Welcome, ClearScraps!

We’re so excited this week because we get to play with the generous people at ClearScraps and share some inspiration with you.  How this came about…

Last year at we offered a workshop using ClearScraps 8 X 8 Sassy Mixables Album. I LOVED working with this product, and so did all our students. The workshop was such fun, and a huge success.

Baby, It’s Cold Outside Album by Laura Weed

Thanks to our generous friends at ClearScraps, Tsukineko, Bazzill, and American Crafts we were able to send our students home with an amazing project.

However, due to unfinalized enrollment numbers at the time, we brought home lots of extra albums… what to do? Of course…send them to our Designers (and save a few for YOU!)

At CHA I got to talk to my friends at ClearScraps, and they told me about their new Send It Clear acrylic greeting cards. An idea began to form. How about a blog collaboration with their design team where each member would make a project for the week and a separate one for the BIG Saturday Blog Hop! YES!

ClearScraps sent enough cards for our Design Team (and for YOU), our good buddies at Tsukineko sent inks for everybody (yes, YOU, too!), and we were off!

Acrylic products always look so cool in the store, but what do you do with it when you get it home? You’re about to find out! A whole week of the most luscious, fun, doable projects you’ve ever seen. AND there will be prizes! (here’s where the stuff for YOU comes in). We’ve got three huge prize packages to give away featuring Stampendous Class A’Peel Stickers, Stampendous Cling Rubber Stamps, Stampendous Perfectly Clear Stamps, a ClearScraps Album just like ours, two Send it Clear Cards from Clear Scraps, an additional ClearScraps product (varies), a colored StazOn ink pad from Tsukineko, an opaque StazOn pad from Tsukineko (with refill), some Sponge Daubers and some Ink Blushers from imagine Crafts/Tsukineko. You can win our prizes in three ways -

• Comment here on our blog – all week  -  we’ll choose one winner from the Mon – Fri Comments
• Check us out on Facebook! We’ll keep our ClearScraps collaboration posts at the top. Click SHARE and share them on your wall. We’ll draw a winner from all the folks who SHARE our posts this week (through Saturday’s hop)
• Comment on our Hop! Saturday will be our big Blog Hop – comment on the blogs and we’ll enter you once for each comment!

Plus – ClearScraps has a passel of prizes as well. You can win them by visiting and commenting on their blog!

So our Design Teams have been playing with these fun products. Here are the players today! Be sure to leave comments!

Clear Scraps
Cyndi Bundy
Irene
Kristine Reynolds
Tonya 

Give everyone lots of love! See you tomorrow!

Product Focus – Sacred Christmas Stamps

Every now and then (and not as often as I should) I like to open up our blog statistics and see how many folks are looking at our blog and what they’re looking for. This week several folks searched our blog for Nativity stamps, so I thought we’d post some terrific samples with some of our best sacred stamps in case you still need help with Christmas card ideas.

Design Team member Jennifer Dove made this fantastic card using our CRV186 Cling Sacred Silhouette (also available wood mounted, like all our cling stamps, as V186). If you click on these links you’ll be taken to the product page on our website for the products. Below each product are little pictures of sample cards. Double click those small pictures and they’ll get big. Then, click to enlarge to really see the detail. You can also drag or copy them to your desktop to save them for ideas. Cool, huh?  Here’s Jenn’s card. It’s a really easy one because she uses Class A’Peel Stickers to make it look fancy.

Sacred Silhouette by Jennifer Dove

Design Team Member Cyndi Bundy made this terrific card with CRP137 Cling Manger Scene (or in wood P137).  She also made a simple card look fancy with these Class A’Peel Stickers. She added the Precious Bundle Greeting, inking only part of it with a VersaMark pad, and embossing the whole thing in the new Shabby White Embossing Enamel.

Manger Scene by Cyndi Bundy

I have always loved this fantastic large Wisemen stamp of ours, and every year I breathe a huge sigh of relief when it makes the cut for another year. Our in-house Sample Artist, Debi Hammons, used our new Aged Embossing Enamels on this beautiful piece. She inked the stamp with VersaMark and stamped it. Then she sprinkled Aged Copper on the leftmost king, to remove the powder she tipped the card away from the other two wet kings and tapped off the excess copper. Then sprinkle the center king with Aged Gold, tip away from the remaining wet king and let the powder fall across the copper one. Sprinkle the remaining king and the star with Aged Silver and tap off the excess. Heat and WOW! Don’t they look regal? Adding our new L251 Seek Him (or CRL251 Cling Seek Him) greeting in Aged Gold was just the finishing touch! And that fancy looking background?? She sprayed Kraft card stock with instant coffee mixed very strong with water in our spray bottle! While the paper is wet, sprinkle a few extra coffee grounds on it to create a variety in intensity. Do all your backgrounds and let them dry before embossing.

Wisemen by Debi Hammons

You’ll notice this year that silhouette styles are in. They make creating a large number of cards so easy because there’s no coloring necessary. Here DT member Lynn Mercurio used the Manger Scene and Precious Bundle to create her CAS card for our challenge earlier this year.

Manger Scene by Lynn Mercurio

DT member Wendy Jordan used the Manger Scene and Precious Bundle to created this sample embossed in Aged Black on Burlap. What an interesting texture!

Manger Scene by Wendy Jordan

If you’re new to stamping, or just want something simple, we created this sample for a demonstration at Michael’s Stores. It features our Traveling Far stamp and Blue Magic embossing powder.

Traveling Far by Laura Weed

Design Team Member Wendy Price created this beautiful take on the gifts the Wisemen brought the baby Jesus. Wendy embossed our Dream Text with VersaMark ink and Clear Embossing Powder on her paper. then she stamped our fantastic Three Gifts stamp over the top. The embossing powder resists the new ink, when you wipe it with a tissue the words show through in the paper color. Simple but fantastic.

Bottled Dreams by Wendy Price

Hopefully, this gives you some great ideas for using Stampendous products to create your cards celebrating Jesus’ birth. Here’s a link to all the Inspirational themed stamps on our website where you can find many more stamps which will work well for Christmas and year-round cards. Please let us know if we can help you find something specific by emailing us at stamp@stampendous.com.

CAS Holiday Card Challenge – Final Week

We’re down to the wire now on our CAS (Clean and Simple) Holiday Card Challenge. You have until the end of November 3rd to attach your projects to the Linky Tool at the bottom to be entered in our random drawing for a Cling Jumbo Sparkle Joy stamp set.

Our Design Team has been just loving this Challenge since they’re getting their Christmas cards done while entertaining all of us! This week we have new cards appearing on the blogs of each of these DT members. Be sure to check them out and leave them a sweet comment, too!

Wendy Price - http://paperinkandsmiles.blogspot.com/
Taylor Usry  - http://taylorusry.blogspot.com/
Wendy Jordan - http://www.papertherapy-wendy.blogspot.com/
Pam Hornschu - http://1pamperedstamper.blogspot.com/
Melinda Gleissner - http://mynoteworthycards.blogspot.com/
Suzanne Czosek –  http://www.suzzstampingspot.blogspot.com/

We’d like to share some simple, clean, holiday fun with you today from our home office. Our in-house sample artist, Debi Hammons, takes CAS to a new art form.  We’ll start you off with a CAS Thanksgiving card from her. We don’t want to skip any holidays you might make cards for, and Fluffles the Cat couldn’t be happier this year that he’s finally got a Thanksgiving feast all to himself!!

Fluffles Feast by Debi Hammons

Debi used CRV224 Cling Fluffles Feast, SSC1023 Damask Fall Perfectly Clear Stamps, AC672HSG Gold Dot Sparklers Class A’Peel Stickers, colored pencils and an Onyx Black VersaFine stamp pad to make this super simple greeting.

