Wednesday, April 30, 2014

SDC145: Flowers

Hi everyone!
 It's Valerie here with this week's challenge.
 April showers are supposed to bring May flowers, so let's add some flower power to our projects! I'll be excited to see if you stamp some flowers, create faux flowers, use a mask to create a flower background or come up with some other original idea for sprinkling a few petals on your project! And a little reminder to visit the Stampotique Designer's Blog for another chance to win!

**Please read new rule instituted with this challenge-we will no longer be accepting digi stamp creations as part of our challenges.  Stampotique is a red rubber stamp company and we prefer to see creations with stamps versus those with digital creations.  These entries will be deleted and will not be eligible for the prize.  Thank you for understanding.**

IMPORTANT REMINDER:
Please read ALL RULES on the linkz page before linking your creation.


Valerie Wilson
Corrie Herriman 






Magda Polakow


Congratulations to the top 3 picks from Sue's challenge last week of creating a postcard:
(please e-mail khowardga@gmail.com for favorites badge)

I love the embossing through the stencil and the perfect sentiment.

Fabulous bright colours and great use of words again.

Love the stencilling and these birdies.

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Wednesday, April 23, 2014

SDC144: Postcard

*Make sure to check out the whole post to see if you were a winner from our new release blog hop*

 Good morning everyone, it's Sue here and I'm delighted to be hosting this weeks challenge. I'm sure that every crafter has had that block where their mojo has packed it's bags and gone on holiday. I know I've sat and looked at a sheet of card and had no ideas at all. One way I've got to get over this is just to decide what size or shape I want to make. So I pick a card or a tag, or in this case a postcard. Postcards are great fun and it's amazing how much you can get on a 6x4 (inches) area. So this week I would like you to make a postcard. Have Fun!
**Please read new rule instituted with this challenge-we will no longer be accepting digi stamp creations as part of our challenges.  Stampotique is a red rubber stamp company and we prefer to see creations with stamps versus those with digital creations.  These entries will be deleted and will not be eligible for the prize.  Thank you for understanding.**

IMPORTANT REMINDER:
Please read ALL RULES on the linkz page before linking your creation.
If you didn't follow the rules posted, you may have been deleted.  
Feel free to relink your creation with the correct information for a chance to win.





Gez Butterworth

The top 3 favorites for the April showers challenge are:
(e-mail khowardga@gmail.com if you would like the favorites badge)

I love this card and the great use of the Jo Capper-Sandon Mushrooms.

There is so much to look at in this and the clever use of Goosenecks skirt for the umbrella was a brilliant idea 

A lovely dimensional piece from Leruso. 
http://lerusho.wordpress.com/2014/04/18/april-showers/
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And I know you are all are excited at the opportunity to win some new stamps.  Our random winners from the New Release blog hop who will win a $30 gift certificate for Stampotique stamps at stampotique.com are:
(please e-mail khowardga@gmail.com with SDC New Release Winner as the subject)

From Coby's blog:

Beautiful cards Coby. I love them both. The new stamps are wonderful. Thank you for sharing your artwork. This has been a great HOP!

From Tanja's blog:



very cool effect- on the monsters card- loving those stamps + the barcode! Great job!!!



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Wednesday, April 16, 2014

SDC143: April Showers

Hopefully you have all done the blog hop that showcases the new stamp release, but if not, please hop through starting here.

Carol is our hostess this week and she's showering you with a fun challenge:

" I love the early months of the year and to me I only have to hear the month April and instantly in my head the song from Bambi is playing, and I am now humming, drip, drip, drip, little April showers, so use water, rain and April showers as your inspiration this week" xx

**Please read new rule instituted with this challenge-we will no longer be accepting digi stamp creations as part of our challenges.  Stampotique is a red rubber stamp company and we prefer to see creations with stamps versus those with digital creations.  These entries will be deleted and will not be eligible for the prize.  Thank you for understanding.**

IMPORTANT REMINDER:
Please read ALL RULES on the linkz page before linking your creation.
If you didn't follow the rules posted, you may have been deleted.  
Feel free to relink your creation with the correct information for a chance to win.
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Tuesday, April 15, 2014

2014 April New Release Blog Hop

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.

