Stampotique sponsoring CAS-ual Friday

We are very excited today to sponsor the CAS-ual Friday challenge to create SQUARE cards.    This is a super easy challenge and you have a chance to win a $30 Stampotique gift certificate for stamps.

Here are some square cards our design team has created and make sure you check out the CAS-ual Friday design team as well to see what they have created.

Lisa Mason- Guest Designer

Jane Wetzel

Valerie Wilson

Sam Read

Nellie van Leeuwen

Gez Butterworth

Susan Davies

Kim Howard

Jo Capper-Sandon

Claire Boelema

Kaz Boughton

Sarinda Jones

Carol Fox

Magda Polakow

Astrid Stulemeijer

Come show off your square creations over at CAS-ual Friday challenge.

Carrot Cake

Lisa Mason, our guest designer for August is sharing her interpretation of the sketch this week over at Stampotique Designer's Challenge.  Hope you will join us over there as we do weekly challenges now allowing any stamps.

Here is a little more about Lisa's creation:

Carrot is one of my all time favourites, and fit perfectly onto this card sketch, once I'd decided on an orange colour scheme. As often happens when using Stampotique stamps, I felt I needed a quirky saying or sentiment to finish the card off. Thinking of poor little carrot worrying about being made into carrot cake made me smile.

Stampotique is making some changes

With the big announcement last week of our growing design team we have decided to make a few changes to the way we do our challenges.

• First we will be going to WEEKLY challenges instead of only the 2nd and 4th Wednesday of the month
• Challenges will remain on Wednesdays and will remain open until the following Tuesday at 5 p.m. EST
• Challenges will be open to using ALL stamps, giving everyone the opportunity to win some Stampotique stamps to use
• Our design team will be posting in two groups, rotating weeks

*edited to add: Two winners will be randomly chosen at the end of the month from all the challenge participants to win a $30 gift certificate for Stampotique stamps.

We look forward to having you play along with our new challenge which will begin tomorrow.

The Twilight Zone

I have been playing with my lovely new stamps that arrived yesterday, and I made this quick little postcard using Oh boys, Welcome Door and Text Stars. The background is just painted to try and make them look as if they are going into the vortex. My quote is computer generated.

Thank you for looking and enjoy the rest of your day. Carol x

Garland

YEAH! Another celebration in our house... my little boy is having his 2nd birthday today. And in two days I will also be... a year older ;-) So for this occasion a made a little garland, I love those, so festive. I used Karin, Twinkie, Perl, Uncle Buck, Minkygirl, Happy Birthday, Hanging Hearts, Karin holds a present from Christmas Cube and Minkygirl has the crown of Queen of Life on her head. For more pictures see my blog.

Atc, just another brick in the wall!

I've made an artist trading card this week using a couple of new products to me and knew that Daniel Torrente & Jill Penney's stamps would be the perfect images for my card.

   Stamps used: Head, Kitty, Batty and Batty About You

This was such a fun artist trading card to make using Viva Terra through a stencil to get the brick wall effect. Thank you for calling, have a great day, Gez.

August Guest Designer: Lisa Mason

We had such a fabulous turnout for our current design team call and unfortunately we were unable to take everyone, but we found a few new guest designers along the way and are so excited that they wanted to work with Stampotique for a month.  Our August Guest Designer does some fabulous designs with Stampotique, welcome Lisa Mason this month.  Here's a little more about her:

I'm Lisa Mason (Lisa Sparkle), and I was thrilled to be invited to be a guest designer on my favourite challenge blog! Anyone who knows me in a crafty way will know how much I worship my Stampotique stamp collection. They are the most used, looked at and stroked stamps that I own, and I own a LOT of stamps!.

By day I work for a UK university, as a Learning and Skills development manager. In my spare time I'm a stampaholic, and a huge Stampotique fan! I live in the Midlands in the UK, with my husband and two beautiful children, and I love to create bright and colourful projects that make people smile. I've recently found my own style, and I'm happy creating with colour, with a touch of humour and with a lot of mess! I make and swap ATCs regularly, make cards, journal and have boxes full of things to alter one day! 

I'm honoured to be asked to guest design with such a talented and inspirational DT, it's a dream come true and I can't wait to share some creations with you all. My blog is at www.lisasparkleandstamps.blogspot.com please come and visit and let me know what you think of my projects!

For this altered thimble display cabinet, I decided to use every Stampotique stamp I own! Well, almost.... I used shrink plastic coloured with pencils, and made a whole set of images. The cabinet was painted and distressed and filled with little things I've salvaged and collected- chess pieces, jewellery parts, zipper pulls, springs, teeny tiny charms. The Stampotique critters each got their own space- it looks as if they live there!

We have our new design team announcement over on the Stampotique Designer's Challenge so join us over there to see who we have chosen to join us on our Stampotique journey for the next few months.

CPS 276

Hey Folks! This is the final week for the Stampotique Sponsored Challenges over on the Card Positioning Systems Blog. Be sure to hop on over, check out the sketch and play along!

