SDC55: Bright Colors

Today over at the Stampotique Designer's Challenge Vicki has challenged us to use BRIGHT colors.  This creation from our guest designer definitely has me thinking of summer!

Hope you'll join us for our current challenge and work your magic with those bright colors.

Carol Quance- Guest Designer

Alice board

I recently made a chipboard kit up and while making it, I realised the Alice stamps by Janet Klein would be perfect for it.

I used ~{Alice}~, ~{Chessy}~, ~{Rabbit}~, ~{Mad Hatter}~, and ~{Catepillar}~. They are standing on painted air dried clay.

Kaz xxx

Believe tag!

Stamps used: Blessed Skellie, Scalloped Lace Border, Journey Collage and Splatter Long

I stamped a plain white tag with the Journey Collage stamp and inked around the edges, then added Roc's Blessed Skellie and a computer generated sentiment. 

Thank you for looking and leaving a comment if you get the chance. Gez

Laugh

Our May Guest Designer, Carol Quance has created this super cute frame that is bound to give you a giggle!

Family tag album

Our May Guest Designer, Carol Quance has created this Family album and make sure you check out the 2nd picture at how this wonderful family "shines" with the vellum background.

Join us over at Stampotique Designer's Challenge for our family themed challenge.

Feathered Friends Postcard

I made this postcard for a swap entitled feathered friends and, rather than go for a bird, I thought I'd put the wings from ~{Angel Boy}~ onto ~{Karin}~ and stand her on a base made from ~{Mesh}~ with some ~{Daisy Daisy}~ flowers. It involved rather a lot of masking and lining up of stamps. And, of course, that meant there was rather a lot of swearing and calling myself a few names!

But I got it there in the end and finished off with adding Tumbled Glass DI, washi tape and doodling. Kaz xxx

Alphabetswap X

Made this card for an alphabetswap: the X from X-legs. Stamps are from Stampotique: Bird Legs (small) and Kisses.

May Guest Designers: Carol Quance

Hiya, my name is Carol.  I seem to have followed the path of many other people. I’ve  always loved making things – clothes for my trolls as a kid, knitting (Kaffe Fasset and Patricia Roberts) x-stitched, hardanger.  A friend then introduced me to rubber stamps about 15 years ago and I thought it  was very “twee” (guess that means very quaint/cute) but I got hooked lol. Things have  improved a lot since then as the stamping scene and my skills have developed.  I dabble with stitching and fabric too these days and love combining both in my projects. I also love fantasy Sci-Fi and music and thanks to my son my latest love is drum and bass music!

Carol has been a long time player of our Stampotique Designer's Challenges and we love her funky style. You can visit Carol over at her blog Alcoholinky.

She shares with us today one of her creations, Play with Abandon.

Stampotique Sponsors Southern Girls Challenge

Today over at Southern Girls, Stampotique is happy to be sponsoring their Girls challenge.

A few members or our design team have created some girly girl cards to share with you:

Kaz Boughton

Gez Butterworth

Jo Capper-Sandon

Kim Howard

Willy Anderson

Hope you will join us over at Southern Girls Challenge today with your Girly Girl cards for your chance to win a $30 gift certificate for stamps at the Stampotique Stamps.

SDC53: ATC-Artist Trading Cards

Today we start a new challenge and we bid a farewell to our April Guest Designer.  Fiona has created so many wonderful things for our challenges throughout the time we've been doing it and we appreciate her joining us this month with her talent.

For the ATC challenge Fiona has created this little cutey:

Her ATC uses the following stamps:

8116 Honeycomb Background by Josie Cirincione

6109 Daniel’s Hearts by Daniel Torrente

3016 French Text by Jo Capper-Sandon

6077 Batboy by Daniel Torrente

8943 May I Always Be by Carol’s Collection

Happy

I made this tag for this week's Crazy amigo's theme which is "Garlands". I used one of my favourite Stampotique stamps, Hanging hearts. I made the background with Dylussions sprayinks and paint. All the stamps I used are from Stampotique: Hanging hearts, Swirl stalks, Altered happy, Tools cube, Lovelyarethesound, Abstract foliage and Gussie up

Have fun stamping! Nellie

Fabulous Wheels of Freedom

I've made these journal pages in honour of my love/hate relationship with my wheelchair! I thought ~{Scooter Girl}~ was perfect for it.

I've also used:

~{Abby's Hearts}~ for the flower border,
~{Fax to Wolfgang}~ on the background,
~{Scalloped Lace Border}~,
~{Fabulous}~ and
~{Random Acts Alphabet}~.

Kaz xxx

April Calendar

Bard by Amy Wilson Wellenstein

Carol's flower

I love to use Stampotiqe images to decorate my monthly calendar pages in my art journal. This month I chose to use Bard as he looks as if he could be throwing something. I thought he could throw a few spring flowers over the month of April!

Thanks for looking! 

Kate

Feel Better Soon

Here is another colorful card from our April Guest Designer, Fiona Shultz.  I love the sewing she has added onto this card and the bright colors are sure to brighten anyones day.

9077 Bird Legs by Janet Klein

8961 Feel Better Soon by Carol’s Collection

April Showers-Rain, Rain Go Away!

I went from Spring last week, to April Showers this week.  Not a lot of embellishments on this, just a clean & simple card showing off this darling image that I always have fun coloring.  

I did add some crystal accents to the umbrella to give it a little shine.

