Another simple card

This quick card was made just with stamping and doodling.

I stamped ~{9173 Hutching's}~ (so stylish) and  ~{9005 Happy Birthday}~onto the card blank and masked them,  then I used 2 shades of inkpad on ~{7134 Mesh}~ and doodled some details before adding a button and thread.

Kaz xxx

Good Things, Good Thoughts

Have you had a chance to play with us yet at our current Stampotique Designer's Challenge to create a bookmark?  If not, here's your chance to win a $30 gift certificate for Stampotique stamps.

Our August guest designer, Barbara Washington created this corner bookmark for the current challenge using 9012  Good things, Good thoughts  and 3007 Jasmin

Show us your favorite Stampotique stamps and join us for our current challenge to make a bookmark, hope to see you there!

Mix and match!

I love to mix and match bodies and heads, so to make make the calendar page in my art journal this month I used the head of Clover and the body of Heart Shirt which I coloured with Prismas. Fun!

Thanks for looking, Kate

Olive rose necklace

I bought a lot of stylestones a couple of years ago. They are perfect to stamp on. For this one I used Olive rose and Dream definition. I stamped the image on the stylestone with chalkink. Heatsetted it and colored it with inks and Tombow markers. I stamped the dream definition partly over the image. To finish it I coated the stylestone with several layers of clear embossingpowder, took some matching beads and made a necklace of it.

Have fun stamping

Nellie

Blah...Blah...Blah...

Hi, Lisa here today and I wanted to let you know that there is still time to play along with this weeks Stampotique Designers Challenge, we'd love to your your altered page!  This weeks challenge is open to ANY stamp company, but if you have Stampotique images, we'd love to see you use them! 

Here's my altered page using Ranger Distress Stains and Color Wash Sprays and an assortment of Stampotique images

To create the BG, I used Ranger Distress Stain in Forest Moss, Wild Honey, Tumbled Glass and Fired Brick, once dry, I stamped the Honey Comb BG in Gesso, then spritzed lightly with Stream Color Wash.  The majority of my images are stamped in Ranger Black Archival, the Tree and Mesh BG are stamped in Coffee and Bla Bla Bla was stamped in Vermillion.  To add color to the Fence, I painted it with Picket Fence Distress Stain.  Sheer and Toby are stamped in Black Archival then colored with Distress Inks.  I added some doodles throughout the page with White Gel Pen, and added Scattered Straw Ink to age the page.

Details:
Stamps - Stampotique
Ink - Ranger Distress Ink Faded Jeans, Fired Brick, Walnut Stain, Scattered Straw, Ranger Coffee Archival, Black Archival, Vermillion Archival, Distress Stain Picket Fence, Fired Brick, Forest Moss, Wild Honey, Tumbled Glass, Color Wash - Stream
Other - Journal Book, Gesso, Ink Blending Tool, White Gel Pen, Non Stick Craft Mat, Spritz Bottle, Heat Tool, H20 Brush

Designer - Lisa Somerville

XoXo

Two lovebirds are they...Minky girl 6125 and Heart Shirt 6046?   This card was created by our August Guest Designer, Barbara Washington.  She also used Altered XOXO 7238 and Abby's Hearts 9105 to finish off the background of the card.
Leave a little love for Barbara and let us know how much you love her card.

Hello!

We have one more adorable creation to share from our July guest designer Annette Ward.  She used this darling stamp from Maryse Carrier called Hello! 

Love how beautifully this is colored and the little hello sentiment in the bottom corner is perfect.

Thanks Annette for being our guest designer for July, it was great having you!

"happy happy" that would be me!

Love this "quasimoto 3" and "sun design"!  This card is how I felt today....gosh I had a GREAT day! Sometimes when you really need that "good day" it comes along.....  I got lucky!  tfl!

New Home card

I've made a quick and easy new home card and the phrase on the stamp is perfect as my sister's friend lives in America.

I added two different coloured inkpads randomly to ~{7134 Mesh}~ so it's nice and uneven, then stamped ~{5094 The road to a friend's home is never long}~ on a separate piece of card and coloured it with Copics.
It was finished off with 3 gems and some doodled frames.

Kaz xxx

Go Wild

Made the background with Distress Stains and the dots with Tando's Sequin Waste Mask and white acrylic paint.
Stamps I used are from Stampotique Originals: don't fence me in (2147), galvanized (8111).

Rocky, a quick and easy card

Here is a real quick and easy card. I stamped Stampotique's Rocky and masked it. Then I splashed ecoline in 2 colours on my card with a brush . I removed the mask and coloured the image with the same colours of ecoline. Finished by stamping the Stampotique Freakin' people.. stamp in black. Less than 10 minutes work.

