Stampotique Designer's Challenge 123: Fabulous Folds.

 

Hello Creatives, It is STAMPOTIQUE day-!!

And Happy Halloween. Soon to be.

Today Stampotique is hosting SDC123: Fabulous Folds. Make more than one fold in your projects.

I wanted to make something that I can recreate for gifts for the Holidays are around the corner. This will be great.  I will put a gift card inside the bookmark to our local book store, inside of a card that will have the Stampotique Sentiment "Jingle your own damn bells!" 

Perfect don't you think?

Did you notice the book? I love this book!!

There are two folds on the back of this bookmark.

I hope you will stop by Stampotique Designers Blog and play along with us. You could win $30 for your choice of stamps from Stampotique.com.

Looking forward to seeing your amazing creations.

Be Well.

Sarinda 

 

Here is what I used:

Stampotique Baby Cthulhu	Stampotique Jingle Your Own

Stampotique Designer's challenge 122

This week's Stampotique designer's challenge theme is "Fabric". Use some fabric, lace etc. in your project. I remained a bit in last week's Halloween atmosphere with this tag. These are the stamps I used: Crow line, 3 in a round, Tall word collage. Of course we would love it when you join us in the challenge! At the end of the month you can be one of two lucky winners of a 30 dollar gift certificate for your own free choice of Stampotique stamps.

Have fun stamping! 
Nellie

Flowers for Linda

Our Guest Designer: Sam Butler is sharing her recent contribution using Fabric and Lace for the current Stampotique Designer's Challenge.  Here's a little more info on her tag:

Stamps used –

Hanging hearts / Daniel’s Hearts / Linda

Journey collage / Long splatters / Carol’s small flower

Background – mdf tag coloured with fresco paints and distress inks.  Background images hanging hearts, journey collage and long splatter.

Window frame coloured with alcohol inks, Daniels hearts stamped onto white card and coloured with pan pastels.  Chipboard stem and flower head painted with fresco paint, stem stamped in Carol’s small flower, flower head stamped with Linda’s head.  Movers and shapers butterfly die cut in chipboard and lace.  Lace added to window sill, top of flower and piece to hang.

Escape the Ordinary

Our October guest designer, Sam Butler, is sharing this mushroom group with us today, stop on over by her blog and give her a shout out.

Stamps used –

Long splatter / Diva / Carol’s small flower / tiny bee / long swirls

Mushroom group / giant shroom / escape the ordinary...daydream /

Background – canvas board with grunge paste through diamond stencil, sanded back, painted with various colours of green fresco paint.  Stamped with all images on top line of stamps used and bubble wrap and bottle lid stamped with black paint.  Middle section white washed.  

Mushrooms added and negative of TH postage stamp die used as a frame.  One the edge fence die cut from kraft paper and part of the quote added to finish.

Don't forget the current Stampotique Designer's Challenge starts today.

Stone the Crows

Isn't it funny how and when inspiration strikes, I was attempting to do some gardening a few weeks ago when I found hidden under some overgrowth some really big pebbles that we bought back from the seaside about 15 years ago. I managed to drop one of these pebbles on my foot and cursed, "Stone the Crows!!". I then got to thinking about trips to the seaside as a small child and I remember on the sea front ladies selling large pebbles that had been painted with a local scene, I loved these pebbles but never got one. Then I got to thinking about decorating my garden pebble with stamps . . . of course! So I chose the stamps and got to work, beginning by painting the pebble green and then pink. I stamped Moon Girls Crow on tissue paper and cut out, I also stamped the Whole Heart sentiment on tissue paper. I stuck them in position using some PVA glue mixed with water 50/50. I used the heart from Tiny Hand Helds for extra detail and the spotty side from Design Cube to add the brown to blend it all together.

Hope you like it, wishing you a lovely day, Sam xxx

Red, orange and ...

