Art Journal Page

Here's a Art Journal page from our November Guest Designer, Connie Baever.
 

The page is made in an old book. Gesso is applied directly to the book
page, and after she stamped and wrote the text she covered the page with Aqua
Pastels and water.

The art journal page uses the Smashallaum 6122 from the Daniel Torrente an Jill Penney line of stamps from Stampotique.

Don't forget we have our Stampotique Designer's Challenge going on right now using Non-Traditional Christmas colors.  We hope you will join us using your Stampotique stamps.

Give yourself a hug

I love this little monster, designed by Kira Nichols for Stampotique Originals. Made the background with Distress Stains.

Stamps I used are all from Stampotique Originals: Hug Monster (4007), Give Self a Hug (4010), Kisses (3023).

Christmas Tags

Need some more inspiration for some non-traditional Christmas colors?

Check out these stunning tags from our November Guest Designer, Connie Baever.

 

You see all those fabulous details on the tags such as the film strip and the absolutely gorgeous jeweled snowflakes?

Hope you will join us over at Stampotique Designer's Blog for this week's challenge to use non-traditional colors with your Stampotique stamps.

We Three Kings by Joanne Wardle

As Christmas rapidly approaches, I find the need for quick and easy cards gets more urgent.

Here's an easy one made with one simple stamp from stampotique.

I have coloured the card with pencils, highlighted with glossy accents. I have also used some gilding flakes to accent the bands around the crowns. I finally finished with some gold cord.

Laugh

For this tag I used the cute Floating dog from Kira's new images. Isn't he cute this little doggie? These are the other stamps I used: Dogs laugh, Altered Laugh and Hanging hearts.

Have fun stamping!
Nellie

Non-trad Christmas

Mink by Daniel Torrente

Splatter Long and Hearts cube by Jo Capper-Sandon

Sentiment by Carol's Collection

all for Stampotique Originals

I'm loving the latest Stampotique Designers challenge - to create a non-traditional Christmas card. Anything non-traditional is right up my alley! This card is very similar to one I have made before but I wanted to make a Christmas version because I just love Mink's sullen expression and it goes so well with the sentiment. This card would be perfect for a real scrooge, and we all know one of those!

Have a look here if you fancy playing along with this fun challenge.

Bye for now, Kate

Merry Christmas

Join us over at Stampotique Designer's Challenge today for the start of our new challenge to make an untraditional Christmas creation (no red/green).

Our guest designer this month, Connie Baever, has created this stunning Christmas card, love how she went with a monochromatic color scheme on this.

 

So many wonderful details on this, the film strips and snowflakes, the metallic ink.  Gorgeous!

Want to join us, you have until 12/13/11 at 5 p.m. to join in using your Stampotique stamps.  Link up over at the Stampotique Designer's Challenge blog.

Misunderstood

Don't you just love the new monster images by Stampotique's newest Artist, Kira Nichols!

The monster is stamped in Black Archival on Watercolor paper, then masked.  To create the BG on both panels I used the Watercolor Distress Technique, using Ranger Distress Inks in Mustard Seed, Peeled Paint and Rusty Hinge.  Once dry, I removed the mask on the monster and stamped the sentiment in Ranger Black Archival.  To add color, I used STAEDTLER Karat Aquarell Watercolor Pencils, using Gamsol for blending, then added highlights with STAEDTLER Triplus Fineliners.  For the background panel, I added the Honeycomb in Ranger Black ink, and the Hexagon in Gesso.

Details:Stamps - Stampotique Originals Whisker Monster with Sign,  Honeycomb , Hexagon
Ink - Ranger Distress Ink Gathered Twigs, Ranger Black Archival, Ranger Distress Stain Mustard Seed, Rusty Hinge, Peeled Paint, STAEDTLER Aquarell Watercolor Pencils, STAEDTLER Triplus Fineliner
Card Stock - Watercolor, Summer Sun, Black
Other - Gesso, Heat Tool, Non Stick Craft Mat, Prima Distress Tool, 3L Dimensionals

Designer - Lisa Somerville

Bookmark

I made this bookmark with distressinks in the colors, Crushed olive, Thumbled glass and Broken china. I used these Stampotique stamps: Thinker, Carol's flower small and Dream definition. Quick & easy and it makes a wonderful little gift.

