Stampotique Designers Challenge

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

SDC24: Valentine or Love (Group 4)

Welcome back to Stampotique Designer's Challenge this morning. In preparation for the upcoming love themed day many of us will be celebrating, I thought it only appropriate to challenge you with a Love or Valentine's theme this week. I don't know how it is in your house, but in mine, we don't celebrate Valentine's Day as much as we celebrate my husband's birthday. And a little birdie told me that the main man, Jim, at Stampotique also celebrates a birthday that day, so make sure to leave him a little birthday wish in the comments section.

We are going to do things a little differently since our design team has grown, we will be splitting up our design team posts into 4 groups to be shown today, Saturday, Monday and the following Wednesday. That way we share inspiration between the challenges.

Up for grabs, a $30 gift certificate for stamps at the Stampotique store. This week feel free to use any stamps.

We are now featuring Group Four of our design team:

Kate Crane

Hope you got some inspiration from the design team and will join us by linking up here with your creation.

Monday, February 14, 2011

SDC24: Valentine or Love (Group 3)

Hope you got some inspiration from the design team and will join us by linking up here with your creation.

Saturday, February 12, 2011

SDC24: Valentine or Love (Group 2)

Hope you got some inspiration from the design team and will join us by linking up here with your creation.

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

SDC24: Valentine or Love

Welcome to Stampotique Designer's Challenge this morning. In preparation for the upcoming love themed day many of us will be celebrating, I thought it only appropriate to challenge you with a Love or Valentine's theme this week. I don't know how it is in your house, but in mine, we don't celebrate Valentine's Day as much as we celebrate my husband's birthday. And a little birdie told me that the main man, Jim, at Stampotique also celebrates a birthday that day, so make sure to leave him a little birthday wish in the comments section.

This week feel free to use ANY stamps at your chance to win a $30 gift certificate for stamps at the Stampotique store.

First, thanks to all who played in our challenge this last time to use orange and turquoise. There were so many great submissions and Willy narrowed down her top 3 favorites to the following:

(contact Kim for blog button khowardga@gmail.com)

Fiona:

What a brilliant idea! Love all those circles and flowers.

Paulien:

Fabulous and funny card with a great background.

Silvia:

Wonderful tag! Great combination of stamp and embossed background.

and the random winner of the $30 gift certificate for stamps at the Stampotique store is:

(contact Carol for gift certificate carol@stampotique.com)

#38 Hazel

Congratulations Hazel!

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Here is some eye candy from group one of our design team, we hope you will join us with the Valentine/Love theme!

Gerrie Johnnic- Guest Designer

Friday, February 4, 2011

Congratulations to our Challenge Winner!

Reminder: We have several challenges going on right now, so if you would like to play along with us, please see the links below for the current challenges we are sponsoring:
SDC23: Orange & Turquoise (1/26-2/8/11)
The Altered Alice sponsored by Stampotique (1/30-2/25/11)
CPS203 sponsored by Stampotique (1/30-2/5/11)

Congratulations to our challenge winner for the spot of Stampotique's March Guest Designer!

Gini Owen

Stampotique is every excited to have Gini joining us in March! Be on the look out for future challenges in which you too could earn a spot as one of our Guest Designers.

Thank you to everyone who welcomed our new design team! The creations were amazing and we always love to see you play along with us!

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Welcome our February Guest Designer

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Help us welcome our February Guest Designer-we are so excited to have Gerrie be with us for February! Here's a little introduction from Gerrie:

Hi, I'm Gerrie Johnnic or some may know me as Queen of Grunge (my blog) or my email addy , Iwork4Stamps . I love getting inky, and having fun in my work, I think that's what stamping should be all about.... fun! and of course sharing. What did I read somewhere, it all started out with just one stamp, and look at me now! I design for Artistic Outpost and the Technique Junkie Newsletter. I've been with both companies from the beginning, first as a subscriber for the TJNL and then joining the team, and Artistic Outpost since they opened the store.

I love doing backgrounds and techniques in all my art. I've recently branched out into some altered art, and of course it's all grungy. I live in SW Florida, far from my DD and stamping gives us something to share together, at least that's the excuse we use. I adore all the designer lines that Stampotique carries. The variety of stamp artists just excites me every time I see something posted. Thanks for having me as a guest artist this month.

And along with that, Gerrie created this fabulous card to go along with our current theme of Orange & Turquoise. Gerrie will have some info on the background she created for this card over at her blog Queen of Grunge, so leave her some love and welcome her for February.

Stamps used:

Smile & Two Hearts are Better than one from Stampotique

Sunday, January 30, 2011

Stampotique Sponsoring Card Positioning Systems

Join us today over at the Card Positioning Systems (CPS) as Stampotique sponsors the sketch below. Play along and you could have a chance to win a grab bag of mounted stamps from Stampotique.

The sketch we are sponsoring is Card Positioning Systems #203