Introducing a new Artist and new images

Announcing new images and new artists are always exciting here at Stampotique Originals and so we are thrilled to announce our newest artist, Kira Nichols.  Kira has designed some very unique monsters and kitties for her first line of stamps and our design team has had the opportunity to play with the stamps before they are released to the public. 

Want a chance to win some of Kira's new images?  Hop along with our designers as well as our special guest, leaving comments along the way, for your chance to win some of Kira's new images.  We will randomly draw a winner from one of the blogs and announce the winner with our next challenge.

Make sure to leave comments along the way and a randomly chosen commenter will win some of these new stamps.

  From here you will want to visit our special guest, our newest artist at Stampotique, Kira Nichols.

Below is a complete list in case you go off the beaten path and need some redirection.

Kira Nichols

Kaz Boughton

Jane Wetzel

Gez Butterworth

Valerie Wilson

Maria Sabina Raita

Lisa Somerville

Jo Capper-Sandon

Kim Howard

Nellie van Leeuwen

Vicki Garrett

Willy Anderson

Kate Crane

Monique Verbeek

Joanne Wardle

SDC42: Sketch

Who knew that there were so many creative ideas for altered bottles?  The creations last challenge were amazing, beautiful colors, different "poison" bottles and so many different styles.  We are so glad you joined us and if you stepped out of your comfort zone for that one, thank you!

Maria's favorites from the last challenge are:

(please e-mail khowardga@gmail.com for your favorites badge)
My apologies for having to add these in after the post went live, thanks for being patient!

Anika

Sue

Ann

And our random winner of the $30 gift certificate for Stampotique stamps is:

(please e-mail carol@stampotique.com with SDC41 Winner as the subject)

#15 Shirley

Lisa here with this weeks Stampotique designers Challenge!  I don't know about you, but I love to use sketches as a jumping point for my work, so for this weeks challenge, I'm providing you the following sketch.

Feel free to rotate it, change the focal image, but try to keep the sketch in tact.  For this weeks challenge you can use ANY Stamp companies images, but if you have Stampotique images, we'd love for you to use them.  Play along with this weeks sketch challenge for your chance to win a $30 Stampotique Gift Certificate, be sure to link in your entries by 5 p.m. EST on 11/22/11 by using the InLinkz below.  Please no back linking to previous posts and only one entry per person.

Lisa Somerville- hostess

Connie Baever-Guest Designer

Kaz Boughton

Jane Wetzel

Gez Butterworth

Willy Anderson

Maria Sabina Raita

Please link in below by 5 p.m. EST on 11/22/11.

SDC41: Altered Poison Bottle

Welcome to the 2nd week of our altered poison bottle challenge.  We hope that you got some inspiration from group one last week and if you are still a little stumped, here is our first group sharing their creations.

As a reminder, here are the challenge details:

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SDC41: Altered Poison Bottle

Maria here this week issuing a new challenge here at Stampotique Designer's Challenge:

"I have a new fun and creative challenge for you all this week.  Are you ready for Halloween?  Well, guess what?  My challenge for you today is an: Altered poison bottle.  I have a passion for sweet/spooky bottles and I would love to see your creations using Stampotique stamps.  

WARNING:  Don't Drink, that's Poison!  Happy Halloween Stampotique-creatures!

Here is more inspiration from the design team:

Kaz Boughton

Jane Wetzel

Gez Butterworth

Valerie Wilson

Willy Anderson

 

Monique Verbeek

Join us by linking in here.

Welcome our November Guest Designer

 Welcome Connie Helen Baever to Stampotique this month as our guest designer.  Here's a little more on Connie:

I am what I call hopeless creative in a crazy way...sometimes less, sometimes more, but the most important thing is that it's all me! A Norwegian girl who has fallen in love with Art Journaling, Cardmaking and Scrapbooking. Working as a Graphic Designer and Marketing responsible for Norway's biggest craftstore, where I also teach classes in both art journaling and cardmaking. I like everything that are messy, colorful and different, and I have had an eye for Daniel Torrente's & Jill Panney's stamps since I first saw them some years back! 

Stop by Connie's blog and leave her some love here.

SDC41: Altered Poison Bottle

We loved all the wonderful array of tags from the last challenge.  Every one did such an amazing job with the backgrounds on the tags and the assortment of images used.  We can all use a good tag any day of the week to spice up a special gift or to throw in a lunch box.  We love the support of the Stampotique fans and so happy to see you all playing each week!

Now for last challenges favorites:

Nellie picked her three favorites:

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

Dawn

Love the stunning butterfly theme of this tag and the colours are absolutely wonderful!

