Did you know..

... Friendship cheers like a sunbeam?

How true! Just one of my favourite sentiments from Stampotique Originals.

I've used a couple of gorgeous stamps Olive Rose and Sunbeam for my card.

Thank You for calling. Gez.

Merry Kiss-mas by Joanne Wardle

Every year I do a couple of designs for cards that I will be able to batch make (usually in late november). I think this is this year's first design. It's quick, uses minimal materials that are easily replaced, and is perfect for batch making.

The Stamps are all from Jo Capper-Sandon's range at stampotique, stamped in brown versafine on kraft card, and coloured with coloursoft pencils. the berries are highlighted with Glossy Accents, and the knotted ribbon is glued on.

I Don't Regret a Damn Thing - SDC Flower Power

Hi, Lisa here today, have you entered the SDC Flower Power Challenge yet?  If not, what are you waiting for!  This weeks challenge is open to ANY stamps, but if you have Stampotique images, why not use them!  I used some TSS Metal to create my blossom and added this fab Stampotique sentiment.

Details:
Stamps - Stampotique - When I'm Old
Ink - Ranger Black Archival
Card Stock - White, Black, Pink
Other - Spellbinders Circle Dies, EK Success Punch, Seam Binding, Stick Pins, TSS Metal, Hammer, Texture Fades Folder, Basic Grey Out of Print. Cheery Lynn Butterfly Die, Seambinding
Designer - Lisa Somerville

ANote From Home

I just love this adorable little stamp and I challenged myself to a one layer card this time.... here's the result!  I have put a few more details about what steps I used to create this card on my blog.  Thanks so much for visiting us at Stampotique!  Be sure to check out this week's Flower Power Challenge - we'd love to see your creations!
Val :)

5114 Just a Note by Stampotique

Friendship tag

I've made a tag this morning using the latest Challenge theme over at the Stampotique Designer's Challenge blog. The current theme is to use flowers on your design. Here is my tag..

The gorgeous stamps I have used for my tag are Joyful and Sunbeam.

Did you know it's time for Group 2 to share their artwork and inspiration with you for the latest challenge today? Please pop over if you get the chance and take a peek. Hope you can join the challenge. Thank you for calling. Gez.

Hanging Heart by Joanne Wardle

I made this card for a challenge with the theme "dangly things". In this card I have dangled Jo Capper-Sandons heart from hearts cubed from Tree.

I've used a stamp positioner (actually lego corner and clear packaging) to position the heart accurately on the tree, and coloured with pencils on Kraft card.

Mort and Wilbur

These two guys just crack me up! For all the details on this Joy Fold Card please visit my BLOG

Hugs

Vicki

playing with pointillism

If you've seen this month's Craft Stamper magazine, you may, like me, have fallen in love with Kim Cosstello's Pointillism article. I have made this card using Jasmin and Daisy Daisy from Jo Capper-Sandon's Range. I don't own Copics so this was made using Whispers markers. I've a long way to go before I master this technique, but I'm enjoying playing!

Purrr-fect couple

Don't they make a cute couple together :-) A simple card with these Stampotique stamps: Stitch, Puss puss, Hearts cubed and Floral flutter. Colored with my Tombow markers again. I hardly use anything else to color my Stampotique images these days. Such a nice bright colors and great blending.

More one layer cards...

The theme at LIM is to make a one layer card using "something with legs" ! Wow that's a big theme... so many things with legs.... where to start...
Then I decided to use one of the stampotique girls that always have the most fabulous legs.
now honestly this card started out Clean and Simple, but somewhere along the way it turned a bit grungy, and I actually for once think it's better for it.

I'm actually glad to show that One Layer doesn't have to mean Clean and Simple.

However I also want to keep the Limmettes happy, so I've used another stampotique stamp (with legs..... well feet at least) to make a CAS card too. This one is really CAS, just stamped and coloured, but I've also added a bit of depth by dry embossing a frame to make the image stand out.

Book of Life page..

There are lots of Stampotique Originals stamps that are just perfect for art journaling. I used the Queen Of Life as my focal point and wondered what might be written on the pages of her book that she is carrying.

Here is my page..

Stamps used: Queen Of Life and Swirl Stalks

The background was created using spray inks and water colour crayons. The words are computer generated.

