Wish

Hello lovely peeps, how was your Christmas? Ours was filled with family, food en pressies. Now we are getting to the end of 2013, I can't believe how fast the time went. In a couple of days it's 2014! A new year always feels like a fresh start to me. So maybe this time I will hold on to my new year resolutions. You know, the basics: healthier eating, more exercises and less worrying. Anyway...I wish you all a happy and creative new year :-D

Stamps used:

Midge

Wish Word

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And the winners are...

Creepy Glowbugg and Fieneke!!!

Congrats to you both! Send me your address to assicrafts at gmail dot com. Please claim your price within two weeks. This wonderful price is sponsored by De Scrapheap.

I promised to stop showing Christmas cards here, so I made an Art Journal Page with my Gelli Plate ;-) It isn't the best photo, cause the light here is horrible because of the stormy weather.

Stamps used:

O Joy

Noelle

Gog Lin

Mistletoe

Happy Holidays

Thank you for participating my giveaway and a have a wonderful Christmas!

Stampotique Challenge: Anything Goes

Happy hump day everybody!!! This whole month it's Anything Goes at Stampotique. I made this cute Christmas card and I promise it will be my last one for this year ;-)
I made this card with Dylusions Dirty Martini and Postbox Red. I used a Tim Holtz die. For the berries I used a Pearler Pen. And the cutest stamp is of course from Stampotique.

Stampotique stamps used:

Gog Lin

Merry Christmas (discontinued)

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Join us this month for our themed challenge Anything Goes. Please link directly to your creation, not to your blog. You must include the challenge # behind your name! You may use any stamps for our challenges, of course we always enjoy seeing your work with Stampotique stamps, but is no longer required. This challenge is open for the whole month. Two winners will be randomly chosen at the end of the month from all the challenge participants to win a $30 gift certificate for Stampotique stamps.

Giveaway reminder!!!

Don't forget that I'm still doing the giveaway with awesome products generous sponsored by De Scrapheap.

To win one of this sets you have to be a follower and you have to leave a comment on this previous post. The winners will be randomly chosen on Christmas Eve.

Thanks for stopping by and hope you will join!

Card

Another simple Christmas card made with MFT Die-Namics, Dylusions and the lovely Stampotique stamps.

Stamps used:

Tree and Presents

Happy Holidays

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Giveaway!!!

To show my appreciation for all my lovely followers, I have arranged a new GIVEAWAY! This time my giveaway is generous sponsored by De Scrapheap. It's a Dutch store (they ship international) and they have an awesome collection of Stampotique stamps (click here).

I picked these two sets of great products out of the store. Yes... I have TWO sets to give away!!! Each set has a lovely Stampotique stamp, an amazing stencil by Dutch Doobadoo, and (because we can't have enough of it) there is also a Washi tape and Tim Holtz alphabet stickers in it. I hope you like what I picked out for you, I sure do ;-)
I also put a surprise card in it, made by me :-)

To win you have to be a follower and you have to leave a comment on this blogpost. I will draw a random person (with RANDOM.org) who followed these instructions on Christmas Eve (24th of December). That would be a nice Christmas present :-)

So to make this giveaway a success, I will ask you to claim your price within two weeks. I will not contact you, so you have to check for yourself if you're the lucky person who won.

Hope you will join my giveaway and good luck :-D

Card

I used this design not so long ago, it's made with My Favorite Things Die-Namics, and loved it. So I used it again for a friends birthday card :-) I used Dylusions Funky Fuchsia, Vibrant Turquoise and Bubblegum Pink. I stamped with Archival Jet Black and Magenta Hue. I colored Bird Lady with Distress Markers. I sooo love to use this stamp on book paper :-) All the lovely stamps I used are from Stampotique.

Stamps used:

Bird Lady

Happy Birthday

Spiraling out of control

Antique Description

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Stampotique Challenge: Anything Goes

This will be the last Stampotique challenge for this year, because there will be only one challenge in December: Anything Goes!! So have fun with it :-)

My card turned out pretty simple, but I love it! I used a Tim Holtz Die and some My Favorite Things Die-namics. The background is made with Dylusions Dirty Martini and Postbox Red. Of course the lovely stamps are all from Stampotique.

Stamps used:

Mistletoe

Merry Kiss-mas!

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Join us this month for our themed challenge Anything Goes. Please link directly to your creation, not to your blog. You must include the challenge # behind your name! You may use any stamps for our challenges, of course we always enjoy seeing your work with Stampotique stamps, but is no longer required. This challenge is open for the whole month. Two winners will be randomly chosen at the end of the month from all the challenge participants to win a $30 gift certificate for Stampotique stamps.

Stampotique Announcment

Finally... we can tell :-D

I'm so happy to announce that in 2014 I will join the Stampotique Facebook/Blog Design Team. You will find me posting on the Stampotique Designer's Blog every Sunday. Hope you will leave me a message there :-)

These other very talented ladies will also be in the FB/Blog team:

Roc, Valerie, Claudine, Janet, Sarah & Coby

That said, we're also gonna miss some amazing team members, but luckily we still can stalk them online ;-)

Stamps used:

Screaming Bunny

Happy, happy

Vintage Script

Honeycomb background

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Stampotique Challenge: Early Christmas

This weeks challenge at Stampotique, which is hosted by Nellie, is all about Christmas.

Stamps used:

Snowman

Mini Christmas Ornaments Cube

Merry Christmas (retired stamp)

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Card

Stamps used:

Sick Kitty

Vintage Script

Honeycomb background

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Art Journal Page

Thuis zitten?
Sitting home?

Stamps used:

Relaxin

Village

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Kaisercrafts

Claudine Hellmuth

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Stampotique Challenge: SPLAT!

Happy Wednesday everyone! We have a fun challenge for you in store :-) Just SPLAT!
I splatted black acrylics on the purple layer and stamped with this great splatter stamp from Stampotique on the pink layer. Further I used My Favorite Things Die-Namics, Dylusions Crushed Grape, Cherry Pie and Bubblegum Pink. I stamped with Dusty Concord, Archival Magenta Hue and Jet Black.

Stamps used:

Feathery Monster

Splatter Long

Antique Description

Mesh

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Join us weekly for our themed challenges. Please link directly to your creation, not to your blog. You must include the challenge # behind your name! You may use any stamps for our challenges, of course we always enjoy seeing your work with Stampotique stamps, but is no longer required. The challenges are now open for the whole month. Two winners will be randomly chosen at the end of the month from all the challenge participants to win a $30 gift certificate for Stampotique stamps.

Art Journal Page

This week I was on a short holiday at a resort with my little family. I always make a little journal while we are on our holiday. I use small pages (A6), quick and easy. I brought six colors of Distress Stains, Paints and Ink Pads, some stencils and stamps. This front page of my Travel Journal inspired me for my Art Journal page.

Vakantie
Holiday

Stamps used:

Lissi

Honeycomb background

Dina Wakley stamps

Handmade stamps

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Art Journal Page

Another one with the Gelli :-D

Waarom is het toch zo moeilijk
Why is it so difficult

Stamps used:

Perl

Journey Collage

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Stampotique Challenge: Gesso

Another Wednesday and another challenge from Stampotique. This time Sarinda is the hostess and she is asking you to use Gesso for this challenge. I used it for the background of my card, using the Gesso with a card through a Crafters Workshop stencil. Further I used My Favorite Things Die Namics, Dylusions Cut Grass, Squeezed Orange and Calypso Teal, Archival Emerald Green and Jet Black. And this awesome stamps of course :-D

Stamps used:

Tingly Itchiness

Banner

Birthday

Happy, happy

Antique Description

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Join us weekly for our themed challenges. Please link directly to your creation, not to your blog. You must include the challenge # behind your name! You may use any stamps for our challenges, of course we always enjoy seeing your work with Stampotique stamps, but is no longer required. The challenges are now open for the whole month. Two winners will be randomly chosen at the end of the month from all the challenge participants to win a $30 gift certificate for Stampotique stamps.

Art Journal Page

Art Journal Page made with the Gelli Plate.

Stamps used:

Minkygirl

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ATC's

Two ATC's I made a while ago, summer and winter :-D

Stamps used:

Screaming Bunny

Bushes

Sun Design

Bla Bla Bla

Sheep Monster

Two Nuages

Spiraling out of control

Abstract Foliage

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Stampotique Challenge: Lace or fabric

Happy Wednesday!!! At Stampotique France is bringing you a new challenge to use lace or fabric on your creation. I also loved France idea from last week, can you tell ;-)

Stamps used:

Miguel as a gift

Helping Hands

Halloween Cube 2

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Join us weekly for our themed challenges. Please link directly to your creation, not to your blog. You must include the challenge # behind your name! You may use any stamps for our challenges, of course we always enjoy seeing your work with Stampotique stamps, but is no longer required. The challenges are now open for the whole month. Two winners will be randomly chosen at the end of the month from all the challenge participants to win a $30 gift certificate for Stampotique stamps.

Art Journal Page

Leuker en lichter
Lighter and Brighter

Stamps used:

Bird Lady

Mindy Lacefield

Glitz Roller Stamp

Handmade stamps :-D

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Art Journal Page

Vertrouwen
Faith

Stamps used:

Queen Of Life

Journey Collage

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Art Journal Page

Rocky
7Gypsies
Dylusions
Claudine Hellmuth

Karin
Dandelion Duo
Dylusions
Mindy Lacefield
Claudine Hellmuth

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Stampotique Challenge: Handles, hinges, buckles

Happy Hump Day!!! That means a new Stampotique challenge, this time hosted by Valerie. She want us to make something with handles, hinges, buckles, fasteners, pulls - different ways to flip, fold, fasten, open, close and grasp! These could be used on cards, dimensional projects, envelopes or altered/recycled/found objects.... faux or real - anything goes!
I made this... don't know how to call it ;-) It's made with the Tim Holtz Vintage Cabinet Die and Hinges. The background is made with Dylusions Vibrant Turquoise. I colored with Distress Markers. Grunged the cardboard with a Cat Eye Ink pad Sepia Black. And of course this lovely stamps to create a magical scene.

Stamps used:

Moon Girl

Gog Lin

Wee Owl

Tree

Mushroom Group

Abstract Foliage

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Join us weekly for our themed challenges. Please link directly to your creation, not to your blog. You must include the challenge # behind your name! You may use any stamps for our challenges, of course we always enjoy seeing your work with Stampotique stamps, but is no longer required. The challenges are now open for the whole month. Two winners will be randomly chosen at the end of the month from all the challenge participants to win a $30 gift certificate for Stampotique stamps.

The Craftorij Stampotique Challenges

This month Stampotique is sponsoring The Craftorij (Dutch Scrapbook and Mixed Media store) on their Facebook group (click here) with their weekly challenges. If you join every challenge in October, you can win a $30 gift certificate to spend on stamps in the Stampotique store or a new Stampotique stamp from The Craftorij. This first week the challenge is: red, orange and one other color.

Stamps used:

Rocky

Halloween Cube 2

Text Block 2#

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Card

Yep... another one with the MFT Die-Namics Blueprints
no. 6 :-D Colors maybe a bit Christmas, but I just love contrasting colors.

Stamps used:

NEW Dance

NEW Dance Text

Spiraling out of control

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Art Journal Pages

I have been neglecting my Art Journaling a bit, here on my blog but also the journaling itself. But here are some "new" ones ;-)

Mark Making

Stamps used:
Perl
Claudine Hellmuth
Mindy Lacefield

Stamps used:
Mary
Sqraffiti Alphabet
Claudine Hellmuth
Mindy Lacefield
Sodalicious

Dylusions

Stamps used:
NEW Chicken
Abstract Foliage
Spiraling out of control
Alphabitties
Claudine Hellmuth
Kaisercraft

Stamps used:
The Crafter
Scalloped Laced Border
Journey Collage
Claudine Hellmuth

Gelli Plate

Stamps used:
Karin
Smile
Dear Elizabeth
Dylusions

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Stampotique Challenge: Washi Tape

Hello, hello... it's my time to host and I choose Washi Tape for this challenge. Not really a hard one is it ;-) I adore this stuff and I think a lot of us do. I especially love the black and white ones, it makes the other colors you use really intense. And it's just an easy way to add something extra on your creation.
So use this happy stuff as a background or as an embellishment on your creation. Hope you like Washi Tape just as I do :-)
For my card I used the TH Label dies, Dylusions Spray Squeezed Orange and Archival Jet Black and Monarch Orange. And a few of my black and white Washi Tape.

Stamps used:

Halloween

Halloween Cube 2

Vintage Script

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Join us weekly for our themed challenges. Please link directly to your creation, not to your blog. You must include the challenge # behind your name! You may use any stamps for our challenges, of course we always enjoy seeing your work with Stampotique stamps, but is no longer required. The challenges are now open for the whole month. Two winners will be randomly chosen at the end of the month from all the challenge participants to win a $30 gift certificate for Stampotique stamps.

Card

Made this card today with my new die set from My Favorite Things. My hub is away this weekend... maybe I miss him a bit ;-)

Stamps used:

Hug Monster

Large Love Definition

Daniel's Hearts

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Stampotique Challenge: Happy Birthday

Happy Wednesday! This week the challenge is hosted by Kim and she wants to see birthday cards. This is for a special reason, cause Kim is turning 40 today!!! Happy Birthday Kim!!!
I made this card with the Blueprints Die (no. 6) from My Favorite Things. I used Dylusions spray. Stamped with Archival. And I used Distress Markers to color Miguel.

Stamps used:

NEW Miguel has a gift

Happy Birthday

Antique Description

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Join us weekly for our themed challenges. Please link directly to your creation, not to your blog. You must include the challenge # behind your name! You may use any stamps for our challenges, of course we always enjoy seeing your work with Stampotique stamps, but is no longer required. The challenges are now open for the whole month. Two winners will be randomly chosen at the end of the month from all the challenge participants to win a $30 gift certificate for Stampotique stamps.

Stampotique re-application

A year ago, when I joined the Stampotique DT, a dream came true. I couldn't believe it and felt so blessed. This year was so much fun. I love being part of this amazing team of talented ladies. It allowed me to play with the most fabulous stamps, of which I've been a fan for so long. I tried so many new things with their challenges and have grown because of this. And... I just don't want the dream to stop, so this will be my entry for my re-application as Designer.

Stamps used:

Whisker Monster with Sign

Weasel with "Thank you" on side

Large Love Definition

My creative style could be described as colorful grungy. I love to use the bright Dylusions sprays and make a beautiful mess with them. I love to Art Journal, make cards, tags and ATC's.

I would love to stay in the team for all the reasons I already mentioned. This team is just the best :-D

There will be two Design Teams in 2014 and really can't choose. The Challenge Blog DT stimulates you to do new things and push you out of your comfort zone. But being in the FB/Blog DT you would have a lot of creative freedom. So either team would be lovely.

Now I will keep my fingers crossed :-)

If you also want to join this fabulous team, please read all the information about it here.

Halloween

We have some real autumn weather here in The Netherlands, windy and rainy. I don't mind. We have been spoiled with the summer and love the darker period of the year. It's almost time for Halloween. Love this feast, to bad we don't celebrate it here. But it doesn't stop me from making some Halloween cards :-D

Stamps used:

Oh Boys!

Wicked

Fax to Wolfgang

Honeycomb background

Stamp used:

NEW Breakfast

Text Block 2#

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Stampotique Challenge: New Technique

Try a new technique is the new challenge at Stampotique. I made these two cards with the Gelli Plate. I recently discovered the Gelli Plate and have used it before for some Art Journal backgrounds, but never for card-making. You get some lovely backgrounds so easily. Really happy how it turned out :-D

Stamps used:

NEW Artichoke Monster

Happy Birthday

Stamps used:

Baby Cthulhu

Whotcha doin?

And if you haven't already seen this, check it out:
Did you see our design team call announcement?

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Join us weekly for our themed challenges. Please link directly to your creation, not to your blog. You must include the challenge # behind your name! You may use any stamps for our challenges, of course we always enjoy seeing your work with Stampotique stamps, but is no longer required. The challenges are now open for the whole month. Two winners will be randomly chosen at the end of the month from all the challenge participants to win a $30 gift certificate for Stampotique stamps.

Stampotique New Stamp Release BLOG HOP

Some of you may have already heard, but Stampotique Originals has got some fabulous new designs being released today. Wait until you see these!!! 

So hop along with the design team and some special guests to see the new stamps the team has been working with. The more blogs you comment on, the better your chances of winning some goodies are.
Let us know what your favorite ones were and we'll pick a few random winners from the blog comments (this includes the design team blogs) to win a grab bag of the new stamps. You will have until 9/10/13 to comment and our winners will be announced with the new challenge on 9/11/13.

NEW Feathery Monster by Kira Nichols
NEW Helping Hands by Daniel Torrente
Altered Hello

NEW Tingly Itchiness by Daniel Torrente
Whotcha doin?
Fax to Wolfgang
Spiraling out of control
Mesh

NEW Livres by France Papillon
Pretty Zara
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Seaweed

If you want to join us you can go to Stampotique Designer's Challenge Blog where you can find the master list. 

If you were hopping... YOU MADE IT, I'm the last one on the list :-D 

We hope you enjoyed the blog hop. 

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Stampotique Challenge: 3 Circles

Happy Wednesday!!! Stampotique got a new challenge for you, hosted by Kaz. She likes you to use 3 circles on whatever you make this week.

I made these bird houses with the TH Artful Dwellings die and punched the circles out. I used Dylusions Spray Dirty Martini and Calypso Teal. I sprayed some water through the Crafters Workshop template Wood Grain. Stamped with one of my favorite script stamps. The birdies were colored with Distress Markers. And 'home sweet home' was computer generated.

Stamps used:

Birdy Up

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Join us weekly for our themed challenges. Please link directly to your creation, not to your blog. You must include the challenge # behind your name! You may use any stamps for our challenges, of course we always enjoy seeing your work with Stampotique stamps, but is no longer required. The challenges are now open for the whole month. Two winners will be randomly chosen at the end of the month from all the challenge participants to win a $30 gift certificate for Stampotique stamps.

Card

Stamps used:

Upward Bound

Text Block 3#

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Tags

I came across these tags I made for a little demo about Dylusions, using colors and techniques. I haven't showed them here yet. Shame on me ;-) Hope you like :-D

Stamps used:

Smile

Head

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Little Hoo-hoo

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