SDC153: Anniversary, Wedding and Love

Happy Wednesday!  It's Kim and I'm excited to be hosting this weeks challenge.  June here in the states is often a time of many anniversaries and weddings and so I challenge you to create with an Anniversary, Wedding or Love theme.

While you all are busy creating, I'll be celebrating with the love of my life our 18th anniversary so can't wait to see what you all come up with.  Have fun and hope you love every minute creating!

**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.

Sue O'Connell-Guest Designer

Corrie Herriman 

Kay Wallace

Tanja Kewel-Neef

Jackie Payne

Carol Fox

Kaz Boughton

Sam Read

Nellie van Leeuwen

Magda Polakow

Gez favorites from the sentimental challenge are:
(e-mail khowardga@gmail.com if you would like to display the favorites badge)

#51 Helen Allen ~ 

Cute little project. Love the colours and textures, great choice of image and sentiment.  

#52 Amanda J ~ 

One of my favourite sentiments! Perfect background and image, love the addition of the little paint brush in his hand and paint splats on his top! Brilliantly thought out card! 

#53 Jools Robertson ~ 

This card really speaks to me. Perfect words and images... when can I go there please?

SDC July 2014 Challenge Links

PLEASE READ ALL RULES BEFORE LINKING

Please remember you can use any stamps now for our challenge, but only one entry per person.  We will draw 2 random winners on the first week of our challenge in August from all those who played in the July challenges.

We are no longer accepting creations using digi stamps.  These will be deleted, we appreciate those that play with us each week and we welcome those using rubber or clear stamps.

Please link DIRECTLY to your creation, not to your blog.  You MUST  include the challenge # (which can be found at the Stampotique Designer's Challenge blog) behind your name (any not linking directly to your creation AND having the challenge # will be deleted and not eligible for prize).   For example if I'm entering it would look like this- MYNAME-SDC73 (or whichever challenge # it is) . 

We ask that if you have comment verification turned on, that you would consider turning this on and doing comment moderation instead.  

Please use Inlinkz below to link up your challenge.  

**Change to Stampotique submission rules:  You will now have until the first challenge of the following month to submit your entries-we will only have one Inlinkz per month; so today marks the start of the challenges for July and it will run through the close of our last challenge for July which will be August 5, 2014 at noon ET**

An InLinkz Link-up

SDC152: Sentimental

Hi Gez here, I am delighted to be your hostess for this challenge.. I love sentiments and sayings, they really say it all to me! They make a piece finished! I'd like you to share some of your favourite words with us this week! They can be a main focal point or an embellishment, it's your choice! Say it with words...

**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

Sue O'Connell-Guest Designer

Kathi Rerek

Kristen Catalano

Sue Davies

France Papillion

Arwen McCullen

Congratulations to the 4 favorite designs for SDC150-you have been chosen to be a guest designer for Stampotique.  

If it will not work with one of those months below, please let me know or if you do not wish to be a guest designer please let me know as well.  We understand it's a time commitment and we do not wish for anyone to feel any pressure to guest design if they do not wish to.

(please e-mail khowardga@gmail.com with 2 months that would work for you Aug, Sept, Oct, or Nov)

#7 Amanda J.

#9 Gay Peplow

#16 Julie Steed

#6 Jools Robertson

Congratulations everyone and thank you for helping us celebrate!

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Arwen's top 3 favorites for the boxes challenge are:

(please e-mail khowardga@gmail.com if you would like the favorites badge)

http://sam21ski.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/stampotique-atb.html

"I love Daniel's girls. The colors are awesome!"

http://amanda-momentsofinspiration.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/arwen-boxes-it-up.html

"This is so amazing! I love the colors and the images. Perfect light box."

http://mustavcoffee-craftymusings.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/christmas-in-june-sorry.html

"Great house box! Love all the wonderful details."

SDC151: Boxes

This week Arwen is the hostess for our challenge:

What could be better than to give a loved one something?

To present a gift effectively, I make nice boxes to do so.

Be it for jewelry, candy, books, etc. - for all you can make great boxes.

But the box itself is a wonderful gift idea.

Show me your boxes!

I'm curious about your boxes and whether it will be given away for something or will it be used to preserve things?

