Anything Goes, Stampotique Challenge - Wednesday's with Claudine

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 stamp)

Here is my ATC

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

Have a wonderful Spring

Going with an Easter theme this week, while my card doesn't have the Easter greeting, it has an Easter theme with this cute little "bunnies".  This is one of my favorite images, just love the little peeps peeking out of the basket.

Kept my card very CAS this week,  using a solid paper from one of my paper packs as my background and used a small piece of May Arts Woven Burlap as my "tab".

Hope you all have a wonderful Easter this weekend, enjoy the time with family and friends.

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Card details:

Stamps: Blueberry Bunnies in a Basket 6098, Wonderful Spring 5314 from Stampotique Originals

Cardstock: Crumb Cake, Chocolate Chip, Regal Rose, solid background paper unknown

Inks: Dish All the Dirt Brown, copic markers

Embellishments: none

SDC89: Triangles

Nellie is our hostess this week over at Stampotique Designer's Challenge and she's got a fun challenge for you!

I often like to incorporate geometric shapes in my cards, be it squares, circles, rectangles etc. So this week I challenge you to use such geometric shape  in your card or project. But not just  any shape you like. It has to be a TRIANGLE. Use just one or as many as you like.

Can’t wait to see what you come up with… So have fun stamping!

As you can see from my creation, I'm anything but a perfect seamstress. I had to laugh when I finished at how uneven my sewing is, but I went through the trouble of doing it and so I was going to post it.

I created my triangles but cutting some squares of scrap paper in half and then adhering the different patterns before sewing them.  I kept this card very simple adding this Decor #4 2166 stem and a small sentiment Thank You #9009.

Join us over at Stampotique Designer's Challenge today and show us what you can do with triangles.

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Card details:

Stamps: Decor #4 2166 and Thank You #9009 from Stampotique Originals

Cardstock: Not Quite Navy, Crumb Cake, My Mind's Eye The Sweetest Thing-Bluebell

Inks: Not Quite Navy

Embellishments: Janome Sewing, dimensionals, jewel rhinestones

April Showers-Rain, Rain Go Away!

I went from Spring last week, to April Showers this week.  Not a lot of embellishments on this, just a clean & simple card showing off this darling image that I always have fun coloring.  

I did add some crystal accents to the umbrella to give it a little shine.

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Card details:

Stamps: Under the Paprapluie 2203 and Rain, Rain 9101 from Stampotique Originals

Cardstock: Basic Black, Neenhah White, Gable Green

Inks: Memento Tuxedo Black, copics

Embellishments: yellow old color from Papertrey Ink, crystal accents

Just Because

Hope the weather is nice and spring like where you are.  We have been enjoying some warmer weather here and spending a lot more time outdoors.  Love to see the green trees and grass!

Here's a little card I put together to celebrate Spring.

Card details:

Stamps: Blueberry Bunnies in Basket 6098, Crayon Circles 8948, Just Because 5239 from Stampotique Originals

Cardstock: Chocolate Chip, Crumb Cake, Perfect Plum, Pale Plum

Inks: Perfect Plum

Embellishments: none

Shouting out a Happy Bird-Day!

Yeah!  I'm getting ready to fly my coop soon and take a few days off to spend with some girlfriends.  It's been awhile that I've had a girls weekend, so am looking forward to getting some crafting done and get in lots of laughs.  I can't pack fast enough!

I didn't get a chance last week to get my card posted for the Stampotique Designer's Challenge.  

Nellie is our hostess this challenge and she thought it would be fun to give you a color challenge this time. 

Here is what she said about her challenge:

"And of course I picked a color combination that I really love to work with: pink, purple and black. It’s as simple as that! So go get your Stampotique stamps out and have fun with this challenge. As always you can win a $30 dollar gift certificate for your choice of Stampotique stamps."

I created my background by first stamping my ink onto a clear block and directly onto my paper.  After I got the effect I was working on, I stamped some bubble wrap onto my black ink pad and then to my paper.  My image is a new one from the Stampotique designer- Kira Nichols- Shouting Bird.

It was colored with my copic markers and I added this sentiment I thought would go well with the bird.

Hope you will join us at Stampotique Designer's Challengewith your Pink, Purple & Black creation using your Stampotique stamps.

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Card details:

Stamps: Shouting Bird 4014 and Happy Bird-day 8962 from Stampotique

Cardstock: Basic Black, Hibiscus Burst, Lovely Lilac

Inks: Color Box by Stephanie Barnard- Grape and Guava

Embellishments: prima flower, black eyelet, distressed stickles, dimensionals

Chicken In

I think this is one of my all time favorite images and sentiments from Stampotique.  I love the bold birds, they are easy to color or paper piece and the sentiment...it cracks me up every time.

Hope you are all had a wonderful Christmas holiday!  We are still enjoying a few days off here from school and work so going to keep this super short today.

