Stampotique Designers Challenge: August 2011

Wednesday, August 31, 2011

New Release Blog Hop

Welcome to Wednesday!

Canvas created by Gez Butterworth

Have you been chomping at the bit waiting for Stampotique Originals to release some more of your favorite stamps? Well, you have stopped in at the right place today! We are thrilled to announce our newest release featuring many of your favorite designers.

We've got new images from Jo Capper-Sandon, Maryse Carrier, Janet Klein and Daniel Torrente and Jill Penney. There's a great mix of Halloween images, nature images, some winter images and some cute kid images. There's an image for everyone to ink up and you are sure to find more than one that you will have to have.

Are you drooling yet? Are you wanting to see some of these creepy, crawly, cute and furry friends? Then join the design team and our special guest for our new release blog hop today starting here.

Make sure to leave a comments along the way and a randomly chosen commenter will win some of these new stamps.

From here you will want to visit Gez Butterworth.

Below is a complete list in case you go off the beaten path and need some redirection.

Let us know what you think of the new stamps and which ones that you have seen are your favorite.

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

SDC37: Bookmarks- group one

Welcome to our next challenge on Stampotique Designer's Challenge. We are so excited you have jumped on over here to join us.

Our hostess this challenge is Kate Crane and here is what she has challenged us with:

I am always looking for ways to make art which is useful, something I can use in every day life so what better than a bookmark? You can never have enough of these ... I like to use them to mark pages in all of my favourite art publications! You can make any type of bookmark: A traditional straight bookmark, a corner bookmark, a swinging tag ... In any style: Vintage, funky, cute or weird. Anything goes! So go and dig out all for your favourite Stampotique stamps, it's time to get creative!

Here is our group one's creations and join us here to play along this week for your chance to win a $30 gift certificate for Stampotique stamps.

Barbara Washington-Guest Designer

Thanks for stopping by and you may want to drop by tomorrow. We might just have some exciting things to share with you all!

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

SDC37: Bookmark

Welcome to our next challenge on Stampotique Designer's Challenge. We are so excited you have jumped on over here to join us.

Our hostess this week is Kate Crane and here is what she has challenged us with:

But before you get creative...lut us say that you have all really outdone yourselves with the Altering A Page challenge!!! Here are a few entries that Val would like to highlight for a second look:
(please e-mail khowardga@gmail.com if you would like to display the favorites badge on your blog)

No Place Like Home by Samantha Read
Loving this very creative idea to use an atlas page!!!

A Very New Challenge by Jayne C
Can't believe this is Jayne's first altered journal page - WOW!!!

Linda in Country Living by Ferrellgraph-X
It really looks like Linda posed for her closeup in Country Living - doesn't she fit perfectly!!!

And our random winner for the Altering a Page challenge is:
(please e-mail carol@stampotique.com with subject SDC36 winner to claim your gift certificate)

#22 Jacqueline Baker
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Here is Group #2 sharing their bookmark creations:

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

SDC36: Altering a Book Page-Group 2

If you have Stampotique stamps already, we'd love to see how you incorporate them into this challenge. If you haven't started your Stampotique collection yet, the Stampotique Designer's Challenge invites you to participate using stamps from any company this week for your chance to win a $30 gift certificate for stamps at Stampotique.

Here's group 2's altered pages for some more inspiration:

Please join us by linking directly to your creation here using InLinkz. You are welcome to use any stamps this week, but please only link new creations and only one entry per person. No backlinking to previous posts please.

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

SDC36: Altering a Book Page

This week Valerie challenges us to try altering a page in a book - any book: novel, journal, sketchbook, cookbook, music book, coloring book, dictionary, whatever! Any book counts! Valerie said that she chose this topic to challenge herself to try something new. She said it worked too well and she found herself waaaayyyyyy outside of her element with this one but gave it a go anyway and she hopes you'll give it a go too even if you've never tried one before!! If you have Stampotique stamps already, we'd love to see how you incorporate them into this challenge. If you haven't started your Stampotique collection yet, the Stampotique Designer's Challenge invites you to participate using stamps from any company this week for your chance to win a $30 gift certificate for stamps at Stampotique.

The entries for the red, yellow, orange challenge were fantastic. So many wonderful uses of these colors, there were many stunning scenes, beautiful tags and hilarious creations. Kaz top 3 picks for this last challenge are:

(please e-mail khowardga@gmail.com if you would like the badge to display on your blog)

28 Sam - love the fact this is done on balsa wood, and the stamping is so sharp!

14 Arwen - I love the skull for Crafter's head. I like swapping heads and this is a ' I wish I'd thought of that!'

7 Debbie R - this is such a warm splash of colour and I love Spykee as a balloon.

and Congratulations to the random winner of the $30 gift certificate for stamps from Stampotique. Our winner is:

(please e-mail carol@stampotique.com with subject SDC35 Winner as the subject for instructions on how to redeem the gift certificate)

#18 Anikraft

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And here is Group #1's creations

Valerie Wilson

Barbara Washington-guest designer

Please join us by linking directly to your creation below using InLinkz. You are welcome to use any stamps this week, but please only link new creations and only one entry per person. No backlinking to previous posts please.

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

SDC35: Red, Yellow, Orange- Group 1

Hi there, we are back today to share group one's creations of our current challenge. As a refresher, here is what our hostess, Kaz has challenged us with.

"When I took this week for my challenge back in the winter, I thought it would be lovely and summery so I decided to set a colour challenge using the sizzling colours of red, yellow and orange. I should have known better really as I do, after all, live in England. It's been positively Autumnal this month. Rain, wind and grey skies. Yuk. So I'd like you to help us entice the sunshine back to help warm my cold toes!!"

Please remember this challenge is a STAMPOTIQUE ONLY stamps week. Create a new creation with your Stampotique stamps and enter it below using InLinkz. Please enter by linking directly to your creation. Only one entry per person. This challenge will close on 8/9/11 at 5 p.m. eastern time.

Join us for your chance to win a $30 gift certificate to Stampotique (good for stamps) as we randomly choose a winner of our next challenge.

Gez Butterworth

If you would like to join us, please link up with your creation here.