This month Stampotique sponsors the challenges on the Craftorij (a Dutch craftshop) facebookgroup. This week’s theme is Red, Orange and 1 other colour. I added black. Of course I used Stampotique stamps only. These are the stamps I used: Quiet place and Spidergrass

Have fun stamping!
Nellie

October Guest Designer

We are thrilled to announce our October guest designer, Sam Butler.  You've seen her around, she's a frequent player of our challenges and we are so excited to share her work with you.  Here's more about Sam and another creation for the current Stampotique Designer's Challenge.

Hi, my name is Sam aka Sam21ski. I’ve been crafting for quite a while now and like anything distressed and grungy.  I love any sort of crafting and would say that I am adventurous with new materials and am willing to give anything a go!!

My favourite colour is green, closely followed by brown and I am a great admirer of Tim Holtz.  I love fun and funky so the Stampotique images fit perfectly.  I also love all stuff PaperArtsy too!!

I have a 6 year old bearded collie called Fraser and a partner of over 20+ years called Martin.  The both put up with my antiques on the dining room table, as this is where I craft.

If you want to find out more about me, see what I’ve been up to or get in touch, you’ll find me here http://sam21ski.blogspot.co.uk/

Stamps used –

7126 Single Tear

8882 Love Travels

Background colour, various colours/layers of fresco paint, diamond stencils with vanilla fresco paint.  3 layers of bees wax.  Single tear image stamped in black versafine directly onto the wax.  Quote stamped onto white card, words cut and edged in black pen and stuck onto the wax.  ATC put into an ATC sized photo frame.

Stampotique Sponsors ...... De-Craftorij

For October, Stampotique are sponsoring ~{De-Craftorij}~ which is now a Facebook Group. The first challenge is to use red and orange and one other colour. I choose turquoise as I love these colours together.

I have used the following stamps:

~{Stacked Love}~
~{Henny Penny}~ gotta love those eyelashes, and
~{Rootie Toot}~

I have watercoloured all the images.

Kaz xxx

One more star

We have enjoyed having one of Stampotique's artists this month as our guest designer.  Maryse Carrier has a unique style and if you haven't checked out her line of stamps at Stampotique you can see them here.

Tomorrow is the last day of our design team call so if you are interested in being part of the team, we invite you to submit your link here.

Whole heart

Here is my entry for this week's Stampotique designer's challenge. Astrid asks us to use washi tape, easy and fun! So please join us in this challenge. For my card I  used these wonderful stamps from the latest Stampotique release: Hazelheart and Whole heart.

Have fun stamping! 
Nellie

Stampotique Challenge: Happy Birthday

Happy Wednesday! This week the challenge is hosted by Kim and she wants to see birthday cards. This is for a special reason, cause Kim is turning 40 today!!! Happy Birthday Kim!!!
I made this card with the Blueprints Die (no. 6) from My Favorite Things. I used Dylusions spray. Stamped with Archival. And I used Distress Markers to color Miguel.

Stamps used:

Miguel has a gift

Happy Birthday

Antique Description

Thanks for stopping by!

A Tag a Day Keeps the Doctor Away

Well that's my story and I'm sticking to it, I have to fulfil my tag obsession somehow.

Using

Stack of Birds
Find your Balance text
Design Cube

Also don't forget the design team call that is out for Stampotique at the moment, full details can be found HERE.

Thanks for your visit today, Carol x

Stampotique Designer's challenge "New technique"

This week's theme for the Stampotique designer's challenge  is to try a new technique. This is one of the first backgrounds I made with alcoholink on yupo paper after following a workshop. It's a lot of fun (and very addictive) to play with these materials. The outcome of this technique is quit  unpredictable, but that is what makes it fun too. These are the Stampotique stamps I used: Rain text and Floral flutter. Please join us in this challenge and show what new techniques you are mastering.

Have fun stamping!

Nellie

Stampotique Design Team Call 2014 x 2

Stampotique Design Team Call x 2!

What is x 2???

Stampotique is excited to announce our Design Team Call for 2014.  We get a lot of questions as to when we are going to be having one so here is your opportunity! We are looking for creative, inspiring, and friendly stampers to help promote Stampotique rubber stamps.  