Card details:
Stamps: 7320 Journey, 10017 Splattered Mug, 3013 Splatter Blob and 3014 Splatter Long by Stampotique Stamps


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 random 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 hope 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.

This is our starting point for the blog hop and from here you will want to jump on over to 
Roc Nicholas' blog.

Have fun hopping, we will be pulling the random winners of the blog at our next challenge on April 23, 2014.
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Wednesday, April 9, 2014

SDC142: Use Paint or Pen

Magda is our hostess this week and here is what she's eager to see from you:

I always have a pen or pencil with me. Always with notebook full of drawings and doodles. I'm sure not only me! I would love to see a pen in your project. It can be a drawing, doodles or simply some journaling. It might be even a single word. I'm looking forward to see your entries for this challenge!

**Please read new rule instituted with this challenge-we will no longer be accepting digi stamp creations as part of our challenges.  Stampotique is a red rubber stamp company and we prefer to see creations with stamps versus those with digital creations.  These entries will be deleted and will not be eligible for the prize.  Thank you for understanding.**

IMPORTANT REMINDER:
Please read ALL RULES on the linkz page before linking your creation.
If you didn't follow the rules posted, you may have been deleted.  
Feel free to relink your creation with the correct information for a chance to win.

*No digi stamp creations please*

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Monica Edwards-Guest Designer





Gez Butterworth

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Nellie's favorites from the humor challenge are:
(please e-mail khowardga at gmail.com if you would like the favorites badge)

http://iwork4stamps2.blogspot.nl/2014/04/heart-boy-has-challenges.html
Just Love the way she transformed Heart boy, really made me laugh

http://artheartattic.blogspot.nl/2014/04/sdc141-bit-of-humor.html
Beautiful background and a wonderful touch of humour!

http://debbie-lovepapercrafting.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/chicken-girl.html
Such a beautiful composed background and the wonderful Stampotique stamps makes it humurous without too many extra’s
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Wednesday, April 2, 2014

SDC141: A Bit of Humour

Nellie is our hostess this week and her challenge is:

"I love cards with a wink. They often bring a smile to my face. Stampotique has so many fun stamps to make these cards, images as well as words. So come on, show me, use a bit of humour in your card or project. Who makes me laugh out  the loudest this week?  I am already looking forward to your entries for this challenge!"

**Please read new rule instituted with this challenge-we will no longer be accepting digi stamp creations as part of our challenges.  Stampotique is a red rubber stamp company and we prefer to see creations with stamps versus those with digital creations.  These entries will be deleted and will not be eligible for the prize.  Thank you for understanding.**

IMPORTANT REMINDER:
Please read ALL RULES on the linkz page before linking your creation.
If you didn't follow the rules posted, you may have been deleted.  
Feel free to relink your creation with the correct information for a chance to win.

*No digi stamp creations please*

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Nellie van Leeuwen


Monica Edwards-Guest Designer







France's favorites for the vintage challenge were:
(please e-mail khowardga@gmail.com for favorites badge)

77. Jools Robertson        
Not only is the piece a masterpiece, it tells a complete story !

60. Crafts by Design        
So much attention to the finishing touches, wow!

74. Sue O’Connell             
Not only is the tag gorgeously vintage, the quote is just perfect ;)))

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Thank you to everyone that has played along this month, there were so many fabulous entries.  Our two random winners for the $30 gift certificate for Stampotique stamps are:
(e-mail khowardga@gmail.com with SDC March winner as subject)

#29 GERDA

and

#73 PAPER WHIMS

Congratulations on winning this month!



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Tuesday, April 1, 2014

SDC April Guest Designer

We bid the wonderful Amanda Southern and welcome our newest guest designer for April.


My name is Monica Edwards and I am a mother of 2 older children.  I currently work at the Kennedy Space Center and love-love it!  I love all things crafty, to me it is what relaxes me.  Nothing more inspiring than paper and glue right?! I am so happy to be a Guest Designer for Stampotique and I hope to inspire more people to be Stampotique lovers like me!

You can hop over to Monica's blog and say "hi" here.


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