Have fun stamping!
Nellie

explosion of colour by Joanne Wardle

For this month's challenge theme at Happy Daze I have made this one layer card, using stamps from Jo Capper-Sandon's range at Stampotique. These Splatter stamps are perfect for the theme. I have used distress inks for the colour.

Underwater Wonder World

Join us over at Stampotique Designer's Challenge today for our sketch challenge hosted by Lisa.  She uses Smushallaum #6122 in this underwater wonder world.

Our guest designer, Connie Baever has created this phenomenal card with great colors.

Queue

Made this card for an alphabetswap: the Q from Queue.

Stamp I used: Stampotique Originals (9085 - bird legs small).

Party!!!

This week, on wednesday to be precise, the counter for the number of bloghits for my blog, past 100.000! That's reason enough to throw a small party :-) that's why I made this Stampotique card, for which I used these stamps: Dance party break up, Hanging hearts, Splatter long and Gussie up' ...

To thank everyone who visited my blog over the past few years there's a little give away. So visit my blog to have a chance of winning this card and a small goodiebag.

Have fun stamping!
Nellie

Peace on your wings

I love this Angelboy stamp. So I chose him to be on the first Christmascard I made this year. And itsn't that Peace on your wings quote beautiful? I made the background with distressink and water.

Have fun stamping!
Nellie

Christmas with non-Christmas stamps by Joanne Wardle

You don't always have to buy special Christmas stamps to make your Christmas cards. Sometimes you just have to look at the stamps you have in a different way. This general tree from Stampotique, can easily be made to look wintry with simple colouring, and the addition of white flower soft or glitter. The tiny bird from Jo Capper-Sandon's range can easily be made to look like a robin redbreast with the appropriate colouring

Boo

I haven't made a lot of halloween cards and had these cute images from Stampotique.  Perfect little scary kiddos!  I definitely need to make more of these now that I've used these, they would make great little ATC's.

This card is a 5.5 x 5.5 and I used the Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge 139 .   I hand wrote the "BOO" on the banner.. 

Hope you have a great weekend!  We don't have any sports planned today so I'm hoping to do some shopping for the kids, it's gotten too cold too fast and all the pants we tried on this past weekend-the kids have outgrown them ALL.  

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Card Details:

Stamps: Corie 9217, Frankie 9219, and Skullboy 9221 from Stampotique Originals

Cardstock: Going Gray, SU! retired designer papers, Neenah White

Inks: Memento Tuxedo Black, copics, Pumpkin Pie, SU Journaling Marker

Embellishments: black twine, seam binding, dimensionals

Beware Shadowbox

Roc is here to share a shadow box she has created.

Roc used the following stamps for her shadow box are:

Mary #6054 (but i cut her head off and shortened her legs),
Halloween cube #2 #6110 for the skeleton head and the pumpkins

Tree stamp #6112 and
Picket Fence #6090

Goth Garland

Amy Wellenstein has created this very cool Goth Garland which would be perfect for this upcoming Halloween.  

Amy used a variety of stamps for her garland:

7121 - antique border

6022 - Sheer

6023 - Spykee

6025 - Gooseneck

6084 - Leeta

6085 - Miss Snottie

6108 - Karin

6086 - Clover

 

Candle boxes

Today 2 boxes with scented candles which I made with Stampotique stamps and Tombow markers. For the green box I used these stamps: Smile, Carol's flower large, Carol's flower small and Living is not enough ... For the pink-purple box: Marci, Daniel's hearts, Dream in color and Two hearts are better than one.

Please visit my Blog to see a third box made with Jo Capper-Sandon's stamps.

Have fun stamping!

Nellie

Spooky Treat bags...

 

"jammin!"

Gettin in the "spirit" ??...he he he!  the Halloween spirit that is!  Here are some spooky treat bags made with some very cool Daniel Torrente images... "Minky girl", and "two sticks"...

