is open to any and all stamps, but if you do have Stampotique stamps, we would love to see you use them! If you would like to be in the draw to win the FABULOUS $30 gift certificate from Stampotique Originals, please upload your card and share with us your creation, and you will be entered in the draw! I can't wait to see all
your creations!"
 

Since our November guest designer is Janet Klein, we wanted to make sure that we featured her wonderful creation over here and make sure to visit back next week as I share another one of her fantastic creations!

9077  Bird Legs

7213 Row of numbers

Pamphlet stitch girlfriend journal with vintage earring closure.

Happy Belated Halloween!

Join us over at Stampotique Designer's Challenge for our current challenge to create a something spooky, creepy crawly.  Thank you to our October guest designer, Shannon Sawyer for joining us in the challenges. Here are some more of Shannon's creations.  Love the fabulous colors and even though Halloween has passed, they are awesome!

Be sure to check out our new Guest Designer for November, one of Stampotique's own artists, Janet Klein.

Happy Halloween

Hope you had a spooktacular day! Thought I'd better post this project before the day was out, or I'd have to wait until next year! I made this very simple card in a Jiffy using the latest release's over at Stampotique. The Pumpkin is from Halloween Cube 2, The sentiment and Kisses Line image is by the very talented Jo Capper-Sandon!

I love to colour on Kraft Cardstock, it requires little effort and I just like the look that you can achieve. Hope that you had lot's of sweet treats today.......I wish that Jonathon was still trick or treating, because I'd have a Candy Stash to raid..............hmmmmm off to find something sweet!

Happy Halloween,

Vicki

Published!!

 Blowing my own trumpet a bit here.......the latest issue of the Dutch magazine
ART SPECIALLY is published this week and I have an article in there...............
featuring STAMPOTIQUE stamps!!
This is a little sneak peek!

Sue Roddis
www.sroddis.blogspot.com

Spooktacular!

Have you seen this spooktacular box from our designer, Kaz Boughton?  The ghosts & goblins are keeping those glimmer mists safe & sound inside that dungeon of a box.  Such fabulous colors on her creation!

If you haven't seen the new challenge over at Stampotique Designer's Challenge, come visit us and join us this week to create something Creepy, Spooky and Crawly with your Stampotique Originals stamps.

The Scottish Play

Have you seen the new challenge up over at the Stampotique Designer's Challenge yet?  Come join us over there as we pay homage to the upcoming "Fright Night"!  Valerie has embraced her dark side and challenges us to create something spooky, freaky, ghoulish, dreadful, dark, mysterious, creepy, ghastly, tragic, grim, shocking, wicked and fun using only Stampotique Originals stamps!

This creation was made by Sue Roddis.  You can read more about the details on her blog here.

Pumpkin patch

 Pumpkins for sale at the pumpkin patch!
PUMPKINS from HALLOWEEN CUBE 2

 The pumpkins are stamped onto ready coloured card and then cut out leaving a small tab at the bottom. Cut slits in the card at the base, slip the tab through and secure underneath. This makes the pumpkins stand up proud of the surface.

 

Here is the salesman looking hopeful! He is WEASEL with thank you.
You can see the complete project on my blog HERE
Sue Roddis

Another Scrappy Tag!

Another fun little tag to share! 

Hope you like it! :)

Images by Stampotique Originals:
Oh My Dear, Thank You from Weasel

Congrats Kimmy - a.k.a. Grandma

Please join me in celebrating!!  Our very own Kim Prince is a brand new grandma!  Congratulations, Kim - that's the most wonderful news ever!!  

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Kim's wonderful news had me in the craftroom today (generating scraps! LOL!)  Here's a little tag I created today using a few of those scraps:

Halloween Cube 2 and Carrot by Stampotique

Knock, knock!

 A fun project I made for an Alice in Wonderland themed challenge!

 I used KARIN as ALICE!

And here GIORGIO is playing his part as the fish footman standing outside of the door!

Karin 6108
Giorgio 7020
Welcome door 6095
You can see more on my blog....www.sroddis.blogspot.com
Sue Roddis

Friendship Bunnies

These images have been sitting around on my desk for some while and I finally took the time to create some cards with all of them.  This is using the Blueberry Bunnies in a Basket stamp with the We Cannot Part with Our Friends sentiment.  I thought it was quite appropriate with this darling image.

Hope you enjoy the card, I love how it turned out!  If you want any additional details you can visit my blog at Basement Stamper.

SDC17: Treat Containers with Guest Designer Shannon Sawyer

Join us over at Stampotique Designer's Challenge for our current challenge to create a treat container.  Our wonderful guest designer, Shannon Sawyer, has created some wonderful containers.  Make sure to visit over at the Stampotique Designer's Challenge blog for more awesome treat containers and for more of Shannon's creations.

All creations by Shannon Sawyer.

