SDC389: Christmas

Welcome back for the last Stampotique Designer's Challenge of 2021 - the theme is Christmas!!  There are a boatload of great stamps to choose from for this one!!  Let's see how many you can mix and match to make something very merry! Have a beautiful holiday season everyone!!

Stamps by Stampotique Originals:
Agatha Little Devil, Mer Angel With Gift, 
Santa Baby, Wish You A Merry Christmas

“One can never have enough socks," said Dumbledore. "Another Christmas has come and gone and I didn't get a single pair. People will insist on giving me books.”

J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

SDC388: Pets

Welcome back just in time for this week's Stampotique Designers Challenge theme of Pets. Given the coming holidays, I decided to feature one of Santa's "pets" on this journal page! I can't wait to see what you create for your chance to win $30 to spend in the Stampotique Store!!

Stamps by Stampotique Originals:
Reindeer, Tree-O, Superhero Text

“Heroes are made by the paths they choose, not the powers they are graced with.”

Brodi Ashton, Everneath

SDC387: Anything Goes

Welcome back! It's time for this week's Stampotique Designer's Challenge where Anything Goes!!  This bookmark was created for one awesome, beautiful teenager whose birthday is the day before Halloween!  I can't wait to see what you create for your chance to win $30 to spend in the Stampotique Store!!

Stamps by Stampotique Originals:
Spider Girl, Galvanized, Phrase 5 Cube

“I take my hat off to you — or I would, if I were not afraid of showering you in spiders.”
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

SDC386: Boys Will Be Boys

Welcome back! It's time for this week's Stampotique Designer's Challenge theme of Boys Will Be Boys.  Thinking of all the antics the Stampotique boys can get themselves into just makes me smile!  I can't wait to see what you create for your chance to win $30 to spend in the Stampotique Store!!

Stamps by Stampotique Originals:
Zane, Giorgio,  Mash Up, Splattered Mug

“Do you like him much?'
I told you I liked him a little. Where is the use of caring for him so very much: he is full of faults.'
Is he?'
All boys are.”

Charlotte Brontë, Villette

SDC385: Halloween

Welcome back! It's time for this week's Stampotique Designer's Challenge for Halloween!!  One thing you won't have any shortage of is stamps to choose from - the Stampotique designers have Halloween on lock!!  I can't wait to see what you create for your chance to win $30 to spend in the Stampotique Store!!

Stamps by Stampotique Originals:
Wheelbarrow, Halloween Cube 2

“A pumpkin lives but once a year when someone sets its soul afire and on that night it stirs up fear until its flame is snuffed.

Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year

SDC384: One Layer

 Welcome back! It's time for this week's Stampotique Designer's Challenge to use just One Layer!!  You can use any colors, any medium, any layout, and any Stampotique stamps, but you are challenged to put everything on a single layer!  It's a tricky one for me!!  I can't wait to see what you create for your chance to win $30 to spend in the Stampotique Store!!

Stamps by Stampotique Originals:
Granny, Bow Heart, Whole Heart

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”

Marilyn Monroe

SDC383: Word or Quote Stamp

Welcome back! It's time for this week's Stampotique Designer's Challenge to use a Word or Quote Stamp.  The only challenge here is choosing which stamp to use!!!  There are just so many great sayings to choose from!! I can't wait to see what you create for your chance to win $30 to spend in the Stampotique Store!!

Stamps by Stampotique Originals:
Crown, Gussie Up

“Laughter bounced off the seats like party balloons, each ear catching its sound, magnifying it, carrying it forwards and backwards, soaring on a ripple of words.”

Maggie Harris, Shoal: A Thanet Writers Anthology

SDC382: Anything Goes

Welcome back! It's time for this week's Stampotique Designer's Challenge where Anything Goes!!  You can use any colors, any medium, any layout, and any Stampotique stamps!  The options are endless!!  I can't wait to see what you create for your chance to win $30 to spend in the Stampotique Store!!

Stamps by Stampotique Originals:
Butterfly, Happy Anniversary

“Sometimes its not the strength but gentleness that cracks the hardest shells.”
Richard Paul Evans, Lost December

SDC381: Stencil or Template

Welcome back! It's time for this week's Stampotique Designer's Challenge to use a Stencil or Template.  You can interpret this theme however you like - there are so many options!  Here, I have used a template to make the background paper with Archival Inks and a sponge.  I can't wait to see what you create for your chance to win $30 to spend in the Stampotique Store!!