 I just grabbed some brown craft bags and inked them using some TH masks then stamped over them.  The tops of the bags are stapled down with black netting and a colorful tie die material.  Did I mention the black rubber mouse and fake garlic?  :)  These were really alot of fun! tfl!   Jane W.

alcohol ink and acetate flower by Joanne Wardle

The new challenge at gingersnaps is to use alcohol inks. to be honest I don't use mine very often, but I don't know why.

To make this card I stamped Carol's flower from Stampotique onto acetate with stazon, then on the reverse I applied various colours of ranger alcohol inks with a blending tool. I then glued this to the card, to which I had already added a ribbon (by threading through the card), glued on a button.

Tag time!

Mink by Daniel Torrente

It's tag time over on the Stampotique Designers Challenge blog and Nellie has challenged us all to create a tag or to use a tag in some way on our art. Well, I love making tags anyway and often use a bit of left-over inky card to make a tag which I then often turn into a little hanging. These tags are a couple of extras I made once I got on a tag roll for Nellie's challenge!

Heart Shirt by Daniel Torrente

Splatter Long by Jo Capper-Sandon

Crow Line by Janet Klein

Don't forget to visit the Stampotique Designers Challenge blog here if you want to play along.

Thanks for looking!

Kate

Ghouls just want to have fun!

I created this fun card for the Colour Challenge over atSplitcoaststampers today. The colour combination is Pumpkin, Eggplant and Turquoise. All strong colours, so I wanted to try to get a good mix of each.

I used Frankie, Corie and Skullboy for my spooky scene, coupled with the Ghouls just want to have fun sentiment. Such sweet little ghouls and very easy to colour with my Twin Touch Markers.

The colours I used on the images are as follows

Frankie's Pumpkin Head_YR-31 Y45 and YR23

The Purples: P85 and RP87

The Turquoise B67 and BG61

The Skin

R139 and R131

Green Shading GY163-Eye Shading BG178

Ground Shading WG5

All markers from Shinhan Arts

Additional Supplies: Cardstock , Top Note Die,  Circle Punch, Ink-SU

Ribbon, Bat Punch and Fence Punch-Martha Stewart Crafts

Happy Stamping!

Sleeping Beauty

There's still time to play along with the Stampotique Humorous Birthday Challenge - grab your Stampotique images and join us!

I started out by stamping Minkygirl in Black Archival on Watercolor paper, then created a Mask from Eclipse Tape and placed it over my image.  To add color, I pressed Ranger Distress Stains in Barn Door, Rusty Hinge and Mustard Seed onto a Non Stick Craft Sheet, and spritzed with water, then pressed my stamped side into the inky pool, lifting to try, then reinking to cover any white space.  Once dry, I removed the mask and color the image with an H20 Brush and Markers.

Details:
Stamps - Stampotique Minkygirl, Sleeping Beauty
Card Stock - Red, Yellow, Black, Watercolor
Ink - Ranger Black Archival, Distress Ink Gathered Twigs, Markers (Red, Yellow, Pumpkin, Blush)
Other - Non Stick Craft Sheet, H20 Brush, Spritz Bottle, Heat Gun, Eclipse Tape, Ink Blending Tool

Designer - Lisa Somerville

a "Stella" Hallowe'en by Joanne Wardle

In previous posts I have used Stella Sitting on various props, and have used masking to achieve this. I know that a lot of people find masking a bit too "faffy", so for this card I used the simpler "cutting out" method!!

I just stamped Stella, the broom and hat, onto white card coloured with pencils and cut them out.

I made the moon background by cutting out a circle mask (by drawing around the inside of a roll of sellotape), then applied black soot and pumice stone distress inks with a cotton wool ball. I
removed the maks, applied a litle more pumice stone ink, for clouds. I stamped happy (from Happy unbirthday) and old english Hallowe'en. I glued Stella and her accessories in place.

All of the Stamps are from Jo Capper-Sandon's range from Stampotique Originals.