SDC121: Halloween

Carol is hosting our challenge this week and it's time to get out your spooky stamps:

"I particularly choose the month of October to host the challenge as I love Halloween. it was the quirky off beat stamps of Daniel Torrente that first drew me to Stampotique all those years ago, as it then seemed to me that I could make Halloween themed items all year with his gothic style stamps and no one would realize that was what I was doing. I think I may have broken the record on my make for the challenge with the most rubber stamps used on one item, but it was hard as there were just so many to choose from. Hope you all enjoy the challenge and get your spook on for the whole month. carol x"

Carol Fox

Guest Designer: Sam Butler

Jane Wetzel

Valerie Wilson

Sam Read

Nellie van Leeuwen

Gez Butterworth

France Papillon

Maria Sabina Raita

Susan Davies

Roc Nicholas

Val's favorites from the Handles, hinges, buckles, fasteners, pulls challenge are:

(please e-mail khowardga@gmail.com if you would like the favorites badge for your blog)

Loving Laura's bold use of an entire zipper on her card! 

Can't stand how cute the polka dot belt is on Helen's colorful tag! 

Hooked on the hinges on Gail's humorous peek-a-boo hoo house!

Everyone really rocked this challenge!

Thanks so much for playing along!

SDC120: Handles, hinges, buckles, fasteners, pulls

Val is our hostess this week and she is challenging us to Handles, hinges, buckles, fasteners, pulls - different ways to flip, fold, fasten, open, close and grasp! These could be used on cards, dimensional projects, envelopes or altered/recycled/found objects.... faux or real - anything goes!

Want to thank everyone who took time to submit for the design team call.  We loved all the creations and while picking the members to join us on the design team is never an easy decision, we are excited to share with you soon who we choose.

If you were not chosen, it wasn't because we didn't like your work.  We look for a variety of designers who like to use a variety of stamps.  We also try to look for active bloggers who show their enthusiasm for Stampotique.  We encourage all to continue playing along with the challenges and posting your work to Facebook and we hope to see you apply for the team after the next term.

Our announcement of the new team will not happen until later in the year.

**Please read new rule instituted with this challenge-we will no longer be accepting digi stamp creations as part of our challenges.  Stampotique is a red rubber stamp company and we prefer to see creations with stamps versus those with digital creations.  These entries will be deleted and will not be eligible for the prize.  Thank you for understanding.**

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.

*No digi stamp creations please*

Valerie Wilson

Kaz Boughton

Sarinda Jones

Carol Fox

Magda Polakow

Astrid Stulemeijer

Sam's favorite ATC's from last week are:

I fell in love with this ATC as soon as I saw it, wonderful!!

http://amanda-momentsofinspiration.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/pussy-cat-pussy-cat-where-have-you-been.html

I loved the bright colours Laura used here and 2 Sticks is just 2 cute!!

http://ashappyas.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/sdc119-atcs.html

I love the colours used on Kathi's ATC, Moon Girl looks amazing hanging out with the flowers!

http://kathstales.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/atc-with-new-to-me-technique.html

SDC119: ATC's

Sam is our hostess this week and here's her challenge to us:

"I love making ATC's the 2.5 x 3.5 inch size is perfect for any media you wish to use and you can squeeze in lots of details and layers in a small space or keep it quite plain and simple. ATC's can be dramatic or just plain fun so I can't wait to see yours!"

**Please read new rule instituted with this challenge-we will no longer be accepting digi stamp creations as part of our challenges.  Stampotique is a red rubber stamp company and we prefer to see creations with stamps versus those with digital creations.  These entries will be deleted and will not be eligible for the prize.  Thank you for understanding.**

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.

*No digi stamp creations please*

Sam Read

Guest Designer: Sam Butler

Libby Hickson

Jane Wetzel

Valerie Wilson

Nellie van Leeuwen

Gez Butterworth

France Papillon

Maria Sabina Raita

Susan Davies

Roc Nicholas

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We are so appreciative of all those who threw their hat in the ring for the design team.  We are busy checking out all the entries and we will hopefully be making selections in the next week.

Again, thank you to everyone for being so excited to be a part of this team.

The washi tape challenge was a fun one, interesting to see how everyone uses it on their creations.  Astrid's favorites were:

(e-mail khowardga@gmail.com for favorites badge to display on your blog)

Claudine C.

http://www.inlinkz.com/displayurl.php?id=13862704

Jennifer Ferrell

http://www.inlinkz.com/displayurl.php?id=13842086

Coco R.

http://www.inlinkz.com/displayurl.php?id=13883078

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Our two random winners for the $30 gift certificate for Stampotique stamps this month are:

(please e-mail carol@stampotique.com with September SDC winner in your subject line)

#77 Heidi

and

# 48 Kathi R.

SDC October 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 November from all those who played in the October challenges.

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 (any not linking directly to your creation AND having the challenge # 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) . 

We ask that if you have comment verification turned on, that you would consider turning this on and doing comment moderation instead.  

Please use Inlinkz below to link up your challenge.  