And we are looking for 2 teams!  One of our teams will be for the Stampotique Designer's Challenge and our other team will post specifically to our Stampotique Designer's Blog and Facebook page.

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.  Most importantly in any creation you show, show us your style.

This call will only be open until September 30.  We will try out best to notify those we have chosen by October 15th at the latest.

If you are interested, please read all the information below and follow instructions 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 6 months (January 2014-June 2014)
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 using Stampotique; for the designers blog team you can do 4 of anything using Stampotique)**
Participate in blog hops and sponsored promotions as needed
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 (this will be for both teams)

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 link up your creation (preferably something new) below by September 30, 2013 at 11:59 p.m. EST.  

If you would like to be part of a specific team (designer's challenge team or designer's blog please indicate the following after your name 
in the link-(if you'd be happy on either, you don't need to put anything after your name):

1. Stampotique Designer's Challenge team- SDC
2. Stampotique Designer's Blog team- SDB

In your blog post please link up to this post and tell us a few things about your creative 
style and why you would like to be part of the Stampotique team.

If you have any questions, feel free to direct them to me at khowardga@gmail.com.

We look forward to seeing your creations and thanks for being a Stampotique fan!

Kim Howard

Design Team Coordinator

Be Your Own Superhero!

Today's card features more of my favorite new stamps from the Fall 2013 release fromStampotique Originals! These are from designer Linda Peterson. I am so in love with her sweet little pointy-headed people!!

And isn't that sentiment just THE BEST? Love it!! The image is 12012 Superhero and the message is 12013 Superhero Text. I colored it with my Copics and made it crazy bright and happy with papers from Lori Whitlock for Echo Park and Amy Tangerine for American Crafts. I have developed a new theory in my crafting - my theory is that clouds make anything cuter. I went with that theory on this card. :-)

Thanks for stopping by!
Libby

More Hazel Love!

Today I have another Hazel image to share. Love love love these new Stampotique images!! They are so adorable!

Love with your whole heart. How sweet is that? Not only do I love this line of Hazel images, but all the messages are fantastic, too! Today I used 12010 Hazelheart and 12011 Whole Heart. Hazel is colored with Copics, with a little Stickles bling added to her heart.

Thanks for stopping by!
Libby

More From The New Release

I love these new Hazel stamps from Linda Peterson. For me they are sweet without too cute, and I know I'll be using them loads.
I hope your all playing along in our blog hop, and if not, get youself over there lol.
I've used
Hazel Heart 12010 and
Whole Heart Text 12011.
Hope you like it, and thanks very much for looking x

New Images and a Blog Hop

Mega excitement, the new images from Stampotique are released today and...yes and there is a blog hop under way on the Challenge blog, so how is that for a super Sunday.
I have a quick make to share with you using one of the new images and a partial quote. I have changed the name on the desk from Ms Hazel to Miss Fox as this is made for my daughter who now is a qualified teacher after four long years of graduate education. She starts her first job tomorrow and this stamp was just perfect for a little Good Luck card for her.

Don't forget to pop over to the challenge blog to join in with the blog hop as there a lots of goodies to be won.

I used

Ms Hazel
Teacher Text

Carol x

3 Circles

This week's Stampotique designer's challenge theme is "Use 3 circles". Here is my card, a simple one, with some awesome stamps! 

These are the Stampotique stamps I used for my card:  Spykee, I love my new dress, Mothlove, Escape the ordinary and Strung.

Have fun stamping!
Nellie

Wedding

Ali Johnson our August Guest Designer has created this gorgeous wedding card for the Stampotique Designer's Challenge this week and for her upcoming anniversary.

For this project I used the Hochzeit stamp. I made a card blank from grey cardstock and cut a smaller panel of white card. I stamped Hochzeit over one edge of the white panel and stamped it again onto a post-it note and used this to mask the image while I spritzed the panel with Dylusions spray inks and splattered watered-down black paint across it. I doodled a border with a fineliner pen and attached the panel to the card, then stamped the Hochzeit image again onto white card, cut it out and layered it onto the card using foam pads, off-setting it slightly over the image on the panel. To finish, I layered die-cut sentiments in grey and white card and added some black gemstones.

