Stampotique Designers Challenge: November 2011

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

SDC43: Non Traditional Christmas Card-week 2

Vicki is our hostess for this challenge and here's what she has to say about her challenge:

Before you know it, Christmas will be upon us! How many of you have started your Christmas cards? I'm curious, do you make ALL of your Christmas cards, none of them or a bit of both?

This week I'm challenging the team to make a non traditional Christmas card. The main rule is

NO RED OR GREEN!

I can't wait to see all of the great ideas!

Pull out your Stampotique Stamps as this is a Stampotique only week!

Play along with this week's challenge for your chance to win a $30 Stampotique Gift Certificate, be sure to link in your entries by 5 p.m. EST on 12/13/11 here. Please no back linking to previous posts and only one entry per person.

Here's group one's creations showing off their non-traditional Christmas colors:

Hope you will join us here and play along for your chance to win a $30 gift certificate for Stampotique stamps.

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

SDC43 It's a non traditional Christmas

Last week Lisa challenged you to use a sketch and we had some great interpretations of it. Lisa's favorites were:
(please e-mail khowardga@gmail.com for the favorites badge to display on your blog)

Retro Dolly - fun whimsical use of the sketch. Love the added creatures and map pieces to go along with the sentiment

Sue - fun use of the sketch for a Christmas card, love the image paired up with the sentiment

Belinda-Wonderful use of colors/papers, fun holiday card! Great sentiment for the melted snowman

Congratulations to our random winner #2 Belinda, who just happened to be one of the favorites this week.

(please e-mail Carol@stampotique.com to claim your $30 gift certificate for stamps with subject SDC42 winner)

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Vicki is our hostess this week and she has proven to give us quite the challenge:

Before you know it, Christmas will be upon us! How many of you have started your Christmas cards? I'm curious, do you make ALL of your Christmas cards, none of them or a bit of both?

This week I'm challenging the team to make a non traditional Christmas card. The main rule is

NO RED OR GREEN!

I can't wait to see all of the great ideas!

Pull out your Stampotique Stamps as this is a Stampotique only week!

Play along with this week's challenge for your chance to win a $30 Stampotique Gift Certificate, be sure to link in your entries by 5 p.m. EST on 12/13/11 by using the InLinkz below. Please no back linking to previous posts and only one entry per person.

The winner of the new Release Blog Hop is Vicky
who wrote on Maria's Blog
(please e-mail Carol@stampotique.com to claim your grab bag with subject Kira Blog Hop Winner)

Vicky said...

I love how you've used those 2 quirky images, kind of vintage but with a bit of fun thrown in :)

Congratulations Vicky, you've just won a grab bag of the new release stamps!
and now the design team showing off some non-traditional color cards.
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Vicki Garrett

Connie Baever-Guest Designer

Challenge closes on 12/13/11 at 5 p.m. ET, please join using the inlinkz below.

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

SDC42: Group Two

Just another reminder of our current challenge:

Lisa here with this weeks Stampotique designers Challenge! I don't know about you, but I love to use sketches as a jumping point for my work, so for this weeks challenge, I'm providing you the following sketch.

Feel free to rotate it, change the focal image, but try to keep the sketch in tact. For this weeks challenge you can use ANY Stamp companies images, but if you have Stampotique images, we'd love for you to use them. Play along with this weeks sketch challenge for your chance to win a $30 Stampotique Gift Certificate, be sure to link in your entries by 5 p.m. EST on 11/22/11 by using the InLinkz here. Please no back linking to previous posts and only one entry per person.

Kate Crane

Joanne Wardle

Valerie Wilson

Hope you will join us this week!

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Introducing a new Artist and new images

Announcing new images and new artists are always exciting here at Stampotique Originals and so we are thrilled to announce our newest artist, Kira Nichols. Kira has designed some very unique monsters and kitties for her first line of stamps and our design team has had the opportunity to play with the stamps before they are released to the public.

Want a chance to win some of Kira's new images? Hop along with our designers as well as our special guest, leaving comments along the way, for your chance to win some of Kira's new images. We will randomly draw a winner from one of the blogs and announce the winner with our next challenge.

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

From here you will want to visit our special guest, our newest artist at Stampotique, Kira Nichols.

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

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

SDC42: Sketch

Who knew that there were so many creative ideas for altered bottles? The creations last challenge were amazing, beautiful colors, different "poison" bottles and so many different styles. We are so glad you joined us and if you stepped out of your comfort zone for that one, thank you!

Maria's favorites from the last challenge are:

(please e-mail khowardga@gmail.com for your favorites badge)
My apologies for having to add these in after the post went live, thanks for being patient!

Anika

Sue

Ann

And our random winner of the $30 gift certificate for Stampotique stamps is:

(please e-mail carol@stampotique.com with SDC41 Winner as the subject)

#15 Shirley

Lisa here with this weeks Stampotique designers Challenge! I don't know about you, but I love to use sketches as a jumping point for my work, so for this weeks challenge, I'm providing you the following sketch.

Feel free to rotate it, change the focal image, but try to keep the sketch in tact. For this weeks challenge you can use ANY Stamp companies images, but if you have Stampotique images, we'd love for you to use them. Play along with this weeks sketch challenge for your chance to win a $30 Stampotique Gift Certificate, be sure to link in your entries by 5 p.m. EST on 11/22/11 by using the InLinkz below. Please no back linking to previous posts and only one entry per person.

Lisa Somerville- hostess

Connie Baever-Guest Designer

Please link in below by 5 p.m. EST on 11/22/11.

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

SDC41: Altered Poison Bottle

Welcome to the 2nd week of our altered poison bottle challenge. We hope that you got some inspiration from group one last week and if you are still a little stumped, here is our first group sharing their creations.

As a reminder, here are the challenge details:

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SDC41: Altered Poison Bottle

Maria here this week issuing a new challenge here at Stampotique Designer's Challenge:

"I have a new fun and creative challenge for you all this week. Are you ready for Halloween? Well, guess what? My challenge for you today is an: Altered poison bottle. I have a passion for sweet/spooky bottles and I would love to see your creations using Stampotique stamps.

WARNING: Don't Drink, that's Poison! Happy Halloween Stampotique-creatures!

Here is more inspiration from the design team:

Join us by linking in here.

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Welcome our November Guest Designer

Welcome Connie Helen Baever to Stampotique this month as our guest designer. Here's a little more on Connie:

I am what I call hopeless creative in a crazy way...sometimes less, sometimes more, but the most important thing is that it's all me! A Norwegian girl who has fallen in love with Art Journaling, Cardmaking and Scrapbooking. Working as a Graphic Designer and Marketing responsible for Norway's biggest craftstore, where I also teach classes in both art journaling and cardmaking. I like everything that are messy, colorful and different, and I have had an eye for Daniel Torrente's & Jill Panney's stamps since I first saw them some years back!

Stop by Connie's blog and leave her some love here.