**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 October and it will run through the close of our last challenge for October which will be November 5, 2013 at noon ET**

SDC118: Washi Tape

Hello, hello... it's Astrid's to host and she chose Washi Tape for this challenge.  Here's what she says about it:

"Not really a hard one is it ;-) I adore this stuff and I think a lot of us do. I especially love the black and white ones, it makes the other colors you use really intense. And it's just an easy way to add something extra on your creation.

So use this happy stuff as a background or as an embellishment on your creation. Hope you like Washi Tape just as I do :-)"

Hope you will join us and put that washi tape to use for your chance to win one of two random $30 gift certificates for Stampotique stamps.

And if you haven't already seen this, check it out:

Did you see our design team call announcement?  

If not, you can see the details here.

**Please read new rule instituted with this challenge-we will no longer be accepting digi stamp creations as part of our challenges.  Stampotique is a red rubber stamp company and we prefer to see creations with stamps versus those with digital creations.  These entries will be deleted and will not be eligible for the prize.  Thank you for understanding.**

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.

*No digi stamp creations please*

Astrid Stulemeijer

Kim Howard

Kaz Boughton

Sarinda Jones

Carol Fox

Magda Polakow

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Just wanted to say a thank you to all those who wished me a Happy Birthday on my big "40".  Was a wonderful day and have enjoyed seeing all the birthday creations.

My top 3 favorites are:

(please e-mail khowardga@gmail.com for favorites badge)

Susan O'Connell

Love the cupcake he's holding...it looks mighty yummy!

Amanda

The splashes of color are just perfect with the silhouette image

die amelie

I adore the colors on the background of the tag

SDC117: Birthday Theme

Today, I'm is the lucky hostess of our challenge and I was a little selfish when I picked the date and the challenge theme.  Our challenge this week is "BIRTHDAY" and can you guess why I was selfish this week??  It is my birthday...today!  And it's not just any birthday, it's one of the big milestone birthdays and what better way to spend it then hopping around to see all the fabulous birthday creations from the SDC team and yourselves?

Hope you will join us and show off your birthday creations for your chance to win one of two random $30 gift certificates for Stampotique stamps.

And if you haven't already seen this, check it out:

Did you see our design team call announcement?  

If not, you can see the details here.

**Please read new rule instituted with this challenge-we will no longer be accepting digi stamp creations as part of our challenges.  Stampotique is a red rubber stamp company and we prefer to see creations with stamps versus those with digital creations.  These entries will be deleted and will not be eligible for the prize.  Thank you for understanding.**

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.

*No digi stamp creations please*

Kim Howard

Libby Hickson

Jane Wetzel

Valerie Wilson

Sam Read

Nellie van Leeuwen

Gez Butterworth

France Papillon

Maria Sabina Raita

Susan Davies

Roc Nicholas

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Our top 3 favorites from the technique's challenge:

(e-mail khowarga@gmail.com for favorites badge to display on your blog)

http://vonpappe2.blogspot.co.at/2013/09/try-new-technique-stampotique-designers.html

Die amelie has used a "Smackin' Acetate Technique" I must admit I had never heard of this, but it is really cool and I shall defiantly be having a go at it.

http://sam21ski.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/happy-birthday-card.html

I love the clear embossing and paint and Moth Fab, so of course this had to go in my top 3. A lovely card Sam.

http://madebychook.blogspot.nl/2013/09/take-nap.html

The resist heat embossing  looks lovely on your tag Corrie.

SDC116: Try a new technique

Today the Stampotique team is asking you to try a new technique.  This is always a fun challenge to see what techniques everyone will be using on their card and what we might be missing out there. 

Link up to the tutorial you used or show us how you did your new technique (new to you).

And if you haven't already seen this, check it out:

Did you see our design team call announcement?  

If not, you can see the details here.

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.

Maryse Carrier- Guest Designer

Kim Howard

Kaz Boughton

Sarinda Jones

Carol Fox

Magda Polakow

Astrid Stulemeijer

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We had some great submissions to the layers challenge, love seeing such a great number of participants this week!  

(Please make sure you are following directions to linking each week, we deleted a lot this week due to no challenge numbers indicated after your name)

Sue's favorites were:

(please e-mail khowardga@gmail.com for favorites badge)

7 Janet Klein

This is so stylish and I love the doodled border

21 Sue O'Connell

Bright and fun and a great interpretation of the challenge

22 Coby

Beautiful colours and the perfect choice of stamps

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Thank you to all who hopped along with our new release on the 1rst.  We hope you enjoyed seeing the array of new stamps and our new artist.

We picked two random blogs along the hop along with a random winner for each to win some new release goodies.  Congratulations!

(please send e-mail to khowardga@gmail.com with Stampotique new release winner in subject line)

From Carol Fox's blog:

 Annika said...

Love the background of the tag, nice layers in there :) The image is amazing! Your bird-day card is stunning, hugs Annika

1 September 2013 12:30

From Sam Read's blog:

Dawn Louise1 September 2013 23:31

Love it all and the box is a wonderful gift too and loving your choice of bright colours