Stampotique Designers Challenge

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

SDC16: Vintage

Thanks for joining us again this week over at Stampotique Designer's Challenge. Grab a cup of coffee or o.j. and settle in for a long post today.

Challenge #16 is a STAMPOTIQUE ONLY challenge-you must use ONLY Stampotique Stamps on your creation.

Milo is our hostess this week and she has challenged the design team to create a project with a VINTAGE theme. The girls did a fabulous job this week with this challenge, beautiful creations.

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Kim's favorites from the Birthday challenge last week were hard to pick, there were so many great ones.
But, since they force me to pick 3 favorites, here goes:
(please e-mail me if you would like to display the DT Favorites badge on your blog at khoward at gmail dot com)

Dori
I mean who wouldn't want to be in that setting for their birthday??? Gorgeous!

Lisa S
I'm wishing I were about 60 lbs lighter to fit into that gorgeous strapless pink dress, love the sponging on it to really give it depth.

Glittery Katie
In love with the background she created on this card with the "burst" underneath the image.

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Our random winner of a $30 gift certificate from Stampotique is:
(please e-mail Carol at Carol at Stampotique dot com to claim your gift certificate)

#9 Kapree

Just a reminder that Stampotique will be closed the whole month of October so if an order is placed during that time, it will not ship until after the store has reopened.
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At Stampotique we are thrilled to announce our Guest Designer for the month of October. Some of you may recognize her as one of our frequent players of our challenges. Please help us welcome Shannon Sawyer who will start playing with us with our first challenge in October. Here is some more about Shannon:

My name is Shannon Sawyer and I've been doing different forms of Mixed Media & stamping for over 11 years now. I had initially started when I stopped working back in 2000. I wanted a hobby that would keep me busy. Instead of finding a hobby, I found a whole world of like minded people and all kinds of different forms of artwork that consumed me.

I've been published man times in the various Stampinton magazines and I have also been published in Craft Stamper from the UK. I was recently asked to join the On Call Artist team for the Stampington publications, I am a Design Team member of AlphaStamps and I work a lot with ArtChix Studio.

I can be reached at either: saturdayville@gmail.com or sawyershannon@aol.com

and my blog is at: http://SaturdayVille.blogspot.com

I am thrilled and honored to be asked to be a guest artist for the Stampotique Design Team.

I look up to every designer on the Stampotique Design Team so much, it is very much a privilege.

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Onto our design team's creations for the VINTAGE challenge using STAMPOTIQUE ONLY STAMPS.
*Creations not using ALL Stampotique Stamps will not qualify for the gift certificate*
You have until 10/12/10 at 7:00 p.m. EST to enter the challenge.

Milo Lilja

Willy Anderson

Vicki Garrett

Jo Capper-Sandon

Hella Sjolund

Kim Prince

Valerie Wilson

*Creations not using ALL Stampotique Stamps will not qualify for the gift certificate*
You have until 10/12/10 at 7:00 p.m. EST to enter

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

SDC15: Birthday

SDC15: Birthday Theme using ANY stamps

Today is the first challenge of September and I'm loving that the temperatures are getting a little cooler here in Georgia. While I don't love the warm or cold weather, I do love when it starts to turn fall and the temps start to drop. The in between season is what I love the most.

Our challenge this week has a birthday theme. We have a lot of birthdays in our family in September and so we are thinking birthday all month long-as a matter of fact this card is going to a friend at work who I will be seeing today. Break out those Stampotique stamps if you have them and if you don't feel free to join this week using any stamps you have available. If you haven't seen the awesome new stamps released this month at Stampotique, run over there and check them out now. Our design team member, Jo Capper-Sandon has some fabulous newly released stamps and there are some phenomenal new Jill Penney & Daniel Torrente stamps as well.

*Please note: Stampotique will be closed ALL of October, so place your orders NOW to have them shipped prior to closing.*

Kaz top 3 picks for last week's Not So Sweet 16 challenge are:
you can e-mail Kim if you would like the DT Pick badge (khowardga@gmail.com)

Sue

This one has made good use of lots of stamps and I like the way Mr Stripes is hanging from wire.