Thank you for calling and leaving a comment if you get the chance. Have a great weekend. Gez

Princess ATC

Here is a very cute ATC that our guest designer, Net Ward created.  I love the little crown she adorns on her head.  Net will be sharing all her creations with us this month as our guest designer.  If you are interested in being one of our guest designers, our current challenge is open until next Tuesday with a chance to win a chance to be our August guest designer.  Join us here.

2011 CD Calendar - July

Here is the next page for my 2011 Stampotique CD Calendar!
There are more details on my blog.
Hope you get a chance to swim and enjoy the water in July!
Val :)

Smumanha and Octopet by Stampotique

Is'nt he cute ...

Isn't he cute this little Stampotique doggie. A simple card today, made with these Stampotique stamps: Tail wagger, Dogs laugh.. and Dog bone. I coloured them with Tombow markers.

Have fun stamping

Nellie

Dangly Star by Joanne Wardle

This card is made using stamps from Stampotique originals: the ubiquitous Moon Girl and the oh so useful Great moon. I have made Great Moon's star dangle in an aperture using wire, and so this card is for the "dangly things" challenge, currently running at Happy Daze.

Introducing our July Guest Designer...

Hi I'm Net and I'm thrilled to be this months guest DT at Stampotique!  I live in Yorkshire, England with my lovely OM, son, two cats and the caiques.  These are the naughty parrots who often feature on my blog Caique-Momma.

I've always loved making things and got introduced to cardmaking many years ago and was instantly hooked!  Stamping was my first love and still is even though I've dallied with die cutting along the way.  Stamping allows me to indulge myself in colouring.  Copics are my weapon of choice at the moment.

Through crfating I've met many many wonderful and talented people, I'm now lucky enough to call them my very dear friends.  Crafting makes me a very lucky girl.

Stop on over at Net's blog, we'll be sharing her work throughout the month here on the blog.

July already?!

Smushasha and Smushallaum by Daniel Torrente 

Well, another month has flown by. How did it get to July already?! As it is now officially summer (UK) I get to thinking about holidays, and then I start thinking about the ocean, which then makes me think of mermaids. And I Just LOVE LOVE LOVE these ghoulish mermaids by Daniel Torrente. In my head this is exactly how mermaids look! I coloured these with Prismacolors and gave them a lovely greenish tint to their skin :-)

So, now I have another month ready to go, for a bit of daily journaling.

Thanks for looking, Kate 

Shoot for the moon

Made this card for an alphabetswap: the M from Moon.
I used these Stampotique stamps:
great moon (3044)
birds & bugs cube (6117)
shoot for the moon (7114)

The colour of money

The new theme at gingersnap is "the colour of money" where you are supposed to make your piece inspired by the colour of the money where you live or where you are from.

I took the challenge literally and decided to use actual money in my creation. I actually really like the colour of the twenty pound note so have used that as part of my creation as well as to inspire the box.

I often give cash as a gift, but it can look a bit dull and as though not much thought has gone into it, so I thought if you could make it into a gift it would be pretty cool.

First I made an origami butterfly. then I made a box with an acetate lid. Interestingly, I decided to only decorate the inside of the box (before folding) . I used all stampotique stamps to do this.

All you need is TWO STICKS....

Two sticks:  #6006!  Jane here...Love love love this sweet image called "two sticks".  Can you tell?  he he he!

I decided to use the Unscipted Sketches challenge no.  112  for my card and the BG "out of print " dp.  I embossed a vanilla tag with my cb and did a little crazy sewing on the bottom in place of a swirl on the bottom panel.  Sentiment is computer generated.  What could be better??  Did I tell you that I LOVE this image??  :)   All you need is "TWO STICKS".... TFL!

Heavenly bodies..

I have created a page for a chunky book swap using the gorgeous Angel  stamp.

click to enlarge
 Stamps used: Angel and Splatter Long

I sprayed a piece of 4"x4" mountboard with lots of different Cosmic Shimmer sprays and added lashings of Glossy Accents to the Angels wings.

Thank you for looking. Gez.xx

Friendship Quilt

Hi, Lisa here today sharing my "scraps" card for the current challenge! The Quilt is created with MME papers and some coordinating Stampin' Up! card stock, I placed a Sheet of Scor-Tape on my grid sheet when forming the quilt, it was much easier than applying adhesive to each piece. I distressed the edges and embossed the quilt with the Damask Texture Fades Folder.

