More Wintry Greetings for All

Yana Smakula’s beautifully clear tutorials, great photography, and adorable, doable cards have made her such a fantastic BlogStar. We’re so grateful for all of the gorgeous cards she’s shared with us during her term.  We sure hope some of you are following her blog, even though she’s in the Ukraine, Google is happy to translate her blog to English for you! And we sure hope Yana is going to stay on as a fan of Stampendous and continue sharing our fun stamps with her followers! Thanks so much, Yana, for your wonderful cards and projects and your valuable tips that made better stampers out of all of us! You are appreciated!

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Hi everyone! BlogStar Yana Smakula here!  I think this card for a chilly Winter makes such a lovely girlie card!

For this project I used one of my favourite SSC1148 Kiddo Snow Globe stamp set along with sentiment from a Snowy Short Stacks.

Sparkly Winter Wishes

Hi everyone! BlogStar Yana Smakula here. Today I though I’d share with you one of my favorite types of card – white snowflakes on kraft cardstock.

Having a few different snowflake stamps in your stash allows you to create wonderful and each time different winter backgrounds.

For this card I used snowflakes as well as the snow globe and the sentiment from the SSC1148 Kiddo Snow Globe stamp set.

To create this card I used:

• Kraft cardstock from Bazzill Basics;
• White cardstock;
• Stamps from SSC1148 Kiddo Snow Globe stamp set;
• Versamark embossing pad;
• Winter Wonderland EP171 embossing powder;
• White embossing power;
• Clear embossing powder;
• Frantage Shaved Ice FRG10C glitter;
• Red twine from My Mind’s Eye.

I stamped snowflakes onto kraft cardstock using embossing ink and covered with winter wonderland embossing powder. Its a truly wonderful embossing powder for winter projects as its not your typical white, but a mixture of white with fine silver.

 

Using white pigment ink I lightly inked the edges of the kraft cardstock:

I than stamped the snow globe on kraft and covered it with white embossing powder, I also stamped snow inside of it:

Using clear embossing powder I stamped and heat embossed the sentiment inside the snow globe:

I adhered Frantage Shaved Ice glitter using Zip Dry Glue from Beacon Adhesives:

Finally I cut out the snow globe, added twine and adhered to card using dimensional adhesive:

Winter Greetings

BlogStar Yana Smakula has a warm and welcoming Winter card for us today. She’s used the border pattern from her Vintage Jumbo Cling Santa and created a darling background to send loving wishes on a cold winter day.

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Hi everyone! BlogStar Yana Smakula here! Today I have a super easy winter card for you:

Resolution – Scrap those Christmas Photos!

Ok… you know you took a ton of pictures of your family at Christmas! Why not start those New Year’s Resolutions right by starting the scrapbook pages NOW! Just get a couple done and you’ll be on a roll to finish right away. Quick while you have to stay up until midnight anyway! – We’re wishing you and yours the most prosperous of years in 2013 and here’s our BlogStar Yana Smakula to get you started with your scrapping!

Hi everyone! Blogstar Yana Smakula here! And today I’d like to share a Christmas layout using some of my favourite Stampendous stamps.

I often scrabook and I use stamps a lot on my layouts because this isa  great way to create custom embellishments, custom pattern paper and more!

Shrink Plastic Poinsettias

Well, we just couldn’t get all the Christmas cards in before Christmas, but Poinsettias are good for the whole month of December, right? BlogStar Annette Witherspoon made and submitted this fantastic card/ornament to us a while back, and we just had to share it with you. Maybe it’s time to get started stamping for next year? You can find our Cling Jumbo Poinsettia stamp and Shrink Plastic at your local Michaels Stores!

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Hello everyone. This is Annette with another Christmas card. Tis the season, right? This card features the Jumbo Cling Poinsettia, except it’s not so jumbo any more. How did that happen? The answer: Shrink plastic!

I stamped the Poinsettia onto the shrink plastic using Stazon ink. Then lightly colored the image with Prismacolor Pencils. When coloring on shrink paper, keep in mind, the image shrinks to 1/3 the original size, and the color gets more intense, so you don’t want to color too heavily.

I traced a circle around the image, traced a smaller circle at the top, cut it out and shrunk it using my heat gun. Yep, my heat gun. Using a clothespin, I held the paper with one hand while heating it with the other. It shrinks nicely and much more quickly than the oven. When working with shrink paper, I always keep a spatula on hand to flatten it before it cools. I’ve recently read you can use an acrylic block to flatten it, too.