Stamps by Stampotique Originals:
Market Cube #1, Quiet Place

“If bees only gathered nectar from perfect flowers, they wouldn’t be able to make even a single drop of honey.”
Matshona Dhliwayo

SDC380: Hearts

Welcome back! It's time for this week's Stampotique Designer's Challenge to use Hearts.  I always like shape challenges because there are so many options for incorporating a shape into your project.  This time I chose to use a heart stamp along with the new basket from the Market Cube by Tera Callihan.  I can't wait to see what you create for your chance to win $30 to spend in the Stampotique Store!!

Stamps by Stampotique Originals:
Market Cube #1, My Heart Small,
Script Background, Splatter, Barcode Text

“Be the one who nurtures and builds. Be the one who has an understanding and a forgiving heart one who looks for the best in people. Leave people better than you found them.”
Marvin J. Ashton

SDC379: Use Book, Magazine, Or Newspaper Text

Welcome back! It's time for this week's Stampotique Designer's Challenge where Book, Magazine, or Newspaper Text is the theme!!  I took this fun challenge in two directions - including text paper in the background and including books in the stamped image!  I can't wait to see what you create for your chance to win $30 to spend in the Stampotique Store!!

Stamps by Stampotique Originals:
Cat on Books

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

SDC378: Summer Sun Summer Fun

Welcome back! It's time for this week's Stampotique Designer's Challenge where we're enjoying all things summer!!  How can you go wrong with this theme? There is so much to celebrate when the weather is warm!  I can't wait to see what you create for your chance to win $30 to spend in the Stampotique Store!!

Stamps by Stampotique Originals:
Lady Sunshine, Fowl Verses Cube,
Ghouls Just Want To Have Fun, Quotes #1

“Even
After
All this time
The Sun never says to the Earth,

"You owe me."

Look
What happens
With a love like that,
It lights the whole sky.”

Hafiz

July 2021: New Stampotique Release

How is it possible that we're at the first of July already?! It's time for this month's Stampotique release!  I, for one, am very excited to see a mermaid theme! I'm pretty sure I was a mermaid in a previous life! LOL! I love the water! :)

Stamps by Stampotique Originals:
Arista, Mermaid Cube #1

Stamps by Stampotique Originals:
Ashera, Mermaid Cube #1

“Love does not work in convenience. Or any kind of sense.”
Maggie Tokuda-Hall, The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea

SDC377: Anything Goes

Welcome back! It's time for this week's Stampotique Designer's Challenge where Anything Goes!!  You can use any colors, any medium, any layout, and any Stampotique stamps!  The options are endless!!  I can't wait to see what you create for your chance to win $30 to spend in the Stampotique Store!!

Stamps by Stampotique Originals:
Jinx, Quotes #1

“One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself.”

Shannon L. Alder

SDC376: Mask or Template

Welcome back! It's time for this week's Stampotique Designer's Challenge where we're asked to use a mask or template.  There are so many ways you can go with this!  I opted to use a mask to fill this cool filmstrip frame.  I can't wait to see what you create for your chance to win $30 to spend in the Stampotique Store!!

Stamps by Stampotique Originals:
Filmstrip, Margie, Barcode Text

Here's the Post-It Note I used as a mask.
You can see how the window cut in the filmstrip
has masked the hair from overlapping the frame.

“When you are joyful, when you say yes to life and have fun and project positivity all around you, you become a sun in the center of every constellation, and people want to be near you.”
Shannon L. Alder

June 2021: New Release

The first day of the month has arrived and we get to see the latest stamps released by Stampotique!  Here are just a couple of samples to share some of the new images available today, the first of June!

Stamps by Stampotique Originals:
Favorite Things, Snark Cube

Stamps by Stampotique Originals:
Favorite Things, Bare Necessities, Snark Cube, Quirky Quotes

“Life happens. Shit happens. And it happens a lot. To a lot of people.”

Colleen Hoover, Slammed

SDC375: Splatters

Welcome back! It's time for this week's Stampotique Designer's Challenge where we're playing with splatters!!  If you love making a mess like I do, this is the theme for you!  I played with splattering up the Vdub Van and I have to say, it was a lot of fun! I can't wait to see what you create for your chance to win $30 to spend in the Stampotique Store!!

Stamps by Stampotique Originals:
Vdub Van, Peace and Love

“Art is created by artists. If ever he’d try to take lessons, it would be too many rules, too many steps. It would make his head hurt, not being able to splatter his emotions onto paper in his own way.”
Grace Curley, The Light that Binds Us

20210515 Word Up Weekend with Stampotique

Another quick weekend hello to share a little project highlighting just one of the fabulous word stamps by Stampotique Originals.  Find more inspiration with Stampotique on Facebook, Instagram, and Pinterest!

