Frankie Pail! It’s Alive!!!

A couple of weeks ago, we showed you how to make the pail pal, Flakie Jake, designed by Lisa Hindsley, inspired by the Patri-botic Robot article in Disney’s Family Fun Magazine. Now we’d like to introduce you to Frankie, the Frankenstein pail monster. He was also created by Lisa and will be on display at our CHA booth in Chicago. If you’re at CHA, come stop by… we’re at booth #1723. Fran Seiford is doing Sticker Background Technique and Painting with Powder demos!

Stampendous Supplies to Make Frankie:

• GALLON PAIL Gallon Clear Pail with Handle
• SHORT Short Clear Pail with Handle
• MINI Mini Pail with Handle (2)
• AC1005MRK Silly Spiders Class A’Peel™ Stickers Mirror Black
• AC1036VW Phuzzy Phantoms Class A’Peel™ Stickers Velvet White (will be available in August)
• AC722MRK Spooky Fence Class A’Peel™ Stickers Mirror Black
• AC964HSS Jumbo Circle Class A’Peel™ Stickers Silver Holograph
• AC964HSK Jumbo Circle Class A’Peel™ Stickers Black Holograph
• CRS3010 Cling Spider Web Set (will be available in August)
• SSH46 Large Acrylic Handle
• EP050 Crystal Embossing Powder
• VM001 VersaMark™ Watermark Ink by Tsukineko

Other Supplies to Make Frankie:

• 12” X 12” black cardstock (2)
• Purple Patterned Paper
• Green Cellophane wrap
• Glue Dots
• Zip Dry Paper Adhesive by Beacon Adhesives
• Giant Novelty Push Pins (2) – ours were silver but we colored them green with a Sharpie Marker
• Metallic Silver pen
• Three brads, 1 button, 2 toilet paper tubes

Instructions:

1. Cut cellophane for large gallon pail: 21” wide x 6 ¾” high. Fit into Gallon pail, pushing edges of the cello up under the pail top lip. Secure with a small glue dot at top.
2. Line the two mini pails in same way as gallon pail: 9” wide x 21/4” high.
3. Line the Short Pail with cello: 12” wide x 3 high.”

Frankie’s Head & Legs:

1. Cut small piece of Spooky Fence and stick to the front of the Short Pail for the mouth.
2. Stick two Large Silver Jumbo Circles above the mouth for the eyes. Place two smaller black circles on top of the silver circles for the irises.
3. Color large tacks with a green sharpie if desired, and insert through the sides of the pail into a stick of candy to secure the tacks, then fill the head with more sticks of candy.
4. Add a few spider webs and spiders around the top of the head for his hair. Decorate the legs (mini-pails) with webs and spiders, and then set the head and legs aside for later.

For Frankie’s Coat:

1. A 12” x 12” piece of black cardstock works well for Frankie’s coat. Cut two 4” x 12” strips from one piece, and glue them together to form one long 22” wide strip that is 4” high.
2. Stamp spider web all over coat material and emboss with Crystal Embossing powder.
3. Where the coat will meet in the front, cut curves around bottom edge, and fold back triangles at the top for lapels. Line the lapel area on each side with purple patterned paper-(2 inches on each side is enough to make a contrasting lapel).
4. Cut slits from the top of the coat to where handle is attached on the pail, and cut small circles to fit the coat around the handles. Secure coat at this point with glue dots.
5. When the coat is wrapped all the way around the pail, punch a tiny hole through the coat, pail and cellophane and secure the coat closed with a brad.
6. Glue a large green button on after it is secured if desired.
7. Add a small pocket 2 ½” x 3” including a 1” x 2 ½” strip of contrasting patterned paper at the top. Cut corners of the pocket with a corner rounder.
8. Using a silver metallic pen, draw stitching all the way around pocket.
9. Glue pocket to coat with zip dry glue or glue dots, and cut out one of the Phuzzy Phantoms (leaving the sticker on the acetate carrier) to insert into Frankie’s pocket as a hankie.