Along the same lines, here’s a Clean and Simple Christmas card by Debi.

Tweet Top Hat by Debi Hammons

This card uses CRV226 Cling Tweet Top Hat, CRG119 Cling Christmas Greetings, colored pencil, Onyx VersaFine, and just a touch of American Crafts ribbon to really make it all pop.

Our Design Team, as always, joins in with Wendy Jordan’s fantastic, simple, Nativity card:

Blessed Greetings by Wendy Jordan

Wendy used the CRG119 Cling Christmas Greetings together with CRP137 Cling Manger Scene and embossed it all with Shabby White Embossing Enamel.

Fluffles Garland by Melinda Gleissner

Here Melinda Gleissner uses CRN221 Cling Fluffles Garland with a Tuxedo Black Memento Pad by Tsukineko, her Copic Markers, and some simple die cutting to create a really CAS Christmas greeting.

Jumbo Cling Pine Drift by Taylor Usry

Finally, Taylor Usry brings us this simple yet gorgeous card using CRS5016 Cling Jumbo Pine Drift plus AC672HSR Red Dot Sparklers Class A’Peel Stickers and AC723MRR Holiday Greetings Class A’Peel Stickers. So simple and fantastic!

So… whatcha got?? Link it on up to the linky tool below and let’s see your Clean and Simple best! IF you can’t figure out the linky (it’s really easy, just click on it) you can put your link in the comments and we’ll get our elves working. Can’t wait to see what you come up with!

October Card Challenge – CAS Holiday Cards

It’s the first Saturday of the month, and that means it’s time for a new challenge with the Stampendous team!  This month to kick things off on World Card Making Day, we’re looking towards the holidays AND keeping it Clean and Simple. That’s right – we’re making Clean and Simple (CAS) holiday cards!!  You’ll see a few team members showing off more than one card today; some chose to make one CAS and then take that design and “step it up”.  Others made sets of CAS holiday cards to give as gifts or use to make a dent in the Christmas (or other holiday!!) card list.

But first…the winner from September’s Sketch Challenge!! We’d love to congratulate our randomly chosen winner – ArtyCarty!!!  Congratulations! We loved your card with buttons on it, and now you’ll have a fantastic stamp set to use on your next challenge entry. Email us your mailing address and we’ll get your prize right out to you!! (email us at  submissions@stampendous.com)

October Sketch Challenge Prize

October’s challenge is to join us in making CAS holiday cards. (any holiday!) We want to help you get into the holiday spirit, so this month we are giving away a Cling Jumbo Sparkle Joy set to a random winner. You don’t have to use a Stampendous image or products to play along, but we sure love it when you do!  You have until Thursday, November 3 at 11:59 PM EST to add your link to the linky tool, and we’ll draw a random winner.  You can enter as many times as you’d like. (link to the official rules at the very top of our blog – you must have a US/APO/FPO or Puerto Rico address to win, but anyone can post their projects!!)

We’ve got a few jump starts for your imagination this weekend with lots of our Design Team creating CAS cards and posting them on their blogs. Here are just a few ideas:

Manger Silhouette by Lynn Mercurio

Lynn Mercurio is starting us off this month with this simple but oh so elegant example of an inspirational Christmas Card. She’s used our CRP137 Cling Manger Scene, CRN240 Cling Precious Bundle, and our luxurious black velvet AC990VK Jumbo Damask Leaves Class A’Peel Stickers. These fantastic velvet stickers are on a vinyl base with a fantastic adhesive that makes them dishwasher and microwave safe plus weather resistant, so they’re marvelous for indoor or outdoor craft use. They lend such an elegant air to a simple card.

Eiffle Noel by Kristine Reynolds

Kristine Reynolds this month celebrates a European holiday flavor with our CRP129 Cling Eiffel Noel embossed in our fantastic Pirate Gold Embossing Powder. What a beautifully simple card that anyone would be excited to receive (especially if you tuck a couple of tickets to Paris in the envelope!). The wood mounted version of this fantastic stamp is available at your local Michael’s Store.

