Saturday Challenge – Texture Final Week

It’s time again for another Stampendous Saturday – this month we are challenging ourselves (and you!) to create projects with texture on them.  You can emboss, distress, add color fragments or glitter….the possibilities are endless!

This is the final week of our challenge and we’ve got some fun textured inspiration for you to enjoy.

CRS5032 Cling Jumbo Orchid by Pam Hornschu

Just look at this card Pam Hornschu made for our Design Team. It’s got so much texture it’s fairly bursting! The visual texture of the colored and black backgrounds, the layered flower, the additional layer of a butterfly sticker. WOW… this card POPS! She’s used our Cling Jumbo Orchid stamp set, our Cling Butterfly Post, and our retired Bella Butterflies stickers in Mirrored Silver (you may still find these at your local stamp store!) She’s even added textuer to her coloring on the flower by using textured cloth dipped in Copic Blending Solution to remove to color in textured patterns. Scrumptious!

Here is a list of the Stampendous team members playing along today:

Janelle Stollfus

Kristine Reynolds

Melinda Gleissner

Suzanne Czosek

Taylor Usry

Wendy Jordan

Wendy Price

We want YOU to play along with us, too!  Just add your direct link to your project (make sure you’ve loaded it up with tons of TEXTURE) to the linky tool below no later than March 1, 2012 at 11:00 PM EST.  You do not have to use Stampendous products to play along, but we sure love it when you do!  And as an extra incentive for playing, one lucky person (drawn at random from all the entries) will receive this gorgeous Corset Ladies Perfectly Clear Stamp Set:

Due to shipping restrictions, the winner must have a US address.  We hope you get a chance to play along with us – happy stamping!

May Arts and Stampendous – It’s Finally Friday!

We’ve had so much fun this week showcasing May Arts ribbon together with our newest releases from our January Catalog.  We want to bring you a truly spectacular piece today from our Design Team member Melinda Gleissner! This is one of the most stunning cards we’ve seen in a while, and we hope you’ll share this on your Facebook pages and on Pinterest, and just wherever you share! You can find more of Melinda’s beautiful work here.

Corset Lady by Melinda Gleissner

Here’s some more detail of the gorgeous TEXTURE Melinda has achieved on this card – which just happens to be our February Saturday Challenge Theme and this terrific stamp set, Corset Ladies Perfectly Clear Stamps,  just happens to be the prize this month!

This project uses May Arts Sheer Looped Trim around the center circle. Complimented with some tulle for the dress and near the embellishment.

Some Champagne Crushed Glass Glitter adds to the texture and the look. Add die cutting and some beads and baubles and WOW. This card is fantastic!

We’ve had so much fun playing with May Arts this week. Be sure to comment here and on our Facebook pages then visit May Arts Blog and Facebook pages and comment there for maximum chances to win prize packages! We’ll be drawing NEXT MONDAY randomly from all comments to win 3 prize packages of stamps and ribbon! Good Luck!

While you’re at it…please “like” us on Facebook and sign up to follow our blog and keep up with all our amazing designers and their work!

May Arts & Stampendous by Janelle

You folks all remember Janelle Stollfus! She’s been one of our BlogStars for the last three months. Well, we’re really excited and happy to welcome Janelle to our regular Design Team! Trudee Sauer is leaving us for other obligations, and we’re sad to see her go. She’s created some of our very favorite samples, having been with us from the beginning of our Design Team.

But we’re happy to be able to secure Janelle’s services to replace Trudee. Janelle lives in Idaho with her family and is lucky enough to be a stay at home mom. She’s also a  poetic soul, and I was immediately taken with her description of her house as full of “creative puddles”. I wish I could convince myself that the imminent avalanches I call crafting are delicious little rain puddles of artistry. You’ll find Janelle on her blog at Rain Puddles Design.

She’s making her permanent DT debut today and her BlogStars farewell with this fantastic card featuring May Arts ribbon. She’s also using CRR137 Cling Garden Background, CRP143 Cling Carte Postale, FRG10C Shaved Ice, DP020 Detail Clear Embossing Enamel, and 2 oz Spray Bottle from Stampendous. Complete supplies and instructions are below the card. Remember to comment to enter to win a package of May Arts ribbon and Stampendous products!

Garden Background by Janelle Stollfus

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Stampendous Supplies:
Garden Background
Carte Postale
Shaved Ice
Detail Clear Embossing Enamel
Spray/Splatter bottle

Other Supplies:
Kraft cardstock, 10 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches and scored in half
Cream cardstock, full sheet.
Brown ink pad
Paper chalks/pastels
Woven Burlap ribbon, 12 inches (May Arts)
Texture plate
Heat gun
Liquid glue (like Beacon’s Zip Dry)

Prepare a splatter bottle with a mixture of instant coffee granules and water for distressing.

1. Coffee spray one half (5 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches) of the kraft cardstock and run through a cutting and embossing machine with a texture plate. Quick dry using a heat gun. Add more spray to distress and heat dry. Set aside.

2. Stamp three impressions of the Garden background in brown ink on cream cardstock and emboss with Detail Clear Embossing Enamel. Trim each one to a 3 x 4 1/2 inch rectangle.

3. Color one of the rectangles with color chalks. Spritz with coffee spray and heat dry.

5. On the back side of each rectangle, stamp Carte Postale in brown ink. Spritz the two unchalked rectangles on the postale side and heat dry.

6. Sponge distress all three rectangles, one color chalk side and two postale sides, around the edges using brown ink. Glue together in a tilted cascade, but still small enough to fit on the card base.

7. Knot the ends of the ribbon and place on the front of the postale collage for measuring length then cut to size before gluing to back of collage.

7. Glue that collage onto your card base and add liquid glue around the edges of the colored rectangle and sprinkle with Shaved Ice. Tap off excess and let dry.

More May Arts for You!

Stampendous and May Arts indeed make a fantastic team, and our blog week continues with some exciting samples made by our in-house Sample Artist Debi Hammons and our Art Director Lisa Hindsley. Remember to check out our Design Team members with samples as well. Their links are all in the left sidebar!

DaVinci Horse by Debi Hammons

This fantastic and kind of masculine card by Debi Hammons features our new images V253 DaVinci Horse and R138 Calligraphy Sampler. Debi stamped both in Vintage Sepia VersaFine ink on Kraft cardstock and added touches of white colored pencil to make both images pop. A little brown chalk on the horse and a wrapping with MayArts Twisted Burlap complete the look.

By the Sea by Lisa Hindsley

Lisa Hindsley’s terrific scrapbook page featuring our friends the Jochums uses our new W068 By the Sea image together with our L252 Spiral Shell and our Aged Ivory and Aged Black Embossing Enamels. Lisa also used a little brown chalk and touches of white colored pencil to make the stamped images pop. This simple coloring technique works so well when  you’re pressed for time. She added some May Arts Black Mesh tied off with the same Twisted Burlap to complete that salty sea look.

Be sure to comment this week to win May Arts/Stampendous blog packages. And visit the May Arts Blog for more chances to win! They’re featuring a fantastic sample by our BlogStar Jennifer Ingle (Jingle) today!

Clothespins Are Not Just For Clothes

Our Blog Star, Jennifer J Ingle, came up with, yet another, creative craft for you. Check it out!

“This is a fun little altered clothespin that you can use to hold mail, give a gift card in a fun way, or even hold your favorite photos!  You can also create these to hang on the wall to display photos, layouts, cards, or prints!”  —Jennifer J Ingle

"Altered Clothespin" by Jennifer J Ingle

Supplies:
Stampendous Cling Distressed Type
Stampendous Vintage Typewriter Perfectly Clear Stamp Set
May Arts Burlap String
Creative Imaginations Bare Elements Clothespin
Tombow™ Multi-Liquid
Foam Tape
Patterned Paper
Card stock

Instructions:
1.  Stamp Distressed Type onto patterned paper.
2.  Coat front of clothespin with liquid glue and adhere back of stamped paper to clothespin.
3.  Trim paper around clothespin.
4.  Stamp the typewriter on card stock and cut out.
5.  Adhere the typewriter and “hello” sentiment to the front of the clothespin with foam tape.
6.  Wrap burlap string around the clothespin several times (through the spring) and tie in a bow to finish.

What A Team!

Once again Stampendous Designers have teamed up with fabulous May Arts Ribbon to showcase our new images and accessories just released at CHA in January. This week we’ll be featuring beautiful May Arts Ribbon on our blog and those of our Design Team. The May Arts Blog will be featuring some of our newest products as well. Each manufacturer will have three terrific prize packages to give away as well.

For your chance to win a terrific prize combination of Stampendous stamps and May Arts Ribbon, be sure to comment on our blog and/or our Facebook page this week. Then hop on over to May Arts Blog and Facebook page leave a comment there. Each company will pick three random winners this week from the comments.

We’ve got a couple of lovely examples for you today! Looking ahead to spring holidays, Pam Hornschu and Jennifer Dove have created beautiful cards for Mom and Dad (or any girly and masculine occasions!).

Pam Hornschu’s beautiful Plume Portrait card uses a lush, wide pink grosgrain from May Arts. Combining Stampendous’ Plume Portrait stamp with the fantastic Garden Background stamp and her expert coloring, Wow! You can find complete supplies and instructions for this project here.

Jennifer Dove has embraced the masculine with our new Steamboat Ride stamp. Just one of our great new Steampunk inspired images, this vintage steamboat also combines with our Steamboat Map and other fantastic images in the January catalog. Jennifer has used our Shabby White Embossing Powder to sprinkle on top. May Arts terrific sheer ribbon adds the perfect finishing touch.

Upcycle It!