My Dark Angel

Here is my dark angel in Halloween style. I love that angelboy stamp; it's one of my favourites. Made the background with liquid watercolours.
Stamps I used are all Stampotique Originals:
3014 - splatter long
3025 - web
3031 - abstract foliage
3037 - old english halloween
6106 - angelboy
6117 - birds and bugs cube
7164 - numeric

Mr. Snow

I chose a pretty simple image for this card, using Mr. Snow and paper piecing his tie with some Jovial design paper from Basic Grey.  I decided not to color any of it and just let his tie stand out but now that I look at it, I may color his hat and nose to make him POP a little more.  I stamped my background with some snowflakes  in Berry Sorbet to create a contrasting background to the Green papers.  I sewed around the green/Jovial panel-I'm so happy to have my sewing machine in order again!

Happy Friday!

Carrot 'Bout You

Isn't Carrot just the cutest?  I had some colored images laying around so decided it was time I put together a few cards with them.  This card came together really quick since I had everything already stamped and I didn't add any embellishments on...hmm, no embellishments, might have to change that now that I'm looking at it.

The layout I used was one of the Clean & Simple Stamping layouts, FTL101.  Obviously I changed the star out for a large circle to put Carrot on and of course the "I carrot about you" sentiment always makes me smile, hope you like it too!

Card details:

Stamps: Carrot & I Carrot About You from Stampotique

Cardstock: Pumpkin Pie, Chocolate Chip, Garden Green, SEI Oasis patterned paper

Inks: Chocolate Chip, Memento Tuxedo Black, Copics

Accessories: Circle nestabilities

Naughty Weasel

I had this journal page in my mind so when the new stamps arrived I got straight down to inking and painting! {6115 Weasel} is great (although I think he may have 'issues') and his sign is so versatile - here I took one of the hearts from {6119 Hanging Hearts} to act as the 'o' and wrote the other letters on.


The other stamps I used are:
6090 Picket Fence
6108 Karin
6025 Gooseneck
6067 Peggy
6071 Perl

Kaz xxx

Masking technique

With these photos i will try and show you how to use masks to create an overlapping look with your stamps.

Stamp the images you want to use on a piece of self adhesive paper ( i use post-it paper) Be sure it is non stick glue! We do want to be able remove the masks when we want to!

Now take your masks and set up a composition of the set you want to see on your card. Using masks gives you a good look on how the finished card is going to look like and it is an easy way to play around with the images without having to actually stamp.

If you have found the composition you like,remember ( or write down) the main focus on the card. That is the image you want to stamp first! It will be in front of all the other images.

Set aside the masks. They can be used again and again until they loose their stickyness.

Stamp your focus images. Since i want to use watercolors later, i emboss my images.

Take the masks and mask the images.

Stamp the next image. Since this is partially blocked by the masks,it will appear to be behind the first stamped images.

Mask the third pumpkin...

...and stamp the picket fence.

Mask the fence and stamp the tree. Remove all masks and you have a great base for a card. All it needs is some color.

Quick and simple men's cards

Male cards are notoriously difficult so I've made some that won't take too much thinking time!
I've cut a circle in a sheet of paper and used it as a mask for spraying Glimmer Mists, then picked up some of the excess ink to colour {6078 Smile} and {6032 Rocky}.

I've also used Jo's {3014 Splatter Long} to 'ground' them.

They've been finished with a rub-on greeting.






Kaz xxx

Welcome our October Guest Designer

At Stampotique we are thrilled to announce our Guest Designer for the month of October.  Some of you may recognize her as one of our frequent players of our challenges.  Please help us welcome Shannon Sawyer who will start playing with us with our first challenge in October.  Here is some more about Shannon:

My name is Shannon Sawyer and I've been doing different forms of Mixed Media & stamping for over 11 years now.  I had initially started when I stopped working back in 2000.  I wanted a hobby that would keep me busy.  Instead of finding a hobby, I found a whole world of like minded people and all kinds of different forms of artwork that consumed me.  

I've been published man times in the various Stampinton magazines and I have also been published in Craft Stamper from the UK.  I was recently asked to join the On Call Artist team for the Stampington publications, I am a Design Team member of AlphaStamps and I work a lot with ArtChix Studio.
 

I can be reached at either: saturdayville@gmail.com or sawyershannon@aol.com

and my blog is at:  http://SaturdayVille.blogspot.com

I am thrilled and honored to be asked to be a guest artist for the Stampotique Design Team.    

I look up to every designer on the Stampotique Design Team so much, it is very much a privilege.

Please join us over at the Stampotique Designer's Challenge today for our Stampotique Only Challenge with a Vintage theme.

Bookmarks

I made these fun "clip over the edge" bookmarks using the new  
HALLOWEEN CUBES. 
They have litle magnets inside to hold them closed over the page.
Please visit my blog to see more of them.
Sue Roddis