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

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

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

Meet Jennifer Dove – Copic Genius!

Yep…we mean it! Attending Jennifer Dove’s Copic Marker Retreat is sort of like going to a military boot camp where vast amounts of coloring knowledge are squeezed into your brain, but fun! You come home both exhausted and completely energized.

A member of the Stampendous Design Team since almost the beginning, Jennifer Dove has long wowed us with her amazing coloring skill and artistic style. Her projects are always favorites with the entire Design Team and all of us at Stampendous. She’s been published many times, and now her Copic coloring skills can be yours. Her famous class is now offered online, and it includes some fun Stampendous images for you to use when practicing!

You can read more about the class on Jennifer’s Blog Post.  Here are some of the cards and techniques you’ll learn in her class!

Monochromatic coloring featuring Stampendous Snow Bird

Gorgeous Watercolor effect featuring Stampendous Hydrangea Bunch.

And  a couple of favorites she’s done for our projects:

Stampendous Sir Toad

Stampendous Nestled Bird

If you sign up for Jennifer’s class, be sure to send us a photo of your work. You can always submit projects to our Flickr group or email them to us at submissions@stampendous.com! Happy Coloring.

New Inspiration! New Products! New Year!

As promised our Design Team has been sneak peeking our new products this week, all from the amazing mind of Fran Seiford, Stampendous Owner and Designer. Have you been checking out their blogs?

This product is all available on our WHOLESALE website for our customers already. You’ll see them on our our retail site very soon, and in your local scrapbook or stamp store. To locate a store, check out our Dealer Locator!  You can find retailers in countries all around the world there as well as online shops! We’re already shipping!

Here are some great peeks at what we’ve got for you in this realease:

Jennifer Dove

Kristine Reynolds

Melinda Gleissner

Suzanne Czosek

Wendy Price

Cyndi Bundy

Has Your Local Store Ordered New Stampendous?

Now that we’re all home from CHA, it’s time to stop in at your local stamping or scrapbooking store and find out if they’ve ordered the newest goodies from Stampendous yet!  Some of these will sell out fast, and you’re going to want them to reserve one for  you! For example, how about  5 new, yummy colors of Fran•táge Mica Fragments in the super sized jars? Ooooh la la !!

Brand new Stampendous colored Mica!

Or what about our dynamic new Jumbo Cling Flowers which now include a FREE 2-part template for masking your image or background?

New Jumbo Cling Daisy, Sunflower, Poppy

If you need to find a retailer near you, just use our online Dealer Locator. Or you can order from one of our terrific Online Retailers.

You’ll be able to see all our new items later this month on our website HERE. Our terrific Design Team will be blogging Sneak Peeks next week, and we’ll be sharing some of their best samples.

Hopping Through the Wee Scapes!

We are so glad we stopped by the Simi Creative booth at CHA in July and discovered Wee Scapes! Our designers have had an amazing time playing with these products and combining them with Stampendous images for fun projects, little worlds, cards, and scrapbook pages. We hope you’ll take the time to check out a local retailer of Wee Scapes and add some “model magic” to your creations. One of the most amazing things about these products is that they can be tinted or colored with almost any coloring medium, and they can be cut to size with just regular scissors. They are a breeze to work with!

Today several designers will be sharing projects with us. They’ve saved the best for last, so be sure to visit all the blogs and leave comments for your chance to win some fantastic goodies.

Annette Witherspoon
Jennifer Dove
Jennifer Ingle
Lea Kimmel
Melinda Gleissner
Suzanne Czosek
Wendy Price

We certainly hope you’ve found some inspiration in our playing with Wee Scapes! We were so  happy to be able to share them with you! This is our last partnership of 2012, looking forward to a fun 2013. We’d sure love it if you’d comment here or on our Facebook page and let us know what you’d like to see for 2013!

Hop Along with our New October Products

At Stampendous it’s time to get ready for Spring! Our new October 2012 Catalog has a gorgeous selection of new images for  your stamping pleasure.

We hope you’ll take a few moments to flip through our new catalog and savor the images for  yourself. You can download it to your computer or print it as well, just by clicking on the cover below.

Then visit our Design Team Blogs and see some of the fantastic projects they’ve made using these delightful stamps!

 Annette Witherspoon 

Asia King 

Barb Turpin 

Cyndi Bundy

Janelle Stollfus  

Jennifer Ingle 

Jennifer Dove 

Kristine Reynolds

Lea Kimmel 

Mary Dawn Quirindongo 

Melinda Gleissner  

Pam Hornschu 

Rhea Weigard

Suzanne Czosek

Taylor Usry

Tenia Nelson

Tobi Crawford

Wenday Jordan

Wendy Price 

Yana Smakula 

We’ll choose three of the above blogs at random to each choose a winner from their comments section. These lucky stampers will each receive a brand new stamp set from our October Catalog images! (Sorry, due to laws and customs regulations, prizes to U.S. Mailing Addresses Only – but we’d love everyone to comment)

Also remember this is the last week for our October Saturday Challenge – Fabulous Florals. Load your floral themed card to our linky tool by Thursday, November 1, 2012 at 11:59 pm for  your chance to win some great NEW flower stamps!  Remember if your floral card features a flower from Stampendous Stamps your entry counts double.

New Products Now Available on our Website

We’ve had so much fun this week showing you some of our new products.

They are all now available on our website in addition to your local scrapbooking and stamping stores and favorite online stamping retailers.

We know you’re going to love creating with these new images as much as our Design Team has.

Several of our team members have created fun projects to inspire you for today. Be sure to join us tomorrow as well when everyone will return with additional fantastic projects to get you excited about our newest offerings!

Annette Witherspoon

Barb Turpin

Jennifer Dove

Kristine Reynolds

Wendy Price

Tenia Nelson

One group of images in our new selection has us particularly excited. Big, beautiful florals are here, just in time for Spring stamping. We’ve always said that when you combine some great flowers and just the right greeting you can have a card for any occasion. We think this catalog has both. These Stampendous flowers have been designed to make a dramatic statement on your card front, giving you lots to color if you love coloring, and some terrific options for paper piecing, embossing, Encrusted Jewel Technique, etc.,  if you want to try something new. Two new Perfectly Clear Stamp greeting sets give you the choice of dozens of card greeting options. Be sure to collect some of these beauties for your stamping garden! (we especially love the way Pam and Suzanne brought the Halloween Background stamps forward to make amazingly gorgeous backgrounds for these flowers!)

Violets by Pam Hornschu

Rose by Suzanne Czosek

Rose Thoughts by Kristine Reynolds