Stampotique Challenge 235 - Flowers

Hello and welcome to the blog. This week at Stampotique Designer's Challenge our hostess is Carol Fox and she is asking us to include some flowers in our projects. Here is what Carol says about this fun challenge:

"Spring is just around the corner in the UK. So share with me a project with flowers in it"

So let's see your flowers this week!!!

Also, if you haven't done the new release Leap Day Blog Hop head on over HERE and take a look, there are some wonderful new stamps and some wonderful prizes!

My project this week is a bookmark for my planner, I wanted a bookmark for my "today" page because everytime I open my planner I can't find the page for today haha!!!

I used Stampotique stamps:

3 Daisies by Terri Richardson (our new designer)

Carrot - By Jill Penney

Upholstered - By France Papillon (in my background)

This bookmark also features the words "Just Breathe" a Memory Box exclusive die from Simple Pleasures Rubber Stamp Store, you can find them 

HERE

I love the "Just Breathe" sentiment for my bookmark, it was perfect for me because sometimes I forget to just take a minute and breathe. 

Thanks for stopping by the blog today, come on over to Stampotique Designer's Challenge and join us this week. You could always win a 30.00 gift certificate to the online store.

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Stampotique Challenge 204 - Twinchies

Hello and welcome back to the blog today. Wednesday means another challenge over at Stampotique's Designer Challenge Blog YAY!! 

Our hostess this week is Janet Klein and her challenge is "Twinchies"

Here is what Janet has to say about this challenge:

"Twinchies are small works of art that measure 2 x 2". Create a set of twinchies using your favorite stampotique stamps"

For this particular challenge I decided to do a journal page with quite a few twinchies. 

This page reminds me of the Brady Bunch but I called them "The Crazy Bunch" haha!

I used Stampotique Stamps:

4 Dwarfy Gnomes and Goat Monster - By Kira Nichols

Blessed Skellie - By Roc Nicholas

Young Ignis - By Magda Polokow

Moth Fab - By Jill Penney and Daniel Torrente

Waltzing Fleur - By Janet Klein

This was such a fun page to create with all the Stampotique images. I hope you will come by the Designer's Blog and join us this week, you could win a 30.00 gift card for the online store.

Have a wonderful day!!

Stampotique's 200th Challenge!!! Come Join Us This Week!!

Hello all and welcome back to the blog. Today is Wednesday and that means another challenge over at Stampotique's Designers Challenge Blog

We don't have a hostess this week but we are CELEBRATING our 200th Challenge!!!

Here is what Stampotique says about this challenge.

Join us for our 200th challenge this week by celebrating. Create with celebration, anniversary or best wishes creation. We thank you all for joining us each week at our challenges and hope you have a much fun creating with Stampotique as we do!

I decided to make a fun card for this occasion

For this card I used stamps:

Santa Baby - By artist Jill Penney and Daniel Torrente

Happy, Happy, Happy - By Daniel Torrente

Happy Head Appliances - by Danile Torrente

Philip - By Artist Magda Polokow

4 Dwarfy Gnomes - By Artist Kira Nichols

I sure hope you will come and join us over at 

 Stampotique's Designers Challenge Blog for this week's challenge, you could win a 30.00 gift certificate to the online store

As a bonus - be sure to check out Arwen McCullen's Blog for a chance to win one of her beautiful stamps

Altered Playing Card Challenge Week 26

Oh my gosh, only one more week to go for The Altered Playing Card Challenge, Wow. How fun has this been? I've had a great time and I can't believe it's almost over

We are now onto week 26 of this challenge

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This week I wanted to focus on something called Monochromatic which basically means creating something with one color in many different shades. You can also use white or black in a monochrome project. 

I am no good with monochrome and it's a tough concept for me so this week will be a sort of challenge for me as well.

I started out with two different printed papers, one was a light teal color and the other was purple

I then grabbed some stencils, both of these are by Dylusions

For the next step I used acrylic paint but feel free to use inks if you choose

I did the purple card first and used a slightly darker shade of paint along with the stencil

( I like to use sponge dabbers with paint and stencils, you don't want too much paint on your dabber, I usually dab in the paint and then dab onto the craft sheet a few times and then begin to work)

For the second teal card, I did the same

Working with the teal card first, I first added a bit of ink around the edges

I then used my fine tip Bic marker and doodled a bit 

I then stamped Roc Nicholas's stamp called Screaming Bunny onto white card stock and colored him with copics

I used several different shades of teal for this

I then cut my bunny out

I used a different color ink to stamp Bla Bla Bla by Jill Penney and Daniel Torrente onto my background, then adhered my bunny and my words Even Silence Speaks By Jo Capper-Sandon

Here is my finished card

For the purple card I first used ink to edge my card

I then used my white gel pen to created some doodles here and there

I added some wash tape, I like to tear my washi tape and then add it to my backgrounds

I stamped  Mervynboy and Hat onto white card stock and colored them with several different shades of purple

I added the Goody, goody gumdrops sentiment last

Here is my finished card

and here are my two cards together

I hope that you will try this monochromatic theme this week. You don't even have to do yours like I did mine, as long as the concept is the same. The same colors in different shades.

Have fun this week, next week is out last and we will have a huge giveaway!! So come back!

Cheers!

Stampotique ATC Facebook Swap

Hello and welcome back to my blog... today I would like to show you some ATCs that I made for the Stampotique Facebook page ATC swap. The Facebook group does a swap about once a month with people from all over the world and it's been so fun.

This months theme for the swap was all about "Swaperoo"

The idea is to create an ATC for your partner with Stampotique Stamps and swap out the body parts and mix and match them.

Here are the two ATCs I made for my two partners.

I used the following Stampotique Stamps:

Carrot - By Artist Jill Penney

 Halloween Cube, Roger, Penelope all by artist Daniel Torrente

When I grow Up - Carol's Collection

Barcode Text 2, Design Cube 2 - By Artist France Papillon

This was such a fun swap and I love how these came out. I just had to show you!!

Have a great day!!

Two Normals - Journal Page

Hello all and TGIF!! It's Friday and it's not snowing yet, it's a good day!

At any rate, I wanted to show you a journal page that I recently created. Some of you may know that my New Years Resolution was to Journal more often and actually complete a journal (maybe) lol

So I decided to work in my journal the other day

Of course I had to use my favorite Stampotique Stamps too. haha!

I have this wonderful artsy friend named Terri Richardson and her and I text each other quite a bit. Not only is she a great artist she is so funny too. For this journal page I used a quote directly from her.. she said this to me during a text one night

"Just a couple of "Normals", In a World Full of Weird"

When I heard her say that I thought it was a perfect sentiment for a journal page with some Stampotique Stamps by Daniel Torrente

Here is the journal page I created.....

The page kind of just came together naturally and it was so much fun to create for no particular reason. Sometimes you just gotta "do"

Obviously I felt this page needed to have some bright bold colors, I used Dina Wakley paints for that background. 

I used Stampotique Stamps:

Circles Cube

Spider Wings

Halloween Cube 2

Prom Queen

Moth Fab

All By Daniel Torrente and some by Daniel and Jill Penney

Thanks for coming by the blog, I hope you have gotten a nice giggle. Have a Cheery day!!

Stampotique Challenge 178 - Color Splash

Hello all and welcome back to the blog. This week over at the Stampotique Designer's Challenge Blog our wonderful Kaz is our hostess and she has chosen the theme "Color Splash".  She would like to see some bright colors to cheer us up in the dim days of January!

This is a fun and perfect challenge for these cold winter months and you all know that I love bright colors!

I decided to do a set of coasters this year for my family to use. It lets me display my creations around the house in a utilitarian kind of way. haha! 

I decided to use this challenge to make my first one.

I bought this set of cardboard coasters at Michael's  and added gesso to the one side. This preps them to take the paint that I'm going to apply

I didn't do a full tutorial, I got a little carried away and forgot to take photos

I used Dina Wakley's paints to paint my background and added a bit of wash tape, used some stencils and added my stamped images, which were colored with copic markers

I sealed this coaster with Duncan's Collage Pauge

For this coaster I used Stampotique Stamps

I Am My Art - In Carol's Collection

Peggy - By Artists Jill Penney and Daniel Torrente

Thanks for coming by and make sure to join in the challenge over at The Challenge Blog youc ould win a 30.00 gift certificate to the online store.

