Wednesday, September 26, 2012

SDC67: Squares

This week Valerie challenges us to feature squares in our creations! Little squares, big squares, dark squares, light squares, textured squares, distressed squares or dimensional squares - any squares you can think of works for this challenge! Check out how the designers incorporated squares into their projects for some inspiration and then get cutting and join the fun! :)

Please remember you can use any stamps now for our challenge, but only one entry per person.  We will draw 2 random winners on the first week of our challenge in October from all those who played in the September challenges.

Please link DIRECTLY to your creation, not to your blog.  We ask that if you have comment verification turned on, that you would consider turning this on and doing comment moderation instead.  Please use Inlinkz below to link up your challenge using SQUARES.  You will have until noon EST on 10/2/12 to join us.
Anne Swinkels-Guest Designer 











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It's amazing how many different types of party favors you came up with last week!  Amazing work as always.

Maria's top 3 favorites were:
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Congratulations to our top 3 picks and can't wait to see how you use squares this week!

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

SDC66: Party Favors

Maria is our host this week as she challenges us to some favors:

''We all like to party! A sweet treat for your friends, family or co workers is always welcome! But the message is the most important. I challenge you to create a party/lunch favour. Could be any theme: halloween, christmas, birthday theme or just because. ''

Please remember you can use any stamps now for our challenge, but only one entry per person.  We will draw 2 random winners on the first week of our challenge in October from all those who played in the September challenges.

Please link DIRECTLY to your creation, not to your blog.  We ask that if you have comment verification turned on, that you would consider turning this off and doing comment moderation instead.  Please use Inlinkz below to link up your challenge showing us your party favors.  You will have until noon EST on 9/25/12 to join us.













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Color challenges are never easy, but you all blew it out of the water this week with Jane's challenge.  She had a tough time choosing just 3 but here were here top picks:
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#8 Mary Anne's card with the creative folds and I guess she pulled my heart strings with the sentiment since I have 2 boys that I miss so much :(  

#15 Kristen: Absolutely stunning journal page! WOW! Beautiful!    

#22-  Sandra: her "canned pug dogs" were totally over the top!  lol I was cracking up since I believe the images (by Kira Nichols)  to be " Pug dogs " (I own one= a pug that is!) and the background was very cool looking!
**sorry Sandra, it wouldn't let me grab your picture off your blog to display here**
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Please link up below using InLinkz for the current challenge of Party Favors by 9/25/12 at noon 




Wednesday, September 12, 2012

SDC65: Color Challenge


Hi!  Jane here hosting the new challenge this week.  I love the colors Mustard, Navy and Orange.  There you go, the challenge=use them.  

I am also loving this new line of Stampotique Stamps for September, especially since on of "our own" design team members, Maria has her very first line of images in it.  I used Rainy Day 7303 with various Copic markers.  Thanks for looking and good luck!

Please remember you can use any stamps now for our challenge, but only one entry per person.  We will draw 2 random winners on the first week of our challenge in October from all those who played in the September challenges.

Please link DIRECTLY to your creation, not to your blog.  We ask that if you have comment verification turned on, that you would consider turning this on and doing comment moderation instead.  Please use Inlinkz below to link up your challenge using MUSTARD, NAVY and ORANGE.  You will have until noon EST on 9/18/12 to join us.


Anne Swinkels-Guest Designer











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Oh, were you all waiting to see who the winner was from our New Release Blog hop???  
Well, first let's share France's top 3 favorites from the Combine 2 stamps challenge:
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fun stamp combo with a gorgeous background


the stamp combo really looks like it’s one image!


love the Gog Lin in the cages, ready to be eaten !


And for our New Release Blog Hop winner.  We appreciate all of you that took the time to comment on the design team blogs, we hope you enjoyed hopping as much as we enjoyed creating for it.

Our winner is.......
(please contact khowardga @ gmail.com (no spaces) to claim your goodies)
you will have one week to claim your prize


Thank you for such a great blog hop all week, filled with lots of awesome stamps and inspiration. I'm new to Stampotique and can't wait to get some of these stamps to play with!!

Congratulations to our top 3 picks and prize winner and a huge THANK YOU to all that stop by to visit our blog each week and participate in the challenges.  We can't tell you how much we appreciate and enjoy seeing all your creations each week.





Wednesday, September 5, 2012

SDC64: Combining Stamps

**New Release Blog Hop-FINAL REVEAL can be found here**

Hi all !

France here (from Belgium ;) ) to wish a happy Wednesday and a happy new challenge! I don’t know about you, but I’m always under the impression I never (ever) have enough stamps, which is probably true, but… 
Thinking about it gave me the idea for this week’s challenge: how about using what we have, and combining 2 stamps (or more) to create a new image? Now, this might sound intimidating. Just let go, dive into your stamps and let your imagination go wild. Can’t wait to see what you all come up with!

Please remember we are now doing weekly challenges so you will have until Tuesday, 9/11/12 to link up below using Inlinkz for SDC64 and play along for your chance to win. 

All winners from the challenges from the month will have a chance to win, we will randomly draw 2 winners for a $30 gift certificate for Stampotique stamps at our first challenge of the following month (October).

Our winners for the two Stampotique gift certificates for stamps for August are:
(please e-mail carol@stampotique.com with SDC August Winners to redeem your gift certificate)

#15 Maja60
and
#23 GlitteryKatie

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Ready to check out how creative our design team can get showing you how to make the most out of your stamps?  And if you haven't seen our new release blog hop, we encourage you to check it out as well for more chances at goodies from Stampotique!

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Thanks to all who tried their hand at Sarinda's Color Challenge last week.  It's amazing how the color palette comes together on everyone's creations.

Sarinda's top 3 picks were:
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 #1   11 Sarah Anderson
Sarah your creativity shined through on this one. The color matches the Design Seeds image perfectly. I love and MEAN love those flowers.


#2    8 Die Amelie
Wow- I think there is a whole body of work that could be based on this one small work. Nicely done.



#3   15 Coby
Your background is stunning... I love the ghostly alpha. Keep up the Lovely work.



Congratulations to the top 3 picks this week!
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Join us for the current challenge below using InLinkz.  One entry per person only please.