Dog house

Hello everyone,

and welcome to my last blogpost for Stampotique ! I am leaving the team after 3,5 years because it is time to move on. I had a wonderful time here and would like to thank Carol and Jim and of course Kim and Claudine and all my teammates... I hope all the newbies will have lots of fun too !

 For this post I have made an Art Journal page using Stampotique Stamps of course but also the some of the die cuts we got for the Eileen Hull collaboration.

I have used a gelli print for the background and added some stamping and stencilling to it. The theme for the current challenge is "Stencil it" so I put some in. I also added stencilling on the house. 

You could play along with us too and win one of two $30 vouchers at the end of the month. Just make sure to read the rules first ! 

I have used the following stamps for this:

Fax to Wolfgang

Dog Cube

Shoogy dog

Toto

Alphabitties

Thank you for stopping by today ! 

Art journal

Hello everyone,

This week starts a new challenge over at the Stampotique Designers' blog and the theme is "Stencil it". Also we have a collaboration with Eileen Hull this month. We got sent a few goodies by Eileen and one of them was her  'Heartfelt journal'. This is a die set to cut out the bits you need to make your own journal. We received the already cut out bits and I made this with it:

The book was put together first and then I added crackle paste through a flower stencil. I then painted it... Once that was all dry I inked the edges with Archival Ink and stencilled some more with white paint and a dot stencil. I added stamping and the little monster. He was stamped and coloured with Copics, cut out and glued on. 

I filled the book with paper and will use it for my journaling...

A close up of the crackle... 

I have used the following stamps:

Whisker Monster

Interactive Cube

Fax to Wolfgang

Texture Cube 1

Alphabitties

Thank you so much for stopping by today ! 

Happy birthday

Hello everyone,

and welcome to the second week of our challenge at the Stampotique Designers' Challenge blog. The theme is 'Flowers'. We hope you will play along with us ! You might win one of two $30 vouchers at the end of the month ! Just make sure to read the rules first.

I have made a card:

I have rediscovered this technique of heat embossing on your card and then colouring with inks... So I did it again ! 

I used Distress and Distress Oxide inks for the background. When I was happy with it I matted it on black card stock. I then stamped the big flower on a piece of card stock, coloured it with Copic Markers and matted that too. I added the sentiment and put the whole thing together. 

Simple but effective I think. 

I used the following stamps for this card :

Carol's Flower Large

Carol's Flower Small

Happy birthday 

Thank you so much for stopping by today ! 

Be your beautiful self

Hello everyone,

and welcome to a new challenge at the Stampotique Designers' Challenge blog. For the next 2 weeks our theme will be 'Flowers'. We hope you will play along with us ! You might win one of two $30 vouchers at the end of the month ! Just make sure to read the rules first.

I have made an art journal page ...

I started this page by heat embossing the big flower with white embossing powder all over the page. I then used Distress Oxide Inks to create the background. I used yellow and pink. 

Alice was stamped without her bottle of poison and coloured and cut out. I replaced the bottle with a bunch of flowers.. Much nicer isn't it ! lol 

I adhered her onto the page after putting down some washi tape for her to stand on and added a small talk sticker by Tim Holtz. 

I used the following stamps:

Kassa's Bloom

Alice

Daisy daisy

Thank you for stopping by today ! 

Love with all your heart

Hello everyone,

and Happy Wednesday to you !

It is the second week of our 'Oldie but goodie' Challenge at Stampotique ! I have used some of my (many) favourite stamps for this postcard:

He is so cute isn't he ! The background was made by smooshing (technical term, lol) a piece of white Mixed Media card stock into Distress Oxide Inks. I love these inks, it is so easy to make nice colourful backgrounds. It is almost impossible to make muddy colours. 

Anyway after I was happy with the background I stamped the Heart Vine on the card and coloured the stems with a white pen and added some pink to the hearts with a marker. 

Next I stamped Heart Shirt, coloured him with my Copic Markers, cut him out and adhered him onto the card. I used a coloured pencil to add some ground under his feet. A sticker by Tim Holtz finished it off. 