Stamps by Stampotique Originals:
Altered Laugh, Agatha's Tortoise

“Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.”

Anthony Burgess

SDC374: Sea and Beach

Welcome back! It's time for this week's Stampotique Designer's Challenge where we're dreaming about being by the sea on the beaches!!  Since we're stuck in a lockdown again, I've already been out enjoying the sea by visiting our local beaches.  There's nothing quite like visiting the ocean.  I can't wait to see what you create for your chance to win $30 to spend in the Stampotique Store!!

An empty beach is a perfect place to both fill and empty the mind!
Mehmet Murat ildan

May 2021 Stampotique Release

It's always exciting when the first day of the month arrives and we get to see the latest stamps released by Stampotique!  Here are just a couple of samples to share some of the new images available today, the first of May!

Stamps by Stampotique Originals:
Sleepy Bat, Batty About You

Stamps by Stampotique Originals:
Long Flower Border, Dragonfly Verse

“May, more than any other month of the year, wants us to feel most alive.”

Fennel Hudson, A Meaningful Life - Fennel's Journal - No. 1

SDC373: Favorite Colors

Welcome back! It's time for this week's Stampotique Designer's Challenge where we're celebrating our favorite colors!!  My favorite color is definitely red - even my vehicle is red!  I feel that surrounding ourselves with our favorite colors is theraputic right now so don't hold back!!  I can't wait to see what you create for your chance to win $30 to spend in the Stampotique Store!!

Stamps by Stampotique Originals:
Saunter, Twinkle Toes, Make Magic Wherever You Go

“I love bright red drinks, don’t you? They taste twice as good as any other color.”

Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

20120425 Word Up Weekend with Stampotique

 Just a quick weekend hello to show you this fun little project highlighting just one of the fabulous word stamps by Stampotique Originals.  Find more inspiration with Stampotique on Facebook, Instagram, and Pinterest!

Stamp by Stampotique Originals:
Papillon Script

A power of Butterfly must be -
The Aptitude to fly
Meadows of Majesty concedes
And easy Sweeps of Sky

Emily Dickinson

SDC372: Wonderful Wings

Welcome back! It's time for this week's Stampotique Designer's Challenge where we're featuring Wonderful Wings!!  When I saw all of Daniel's little witches, I knew I had to give one wings! I used the leaves from Teri's Spring Bouquet and they fit perfectly!! I can't wait to see what you create for your chance to win $30 to spend in the Stampotique Store!!

Stamps by Stampotique Originals:
Witchie Cube, Spring Bouquet, Scratches

“Flying starts from the ground. The more grounded you are, the higher you fly.”

J.R. Rim

SDC371: Anything Goes

Welcome back! It's time for this week's Stampotique Designer's Challenge where Anything Goes!  I do enjoy making bookmarks!!  It's fun to find them tucked away in a cookbook years later! I think this one has a great reminder to enjoy the blessings we have today. I can't wait to see what you create for your chance to win $30 to spend in the Stampotique Store!!

Stamps by Stampotique Originals:
Paper Coffee Cup, Enjoy Today

“Today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well therefore to this day.”

Francis Gray

SDC370: Springtime

Welcome back! It's time for another Stampotique Designer's Challenge and we're celebrating Spring!  This time of year is so hopeful and waiting for renewal to burst forth - the inspiration is endless!! I can't wait to see what you create for your chance to win $30 to spend in the Stampotique Store!!

Stamps by Stampotique Originals:
Blueberry Bunnies In A Basket, i carrot 'bout you

“...you'll find that being a friend is to like a person for who they are, even the parts you don't understand. You don't have to understand, or do the same, or live their lives for them. If you truly care for them, then you want them to be who they are; that was why you liked them in the first place.”

Terry Goodkind

SDC369: Wonderful Couples

Welcome back! It's time for this week's Stampotique Designer's Challenge where we're celebrating Wonderful Couples!!  I love the latitude with this theme. There is an infinite number of combinations that you can put together for couples; however, these sweet sisters are already their own adorable couple. I can't wait to see what you create for your chance to win $30 to spend in the Stampotique Store!!

Stamps by Stampotique Originals:
Little Sisters, Word Collage

“What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.”

Karl Lagerfeld

SDC368: Monochromatic

Welcome back! It's time for this week's Stampotique Designer's Challenge to go Monochromatic!!  Sticking with an ATC and using the lovely new Spring Bouquet stamp from the fabulous Teri Richardson, here's what I created with some help from my Copic markers.  I can't wait to see what you create for your chance to win $30 to spend in the Stampotique Store!!

