SDC36: Altering a Book Page

This week Valerie challenges us to try altering a page in a book - any book: novel, journal, sketchbook, cookbook, music book, coloring book, dictionary, whatever!  Any book counts!  Valerie said that she chose this topic to challenge herself to try something new.  She said it worked too well and she found herself waaaayyyyyy outside of her element with this one but gave it a go anyway and she hopes you'll give it a go too even if you've never tried one before!!  If you have Stampotique stamps already, we'd love to see how you incorporate them into this challenge.  If you haven't started your Stampotique collection yet, the Stampotique Designer's Challenge invites you to participate using stamps from any company this week for your chance to win a $30 gift certificate for stamps at Stampotique.

The entries for the red, yellow, orange challenge were fantastic.  So many wonderful uses of these colors, there were many stunning scenes, beautiful tags and hilarious creations.  Kaz top 3 picks for this last challenge are:

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

28 Sam - love the fact this is done on balsa wood, and the stamping is so sharp!

14 Arwen - I love the skull for Crafter's head. I like swapping heads and this is a ' I wish I'd thought of that!'

7 Debbie R - this is such a warm splash of colour and I love Spykee as a balloon.

and Congratulations to the random winner of the $30 gift certificate for stamps from Stampotique.  Our winner is:

(please e-mail carol@stampotique.com with subject SDC35 Winner as the subject for instructions on how to redeem the gift certificate)

#18 Anikraft

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And here is Group #1's creations

Valerie Wilson

 

Barbara Washington-guest designer

Kaz Boughton

Jane Wetzel

Gez Butterworth

 

Willy Anderson

Maria Sabina Raita

Monique Verbeek

Please join us by linking directly to your creation below using InLinkz.  You are welcome to use any stamps this week, but please only link new creations and only one entry per person. No backlinking to previous posts please.

SDC35: Red, Yellow, Orange- Group 1

Hi there, we are back today to share group one's creations of our current challenge.  As a refresher, here is what our hostess, Kaz  has challenged us with.

"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.

Jane Wetzel

Gez Butterworth

Valerie Wilson

Willy Anderson

Maria Sabina Raita

Monique Verbeek

If you would like to join us, please link up with your creation here.

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.