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Card details:

Stamps: Under the Paprapluie 2203 and Rain, Rain 9101 from Stampotique Originals

Cardstock: Basic Black, Neenhah White, Gable Green

Inks: Memento Tuxedo Black, copics

Embellishments: yellow old color from Papertrey Ink, crystal accents

Stampotiques' "Chessy" and "The Tweedles"

Doesnt the name "The Tweedles" just make you laugh? :)  Going along with the current challenge to "doodle" on your creation I decided I NEEDED to make a few more cards.  I used two images from artist Janet Klein.  First of course is the "Tweedles" colored with copics, cut out and put on black cs.  Yep, the white is me going on and  on with my doodle dots :) .  I also used  "the simplest things give me ideas" #9083 quote for the top.  

 

Next I colored "Chessy" #9229 and popped him up on black cs over a tag I stenciled , sprayed and sewed a bit.   My hub was telling me this cat needs a toothpick hanging from his mouth! :)  lol    I used the sentiment "good things good thoughts" #9012 also from Stampotique!   TFL!   jane

Just Because

Hope the weather is nice and spring like where you are.  We have been enjoying some warmer weather here and spending a lot more time outdoors.  Love to see the green trees and grass!

Here's a little card I put together to celebrate Spring.

Card details:

Stamps: Blueberry Bunnies in Basket 6098, Crayon Circles 8948, Just Because 5239 from Stampotique Originals

Cardstock: Chocolate Chip, Crumb Cake, Perfect Plum, Pale Plum

Inks: Perfect Plum

Embellishments: none

Flower set

Our guest design for April, Fiona Shultz has created this great set of cards using one of the large flowers.  Love how she popped them off the top!

9165 Carol’s Flower, Large by Janet Klein

Pretty Party Dress

Made this card for an alphabetswap: the V from Variety.
Stamp I used: Pretty Party Dress (9216).

Monster journal page

There's nothing as much fun to me as getting inky and painty when I need to distract myself from feeling poorly!

I've had great fun today making an art journal page using one of the brand NEW stamps from Roc Nicolas

 Stamps used: Monster & the wings from Shouting bird

I used Splatter Long, Abstract Foliage in the background along with parts of Antique Description and Journey Collage All good fun! Gez

April Guest Designer

It's the first of the month and with that we have a new guest designer this month.  You may recognize her work as she's a frequent player in our challenges and she has got some of the cutest little ATC's I've ever seen.

Stampotique welcomes Fiona Shultz this month as our guest designer.  Here's a little bit about Fiona:

Hello, my name is Fiona and I am a craft addict from way back – as a young girl it was knitting and crochet, as a young adult it was tapestry and cross stitch.  Some 15 years ago I began dabbling in card making and stamping.  In that 15 years, I have also had a go at patchwork, quilting, sewing, and scrapbooking to name a few.  About 2 years ago my love of stamping was reignited, along with it a greater love of card making and the discovery of ATC’s.  This, along with knitting and crochet, fills most of my ‘spare’ time. 

You can drop by and say "hi" to Fiona over at her blog, Made by Fee.

Everything has beauty

Today a card with a background made with distress stains and salt. I sprayed my cardstock with water. I randomly added 3 colours of distress stains and some salt grains. I let it dry, wiped off the salt and stamped it. These are the Stampotique stamps I used: Whiskermonster with sign, Beauty verse, Hanging hearts and Tangled. I finished of with some flowers.

Have fun stamping!
Nellie

ATC Book

We want to say a BIG thank you to Anika Knittel for sharing her wonderful creations with us this month, we have enjoyed having her as our guest designer.

Wanted to share her Spring project for our current Stampotique Designer's Challenge before we bid her farewell.  This is an ATC book that she has created.

Stampotique stamps used are as follows:

Mushroom Group, Abstract Foliage, There are fairies in my garden, There is a garden..., Medium Bee, Heart Flowers, L'il Liv Large

Viking bookmark

I've a bookmark to share with you today.. I made it as a gift for my daughter's 18th birthday.. she is a real book worm! and is off to University in September so I thought a bookmark would be perfect! 

I have used a couple of fabulous NEW stamps by the very talented Roc Nicolas. You can see Roc's complete new range of stamps HERE

 

 Stamps used: Viking Girl and Scalloped Lace Border

I stamped the images onto bright white cardstock and coloured them Copic pens and added some sparkle with a gel pen.. Thank you for calling and leaving a comment if you get the chance. Gez.

Anika Knittel is here to share a few more cards using Stampotique stamps.

Birthday Card "From all of us"

Stampotique stamps used: Karin, Halloween Cube 2, Gog Lin, Smile

 Card "With love"Stampotique stamps used: Heart Flowers

"Scooter girl" by Roc Nicholas at Stampotique

In all her glory:  Here is "scooter girl" by Roc Nicholas at the Stampotique store.  :)

She comes rolling on in all paper pieced  up with some bg "out of print" dp.(love that pad)   I have put her on some sprayed and stenciled cs and used some washi tape with ripped dp for a flower.  Just thinkin ... I have to use her in my practice art journals...fun!  OR...maybe go check out "Whats up ROC?" blog to see how Roc uses her and alot of the NEW line of  Stampotique images on her AWESOME decorated envies!
tfl!     Jane

Stampotique Sponsoring Crazy4Challenges-Green Theme

Join Stampotique over at Crazy4Challenges today as we sponsor their challenge of "GREEN".  Create something green and have a chance to win a $30 gift certificate for Stampotique Stamps.

Check out what the Stampotique Design Team to keep it green:

Jane Wetzel

Gez Butterworth

Willy Anderson

Jo Capper-Sandon

Kim Howard

Nellie van Leeuwen

Vicki Garrett

Kate Crane

Valerie Wilson

Maria Sabina Raita

Can't wait to see what you create over at C4C!