CAS Christmas – Cont’d

We’re still celebrating Clean And Simple Christmas cards here at Stampendous.

Tomorrow, though, we have a yummy surprise for you!! We have a special collaboration this week on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, so don’t miss all the fun!! ssssh…it’s a secret! (ok no, it’s not…tell ALL your friends!!)

Remember to enter your CAS holiday cards (yes, any holiday is eligible) by clicking on the Felinus button at the right and adding the link to your card. You’ll be entered to win some fantastic Stampendous products!! Like always, if your card contains Stampendous images it will count double.

Here’s another great example from our in-house designer Debi Hammons. You can find all the products to make this card at your local Michaels Stores!

Forest Santa by Debi Hammons

Debi used our Forest Santa and our Cling Jumbo Snowflakes to make this fantastic card. The snowflakes in red and green are so striking and unexpected. What a simple, delightful greeting for Christmas.  Now run to Michaels, get these goodies, and show us your stuff!

 

Clean and Simple – Christmas Inspiration

Here at Stampendous we make some really fun holiday images for everyone. But our first stamp ever made was our Jesus is the Reason for the Season stamp. It has remained in our line continuously until we replaced it last year with one that had a more updated script

Our First Stamp L001

The new version

L250 Jesus Season

We have always remembered the reason for Christmas. We want to share with you a couple of fantastic and VERY simple cards made by our in-house Sample Artist Debi Hammons that will help you share this inspiration if that’s your Holiday Style.

This first card is super simple! Two stamps, two pads,  and some tiny red brads. You could do this in any colors you like and have a beautiful, simple message to send this year. This card uses our new stamp First Christmas and one of our returning classic stamps Manger Scene. Both stamps are also available in Cling Rubber.

If you like to add a bit of Fran•táge to your cards, here’s another version of this card featuring a bit of Fran’s Encrusted Jewel Technique. Here Debi used just a little bit of Aged Gold Embossing Enamel in the corners and heated it from underneath.

First Christmas Fran•táged by Debi Hammons

All of these stamps are available at Michael’s Stores this season as well as on our website and from many of our fantastic retailers. We hope you can find something simple and beautiful that puts the true Spirit of Christmas into your hear this year!

CAS Christmas Cards all Month

Our challenge to you this December is to make a Clean and Simple Christmas Card and enter it in our contest (of COURSE we’ll accept your other card-sending, December holidays!!) All you need to do is create a CAS card and click on the Cattus Librum link below or to the right and add the link to your card or cards. They’ll even count double if you use Stampendous image stamps! (yes, we know your favorite “Merry Christmas” is Stampendous… but we want you to use our images, too!) Let’s look at some super simple ideas from our Design Team for your holiday stamping this year! It’s not too late to get these fantastic images from our website!

First up, an adorable card by our own in-house Sample Artist Debi Hammons. Debi made this card for Michaels Stores, and you can only buy this adorable Snowman Couple at Michaels (unless your LSS has one from last year). You might want to run out speedy quick to your local Michaels and pick them up.

Jumbo Snowfall Pair by Debi Hammons

Super cute, super simple – some fun cutting dies and some markers and WOW…  your relatives are calling you to apologize for sending that store bought greeting to you! DT member Taylor Usry created a fantastic project here using our Snow Globe Kiddo Perfectly Clear stamp!

Snow Globe Kiddo by Taylor Usry

For a more inspirational card, how about this fantastic card by Kristine Reynolds?!! We love how simple it is in spite of looking so fantastic! You can find all the supplies and directions for this project (and bunches more) in the Project Section of our website HERE

Shepherd Kiddo by Kristine Reynolds

So there’s a dose of inspiration for you! Create a CAS card and enter it in our challenge for a chance to win some fun goodies.  The challenge ends early this month, on the 20th!, so be sure to get cracking on those Christmas creations!

Coordinated Kiddo Tearing it up!

It’s takes coordination and Core’dination to skateboard like a Kiddo!

Our own in house designer, Debi Hammons, created this Skateboard Kiddo birthday card during our Core’dination Blog Hop- and it’s just so darned cute! Even though the hop is over, we had to show it to you just for fun. We love the way Debi tore the paper revealing the Krafty inner core, and we also love that she used our Crushed Glass Black Glitter to create a little asphalt for the Kiddo to scrape up!

Saturday Coordination with Core’dinations!

Jumbo Cardinals with Core’dinations by Lisa Hindsley

Here’s Lisa’s Supply List:

CRS5038 Jumbo Cardinals, Core’dinations TH card stock, Aged Ivory Embossing Enamel, VersaMark Watermark Ink, StazOn Timber Brown Ink, Colored Pencils and Sand Paper.