SDC112: Polka Dots

Hello Crafties:

Sarinda here and I wanted to remind you that there are a few more days to upload your creations to Stampotique Designer's Challenge Blog. This is what I created for the challenge. I had a lot of fun with Moth Fab on this one.

Thanks again for sharing your talents with us.

Warmly-
Sarinda

Stick It To Me!

I love making things to embellish my home and if they are personal I love them even more. Regular visitors to my blog will probably be familiar with Poppy, my fur baby. She's adorable and brings with her so much love and joy. Each day whilst on a walk she will find a stick and bring it home, when we get home she will leave the stick by the gate.

One morning last week I thought it be nice to make something using one of Poppy's sticks. Poppy joins me in my art room and she really did have a puzzled look on her face when she saw a stick among my stamps. Inspiration for the wire work came from Pinterest. This was a great opportunity to really go wild with my imagination and art materials and have lots of fun.

I used quite a few stamps: Dorothy, Toto, Banner, Stack of Birds,  Floral Swirl and Tiny Handhelds. For the text I used Plant kindness and gather love, A Heart, Sometimes I pretend and May I always be....

Poppy and I really hope you like it!

Thanks for looking and we wish you a wonderful day xxx

Polka Dot challenge

Another spotty make for the Polka Dot challenge. A wooden heart painted and spotted up with a mask and lots of paint.

I used

Artsy Fartsy
Floral Swirl

Carol Xx

Polka Dot Challenge

Here are some more polka dots for Roc's challenge 

It was such fun working with these fab stamps.
I've used
banner
upward bound
world of her own
village
home sweet home

Have a great weekend, and thanks very much for looking x

Polka dot designer's challenge

Time for another fun Stampotique Designer's challenge. This week's theme is "Polka dots". I used a Dylussions template and distressinks for this card. These are the Stampotique stamps I used: There is a garden .., Thinker and Splatter.

Have fun stamping!

Nellie

Polka dots

Our August guest designer, Ali Johnson got inky with this journal page for the  current Stampotique Designer's Challenge to use polka dots.

For this one I've used the Jeepers stamp to make an art journal page. I used paints (mostly Dylusions), stencils, texture paste and Pan Pastels to make the background (using a dotty stencil to fit with the theme :D) and then also stamped onto the page using Splatter Long (3014)  (from my own stash). 

  

 I stamped the Jeepers stamp onto paper and drew in and coloured my own body for her, using Promarkers to colour and also using the Bla Bla Bla (6001) stamp (from my own stash) on the dress. I cut her out and attached to the journal page. 

The journaling was handwritten and cut out into strips before being outlined and attached to the page.

Stop on over to Ali's blog and say "hi" to her.

Shades of Purple, Orange and Yellow

The current challenge is to use the colours Purple, Orange and Yellow, These were the colour Dylusions sprays I used, and these are the colours that I ended up with on my little domino book.

I used the following stamps

Birdy Up
Tall Word Collage.

Carol Xx

Quiet Place

Our August guest designer, Ali Johnson created this beautiful card for the current Stampotique Designer's Challenge to use purple, yellow and orange.

Here's how Ali created her card:

I used the Carol's Flower, large - 9165 stamp for this project and used Distress inks and a faux batique technique (stamping with Versamark ink, embossing with clear embossing powder, blending Distress Inks over the panel and then ironing over the panel (with scrap paper on top) to re-melt and lift off the embossing) to make the background. I also stamped the flower a couple of times with black Archival ink and used a wet paintbrush to paint them with Distress Inks before cutting them out, shaping the petals a little and attaching to the card with foam pads, adding a layer of Glossy Accents to the flower centres to finish. Distress Ink colours used were Spiced Marmalade, Mustard Seed and Dusty Concord.

The sentiment was stamped with one of the stamps I already had (Quiet Place - 3011) and cut out into strips, the edges of which I outlined with a black pen before attaching to the card front.

Make sure to stop over at Ali's blog and let her know how much you love her cool card.