Christmas Is Coming!

Hi, it's Wednesday again (where did last week go to) so it's time for another challenge at Stampotique. This time around Nellie has chosen the theme of 'quick and easy Christmas cards' Here's what she says.
'It's that time of the year that you know you should have started earlier with making your Christmas cards. So now you have to come up with some quick and easy (yet stunning of course :-) )'
You are so right Nellie, I should have started months ago, and next year I will be more organised (yeah right!, I've been saying that forever!), but here's two cards at least.

I took the photograph on Saturday when we still had snow and ice - brrrrr.

I've been practising my crackle with my DecoArt paints and mediums and ended up with these for my backgrounds.

 Then a bit of stitching and layering (no it wasn't quick but it was quite easy)
Here I've used 
Chilly
Merry Christmas and
Giant Snowflake

Same again with
Reindeer and
Tree-O
Two cards done, that's Christmas sorted then lol.
Please join in with our challenge and show us your quick and easy Christmas cards (if they're really quick and easy I may steal your ideas lol) - just kidding - I've already bought a box! Oh the shame :-)
Hope you like these, and thanks very much for looking x

Black And White With A Touch Of Bob

The challenge this fortnight at That's Crafty is 'black and white with a hint of colour', so here's the one and only Bob Marley.

I started with these colours of Deco Art Multi Surface paints for the background, then made the mega crackle with Weathered Wood and Crackle Paint.

Just starting to crackle here-, it's fun to watch as you can see it crack right before your eyes. The image transfer was then done with DecoArt Matte Medium. This was my first attempt at using this for image transfer, and I'm really pleased with the result.
Hope you like it, and thanks very much for looking x

Saturday Night / Wednesday Morning at the Movies

Good morning and happy Wednesday. Today the fabulous Corrie  has chosen our Stampotique challenge. 

Hello and welcome back to another week and another challenge here at Stampotique's Designers Challenge Blog. 

This week Corrie Herriman Is our hostess and she is asking us to do something in the theme

"At The Movies"
Here is what Corrie says about this fun challenge:
Make something this week inspired by the movies or a move star and as always, have fun!!!

We hope you will join us this week

So here's one of my favourite films.

You can't beat a black and white film lol. 

I started with a scraped on layer of black gesso on my faithful chipboard album (only 1 page to go now) and stamped Village and the stars from Design Cube and embossed in white.

Elliot (Old Timey Frog) is cycling across the moon with ET (3 in a round) in his basket.

Can you imagine if ET said 'phone home' now? they would have to follow it by 'please obtain the bill payers permission first... calls are charged at bla bla rate and from a mobile it could be significantly more... or you could text on bla bla bla or tweet at #phone home# Your call is important to us so please hold the line etc etc lol.

Life was much simpler in ET's day :-)

I hope you join in with our movie night and thanks very much for looking.

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Baby You're A Firework

Hi, it's my turn today to post my second piece for the Country View Crafts 'blue' challenge, and here she is.

The background has been made with Distress Markers and a spritzer tool. Then there's Perfect Pearls Mists sprayed through a stencil.

Finally there's Gold Pearl texture paste, and Mermaid Lagoon and Blueprint Sketch Distress Inks that have been put through a sunburst stencil.

I liked the stencilling, but decided that it needed more, so I added some colour with Portfolio Pastels and Art Bars.

Stampotique lady now in place

And the sentiment added with a label maker.

All done and stuck into my album for safe keeping.
There's still lots of time for you to enter our challenge so please join in.
Enjoy your day, and thanks very much for looking x

Achieve Greatness

I was lucky enough to go to an Andy Skinner workshop last weekend, and so I've been busily trying out the techniques while I still remember them. 

These are a couple of the steps in pictures but I'm not giving Andy's techniques away except to say that there's a lot of crackling and rusting.

I've used Media paints, Weathered Wood Crackle, Matte Varnish, and Crackle Paint.
Have a great weekend, and thanks very much for looking x

Box It Up

Hi, the fabulous Sam has picked the theme this week for the Stampotique challenge, and she chosen 'boxes' Here's what Sam has to say.
"I think we all have boxes that we throw away and so this week I'm inviting you to take an empty cardboard box and and later and decorate it to your hearts content.I can't wait to see your boxes, have fun!"
Won't you join us this week?

Great challenge Sam, here's my box

I started by covering my box with newspaper and watered down PVA. It's a Spanish newspaper so I didn't have to look out for naughty words lol. When it was dry I gave it a coat of watered down gesso.

Now for the fun bit, I stamped and coloured lots of images with DecoArt Glass Paints. I must admit I got a bit carried away with this part lol.

This is how it looks from the top

and this is the side view. Like a good soldier I didn't leave any images behind :-)

As usual I used quite a few stamps but I have left some white space lol.

I've used

Mushroom Forest

Trees (2 sided)

Bushes

Leaf

Sunflower Large

Mushroom Group

Splattered Mug

World All Her Own

So take your empty box and join in with our challenge, for the chance to win $30 of new rubber from the Stampotique store.

Enjoy your week, and thanks very much for looking x

True Colours

Hellooooo from a very foggy (but strangely warm) Pontefract. It's Wednesday so it's - oh wait, no - I'm late again - It's Thursday so it's time for another Stampotique challenge! This week the lovely Carol has chosen bright colours. Perfect, just what we need at the moment as we are surrounded by gray (no NOT 50 shades thank you very much)
Here's what The Fox says

This week Carol Fox is our hostess and she is challenging us to "Bright Colors"

Here is what Carol says about this challenge:

"Bright eye popping colors to brighten up November"

So let's see your best and brightest projects this week.

I've used the second half of the blue background from my previous project as I though it would be perfect for my new seahorses who have been coloured with Inktense pencils.

Isn't Rudy a handsome chap!

Just like his brother Reggie, this is 2015 boys can wear pink!

The bubbles are from Design Cube

and the edging is my old favourite Splatter Long 

So please put away the Autumnal for a day and join us in our quest for bright colours- you know you want to :-)
Have a fab day, and thanks very much for looking x

Baa Baa Tie Died Sheep???

Hi and happy November - only 54 more sleeps until Christmas! 
Have I scared you - good lol.
This month Doreen has chosen the theme for the Country View Crafts challenge, and she has picked the colour blue. I don't know anyone who doesn't like blue (except for skirts 'cos they remind me of my old school uniform. But then again I've not worn a skirt for 20 years :-) So here's my blue

I've been playing with my new Distress sprays in Mermaid Lagoon  and my favourite (for now) Blueprint Sketch.
I've also used a Dylusion stencil - a selection of these can be found here

More spraying and stenciling, and a Dylusions border has been stamped.

The sheep image is by Stampotique, and he's been coloured with Distress Markers. My tie dyed sheep has also got pink and green 'Fluffy Stuff' wool.
The sentiment is also from a Dylusions stamp set.
I hope you join in with our challenge - remember there's a chance to win £20 to spend in the store, and if you're one of our top 3 you can join us as a guest designer.

Enjoy your weekend, and thanks very much for looking x