Wednesday, October 30, 2013

SDC123: Fabulous Folds

Welcome back to our Wednesday challenge here at Stampotique.  We are thrilled that you are joining us again this week at Stampotique Designer's Challenge and we have a fun challenge for you.

Today we want to see you try your hand at some fabulous folds.  Use more than one fold on your card, get all fancy on us and use multiple folds.

Need some ideas?  Here's a board I pulled off pinterest with lots of fold ideas.  Do a google search and you'll see some magnificent ideas pop up.

**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*







There are some fabulous showcases of how you can use fabric or lace on your creations from our last challenge and France's favorites are:
(please e-mail khowardga@gmail.com if you would like the badge to display)


Thanks for playing along and can't wait to see how you fold those cards this week!

Wednesday, October 23, 2013

SDC122: Fabric or Lace


France is our hostess this week and here is her challenge:

When stuck while making a project, it's often adding texture that gets me rolling again. But lace or fabric is often the last thing i think about when searching for texture. So I thought it would be fun to have all of you lovely peeps make art using fabric or lace. And all those fab creations would make one awesome inspiration board!

**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*



Astrid Stulemeijer

Carol's favorite spooky and scary Halloween creations were:
(e-mail khowardga@gmail.com if you would like to display the favorites badge)


I loved this by Amanda, it really made me smile.


The quote that kay used just set this card off and gave it a lovely touch of humour.

Wednesday, October 16, 2013

SDC121: Halloween

Carol is hosting our challenge this week and it's time to get out your spooky stamps:

"I particularly choose the month of October to host the challenge as I love Halloween. it was the quirky off beat stamps of Daniel Torrente that first drew me to Stampotique all those years ago, as it then seemed to me that I could make Halloween themed items all year with his gothic style stamps and no one would realize that was what I was doing. I think I may have broken the record on my make for the challenge with the most rubber stamps used on one item, but it was hard as there were just so many to choose from. Hope you all enjoy the challenge and get your spook on for the whole month. carol x"

Carol Fox

Guest Designer: Sam Butler

Jane Wetzel


Sam Read

Nellie van Leeuwen

Gez Butterworth

France Papillon

Maria Sabina Raita

Susan Davies

Roc Nicholas

Val's favorites from the Handles, hinges, buckles, fasteners, pulls challenge are:

(please e-mail khowardga@gmail.com if you would like the favorites badge for your blog)

Loving Laura's bold use of an entire zipper on her card

Can't stand how cute the polka dot belt is on Helen's colorful tag

Hooked on the hinges on Gail's humorous peek-a-boo hoo house!

Everyone really rocked this challenge!
Thanks so much for playing along!

Wednesday, October 9, 2013

SDC120: Handles, hinges, buckles, fasteners, pulls

Val is our hostess this week and she is challenging us to Handles, hinges, buckles, fasteners, pulls - different ways to flip, fold, fasten, open, close and grasp! These could be used on cards, dimensional projects, envelopes or altered/recycled/found objects.... faux or real - anything goes!

Want to thank everyone who took time to submit for the design team call.  We loved all the creations and while picking the members to join us on the design team is never an easy decision, we are excited to share with you soon who we choose.

If you were not chosen, it wasn't because we didn't like your work.  We look for a variety of designers who like to use a variety of stamps.  We also try to look for active bloggers who show their enthusiasm for Stampotique.  We encourage all to continue playing along with the challenges and posting your work to Facebook and we hope to see you apply for the team after the next term.

Our announcement of the new team will not happen until later in the year.


**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*

Astrid Stulemeijer


Sam's favorite ATC's from last week are:

I fell in love with this ATC as soon as I saw it, wonderful!!

I loved the bright colours Laura used here and 2 Sticks is just 2 cute!!

I love the colours used on Kathi's ATC, Moon Girl looks amazing hanging out with the flowers!

Wednesday, October 2, 2013

SDC119: ATC's


Sam is our hostess this week and here's her challenge to us:

"I love making ATC's the 2.5 x 3.5 inch size is perfect for any media you wish to use and you can squeeze in lots of details and layers in a small space or keep it quite plain and simple. ATC's can be dramatic or just plain fun so I can't wait to see yours!"

**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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We are so appreciative of all those who threw their hat in the ring for the design team.  We are busy checking out all the entries and we will hopefully be making selections in the next week.
Again, thank you to everyone for being so excited to be a part of this team.

The washi tape challenge was a fun one, interesting to see how everyone uses it on their creations.  Astrid's favorites were:
(e-mail khowardga@gmail.com for favorites badge to display on your blog)

Claudine C.

Jennifer Ferrell

Coco R.

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Our two random winners for the $30 gift certificate for Stampotique stamps this month are:
(please e-mail carol@stampotique.com with September SDC winner in your subject line)