Christmas Greeting by Taylor Usry

Challenge organizer and DT member Taylor Usry offers this CAS card using the fantastically versatile SSC1068 Christmas Wishes Perfectly Clear Stamps greeting set. The holly accents from the set provide just enough image while the sincere greeting remains the focal point. With four large greetings in one set you could create quite a variety of looks as well.

Finally, from the home office, in-house Sample Artist Debi Hammons offers a whimsical Christmas option this year as Changito the Monkey gets himself all tangled up in the Christmas lights. I know how he feels, I seem to end up in this situation every year at some point.

Changito Tree Lights by Debi Hammons

Debi has used CRV230 Cling Changito Tree Lights and CRG121 Cling Old World Greetings for this adorable card. After stamping and coloring Changito, she’s gone back and added some FL400 Cotton Ball White Fun Flock to the fur on his hat and some of our GX220U Multi Ultra Fine Crystal Glitter to the light bulbs for a touch of texture and fun. These were applied with a glue pen. When using flocking, be sure to press it into the adhesive with your finger before brushing away the excess to achieve good coverage.

Most of our Design Team members are playing along with our challenge today! You can check out their cards at the links below! To link your CAS Stampendous card to this month’s challenge just click on the little linky tool below and it will give you a spot to put the link to your card. We can’t wait to see what Clean and Simple Holiday means to you!!

Design Team Blog Links:

Kristine Reynolds – http://stampingandscrapingincalifornia.blogspot.com/
Pam Hornschu – http://1pamperedstamper.blogspot.com/
Taylor Usry – http://taylorusry.blogspot.com/
Cyndi Bundy – http://www.scrappychickcyndi.blogspot.com/
Krissy Fossmeyer – http://www.paperinkspirations.blogspot.com/
Jenn Dove – http://just4funcrafts.blogspot.com/
Wendy Jordan – http://www.papertherapy-wendy.blogspot.com/
Wendy Price – http://paperinkandsmiles.blogspot.com/
Lynn Mercurio – http://www.stamperosity.com/
Melinda Gleissner – http://mynoteworthycards.blogspot.com/
Piali Biswas – http://touchofcreation.blogspot.com/
Suzanne Czosek – http://www.suzzstampingspot.blogspot.com/
Laura Davis — http://adayinthelifeofthepaperpoppy.blogspot.com/
Rachel Sztonyk — http://gingerbreadgallery.blogspot.com/

The Linky Thing:

GOIN’ BATTY!!!

Michael’s is featuring four Stampendous How-to Videos on their Stamp-tember Website! Check it out!

Melinda Gleissner made these incredibly cute cards for Halloween.

Usually, I want to get rid of cobwebs in the window frames; but in this case…let’s leave ‘em. Soooooo cute!

Goin' Batty by Melinda Gleissner

I’m Goin’ Batty

OK, for any of you who know me, that ship sailed ages ago. I’m Goin’ Batty is the sentiment included in this Stampendous stamp set called Cling Batty Owls.

Isn’t the font cool? I paired the owls with another great Stampendous set, Cling Spider Web to create this window card. Everyone loves window cards and I’m no exception. But I must admit they intimidate me so I created this pseudo/faux window card by placing all of the layers onto the front of my card base. As for the two bats with glowing eyes, they are another Stampendous product. You can’t tell from my photograph but they are velvet stickers with a tiny piece of Copic-colored scrap paper behind them.  If you haven’t tried Stampendous Class A Peel stickers, you really must. They come in all sorts of designs and textures and are so versatile. You can even use them as masks.

Thanks for visiting!

