Wednesday, April 13, 2011

It's my turn again...


Morning!

Today is my turn to come up with a theme for the new Stampotique challenge. Its an ANY STAMPS challenge (being the first challenge of the month) but if you have any Stampotiques it would be fab if you used those too. If you don't have any, why not?! lol....this is the perfect opportunity to win some as Carol and Jim at Stampotique are donating yet another $30 gift certificate for one lucky person drawn in a fortnights time.

Anyway....enough of the details...whats the theme? NEWSPRINT AND OLD BOOKS. I'd love to see what you can make using either. Whether its a page, an altered book, sentences cut out from the daily newspaper which have inspired you.

I made this as my contribution, but this has so much scope as a theme its endless. I used one of Stampotiques new mermaids, Smumanha (or 'the one with the pointy hair' as I like to call her), Swirl Stalks, Jo's Flower Cube and Splatter Long. I also used a punch to create little flower bursts of newspaper.

Another approach would of course to use stamps that have book/newspaper text on them such as French Text and Text Stars or any others you may have in your collection.

I hope you can find a bit of time to join in. I know you will wow me with your fab ideas!! The first 'batch' from the Stampotique Team are on the site now. Please check over there for the other contributions as the days go by.

All stamps available from Stampotique in the USA and Happy Daze in the UK, amongst others.
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36 comments:

  1. Jolanta Błasiak-Wielgus "olfa"13 April 2011 at 10:39

    beautiful picture :)

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  2. 1CardCreator13 April 2011 at 11:06

    Love this tag JO, especially how the hair trails off.

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  3. Moira13 April 2011 at 11:17

    What fun, a real underwater busy inky feel

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  4. Anonymous13 April 2011 at 11:41

    great background,it sits so well with the stamped image.

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  5. Heavens2Betsy13 April 2011 at 11:47

    Hi Jo! This is just gorgeous - I love anything involving text of any kind and this, paired with the stamp ... wow, lovely! Hope you are well. Pen x

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  6. Helen13 April 2011 at 12:11

    Cracking theme, and I love your offering! Will try hard to play for this one...

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  7. Willy13 April 2011 at 12:40

    Great theme and wonderful tag, Jo!

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  8. Sid13 April 2011 at 12:49

    Great tag Jo!!

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  9. Netty13 April 2011 at 13:06

    Another perfect tag. Annette

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  10. Ellie13 April 2011 at 14:05

    Fabulous, just love these stamps, background brilliant!

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  11. Sharon (glitterangel)13 April 2011 at 14:17

    Wow, it's fabulous, I love the way you've created the background, the colours work really well and I love that mermaid.

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  12. Cynthia Schelzig13 April 2011 at 14:24

    Great theme and fabulous take on it too!

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  13. Basement Stamper13 April 2011 at 16:03

    very pretty tag and love the card you came up with it!

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  14. Kate13 April 2011 at 17:55

    Love the colours, love it all! :)

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  15. Maria Sabina R13 April 2011 at 17:57

    wonderful tag.

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  16. joanne wardle13 April 2011 at 18:10

    brilliant, I love that you used the tag upside down!

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  17. Anonymous13 April 2011 at 18:32

    I love your entry the minute I saw it? Wanna trade entries for this challenge :-)?

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  18. Andrea13 April 2011 at 18:44

    Fantastic ... I "go" in the picture, so much to see!!

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  19. Dotty Jo13 April 2011 at 18:55

    What a fabulous tag Jo, love her hair and the print deatiling, Jo x

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  20. joanne wardle13 April 2011 at 19:02

    brilliant, and I love that the tag is upside down.

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  21. Carol Q13 April 2011 at 19:29

    fab Jo. looks like she's emerging from some sort of underwater volcano

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  22. Karin13 April 2011 at 22:34

    What a fun tag Jo, love your colour combination. Great theme.

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  23. G Peplow13 April 2011 at 23:25

    Fabulous, love everything about your tag:0) xxx

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  24. Kaz14 April 2011 at 13:07

    Gorgeous Jo, such a fab tag. I'm glad someone else uses different names for the mermaids too!! x

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  25. Ginger14 April 2011 at 14:43

    Great item. I love these mermaid stamps. x

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  26. Lynne14 April 2011 at 22:50

    Hi Jo, your tag is fab love the mermaid, great colours, perfect. Lynne x

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  27. Sija15 April 2011 at 11:16

    fabulous as always!

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  28. Carol15 April 2011 at 22:04

    This tag is GREAT, Jo! Love how you've colored the background so blue-ish and sea-ish.....gorgeous!
    FAB!

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  29. Paula J Atkinson16 April 2011 at 09:18

    Gorgeous collaged background, love it!

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  30. Sue16 April 2011 at 21:26

    This is fabulous Jo, love the bookpages and you splatter x

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  31. Gez Butterworth17 April 2011 at 00:05

    Oooh delish tag :)
    Love the background colours. Perfect.
    Have a great Sunday.

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  32. craftimamma17 April 2011 at 12:02

    This is fab Jo. I love EVERYTHING about it - all the images are great and the colours are lovely too. The book pages pieces work beautifully.

    Hugs
    Lesley Xx

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  33. Vicki G17 April 2011 at 16:26

    Ohhhh WOW!!!!!.............yeah..............WOW!!

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  34. Anonymous18 April 2011 at 09:29

    Oh Jo, she is gorgeous. S xx

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  35. Dolly Daydreams18 April 2011 at 09:38

    I must get these stamps (and yours) really want to take part in this challenge.

    Marie

    Oh sorry this is gorgeous.

    Marie

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  36. Alison25 April 2011 at 11:04

    Jo - your tag is stunning, thanks for the brilliant challenge! Love that mermaid stamp & your fabulous background!
    Alison x

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