 

 

 

 

 

“Hello, Stampendous! fans!  I’ve created a very fun project for you today with the Jumbo Romantic Border stamp!  I LOVE this stamp! It is so dramatic and has such beautiful details.  I decided to accentuate those details by pressing the stamp into Creative Paperclay® modeling medium to create this little trinket box.  I love how the image worked so perfectly for the size and shape of the box and it is really an easy little thing to make, too!  I hope you try one!”  —Jennifer J Ingle

"PaperClay Stamped Tin" by Jennifer J Ingle

What a great idea Jennifer! This is beautiful. Save those Altoids tins and make you’re own Trinket Tin!

Just look at the detail!

Supplies:
Stampendous! Cling Jumbo Romantic Border
Pigment pastes in copper and red
Creative Paperclay®
Mint tin
Paper flowers

Instructions:
Cover tin lid with a layer of Creative Paperclay® and press the stamp into it.  GENTLY remove the stamp from the wet clay.  (You could probably let it dry with the stamp in there, but it will take longer to dry, so I always take mine out first.)
Allow the clay to dry (this will take 1-2 days).
Once the clay has dried, rub with pigments in copper and a deep red tone.  Press the copper pigments into the nooks and crannies while letting the red sit on top.
Wrap the edges of the tin with black twill.
Tie sheer ribbon around paper flowers and adhere to the lid of your tin.

 

 

Have You Played in the Texture Challenge?

It’s time again for another Stampendous Saturday – this month we are challenging ourselves (and you!) to create projects with texture on them.  You can emboss, distress, add color fragments or glitter….the possibilities are endless!

Here is a card by one of our designers, Taylor Usry.  She embossed a large brown piece of card stock to place behind the focal panel, which is the gorgeous Flying Machines cling rubber stamp.  The image is stamped twice; on the extra one  two of the flying machines have been fussy cut, colored them with Copics, and popped up for visual interest. Then she stamped the large swirl from the Romantic Border cling jumbo set with Versamark ink, sprinkled Shabby Blue Embossing Enamel on it, and heated it from underneath.  The edges distressed, a Copic marker was run along them to add color, and finally the inner edges of the image itself were lightly colored.

Here is a list of the Stampendous team members playing along today, to share even more texture inspiration:

Wendy Price

Wendy Jordan

Taylor Usry

Suzanne Czosek

Stephanie Lee

Kristine Reynolds

Melinda Gleissner

We want YOU to play along with us!  Just add your direct link to your card (make sure you’ve loaded it up with tons of TEXTURE) to the linky tool below my signature (or on the Stampendous blog) no later than March 1, 2012 at 11:00 PM EST.  You do not have to use Stampendous products to play along, but we sure love it when you do!  And as an extra incentive for playing, one lucky person (drawn at random from all the entries) will receive this gorgeous Corset Ladies Perfectly Clear Stamp Set:

Due to shipping restrictions, the winner must have a US address.  We hope you get a chance to play along with us – happy stamping!

We Have Winners!

A huge thank you to everyone who joined us this weekend for our Colored Fragments Blog Hop!  Our designers shared some fabulous inspiration using our newest products, didn’t they?  The response was overwhelming; we are so glad YOU are excited about the new goodies too!  Let’s announce the randomly selected winners of our five prize packs:

From Taylor’s blog: Kimmy is the lucky recipient of the Chiffon Prize pack

From Kristine’s blog: Katina is the lucky recipient of the Powder Blue prize pack!

From Wendy P’s blog: Barb from Paper Therapy Ponderings is the lucky winner of the Rose prize pack!

From Stephanie’s blog: Tenia Nelson is the lucky recipient of the Sage prize pack!

From the Stampendous Impressions blog: Pauline Halloran is the lucky recipient of the Taupe prize pack!

Congratulations, ladies!  Be sure to send us an email at submissions@stampendous.com with your address (please include which prize pack you won) so we can get your goodies right out to you!

Any Occasion Card

Here’s a beautiful card our Blog Star, Stephanie Lee, made. It can be used for just about any occasion. Make some extras to keep on hand for those events you forgot.

"Thank You" card by Stephanie Lee

Stampendous Supplies:
Cling Jumbo Thank You Stamp
Vintage Multi-Crystal Glitter Mix from Treasures Glitter Kit

Other supplies:
Patterned Paper (My Mind’s Eye)
Tag
Doily
Bazzill Paper Flower
Offray Stylish Accents Sheer Petal Rose
Dashes, Dots and Checks Ribbon
Ranger Distressed Ink – Victorian Velvet
Adhesive

Instructions:

1.     Stamp Cling Jumbo Thank You flower on to tag and cover entire image with adhesive followed by glitter. Stitch edges of tag for a finished trim.

2.     Stitch 4.25” x 5.5” patterned paper around the edge for a finished trim.

3.     Assemble card front by adhering doily, completed tag, ribbon and flowers in that order.

4.     Attached to card base.