Stampendous Products:
Cling Batty Owls Set CRS2063
Cling Spider Web Set CRS3010
Jumbo Bats Velvet Black Class A Peel AC1004VK

Other Products:
Paper: My Mind’s Eye Mischievous (patterned paper); Copic X-Press It Blending Card; card stock (unknown)
Copic Markers: YR12/YR14/YR18/BV000/BV00/BV20/C0/C1/C3/C5
Spellbinders Wonky Rectangles Nestabilities Dies
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black; Archival Jet Black; Ranger Pumice Stone Distress Ink
Foam Adhesive

Card Instructions:

1. Create an A2 card base with corresponding black mat.

2. Using two different sizes of Wonky Rectangles dies and patterned paper create the mat with window, the window frame and insert.

3. Distress the edges of the insert and the mat with the window by rubbing Pumice Stone ink around the edges.

4. Stamp the cobweb on two of the corners of the mat and also on the insert using Jet Black ink.

5. Stamp the owls on the insert and then again on Copic X-Press It Blending Card; Color the image that is stamped on the Blending Card and cut it out.

6. Adhere the insert to the center of the black mat; Using foam adhesive, adhere the cut-out owls to the insert (line up the images).

7. Glue the black window frame to the mat with the window; Using foam adhesive, adhere this mat to the black mat; Adhere all to the card base.

8. Stamp the sentiment on the inside of the card.

9. Select two stickers; using baby powder, powder the back of the stickers to cover the adhesive.

10. Color a scrap of X-Press It Blending Card; Cut into two pieces and adhere a piece to the back of each sticker.

11. Adhere the bats to the card.

I will be entering this in this week’s Our Creative Corner Challenge.

Good as Gold Piali

Our Stampendous Blog Star, Piali Biswas, is as good as gold. She used Fran Seiford’s Encrusted Jewel Techinque on this regal card.

If you’d like to learn how to achieve this look and create a card fit for a king, check out our “You Tube Tutorial”.

Piali used the following to make this glorious card:

Papers:  My Mind’s Eye ~Lost & Found 2
Card stock: Papertrey Ink

Stampendous products:
AC1045-R Elegant Crowns Class A’Peel Stickers
FRM05 Bronzed Mica Fragments
FRM01 Pearlized Mica Fragments
TP118 Vintage Olive Embossing Tinsel
FREG024 Aged Gold Embossing Enamel
DP020 Detail Clear Embossing Powder
Versamark Ink by Tsukineko

Ribbon, Brads. Jillibean Soup Kraft Alpha Sticker

Instructions:

1. Cut and score the card base.
2. Adhere the patterned papers and attach the ribbon with a brad.
3. Adhere the Crown stickers on card stock and trim it closely.
4. Cut a square of patterned paper and distress the edges.
5. Apply some Versamark Ink on the bottom left corner and then sprinkle a mix of embossing powders, glitter and Mica Fragments on it. Heat emboss it. Checkout the fabulous tutorial of Encrusted Jewel Technique…HERE.
6. Adhere the crown stickers with 3D dots.
7. Adhere the sentiment stickers to finish.

Size: 4.25 X 5.5

May Arts Week – Grand Finale

Wow, we’ve had some fun here combining our stamps with May Arts ribbon to create some incredible projects. Our amazing Design Team really stepped up to do us proud. Thanks to everyone who visited, commented, and subscribed to our blog. We love sharing our art with you.

We have 3 prizes this week, and they have 3 over at May Arts’ Blog as well.

1. Comment on our blog all week. We’ll draw one winner on Monday.

2. Wednesday was Facebook day. We tracked the comments on our Facebook page Wednesday, we’ll draw a winner on Monday. We hope you’re liking us on Facebook!

3. Friday is Twitter Day! Tweet and tell us what your favorite card of the week has been. Be sure to put #Stampendous and #MayArts in your Tweet. (the # lets us find your post). We’ll draw from Friday’s tweets for our third prize package. Hopefully, you’re all following us on Twitter. We’ll announce all winners on Monday.