The stamps I used for today's card are 3 Girls and Starfish

Happy Stamping!

Vicki

CPS 275

Hey There!!! Hope you're all enjoying your summer. As you know, Stampotique is Sponsoring Card Positioning Challenges for the month of July!  Here's my Card for today. Stampotique is sponsoring the challenge for the month of July and you KNOW that they have some of my FAVE FAVE FAVE images! Great Moon and Chessy! Carol and Jim also carry these fun ADAGE Tickets by Tim Holtz. I Stamped the Moon onto white cardstock, then I masked the image and sponged with Tim Holtz Distress Inks.....Lavendar and Concord. I Coloured the Moon and Chessy with my Touch Markers by Shinhan arts. I very loosely coloured this image with little blend as I wanted a Cartoonish messy look!

Be sure to head on over to the CPS Blog and play along!


Vicki

Teenage Tag

I've made this tag for a blog hop I'm involved in and I really think it could be given to any teenager anywhere in the world. I think teenagers are pretty universal - and sometimes I was a horrible one!

I've used ~{Glimmering Hope}~, ~{Bla Bla Bla}~ and ~{Mesh}~ to make it.

Kaz xxx

Today is a present

I recently bought a Tim Holtz die to make gift envelopes. Here is my first one. I added a matching card tot write a message on. These are the Stampotique stamps I used: Abstract folliage, Swirl stalks, Best buds and Today is a gift .... I stamped with distressinks and coloured the image with Tombow markers.

Have fun stamping!
Nellie

Water U Thinking?

Our July guest designer, Gay is back with another share this week.  

"I used the Spider wings again, sorry but they are just yummy ! And Smushallaum rising out of the sea with her newly acquired wings, we'd better watch out now she's mobile and out of the water!!!"

Isn't her coloring just phenomenal?  Love the little bit of shine on the wings and how she has been using this stamp.  Really makes me thing I need to break mine out and use them a little.

CPS 273-Sponsored by Stampotique!

Hey there! Vicki here. Bet you didn't expect to see me. Although I'm not an official DT member, Stampotique stamps, Carol and Jim are dear to my heart and you'll see me posting from time to time.

This month, Stampotique is sponsoring the Card Positioning System Challenges. Head on over to see the great samples from the DT as well as the fun sketch and play along if you like!

My card is very simple, but I like it! I used the Altered Hello stamp. For further details, please feel free to visit my Blog. Happy Stamping and see you again soon!

Vicki

Gold card

I promised myself I'd do more Less is More challenges once Stampotique finished sponsoring them so this is the first one to start!!

I used ~{Carol's Flower}~ with gold embossing powder and cut it out, adding a bit of colour with a Copic that matched the button. There's a little bit of gold in the cord which was the best I could do and used ~{Happy Birthday}~ for the greeting.

Kaz xxx

Unique Flowers

Gay is sharing her first creation with us today as a guest designer.  I will tell you when I first saw this creation, I was in love and gave myself a good smack on the forehead...I mean, why didn't I think of that???

"I used the Stampotique Spider wings and the Birds and Bugs cube, which I stamped with black ink and coloured with Copics and Dylusion inks. I hand drew the stalks and pollen. Inside the card reads, 'Just like you'. I thought the wings made quite interesting flowers and lots more interesting variations are running through my head, so I'm very glad I have these stamps. They are going to be very versatile"

Marci by Daniel Torrente

We have had such an exciting month over here in the UK. We started with the official celebrations for the Queen's Jubilee, followed by the Olympic Torch making it's way around the country, so we are all in the mood for celebrating :-)

As part of my monthly art calendar I decided to turn Marci into the Queen (I'm sure Her Royal Highness would be very happy about that!) Marci was one of my first ever Stampotique stamps and I have to say she is also one of my faves. I think she looks great as royalty, don't you?!

Kate

Stampotique sponsoring CPS

Today begins a new month and Stampotique is sponsoring another month long challenge over at Card Positioning Systems.  They provided us with a sketch to work with and our team went to town with some fabulous creations.

So make sure to join us over CPS with your interpretation of the sketch for a chance to win a $30 gift certificate for stamps at Stampotique.

Kaz Boughton

Gez Butterworth

Willy Anderson

Maria Sabina Raita

Kim Howard

Nellie van Leeuwen

Less is More: Header Inspiration

Today is our last day of the month sponsoring the Less is More challenge and they have challenged us to use their header as inspiration this week. Make sure you check out their blog for the guidelines to the Less is More challenge. We will be giving away at $30 gift certificate for Stampotique Stamps this month over there. There is a challenge weekly so make sure to play along with us each week. 

 Our design team had a little fun playing with challenge and here's what we have to share for this week:

Kaz Boughton

Jane Wetzel

Gez Butterworth

Nellie van Leeuwen

Hope you will check out the Less is More challenge, can't wait to see what you create!

SDC57: Outside the Box & Some Announcements

First off we want to start with a few announcements.  We currently have aDESIGN TEAM CALL going on-for more information read the details on this post.