We hope you'll play along with us this week; you could win one of two $30 vouchers at the end of the month... just remember to read the rules first. 

I used the following stamps:

Heart Vine

Heart Shirt

Thank you so much for stopping by today ! 

Not my circus...

Hello everyone,

and Happy Wednesday to you !

It is the first week of our 'Oldie but goodie' Challenge at Stampotique ! I have used some of my (many) favourite stamps for this tag:

This tag is made of Kraft card stock. I started by stamping Batboy and colouring him with Copic Markers. I always wanted to try colouring on Kraft and I think it came out nice. 

I then stamped him again on masking paper and masked him so I could stamp the background. I used Distress Oxide inks for this. I added some water droplets for more interest but you can hardly see them.. I added some washi tape and the sentiment which is from a new set of quotes that came out in May. A piece of Sari ribbon finished off my tag. 

We hope you'll play along with us this week; you could win one of two $30 vouchers at the end of the month... just remember to read the rules first. 

I used the following stamps:

Quotes #1

Batboy

Circle cube

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Beep beep

Hello everyone,

Today, over at the Stampotique Designers' Challenge, it is the second week of the challenge with the theme  'For the boys'. I made a postcard :

I had this background in my stash, I think it was made with Lindy's Ink Spray.  I added some stamping to the background and then added the washi tape. 

I stamped the cars on separate white card stock. I coloured them with Copic Markers, cut them out and adhered them onto the card, cutting one in half for more interest. I stuck the halves on either side and fitted the rest in between.

We would love you to play along with us. You could win one of the two $30 vouchers at the end of the month; make sure to read the rules first though...

I used the following stamps:

Beep beep

Kate's doodles cube

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Boys will be boys

Hello everyone,

Today, over at the Stampotique Designers' Challenge, there is a new challenge. The theme is 'For the boys'. Well for this occasion I had to get my favourite men out !!
I made a trio of ATC's :

The backgrounds were made with Acrylic paints, a gelli plate and some Distress Oxide Inks. I then added some stamping with the same blue Oxide and Archival Jet black ink. 

I stamped the 'men' on the cards and on some separate card stock. I coloured them, cut them out and adhered them onto the cards, cutting off the excess. 

I used the following stamps:

Heart Throb

Smile

Oliver

Texture Cube #1

Fax to Wolfgang 

Thank you for stopping by today ! 

My own little world

Hello everyone,

Welcome to my blog where today we celebrate another release by Stampotique Originals. It is also the second week of the 'One Layer' challenge. We would love to see you play along with us this week; you might just win one of two $30 vouchers at the end of the month. Just read the rules first !

Anyway, I made a card for this week's, for me very difficult, challenge !

I have used two stamps from the new release.  I stamped Matilda and the sentiment on a piece of Bristol card stock and coloured everything with Zig Clean Color Real Brush markers. 

 I then glued the panel to a white card and that was that ! 

I used the following stamps:

Matilda

Quotes #1

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Did I roll my eyes out loud ?

Hello everyone,

and welcome to my blogpost for Stampotique Designers' Challenge. Today sees the start of a new challenge and it is all about single layer projects.
Here's mine:

It is an ATC on watercolour paper. 

I stamped Cooee and the sentiment, coloured everything with watercolour markers and added the spirals with Distress Oxide ink. I doodled around the card and that was that ! 

I used the following stamps:

Cooee

Phrase Cube #2

Spiral Daydream 

Thank you so much for stopping by today ! 

A cupcake in a world of muffins

Hello everyone,

For the second week of the "Bling it on" challenge over at the Stampotique Designers's Challenge blog, I have made a tag. We are also still collaborating with Lindy's Stampgang and of course I have used the lovely supplies we got from them to use this month.

First of all I stamped the smal cupcake all over the tag with VersaMark ink and then heat embossed it with Lindy's Embossing powder "Dandilion Yellow Green". I then sprayed the starburst spray "Rusty Lantern Lime" over the top. I also added some splatters with the "Black Forest Black" Magical shaker. I put the powder on my craft sheet, added water and splattered with a paintbrush. 

Next I stamped the cupcake, coloured it with Copic Markers, adhered it to the tag and added the sentiment over the top. I coloured the letters in with a white paint marker. For a bit more bling I added some silver sparkling washi tape. 

That was it ! 

I used the following stamps:

Cupcake with little cupcake on the side

Cupcake text

I hope you'll play along with us this month. You might just win one of two $30 vouchers at the end of the month. Before entering please read the rules ! 

Thank you so much for stopping by today ! 

Happy birthday

Hello everyone, 

Welcome to another Stampotique Designers' Challenge ! This week it is all about bling. We are still collaborating with Lindy's Stampgang as well so the bling bit is not difficult with all those lovely shimmery sprays.... 

We hope you will bling up your project and play along with us. Just make sure to read the rules first... 

Anyway I have made a birthday card:

I have made the background with Lindy's 'Rusty Lantern Lime' and 'Blue Hawaiian Blue'; these are starburst sprays and have a lovely shimmer to them. 

I then stamped the girl and the sentiment on white card stock, coloured the girl and cut both out. I adhered them to my background and then added some stickles glitter glue to her skirt. The whole panel was then adhered to a blank card. 

I used the following stamps:

Cupcake girl

Happy Birthday

Fax to Wolfgang

Thank you so much for stopping by today ! 

A little ray of...

Hello everyone,

It is the first Wednesday in April and that means there is a new release at Stampotique. As you might know these days we get 6 new stamps every month and not a huge amount twice a year. This is easier to deal with for everybody.

Also this month we have a collaboration with Lindy's Stampgang ! yay ! I love Lindy's products and use them quite often. For this collaboration we were sent some goodies and I used three of them on my project: A starburst spray, 'Rusty Lantern Lime' for the background, a Magical 'Sidewalk Chalk' and a Magical Shaker 'Black Forest Black' for adding splatters.

It is also the second week of the 'Text Background' challenge and I have made a journal page with some old and some new stamps. Why not play along with us? You might win one of two $30 vouchers at the end of the month. Just make sure to read the rules first !

I started with adding a layer of Gesso on my paper. When is was dry I added the script with VersaMark ink and heat embossed it with WOW white embossing powder. I then sprayed the page with the lime inkspray and when that was dry splattered some white and black on it. 

I stamped the television on the page and on a separate piece of paper. Next I stamped the girl and the sentiment. The TV and the girl were water coloured,  put together and glued to the page. The text was cut apart and adhered to the page. I did add some grey water colour to the edges of the word strips. 

That completed my page. 

I have used the following stamps:

from the March release:

Elaina

Background script

From the April release

Phrase Cube II

Television

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Fragile ocean

Hello everyone,

and welcome to another Challenge at the Stampotique Designers' Challenge blog. This time it is all about text backgrounds. We hope you'll have a go as we'll and play along.

Here's my postcard :

This is a gelli print which was done on a menu of a restaurant. 

I stamped the fish on the card directly and also on a piece of blank book paper. I then cut out some bits and adhered them to the one on the card.  I then made the sentiment from two different sentiment stamps and adhered them also. The barcode stamp finished it off. 

I used the following stamps:

Ocean text

Barcode

Barcode text

Fishbone

Thank you so much for stopping by today ! 

Approach with caution

Hello everyone,

and welcome to my blog where I am sharing a tag for the second week of the 'tag it' challenge for the Stampotique Designers' Challenge blog. I used another of the new stamps for March...
We would love to see you make something with a tag too, you could make one or add one to your project.

I cut this tag out of white card stock and then used a brayer and two shades of blue acrylic paint to colour the tag. I then added some stamping. The circles were stamped with black Archival ink and the baroque swirls were heat embossed with light blue WOW embossing powder. 

The little chap is called "Cranium" and it a new stamp for March by Daniel Torrente. 

I coloured him with Copics, cut him out and adhered him to the tag. 

I then stamped the sentiment, cut it into pieces and adhered it too. 

I used the following stamps:

Cranium

Approach with caution

Baroque Background

Circled circle

Thank you so much for stopping by today ! 