Stamps by Stampotique Originals:
Spring Bouquet, Teensy Elements Cube, A life that touches the hearts of others...

“When you're in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, 'Damn, that was fun'.”

Groucho Marx

SDC637: Geometric

Welcome back! It's time for this week's Stampotique Designer's Challenge where we're featuring all things Geometric!!  I love all of the geometric elements in Kate Crane's Beach Huts - plus I'm dreaming of summer already, so here they are - with my little doodled sun!! Can you feel the burn?? LOL! I can't wait to see what you create for your chance to win $30 to spend in the Stampotique Store!!

Stamps by Stampotique Originals:
Beach Huts, Keep it simple

“The simplest things are overlooked. And yet, it is the simplest things that are the most essential.”

Thomas Lloyd Qualls, Painted Oxen

SDC366: Stampotique Valentine

Welcome back! It's time for this week's Stampotique Designer's Challenge to create a Stampotique Valentine!!  Stampotique has such a wide variety of stamps that I had a difficult time deciding if I wanted to create something creepy, cutesy, or funny! I had fun putting this little twinchie together - yep, it's just 2" x 2"! I can't wait to see what you create for your chance to win $30 to spend in the Stampotique Store!!

Animal Cube (mouse) by Stampotique Originals
Sentiments: Computer Generated

"Your flaws are perfect for the heart that's meant to love you."
Trent Shelton

SDC365: Anything Goes

Welcome back! It's time for this week's Stampotique Designer's Challenge where Anything Goes!!  Being in my last few days of quarantine after being out of province during the holidays, I am looking forward to two things - hanging out with friends and bubble tea!! So this project pays tribute to that! I can't wait to see what you create for your chance to win $30 to spend in the Stampotique Store!!

Aussie Koala by Stampotique Originals

“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson in His Journals

SDC363: One Layer

Welcome back! It's time for this week's Stampotique Designer's Challenge where we're creating something with just one layer!!  This really is a challenge for me; I almost always border my project with another layer or two! But I managed to find a piece of this beautiful background paper that worked perfectly by itself for a money card - isn't that everyone's favorite kind of card?? LOL!! I can't wait to see what you create for your chance to win $30 to spend in the Stampotique Store!!

Small Packet Butterfly
by Stampotique Originals

“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”
Oscar Wilde

SDC362: Party

Welcome back! It's time for this week's Stampotique Designer's Challenge and we're being asked to Party!!  If I could safely travel the world right now, I'd have the biggest party in every place I'd stop! So I have created a luggage tag in preparation for the day when we can travel around the globe again safely! I can't wait to see what you create for your chance to win $30 to spend in the Stampotique Store!!

Stamps by Stampotique Originals:
Happy Birthday, 1879 Postmark, Ticket for Paris, Phonebooth Beauty

“Everything I was I carry with me, everything I will be lies waiting on the road ahead.”
Ma Jian, Red Dust: A Path Through China

SDC361: Favorite Stamp

Welcome back! It's time for this week's Stampotique Designer's Challenge using your favorite stamp!  Ok, clearly we ALL know that it's impossible to choose just ONE but here's what surfaced when I used our first snow storm as inspiration! LOL! I can't wait to see what you create!

Stamp by Stampotique Originals:
Snow Birds

“Every snowflake is unique, yet they are each perfect.”

Donald L. Hicks, Look into the stillness

SDC360: Anything Goes!

Welcome back! It's time for this week's Stampotique Designer's Challenge where Anything Goes!  I love it when there are no limits and you can create whatever your heart desires!  This week my journal page is all about the heart and what it desires.  I can't wait to see what you create!

Stamps by Stampotique Originals:
Wonderland Girl, Tall Word Collage

“When you look into your mother’s eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this earth.”

Mitch Albom, For One More Day

SDC359: Halloween

 Welcome back! It's time for this week's Stampotique Designer's Challenge featuring a Halloween theme!  The hardest part about this challenge is going to be deciding which stamps to use - there are sooooo many choices!  I can't wait to see what you create!  Here's my terrifying bookmark! LOL!

Stamps by Stampotique Originals:
Me and You Soup and Spider Girl

“What are you?" I rasped.  It smiled. "Whatever scares you.”

Kim Harrison, Dead Witch Walking

SDC357: Girls

 Welcome back! It's time for this week's Stampotique Designer's Challenge featuring girls!  This is such a fun theme because there are sooooo many stamps to choose from - the possibilities are endless!  I can't wait to see what you create!  Here's my mostly monochromatic take on the theme.