This week our hostess Val has challenged us to think outside the box.  Create something out of the normal for you and show us what you have come up with.

Remember, only one entry per person to be eligible for the $30 Stampotique gift certificate and use your Stampotique stamps.

Here is what our design team has created that is out of the box:

Claire Boelema- Guest Designer

Stampotique Design Team Call

Stampotique Design Team Call!

Stampotique has not had a design team all in awhile, and we know a lot of you have been asking-so here is your opportunity! We are looking for creative, inspiring, and friendly stampers to help promote Stampotique rubber stamps.

Our call is open to everyone and Stampotique stamps are not required to be used in your submission, but of course we would LOVE to see your use of our stamps.

This call will only be opened for 2 weeks from Saturday, June 23 and closing on Saturday, July 7th. The design term will be August 2012-December 2012.

If you are interested, please read all the information below on what Stampotique is looking for in a designer.

What we are looking for in our Designers:
Love of Stampotique rubber stamps
Ability to work with different challenges
Creative ability to think outside of the box 
Willingness to share your creations on your blog and public galleries

Design Team Requirements:
Commitment to design for 4 months (August 2012 - December 2012)
4 projects per month to be posted on your personal blog and public galleries 
(2 projects are challenges & 2 are anything you wish to create)
Participate in blog hops and sponsored promotions as needed
Post to Stampotique Designers Blog at least once a month (blogger format)
Ability to take good, quality photos of your creations
Must have an active personal blog and be able to promote Stampotique whenever possible
Commenting on challenge participants for our bi-monthly challenges 

Benefits of the Design Team Members:
Stampotique stamps to create with (you will get to choose which ones you would like to work with)
Name and a Link to your blog will be displayed on our blogs
Display the Stampotique Design Team badge on your blog
An opportunity to work with unique and fun stamps
A fun, friendly and diverse design team
Discount of 25% to anything on the Stampotique website

If being a part of this amazing design team interests you, please submit the following information to khowardga@gmail.com by July 7th, 2012 at 11:59 p.m. EST with Stampotique DT Call as the subject line:

1. Name, Address & Phone Number
2. Brief bio including link to your blog and any galleries you regularly post to and any current design team commitments. (Please remember we are looking for ACTIVE bloggers)
3. Why would you like to be part of the Stampotique Design Team?
4. Attach 3 projects that show your creative style. (please keep each under 100K)
5. Your top 3 favorite artists (not design team members) at Stampotique

Stampotique Sponsors Less is More: Paper Piecing

Today we are excited to be sponsoring the Less is More challenge to do some paper piecing this week. Make sure you check out their blog for the guidelines to the Less is More challenge. We will be giving away at $30 gift certificate for Stampotique Stamps this month over there. There is a challenge weekly so make sure to play along with us each week. 

 Our design team had a little fun playing with challenge and here's what we have to share for this week:

Nellie van Leeuwen

Kaz Boughton

Gez Butterworth

Jane Wentzel

R Maria Sabina

Jo Capper-Sandon

Willy Anderson

Hope you will check out the Less is More challenge, can't wait to see what you create!

Wise Owl Birthday

Claire is creating some amazing things this month with Stampotique stamps and with all of our guest designers, I'm always excited to see what they do with the stamps.

Here she has altered a book and you can see more of the details over at her blog.  Make sure to fly on over to Claire Boelema's blog and leave her some love.

Stamps used:

Owl with wings

Leaf 

Dream to color...

This wonderfully colorful creation is from our design team member Nellie.


It's up to me this week to host Crazy amigo's. Although the weather isn't at all like it's almost summer here I chose summer colors (red, orange, yellow) as this week's theme. I made this card with distressinks and these Stampotique stamps: Living is not enough, Gog lin,Gobby lin, Daisy daisy, Dream definition and Dream in color.

Stampotique Sponsors Less is More

Today we are excited to be sponsoring the Less is More challenge to use something shiny this week. Make sure you check out their blog for the guidelines to the Less is More challenge. We will be giving away at $30 gift certificate for Stampotique Stamps this month over there. There is a challenge weekly so make sure to play along with us each week. 

 Our design team had a little fun playing with challenge and here's what we have to share for this week:

Nellie van Leeuwen

Kaz Boughton

Gez Butterworth

Jane Wentzel

Valerie Wilson

Hope you will check out the Less is More challenge, can't wait to see what you create!

The world awaits a "pretty party dress" grad card

Recently I had a request from a wonderful friend to make a grad card for a young girl.  It seems she is very smart=  graduating with a degrees in finance and science.  She is also a very accomplished swimmer.  I pulled out one of my very favorite Stampotique stamps: "pretty party dress #9216".  I paper pieced this dress again (love doing that on this image) with print on thin dp.  The print I just custom made on word .  I punched out heart shaped balloons and a cloud with congrats printed on it.  Dp backing is MME: tickled pink.  Hope she likes it since I always consider it to be a real challenge when someone asks me to make something special .  :) TFL  jane