Wednesday's With Claudine - Week 4 Anything Goes

Merry Christmas Eve! and welcome back to another Wednesday with me and the Stampotique Designer's Challenge. This is the 4th week with the "Anything Goes" Challenge. This one ran through the entire month of December. 

The passed two week's I have given you a bit of a recap on my year with Stampotique, it has been a lot of fun going through some of my projects over this year. 

This week I wanted to make something new so i decided to make a cell phone case. I just got the new iPhone 6 and I needed to make me a shiny new case with my Stampotique characters. 

I always buy a clear case and just make my own background. 

So without further delay, here is my new case:

I used the Stampotique stamp - Moth Fab by artists Daniel Torrente and Jill Penney

and also Whatever... - Carol's Collection

I just love how my case turned out, nice and bright just like I like it. The great thing about it is, I can change it whenever I want and it's always original. 

Merry Christmas everyone!!

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Wednesday's With Claudine - A look Back

Welcome back to Wendnesday everyone. Happy Hump Day, I hope your week is going well. Over at the  Designer's Challenge Blog we are doing a month long "Anything Goes" challenge and I figured I would do a bit of a recap on some of my passed creations for Stampotique this time

First up I have a birthday card that I did for a friend of mine, this was a fun and colorful creation.

Stampotique Stamps I used:

Prom Queen - By Artists Jill Penney and Daniel Torrente

Froggie - By Artist Daniel Torrente

Froggie and Prom Queen seem like life long friends

Next Up I have a piece I showcased a few weeks ago when I announced that I had made Roc Nicholas' Design team.

This is one of my favorite creations from this passed year

Stampotique Stamp Used - Blessed Skellie by artist Roc Nicholas

If you look closely you can see the Skellie's head in my background paper too

Next up is a journal spread I did for the purple, black and pink challenge a few months ago

Stampotique Stamps used - 

Young Ignis and Ignis Heart - By Artist Magda Polakow

Next up is one from many moons ago, this one I did prior to becoming a design team member but I just love this page, it's so fun and bright and bold. It's one that I use for my business card

I only used one Stampotique stamp on this journal page but she is my all time favorite and at the time I only had one stamp and Prom Queen it was.

Prom Queen - By Artists Jill Penney and Daniel Torrente

Thanks for coming by the blog today and I hope you have enjoyed my recap, I will be back next Wednesday to do some more recaps of my Stampotique work. I hope you will check back.

Also, don't forget about the Stampotique Designer's Challenge, the entire month of December is "Anything Goes" so you get 4 chance to win the 30.00 gift card!!

Claudine

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Anything Goes, Stampotique Challenge - Wednesday's with Claudine

Happy Wednesday ya'll, this marks the end of the year Challenge for Stampotique and the challenge for the entire month of December is "Anything Goes!" Hosted by the lovely Kim Howard

For this month only, you will have the opportunity to enter the 

challenge 5 times (one for each week)- 5 chances to win the

random $30 gift certificate for Stampotique stamps.

How cool is that? So get your crafty panties on because you can make anything you want and still join in the challenge!

For this first week I decided to make an ATC 
I used Stampotique Stamps:

Spider Girl - By Artists Jill Penney + Daniel Torrente
Arch - By Artist Arwen McCullen (used a small portion of this stamp)

Here is my ATC

I hope you will join us this month and enter for your chance to win!! 

In the Words of Edgar Allen Poe - Wednesday's With Claudine

Welcome back to another fun Wednesday with Stampotique and me!! yay!

This week our lovely Kay Wallace is our hostess and for challenge number 175 she has asked us to do something in the theme 

"In The Words Of Edgar Allen Poe"

I am in love with this theme, Edgar has some pretty creepy stuff going on and his quotes are so cool, right up mine and Stampotique's alley haha! 

I decided to do a journal spread inspired by the wonderfully talented France Papillon

France always does some fantastic free tutorials on Monday's and I just love her style

I used Stampotique Stamps -

French Text - By Artist Jo Capper-Sandon

1879 Postmark - By Artist France Papillon

Love Definition - By Artist Amy Wilson Wellenstein

Mrs Snottie - By artist Daniel Torrente

My Quote says: "I don't suffer from insanity but enjoy every minute of it"

come by my blog to see how this page was put together

Claudine's Art Corner

Cheers!!

Designer's Challenge Stripey Background - Wednesday's With Claudine

Wednesday brings another fun challenge over at Stampotique Designer's Challenge Blog

This week our hostess is the lovely Corrie and she is challenging us to do a "Stripey Background" but no using patterned paper for this. 

Ok, I love using stripes so this challenge is right up my alley

I used Stampotique Stamps -

Barcode Text 2 and French Journal Page By artist France Papillon

Daniel's Hearts, Twinkie and Checkers By artist Daniel Torrente

I decided to do a journal page for this challenge

I am kinda in love with this page. I just love the humorousness of Twinkie and "shenanigans" is my new favorite stamp!

Come on over and join us at Stampotique Designers Challenge Blog and join in on this fun challenge

For more info on how this background was created, head on over to my blog and check it out

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Bring On The Bling - Wednesday's With Claudine

Hello all, This week over at the Design Team Challenge Blog the Challenge is all about "Bringing on the Bling"!! 

Our wonderful hostess France Papillon has picked out theme this week. 

This was a toughie for me because I don't do a lot of "bling" when I craft but it was fun to step outside my box and create something

I used Stampotique Stamp

Stella - By Artist Jo Capper-Sandon

I decided to make an ATC for this one and here is my outcome

I added bling in the form of ultra fine glitter to the bees and the red line that Stella is sitting on. I think it turned out fun and colorful!

Thanks for coming by and make sure to join in at the Challenge Blog

You could win a 30.00 gift certificate to the Stampotique online store

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Spotlight SDC 172

Alright ya'll, have you ever head of the "spotlighting"? 

So this is all about highlighting a portion of an image to make it stand out.

So for this week's challenge over at Stampotique's Designer Challenge Blog our so talented and wonderful Arwen is our hostess and she has chosen the theme "Spotlight"

This is a fun and difficult challenge at the same time. I love it! Spotlighting isn't hard but it's tough to decide which portion to highlight.

I decided to make a simple card for this challenge and highlight a portion of my main image stamp.

I added some patterned paper for the background

I used Stampotique Stamps

Young Ignis - By Artist Magda Polakow

Barcode Text - By Artist France Papillon

I chose to highlight the teddy bear because it seems as love Young Ignis is just hugging her bear and loving her.

Come by and join us for this challenge and you could win a 30.00 gift certificate from Stampotique Originals

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Your Favorite Colors - Wednesday's With Claudine

Welcome back everyone, today there is a new challenge over at the Stampotique Designers Challenge Blog and our hostess this week is the super Nellie Van Leeuwen

She has chosen the theme, "Use Your Favorite Colors"

What a great theme! I am excited about this one!

For this challenge I chose to make a mixed media canvas

I used the Stampotique Stamps:

Paris Lamp Post, French Journal Page, Comfort Zone all by artist France Papillon

My favorite colors are those of Fall, I just love the browns, oranges, reds and yellows that come with the Fall season and so I used all of these colors on my burlap panel.

I created a lot of texture in this background with embossing pastes, fabrics, paper and paint.

Come on over to the Designer's Challenge Blog and join in on this challenge. You could be the lucky winner of a 30.00 gift card to spend in the store.

Cheers!!

Ghouls and Goblins - Wednesday's With Claudine

Hello all, thanks for coming by the blog again. As you know Wednesday marks another fun challenge over at The Stampotique Designer's Blog and this week our hostess is the great Kristen Catalano and she has challenged us to do some Ghouls and Goblins. Being that it's so close to Halloween, what a fitting challenge.

I decided to do a journal page for this challenge and I used Stampotique Stamps:

Buru!, Spider Wings, Circles Cube and Lovelyarethesound all by artist Daniel Torrente

Barcode Text #2 - By Artist France Papillon

This is my finished journal page, I love how the background came out with the embossed paper and the acrylic paints but the star of this page is Lovelyarethesound and Buru! It looks as though Buru has become discombobulated! haha!!

Happy Halloween!!!

Black, Purple and Pink - Wednesday's With Claudine

Hello all, Wednesday always marks another wonderful Challenge over at the Stampotique Designer's Challenge Blog and this week our hostess is the wonderful Carol Fox

Carol has challenged us to use the colors Black, Purple and Pink.. incredibly these are some of my favorite colors and I just love them together

For this challenge I really wanted to do a two page journal spread

I used Stampotique Stamps

Young Ignis , Ignis Heart by artist Magda Polakow

Circle Cube - By artist Daniel Torrente

I also added some handwritten quotes to my background

I stamped my Young Ignis, and Ignis Heart stamps onto a separate sheet of paper and colored them with copics

I stamped the circle cube stamp onto pink paper with embossed dots that I had colored some of those black, I cut those circles out and added them to my background

Here is my journal page - 

(note - I added the stitching to the teddy here, the original stamp has no stitching)

Thanks so much for coming by and if you want to know more about how this page was created please hop on over to my blog

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SDC 168 Use Book Text - Wednesday's With Claudine

Hello all, Wednesday's always mark another fun challenge over at Stampotique Designers Challenge Blog and this week our hostess is Corrie Herriman and she has chosen the theme 

"Use Book Text"

I love the theme but I don't have a ton of books that I tear up, I need to go to the thrift store and get some so that I can just rip those pages and use them for backgrounds.

I did find one book to use for this challenge and it was an older book that the kids never liked so I figured it was ok haha!

I used a gelli print that I have had for awhile for my background and I added the torn book print and then painted a little bit over it so that it would blend well with the background

Stampotique Stamps I used are:

Ignis - By Artist Magda Polakow

Barcode Text AND Barcode By Artist France Papillon

Cross Hatch Swirl - By Artist Maryse Carrier

Here is my finished postcard

I stamped Ignis onto the book text and colored her with distress markers, this way the book text shows through

I also doodled a bit all over the edges and added a sentiment that a friend of mine lives by haha!! 

Thanks for coming by, I hope you will join us in this challenge

SDC 167 Masculine - Wednesday's With Claudine

Good morning all, we have a new challenge this week for you over at Stampotique Designers Challenge Blog and our hostess this week is Kim Howard

I know a lot of people have trouble with masculine themed cards or journal pages, I know I do.

Stampotique Stamps I used for this project are:

French Journal Page - By France Papillon

Angel Boy - By Daniel Torrente

Feakin' People Person - From Carol's Collection

I decided to do a small journal page for this one and I used a jelli print that I had made several months ago (gotta love those gelli prints)

if you would like to see a little of how this was created hop on over to my blog 

HERE

thanks again for coming by

Claudine

Stampotique Designers Challenge 166

Happy Wednesday all, I'm so happy to be here to show you my project for the new challenge

over at Stampotique Designer's Challenge Blog

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

In fact our Facebook group is having an ATC Halloween swap for October, won't you come by and join us?

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!

Thanks for coming by the Designer's Blog today, make sure to check back everyday for a new inspiring project by one of the designers.

Wednesday's With Claudine - SDC 165

Hello all, welcome to another new challenge over at Stampotique Designer's Challenge Blog. 

Our hostess for this challenge is Samantha and she is challenging us to use only one stamp.

This one will be difficult, all the Stampotique stamps are so cool and it's tough to only use one 

For this challenge I went small and decided to make an ATC. The perfect size for one stamp.

I used Stampotique Stamp

Whisker Monster with Sign - By artist Kira Nichols

I made my background using Tim Holtz distress paints adding a few stencils and paint marks and a bit of wash tape

This monster is one of my favorites because I can write whatever I want to write inside his sign. I just love him

Thanks for coming by and enjoy your day

Cheers!

SDC 164 - Birds or Animals - Wednesday's With Claudine

Hello all and welcome back to the blog. Today starts a new challenge over at Stampotique's Designers Challenge Blog

Our lovely hostess is the wonderful Sue Davies and she is asking us to make something With Animals or Birds. 

I decided that I wanted to make a card for my parents anniversary. Their anniversary isn't until New Years Eve but I figured I'd work on it early.

Birds have always been the theme for their anniversaries and my Dad has this tradition of giving my mom a set of two birds every year. Usually they are little sculptures or ceramic figures but she has one for every year they have been married. I think it's such a sweet tradition.

I just recently got this stamp and as soon as I saw it It reminded me of my parents.

I used Stampotique Stamps

Treemates - by Artist Kylie DiOrio 

Kylie has some wonderful bird stamps and I just love them all

Two Hearts..One Love - By Carol's Collection

Carol has some really awesome sayings in her stamp collection

Here is my card

I hope my parents like the card, I think this stamp is just so sweet. 

Have a wonderful day everyone

Refresh It - SDC163 Wednesday's with Claudine

Wow, it's already September!! Time is flying this year

It's time for another Challenge over at the Stampotique Designer's Challenge Blog and

this week our hostess is Kaz over at Slightly Wonky Crafts and she has a wonderful challenge for us. She is asking us to "Refresh It" Use one of those older stamps that you haven't used in awhile and give it a new lease on life.

How fun! I have so many stamps that I just love but one of my very first stamps I ever bought from Stampotique was 

Prom Queen - By Artist Daniel Torrente and Jill Penney

I also used another stamp that was one of my first buys

Whatever - By Carol's Collection

I decided the make a tag for this challenge

I just love bright colors and I love how vivid the background has come out on this one. I did some sewing around the edges and over the wash tape and "Whatever" word.

Thanks for coming by, I'll see you next week!!

SDC162 - Under The Sea - Wednesday's With Claudine

Hello everyone and thanks again for stopping by the blog. This weeks Challenge over at the Stampotique Designer's Challenge Blog is "Under The Sea" chosen by our wonderful Arwen McCullen

For my project today I chose to use a background that I had previously made in one of my art journals. I was actually experimenting to see if this mesh type material would stay if I adhered it with gel medium, it ended up staying pretty well and I thought it kind of looked like fish netting.

I also had previously used a stencil to add some lettering along the bottom and used Dyan Reaveley sprays for my background.

I decided for this under the sea page, I wanted to use Stampotique Stamps - 

Something Fishy - By Amy Wilson-Wellenstein

Smushallaum - By Daniel Torrente

Smushasha - By Daniel Torrente

Seaweed - By Jo Capper-Sandon

Breakfast - By Daniel Torrente

Here is my finished page

The page turned out just how I imaged, it looks like the mermaids have caught the creature in the netting, I also cut the hand so that it was reaching through the netting, as if he was trying to escape.

I hope you have enjoyed my creation today, make sure to try out a "under the sea" creation of your own and link up to 

Stampotique Designer's Challenge in order to be eligible to win.

Flowers and a Bookmark - Wednesday with Claudine

Happy Wednesday to ya, thanks again for coming by and spending this time with me once again

 

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, Hazel Jester definitely has that cuteness factor

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

Thanks for coming by and have a great day.

Music As Inspiration - Wednesday's With Claudine

Welcome back to another Wednesday with me. Wednesday's always mark another fun challenge at Stampotique's Designer's Challenge Blog.

This week Kathi is our wonderful hostess and she has chosen "Music As Inspiration" as her theme. I love listening to music while I create and so this is a great challenge

I chose the song "Hey Jude" by the Beetles (one of my favorite bands ever) It's one of my favorite Beetle's songs.

For this project I used Stampotique Stamps - 

Phillip - By Artist Magda Polokow

Girl With Heart Purse - By Artists Jill Penney and Daniel Torrente

Here is my finished postcard -

Hope you like my project for today and we hope you will come by and join in on the challenges at the Challenge Blog 

Have a great week

Bows - Wednesday's with Claudine

Hello all and thanks for coming by this wonderful Wednesday afternoon. 

Wednesday marks another new challenge over at Stampotique's Designer's Challenge Blog

Jackie Payne is our wonderful hostess this week and she has challenges us to use "Bows" on our project. 

Bows are super cute and they always look awesome in any project, whether it's a dimensional bow or something as simple as a stamped bow

Here is my project for this week's challenge

For this project I used Stampotique Stamp

Moth Fab - By Artists Jill Penney and Daniel Torrente

I used a stencil in the background and Dyan Reaveley sprays to make that spider web. I also used the sprays to color the ribbon for the bow the same color. 

Hope you enjoy my postcard today.

Have a wonderful week