Frankie’s Arms:

1. Using the toilet paper tubes, decorate two black strips of paper 6” long x 6” around. Cut a piece of contrasting patterned paper for the cuff (3” x 6”) and glue to the end of the black paper. Glue the paper to the tubes with zip dry, and secure while drying with paper clips & rubber bands. Add spiders to his cuff links.
2. Cut excess paper all the way down to the tubes at about ¾” intervals, and fold down inside the tubes for the arms.
3. Poke a hole about 1” from the top of “seam” side of each tube.
4. Open the brad prongs and wrap around pail handles, and secure the arms to the pail through hole in the tube.

Finishing Frankie:

1. Fill the body and legs with candy.
2. Secure body to legs, then head to body with large glue dots, or strong adhesive of your choice.
3. No electricity needed to bring Frankie to life. The candy does the trick!

Saturday Sketch Challenge

Cyndi B. from The Scrappy Chick Blog, designed this week’s sketch! It’s simple, but you can embellish it to your heart’s delight! Try using the Sticker Background Technique or Painting With Powder for a fun card with more dimension!

And here’s Cyndi’s example of a card she made following the sketch:

Supplies:

• Stamps: New stamps from our new catalog!! L246 Bake Memories & V214 BlockArt Cookie Cutie (Stampendous) to find these stamps, go to your local craft supply store selling Stampendous stamps. You can find your local store here.
• Paper: Eskimo Kisses pp (Basic Grey); White cs (Neenah); green cs (Bazzill)
• Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black (Tsukineko)
• Accessories: Copics & ABS1 (Imagination International); Labels 11 Nestabilties (Spellbinders); ribbon (Creative Imaginations); buttons (Basic Grey)

Congratulations to last week’s Christmas/Winter/holiday sketch challenge winners! Carol & Melinda!

Carol made a stylish Christmas card using the Chainletter Christmas Class A’Peel stickers. We absolutely love how she made a cool pattern with them for the card background. It’s so simple, yet it looks super trendy!

Melinda’s card is so cool! We love that she layered the stickers and the stamp! She used our the Swirl Tag rubber stamp and the new AC1021MRS Snowflake Ornaments Class A’Peel stickers, which will be available on our website soon!

Good luck to everyone on this week’s challenge! You could be one of the lucky winners! So get out your stash and make something beautiful with Stampendous products. Post your creation to your blog, website, or in any public forum like Paper Craft Planet.com, Splitcoast Stampers.com, Stamp Shack.com or others. Copy the link to your card and paste it into the comment section of this blog post. Don’t worry if you try and post a comment and it doesn’t show up immediately! We post them on Monday. Find out more information by clicking on the “Sketch Challenge Rules” link at the top of this blog.

We can’t wait to see what you create with our products! You may use any other products that you like to complete your project!

Gold Sushi Fish Box

We’ve got a fantastic project for you today! This little sushi gift packaging was made by one of our design team members, Pam Hornschu. We think that it would make the tastiest little birthday party favor or sleepover snack box!

Sushi Box by Pam Hornschu

• Loads of Sushi Perfectly Clear Stamps
• Detail White Embossing Powder
• Large Rectangle Acrylic Handle
• Versamark Watermark Stamp Pad
• Versafine Onyx Black Ink Pad
• To download the Chinese food take-out box template, click here

Saturday Sketch Challenge

Congratulations to our two winner of last week’s window card sketch challenge!!

Krissy! Stampendous Art Director, Lisa Hindsley, said, ” I thought the color combination was unusual and refreshing for Winter, yet still cool enough for skating. The use of pink snowflakes intrigued me and the beautifully done flock and glitter charmed my senses as well. With the repeating snowflakes in different colors, it was just an expertly executed design!” Superb card!! Krissy used Changito Snow Play Perfectly Clear Stamps, Cotton Ball White Fun Flock and a variety of different glitters.

And Melinda! Stampendous Sales Manager, Pegi S., said, “I like the dimensions of the globe stand on the fron. It makes you want to shake the globe to see the snow fall. And the paper Melinda chose for the background pulled it all together.” Absolutely cool! In this card, Melinda used the Snow Stop Perfectly Clear Stamps, Mittens Perfectly Clear Stamp and the Snow Globe Rubber Stamp.

With 6 months till Christmas its never too early to start creating those holiday cards. This week’s challenge is Christmas in July. So ink up those stamps and get busy creating holiday and winter themed cards! But just to make this a bit more of a challenge, the twist this week is to get creative with stickers.

