Stampotique New Release Blog Hop

Card details:

Stamps: Love 8882 and Kate's Angel 11006 from Stampotique Originals

Cardstock: Regal Rose, Pink Pirouette, Rustic White, Crate Paper Oh Darling

Inks: Memento Tuxedo Black, copic markers

Embellishments: tag punch, mini clothespin, lace, sewing, petal ink liquid pearls

Today we are so excited about the new release for Stampotique Originals!!!  We've been keeping it under wraps for weeks now, but know that some of you got a sneak at one of our new stamp artists.  

Stampotique is thrilled to add to the line-up the designs one of our former team members and popular mixed media artist, Kate Crane (is that squealing we hear amongst you?).  We know you all won't be disappointed with the line-up of stamps from all our artists this go around.

Are you ready to see some wonderful artwork showcasing some of the new stamps?  There are 50+ new ones being released this time around, so plenty for everyone to choose from (or choose them all).

Card details:

Stamps: Bark Cube 6192 and Poochas Gracias 8972 from Stampotique Originals

Cardstock: Rustic White, Basic Black, My Mind's Eye Union Square

Inks: Memento Tuxedo Black, copic markers

Retro Sketches #153 and CQC279

Hop along with the design team and 2 special guest bloggers leaving comments along the way.  We will choose 3 random winners from 3 selected blogs along the way to win some goodies.

We will choose our winners with our next challenge on February 25th.

You should have arrived here from Claudine Criner's blog. Your next stop along the way will be Astrid Stulemeijer's blog.  If you get lost anywhere along the way you can come back to the Stampotique Designer's Challenge blog to find your way.

Janet Klein

Coby vanWilligenburg

Claudine Criner

Kim Howard

Astrid Stulemeijer

Valerie Wilson

Carol Fox

Kate Crane

Sue Davies

Kaz Boughton

Corrie Herriman

Kathi Rerek

Samantha Read

France Papillion

Roc Nicholas

Kristen Catalano

Nellie van Leeuwen

Arwen McCullen

Magda Polakow

Jackie Payne

Gez Butterworth

Hope you enjoy all the design team creations, 

we can't wait to hear what your favorite new stamps are!

SDC177: New Year's Resolution

Claudine Criner is our hostess for our first challenge in the New Year over at the Stampotique Designer's Challenge:

Most of us always create a New Year's Resolution and the beginning of the New Year.  For 2015 try your hand at making something with your New Year's Resolution in mind.

I love coloring this sunflower, and you can't see it in this photo but I've added some dimension to it by cutting out the petals and flower center and putting dimensionals under it.  I've also added some crystal lacquer to the petals, stems and over the sequins (which I wish I hadn't done).

Growing your dreams is always something to look forward to year after year.  My husband and I talk about several things we'd like to do besides the standard "losing weight, being more healthy"-so hoping this is the year for us to do a few of those things.

I've used the RetroSketches #147 for this creation as well.

Hope you will join us over at Stampotique Designer's Challenge this week!

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Card details:

Stamps:  Sunflower 9257, Grow Your Dreams 7321 from Stampotique Originals

Cardstock: Crumb Cake, Rustic Cream, Create Paper-The Pier

Inks: Memento Rich Cocoa, copic markers

Embellishments: sequins, Crystal Lacquer, dimensionals

Birthday Sunflowers

I've been trying to get back into my creative mode and this past weekend was pretty successful.  I stamped and worked a little on my Project Life album.

I thought I'd be tired of sunflowers after doing the wedding invitations and then the wedding itself, but no-it's the first one I pulled out to work with when I was stamping.  Of course I went straight for my sketches as well :-)

For this card I used the current Retro Sketches challenge.

Hope to see you all around here more frequently!

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Card details:

Stamps: Simply Sunflower from Papertrey Ink and Poppy Birthday from Verve Stamps

Cardstock: Cherry Cobbler, Confetti White, The Pier by Crate Paper

Inks: So Saffron, Close to Cocoa and Wild Wasabi, Archival

Embellishments: Notebook punch, Memory Box jewel stickers

Technostamper's Monday Lunchtime Sketch Challenge #40

This week's sketch from Technostamper's Monday Lunchtime Sketch Challenge was a tricky one for me. I'm so used to doing squares/rectangles evenly and so to do this one cockeyed was HARD!!! I did manage though and was pleased with how both of them turned out. I know!!!! I did 2!!!!!!

This card was done using my new set Upsy Daisy and Best Yet. I colored my image with my markers (Old Olive, Really Rust and Tangerine Tango) using my aquapainters and then squirted a little water on it using my new mini mister from Ranger (love this!). I had run my old olive through the Argyle cuttlebug and then daubed some chocolate chip over it. I mounted it on chocolate chip cardstock and then confetti cream. Loved this effect of the watercoloring although I think I need to mist a little further away from it next time.

This next card is using a ETA: Sorry, Inky Antics (not Lockhart) stamp that I won guessing Jane's baby pool. It's called Enjoying Good Things (10764J) and I had fun with some new Crate Paper-Water Lilies from the Mia Collection that I bought on a little shopping trip while I was in MD and went to a stamp store (The Queen's Ink) and a scrapbook store which I can't remember the name of. I got to visit with some friends, Leigh and Toni, laughed hard and ate some yummy crabcakes!

On the inside of my card it says "hot stuff" which is an inside joke in the office with a couple girls. The little question on the front I did in Word.

Join in the fun this week and post to Mary's Jo's post or SCS with keyword TSSC40. Can't wait to see what you all come up with!