Lisa started by sanding the card stock for a rustic look and stamped the image with Timber Brown Ink. The key was to use the color of the card stock to match each bird, so she used the red paper for the male cardinal and the Coconut Cream for the female. She stamped two images (one in each color), then tore the paper and pieced it together to show off the rustic look of the torn edges. Of course it wouldn’t be Stampendous if we didn’t Fran•táge a little bit, so she also added a bit of the Aged Ivory Embossing Enamel as a dusting of snow for these lovely winter birds. She also used our Scrolled Seasons stamp to finish off the inside, and had a lot of fun tearing paper and creating a flurry of snow with a small round brush (no adhesive was used to make the swirl), and heating the whole thing from underneath.

Inside of Cardinal Card by Lisa Hindlsey

So if you want to win some prizes – visit these blogs below and leave comments! We’ll draw random bloggers to choose random commenters to win!

Stampendous Blog (you are here)

Core’dinations Blog (may not have anything new, visit anyway!)

Annette Witherspoon

Cyndi Bundy

Ellen from Core Team

Janelle Stollfus

Jennifer Dove

Jennifer Ingle

Krissy Fossmeyer

Kristine Reynolds

Lea Kimmel

Mary Dawn Quirindongo

Melinda Gleissner

Rhea Weigand

Stephanie Lee (Arty Carty)

Suzanne Czosek

Tenia Nelson

Wendy Jordan

Wendy Price

By the way! (yeah, this two hop weeks in a row thing…not happening again! LOL) you’ve asked about winners for the May Arts blog. We’ll post all winners from both blogs in a big post tomorrow or Monday. It will be tagged Winners so if you search for that at the top of the blog you’ll find it easily, so you don’t miss it!  Thanks for your patience.

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

Winners!! Our Blog Hop has Winners!!

Our Handmade Gift Hop was designed with getting your gifts started in mind! There are only 97 days until Christmas!!

Some lucky blog followers out there are going to win some fantastic Stampendous prizes that will get their gift making off to a great start!

For Monday – We chose a winner from Kristine Reynold’s Blog – Congrats

Tami Bohannon!!

She wins the Stampendous Cling Jumbo Cardinals shown on Tammie Wilson’s hand painted lantern.

For Tuesday – We chose a winner from Janelle Stollfus’ Blog – Congrats

Carol of Scrap Happy Studio!!

She wins the Rose Branch Border Perfectly Clear Stamp Set used on  Suzanne Czosek’s Jewelry Holder.

For Wednesday – We chose a winner from Wendy Price’s Blog – Congrats

Miriam Prantner!!

She wins the Cling Snow Bird stamp used on Jennifer Dove’s Gift Box.

For Thursday – We chose a winner from Melinda Gleissner’s Blog – Congrats

AJ from AJ’s Scrapbooking and Cards

This winner gets the Corset Ladies Perfectly Clear Stamp Set used on Tammie Wilson’s Feminine Valises project.

For Friday – We chose a winner from Tenia Nelson’s Blog – Congrats

Karen Baker!!!

She wins the Cling Carte Postale stamp that was used on Debi Hammon’s Travel Photo Frame.

For Saturday – We chose three winners

One from Cyndi Bundy’s Blog, One from Jennifer Ingle’s Blog and One from our Stampendous Impressions Blog !! Congrats to -

Craftymom 205, Charlene from Paper and Ink Playground, and Katina!!!

These lucky stampers will each receive the Cling Jumbo Pinecone Bough set that Tammie Wilson used on her gorgeous box.

All winners should contact us at submissions@stampendous.com and send us your address so we can send out your prize!!!

To all the winners and others, a huge THANKS for playing along on our blog! We’re so happy you joined us and hope you got some inspiration!

All of the products are available on our website where each order is fulfilled by a local, independent scrapbook or stamping store! Thanks for supporting local businesses when you make your holiday gifts this year!

Be sure to join us almost every day for new inspiration from our terrific BlogStars – we have new ones starting in October!

Plus our Saturday Challenge lets you participate and win prizes!!

Our next week long Blog Hop will be a Collaboration with May Arts! Those prizes are always amazing!! Be sure to put October 1 – 6 on your Calendar now! You won’t want to miss it!

Today – WE ALL Wobble! – Big Blog Hop

Well, we hope you have some comfy slippers and a great beverage, because you’re in for some seriously cool hopping today!! We’ve got 29 designers who have been playing with Stampendous Stamps and Action Wobbles Springs to create some amazingly cool and fantastic projects! Please visit our Saturday Challenge Post today as well – August is our Focus on the Sentiments Challenge!

We’ve saved our most “obvious” wobbling Kiddo for last. Lea Kimmel has created this super festive Hula Girl Kiddo and added Action Wobbles so she’ll really hula!! So super fun! Be sure to check her out on Lea’s Blog Below.

We’re going to be giving away

6 Action Wobbles Springs

and

CRV265 Cling Hula Kiddo

To one lucky Blog Hopper! AND

6 Action Wobbles Springs

and

CRW076 Tree Trim Kiddos

to a second lucky Blog Hopper!! (because we want to see that top Kiddo wobbling with that star!)

