SDC229: Two Much Fun

This week, we have a special challenge theme of 2's celebrating the 2nd anniversary of the Stampotique ATC Swap facilitated by the lovely Nikki Woodward.  Players in the swap all share a love of Stampotique images and have developed a great deal of goodwill and trust in each other.  Since January 2014 there have been 18 ATC trades with 1272 ATC's mailed internationally!  Grab a cup'a and visit the Stampotique Facebook photo albums to enjoy browsing through all of the ATCs made for each theme!

We would also like to thank the talented Shelby Thomas for guest designing this month!
It has been so fun to have her creating with us. Thanks Shelby!!

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.

You can interpret the theme of 2's any way you want.  Duos, mirrors, the number two, duplicates - whatever comes to mind.  This month's ATC swap players are joining the design team and Shelby Thomas to provide you with oodles of inspiration to play along!

A few closeups of featured ATC's from this month's swap:

Eye candy - all of this month's fabulous ATCs!

Valerie Wilson

Shelby Thomas

Jackie Payne

Arwen McCullen

Nellie van Leeuwen

Kristen Catalano

Coby vanWilligenburg

Carol Fox

Sam Read

Sue's top 3 from last week's "Hues of Reds and Pinks" challenge are:

#34 - Sue - Love the background and great stamp combination

#43 - Jools - Fabulous shading in the heart and really love the clean lines

#45 - Amanda - Beautiful happy piece, it makes me smile

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SDC228 - Use Only Hues of Reds and Pinks

Hello and welcome back to another week and another challenge at Stampotique
This week our hostess is Sue Davies and she is giving us a fun challenge
"Use only Hues of Reds and Pinks"

Here is what Sue says about this challenge:
"With Valentine's Day around the corner we have all seen hues of reds and pinks, I challenge you to create a Stampotique Valentine's Day creation inspired by reds and pinks"

We hope you will join us this week, below there is some wonderful inspiration from our design team

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 Davies

Shelby Thomas

Kathi Rerek

Claudine Criner

Valerie Wilson

Corrie Herriman

Gez Butterworth

Arwen's top 3 from the Color Blob challenge last week are:
#26 - Gay
#20 - Leane
#27 - Jools
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SDC227: Color Blobs

Welcome back to another challenge over here at Stampotique. We had so many wonderful entries for our Tree challenge last week. What fun and amazing creations!

This week Arwen McCullen is our hostess and she is challenging us to "Color Blobs"
Here is what Arwen says about this challenge:

"I would like to see different color Blobs in your project this week"
Below our design team has come up with some amazing inspiration for this challenge.

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

Shelby Thomas
Shelby showed her front and inside of her card

Jackie Payne

Nellie van Leeuwen

Kristen Catalano

Coby vanWilligenburg

Carol Fox

Sam Read

A big Congratulations to our top 3 from last week's challenge. There were so many wonderful entries, I wish I could pick them all. Claudine's Top 3 are:

Entry #9Alison (Butterfly) 

Entry #4 Gay Peplos

Entry #10 Leane Green

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SDC226 : Trees

Happy 2016 everyone, we hope that your Christmas and New Year was amazing!!!
It's time to kick off the new year with our first challenge.
(To see the winner's from December's Challenges, please see the bottom of this post.)

Our guest designer for January is the wonderful and talented Shelby Thomas

"My name is Shelby Thomas. My family and I live in beautiful El Paso County in Colorado. I've been crafting since 2010 after leaving the Healthcare Administration field to find my sanity. I've loved every minute discovering the amazing world of crafting and all the different avenues it has to offer. I've been blessed to have had the opportunity to be a SAHM for the last 5 years and the opportunity to discover my love of teaching in the crafting industry.  My first love is Copics but I'm falling in love with a multitude of mediums and love incorporating various techniques and products into my designs.  I'm currently on several different design teams:  Whimsy Stamps, Memory Box and Pink Ink stamps."

You can visit Shelby's Blog HERE

Our hostess this week is Claudine Criner and she is asking us to use "Trees" in your creation this week.
Here is what Claudine says about this challenge:

"Trees have always been such a source of life for many living creatures and I just love them. I am asking you to add some trees to your entries this week"

Below is some wonderful inspiration from our design team

*Make sure to read all the rules before linking your challenge, we had quite a few entries last month that had to be deleted.
Thanks and 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.

Claudine Criner

Shelby Thomas

Kathi Rerek

Kathi did two this week

Janet Klein

Valerie Wilson

Sue Davies

Corrie Herriman

Congrats to our two challenge winner's, each will receive a 30.00 gift certificate to the online store They are:

Entry #2 - Yvonne Koops
Entry #15 - The Crafty Sugar Addict
(please email  jasminngirl411@yahoo.com for your prize)

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SDC January 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 December challenges.

If you do not have a blog to link up to, please feel free to join our Stampotique page on Facebook here.  We have a photo album on there called SDC Challenge Photos that you can upload your photo there.  Once you have uploaded it there, go to your photo in that album and copy the URL to link on the Stampotique Designer's Challenge links.  You will not be eligible if you do not link up to our challenge site.

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

NOTE: Any entries not linking directly to your creation AND having the challeng # 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) 

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**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 February which will be February 2nd at 12:00 p.m. EST**

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