Come fly with me

Hello everyone,

and welcome to yet another Challenge at the Stampotique Designers' Challenge Blog ! This coming fortnight it will be all about tags. You can make one or put one on your project. If you play along with us you might win a $30 voucher at the end of the month. Just make sure to read the rules first !
I've made a tag:

This was a simple project, I cut this tag out of white card stock and stamped the plane and the sentiment on it with Archival ink and then coloured everything with a variety of materials like pencils, watercolours and even some alcoholmarkers.. I added some faux stitch lines and a piece of ribbon and that was that. 

I used the following stamps:

All Aboard 

Alphabitties

Thank you for stopping by today ! 

Whatever..

Hello everyone,

There is a new challenge over at the Stampotique Designers' Challenge Blog. It is 'Ribbon or lace' and I really struggled with this one ... in the end I just added a piece of lacy ribbon on the side of my art journal page...

This paper is a mop up page from my gelli plate. Sometimes these turn out better than the actual prints... On the print you see two new stamps ! The white script and the girl... 

I stamped the background a little first, the script was white embossed and then stamped Elaina on white card stock and coloured her with Copic Markers. I cut her out and glued her on the page.

It was then that my struggle started .. I had out my stash of ribbons and lace and couldn't decide what to do or where to put it.. lol 

In the end I settled for this piece which was green to start, I painted it with gesso before stapling it to my page. 

The sentiment is a really old one but I though it fitted her face perfectly ! 

I used the following stamps: 

Whatever

Fax to Wolfgang

Elaina (new)

Background script (new)

I hope you'll play along with us this week! Just remember to real the rules before submitting ! 

Thank you for stopping by today ! 

Dancing in the rain

Hello everyone,

and welcome to week 2 of the 'seeing red' Challenge over at the Stampotique Designers' Challenge Blog! We want you all to use your favourite shades of this colour !
Before you enter the competition where you could win a $30 voucher at the end of the month, please read the rules on the blog !

Anyway, here's mine :

This is my 'Clean and Simple' card.  

I stamped the 'brolly' on a piece of white card stock and added the sentiment. I then coloured the umbrella with Copic Markers and added some shading under it. 

I then adhered the panel to a white card. Done ! 

I used two stamps:

Rain text

Brolly 

Thank you for stopping by today ! 

Resistance is futile

Hello everyone,

and welcome to another new Challenge over at the Stampotique Designers' Challenge Blog! This week we are seeing red and want you all to use your favourite shades of this colour !
Before you enter the competition where you could win a $30 voucher at the end of the month, please read the rules on the blog !

Anyway, here's mine :

I made the background with Distress inks. I smooshed them onto my craft sheet and dipped the card in it. I kept repeating it until I was happy. 

I used a Tim Holtz stencil and white paint to add some interest and also some background stamping in similar colours as the background. I coloured in the hearts with Copic Markers. 

Little HooHoo was stamped on white card stock and coloured with Copics too. I cut him out and found he didn't stand out enough so I added a circle of white paper stamped with the same hearts I used for the background. I typed this sentiment (from Star Trek when the Borg were getting everyone, yes, I am a bit of a Trekkie) on my old typewriter and added it to the card. 

I also used a little washi tape with more hearts.

I used the following stamps:

Little Hoo-Hoo

Daniel's Hearts

Romantic text 

Thank you for stopping by today ! 

Love

Hello everyone,

and welcome to the second week of the 'love bugs' Challenge over at the Stampotique Designers' Challenge. I have used the fabulous new 'Terra Cotta Bunny' but have replaced the terra cotta pot with carrots he is normally holding with a heart.

I hope you all play along with us but before you do make sure you read the rules on the SDC blog.

I have made a card :

I stamped the bees first and coloured them. Then I stamped the rabbit and the heart, masking off the tops of the carrots that were in his face. I coloured all the pieces with Copic Markers, cut them out and assembled them together on the card panel. I then stamped the word 'love'. 

The card panel was then adhered to a white card base. 

I have used the following stamps:

Terra Cotta Bunny 

My Heart

Medium bee (I have used the small one that comes on the side)

Alphabitties

Thank you so much for stopping by today !