How can you win? Comment on the blogs below! At the end of the weekend (yes, you have until Sunday night) we’ll choose two of the blogs below at random. They will then choose a random winner and we’ll notify you here!

Here’s who is playing today:

Stampendous Impressions Blog

Action Wobbles Blog

April Derrick

Cyndi Bundy

Mary

Jan Garber

Janelle Stollfus

Kate

Jennifer Ingle

Krissy Fossmeyer

Julie

Kristine Reynolds

Lea Kimmel

Sherri

Melinda Gleissner

Pam Hornschu

Theresa

Stephanie Lee

Susie Moore

Jenny

Suzanne Czosek

Taylor Usry

Janis

Tenia Nelson

Wendy Jordan

Tricia

Wendy Price

Tobi Crawford

Monica

Heather

Midge

Missed the beginning of our week of wobbles??? Check them out here – MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, FRIDAY

New Product – BLOG HOP!!

We hope you’ve enjoyed our week of bragging about our new products. Our Design Team is so talented, and they’ve created many more samples with these goodies, so we’re going to be sharing for a while!! Today, everyone has something new for you to see, so sit back with your beverage of choice and maybe a kitten or a snack or both, and look at all the Stampendous goodness we have for you today.

First, we’ll end our week with a couple more of Debi Hammons amazing samples. We’re so lucky to have this talented lady working in our home offices right here. She makes such wonderful things. We’ll start with a Merry Christmas card featuring our new Cling Poinsettia Background stamp and our Cling Merriest Wish stamp.

Merriest Wish by Debi Hammons

And we want you to know that we haven’t forgotten the true meaning of Christmas. Our Kiddos are putting on a Christmas pageant for you this year. Here Debi uses our  Cling Precious Nativity and our Cling Precious Bundle stamps.

Debi Hammons Precious Gift

Well let’s see what the Design Team has been up to… some of them have their own blog candy today. Plus, Stampendous will be drawing a winner for these three great prize packs of brand new product.

Cling Kiddo Skateboard and Purple Color Fragments

Cling Decorative Grate and Aged Wine Embossing Enamel

Cling London and Vintage Royal Blue Embossing Tinsel

How do you win them? It’s easy! THREE of the bloggers today will be choosing a random commenter from their blog, and those lucky people will be announced on the Stampendous blog Tuesday, July 31 (please leave comments by Monday, July 30 at 11:59 PM PST). The more places you leave a comment, the better your chances are to win!   Below is the list of team members who are sharing inspiration today:

Kristine Reynolds

Lynn Mercurio

Jennifer Dove 

Taylor Usry (has additional blog candy)

Jan Garber

Lea Kimmel  (has additional blog candy)

Cyndi Bundy

Pam Hornschu (has additional blog candy)

Rhea Weigand

Janelle Stollfus

Wendy Price

Tenia Nelson

Jennifer Ingle

Melinda Gleissner

Stephanie Lee – LINK FIXED

Susie Moore

Suzanne Czosek

Wendy Jordan

Krissy Fossmeyer

April Derrick

Tobi Crawford

More Stamping Goodness from Stampendous!

The Stampendous Design Teams are seriously some of the most talented, creative paper crafters on Earth. We are always amazed at the projects they create and around New Product time every email and package we receive from them is like Christmas! This week they’ve picked some of their favorite creations from our new July Catalog to share with you. But there’s sooooo many more. They’ll all share new ones on Saturday, plus keep watching for us to share more and more as we continue into the holiday season. Today several of them have great projects to show you and not only do some of them have their own blog candy, Stampendous will be drawing a winner for this great prize pack which contains our Cling Christmas Kitten stamp and Red Crushed Glass Glitter for some holiday sparkle.

How do you win it? It’s easy! One of the featured bloggers today will be choosing a random commenter from her blog, and that lucky person will be announced on the Stampendous blog tomorrow. The more places you leave a comment, the better your chances are to win! Below is the list of team members who are sharing inspiration today:

Kristine Reynolds

Jennifer Dove 

Taylor Usry (has blog candy)

Jan Garber

Lea Kimmel  (has blog candy)

Pam Hornschu (has blog candy)

Rhea Weigand

Wendy Price

Tenia Nelson

Krissy Fossmeyer

April Derrick

We’re also sharing with you this week some art from our unsung hero, our In House Sample Artist, Debi Hammons. Debi has been with Stampendous for 5 years and she makes all of the sample boards and projects you see in stores around the country. She works closely with our Sales Department to design classes for retail stores and trade shows so that folks can learn to use our amazing products. We just adore her simple, duplicatable style, and her flair for showing our products at their best. Today we’re showing another of her doable Christmas card ideas featuring our  adorable Special Delivery deer and our Christmas Background. Debi has added a bit of Bronze Crushed Glass Glitter at the bottom to ground the image and add some bling.

Special Delivery by Debi Hammons