**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.

Arwen McCullen

Sue O'Connell-Guest Designer

Corrie Herriman 

Kay Wallace

Tanja Kewel-Neef

Jackie Payne

Carol Fox

Kaz Boughton

Sam Read

Nellie van Leeuwen

Magda Polakow

The two favorites from our Celebrate challenge are:

(please e-mail khowardga@gmail.com if you wish to display the favorites badge)

#16: Julie S.

Love the banner and the pop of color on the hat against the white image

#7: Amanda J

This is such a fantastic creation with a lot of color-can't help but celebrate with that!

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Our random winner for our #150 challenge is:

(please e-mail khowardga@gmail.com with SDC150 winner in subject line)

#9 Gay

Congratulations and thanks to all for playing along today!

We will be picking our guest designers and contacting them directly.

SDC150: Celebration

Today we have a super fun challenge for you.  

We are excited at Stampotique that our fans have helped us grow so much and that our stamps, challenges and Facebook page have become such a big hit.  In honor of our excitement, and our 150th challenge, our theme is CELEBRATION.  We want you to create with celebration in mind, whether it's celebrating a birthday, anniversary, wedding, graduation or new baby...let's celebrate!

Not to put a damper on our celebration, but our team is bidding a few of our members farewell. Maria has been with the team and has shown us how talented she is not only as an artist but as a stamp designer.  Tanja has only been with us a short while but we have enjoyed seeing her creations each week.  We celebrate the opportunity we had to have them on our design team and wish them the best.

We will NOT be having a new call for designers as our current designers will all be remaining for another term.  We are happy to say we are looking for 4 new guest designers and so along with this fun challenge, we will pick some of our guest designers from those who are participating in our 150th challenge. Along with the chance to be a guest designer, we'll also be picking a random winner for a $30 gift certificate for Stampotique stamps.

Can't wait to see how you celebrate this week!

**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.

Sue O'Connell-Guest Designer

Kathi Rerek

Kristen Catalano

Arwen McCullen

Sue Davies

France Papillion

Gez Butterworth

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Sam's favorites from the last challenge were:
(e-mail khowardga@gmail.com if you would like to display the favorites badge)

Here are my favourites for this week, I think the Stampotiquers had great fun with this one!!

Gay 

Serena

Amanda 

Three totally different and fun creations, just love them all!!

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and our random winners for the $30 gift certificates for Stampotique stamps are:

(e-mail khowardga@gmail.com with SDC May winner in subject line)

#19 Kris Johnson 

and

#56 Georgia Heald

Congratulations to you both and to our favorites this week!

SDC June 2014 Links

PLEASE READ ALL RULES BEFORE LINKING

Please remember you can use any stamps now for our challenge, but only one entry per person.  We will draw 2 random winners on the first week of our challenge in July from all those who played in the June challenges.

We are no longer accepting creations using digi stamps.  These will be deleted, we appreciate those that play with us each week and we welcome those using rubber or clear stamps.

Please link DIRECTLY to your creation, not to your blog.  You MUST  include the challenge # (which can be found at the Stampotique Designer's Challenge blog) behind your name (any not linking directly to your creation AND having the challenge # will be deleted and not eligible for prize).   For example if I'm entering it would look like this- MYNAME-SDC73 (or whichever challenge # it is) . 

We ask that if you have comment verification turned on, that you would consider turning this on and doing comment moderation instead.  

Please use Inlinkz below to link up your challenge.  

**Change to Stampotique submission rules:  You will now have until the first challenge of the following month to submit your entries-we will only have one Inlinkz per month; so today marks the start of the challenges for June and it will run through the close of our last challenge for June which will be July 1, 2014 at noon ET**

June Guest Designer

We welcome our guest designer, Sue O'Connell this month. Here's a little more on Sue:

I have been card making and scrapbooking professionally for 14 years but it all started when I swapped Geography GCSE for Art at school and fell in love with the subject.  I make bespoke scrap canvas, scrapbooks and cards, and love to demonstrate products for companies and teach workshops on crafting all over the North West and cannot think of a nicer way to spend my spare time. My philosophy is ‘There’s no such word as can’t’ and I love altering stuff I find on car boot sales, in charity shops and making anything out of nothing.

My blog is www.nwscrapbooking.blogspot.com.