On Wendy’s sample (below), she colored in the Jumbo Merry Mirror Silver Class A’Peel Stickers in black permanent marker and then wiped some of the marker away giving it a pewter look. You could use the stickers as stencils and ink over them. Try recoloring your stickers. Maybe even cut up the stickers and repurpose them. Get creative and WOW us! Can’t wait to see everyone’s creations!

Happy Birthday Card Inspiration

It seems like there is always a birthday coming up and even though we try to keep track of them all, they’re almost always catching us off guard. That’s why we like to keep a stash of what I like to call “pre-fab” birthday cards around. I call them pre-fab because they’re prefabricated and ready to go. And they’re pretty fabulous, too. Here are some birthday cards we have in our card archive right now, made by our designers and our design team members. They make for some fantastic inspiration, wouldn’t you say?!

• Mega Birthday Class A’Peel Stickers • Jumbo Damask Rose Class A’Peel Stickers • Jumbo Circles Class A’Peel Stickers

• Changito Tire Swing Rubber Stamp • Circle Talk Birthday Perfectly Clear Stamps • Jumbo Circles Class A’Peel Stickers

• Birthday Brackets Perfectly Clear Stamps

• Spanish Messages Perfectly Clear Stamps • Hey There Cupcake Perfectly Clear Stamps • Ric Rac Borders Class A’Peel Stickers

• Bday Messages Perfectly Clear Stamps

• Full Fluffles Rubber Stamp

• Bday Messages Perfectly Clear Stamps

• Text Chat Perfectly Clear Stamps

• Birthday Chat Perfectly Clear Stamps

• Happy Bee Day Perfectly Clear Stamps

• Changito Cheer Rubber Stamp • Birthday Blast Rubber Stamp

Check out the birthday cards in the Stampendous Flickr group, too!

And if you have any of your own birthday cards you’d like to share, add a link in the comment section below!

Happy Trails Pail

Stampendous graphic artist, Gennifer Lewis, was poking around the nook full of past projects at the Stampendous headquarters, hoping to get some inspiration for a gift. She wanted to make something to give to her boyfriend who was taking a road trip from California to New York. She found a project design team member, Pam Hornschu, had made for Father’s Day and repurposed it into a happy trails pail full of snacks for the road. Since it is Summer and that means road trip season, we thought this would make the perfect little bon voyage present to make for a friend or family member who was taking a trip. And it can actually be made for someone who is flying rather than driving by switching the US roadmap to a world map and using these stamps instead of road trip themed stamps.

Stampendous Supplies Used:

• SSC163 Travel Notes Perfectly Clear Stamp Set
• Large Rectangle Acrylic Handle
• C196 little post rubber stamp
• A207 little sun rubber stamp
• AA114 little sweetie rubber stamp
• A205 little car rubber stamp
• J119 Camera rubber stamp
• Versafine™ Onyx Black Ink Pad
• 1oz. bottle of Gold Fine Jewel Glitter

Directions:

1. Cut 1 ¾” x 12” strip of road map. Crumple, flatten, and then wipe Pearlescent Beige ink over crumpled surface direct from pad. Sponge edges with Coffee Bean ink. Adhere strip over 2” x 12” strip of Rich Luscious Lime cardstock. Sponge edges of lime cardstock strip with Coffee Bean ink. Adhere layered strips to 2¾” x 12” strip off roll cork and then to 3” x 12” strip of Rich Coffee Brown cardstock.
2. Punch 1/16” hole at each end of layered strips. Punch two green 1” circles and sponge edges with brown ink. Punch center with 1/16” hole punch. Insert brad fasteners through circles and ends of strips to attach. Tie one end of 12” of cotton cording to one brad fastener and wrap cording around both fasteners in figure eight fashion to attach layered strip to pail. If desired, cut ½ circle segments from sides of strip to accommodate attached handle on pail.
3. Cut 2 ¾” circle from road map, crumple and ink as instructed in Step 1. Adhere to 3” green circle. Sponge edges with brown ink. Adhere to 3 ¼” cork circle and then to pail using Zip Dry glue.
4. Stamp desired stamp images on white cardstock using black ink. Color and shade with colored pencils. Cut out and attach to strip with Sticky Squares.
5. Stamp tag shape from Travel Notes Perfectly Clear Stamp set using black ink onto Rich Luscious Lime cardstock and cut out. Cut out center rectangle and adhere a 3″ x 2″ rectangle cut out of white cardstock with your message hand-written on the front. Use a glue pen to adhere gold glitter to the buckle. Stamp another tag shape onto Rich Luscious Lime cardstock but mask the inside rectangles. Cut out and use Zip Dry glue to glue to the back of the first tag with both tags being around the pail handle.
6. Embellish handle with various ribbons, and cording.

