Stampendous & STAEDTLER – Color Your World

Hot Air Trio by Kristine Reynolds

We want to welcome you to a colorful week of blog collaboration with the folks at STAEDTLER, the place where fine German craftsmanship meets gorgeous artistry. You’re familiar already with tons of STAEDTLER products, their Mars Eraser is legendary, and Fimo Clay is classic. We have been huge fans of their products for years, and their Karat Aquarelle pencils are Fran’s absolute favorite colored pencil.

This week we’re teaming up with their Design Team to create some gorgeously colored projects featuring Stampendous products as well. And we’re continuing our April Release features, focusing this week on our new Hot Air Balloon stamps! A product combination made in heaven! PLUS there are prizes, of course!

Each day we’ll post the list of all participating Design Team Members. You’ll want to leave a comment EVERY DAY on EVERY BLOG because at the end of the week the STAEDTLERDesigners will each give away one package to someone who commented on their blog this week. Their prize package consists of:

Staedtler Prize Package

Oh yeah!! But wait there’s more! Each day the Stampendous Design Team Members will pool their daily comments and choose one random winner for our prize package – our new Hot Air Scapes and Soaring Sentiments Perfectly Clear Stamps plus a Jumbo Handle to use with them:

Stampendous Prize Package

So get ready for some gorgeously colorful projects! Be sure to leave insightful comments that show you really looked at the projects (which means more than just “that’s cute” or “cool”) and PLEASE share on your Facebook Timeline, Twitter Feed, etc… Tag us in your share with a @Stampendous or #Stampendous and there will be an extra big prize package at the end of the week for one lucky hopper!  Come back every day for a new list of linked artists.

Kristine Reynolds

Tobi Crawford

Lisa Somerville

April Derrick

Kelli Mowat

Bonus Wee Scapes

We didn’t think we had any for you today, but two of our designers have had so much fun with the Wee Scapes they’ve posted some terrific projects! Here’s two more chances to win some for yourself by commenting!!

April Derrick

Lea Kimmel

Thanks for stopping by to play with us today!

Do You Stack Up – Challenging you to use Silver and Gold

We’re playing along today with the Do You Stack Up Challenge Blog and their theme of Silver And Gold. We sent them some of our Aged Silver and Aged Gold Embossing Enamels to play with, can’t wait to see what they do with it! Playing from our Design Team are

Asia King

Janelle Stollfus

Kristine Reynolds

Lea Kimmel

We sure hope you’ll enter the challenge, too! We’d like to share a fantastic card today by our own Suzanne Czosek. She used her VersaMark ink pad around the edges of this darling Crowned Angel tag and card to add our Aged Gold Embossing Enamel to the edges and make a fantastic, but very easy card. WOW!

Crowned Angel by Suzanne Czosek

The DYSU challenge blog will be closing at the end of December, so this is one of your last chances to play with them! They are leaving this open to everyone, even international fans…so everyone can enter this time!! YAY!

Stampendous – Bangles and Beads and Blogs, Oh My!

Welcome to our Blog Hop combining our passion for Stampendous products with the really cool stuff the folks at DIYBangles.com sent to us! We’re really excited to be playing with their products and getting this chance to stretch our talents! We sure hope to get the chance to play with them again and find even more avenues for our talents! The gang is all here with terrific projects to astonish you. Sit back, get a cup of something warm, a fuzzy sweater, a friendly kitten and be ready to be amazed.  At each blog (or just the ones you want) leave an insightful comment that lets us know you actually looked at the project and we’ll enter you once for each comment in a chance to win some DIY Bangles, beads, or circles plus some Stampendous goodies with which to embellish them.

Annette Witherspoon

April Derrick

Barb Turpin

Jennifer Ingle (Jingle)

Kristine Reynolds

Lea Kimmel

Mary Dawn Quirindongo

Melinda Gleissner

Tenia Nelson

Wendy Price

We sure hope you’ve had some serious fun with our collaboration this week! Thanks for joining us. Would you mind sharing our hop on your Facebook page? We’d sure love to grow our audience a bit more to be able to keep bringing you all these great prizes.

Join us as well for our new December Challenge – CAS (Clean and Simple) Christmas Cards. We’ll be doing our best to give you last minute card ideas you can complete quickly to fill out your card sending list. We’ll be providing simple Christmas card inspiration all the way up until Christmas day, so stick with us. This will be our last challenge of the year and we’re mulling over what to do next year, so stay tuned for that as well!

Stick around and we’ll announce November Prize winners and the Winners from this hop early next week (once we’ve recovered from our Warehouse Sale and Holiday Party this weekend!)

DIY Bangles and Stampendous – Day 2

We’re playing this week with DIY Bangles and their great bare wood products from bracelet bangles to beads to wooden wreaths! We’re just loving how much freedom these products give us to get everything from stamps to embossing enamels to glitters on to these projects! You can find their products HERE and ours HERE! What a pairing!

Yesterday we looked at embossing, but can you stamp on them? Sure can!! Wow…there aren’t words for how much I love this bangle. Wearing it as I type, as a matter of fact. It’s another fantastic creation from Wendy Price using our Wonderland Perfectly Clear Stamp set! You can read her post about it HERE.

Wonderland Bangle by Wendy Price

You can see even more ideas on these Design Team Blogs! Be sure to leave comments for your opportunity to win some bare bangles and some great Stampendous products of your own!!

Lea Kimmel

April Derrick

**Remember that this Thursday, November 29 is the last day to enter our November Essentials Challenge! Projects must use at least one Stampendous “Essentials” product to qualify. Enter your challenge pieces using the linky tool to the right in the sidebar!

Stampendous is Hopping to a Fast Finish!

This week has been so fun as we’ve painted Fast Finish on just about every surface we could find from light switch covers to …well… just about everything else.  We knew this product was fast-drying, easy to clean up, and perfectly clear, but we did learn this week that you can color it with Distress Ink Refills. Well, Rhea Weigand discovered it. Here’s her final project in this week of fun projects.

Hi there!!  This is Rhea again and the fun week with Stampendous and Beacon Adhesives comes to an end today with our Blog Hop.  It’s been so much fun this week playing with Fast Finish Medium and exploring the possibilities.  I hope you’ve enjoyed it as much as we have!

This is my favorite project for this week.  It also happened to be the quickest and easiest. Learn more by click here..Rhea’s Nesting Bird

Nesting Bird by Passionate Paper Creations

The whole team is playing along today, so be sure to visit all of the blogs and leave some insightful, kind comments (the kind that let us know you looked at the project) and we’ll give some great prizes, sending some of you with U.S. mailing addresses some Fast Finish Decoupage Medium and some Stampendous Stamps. Here we go…

Kristine Reynolds

Mary Dawn Quirindongo

Melinda Gleissner

Stephanie Lee (Arty Carty)

Suzanne Czosek

Janelle Stollfus

Krissy Fossmeyer

April Derrick

Lea Kimmel

Wendy Price

Tenia Nelson

Stampendous and Fast Finish – Fast and Fun!

We’ve been having a lot of fun with our friends at Beacon Adhesives this week while we explore the limits of Fast Finish, a terrific decoupage medium that is so light and easy to work with and clean up. The best thing though, is the fact that this product dries perfectly clear,  so quickly, and with no stickiness!  Our Design Team tells us that this is a terrific product for applying Glass Glitter, Color Fragments, Mica and our other Essentials.

Rhea is still having fun coloring Fast Finish with inkers – here’s another great project using this technique:

Hello, Rhea here again!  Another exciting day with Stampendous and FAST FINISH DECOUPAGE by Beacon Adhesives.

Today I’m focusing on pastels, butterflies and paper doilies.  Of course I am again tinting my Fast Finish Decoupage Medium.  But, today I also used it to emboss!  Check out my blog to learn more by clicking here…Fast Finish “Butterfly Love”

Here are some more fantastic ideas for using this product together with Stampendous stamps and Essentials.

Melinda Gleissner

Kristine Reynolds

April Derrick

Suzanne Czosek

Be sure to come back again tomorrow and get some more great inspiration!

Continuing Coordination with Core’dinations

Well, it’s Friday of our Core’dinations Collaboration week, and we’re seeing so many absolutely Stampendous! projects! Everything has been so inspirational, and we hope you’re enjoying it as much as we are!  Do be sure to join us tomorrow when everybody will have a different project to show, and we’ll be doing the comfy jammies, warm kitty hop thing again.

Today’s sample comes from our in-house designer Debi Hammons. It’s a beautiful card using our Jumbo Pine Bough stamp set. The torn Kraft Core at the bottom just coordinates so beautifully with the color at the top. Love how Core’dinations has made paper sets that give such simple and easy elegance.

Jumbo Pine Bough by Debi Hammons

Be sure you check out the work of these terrific designers for more inspiration. And leave some love on their blogs to be eligible to win!

Stampendous Blog

Core’dinations Blog

April Derrick

Mary Dawn Quirindongo

Rhea Weigand

Char Dobson

Core’dinations Coordinations – Fun for Day 4!

We have more inspiration for you today with Core’dinations paper coordinating with Stampendous products! Our own Art Director, Lisa Hindsley, has created this gorgeous card using our Cling Jumbo Dahlia, 3 colors of Core’dinations paper, and a variety of Embossing Enamels and Fran•táge Essentials.

Cling Jumbo Dahlia by Lisa Hindsley

Lisa sanded her papers and added some colored pencil for depth on the gorgeous flower. Then she tore each page to show it’s beautiful core color. She added a touch of Fran’s Encrusted Jewel Technique to the center page by sprinkling Embossing Enamels and Glass Glitters on the page and heating from beneath. The whole elegant card a much more simple creation than it appears to be!

To make this lovely creation Lisa used:

Cling Jumbo Dahlia Stamp Aged Ivory Embossing Enamel Aged Bronze Embossing Enamel Bronze Crushed Glass Glitter VersaMark Pad Kraft-Core #22 Chocolate Mousse & Coconut Cream

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Now go check out the rest of today’s inspiration! Be sure to comment on each blog for a chance to win some goodies for yourself!

Stampendous Blog

Core’dinations Blog

April Derrick

Kristine Reynolds

Lea Kimmel

Melinda Gleissner

Tenia Nelson

Debbie Standard

Core’dinations Collaboration – Day 3

So sorry to be late this morning, darn those business things that crop up! But we’re here now, and ready to play with more of the Core’dinations fantastic papers!  Our designers have found so many things to do with these terrific products, and the designers over at Core’dinations have been loving using Stampendous stamps on their creations. Let’s see what they’ve been making! Be sure to comment on each blog for a chance to win your own papers and stamps to try!

Stampendous Blog (you’re here)

Core’dinations Blog

April Derrick

Cyndi Bundy

Janelle Stollfus

Krissy Fossmeyer

Wendy Price

Andrea Amu

Our creation today comes to us from our own Cyndi Bundy – She used Core’dinations Black Magic and Fran’s Encrusted Jewel Technique with our Skeleton Poem stamp for a scary Halloween Greeting.

Skeleton Poem by Cyndi Bundy