Have fun stamping
Nellie

Baby Wipe Swipe background by Joanne Wardle

I made this for the gingersnap challenge to make a card using baby wipes.


To make the background I wrapped some babywipes around the edge of my acrylic block and dabbed it onto a multicoloured inkpad. I then wiped this across the card to make a simple but colourful effect. I then added lots and lots of stampotique stamps using the same inkpad.
I finished with a girl stamp and a hello for a general greeting.

a little thank you by Joanne Wardle

Here's a little one layer thank you card I made. to find out how I achieved the stripey colours come back tomorrow..

stamps used
dotted dragonfly
thank you

A Bee in My Bonnet

I've made this canvas based on something my niece said recently and I have lost it to her already! I guess that's a complement!

I've used ~{6071 Perl's}~ body and thought if your head was being stung you may well become swollen, so she now has ~{6086 Clover's}~ head. I've used a chipboard beehive as a hat and then used loads of ~{3000 Mini Bees}~ including the offending one coming out of the hive.


Kaz xxx

Hearts

I saw these heartframes in a shop and loved them, although they are a bit over the top perhaps. I used Stampotique stamps and Perfect pearls in soft tones. You don't see the nice glimmery effect of the pearls very well on the photographs, but I think it look wonderful and very subtle in real. These are the stamps I used: Joyful, Child and Word collage. Please click on the single heart pictures to have a closer look.

Have fun stamping!

Nellie

Misunderstood

I think Twinkie is a bit misunderstood, he just wants to have a good time!  He's super excited about this weeks color challenge of Red, Yellow and Orange, and hopes you'll grab your Stampotique images and play along.

I created a BG with Ranger Distress Stains (Wild Honey/Fired Brick) and Distress Reinker (Mustard Seed),  on Watercolor paper, then did some Ghosting with the Mesh BG stamp.  I added the Honeycomb BG with White Gesso, and the Hexagon in Black Archival.  Twinkie is stamped in Black Archival and colored with Distress Inks.

Details:

Stamps - Stampotique (#7314 Mesh Background, #8116 Honeycomb, #3006 Hexagon, #6013 Twinkie, #8946 Misunderstood)

Ink - Ranger Black Archival, Ranger Distress Ink Fired Brick, Wild Honey, Mustard Seed, Ranger Distress Stain Wild Honey, Fired Brick, Ranger Distress Reinker Mustard Seed

Card Stock - Watercolor, Black, Red

Other - Gesso, Spritz Bottle, H20 Brush, Not Stick Craft Mat

 

Designer - Lisa Somerville

confetti holes tutorial by Joanne Wardle

I have the 5th part of my series on one layer cards in the issue of Craft Stamper which is out today.
In this "episode" I look at holes and apertures. In one of the "further idea" pieces I made confetti shaped holes, and I've been asked if they are hard to do.

They are not!

here's a quick tutorial of how to do them. This is not the card that is in the magazine, but a quick one made with a stamp from Stampotique.

Stamp image


to create confetti, use craft knife to make a wiggly cut


make another wiggly cut alongside this, crossing it once, twice, or more, if you like, or you can not cross them at all.


join the ends of the lines with cuts.

pop out the pieces

repeat process for more confetti


add more holes with a hole punch.

colour the image, and the inside of the card if desired.

Mwah!

Have you joined us for our current challenge using red, orange and yellow?   If not, you have until Tuesday evening to join us for your chance to win a $30 gift certificate for Stampotique stamps.

This is a creation our July guest designer, Annette Ward created.  I love how the tiny hearts come off her large die cut heart and the sentiment is perfect.

We have loved seeing what Annette has created with her Stampotique stamps during the month of July and look forward to seeing what our next guest designer will be creating.

Welcome!

Made this card for my grandson who is going to move. Made the background with the shaving foam technique (tutorial). Stamped with Versafine Onyx Black and coloured with distressinks.
All stamps I used are from Stampotique Originals: heart boy (6026), welcome door (6095), hanging hearts (6119), I love you flowers (9108).

New Home Card by Joanne Wardle

The theme at Moving Along With the Times is "brand spanking new" so I'm going to enter this simple new home card that I made for a friend using Stampotique stamps.


I decided to cut the inside of the row houses stamp out so that you can see into the card, where I stamped the sun (this took some very careful use of a stamp positioner!)


I stamped the image onto patterned papers and paper pieced the designs.

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.