Saturday Sketch Challenge

The challenge this week is a window card. That means, you can make any type of card with an opening in front to view something on the inside. And for STMC14, we will be giving the winners either the Love Robotz clear stamps or the Fluffles Wuv clear stamps. Below is Stampendous Design Team member, Pam’s version. She used the Changito Pool Guy woodmounted stamp.

And above is Stampendous Design Team member, Jen’s version. She used the Merry ChrisMoose woodmounted rubber stamp and Snowflakes Diamond Dots Stickers to make her card.

Congratulations to Barb who won last week’s challenge!! It was a huge hit around the Stampendous headquarters! Our Graphics Coordinator, Laura, said, “these two mini clear stamps are perfectly complemented by the adorable background paper with black cats. I love the way the yellow ribbon mirrors the yellow stripes in the witch socks. And these are two of my favorite stamps celebrating my favorite party occasion!” Such a fun card! And Barb made this card using stamps that she actually won from a Stampendous Sketch Challenge! We love that! She used the Mini Halloween clear stamp and the Mini Witch Shoes clear stamp.

And awesome job to Angela! Stampendous sample artist, Debi, said she really likes the way the Angela used the patterned paper for the ballerina’s dress. This card is clean and super cute! Angela used the Changita Ballerina woodmounted stamp.

It’s Pailing Snowmen!

While we realize that it’s Summer and there may be a heat wave moving throughout much of America, we think that it’s never too early to be making Winter and holiday gifts! Or thinking about them anyway! Here at the Stampendous headquarters, our Art Director, Lisa Hindsley, has had a creative streak with our clear pails after seeing them featured in Disney’s Family Fun Magazine. She thought the idea to build a robot center piece out of a pail and items found around the house was brilliant! So she scratched her head and came up with even more pail character creations! The first was a cool snowman she calls Flakie Jake and he is sooo simple to make! This project is for any level crafter and especially great to make with kids.

Supplies:

• Clear Mini Pail
• Clear Quart Pail
• Clear Gallon Pail
• Jumbo Circles Class A’Peel Stickers in Holograph Black, Orange and Silver
• Jumbo Snowflake Class A’Peel Stickers in Crystal Clear
• Snowflakes Class A’Peel Stickers in Holograph Silver
• Creative Impressions Brown w/ Cream Dots & Edge Ribbon
• Popcorn in a food-safe cellophane bag

Saturday Sketch Challenge

And last week’s Sketch Challenge winners are….

Melinda! Stampendous owner and stamp artist, Fran Seiford, chose Melinda’s because she “loved the design use of circles and the bright cheery colors.” Melinda used the Love Robotz Perfectly Clear Stamp Set.

Outside of the card

Inside of the card

And Regla! Our customer representative, Ronnie, said she loved Regla’s card because it was “classy yet simple to make and had great contrast.” In her card, Regla used Footprint Friends Woodmounted Rubber Stamp and the Bee Buddies Woodmounted Rubber Stamp.

Since this is 4th of July weekend and we are celebrating America’s freedom, we are giving you the “freedom” to express your creativity. That means that this week there is no set sketch so anything goes! You can make anything that your little heart desires!

Ok, you know the drill. Get out your stash and make something beautiful with Stampendous products. Post your creation to your blog, website, or in any public forum like Paper Craft Planet.com, Splitcoast Stampers.com, Stamp Shack.com or others. Copy the link to your card and paste it into the comment section of this blog post. Don’t worry if you try and post a comment and it doesn’t show up immediately! We post them on Monday. Find out more information by clicking on the “Sketch Challenge Rules” link at the top of this blog. Here is an example of Stampendous Design Team member, Jen Dove’s card made for this week’s sketch challenge. Good luck everyone!

Happy 4th of July!

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