We’ve got some inspiration for you today. First Jennifer Dove features our new SSC1120 Damask Chair Perfectly Clear Stamps on a beautiful easel card using May Arts Two Toned Textured Wired Ribbon. I’m going to admit that this is my absolute FAVORITE of the ribbons they shared with us. I mean it just pulls the card together in an incredible way, don’t you think?

SSC1120 Damask Chair by Jennifer Dove

Our next gorgeous offering comes to us from Design Team member Wendy Price who used our SSC1067 Holiday Home Perfectly Clear Stamps, our adorable MINI Pail, and some May Arts Sheer Line Edge ribbon to make a sweet winter scene. The bottom of the pail is filled with our super chunky Shaved Ice glitter. This is one of our new Fran•táge Essentials available from your local retailer and soon on our website.

Mini Winter Scene by Wendy Price

Another great project using this same ribbon comes to us from Design Team Member Taylor Usry. She’s added just a touch of this darling ribbon to our CRS5016 Cling Jumbo Pine Drift stamp for the perfect accent. This Jumbo Christmas tree will be available on our website next week, but your local store may already have it!

Jumbo Pine Drift by Taylor Usry

Our Design Team member Cyndi Bundy used this same ribbon in a charming bow on this scrapbook page of her daughter and bff.

Snowbody Like You by Cyndi Bundy

This page uses our AC1018VT Velvet Forest Stackable Christmas Tree Class A’Peel Stickers – now available in white velvet for snowy trees, our AC1001VW Velvet White Jumbo Snowflake Class A’Peel Stickers, our AC653VR Velvet Red Ric Rac Class A’Peel Stickers, and our brand new R126 Snowbody Frame snowman stamp. The red “tree ornaments” on both Cyndi and Taylor’s trees are made with our AC672HSR Holograph Red Dot Sparklers Class A’Peel Stickers.

Finally, a real treat for you, our own Lisa Hindsley gathered some of May Arts’ BC19 Solid/Two Tone ribbon into a layer for this fabulous, pleated tree ornament she made. This project features our Q155 Scrolled Seasons greeting stamp, our Aged Gold Embossing Powder, and our CRS5013 Merry and Magical Jumbo swirl on some gorgeous Graphic 45 paper. You’ll see our Champagne Crushed Glass Glitter around the outside edges, applied with liquid glue. All of these fabulous products are being released at CHA next week, and will be available shortly on our website and in your local stamp store.

Tree Ornament by Lisa Hindsley

We sure hope you’ve enjoyed our little romp with the folks from May Arts. It’s been so fun for us, and we hope for their design team as well. Please be sure to leave us some love, and good luck in the prizes. Wander back our way on Monday to see if you’ve won one of our prize packages of May Arts ribbon and Stampendous Stamps!

Facebook Giveaway Today! May Arts + Stampendous = GOODIES!

We said there would be prizes, and there are!! Be sure to comment on our Stampendous Facebook page and on May Arts Facebook page today for your chance to win a prize package of ribbon and stamps!

On the Design Team Blogs today Wendy Price,  Pam Hornschu, Taylor Usry, Wendy Jordan, and Lynn Mercurio are featuring creations with May Arts ribbon and Stampendous stamps. Additionally, the May Arts blog is featuring fabulous inspiration for you! WOW…if you can’t find something to stamp this week it’s not because we haven’t tried!! Lynn is giving away Blog Candy as well. Be sure to check that out!!

Today we’re bringing you a new image from Stampendous paired with some dynamic ribbon from designer Wendy Jordan. She made this for our new catalog to showcase our Jumbo Baroque Bouquet Cling Rubber Stamp Set which she embossed in Midnight Black Embossing Powder on our own Thermo Acetate (because you can emboss on it without it warping, unlike the rest) then colored it in with her Copic markers. Then she dramatically tied some fabulous May Arts Sheer/Satin Stitched Center Burgundy ribbon around the bouquet for a showstopping piece anyone would be thrilled to receive. Can you say WOW?!

CRS5019 Jumbo Cling Baroque Bouquet by Wendy Jordan

And on a more contemporary note, DT member Cyndi Bundy create a darling gift tin option for our luxurious velvet Class A’Peel Poinsettia stickers. These gorgeous stickers are a velvet covered vinyl, so they’re dishwasher and outdoor safe as well as sturdy and easy to use! She added some Jumbo Damask Leaves in Olive Velvet for contrast. What a super easy way to give a gift card or photos or any small gift. Top with some May Arts Solid/Satin Center Ribbon for a dramatic gift.

Poinsettia Tin by Cyndi Bundy

Happy Independence Day!

Stampendous is excited and proud to be supporting Design Team Member Taylor Usry and her fun Summer/July 4th Blog Hop Friends. So many amazing and talented designers will be showcasing their best this weekend. Take the time to visit each one and see some amazing summertime stamping!! Taylor’s lined up some fabuloso prizes for you, too!! Including some terrific Stampendous goodies. Here’s Taylor with how to WIN!!

“You have until Tuesday, July 5th at 6:00 PM EST to comment on as many blogs as you can. Winners will be drawn from random comments on blogs, and announced on Wednesday July 7th (on Taylor’s (http://taylorusry.blogspot.com) blog). “

We wanted  to share with you our version of a 2011 July 4th card. Made by our own Debi Hammons, here is our wish that you all have a safe and aaahhhsome Fourth of July.

Patriotic Pail by Lisa Hindsley (AC737 July 4th Banner Class A’Peel Stickers)

Awesome 4th by Debi Hammons (SSC1094 Aaahsome Fireworks Perfectly Clear Stamp Set)

Participants in the Blog Hop:

Taylor —  http://taylorusry.blogspot.com
Cyndi —  http://scrappychickcyndi.blogspot.com
Lynn —  http://www.stamperosity.com/
Patricia —  http://thinkingofinking.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/
Alison —  http://alisonsrandomthoughts.blogspot.com
Berenice —  http://karbersweetescape.blogspot.com
Erica —  http://www.inkedupandreadytoplay.com/
Mary —  http://softangelkisses.blogspot.com
Janelle —  http://rainpuddlesdesign.blogspot.com
Erin —  http://stamptillucramp.blogspot.com
Maria —  http://riacreations.blogspot.com
Jennifer D —  http://just4funcrafts.blogspot.com
Pam —  http://1pamperedstamper.blogspot.com
Angelique —  http://scrapping-angel.blogspot.com
Sandie —  http://sandieshores.blogspot.com
Wendy P —  http://paperinkandsmiles.blogspot.com
Suzi —  http://mrsweyremaster.blogspot.com
Kathy —  http://pixieduststudio.blogspot.com
Beth —  http://inkyfingersrule.blogspot.com
Wendy J —  http://papertherapy-wendy.blogspot.com
Kerry —  http://kerryischilling.blogspot.com
Louise –  http://www.artfullyarticulate.blogspot.com/
Liz —  http://www.blackcatsstudios.blogspot.com/
Laura –  http://www.rememberinglifesmoments.blogspot.com
Lee —  http://www.leekellogg.typepad.com/
Jennifer I —  http://www.justjingle.blogspot.com/
Krissy –   http://www.paperinkspirations.blogspot.com/
Sunghee —  http://www.creativityinprogress.com/blog/
Cindy –  http://cindycoutts.com/

Creative Thank You Card and Card/Gift Card Holder

Our Blog Star, Laura Davis, made this incredibly beautiful “Thank You” card and card holder with Stampendous Scrollwork Flowers Class A’Peel Stickers and SSC109 Happy Messages Perfectly Clear Stamp Set.
How elegant can “Thank You” get?

Apply stickers to clear acetate and trim off excess before attaching to the card holder to get a 3-D effect. This is a great idea for a gift card holder too!