Wednesday, December 13, 2017

SDC288 - Christmas - Week 2

Welcome to the designer's challenge blog. Thanks for stopping by, today we have a special treat for you!! This is our last challenge post of the year and we have rallied our entire team to create projects for your inspiration. 
We are on week 2 of the Christmas challenge and we sure hope you will join us this week. You have the rest of the month to join us!! 
Although we won't have any other posts, we will still be taking challenge entries until the start of next years challenge. 
SO... come and join us, won't you?




NOTE: Stampotique will not have a new release for December and we will not have a guest designer for December but will resume with new releases and guests in January.

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.

Nellie Van Leeuwen 

Yvonne Baas


Cheetarah Cheda


Elena Martynova

Cornelia Wenokor


Karen Hayselden


Arwen McCullen


Milo Lilja


Gemma Maggs


Valerie Wilson


Sternenglanz

Jo Capper-Sandon


Michele Kosciolek


Top 3 was chosen by Claudine this week and her choices are:

1. Granne - Love your wonderful santa smiles! The black and red really pop too

2. Leane Green - Wow, so much to look at in this project. I love each level of your little house.

3. Nadine - I just love the little tree shaker card you've created. So fun!!

Please email Claudine for your top 3 badge

( jasminngirl411 AT Yahoo DOT com )

NOTE - Our ATC swap will be closed for the holidays but will resume again after the new year.
Until then, make sure to check out our Facebook page for lots of support, friends and fun

We also have tons of pictures on our Pinterest boards, come on by  for a dose of inspiration!

Friday, December 8, 2017

Global Warming!?

While I was perusing some blogs today I noticed this little cutie project on the Image Crafts Blog. 
I thought I would share here because the spotlight of this project is our very own Global Warming by Daniel Torrente.


Click the link HERE to see the full tutorial by Rene Zarate




Wednesday, December 6, 2017

SDC288 - Christmas

Oh my goodness! Time has really flown by! Here we are on our first Challenge of December already! Can you believe it?
Of course we can't disappoint and we had to have a "Christmas" themed challenge. So this week our theme is Christmas!! 


Are you working on Christmas themed projects? Come over and join us for this fun challenge. We would love for you to use Stampotique stamps for your project if you have some.

Check out our Design Team's projects below, there is some wonderful inspiration!!

NOTE: Stampotique will not have a new release for December and we will not have a guest designer for December but will resume with new releases and guests in January.

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.













Top 3 was chosen by Elena and her tops are - 
1. Paperwhims
2. Nadine
3. Maja R

Please email Claudine for your top 3 badge
( jasminngirl411 AT Yahoo DOT com )

We also have two winners  of the 30.00 gift certificate to our online store and the winners are:

#8 Gerrina
#11 - WendyLynn

Congrats! Email Claudine for your prize!!

NOTE - Our ATC swap will be closed for the holidays but will resume again after the new year.
Until then, make sure to check out our Facebook page for lots of support, friends and fun

We also have tons of pictures on our Pinterest boards, come on by  for a dose of inspiration!
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Tuesday, December 5, 2017

December Challenge Links

PLEASE READ ALL RULES CAREFULLY BEFORE LINKING
(There are new changes)

Stampotique Challenges will now run every TWO weeks......

Please remember you can use any stamps for our challenge and you are allowed to have 2 different entries per challenge. We also ask that your entries be new creations. From ALL (Facebook and Challenge Blog) current months entries we will draw 2 random winners who will each win a 30.00 gift certificate on the first week of the following month. 
(Please Note - Shipping and handling rates are not included in 30.00 GC)

We have some exciting news!! You can now join in our challenges on our Facebook group. We will be creating a photo album for each challenge, all you need to do is add your project to the proper photo album in order to join.
Please only upload your image to ONE place, either here OR on our Facebook Challenge Album, do not enter in both places

We are no longer accepting creations using digi stamps. These will be deleted, we appreciate those that play with us each week and we welcome those using rubber or clear stamps.
We also ask that you only enter our challenge along with 4 other challenges, anything beyond that and you will be disqualified.

* Please link up DIRECTLY to your creation
  
*You MUST include the challenge # behind your name (which can be found at the Stampotique Designer's Challenge blog) 

NOTE: Any entries not linking directly to your creation AND having the challeng # will be deleted and not eligible for prize.   For example if I'm entering it would look like this- 
JANE DOE-SDC73 
(or whichever challenge # it is)

Wednesday, November 29, 2017

SDC287 - Thankfulness - Week 2

Hello and welcome back to the Designer's Challenge Blog. We hope that you had a wonderful Thanksgiving. 
We are onto week two of Thankfulness! Give us your best Thankful project. Whether your thankful for family, friends, food, nature... whatever it may be, or maybe you just made a Thank You card... Let's see it!
Enjoy some beautiful inspiration from our team below....



