Stampendous Sketch Challenge

Stampendous Sketch Challenge #7 comes from Jennie Dove at Just4FunCrafts.com. Jennie is one of our incredibly talented Design Team Members, we’re so glad to have her dynamic brand of stamping and her unique look.  Just take a look at the adorable Bee Happy Topper card below.

Her sketch this week cuts the main image into four equal squares. What a fun look! Remember there are two prizes for each challenge. Post your project on your blog or a website like http://www.PaperCraftPlanet.com or www.splitcoaststampers.com
and send us the link in the comments section. We’ll choose a random winner and one for the best use of Stampendous products.

Here is Jennie’s inspirational card for the week. You’ll also love the cards of these Stampendous Design Team members:

Sketch Challenge 6 produced some of our favoritest cards ever!!! Who knew you guys would do Circle Cards so well? Everybody did an amazing job with color and maintaining a theme. Carol’s Poppies (available only at Archiver’s for the moment) are so beautifully colored, and her amazing poppy paper is such a beautiful addition to the card. The little dog set Melinda used is a Stampendous favorite, and using the leash for the horizontal element on the card was just downright clever. And Deloris sent in two submissions this week, Fluffles, stalking a snail, and Changito going bananas.
Our use of http://www.random.org generated Carol’s Poppy Bottle card as a winner!
Our Art Director, Lisa Hindsley, chose Deloris’ Fluffles card because:

” there are so many wonderful round things in it, that echo the round shape of the card. Fluffles is a ball, the snail is a ball, each flower has multiple round shapes…and the silk daisies are round. A well rounded card!” What a bunch of projects this week! Keep up the good work! I know you don’t want more competition, but we’d just love it if you’d each encourage a friend or two to participate! We’ll have prizes out to the winners pronto!

Hello Friend by Deloris

Poppy Bottles by Carol

Stampendous Favorite Stampers: Summer

Summer means beaches, BBQs, baseball, county fairs and fun under the sun! Share some sizzlin’ summer cheer with someone you love with a card to wish them a happy summer! We’ve included a handful of our favorite Stampendous stamper’s summer cards to inspire you!

Our first card is by Charmaine. You can find the card at her blog http://oodabugalley.blogspot.com/. Stampendous Stamps Used:

• CRE182 Sunny Window Cling Rubber™ Stamp

Our second card is by DandI93. You can find the card at her image gallery on Splitcoast Stampers at http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/. Stampendous Stamps Used:

• F190 Changito Pool Guy Woodmounted Stamp (to find this stamp, ask your local retailer. Find your local retailer here).

Our third card is by Kirsten D. You can find the card at her blog http://kirstendubosque.blogspot.com/. Stampendous Stamps Used:

• H252 Changito Play Ball Woodmounted Stamp

Our next card is by Lesa S. You can find the card on her blog at http://ponsettcreekdesign.blogspot.com/. Stampendous Stamps Used:

• CRV154 Changito Chef Cling Rubber™ Stamp

Our last cute card is by Lisa R. You can find the card on her blog at http://tatteredtiara.blogspot.com/. Stampendous Stamps Used:

• F187 BBQ Bee Woodmounted Stamp (to find this stamp, ask your local retailer. Find your local retailer here).

Stampendous Favorite Stampers: 4th of July

Our first card is by Julia A. You can find the card at her blog http://createwithjulia.blogspot.com/. Stampendous Stamps Used:

• CRE222 Proud American Cling Rubber™ Stamp

Our second card is by Laurel I. You can find more photos of this project at www.splitcoaststampers.com/forums/member.php?u=110542. Stampendous Stamps Used:

• G115 Stitched Freedom Woodmounted Stamp (to find this stamp, ask your local retailer. Find your local retailer here).

Our next card is by Risa W. You can find the card at her blog http://malieta-lifessimplepleasures.blogspot.com/. Stampendous Stamps Used:

• F189 Watermelon Bee Woodmounted Stamp (to find this stamp, ask your local retailer. Find your local retailer here).

Our last project is also by Tammy H. You can find the card at her blog http://www.stamphappy-tammy.blogspot.com/. And she just posted another card on her blog using Stampendous stamps! Go check it out! Stampendous Stamps Used:

• B124 Bee Free Woodmounted Stamp (to find this stamp, ask your local retailer. Find your local retailer here).
• L222 Bee Woodmounted Stamp (to find this stamp, ask your local retailer. Find your local retailer here).

Celebrate Flag Day!

We would like to celebrate Flag Day, which is on June 14th and commemorates the adoption of the US flag, by sharing this cute Biker Bee card and its recipe. And on the topic of being patriotic, we hope you remember to send us your “Cards for Heros“. Up until July 4th, 2009, we will be collecting any birthday cards you send us so that soldiers serving overseas may have birthday greetings to send back home to husbands, wives, kids, mothers, fathers, friends and other loved ones. And we will share our very favorites on this blog! Mail any cards you’d like to donate to:

Attn: Cards for Heros
Stampendous
1240 N. Red Gum
Anaheim, Ca 92806

(Please include an envelope for each card so that a soldier may mail it home again.)

Recipe for USA Biker Bee (card designed by Sue Nelson):

Stamps:

• F188 Biker Bee Woodmounted Stamp (to find this stamp, ask your local retailer. Find your local retailer here).
• SSC219 Small Typewriter Alphabet Perfectly Clear™ Stamp Set (to find this set, ask your local retailer. Find your local retailer here).

Ink:

• STF082 Onyx Black Versafine® Ink

Plus:

• A2 Card Base
• 4″ x 5.25″ Candy Apple Piece embossed with QuickKutz A2 Lines and Dot Folder
• 2″ x 2.5″ Arctic Piece Embossed with Cuttlebug Swiss Dots Folder
• Nestabilities Circle, cut and embossed with edging
• Prismacolor and Gamsol coloring technique
• Stardust Stickies
• Hand Doodling
• Star Cut from white chipboard using Cuttlebug Baby Face Alphabet Dies
• Colored Staples
• Small Flower Gems