August Guest Designer

We are very excited to announce our August Guest Designer who was randomly chosen from our fun Magical Mystery Tour at the end of June.

Help us to welcome Barbara Washington and look for her creations to start appearing this week here and over at the Stampotique Designer's Blog.

Hi! My name is Barbara Washington. Being chosen as Stampotique's August Guest Designer is really exciting to me. I have been in love with Stampotique stamps for a long time. I live in Chicago with my two wonderful grown daughters, my five year old grandson, eleven month old grandaughter, and four cats. Until I retired several years ago, I worked as a librarian in the local college system. Now, I can enjoy what I love to do which is stamping and paper arts. I began stamping at least fifteen years ago. It began as something fun to try, but it quickly became a passion. I love making cards, tags, and atc's, but I also love to make books and dimensional art. My style is somewhat eclectic. I love trying new techniques, trying new color combinations, and love using texture. One additional benefit of being involved with this art is getting to know so many wonderful and talented people.

Barbara has created a card for our current challenge going on to use Red, Orange and Yellow.  If you would like to join us for your chance to win a $30 gift certificate for Stampotique stamps, you can see the details of the challenge here.

We look forward to having Barbara join our team this week!

SDC35: Red, Yellow, Orange

Are you ready for a new designer's challenge this week?  We are ready to challenge you and today Kaz is your hostess.  Here's what she has to say about the new challenge:

"When I took this  week for my challenge back in the winter, I thought it would be lovely and summery so I decided to set a colour challenge using the sizzling colours of red, yellow and orange. I should have known better really as I do, after all, live in England. It's been positively Autumnal this month. Rain, wind and grey skies. Yuk. So I'd like you to help us entice the sunshine back to help warm my cold toes!!"

Please remember this challenge is a STAMPOTIQUE ONLY stamps week.  Create a new creation with your Stampotique stamps and enter it below using InLinkz.  Please enter by linking directly to your creation.  Only one entry per person.  This challenge will close on  8/9/11 at 5 p.m. eastern time.

Join us for your chance to win a $30 gift certificate to Stampotique (good for stamps) as we randomly choose a winner of our next challenge.

Last week we had a fantastic turnout for our Flower Power challenge and Gez had lots of favorites but she narrowed it down to her top 3 favorites and they are:

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

  11   -   Mustavcoffee  

 

              Great eye-catching flowers, colourful background, beautifully coloured image, creative thinking, love the barbed-wire stalks on the flowers!

 23   -  Flutterby Crafter   

             Colourful summery background, great flowers, feel good factor, definately lots of flower power going on in this art journaling page.

 32   -   Margie Calenda 

              FABULOUS sentiment.. made me smile! Clever thinking, the image and flowers tie together brilliantly, Perfect!

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Congratulations to our random winner of the $30 gift certificate for Stampotique (good on stamps):

(please e-mail Carol at carol@stampotique.com with Subject SDC34 Winner)

#17 Mandy B

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And now for group 2 of our design teams creations.  Don't be afraid to click on over to their blogs and leave some love-they love to create and share each month and I'm sure they would love to hear from you.

  Come back next week as group 1 shares their taken on this color combination.

Kaz Boughton

Nellie van Leeuwen

Vicki Garrett

Kate Crane

Joanne Wardle

Lisa Somerville

Sue Roddis

Kim Howard

SDC34: Flower Power-Group 2

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.
 

 

Introducing Group 2's creation:

Nellie van Leeuwen

Vicki Garrett

Kate Crane

Joanne Wardle

Lisa Somerville

Kim Howard

If you would like to join us, our challenge closes on 7/26/11 so you have until then to link up here using a DIRECT link to your creation for a chance to win a $30 gift certificate from Stampotique.

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

Kaz Boughton

Jane Wetzel

Valerie Wilson

Willy Anderson

Maria Sabina Raita

Monique Verbeek

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.

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.

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.

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

Valerie Wilson

Kaz Boughton

Jane Wetzel

Willy Anderson

Monique Verbeek

Kim Howard

Nellie van Leeuwen

Vicki Garrett

Kate Crane

Joanne Wardle

Lisa Somerville

Gez Butterworth

Maria Sabina Raita

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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)