Stampotique Challenge 210 - Anything Goes

Welcome back to the blog today, it's Wednesday and you know what that means... we have a new Challenge over at "Stampotique Designer's Blog"

Our hostess is Kim and she is giving us an Anything Goes Challenge. 

Create using freedom this week

Also,  if you haven't already done the New Release Blog Hop, you can start 

HERE

There are some wonderful prizes and great inspiration for the design team with the newest stamps.

My creation this week is a Birthday Card using some of the new stamps and some older stamps.

Stampotique Stamps I used are:

Lucilla - By Artist Arwen McCullen

Cup of Fun Certainty and Lovely Wings - by Artist Daniel Torrente

I made this background using my gel plate, I thought it was perfect for this card. I just love Arwen's new Lucilla stamp, she is so fun! 

Come over to the Designer's Challenge Blog and join us this week for this fun and easy challenge. You could win a 30.00 gift certificate to the online store.

Cheers!

Altered Puzzle Week 5

Welcome back to the blog, it's Memorial Day today so Happy Memorial Day everyone!! 
We are onto week 5 of the Altered Puzzle Challenge and starting row #2 

Here are the links to the previous posts for this challenge

Week 1

Week 2

Week 3

Week 4

Our Facebook group is here:

Facebook Group

This week we are starting on the second row to our puzzle, pieces 7 and 8.. I decided to go with something simple for these two pieces since it's a holiday week

starting with piece #7 I began by using Dylusions Sprays and 

a water spitzer, first spray the puzzle piece with water and then spritz with Dylusions, I just kind of let the colors run

Once everything is dry I used a piece of punchinella (you can also use any stencil) and my black Zig marker to create circles here and there

I then used my white gelli pen to doodle a bit

I used a piece of gelli print leftover paper to cut out some triangles for the edges 

I then used my Zig marker again to doodle

(if you haven't noticed I love to doodle) 

Lastly I printed out my sentiment, cut out, edged and glued

This is my final piece

For my next piece I began by using Archival Ink in a brown color and a stencil 

I also edged the puzzle piece with the same ink

I added some black wash tape here and there

I then used some of Tim Holtz Chitchat stickers for my sentiment

I also used Tim Holtz framework die to create the little chevron across the front

I used my white gel pen to outline my "ok" word which was created using black card stock and a Tim Holtz die

Here is my finished piece

Here are my two pieces together

These were fast and simple but the outcome is no less exciting. I hope you have fun creating your pieces for this week and enjoy your Memorial Day!! See you next week

CHEERS

Stampotique Challenge 167 - Masculine

Good morning all, we have a new challenge this week for you over at Stampotique Designers Challenge Blog and our hostess this week is Kim Howard

I know a lot of people have trouble with masculine themed cards or journal pages, I know I do.

Stampotique Stamps I used for this project are:

French Journal Page - By France Papillon

Angel Boy - By Daniel Torrente

Feakin' People Person - From Carol's Collection

I decided to do a small journal page for this one and I used a jelli print that I had made several months ago (gotta love those gelli prints)

I have always loved this gelli print and have had it saved in my stash for awhile.

First thing I did was take France's stamp and the same stencil that I used for the print, I lined it up and stamped through the stencil

Next I used Wendy Vecchi embossing paste to add some black dimension to the background

I stamped Angel Boy onto another sheet of paper and used colored pencils to color him. 

Here is my finished page. I just love how it turned out! 

Thanks once again for stopping by and I hope you will join us for the new challenge.

Stampotique Blog Hop and New Stamp Reveal

If you are a fan of our Facebook page you may have already gotten a sneak peek of some of the new images we are excited to be releasing today. We hope you will join us for the blog hop to see a variety of those images.

There are lots of new images from our favorite stamp designers and we are proud to welcome one of our newest stamp designer, Magda Polakow, whom you have seen tons of her fabulous creations here as part of our design team. We think you will find a few stamps that you can't live without.

Join us through the blog hop for your chance to win some awesome goodies-we will be randomly drawing two winners for a $30 gift certificate for Stampotique stamps at the Stampotique online store. The new stamps should be available over there now.

Also, make sure you hop all the way through for an exciting announcement on our Stampotique Designers Blog for an additional chance to win some goodies and some additional recognition as an artist.

You should have arrived to my blog from Kristen Catalano's Blog, if you did not arrive from there you may want to start the hop at the beginning over at Stampotique Designer's Challenge blog. When you are finished visiting my blog you will want to hop on over to R.Maria Sabina's Blog

Have fun hopping, we will be pulling the random winners of the blog at our next challenge on April 23, 2014.

For my first card today, I chose to use the new stamps

Froggie by Daniel Torrente

Typewriter Alphabet by France Papillon stamp number 10018

Calendar Squares - By Daniel Torrente stamp number 6094

I used a gelli print background and added some ribbon for this card

I also created another card today using stamps

Large Sunflower by Janet Klein 

Barcode Text by France Papillon

I also used a gelli print background and some ribbon on this card

and last but certainly not least, I have created a fun tag

with a new stamp by Magda Polakow called IGNIS

This tag was a gelli print wipe off, I just love how those come out after I've already done my paper

Make sure to keep moving on the blog hop so that you can see everything that the design team has created with the new stamps. There are so many fun ones. We also have two 30.00 certificates to giveaway and an exciting announcement at the end of the hop

You should be heading over to R Maria Sabina's Blog from here

and just in case you missed it 

Here is a full list of participating Blogs:

