This is Week 3 of the Stampotique Designers' Challenge hosted by our Design Team Coordinator Kim Howard. Although the challenge is the same, each week is a new chance for you to enter and win a $30 gift certificate from Stampotique Originals for the yummy stamps you see here.
One of the new stamps I received as a 2014 Stampotique Design Team member is Spiral Velvet Chair by stamp designer Amy Crowe, along with the text stamp Chair Up! I couldn't wait to use them, so created a card for you today.
The creative details: I used a card blank and adhered a piece of vertically striped patterned paper (inked around the edges with a blending tool) as wallpaper in the mini scene I am creating. Next, using the George and Basic Shapes cartridge on my Cricut Expression, I cut an oval shape ("Buckskin Brown" from The Paper Company) to serve as the rug beneath the chair. I then stamped the chair image on polka dot paper, cut it out and adhered it atop my rug. Smile (colored with Ranger Distress Markers and crayons) was added next, one of Daniel Torrente's character stamps. To keep him company, I added another of Daniel's stamps, Kitty! Lastly, the sentiment was stamped on white cardstock, trimmed and edged with black ink, then added to the chair back.
I hope my card will spark your creative genes and you will head to your crafting table to create something for the Stampotique Designers' Challenge this week!
I am glad that you stopped by today. Your visits and your comments are important to me. I read every one of them!
Cheers!
Kay, love all details you have added here. I can tell you this, I am waiting for my first Stampotique stamps to arrive (I won gift certificate) and in that I've selected this boy 'smile', yay! so I am very much impressed and inspired with your card.
ReplyDeleteKay, I love it.
ReplyDeleteGreat job again, lovely the cat on the chair!
ReplyDeleteFabulous Kay, great first make with your new stamps.
ReplyDeleteLove
Amanda x
Wow, Kay. I love the little scene you created here, complete with wallpaper, rug and chair. Of course Smile is one of my favourite stamps too and the Chair is on my wish list. Great colours too !!
ReplyDeleteCorrie x
Well Kay sorry it's been a while since I stopped by. I really like this new Chair design. love that little figure of a boy, so cute...Merry Christmas and great luck in the new year hope I get to stop by more often.
ReplyDeleteI don't know about chair up, about now drink up would be good. Gotta get some lunch while I enjoy your wonderful creativity....xox
ReplyDeleteYour card sparks my creative genes Kay, but no no still no mood to create something for the Stampotique Designers' Challenge lol!!! But please, continue to delight me like that (love your choice of stamps, very good, and the way you have combined them today!) and maybe I will play again for you and some others of the team. :) Coco xxx
ReplyDeleteLove the chair! This really caught my eye, so cute.
ReplyDeleteOh Kay, this did make me smile :)
ReplyDeleteBig hugs xx
There was certainly a bit of stamping and cutting here, but it looks really terrific. Love how you created this little scene!
ReplyDeleteSmile will always make me smile x
ReplyDeleteThis is so cool...I love the images and to ground it all on a 'rug' is so clever. I love your style so funky and fun... Merry Christmas Kay to you and Russ. I hope you have a wonderful time. xx
ReplyDeleteWhat a fabulous scene you have created here,love this.xxx
ReplyDeleteLove your composition Kay...Smile & Kitty look fab with the chair!
ReplyDeleteAlison x
Fantastic. Love the cat. I think he's got some xmas stress going on. Merry Christmas to you
ReplyDeletejust love that chair stamp!
ReplyDeleteLove love love it!
ReplyDeleteI'm rapidly coming to the conclusion that I love all your work.
ReplyDeleteThis is sooooo brilliantly done. Great craftsmanship, composition, and color scheme.
My kitties perch on the top of the couches all the time. So much so that there's a permanent Flash-shaped divot on the top of one of 'em.
I think I *need* Kitty. I have Puss-Puss. But one can never have too many cats and/or cat stamps.