Sam Read
This one is hilarious - I love the heads and kitty upside down, plus the subtle backgground

BJ:

I love the black tulle on the background and the dress-very gothic and very my neice!

Our winner for the $30 gift certificate by random number generator is:

#22 Sue Smith
Congratulations, please e-mail Carol to claim your gift certificate (Carol@stampotique.com)

Remember, you've got to play to win! Enter your creation using InLinkz at the bottom of the post with a DIRECT link to your creation. Links that do not go directly to the creation will not be entered to win. You will have until 7 p.m. EDT on 9/14/10 to enter to win.

Milo Lilja

Valerie Wilson

Kim Prince

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

SDC14: Not so Sweet 16

SDC14: Not so Sweet 16
THIS WEEK IS A STAMPOTIQUE STAMPS ONLY CHALLENGE, USE OF OTHER STAMPS WILL NOT QUALIFY YOU FOR THE GIFT CERTIFICATE

Hi I'm Kaz and I'm excited and a little nervous about setting my first challenge. This month my eldest niece turns 16, but she's not your typical glittery shoes and handbags card kind of girl. In fact I bought my first Stampotique stamp, Moth Fab, for a card for her on a previous birthday as it is so her and I became hooked on them and here I am a year later on the DT! So I would like to see some (not so) sweet 16 cards for non-girly girls please!

This is a Stampotique Stamps only week,
if you do not own any Stampotique Stamps yet, please join us the first Wednesday of the month for our any stamps goes challenge.

Willy had a tough time choosing her 3 favorites this past challenge but finally narrowed it down to the following, please contact Kim @ khowardga@gmail.com if you would like to display the Stampotique Designer's Favorite badge:

Nr. 6 Sam Read

The combination of the background colors and the white embossing is absolutely stunning.

Nr. 37 Rinda Ontiveros

I love all those brave girls with wings in front of the graffiti wall. Great quotes!

Nr. 38 Herma

The choice of colors is gorgeous. An amazing card with the landscape and the wonderful wings.

We had a whopping 40+ entries for our last challenge, we are thrilled that so many played and we look forward to seeing more for this next challenge!! Our random winner this week is a lucky on as we have upped the ante to include a $25 gift certificate ($20 towards stamps, $5 towards shipping) from Stampotique and we will be offering this on all challenges going forward. Without further ado, our winner this week is:

#19 Carol Q

Here is what the design team created this week for our Not So Sweet 16 theme:

Kaz Boughton

Willy Anderson

Vicki Garrett

Sue Roddis

Monique Verbeek

**ALL ENTRIES NOT USING STAMPOTIQUE STAMPS WILL NOT QUALIFY FOR THE WINNING GIFT CERTIFICATE**

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

SDC13: Wings, Wings, Wings

My name is Willy Anderson and I’m very excited this week as it is my first turn to host the Stampotique Designer’s Challenge. In this challenge we are going to fly with the theme ‘Wings, wings, wings’. Get out your stamps and fly with us.

Kim's favorite picks for the sketch challenge are the following, please e-mail me at khowardga@gmail.com if you would like to display our Favorites button on your blog:

Tracy Evans

I love what Tracy did with the mushrooms and keeping it with a neutral theme and just a hint of color with the flower.

Cardarian

I'm a sucker for pink & black color combination. The simple stamping of the image is perfect.

Fiona

This creation just jumped out at me. I love the recessed window on the front of the card with the image inside. Very creative!

It is the first challenge of the month so you can use any stamps but if you have any Stampotique stamps then it would of course be great to see what you can come up with using those.

Our winner for the $15 gift certificate to Stampotique is: Benedicte

please e-mail Carol to redeem your gift certificate at carol@stampotique.com

Take a look at how our Design Team members interpreted this challenge. The whole team is really looking forward to seeing all your contributions. Come join us with your winged creation for a chance to win a $15 gift certificate to shop at Stampotique Originals. Link up your creation (please copy & paste the direct link to your Stampotique Designer's Challenge) to InLinkz. Links that are not direct to your creation will be deleted.

Sue Roddis