Crazy4Challenges-Going Green with Stampotique

This week the Crazies are going green with Stampotique Originals1

The challenge is to use green in your card. 

I thought this would be the perfect colour for Hug Monster. He is so darned cute and you can also get this fun sentiment to go with it~ I've had this fun clipboard kicking around my cupboard for awhile. A perfect match for the challenge !!

Here's my Touch Twin Colour Map~

Be sure to head over to the C4C Blog to link up your creations! Stampotique is giving out a sweet sweet prize to one player~

and be sure to check out the Crazy Creations!

Andrea

Kelli H.

Silke K.

Silke L

Lynda

Joycelyn

Joanne

Jessie

Frances

Cindy

Barbara

Hoppin' with Stampotique!

Welcome to our blog hop introducing a new artist as well as many new stamps from our other artists.  You should have hopped here from the VERY VERY talented Nellie's Blog  If you did not come from  there, you will want to start at the Stampotique Designer's Blog.

For my card, I used two of the new release stamps by Janet Klein. I'm a TOTAL fan of her work and have really enjoyed each of her new images that Carol and Jim have released. The main image is called  Mushroom Forest. I love the size of this stamp~!  Chessy is the funky little cat in the corner of the cute........Isn't he the Cat's Pajamas?............hehe! I CRACK myself up!!!! and of course, I couldn't resist using this sentiment as it's also one of my faves! Image is coloured with my Touch Twin Markers from Shinhan Art.

Join us along the blog hop for a chance to win some new stamps as a random winner will be chosen from one of the designer blogs as well as one from our Stampotique blog, so make sure to jump through the hop and leave a comment here when you are finished.  Let us know what your favorite new stamps are.  We will announce the random winners on our next challenge on 2/22/12 so you have a week to hop around.


And now to Introduce one of our newest artists,  you may recognize her work as she was our guest designer in October of last year. 

Roc Nicholas has always had a great love of art and she credits that love to her mother. Growing up, she and her mom were always doing something creative, whether it was painting, sewing or making handmade Christmas ornaments annually.  Roc is married her grade-school sweetheart and together they have two adult sons and one grandson, Benny.  Roc resides in Pennsylvania but travels back and forth to Florida.
Presently she teaches rubber stamping and journaling classes.  A self- taught artist, Roc loves rubber stamping, collage, mixed media, journaling and doodling.  Her favs are all things whimsical, unusual and things that make her laugh!  She has an online international artist trading site which she runs, along with her blog and her facebook page. Roc has been published in a variety of art and rubber stamp magazines.
Now it' s time to hop on over to another of my Fave Stampotique Designers, Kate's Blog I totally can't wait to see what she's come up with and I can't wait to see what your Fave Stamps are! Incidentally, my Saturday AND Sunday posts feature two more of my fave images, so scroll down and take a peek!

Happy Stamping!

SDC44: Shimmer, Glimmer, Glitter & Glitz and FSC43 Happy Holidays

Sorry I've been a little scarce! Lot's to do before Christmas and little time to stamp! This week, I've combined my Stampotique and Flower Soft Challenges to create one shimmery snowy Christmas Card!

For our current  Stampotique challenge Val is our hostess. She is challenging us to break out our "Shimmer, Glimmer, Glitter and Glitz" using shimmery paper, glittery embellishments, glimmery paints/washes/spritz or any kind of glitzy bling in your creations....let your inspiration shine!This week is our last challenge where you can use ANY stamps

For the Flower Soft Challenge, hop on over to the Flower Soft Blog to get all the details. This will probably be my last post as a Flower Soft designer, but you'll be sure to see Flowery Soft goodness on some of my future creations!!!!  A big Thank you to Mark and the peeps at Flower Soft who gave me a great opportunity to work with their product!

Sooo for my card, I used this fun image from Stampotique-Penguins and Happy Holidays. I also used a reverse image stamp. I stamped the image that I wanted to reverse in Bordering Blue, to give it the look of a reflection under the ice. I then stamped the Penguins in Black and did the wee bit of colouring with my Touch Twin Markers. I sponged the icy area with Soft Sky Ink and the Sky with Cool Caribbean Ink. I used my Sizzix Scalloped Oval Framelit  to die cut the entire image. I added a lot of Polar White Flower Soft for some snowy goodness and some Martha Stewart Chunky Glitter to dazzle it up!!! It still didn't look snowy enough for my liking, so I added some Gel Pen Snow Dots!!!! ............I had some Glittery Christmas Paper from a couple of years ago kicking around, so I used that and then added a big glittery bow with some M's Ribbon. It is very sparkly in real life!!!!

I'm hoping to have another post before Christmas...................but have to get back to my cookie baking now!!! If you'd like to play along with the Stampotique Challenge, please head over to the Designer Challenge Blog for all the details!

happy stamping!