Chicken In on You Card

Stamps: 2070 Bold Birds and 8935 Just Chicken In from Stampotique Originals

Cardstock: More Mustard, Not Quite Navy (Stampin'Up!); A Blanc Check (Clear & Simple Stamps)

Patterned Paper: My Minds Eye Stella Rose Hattie Papers

Inks: Not Quite Navy (Stampin' Up!), Copic YR16

Embellishments: A Blanc Check twill ribbon (Clear & Simple Stamps); dimensionals (Stampin' Up!)

FABuLous

Have you checked out the new releases over at Stampotique?  I knew as soon as I saw them that I HAD to have this cute little dress from Janet Klein.

These colors came from the current Play Date Cafe challenge.

I laughed when watching Dancing with the Stars the other night with my friend Kristen, as one of the dancers (think it was Kendra Wilkinson) was wearing a gorgeous dress with these colors.

Hopefully you can see the sparkle on my card, I sprayed some of the Sheer Shimmer Spritz in Sparkle on my dress after I got done paper piecing it together with the different colors.

Card details:

Stamps: Pretty Party Dress 9216  and Fabulous 8990 by Stampotique Originals

Cardstock: My Favorite Blue Jeans, Purpilicious and A Blanc Check

Inks: Memento Tuxedo Black, copic markers, My Favorite Blue Jeans

Accessories: Sheer Shimmer Spritz-Sparkle

Joyful

Like yesterday's card, this one I got to play with another favorite challenge just for fun!  The colors for this challenge were definitely a challenge for me.  I don't have a lot of gold/silver things, but I do have some embossing powder.  

This is the newest color scheme over at The Play Date Cafe and I sat on it for a few days wondering how I could incorporate those colors.  Okay, I won't lie to you, when I picked this image from Stampotique to use, it only took me about 6 times to heat emboss the images before I got one I embossed evenly and looked good.  After I embossed it with some Shellac Gold EP (from Stamp N Plus Scrap N) I sponged on some Cool Carribean around the image and colored in the face with an E00 Copic marker.

 

I had to take a side view picture of this card as the image kept glaring at me since it was embossed.  I added some layers of Kraft & Cool Carribean to the card.  The strip was embossed with the Argyle cuttlebug folder after I had inked it up.  I used the Viva Pearl Pen in silver to add a few dots to the card.

Of course I had to combine this challenge with a sketch challenge- the Card Positioning Systems sketch for this week.  I eliminated the rounded edges on the card & my image, but followed the rest of the sketch best I could.

Card details:

Stamps: Joyful from Stampotique Originals

Cardstock: Cool Carribean, Kraft Like a Rockstar, A Blanc Check

Inks: Versamark, Cool Carribean

Embellishments: Shellac Gold (EP-113) Embossing Powder from Stamp N Plus Scrap N, Open Scallop punch from My Favorite Things, Viva Pearl Pen-silver

This year one of my goals is to stamp more and integrate products I've had for awhile and need to use up.  I also want to participate in challenges that I haven't in awhile.

If you follow my blog you know I'm a sucker for sketch challenges and so with starting with one of my goals I sat down and made this card using the Sketch for you to try for January.  Now that Jen is only doing them once a month, I might be able to keep up :-)

This was an extremely quick card that doesn't have a lot of bells & whistles.  I had already stamped Twinkie and cut him out, so he was lonely sitting on my desk.  This weekend I cut up all of my 12 x 12 cardstock into 6 x 6 sheets and pulled this retired SU paper out of my stack.  Keep an eye out for a giveaway on my blog hopefully soon (still purging).  

I wanted Twinkie to look like he was carrying a suitcase/bag-hope that's what it looks like.

If you haven't seen over at Stampotique they are having a Design Team call, so if these stamps or any of their others interest you, check out the details here.  We are closing the call on 1/10/11 and hope to announce the new design team soon after.

Card details:

Stamps: Twinkie 6103 and Silence Speaks 3012 from Stampotique Originals

Cardstock: Ballet Blue, Garden Green, White, patterned paper from SU!

Inks:  Copic markers, Memento Tuxedo Black

Accessories: grommets, black twine

Wishing You Pure Joy

 

Are you all ready for Christmas?  I am so close to being ready.  This was one gift I have been trying to finish all week and finally sat down last night to complete it.  Today I will finish wrapping 3 gifts before we spend the evening with family.

This week for Blogger's Challenge we were to create with the theme of "Christmas".  While my image doesn't look Christmas'y, I really felt like the sentiment was perfect for the holidays so I went with it.  The pocket was created by folding up part of the cardstock and sewing the very edge of it on both sides, slipping the gift certificate in.

