Would you like a spot of Tea?

Our Royal Tea Time stamps are so fun to color, fill with glitter, emboss, etc. They just add an elegant, Fran•táge touch to your party invitations, cards for Mum, and general friendship greetings. When combined with our Digital Downloads Royal Tea Time 1 and Royal Tea Time 2 you can make stunning invites and clever greetings with these great images. Best of all, with FREE Shipping on U.S. retail orders over $50 you can get the whole set and sip in style!

Keep Calm by Cyndi Bundy

Tea Time by Stephanie Lee

Our clever Design Team is at it again with more fantastic examples of this terrific bunch of images!

Janelle Stollfus

Lea Kimmel

Kristine Reynolds

Chalkboard Teapots with Tobi Crawford

This week’s focus on new stamps from our April Release is our fun Teapot series! Fran has just outdone herself designing regal, elaborate, fun, Fran•táge images fit for inviting the Queen to tea!  Plus, we’ve created Digital Downloads of fantastic phrases, invitations, and all time favorite, classic Stampendous images so you can have tea parties all summer long!  Royal Tea Time 1  and   Royal Tea Time 2  Here, BlogStar Tobi Crawford demonstrates a fun technique to get that trendy chalkboard look with our new teapots. At the bottom you’ll see links to other Teapot images our Design Team have posted on their blogs! Take a look:

Hi there! It’s Blogstar Tobi Crawford here with a quick tutorial on the ever-so-popular

“Chalkboard Technique!”

It’s inspired by the beautiful chalkboard art we now see all over the media, print, and of course Pinterest. What you may not know is that you don’t need stamps that are specifically made for the chalkboard look, and you may not know that it’s super easy!!

Here’s what you’ll need:

Supplies: black cardstock, VersaMark pad, Detail White Embossing Powder, white pigment or hybrid ink, and a stamp. Today I’m using Cling King Teapot and Cling Kettle On. (Not shown: white Sharpie)

1. Step one – stamp teapot with VersaMark and cover with embossing powder. Heat until shiny. Once the embossing powder has cooled doodle a white frame around the teapot with a white Sharpie.

2. Using your finger, smudge some white ink around the image to give the black cardstock that “chalky” look.

3. Cut out the chalkboard you’ve created.

4. Find some fabulous coordinating papers and create a card!

That was easy, right? I just LOVE this chalkboard trend and every time I play around with a new image I wonder if it would look good done with this technique – and this teapot (and sentiment) look fab!  Now check out what other Design Team members have done with these Teapots:

Jamie Martin

(an earlier sneak peek post)

Jamie Martin (new post)

Kristine Reynolds

Elements – NEW for April 2013

Our newest Fran•táge images for Spring 2013 are our wonderful new Elements images.  These are terrific collages of various images on one theme. And our Design Team really had a great time with these! Our Phone Elements can create anything from a terrific card to say “miss you! call me!” to a stylish phone message center! This would make a terrific Mother’s Day image as well for those of you with moms who love their phones!

Phone Elements by Kristine Reynolds

Phone Elements by Cyndi Bundy

Phone Elements by Suzanne Czosek

Check out the cool Elements projects our Design Team Members have posted so far this week:

Kristine Reynolds

Lea Kimmel

Jamie Martin

Kristine Reynolds(2)

Cyndi Bundy

Check back tomorrow for more fabulousness with our new Elements! AND – Be sure to check out our May Challenge – we’d love to see you participate! The prizes are amazing!

Fabulous Florals Galore!

Our new April Catalog is chock full of gorgeous flowers for you to use for any occasion! Birthday? – Flowers are great! Get Well? – Of course you’ll send flowers. Mom? – Yup! Flowers are her fave! Anniversary? – Of course! Flowers just say it all for every occasion! And our Design Team did an amazing job on the flowers in this catalog, too! (Plus, yeah, there’s FREE shipping on orders over $50 on our website! Get a whole garden full while you can!)

Jumbo Peruvian Lily by Cyndi Bundy

Spring Bouquet by Jennifer Dove

Fuschia by Kristine Reynolds

Snapdragons by Suzanne Czosek

The potential for gorgeous flowers is just unlimited! Our botanical fruit images are fantastic for any occasion as well. Check out the things our terrific Design Team have posted so far this week!

Jennifer Dove

Rhea Weigand

Kristine Reynolds

Cyndi Bundy

April Flowers bring….

Our April catalog is just chock full of gorgeous florals for spring, and our Design Team just loves to color flowers! But then we’ve always said, get yourself some good flowers and some great greetings, and you can make cards for any occasion.

First up today, then incomparable Suzanne Czosek made this fantastic card for our April Catalog using our Vase Bouquet, Seed Background, and Soaring Sentiments :

Bouquet Vase by Suzanne Czosek

This Vase with its spring bouquet proved to be one of the favorite items to color!  Here it is by Jennifer Dove:

Vase Bouquet by Jennifer Dove

and Kristine Reynolds made a fantastic project with it as well!

Vase Bouquet by Kristine Reynolds

You can see there are a lot of ways to go with this terrific stamp. Several of our Design Team will be  posting terrific florals all week this week. Fabulous Florals is also our May Challenge, so grab your flowers and wow us with your creations. Remember, if your flower images are Stampendous your entry will count twice. You can begin submitting your challenge projects on Friday.

Meanwhile, check out the additional, terrific flower creations on these team members’ blogs and leave them some love!

Suzanne Czosek

Jennifer Dove

Jamie Martin

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz!

We’re wrapping up our week in Oz with yet more fantastic samples from our talented design team. Remember to come back next week and check out the new in our April Catalog Release!

We want to leave you with some amazing samples of our other Oz stamps

The Road to Oz by Cyndi Bundy

Floating By by Kristine Reynolds

Big Adventures by Stephanie Lee

And a few more posts from our  other talented designers!!

Tobi Crawford

Cyndi Bundy

Lea Kimmel

Lions and Scarecrows and TinMan, Oh My!

The fun and whimiscal art of Lisa Hindsley joins our catalog and our product line with this April 2013 Release, and her cast of Oz characters with their funny literary pursuits so perfectly capture her personality and our hearts! We’re lucky enough to have her right here in the office, too. So she could make her adorable characters into terrific cards for us, too!!

The Cowardly Lion Reads by Lisa Hindsley

Tin Man takes a Reading Break by Lisa Hindsley

He’s not Scared of Lisa Hindsley!

Wait until you see what our Design Team has done with this adorable crew that’s off to see the Wizard!!  Check them out and leave them some love!

Tenia Nelson

Jamie Martin

Jennifer Dove Bonner

Kristine Reynolds

Project Life Winners!

We’ve got the winners from our Project Life blog hop! Thanks so much, everyone for your terrific comments on everyone’s posts! We’re excited to announce the winners chosen by our bloggers for our great prizes!

From Krissy Fossmeyer’s Blog - 

Denise Bryant

From Lea Kimmel’s Blog

Jengd

From Kristine Reynolds Blog

Fun Stamping

From Cyndi Bundy’s Blog

Heather Krupinski

From Jamie Martin’s Blog

Karen Ladd

From Tobi Crawford’s Blog

Carol B

So you winners give us an email at submissions@stampendous.com and we’ll get your prize package right out to you! We’re glad you enjoyed our blog hop and hope you’ll be checking out our new April products and projects here this week. We’re off to Oz!!

Up, Up and Away! – Ballooning to Oz!

One of the most fantastic bits of the new movie “Oz The Great and Powerful” was the amazing Hot Air Balloon trip that Oscar Diggs takes to arrive in Oz. Combined with the cool, steampunk themes in the movie, well, we’ve been so inspired that we just had to have lots of our own!

Dorothy looks out from under a parasol in a very steampunk outfit in our fantastic Overlooking Oz stamp! And Design Team Member Cyndi Bundy did it just soooo cool in almost sepia with a pale blonde Dorothy! Good thing she brought her own shade on her journey!

Overlooking Oz by Cyndi Bundy

Love the way she used the travel themed embossing folder on the brown panel and our Wander Lost stamp on the top! She even used our Blue Encrusted Jewel Technique kit on the bottom corner of the panel! Wow!

Design Team Member Janelle Stollfus gives us a Dorothy with raven tresses and a fantastic Classifieds background.

Overlooking Oz by Janelle Stollfus

But if you really want to swoon… Just take a look at what BlogStar Rhea Weigand did with this terrific image!

Overlooking Oz Sepia Box by Rhea Weigand

Ok, WOW! Just wow! Rhea had better be planning on just sending that on over to Anaheim for little ol’ me! She’s got a whole tutorial for this one over on her blog today! Joining some serious hardware, Rhea used the No Place stamp!

Rhea Weigand

Jennifer Dove

Janelle Stollfuss

Cyndi Bundy

Join us tomorrow for some loveable favorite characters with Lisa Hindsley flair as our Deisgn Team takes on the Scarecrow, Tinman, and Cowardly Lion !

Journey to OZ!

Weeeeeee’re off to see the Wizard!!! Yes, we are! Our new Oz inspired stamps are just so much fun we couldn’t resist focusing on them first from our April 2013 catalog! Plus our very own Lisa Hindsley drew some of the most darling characters, so it gives us a chance to brag on her. AND it highlights our Digital Downloads since they’re new as well and include two sets of phrases just for our Oz images! So join us as we ease on down that Yellow Brick Road this week…

Walking on the Yellow Brick Road by Lisa Hindsley

Ok, you HAVE to love this stamp! Amazing Shoes! Wow…amazing legs! Depending how you color it, she can either have bobby sox and bare legs, or cuffed pants and bare ankles, or…. wow… you have to try this! Here Lisa used the new Amazing Shoes stamp with the No Place Sentiment and some Yellow Mica Fragments to be the Yellow Brick Road. So Clever!! We think there’s no place like a pair of Amazing Jeans! Lookie here:

Amazing Jeans by Lisa Hindsley

Of course our Design Team member Jennifer Dove had to drop a house on us before we saw this:

Amazing Shoes by Jennifer Dove

And, of course, without her and her hysterical sense of humor and a few extra lines from her Copic Markers, we NEVER would have had this:

Amazing Boots! by Jennifer Dove

Definitely more the sort of thing I’d expect to see a hip and trendy witch wearing under a house!! I’m not sure even Lisa envisioned this level of versatility, but if you don’t have to have this stamp now then we probably need to check your pulse!!  Here’s Jennifer’s POST about this terrific card and she promises “a tutorial of sorts” on how to make the card base.

Also go check out these other Design Team Members who have Adventures in the Land of Oz to post today! And come back tomorrow as we take a few more steps towards the Emerald City!

Arty Carty