Joanne

Fab colors on this one too and I adore the background, so beautiful

Trace aka inkypinkycraft

Stunning background in some of my favourite colors and I so much love the delicate wings and the quote tag attached

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

#9 Debbie R

(please e-mail carol@stampotique.com with SDC40 Winner in the subject line)

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SDC41: Altered Poison Bottle

Maria here this week issuing a new challenge here at Stampotique Designer's Challenge:

"I have a new fun and creative challenge for you all this week.  Are you ready for Halloween?  Well, guess what?  My challenge for you today is an: Altered poison bottle.  I have a passion for sweet/spooky bottles and I would love to see your creations using Stampotique stamps.  

WARNING:  Don't Drink, that's Poison!  Happy Halloween Stampotique-creatures!

Here is group one with their "poison".  Join us next week as we share some more creations.  

We also want to say a special thank you to our two guest designers this month, Roc and Amy.  We have loved having you create with us!

Maria Sabina Raita

Roc Nicholas- Guest Designer

Amy Wellenstein- Guest Designer

Jo Capper-Sandon

Kim Howard

Nellie van Leeuwen

Vicki Garrett

Kate Crane

Joanne Wardle

Lisa Somerville

Join us by linking in below using InLinkz directly to your creation.  Please no back linking and only one entry per person.

SDC40: It's Tag Time! Group 2

It’s “TAGTIME” this week. 

Nellie is our hostess for the current challenge and here is what she says about her challenge theme:

I love to work on a tag. For me it feels like it somehow invites you to think and work in another way than when you’re making cards. So I challenge you to make a tag or some project in which you use a tag. Any size, any color as long as there’s at least one tag involved in your artwork. 

I used a real king size tag for this challenge. It’s 8,5 inch long and almost 4,5 inch wide. Kate Crane’s DVD “Right from a blank page” inspired me when making the background of my tag. 

You can use stamps from any company for this challenge. But even better, grab your Stampotique stamps and get stamping! 

Group Two:

Jo Capper-Sandon

Kim Howard

 

Vicki Garrett

Kate Crane

Joanne Wardle

Lisa Somerville

Join us by linking in your tag here using any stamps.

SDC40: It's Tag Time!

Wanted to send a big Squishy Hug to all of you who posted a Humorous Birthday Card!!! It was really difficult to choose my three favourites, 'cause they all made me smile. Thanks again for Playing! 


So now for my Four Faves..............I KNOW, I know, but I just couldn't pick 3~~~





First up, this Awesome card by Tracy! I LOVE LOVE LOVE the background, purple is my FAVOURITE Colour  and Wizard of Oz is my Fave movie and this just made me think of it and perhaps that the main girl was Dorothy gone bad!!!! hehe....yeah, I have quite the imagination in my old age!!! Love that spider too!





This Ghostly cards neutral colour scheme by Gay really appealed to my senses. I really love those transparent skull heads and of course those pumpkins are some of my favourite stamps! The card just has a ghostly feel to it!







Love Eric.........LOVE LOVE the sentiment and LOVE LOVE LOVE the background on the cool card by Katja


And now for the SHOWSTOPPER!!!!







This card by Sherry totally had me in stitches!!!! Oh my goodness, I laughed so hard I think I might have even peed a little.......yep, that's what happens when you get to be my age! Thank goodness the years have allowed me to take everything with a grain of salt, including laugh lines, stretchy skin, silver hair and occasional bouts of incontinence.........hope I'm not offending anyone.....just stating the facts!!!

Anyhow I absolutely LOVE the Hair on this babe and her TUTU as well! I am Certain that when I turn 50, I will wear a purple tutu!  After all, purple is my favourite colour you know!!!


Thanks again for playing~
(please e-mail khowardga@gmail.com if you would like the SDC Favorites Badge)

and 

Congratulations to #11 Gerda 
as our random winner from SDC39 for the Stampotique $30 gift certificate for stamps
(please e-mail carol@stampotique.com to claim your gift certifcate with subject SDC39 Winner)


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It’s “TAGTIME” this week. 

Nellie is our hostess this week and here is what she says about her challenge theme:

I love to work on a tag. For me it feels like it somehow invites you to think and work in another way than when you’re making cards. So I challenge you to make a tag or some project in which you use a tag. Any size, any color as long as there’s at least one tag involved in your artwork. 

I used a real king size tag for this challenge. It’s 8,5 inch long and almost 4,5 inch wide. Kate Crane’s DVD “Right from a blank page” inspired me when making the background of my tag. 

You can use stamps from any company for this challenge. But even better, grab your Stampotique stamps and get stamping! 

Nellie van Leeuwen

Roc Nicholas- Guest Designer

Amy Wellenstein- Guest Designer

Kaz Boughton

Jane Wetzel

Gez Butterworth

Valerie Wilson

Willy Anderson

Maria Sabina Raita

Monique Verbeek

We hope you will join in on Nellie's tag challenge this week.  You will have until 10/25/11 to join us by linking directly to your creation below.  Please no backlinking.