SDC238: What's Old Is New Again

Hello everyone, we hope you had a wonderful week and a very Happy Easter. We have a new challenge this week and Valerie Wilson is our hostess and she is challenging us with a great idea - "What's old is new again".  Here is what Valerie says about this challenge...

"Re-purpose, re-use, recycle, and alter - words that are music to my ears!  Is there something destined for the trash heap that you can give a new art-filled life?  Or perhaps you're tired of that old wall hanging - can you give it a make-over?  My challenge for you this week is to take something old and make it new again!"

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Valerie Wilson

Karen Hayselden

Kathi Rerek

Claudine Criner

Sue Davies

Corrie Herriman

Gez Butterworth

Nellie's top 3 from last week's Birds challenge are:

Nr. 49

http://sue-thislife.blogspot.nl/2016/03/sdc237-its-all-about-birds.html

Love how she combined stamps 

Nr. 57

http://mrsbeez.com/blog-challenges/egg-cited-for-easter

Wonderful Easterpage with fab colours and a lot of birds and eggs

Nr. 59

https://www.facebook.com/651165241687374/photos/pb.651165241687374.-2207520000.1459123694./786511568152740/?type=3&theater

Fab use of stamps and words, made me smile

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SDC237: It's All About Birds

Hello everyone thanks so much for  joining us last week for the St. Patrick's Day challenge, we had a lot of great entries. It's always nice to see everyone's take on the challenges. 
This week Nellie van Leeuwen is our hostess and she is asking us to use some birds in our creations. Here is what Nellie says about this challenge:

"So close to Easter, I would love to see you use birds and stuff related to birds, such as, feathers, eggs, nests etc... in your artwork"

So let's see your best Bird creations this week. 

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Nellie van Leeuwen

Karen Hayselden

Jackie Payne

Arwen McCullen

Kristen Catalano

Coby vanWilligenburg

Carol Fox

Sam Read

Jackie's top 3 from last week's St. Patrick's Day challenge are:

#41 - Sternengland Seifenblase
#44 - Lisette
#46 - Gemma Mags

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SDC236: St Patrick's Day

Welcome back to the Designer's Blog today, I hope you had fun last week in the Flower challenge. This week we are celebrating St Patrick's Day and Jackie Payne is our hostess. Here is what Jackie says about this challenge:
"St Patrick's Day was lucky for me, I married my husband on this date, so I would like to see the luck of the Irish in your projects. Such as lucky clovers"

So let's see your best St Patrick's Day creations this week.

If you haven't already participated in the New Release Leap Day Blog hop, take minute to do so, you can begin HERE, we are giving away some wonderful prizes and there is plenty of inspiration from the design team so make sure to check it out if you haven't already.

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Jackie Payne

Karen Hayselden

Kathi Rerek

Claudine Criner

Valerie Wilson

Sue Davies

Corrie Herriman

Gez Butterworth

Carol Fox's  top three from last week's Flower challenge are:
1. Roz
2. Helen
3. Sternenglanz Seifenblase

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SDC235 - Include Flowers in Your Project

Welcome back to another week and another challenge over here at Stampotique. The weather here has been so unusually warm this week, where has winter gone? 
That brings us to the challenge for this week, Carol Fox is our hostess and her challenge is to include some lovely Spring flowers in your projects. Here is what Carol says about this challenge:

"Spring is just around the corner in the UK. So share with me a project with flowers in it"

So let's see your flowers this week!!!


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Carol Fox

Karen Hayselden

Jackie Payne

Arwen McCullen

Nellie van Leeuwen

Kristen Catalano

Coby vanWilligenburg

Sam Read

Sue's top 3 from last weeks Time Challenge are:

3 Sue J I love the background and the way Sue displays the sentiment
5 Julie Brilliant splattered background and the sequins give a real underwater feel
12 Wendy This just makes me smile, everyone should have Smile for a son

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March 2016 New Release and Blog Hop

Hello everyone and welcome to the blog, today we are doing a special "Leap Day Blog Hop" in order to announce the awesome new Stamps from Stampotique Originals
We have been having such fun on our Facebook group this passed week giving out some great Sneak Peeks of the new release. This is just one of them.

It's time for the teasing to end and see all of them!!

There are tons of new images from our favorite stamp designers and we are proud to welcome TWO (yes TWO) new stamp designers, Terri Richardson and also Karen Hayselden  

Both of these ladies are wonderful artists and we think you will really enjoy the new spin they both give to the Stampotique line.  Hopefully you will find some new stamps that you can't live without.

Join us on the blog hop for a first look at the new stamps and for some wonderful inspiration from our design team. 
This is also your chance to win some goodies, we will be  drawing TWO winners from TWO of the designer's blogs for a $30 gift certificate to the Stampotique online store. 

 You will need to hop all the way through and visit and leave comments on each designer's blog in order to win. 

This is our starting point for the blog hop and from here you will want to Leap on over to 

Arwen McCullen' blog.

Have fun hopping, we will be pulling the random winners of the Leap Day Blog Hop at the beginning of our next month's challenge on April 6th, 2016

Arwen McCullen
Kathi Rerek

Sue Davies

Corrie Herriman

Gez Butterworth

Jackie Payne
Nellie van Leeuwen
Claudine Criner

Kristen Catalano

Coby vanWilligenburg

Carol Fox

Sam Read
Valerie Wilson

You can also get more inspiration over at our Facebook group
If you want to check out Karen or Terri's new stamps you can see them 
Terri's HERE
and
Karen's HERE

Have fun Hopping!! 

SDC234: Time Challenge - 30 Minutes Or Less

Welcome back to the blog, I hope that you have been having fun doing the Leap Day Hop and seeing all the wonderful new stamps!! Today we have a new challenge for you, our hostess is Sue Davies and she is challenging us to a "Time Challenge", to make something in 30 minutes or less.

That's a toughie!!

Here is what Sue says about this challenge:

"We can sometimes get caught up in making big production pieces. My challenge to you this week is to make something in 30 minutes or less (not including time taken to gather your supplies) I look forward to seeing what you create.

So let's see your best "fast" project this week!

Our guest designer this month is the wonderful Karen Hayselden. She has guest designed for us before and she is also one of our newest stamp designers so we are super excited to have her this month. Karen will be joining us every now and then for some guest designing.

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Kathi Rerek

Karen Hayselden

Claudine Criner

Claudine did two this week

Valerie Wilson

Sue Davies

Corrie Herriman

Gez Butterworth

We had a little blip last week when we posted the top 3 winners for the "Spot and Stripes" Challenge so we are giving another top 3 winner for that.

Samantha elected Gemma as one of her top 3

For The "Squares" Challenge Corrie chose the following for her top 3:

1) no. 51 - Lisette from www.mrsbeez.com

I love the simple yet very effective background. I also love the colours Lisette used ! Fantastic ! 

2) no. 56 - Sue J. from www.artycreationinspiration.blogspot.co.uk

This card is so much fun. I love the background and those three little guys are very nicely coloured ! 

3) no. 49 - Nikki W. from www.betwixtthisnandthat.blogspot.ca

I really love the yellow and pink background and the simple way it was made. Great card !

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The 2 Random winners of the 30.00 gift certificate to the online store from February's entries are:
#55 - Chelsea Reede
#60 - Helen Cooke

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SDC March 2016 Challenge Links

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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 March from all those who played in the February challenges.

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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.

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