Wednesday 22 June 2011

Stampotique Design Challenge Blog Hop!


Mary and Hare by Jill Penney and Daniel Torrente for Stampotique Originals

Join us for Stampotique's Magical Mystery Tour today. Why a Magical Mystery Tour? Comment on all the blogs and along the way we have 2 mystery prizes to give away.

If you have arrived here from Vicki at the Summerthyme Studio blog then you are in the right place, if not, you may want to begin at the Stampotique Designer's Challenge blog and begin your tour from there.

A few weeks ago, Valerie had us recycling and this week she has us cleaning house again!She's challenging us to dig in our stash to see how many scraps we can use up in our projects. Just about anything qualifies as a scrap - as long as you're utilizing a piece or part of something that you generated before but never used up... it counts! So what will it be? Bits of an old master board or freaky background? Leftover pieces of your favorite designer paper? Part of an old piece of grunge board? Fragments of a previously inked image? Or the remnants of some odd embellishment? Let's see just how creative you can be!

As you can see I made a tag using up some of my tiny scraps of paper (mostly Basic Gray) by overlapping them and stitching them onto a large manilla tag. I also 'save' tiny scraps of leftover sheet music and vintage text, so they made their way onto the tag too! I stamped Mary and Hare onto a leftover scrap of white paper and coloured them with my *new* prismas :-) I managed to find a random quote about a hare in an old and well-used quote book that I found in a second hand book shop.

As you make your way through the tour make sure you comment on each and every post. There will be 2 prize winners chosen randomly amongst the blogs. For some additional chances to win another prize join us with our "Scraps" Challenge using your Stampotique stamps for your chance at a $30 gift certificate for Stampotique stamps and at being our August Guest Designer, see our blog for additional information.

Our tour will end on June 28th and the winner of the 2 tour prizes will be announced on the blog on June 29th.

Now, jump on over to Joanne at Made by Joanne blog to see what kind of scraps she has used on our Magical Mystery Tour.

Don't forget, it's not too late to enter my free give away for a chance to win my Art Journaling DVDs. Look here for more info, you have until Friday to enter! *EDIT: This competition has now closed *

61 comments:

  1. Great tag! Fantastic colours
    Magda

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  2. this is awesome and the fact that you found this awesome quote is perfect!

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  3. Pretty card. Great background! Love that cute bunny!

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  4. Ohhhhhhhhh, this is just adorable, luv how you used your scraps, I'll have to rem to use that one day.

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  5. Love this piece, great way to use scraps, I'll have to try to remember that!

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  6. Kate this is my fav! i love the colors, the spooky touch! everything

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  7. Absolutely gorgeous tag, love the background, very effective and love the addition of the hare. Tracy x

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  8. This is such a fab tag Kate. It's good to see another one who can't bear to part with BG paper!!! xx

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  9. Really great use of your scraps...a fab tag indeed! Vicki at Summerthyme studio does not have a piece listed for this blog hop.....I had to skip her and go back to the designer´s blog to get to you.

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  10. So much pieces at one tag; wonderfull!
    Greetz, Gerrina

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  11. Fab tag, wonderful use of the BG scraps!

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  12. Cool tag. Love that hare. Great scrap background.

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  13. Oooooooooooooo and more ooooooooo's, this is fantastic xx

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  14. Beautiful tag! It caught my attention right away!
    Hugs
    Kelly

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  15. I just love the background of this.It's great!

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  16. your tag is fab, kate. I do love how you colour your images

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  17. beautiful tag, I love the composition of it!

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  18. A gorgeous tag, what fab imagery !!

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  19. What a totally awesome tag Kate! Love the colours and the way you coloured the stamp

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  20. Love the scrap of music- cute tag!

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  21. fabby!!! Love the colours and the way you have combined all those papers!!!! Hugs Juls

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  22. Absolutely gorgeous tag, love the background!!

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  23. Wonderful inspiration to reuse, repurpose, and recycle!:-)

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  24. This is a very inspirational tag! LOVE the colors!

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  25. Terrific tag and love the stitching

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  26. Super Stunning Kate! You ROCK!

    Hugs

    Vicki

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  27. I love, love, love your tag.

    Your coloring is exquisite and the composition rocks.

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  28. woah Kate - I couldn't wait to get to your blog in the hop - and I am not disappointed! Love the combination of the images on the vintage background! Love it :)

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  29. What a gorgeous Tag Kate. Love it. =D

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  30. Oh wow! what a fabuous tag, an awsome combination of BG, stitching and wicked stamping! Love it!! xx

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  31. This is an adorable tag! Love it's sweetness :]

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  32. This has to be one of the most beautiful tags ever - such gorgeous colours and patterns!

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  33. I love this tag and I want this stamp! Both of them.

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  34. I just love everything about this...but the colours are stunning!! x

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  35. Terrific tag! like your concept with all the scraps.
    stamping sue
    http://stampingsueinconnecticut.blogspot.com/

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  36. OMG!! This is sooo beautifull!

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  37. Love the background you made! LOOKS GREAT!!!

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  38. Absolutely love this one Kate. It has your instantly recognisable style!!

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  39. Love, love, love your tag! So very cool.
    Rinda

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  40. Gorgeous tag! A lovely way to use scraps! Chris

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  41. Super fabulous tag! LOVE the stitching! xxD

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  42. Gorgeous tag! Very clever to combine the scraps with stitching :)

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  43. Such a wonderful tag. love the stitching and colours. Thanks for sharing such great inspiration and have a great day. Angela

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  44. Melanie Bennett25 June 2011 at 02:56

    Great tag....Love the stitching and the sentiment...wonderful!!!!

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  45. Your tag looks fabulous, love the background and the images.

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  46. Gorgeous tag! Don't you love it when you find the perfect quote like that? It's such a great feeling. Great use of scraps - I will keep that in mind since I can't ever bring myself to throw out the tiniest piece of Basic Grey...

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  47. Gorgeous tag Kate, love everything about it.

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  48. Love the colours, images and layers in this tag

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  49. love this tag Kate, gorgeous colours, and fab stripes of paper; and congratulations on your dvds :) xx

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  50. Oh Kate, what a gorgoeus Tag, I love ♥♥♥ it S xx

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  51. wow wow wow!!! gorgeous tag!! love it!! =)
    hugs, SannaS

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  52. Truly awesome! Great colors! I think I recognize each of those papers from my scrap pile too! LOL!
    Val :)

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  53. I ADORE your tag! It is refreshingly funky! xo

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