You can see all of our stamps at our online store HERE
Stampotique releases new stamps every month so be sure to check out the latest. We will not have a new release for December, giving everyone a nice break for the holidays but will be back in January with 6 more new stamps!!!

It has been such a pleasure having Anat Weksler with us this month. Thanks to her for her beautiful creations using our stamps.


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.
















Cheetarah Chose Top 3 this week and her picks are:

1. Paper Whims

2. Nadine

3. Gerrina

Please email Claudine for your top 3 badge
( jasminngirl411 AT Yahoo DOT com )

NOTE - Our ATC swap will be closed for the holidays but will resume again after the new year.
Until then, make sure to check out our Facebook page for lots of support, friends and fun

We also have tons of pictures on our Pinterest boards, come on by  for a dose of inspiration!

Wednesday, November 22, 2017

SDC287 - Thankfulness

Hello and welcome back to the Stampotique Challenge Blog. Thanks so much for stopping by. Tomorrow is Thanksgiving for those of us in the US and we are celebrating by making this week's challenge all about
"Thankfulness"
Let's see what your thankful for this week OR just make a project with thankfulness in mind. Either way, we hope you will come and join us.


You can see all of our stamps at our online store HERE
Stampotique releases new stamps every month so be sure to check out the latest. We will not have a new release for December, giving everyone a nice break for the holidays but will be back in January with 6 more new stamps!!!


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.

Anat Weksler




Sternenglanz

Jo Capper-Sandon


Michele Kosciolek


Cornelia Wenokor



Sternenglanz chose top 3 this week and her picks are:

1. lena-dailyscrap  - Love the hidden Legs

2.  Preeti D. - Love the wonderful effects and Colors

3.  Katrins kreative Art  - Love the Skeleton Leaves! They are so wonderful!


Please email Claud
ine for your top 3 badge
( jasminngirl411 AT Yahoo DOT com )

NOTE - Our ATC swap will be closed for the holidays but will resume again after the new year.
Until then, make sure to check out our Facebook page for lots of support, friends and fun
We also have tons of pictures on our Pinterest boards, come on by  for a dose of inspiration!

Wednesday, November 15, 2017

SDC286 - Nature - Week 2

Hello again and thank you for stopping by our blog, we are always enamored with your creations and love those of you that have joined us for this challenge. We are onto week 2 of the "Nature" challenge. Please check out the wonderful inspiring creations from our team below and then come and join us for this challenge.

You can see all of our stamps at our online store HERE
Stampotique releases new stamps every month so be sure to check out the latest.


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.


Anat Weksler




Jools Robertson


Arwen McCullen


Milo Lilja


Gemma Maggs


Valerie Wilson

Top 3 this week was chosen by Jools and her picks are:

1, Nadine  - Wonderful colours, layers and sparkle!

2, Lena-Dailyscrap  - Love the leaves and use of colour

3, Preeti D - Wonderful textures and color effects

Please email Claudine for your top 3 badge
( jasminngirl411 AT Yahoo DOT com )

NOTE - Our ATC swap will be closed for the holidays but will resume again after the new year.
Until then, make sure to check out our Facebook page for lots of support, friends and fun
We also have tons of pictures on our Pinterest boards, come on by  for a dose of inspiration!

Wednesday, November 8, 2017

SDC286 - Nature

Thonline shop  has now re-opened and they are working on fulfilling orders that came in while they were out. We thank you for your patience.

We are onto a new week of challenges and we are so excited about this one. It's a wonderful time of year and Nature plays such a great part in fall and it's amazing colors.
This week we want to see your "Nature" projects. 



We can't wait to see what you make for this fun challenge...
Check out some inspiration from our design team below and then come and join us!!


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.















Jo Chose our top 3 this week and her choices are:

1. Lena - This is actually REALLY creepy...love the touch of resin over the eyes in the background. A fabulous idea overall.

2. Wendy - A realy cute but spooky composition using spider girl.Love all the dotty papers and additions

3. Nadine - I could spend hours looking at this. Love the layers and colours. What a fabulous gathering of all things creepy!


Congrats, please email Claudine for your badge
( jasminngirl411 AT Yahoo dot com )

REMINDER: We do encourage you to add your creations here on the blog but if you don't have a blog or don't know how to upload your photos to this blog, you can now join on Facebook 
Again, you can join twice in each challenge with two different NEW projects and we will choose winners of the 30.00 Gift Certificates from challenge entries on Facebook AND on the Blog here. We will still only have 2 winners each month.
Please upload your images to ONE place, either Facebook OR here on the blog. 
We also have a wonderful new ATC swap going on check it out here: