Stampotique Designers Challenge

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

SDC34: Flower Power

If friends were flowers, I'd choose you... ALL!

It's time to bloom!

It's time for a new challenge here at the Stampotique Designer’s Challenge blog.

This week Gez is challenging you to use flowers on your creation.

Take a look at the fabulous Design Team samples for lots of flower power inspiration.

This week you can use any stamps you would like but please only enter once and link directly to your creation.

Before we share Group 1's creations with you, Valerie wants to give a shout out to her 3 favorite "scrappers" from last week's challenge:
(please e-mail Kim at khowardga@gmail.com if you would like the SDC Favorite badge)

#19: Laura

Fabulous scrappy background and great use of acetate and stitching to really show off the image!

#28: Mamapia

Wow! Now that's an amazing use of scraps! Mamapia, you've rocked this challenge for sure!

#30: Fiona

There is sooo much to see on this very clever scrappy project! Just love it!

And our random winner for the $30 gift certificate for Stampotique stamps is:
(please e-mail Carol at carol@stampotique.com with SDC33 Winner in subject line)
#7 Angela from Pages by the Sea

and for the winner of our August Guest Designer-you will have 72 hours to contact us for details:

#16 Barbara Washington

(please e-mail Kim at khowardga@gmail.com for details)

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and now onto our first groups creations using flowers, come back next Wednesday to see what the second group created:

Gez Butterworth

Net Ward- July Guest Designer

If you would like to join us this week for your chance to win a $30 gift certificate for Stampotique stamps, please link in below with a DIRECT link to your creation. Only one entry per person and please no backlinking to previous projects. We will remove anyone not directly linked to their creation or anyone who has backlinked.

Saturday, July 2, 2011

Introducing our July Guest Designer...

Hi I'm Net and I'm thrilled to be this months guest DT at Stampotique! I live in Yorkshire, England with my lovely OM, son, two cats and the caiques. These are the naughty parrots who often feature on my blog Caique-Momma.

I've always loved making things and got introduced to cardmaking many years ago and was instantly hooked! Stamping was my first love and still is even though I've dallied with die cutting along the way. Stamping allows me to indulge myself in colouring. Copics are my weapon of choice at the moment.

Through crfating I've met many many wonderful and talented people, I'm now lucky enough to call them my very dear friends. Crafting makes me a very lucky girl.

Stop on over at Net's blog, we'll be sharing her work throughout the month here on the blog.

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Stampotique's Magical Mystery Tour Winners

Today ends our Magical Mystery Tour, we hope that you all enjoyed hopping through our blogs and seeing what we created using our scraps. We thank everyone who hopped around and left comments!

If you haven't joined us for our latest challenge to use up your scraps with your Stampotique stamps we hope that you will play along with us this week. The challenge ends next Tuesday evening for your chance to win a $30 gift certificate to Stampotique or a chance to be our August guest designer. Fun stuff up for grabs!

So are you wanting to know the winners of the Magical Mystery Tour???

The owners of Stampotique picked two of the blogs of the design team as the "mystery" blogs for winners and Carol picked Lisa Somerville's blog and Kim Howard's blog.

We used random.org to pick the winners and they are:

Lisa Somerville's winner is:

Fiona said...

This card has such a warm and inviting feel to it Lisa :) The sentiment works so great with the image and colours too !
June 22, 2011 11:55 PM

Kim Howard's winner is:

Holly said...

This is super COOL!

June 23, 2011 4:39 AM

and for those of you that took the time to leave a comment over on the Stampotique Designer's Blog, you are in for wonderful surprise as we picked a random winner from all the comments there as well and the winner is:

stamping sue said...
: Just went to the blogs on hop to see all the wonderful creations. stamping sue http://stampingsueinconnecticut.blogspot.com/ June 23, 2011 8:46 AM

Congratulations to all 3 of the winners this week! If you weren't a winner this week, join us for our scraps challenge going on now using Stampotique stamps, or on the 2nd Wed. in July for our next challenge using any stamps.

Thanks for touring with us at Stampotique!

Winners, please contact Kim at khowardga@gmail.com with subject "Magical Mystery Winner"
with your name & address.

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

SDC33: Use Your Scraps with a Magical Mystery Tour (Blog Hop)

Join us for Stampotique's Magical Mystery Tour today. Why a Magical Mystery Tour? Comment on all the blogs and along the way we have 2 mystery prizes to give away. Along with your tour you will see all the creations from our current challenge.

This begins your tour.

A few weeks ago, Valerie had us recycling and this week she has us cleaning house again!!! She's challenging us to dig in our stash to see how many scraps we can use up in our projects. Just about anything qualifies as a scrap - as long as you're utilizing a piece or part of something that you generated before but never used up... it counts! So what will it be? Bits of an old master board or freaky background? Leftover pieces of your favorite designer paper? Part of an old piece of grunge board? Fragments of a previously inked image? Or the remnants of some odd embellishment? Let's see just how creative you can be!

Additional Prizes and a chance to be our August GUEST DESIGNER

As you make your way through the tour make sure you comment on each and every post. There will be 2 prize winners chosen randomly amongst the blogs. For some additional chances to win another prize join us with our "Scraps" Challenge using your Stampotique stamps for your chance at a $30 gift certificate for Stampotique stamps or a chance to be our August Guest Designer, which we will randomly draw winners of each of those.

Our tour will end on June 28th and the winner or the 2 tour prizes will be announced on our blog on June 29th. Our challenge, however will be open until July 12th.

You will want to jump on over to our challenge hostess, Valerie to see what kind of scraps she has used on our Magical Mystery Tour.

Here is the master list if you get lost along your tour:

Stampotique Designer’s Challenge <---- you are here

Monique Verbeek

Vicki Garrett

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We had a phenomenal turnout for our Clean & Simple challenge and we enjoyed visiting and seeing what each of you created. Joanne picked her 3 favorites and here they are:

(please contact Kim at khowardga@gmail.com if you would like to display the favorites badge)

Anns Art Place

Angela

Dymphie

Congratulations ladies on being favorites this week!

and to the winner of our $30 gift certificate for Stampotique stamps goes to:

#39 Patcrafts

(Please contact Carol at carol@stampotique.com with subject line SDC32 Winner for your gift certificate)

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

SDC32: Clean & Simple- Group 2

Joanne is our current hostess and she has chosen the theme Clean and Simple (CAS). If you've ever visited her blog, you know that she loves the CAS style. What do we mean by CAS? Minimalistic designs, empty spaces. I know some people find this style difficult, but it can be very cleansing artistically to give it a try.

This week you can use any stamps you would like but please only enter once and link directly to your creation here for a chance to win a $30 gift certificate to Stampotique.

Here's group two's creations-these are some phenomenal clean & simple cards!

Vicki Garrett

Lisa Somerville

Join us by linking here, we can't wait to see your Clean & Simple creations.

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

SDC32: Clean & Simple

Hi, I'm Joanne and I've chosen the new challenge. I have chosen the theme Clean and Simple (CAS). If you've ever visited my blog, you know that I love the CAS style. What do we mean by CAS? Minimalistic designs, empty spaces. I know some people find this style difficult, but it can be very cleansing artistically to give it a try.

This week you can use any stamps you would like but please only enter once and link directly to your creation.

Our last acetate challenge was a fun one and we enjoyed seeing how everyone integrated the acetate into their creations. Willy picked her top 3 favorites:

(please e-mail khowardga@gmail.com if you would like the badge to display on your blog)

Nr. 9 Barbara Washington

What a surprising take on the challenge! The acetate rain looks cool.

Nr. 11 Claireliz

Fabulous combination of the printed acetate and the coloured Karin.

Nr. 13 Tracy Evans

So much to see in this gorgeous sea of acetate.

The winner of our SDC31 challenge and a $30 gift certificate to the Stampotique store for stamps is:

Winner #3

Jayne C.

(please e-mail Carol to claim your gift certificate at carol@stampotique.com and use the subject SDC Winner)

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We hope you enjoy group one's creations for Clean & Simple and we can't wait to see what you create this week!

Joanne Wardle

Join us for the Clean & Simple challenge by linking in below:

Wednesday, June 1, 2011

SDC31: Acetate

Last week Willy challenge us to use ACETATE in your creation. You can make your whole creation of acetate or just use a little piece of acetate in it… there are so many possibilities.

Take a look at the fabulous Design Team samples for a lot of inspiration. Please remember, this week is a Stampotique Originals stamps only challenge so take out your Stampotique stamps and join us for a chance to win a $30 gift certificate to shop at Stampotique Originals. Link up your creation below and don’t forget: only one entry per person please!

Here we share the second group of creations by our design team using acetate: