Wednesday 9 March 2011

Stampotique Designers Challenge time!

Inks by Dylusions

It's Stampotique Designers Challenge time again! This time it's hosted by Kaz, who has challenged us all to us any animal, bird or insect stamp on our creation. As it's the first challenge of the month you can use any stamps, although it would be nice if you use Stampotique of course :-) To play along, you need to link your creation to the Stampotique Designers Challenge blog for a chance to win a gift voucher for $30 to spend on Stampotique Originals yay!

I created another page in my mop-up journal for this challenge. The page was already covered in left-over orange / yellow ink which I thought would be a good colour for this. For the body I used Jo Capper-Sandon's big bee, and I added Karin's head and legs ha ha! I stamped the bee twice so that I could give Karin some 3-D wings:


I added this quote (computer generated):


I could never get my head around that quote when I was little! I just didn't 'get' it!

And here's a close-up of Karin as a bee:


Byeeeeeeeeeee for now. Don't forget to check out the challenge!

39 comments:

  1. Great stuff........it's a wasp for me!

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  2. Such a colorful and creative piece!
    Hanne

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  3. Hey Kate....what a fun idea, you turned Karin into a buzzy...body!!

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  4. Hi hun LOVE this page, loving Karins bee body hehehehe and i really love the pages in your mop up journal there fab !!!! on this quote though id say bee, ekkkk wasps scare the hell out of me, when I was younger I had a wasps nest in the wall of my bedroom and got stung 3 times in one day :( not nice !!!! the first being 6am when I rolled over on my pillow and one stung me in the cheek ahhhhhhhhh not the best wake up call

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  5. Gorgeous Kate, love that you have a 'mop up' journal - fab idea, I just use pieces of paper! Love the design layout of this page, and great statement/question/theme x

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  6. Wow... this is absoluteley stunning, Kate! Love your background.

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  7. hahaha TOTALLY brilliant!!!! I love the idea that Karin may have a sting in her tail, gorgeous page my lovely and I do like th white space left :-D x

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  8. LOL, brilliant as always, Annette x

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  9. How clever to combine the two stamps! I am very intrigued by the background. Did you use a resist technique to create the lighter image areas like the diamond pattern, or is it stamped on after with paint or something?

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  10. oh that is superb, defn outside the box. I love it x

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  11. Brilliant as always, what a fantastic idea to use the bee that way. xx

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  12. Yet another fabulous creation Kate! Did I already tell you how much I love your artwork .. (at least a dozen times I believe :-))

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  13. clever clever clever :-) Definitely a bee (Deborah is apparently Hebrew for bee!)

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  14. beeyond bonkers Kate! love it lol

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  15. Kate ... this is sooooooooooooo cool, I love what you have done with this page:)

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  16. So Bee it! How totally cool! Love the saying and such yummy colors!

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  17. What a clever idea and I like the title of your book "My Mop Up Book" great.xx

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  18. Just Great!!! Love the 3-D wings.

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  19. stopping by to see what creativity abounds....there's plenty as usual. I love your artwork

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  20. Too cute!
    Love the quote, very clever. :]

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  21. LOVE the quote and LOVE the page! Gorgeous!!!

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  22. Really made me smile. I really love it when I see things on blogs that do that...brilliant! And Kar-bee looks superb on your background.

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  23. Wauw, i think it's gorgeous,
    the colors and the use of the stamps!
    So ingenious with the 3D wings!!!
    I like the nice pun ( i hope it is the right word)
    Greetings, Anneke

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  24. Lol is that a new stamp Kate Kar-bee. Very un usual and the start of another book I think. Thanks for the inspiration. xx

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  25. I just love it!! Love karin waspybee!

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  26. Love the card and the bee wings in dimension. I'd bee! :)

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  27. Verrrry nice. I see that you are coming to terms with idea of white space on your page these days! Looking good!

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  28. Hehehe - Karin looks quite bee-autiful today! Gorgeous background Kate :) x

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  29. ah soooo clever and gorgeous Kate, loving the colours and every thing x

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  30. This is really beautiful Kate!! As usual, I'm so very inspired!!

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  31. This is totally Fun and FUNKY!!! WOW~

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  32. Drum roll please and the creative most outstanding winner of the challenge is Clever "KATE".
    Well that is in my mind,what a winner you are always.
    I truly love the imagination you used and the background is awesome as always.
    You always greatly inspire me !!!
    Fabulous fits,I love "what would you rather bee".Hugs Laura. xoxx

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  33. Kate, This made me laugh out loud! What an incredibly fun design! Thank you for being apart of the DT team.

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  34. Your work is just stunning and getting better all the time.

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  35. Oh my gosh, that is too, too cute. I love the quote, as well!
    Fondly,
    Suz

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