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

How Does Your Garden Grow?

We’re Celebrating Flowers this Week!

Our April Catalog is just bursting with new blossoms of so many varieties for your Mother’s Day, Birthday, Get Well, Sympathy, and All Occasion stamping! Get ready to scrapbook your Spring Garden, or just enjoy a bouquet of gorgeous blooms. Our Design Team LOVES to stamp and color flowers, so you’ll see lots of terrific samples on their blogs this week! You can get yourself a whole garden full with our FREE Shipping offer! Add some of our new Digital Downloads, too! There’s a terrific set of sentiments perfect for all our new floral stamps – Flowery Phrases Digital Download

Among our new flowers are three brand new Jumbo Cling Flowers. We’re very excited to be able to continue to offer these with the FREE templates so that you can mask off the flower or it’s surroundings for all sorts of terrific effects. Here our own National Sales Manager  (and Decorative Painting guru) Tammie Wilson has created a fantastic wooden frame featuring the new Jumbo Bird of Paradise!

Jumbo Bird of Paradise Frame by Tammie Wilson

Jumbo Calla Lily Pail by Janelle Stollfuss

Jumbo Cling Rubber Peruvian Lily Scrapbook Page by Suzanne Czosek

BlogStar Tobi Crawford has created a fantastic tutorial today demonstrating a great use of the free template in each Jumbo Cling Rubber Flower set.  Check it out here:

Tobi Crawford

Then take a gander at these other great floral projects using new flowers from our April Catalog Release (be sure to leave some sweet comments on their blogs!)

Arty Carty 1

Arty Carty 2

Jennifer Dove

Kristine Reynolds

A bit of Housekeeping -

Did we mention FREE shipping? Enjoy FREE shipping on our website at www.stampendous.com on retail orders over $50 shipping to U.S. addresses until July 31! We can’t wait to see what you make with our products!! (be sure to share on our Facebook Page, Flickr Group, or email us at submissions@stampendous.com)

Winners – we’re still waiting for some winners of the Project Life event to contact us with mailing info. Hint: if you don’t want your prize, we know Barb Macaskill wants it!  Email your mailing info to submissions@stampendous.com so we can get your prizes on their way!

Remember tonight is the deadline to link to your Micro Glitter projects for our April Challenge. May’s Challenge is Fabulous Florals and starts Friday!

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 !

Becky Higgins Project Life – Stampendous Style

Ready to HOP??  Until Sunday night you can comment on the blogs of our participating Design Team Members and our blog here. Each comment counts as one entry to win our Project Life/Stampendous prize package! Prize includes 12 assorted Project Life Page Protectors, and BRAND NEW (so new you can’t buy it on our website until Monday) Stampendous Vintage Alphabet Upper Case and Lower Case Perfectly Clear Stamp Sets. This prize is a $50 retail value! And we’ll give 3 of them!! Uh Huh!! So get hopping and commenting!

Stampendous NEW Vintage Alphabet Perfectly Clear™Stamps

If you’re still messing about with stickers for Journaling Titles… well, you’ve got to have this alphabet. A stamped alphabet means never running out of a letter again! You saw them yesterday on Kristine’s layout. Here they are on a layout prepared for us by BlogStar Rhea Weigand:

Squirrel!

This layout also features Stampendous Smashing Notes Perfectly Clear Stamp set.

Now leave a comment below then HOP on over to these other blogs and leave a comment there as well. We’ll be back Monday with the names of the winners!

Janelle Stollfus

Kristine Fossmeyer

Leadonna Kimmel

Kristine Reynolds

Cyndi Bundy

Tobi Crawford

Jamie Martin

Finally – Remember that our April Challenge is still going strong!! Use Micro Glitter on one of your creations and link it to the F.E. Linus link  button in our right side bar! You’ll be entered to win some of our newest Micro Glitter colors! You can read all the details by clicking on the Challenge link at the very, tippy top of the page or HERE!

We’d also love to see what you can do with Project Life (or similar page protectors) and Stampendous Stamps and Essentials! Send your links to submissions@stampendous.com and we’ll do a follow up post linking to everyone who participated!

Project Life – Even more fun with Stampendous!!

Becky Higgins’ Project Life has taken the craft and scrapbooking world by storm. Lots of folks have embraced the commitment to simply scrapbook one single page or a two page layout of ordinary life per week. A way to celebrate all that is normal and right with your world, or even the special occasions or big events that happen with some normal life in between.  Here’s the Project Life Philosophy -

The Project Life system includes divided page protectors, books for them, and little, pre-printed cards you slip into pockets next to your photos. It’s designed to be easy and quick for folks who think they don’t have the time for more “creative” scrapbooking.

But what if you have lots of stamps, glitter, glue, and creativity? What if you love embossing, Fran•táging, and breaking out all those goodies you’ve collected? Yep, you can use the Project Life approach, too! You can embrace the trend, AND use your stash!!

We asked Becky Higgins to send us some Project Life Page Protectors, and we challenged our Design Team to see if they could document real, everyday life using Stampendous stamps and other products in the little compartments of the Project Life system! It was out of their comfort zone a bit, but we think you’ll be amazed as always at what they’ve created!  Pop over today to Janelle Stollfus’ blog and then come back tomorrow for some more inspiration. Be sure to leave comments and we’ll have LOTS of Project Life Page protectors to send to some lucky winners along with some cool Stampendous products for documenting your everydays and special days!

Janelle Stollfus

Check Out These Cool Projects!

Some of our Design Team have posted terrific projects this week featuring our new products!

Take a look at Janelle Stollfus‘ terrific visit to the farm:

Suzanne Czosek has been holding out on us… this terrific birdhouse has been waiting for the world to see it!

Cyndi Bundy has been playing along with our Love is in the Air challenge with some romantic embossing!

Kristine Reynolds has been getting a head start on our March 2013 Challenge – Template Fun with our Jumbo Poppy!

Lea Kimmel is getting sparkly all over with our fantastic Cling Jumbo Butterfly Trio and some Royal Blue Embossing Tinsel!

Ex-team member (and we cry every time we say that) Wendy Price has been playing with our Kiddos Birthday Perfectly Clear Stamps. She felt like coloring…we hope she often feels like coloring!

Design Team Alumni Pam Hornschu (that sounds better, but not much) played with her friends in the UK this week in a little Fantasy using our Medieval Unicorn and our Calligraphy Sampler Background stamps.

Visit them all and leave some love for them! And we’re off into another month and a new challenge!

Quick Challenge Reminder

Just a quick reminder that our Challenges can now be found on the page way at the tippy top of our blog! You can see the January inspiration and entries for our Sweet Kiddos theme HERE
We hope you’ll play along with us!

We’re at CHA!

It’s a crazy weekend at Stampendous! We’re at the Craft Hobby Association show in Anaheim, CA (our hometown, yippee!) and we’re showing your local rubber stamp and scrapbook store owners our newest goodies! Wanna see?

New Jumbo Flowers with FREE template (card by Janelle Stollfus)

New Wine Themed Stamps (card by Melinda Gleissner)

New Kiddos (card by Suzanne Czosek)

New Wedding Themed Stamps (card by Melinda Gleissner)

New Travel Themed Stamps (project by Suzanne Czosek)

New Silhouette Images (card by Kristine Reynolds)

New Colored Mica Fragments (project by Cyndi Bundy)

Look for these great new products and images at your local scrapbook or stamping store soon! Please ask your local store if they haven’t ordered yet to get you the products you want! You can find great dealers who carry our products HERE and terrific online stamp stores who carry our products HERE.

These products will be available on our website later in the month together with dozens of projects using the terrific new designs and accessories.

If you’re following us on Instagram, you’ll see more projects as the show continues! These will post to our Facebook Page, Tumblr, and Twitter Feed as well. Hope you’ll join us for the fun and excitement of the new show!!

 

 

Joy to the World – CAS Christmas Card Challenge

BlogStar Annette Witherspoon loves our Cling Jumbo Poinsettia stamp. Stamped, colored, cut out, popped up over a piece of old sheet music and some background paper. What could be more Christmasy or cheerful?!!

During her term as BlogStar, Annette has created several different versions using our Poinsettia, all of them stunning. This great stamp is still available in your local Michaels Stores, you know. As well as at many of our fantastic retailers.

We hope you’ve been good this year and worked on your Clean And Simple Christmas Cards! The deadline for this Challenge is today at 11:59 pm…so you still have a little bit of time to load your creations to our linky tool at the right. (the one with FELinus the cat on it, just click on him to be taken to the tool where you can enter a link to your card).  We’re still going to be bringing you some fantastic Clean And Simple (and complex and messy and vintage and fun) cards from now until the big day, we’ve got lots more Christmas spirit to share!

Our Design Team has been super busy this month (I’m thinking I ran them a little ragged between our catalog deadline, our WeeScapes blog and this challenge), but they’ve managed to come up with some really cool inspiration for you if you still need ideas for entering. Check them out below!

InLinkz.com

A Stampendous Birthday

Today is a very special day. It’s Laura Weed’s birthday! We just think she’s the best design team coordinator a team could ask for, so we decided to get together and throw a little birthday blog hop.

Please join in the celebration by hopping along, then be sure to visit the Stampendous Facebook page and give Laura a birthday shout out.

Happy Birthday, Laura! We hope you have an absolutely spectacular day.

Kristine Reynolds

Wendy Price

Krissy Fossmeyer

Lea Kimmel

Tenia Nelson

Janelle Stollfus

Suzanne Czosek

Cyndi Bundy

Yana Smakula

Mary Dawn Quirindongo

Asia King

Melinda Gleissner

Looking for more inspiration, please stop back later today for another installment of our Wee Scapes Collaboration.