I stamped Olive Rose in Carmel on Vanilla card stock, then added this sentiment in Chocolate ink, and cut with Spellbinders Petite Oval, layering on Labels Twenty.  I created some rolled flowers by punching 1-3/8" circles from pattern paper, then cutting the circle to form a spiral and rolled with a Petal Roller and glued in place - this all from scraps!

Details:

Stamps - Stampotique

Ink - Chocolate

Card Stock - Sky, Tangerine, Chocolate, Kraft

Other - Spellbinders Dies, Pin, Petal Roller, 1-3/8" Circle Punch, Scor-Tape, Big Shot, Texture Fades Folder, Sponge Dauber, Glue Dots, Dimensionals, My Minds Eye Pattern Paper, Seam Binding, Distress Tool

 

Designer - Lisa Somerville

Madness

I couldn't resist making another mini canvas when I saw this phrase on the internet and I knew just the characters who fit it. With those grins I think we can safely say they aren't sane!!

I've coloured them with Copics and gave them some googly eyes just to finish them off! I'm sure I'm not the first person to do this, but it just felt right!!

I have used:
~{6108 Karin}~
~{6078 Smile}~, and
~{9112 En Dago en Maschera}~

Kaz xxx

Portraits

I made this card for the new Less is more challenge. This week there's a cardsketch. I used these Stampotique stamps for my card: Stitch, Dweeze, Mink, Carol's flower large, Carol's flower small and Dream in color .... I colored them with Tombow markers. They are so much fun to work with.

Have fun stamping!
Nellie

Join in the Fun!

Just in case you aren't a follower over at Stampotique Designer's Challenge, you may want to jump over there to see what fun things are going on...here's a sneak at what fun we're having.

Join us for Stampotique's Magical Mystery Tour today.  Why a Magical Mystery Tour?  Comment on all the blogs and along the way we have 2 mystery prizes to give away.  Along with your tour you will see all the creations from our current challenge.

Additional Prizes and a chance to be our August GUEST DESIGNER

Come join us in the fun here.

So Hot Together!

There's still time to play along with the CAS challenge here on the SDC Blog, why not join us for your chance to win a Stampotique GC!

I stamped the hearts in Red on my White card base, then stamped Toby and Gooseneck on a scrap piece of White (mask if needed), add color with markers.  Add sentiment with SAMJ.

Details:
Stamps - Stampotique Gooseneck, You two are So Hot Together, Daniels Hearts, Toby
Ink - Red, Ranger Black Archival, Marker
Card Stock - White, Black
Other - SAMJ

Easy Christmas card

I have been having so much fun with the current challenge over at the Stampotique Designers Challenge blog. I challenged myself to make a quick and simple Christmas card.. nothing like starting early!

 Stamps used: Noel Dog and Merry Everything

There is still time to join in the fun over at the Stampotique Designers Challenge blog. Hope to see you there!

Happy crafting. Gez ♥

more clean and simple......

I made this really simple card for the one layer wednesday challenge, using
altered hello and holes border

My son also coloured this card (using Frogs) for his fathers day card, he's only 8, I think he did a great job!

A simple card

A simple card today that I made with these gorgeous Stampotique stamps: Pickin' and Go confidently.

I made 2 backgrounds with distressinks. I stamped the imagestamp on one of them and punched out the hearts. Then I stamped again on the other background and cut out the women and children. I added them to the card with 3d-tape (see detail picture) and finished stamping the quotestamp.

Quick and easy ..
Have fun stamping
Nellie

Stampotique Journaling

Alphabitties by Daniel Torrente and Jill Penney

Medium bee by Jo Capper Sandon

Mary by Daniel Torrente

I always enjoy using Stampotique images on my journal pages. Here I chose to add 'Mary' after colouring her with distress inks. As this page is about my never ending battle with work / life balance, the phrase 'busy bee' popped into my head so of course I had to give her some bee wings:

And I'm loving these 'Alphabitties', they make a fantastic addition to a journal page because they look as if they have been drawn by hand. They are all different sizes and a random collection of upper / lower case - right up my street!

Thanks for looking, Kate

Canvas circles

 

SMUSHASHA 6121, SMUMANHA 6120, SMUSHALLAUM 6122 and OCTOPET 6124
all stamped onto canvas, coloured with Inktense pencils, machine stitched around and then torn into circles.........mounted onto journal page!
See more on my blog HERE
Sue Roddis