Roc Nicholas

Valerie Wilson

Kaz Boughton

Sarah Anderson

Corrie Herriman

Carol Fox

Astrid Stulemeijer

Kay Wallace

Kathi Rerek

Coby vanWilligenburg

Nellie van Leeuwen

Janet Klein

Sam Read

Arwen McCullen

Kristen Catalano

Claudine Criner **YOU ARE HERE**

R.Maria Sabina

France Papillon

Tanja Kewel-Neef

Jackie Payne

Kim Howard

Gez Butterworth

Sue Davies

Magda Polakow

Stampotique Designers'Blog

April Showers - Stampotique's Designer's Challenge

Happy Wednesday everyone - aren't you just so excited about the new releases from Stampotique? We are having a wonderful blog hop so make sure to check it out over at and follow along:

It's so exciting to see all the new releases and some of the new designers. We are thrilled!!

Come by the Designer's Blog and check out my creation for today and catch up on some of the Design Teams creations. 

This week over at the Stampotique Designer's Challenge Blog the theme was chosen by our lovely Carol Fox and she has chosen the theme "April Showers"

What a great time to do this challenge and think spring all at once. Make sure to participate and link your creation up for a chance to win a gift card to the shop. You can get some of those new stamps, yay!!

For this challenge I decided to use one of the new stamps from Magda Polakow, she is one of the new designers and has created some fantastic stamps

I am using - Agatha Star

I also used a gelli print for my background, I thought it was perfect and I love the colors

I just love Magda's little Agatha and I hope you will too. Thanks for stopping by and checking out my creation this week.

Making ATCs with Gelli Print Backgrounds

Hello all, today I got a wonderful goodie package from my friend Terri Richardson. I always love getting packages from her, she sends me the most wonderful art and little trinkets. In this package she sent me some ATC backgrounds and this particular one caught my eye.

I don't know how she created the background but I could picture it with Kira Nicholas' stamp

Waving Spotted Monster

I have some people that I want to send an ATC to so I decided to create two more of my own as well.

I have some gelli print background that I made awhile back and I use them when I see the need. I decided to grab some up and cut them down to ATC size. These are the two I ended up with

I also wanted to make my own wash tape with some gelli prints so I cut some to the size I wanted and wrote the word Hello on it

My friend Terri also sent me this wonderful homemade stencil and I used it on one of my background along with some archival ink

I just love this stencil, it's my new favorite!

I added some doodles with a white paint pen and a black pitt pen

I stamped my monster onto some white card stock and colored him with copic markers

Here are my finished ATCs

These will be going to a new home next week. I hope you have a happy day and thanks once again for stopping by

Cheers!!

Sometimes I feel .....

Bulletproof!!!

I love that song by Katy Perry and I've had it in my head all day so I decided to make something with that in mind. 

Not to mention I've been wanting to make something for my daughter. She always brings me these cool items that she finds on her job to use in my crafts. Well, last week she brought me this really cool small bullet. As soon as I saw it I knew I would make something for her with it. 

I am going to enter this project into the following challenges:

1. Stampotique Design Challenge  - Their challenge this week is to use Handles, hinges, buckles, fasteners or pulls. I really love this challenge because I love all the items listed! So fun!!

2. Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Their challenge this week is to use a clear or rubber stamp - no digital stamps. This one is right up my alley! I use rubber stamps on almost every project.

So I looked through my stash of alterable items and found this super small but oh-so-cute altoid mini tin. Since I had some of Tim Holtz mini hinges and the stamp I wanted to use was small I knew it was a match made in alter heaven. haha!! 

For starters I used my sand tool and sanded the entire altoid box down. Then I applied a layer of Golden Gesso to give the entire thing some tooth. I set that aside to dry.

I then took a gelli print that I had (love those gelli print backgrounds!!) 

and I used a Stampotique stamp called Seaweed by 

Jo Capper-Sandon and also a Tim Holtz clock and stamped onto my background here and there.

I then cut this up for the front and inside of my tin.

Once my tin was more or less dry, I painted most of it black. I just left the places that I was going to cover white.

Again, set aside to dry.

I stamped my bear image onto water color paper and colored him with Copic markers. (forgot to take a photo, so sorry)

I used Copics because I wanted it to be permanent. 

Once my tin was dry again I lined the entire inside with tissue tape. I used Claudine Hellmuth's multi-medium glossy to adhere it so it would stay. 

I also cut a small piece of my gelli plate print and added that to the inside as well. I needed to break up the black on the side where the bear would end up.

I then took my hinge and a poker tool to make holes for the brads. I had to line them up perfect so that the box would open properly. Since the box already had it's own hinges, I just took them off it's own hinge and affixed mine. 

Once that was done I painted the entire outside with the matte-medium again so that the paint wouldn't continue to chip. (this tends to happen with painted tin)

I then took some Adirondack acrylic paint dabber in gold and painted a star that I'm going to use inside.

I also cut up some small pieces of foam and colored them with marker. I want to have my bear and a few other items be dimensional on the inside and I just used foam for this.

I did make a little sign for the inside of the tin using a clip form a coffee bag I had and some of the gelli print again. I didn't take a photo, sorry again.

So here is my final project....

Tin Front

I love the way the gelli print came out looking with the stamping on it.

Tin Inside

The little bear holding the bullet is so awesome! I love that stamp.

Tin Side - Hinge

I Think it came out really cute, I'm so glad I used this little tin for this project, it was perfect.  I hope my daughter likes it. 

Thanks again for stopping by, cya next time!! Have a great weekend!!