I made 2 of these and apologize as the photo of the next one is horrible!  I cut my gift certificates down to the size I needed and then I worked the holder around it.  I had seen an adorable template over at Kristina Werner's blog but it was for a regular size gift card and mine was more like a folded piece of paper (a little smaller).  I did my best but didn't created underneath the same way as hers.

I used up some of my papers that I have, some scraps, some full pieces.  I know by next year I won't want to be using them so better to use them up now.

Wishing you all a Merry Christmas!  Be safe!

Gift Card Details:

Stamps: Wishing You Pure Joy 5222 and Splatter Blob 3013 from Stampotique Originals

Cardstock: Dare to be a Diva Red, Old Olive, Whisper White, Very Vanilla, Basic Black, Night of Navy

Inks: Memento Tuxedo Black, Real Red, Bravo Burgundy, Copic markers

Accessories: Ribbon, Spellbinders Nestabilities, dimensionals, small & large tag punch

Friendship Bunnies

These images have been sitting around on my desk for some while and I finally took the time to create some cards with all of them.  This is using the Blueberry Bunnies in a Basket stamp with the We Cannot Part with Our Friends sentiment.  I thought it was quite appropriate with this darling image.

Hope you enjoy the card, I love how it turned out!  If you want any additional details you can visit my blog at Basement Stamper.

Mr. Snow

I chose a pretty simple image for this card, using Mr. Snow and paper piecing his tie with some Jovial design paper from Basic Grey.  I decided not to color any of it and just let his tie stand out but now that I look at it, I may color his hat and nose to make him POP a little more.  I stamped my background with some snowflakes  in Berry Sorbet to create a contrasting background to the Green papers.  I sewed around the green/Jovial panel-I'm so happy to have my sewing machine in order again!

Happy Friday!

Carrot 'Bout You

Isn't Carrot just the cutest?  I had some colored images laying around so decided it was time I put together a few cards with them.  This card came together really quick since I had everything already stamped and I didn't add any embellishments on...hmm, no embellishments, might have to change that now that I'm looking at it.

The layout I used was one of the Clean & Simple Stamping layouts, FTL101.  Obviously I changed the star out for a large circle to put Carrot on and of course the "I carrot about you" sentiment always makes me smile, hope you like it too!

Card details:

Stamps: Carrot & I Carrot About You from Stampotique

Cardstock: Pumpkin Pie, Chocolate Chip, Garden Green, SEI Oasis patterned paper

Inks: Chocolate Chip, Memento Tuxedo Black, Copics

Accessories: Circle nestabilities

Have a Star Spangled Day!

For any additional details please see my blog.

Card details:

Stamps: Simple Stars from Stampotique

Cardstock: Real Red, Brilliant Blue, Whisper White

Inks: Real Red, Brilliant Blue, Fresh Snow, Stazon Black

Accessories: Ultra, Crimson & Stardust Powdered Chalks, Buzz N Magic Paint, Earth Elements brads, ribbon unknown

Queen of Life

Card details:

Stamps: Queen of Life, Splatter Long, and French Text from Stampotique Originals

Cardstock: Basic Black, Really Rust, Collage Sheets from Stampotique Originals and Stamper's Select White

Inks: Memento Tuxedo Black, Copics

Accessories: Glossy Accents

Mushroom Group

This is one of the new templates from Creative Cuts & More called Rectangle Window A7 Scallop Card.  I love the larger size of this card and the scallops were perfect for some pearls.  I added a strip of 7 Gypsies Venice paper along the middle of the card and used my Scor-pal to score 2 lines outside of the papers.  The images I used are new stamps from Stampotique- Mushroom Group, Small Butterfly and Go Confidently.  I stamped my mushroom image with Dish All the Dirt Brown and on the backside I colored my image with my SU! markers.

DT Call Closed & New Challenge

Our DT Call has been closed, please be on the lookout for the introduction to our new design team members soon.

Also, make sure to visit us over at Stampotique Designer's Challenge for Valerie Wilson's challenge this week to use a Template and your chance to win a $15 Gift Certificate for Stampotique Originals!

I See Clearly...Seriously!

 More details on card can be found at Kim's blog.

Card Details:

Stamps: I See Clearly from Stampotique Originals, sentiment from Handwritten Notes from Papertrey Ink

Cardstock: Ballet Blue, Real Red, Pretty in Pink, Stamper's Select White

Inks: Memento Tuxedo Black, Copics

Accessories:  Collectionz by Junkitz (fabric), Janome sewing, Crystal Effects, Sakura Jelly Roll pen & souffle pen

FleurFly

I received some new stamps from Stampotique this week and couldn't way to play with them!!!  This is a cute stamp from Janet Klein called Fleurfly.  This would make a great baby card as well for a little girl.

On the background I used the Honeycomb background stamp.

For more details on the card, please visit my blog Basement Stamper.

You still have until Tuesday evening to join us over at Stampotique Designers Challenge for our challenge to use a Spring theme.