Stampotique Challenge 166

Happy Wednesday all, I'm glad you have stopped by the blog once again. 

There is a new challenge over at Stampotique Designer's Challenge Blog and I'm excited.

The theme is Halloween this time and our wonderful Carol  has chosen the theme. All of us here at Stampotique love Halloween.

In fact our Facebook group is having an ATC Halloween swap for October

For my project this week, I created the ATC and also a coordination card for the Facebook swap

I used Stampotique Stamps:

Hazel Jester and Clothes Text - By artist Linda Peterson

Halloween Cube - By Artist Daniel Torrente

Here is the ATC I created, I printed out the saying from the computer

and here is the ATC with the coordinating card

This was fun and I just love how Hazel is so proud in her Jester costume!

Have a great week!

Flowers Bookmark - Stampotique Challenge

Happy Wednesday to ya, thanks again for coming by the blog. 

I hope your having a great week.. Today marks another new challenge over at Stampotique Designers Challenge Blog and this week our wonderful hostess is Kristin and she has chosen the challenge "Flowers" 

Even though it's the end of August we still have a few flowers here in Colorado. It's sad though because soon it will become colder and our flowers will go dormant for another winter.

I decided to make a bookmark for this project and I wanted it to have the flower by artist 

Janet Klein called - Sunflower Left

I had originally created something else for this project and didn't like it so I cut this flower out of my original project so I could still use it. No waste! haha!

I also used one of my favorite stamps by artist Linda Peterson called Hazel Jester

All of the Hazel stamps are so cute but this one is my favorite.

I created an "arm" and "hand" for my Hazel so it would look like she was standing there holding this flower, although I'm not so great at drawing I though it turned out ok. LOL

I think this will make a fun bookmark for myself or my daughter for those summer reads.

Thanks for coming by and have a great day.

Using Magazine or Newspaper - SDC155

Hello all, it's that time again, time for another challenge over at 

Stampotique Designers Challenge. This week our wonderfully talented Magda Polakow is our hostess and she has chosen the theme "Use a piece of magazine or newspaper"

You would think this would be an easy challenge

but for me, I don't use newspaper or magazines

very much. I mostly use stamps in my backgrounds

so this was tough for me.

Needless to say I scoured over my newspaper from the passed few days looking for a good piece.

I found something in the Michael's add of all places haha! 

SO I decided to make a postcard for my piece and I went with the following Stampotique Stamps:

Hazel Jester - By artist Linda Peterson
Clothes Text - Also by artist Linda Peterson

I used a piece of printed card stock for my background and added the "flowery" piece of newspaper that I tore out of my Michael's add
This is what it looked like from the start

I then added some painting and washi tape
I heat embossed my text and Hazel and colored them with colored pencils (I made my Hazel a bumblebee to show her in a costume)
Lastly - I added a flower with a button center

Here is my finished postcard

Because Bees like flowers I just love my magazine piece in the background there. 
I hope you have enjoyed my project for today, please come by the Stampotique Designers Blog and check out my post there and while your there you can check out previous posts from designers. There are some awesome ideas and truly creative projects! 
Cheers!!