Stamps by Stampotique Originals:
Affectionateasphalt, Snarky Quotes

“Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.”

J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

SDC355: Not Colored Images of People

Welcome back!  You're just in time for this week's Stampotique Designer's Challenge.  This week we're featuring people stamps that haven't been colored!  There are just oodles of people stamps so the choices are endless for this challenge!! I can't wait to see what you create for your chance to win $30 to spend in the Stampotique store!

Stamps by Stampotique Oirginals:
Fallstaff

“To err is human, to forgive, divine.”
Alexander Pope, An Essay On Criticism

SDC354: Circles

Welcome back!  You're just in time for this week's Stampotique Designer's Challenge.  This week we're being asked to feature circles!  I love that there are infinite ways you can incorporate circles into a project!  Here's my take on it! I can't wait to see what you create for your chance to win $30 to spend in the Stampotique store!

Stamps by Stampotique Originals:
Doodle Doily, Mer-Angel With Gift, Phrase Cube 4

“Apologizing does not always mean you're wrong and the other person is right. It just means you value your relationship more than your ego.”

Mark Matthews

SDC353: Use a stencil

Welcome back!  You're just in time for this week's Stampotique Designer's Challenge to use a stencil!!  Stencils are so versatile and leave such a unique impression every time!  I can't wait to see what you create for your chance to win $30 to spend in the Stampotique store!

Stamps by Stampotique Originals:
Gristen, A single sunbeam

“Some people are so much sunshine to the square inch.”

Walt Whitman

SDC352: Anything Goes

Welcome back!  This week The Stampotique Designer's Challenge theme is Anything Goes.  It's a great theme - we can pull inspiration from anywhere!  This little project features paper piecing and a bit of distressing.  I can't wait to see what you create!

Stamps by Stampotique Originals:
Bleeding Heart, Tall Word Collage, Texture Cube 1

“Love

Has a way of wilting

Or blossoming

At the strangest,

Most unpredictable hour.

This is how love is,

An uncontrollable beast

In the form of a flower.”

Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

SDC350: Colorful - Week 2

Welcome back! You're just in time for this week's Stampotique Designer's Challenge!  This week, we're making something colorful!  I love the new Drunken Bee by Terri Richardson so I had some fun coloring it up!  I can't wait to see what you create!!

Stamps by Stampotique Originals:
Drunken Bee, Bubbles, Keep Calm, Bee-otch, You're Strong

“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”

Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds

SDC349: Anything Goes

Welcome back for this week's Stampotique Designer's Challenge.  This week Anything Goes! so jump on board and play along!!  I can't wait to see what you create!

Stamps by Stampotique Originals:
Soulful Heart, Just Keep On

“Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient.”

Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

SDC347: Clean and Simple - Week 2

Welcome back for another instalment of the Stampotique Designer's Challenge.  This week we're aiming to keep it clean and simple.  The more white space the better!  I can't wait to see what you create!

Stamps by Stampotique Originals:
Splatter Circle, Terri's Roses, The Earth Laughs in Flowers

“If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
Albert Einstein

SDC346: Tags Galore

Welcome back! You're just in time for this week's theme of Tags Galore for the Stampotique Designer's Challenge. My project this week is a tribute to enjoying my own quiet place in the craft room while being socially distant during these challenging times.  I look forward to seeing your creations from your quiet place.

Stamps by Stampotique Originals:
Medium Bee with Tiny Bee, Spidergrass,
Swirlstalks, Quiet Place

“You are never alone. You are eternally connected with everyone.”

Amit Ray, Meditation: Insights and Inspirations

SDC344: Birthday Card - Week 2

Welcome back! It's time for this week's Stampotique Designer's Challenge.  The theme this week has us focused on birthdays.  Conveniently, I also needed a birthday card so I had fun using the recipient's favorite colors and fun quirky style.  I had such fun! I can't wait to see what you create!

Stamps by Stampotique Originals:
Cake of Babel, Emma, Dream In Color

“There is still no cure for the common birthday.”

John Glenn

SDC341: All You Need Is Love - Week 2

Welcome!! It's time for this week's Stampotique Designer's Challenge and the theme is all about love.  The beautiful new Make Magic background stamp was perfect for this theme so I ran with.  I wanted to include the new Geisha stamp too, but I wanted her mirror image so I stamped her on velum and colored her with pencils for a soft look once she was flipped over.  I look forward to seeing what you create when you play along!

Stamps by Stampotique Originals:
Geisha, Make Magic Background

“If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything.”

Marilyn Monroe