Stampotique Designer's Challenge

Merry Christmas Eve! and welcome back to another Wednesday with me and the Stampotique Designer's Challenge. This is the 4th week with the "Anything Goes" Challenge. This one ran through the entire month of December. 

The passed two week's I have given you a bit of a recap on my year with Stampotique, it has been a lot of fun going through some of my projects over this year. 

This week I wanted to make something new so i decided to make a cell phone case. I just got the new iPhone 6 and I needed to make me a shiny new case with my Stampotique characters. 

I always buy a clear case and just make my own background. 

So without further delay, here is my new case:

I used the Stampotique stamp - Moth Fab by artists Daniel Torrente and Jill Penney

and also Whatever... - Carol's Collection

I just love how my case turned out, nice and bright just like I like it. The great thing about it is, I can change it whenever I want and it's always original. 

Merry Christmas everyone!!

Stampotique - A Look Back

Welcome back to the blog everyone, today is my day to post on the Stampotique Designer's Blog and since we are doing a month long "Anything Goes" Challenge over at the Designer's Challenge Blog I figured I would do a bit of a recap on some of my passed creations for Stampotique.

First up I have a birthday card that I did for a friend of mine, this was a fun and colorful creation and I think Prom Queen and Froggie look like life long friends...

Stampotique Stamps I used:

Prom Queen - By Artists Jill Penney and Daniel Torrente

Froggie - By Artist Daniel Torrente

Next Up I have a piece I showcased a few weeks ago when I announced that I had made the Roc Nicholas'  Design team.

This is one of my favorite creations from this passed year

Stampotique Stamp Used - Blessed Skellie by artist Roc Nicholas

If you look closely you can see the Skellie's head in my background paper too

Next up is a journal spread I did for the purple, black and pink challenge a few months ago

Stampotique Stamps used - 

Young Ignis and Ignis Heart - By Artist Magda Polakow

I just love how this page turned out, I love the black scratchiness in the background and the pink and purple really pop off the page

Next up is one from many moons ago, this one I did prior to becoming a design team member but I just love this page, it's so fun and bright and bold. It's one that I use for my business cards

I only used one Stampotique stamp on this journal page but she is my all time favorite (at the time I only had one stamp and Prom Queen was it)

Prom Queen - By Artists Jill Penney and Daniel Torrente

Thanks for coming by the blog today and I hope you have enjoyed my recap, I will be back next Wednesday to do some more recaps of my Stampotique work. I hope you will check back.

Also, don't forget about the Stampotique Designer's Challenge, the entire month of December is "Anything Goes" so you get 4 chance to win the 30.00 gift card!! 

Stampotique Challenge - Anything Goes!!

Happy Wednesday ya'll, this marks the end of the year Challenge for Stampotique and the challenge for the entire month of December is "Anything Goes!" Hosted by the lovely 
Kim Howard

For this month only, you will have the opportunity to enter the 

challenge 5 times (one for each week)- 5 chances to win the

random $30 gift certificate for Stampotique stamps.

How cool is that? So get your crafty panties on because you can make anything you want and still join in the challenge!

For this first week I decided to make an ATC 
I used Stampotique Stamps:

Spider Girl - By Artists Jill Penney + Daniel Torrente
Arch - By Artist Arwen McCullen (used a small portion of this stamps)

Here is my ATC

I hope you will join us this month and enter for your chance to win!! 

Stampotique Challenge SDC163 - Refresh It

Hello all and welcome back to another month and another challenge over at Stampotique Designers Challenge Blog 

This week our hostess is Kaz over at Slightly Wonky Crafts and she has a wonderful challenge for us. She is asking us to "Refresh It" Use one of those older stamps that you haven't used in awhile and give it a new lease on life.

How fun! I have so many stamps that I just love but one of my very first stamps I ever bought from Stampotique was 

Prom Queen - By Artist Daniel Torrente and Jill Penney

I also used another stamp that was one of my first buys

Whatever - By Carol's Collection

I decided the make a tag for this challenge

I think Prom Queen is so fun and so versatile. I just love her and she has become one of my favorites! 

I had a great time making this tag bright and vivid, I just love the bright colors of the background and Prom Queen's Dress

Come see me over at Stampotique Designer's Blog - There is inspiration daily from design team members on the Designer's Blog and always some fun projects.

Have a great day!!!

