Stampotique Designers Challenge: January 2015

Wednesday, January 28, 2015

SDC180: Painted Background

Corrie Herriman is our hostess this week and here is her challenge details:

Happy Wednesday everybody. My first love in crafting is paint. So, today I would like you all to use paint in your background. Doesn't matter what paint or how you apply it, just have fun!

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.

Corrie Herriman

Esther Glas-Guest Designer

Valerie Wilson

Kaz Boughton

Carol Fox

Nellie van Leeuwen

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Kathi's favorites from the funny/punny challenge are:

(email khowardga@gmail.com for favorites badge)

Jane Elizabeth

Gay
Gerrie Johnnic

Wednesday, January 21, 2015

SDC179: Punny and or/Funny Projects

Kathi Rerek is our hostess this week and her challenge has us hitting our funny bone:

e.e. cummings said "The most wasted of all days is one without laughter." Puns and word play always make me smile. Really good puns make me laugh. Create a project that makes YOU smile.

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.

Kathi Rerek

Esther Glas-Guest Designer

Kim Howard

Kaz's favourites from the Colour Splash challenge were:
(please email khowardga@gmail.com if you'd like to display the favorites badge)

# 24 Lena-dailyscrap: I love the gorgeous colours and the splats!

# 39 Stempelientje: Lovely composition and such warmth.

# 42 Joni M: Such a pretty envelope and colours. Too cute!

Wednesday, January 14, 2015

SDC178: Color Splash

Kaz Boughton is our hostess this week:

I'd like to see some bright colors to cheer us up in the dim days of January.

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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Kaz Boughton

Esther Glas-Guest Designer

Valerie Wilson

Corrie Herriman

Nellie van Leeuwen

Claudine's favorites from the New Resolution challenge were:

(please email khowardga@gmail.com if you'd like to display the favorites badge)

#13 Jools Robertson - Love the way she created a newspaper print out of her resolution, so inventive! Great use of Stampotique stamps as well

#16 Nikki Woodward - Love the background she created and the use of Monster is so bright and beautiful, he really pops off the page

#2 Moira - The Altered Ego - Just love the fabric tag, the added beads give it such wonderful touch too. The use Leopard Queen is so perfect for this New Years Resolution.

Wednesday, January 7, 2015

SDC177- New Year's Resolution

Happy New Year to all out there!

We are starting off our year here with combining our two teams and wishing the best the one member of the Stampotique Designer's Challenge team-Kay Wallace. We've enjoyed having Kay on the team and wish her the best.

Claudine Criner is our hostess for our first challenge in the New Year:

Most of us always create a New Year's Resolution and the beginning of the New Year. For 2015 try your hand at making something with your New Year's Resolution in mind.

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.

Claudine Criner

Esther Glas-Guest Designer

Thank you to all that played all month with us here for the Anything Goes challenge. There were so many fabulous entries but here were some of Kim's favorites from the month:

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

#6 Donna: love tangled mess on this tag-so festive!

#11 Julie: Can't help but snicker at these fabulous ATC's

#22 Paper Whims: Gobby Lin is perfect as a festive little elf.

#27 Kassa: All the pieces used on this come together so perfectly with wonderful texture

#30 Massofhair: Love the glossy look on this tag

#44 Serena: Gorgeous card, love the shaker part of it

#49 Julie: Love this altered canvas-the 3 wise men are such a wonderful part of Christmas

#62: Janeelizabeth: another fabulous creation with the 3 wise men

#71 Kirsten: The colors on this are just marvelous

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And our two random winners for the $30 gift certificate for Stampotique stamps are:

(please e-mail khowardga@gmail.com with Dec 2014 Winner in subject line)

#93: Paper Whims

and

#62 Serena

Congratulations to the favorites and winners this month!

Monday, January 5, 2015

SDC January 2015 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 January from all those who played in the January 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 January and it will run through the close of our last challenge for January which will be February 2, 2015 at 11:55 p.m. EST**

An InLinkz Link-up

Thursday, January 1, 2015

January 2015- Guest Designer

After taking a break off from having a guest designer in December we are thrilled to announce our first guest designer of 2015. Esther has been a frequent participant in our challenges here and so we are looking forward to seeing more of her creations featured here this month.

Here's some more about Esther:

Hello,

My name is EstherGlas and I live in The Netherlands.

From when I was a little girls I was always “making” something. So when I got older I was always doing something like needlework, knitting and making cards. So I have been crafting all of my life, in one form or another.

After that scrapbooking became one of my favorite things to do. In that time I was also working as a Nail technician and that was when I got in touch with paints, gels, mediums etc for making Nail Art. I became a Nail Art trainer and gave quite a lot of workshops in other European countries. My work has been on the cover and in articles in quite some Nail Magazines during that time.

From doing nail art it’s only a small step to Mixed Media and Art Journaling and that’s what I do most now. I love playing with paints, mediums, paper etc etc. Actually I like doing a lot of things as long as it’s crafty.

I am also a member of De Craftorij Design Team in Holland.

Stop over and visit Esther at her blog.