Stampotique Designers Challenge

Saturday, February 1, 2014

February Guest Designers

We are thrilled this month to announce double the fun! We've got two guest designers lined up this month at Stampotique Designer's Challenge and here they are to tell us a little about themselves:

Hi, I’m Lisa. By day I’m a librarian, by night (and at weekends) I’m an inky-caped supercrafter…well, maybe in my dreams! I’m an ink fiend, a devotee of all things Stampotique, and a collector of an enormous number of stamps. I live in the Midlands in the UK, have two beautiful children and an husband who understands my need to regularly get inky fingered. I’m delighted to be a guest designer, in fact, I can’t quite believe my luck, and I’m looking forward to sharing my projects with you this month. You can check out my blog here: http://lisasparkleandstamps.blogspot.com/

Hello, my name is Trish Latimer, and I'm thrilled to be guest designing for Stampotique this month!

I am a full time mixed media artist, with a passion for all things messy, painty and inky! I love all things colourful and quirky, and am happiest creating with lots of layers and textures.

I Have been crafting for around 15 years, and teaching others how to craft for nearly as long! I currently write and design for Craft Stamper magazine here in the UK, and also share my other passion (beads and jewellery) through my designs for Beads And Beyond magazine. I'm also currently working with Docrafts to try and bring a little altered art to their papercraft ranges!

To see more of my work ( and all the step by steps on how to create my Stampotique projects!), please pop on over to:www.inkpaintbeads.blogspot.co.uk

Wednesday, January 29, 2014

SDC132: Winged Things

Today over at Stampotique Designer's Challenge our hostess Arwen has us flying away:

Wings have something mystical for me.
Angels have wings, fairies, my favorite animal: the bat :)
Love and positive feelings give wings.
Today I would like to see what gives you wings.
I am very curious about your creations.

**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*

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Arwen McCullen

Pauline Adamson January Guest Designer

Sue Davies

Sam's favorites from the spectacular double week of stars are:

(email khowardga@gmail.com if you would like to display the favorites badge)

Belinda #66 http://happyscrapspace.blogspot.com.au/2014/01/oh-my-stars.html

Oh so gorgeous, lots of layers and a wonderful mix of materials.

Nikki #75 http://betwixtthisandthat.blogspot.ca/2014/01/sdc131-2-card-for-my-son.html

A great birthday card and loving the film strip!

Ruth #68 http://lerusho.wordpress.com/2014/01/23/space-ride/

I love Ruth's style and sense of fun :)

Wednesday, January 22, 2014

SDC131: Stars Take Two

Today we are continuing our challenge of Stars (so please feel free to play again if you did last week) and we've invited our Designer's Blog team to join us. Here's what Sam Read had to say about her challenge last week:

I don't know one person who doesn't enjoy looking at the stars. Stars fill us with a sense of fascination and wonderment. Earliest societies mapped and traced stars. The speed of light is 186,000 miles per second and because stars are so distant, many of them millions of light years away means we look in to the sky from the distant past. Therefore I am inviting you to use stars in your creation this week, as the main image or as an accent. I can't wait to see what you make, have fun!

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*

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Can't wait to see your stars creations again this week!

Wednesday, January 15, 2014

SDC131: Stars

Sam Read is our hostess this week at the Stampotique Designers Challenge and she has stars in her eyes:

I don't know one person who doesn't enjoy looking at the stars. Stars fill us with a sense of fascination and wonderment. Earliest societies mapped and traced stars. The speed of light is 186,000 miles per second and because stars are so distant, many of them millions of light years away means we look in to the sky from the distant past. Therefore I am inviting you to use stars in your creation this week, as the main image or as an accent. I can't wait to see what you make, have fun!

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*

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Sam Read

Pauline Adamson- Jan. Guest Designer

Corrie Herriman

Kaz top 3 favorites from the "something new" challenge were:

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

17 - Amanda J - love the humour in this card!
28- paper whims - such a simple, but effective gift bag.
36- Jo Capper-Sandon love the kraft and White together in the frame.

Wednesday, January 8, 2014

SDC130: Something New

Our hostess this week is Kaz and here is what she is challenging you with the following:

I am just a little bit nosey, so for this challenge I'd like you to use something that Santa brought you! Don't worry if you didn't get crafty stash, just use something that you recently bought for yourself. If you really want to, you could make something with the theme of something new as well. Just make sure you enjoy making it.

Just a reminder to read the instructions for linking below.

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*

Kaz Bougton

Pauline Adamson-Guest Designer

Kathi Rerek

Sue Davies

Kim's top 3 picks for the Anything Goes challenge are (and there were such fabulous entries this week it was hard to pick them!):

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

#2 Julie S.-love how she used the embossing with silver on the background

#9 Helen-love how she thought "outside the box" when it came to using her ticket for the cinema and what a great day to spend with your BFF!

#1 Gerrie- I love how colorful her birds are and the mismatched socks-precious!

Congratulations ladies and hope to see you playing along again this week.

Wednesday, January 1, 2014

SDC129: Happy New Year! Anything Goes

Happy New Year! We are kicking off the new year with our first guest designer of 2014 as well as our first challenge.

First up our Guest Designer...Introducing Pauline Adamson:

Happy New Year. My name is Pauline and I live in Carnoustie, Scotland. My main passion is paper crafts and making photograph albums. I absolutely love getting lost in the creativity of crafting and I love to share my ideas and hopefully inspire you as I have been by some very talented and inspirational crafters from around the world. I am a very late discoverer of paper crafts only starting on this amazing journey in June 2012 so I still have so much to learn. I hope you enjoy my projects as much as I adore all of yours.

Keep your eye out as this month as we show off Pauline's creations.

As for our first challenge, Kim is keeping the theme alive with Anything Goes. It's always nice to be able to create whatever you wish to with my Stampotique stamps and so we want to see you get creative with whatever you wish to.

Wishing you all a safe and happy new year! Just a reminder to read the instructions for linking below.

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*

Pauline Adamson

Corrie Herriman

Our top 3 favorites of the December Anything Goes challenge are:

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

#7 Guild Master Crystal

#27 Amanda J

#43 Dawn C

Our 2 random winners of the $30 gift certificate towards stamps are:

(please e-mail khowardga@gmail.com to redeem your gift certificate)

#12 Karin

and

#35 Eemeli

Congratulations and Happy New Year!

Tuesday, December 31, 2013

SDC January 2014 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 February from all those who played in the January 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 January and it will run through the close of our last challenge for January which will be February 4, 2014 at noon ET**