Music As Inspiration - Postcard

Welcome back to another Wednesday with me. If you follow my blog you know that Wednesday's always mark another fun challenge at Stampotique's Designer's Challenge Blog.

This week Kathi is our wonderful hostess and she has chosen "Music As Inspiration" as her theme. I love listening to music while I create and so this is a great challenge

I chose the song "Hey Jude" by the Beetles (one of my favorite bands ever) It's one of my favorite Beetle's songs.

For this project I used Stampotique Stamps - 

Phillip - By Artist Magda Polokow

Girl With Heart Purse - By Artists Jill Penney and Daniel Torrente

Here is my finished postcard -

Hope you like my project for today and we hope you will come by and join in on the challenges at the Challenge Blog 

Have a great week

Bows - Stampotique Designer's Challenge

Hello all and thanks for coming by this wonderful Wednesday afternoon. 

Wednesday marks another new challenge over at Stampotique's Designer's Challenge Blog

Jackie Payne is our wonderful hostess this week and she has challenges us to use "Bows" on our project. 

Bows are super cute and they always look awesome in any project, weather it's a dimensional bow or something as simple as a stamped bow

This also is my day for posting over at the Stampotique's Designer's Blog, make sure to stop by and check out my post and leave me some feedback :)

Here is my project for this week's challenge

For this project I used Stampotique Stamp

Moth Fab - By Artists Jill Penney and Daniel Torrente

I used a stencil in the background and Dyan Reaveley sprays to make that spider web. I also used the sprays to color the ribbon for the bow the same color. 

Hope you enjoy my postcard today.

Have a wonderful week

Crazy Birthday Card

I am guest posting today over at Stampotique Designer's Blog for one of our design team members Coby. Her grandson is sick so please say a prayer for him. 

I have a close friend that has a birthday coming up (pretty soon, need to get this in the mail LOL) and I wanted to make her a card using my wonderful Stampotique stamps. She loves the weird characters of Daniel Torrente and Jill Penney so of course I had to use my fun stamps

For this card I used Stampotique Stamps

Prom Queen and Froggie by Daniel Torrente and Jill Penney

I created my background with Tim Holtz distress paints and then added a few stencils

Both girls were colored with copic markers and then adhered to the front of the card. 

This was a fun card to make because my friend and I are always kidding each other about how much we are alike and how crazy and weird we both are, haha! These Stampotique character stamps were so perfect for this.

Thanks for coming by once again and have a wonderful day.

Pink, Turquoise and Polka Dots

Good day to you all, thanks for coming by the blog once again

Life has been very busy for me lately and I've been trying to juggle everything. I hoping that summer will bring rest and relaxation.

There is a new challenge up at Stampotique's Design Team Challenge Blog

Samantha Read

is our wonderful hostess and she has challenged us to do some Pink, Turquoise and Polka Dots

What a fun challenge, I love everything about it! My post is also on the Stampotique Designer's Blog

I hope you will stop by and check out my creation for this challenge.. here is a sneak peak

I used the Stampotique Stamp - Two Sticks by artists Jill Penney and Daniel Torrente for this piece, I hope you will come by the Designer's Blog and check out the entire piece.

Cheers! 

Steampunk and Stampotique

Hello all and thanks again for coming by the blog, I'm blessed to have so many wonderful followers and I'm so happy you stopped by

This week over at Stampotique Designers Challenge Blog the wonderful Kathi has chosen our theme and she picked

Steampunk!! I love steampunk so hooray, Love this challenge.

I hope you will join in with us and try your hand at the new challenge.

For this challenge I chose to use Stampotique stamp

Moth Fab - By Artists Jill Penney and Daniel Torrente

This is one of those "oldie but goodie" stamps, I love this stamp and she is one of my "go to" Stampotique stamps

For my background I used an oval template (just a piece of paper that I cut into an oval) I knew I wanted the card to be at least as big, if not bigger than my stamp and then I went to work

I used distress ink/tool to color the outside of my card

Then I used a stencil and black distress ink to create my gears

Meanwhile the whole time leaving the center of my card white

I stamped my stamp onto another sheet of paper and colored her and cut her out. 

For the numbers I used one of Tim Holtz dies and black cardstock

This was a fun challenge and I just love using two of my favorite things together, steampunk and Stampotique

Cheers!!