Once the image cooled, I added Crushed Glass Glitter around the edges and in the flower’s center, then sealed it with Fast Finish. I tied it to the cardstock with crinkle ribbon. I stamped JOY onto the cardstock using the Small Typewriter Alphabet Perfectly Clear set, and heat embossed it with Sterling Silver Embossing Powder. Oh, here’s a nice afterthought. This poinsettia can also be used as an ornament. I did not plan it, but I realized it after I created it.

Sparkly Winter Wishes from Barb T

Stampendous BlogStar Barb Turpin here with a super quick and simple card for the season.

I made this quick card for a co-worker and his family who are struggling financially this season and several of us wanted to help him out…I thought this was the perfect sentiment from this Stampendous Clear Stamp set called Kiddo Snow Globe.

 

One Layer Olympics!

Today Mary Dawn Quirindongo shares with us a beautifully simple card. This wonderful creation could easily be sent after the holidays for those of us who don’t always get all the cards done “on time”. The  Cling Jumbo Pine Bough stamp set she used is still available at Michaels Stores and so is the Happy Messages Perfectly Clear Stamp Set she used for the greeting!

Hello! It’s BlogStar Mary Dawn with you today sharing a one-layer card.

One-layer cards are deceptive. They look easy, but it’s like watching Olympic gymnasts…it only LOOKS easy. One-layer cards have to be perfectly executed–a tiny ink smudge, a crooked sentiment, a frayed ribbon end can all have such a negative impact that the card is just a 7 instead of a perfect 10.

In my example, I’ve masked the top edge of my top folding portrait card base and stamped one of the images from the Cling Jumbo Pine Boughs stamp set with VersaMark ink and embossed with Stampendous Detail Gold embossing powder.

I also stamped and embossed the sentiment from Happy Messages Perfectly Clear Stamp Set.

I also added two score lines above my image and below and as a finishing touch I tied some May Arts natural twine into a bow.

The rusticity of the twine goes perfectly with the flecked cream cardstock. I also love the juxtaposition of the fine gold embossing with the rustic cardstock and twine.

All of these small details, when executed flawlessly, make for a perfect 10 in the One Layer Olympics. I won’t tell you how many times I fell off the scoring board during practice, though.

Joy!

We just thought BlogStar Annette Witherspoon’s Pink Poinsettia card said it all today! Joy! We’re always full of joy here at Stampendous (can you imagine a more fun job?) but especially at Christmas we’re joyful about so many things. Thankful that our wonderful fans enjoy sharing our inspiration, thankful that this amazing tool called the internet allows us to share so many fantastic creations with you that we never could before, and, of course, thankful for all the blessings the season brings to us. Thanks for being our friends! We have lots to share in 2013, and we can’t wait to get started!

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Happy Holidays everyone. This is BlogStar Annette from A. Spoon Full of Sugar. Stampendous is featuring CAS Christmas cards all month. This one is not only clean and simple, but it’s quick and easy to make. I simply stamped the Jumbo Cling Poinsettia on the upper left and lower right corners of my card. As you can see, I stamped them off the page. It adds a more interesting visual effect and also allows more clean “white’ space on the card. I used Prismacolor pencils and Gamsol oil to color the petals and leaves and some yellow glitter in the inside. I distressed the other corners just a little to fill in the “white” space. Finally,  I added the sentiment, which was created with the Small Typewriter Perfectly Clear Alphabet. Voila. There you have it. I hope you enJOY this card!

Simple Christmas – Black and Silver

BlogStar Barb Turpin is back today with a super simple, elegant Christmas card! You really can get some done before the holiday, we promise!  The fantastic Christmas Background stamp is available at your local Michaels Stores, so you can run right out and pick it up with some Silver Embossing Powder. Some gorgeous ribbon and embellishments and voila! Simple and Done!

 

Hi, Barb here, playing at being a BlogStar once again for Stampendous Impressions!  Boy these three months are flying by!  This week I’ve taken a little bit different spin on this great Christmas Background stamp.  I realize black is a little out of the ordinary for a Christmas card, but I like the contrast, and black and silver just speaks ‘elegant formal’ to me.  The Detail Silver Embossing Powder works great for the fine text on this card.

Winter Wishes – Masking a Border

BlogStar Annette Witherspoon is back today with a super easy introduction to a great technique – masking! Her snowflake card is much easier even than it looks and produces fantastic results, so you can be proud to say you made it yourself. This beautiful card would be a good choice for those cards you just didn’t get done before Christmas. Swap out the ornament for a large snowflake and a Happy Winter greeting, no one will ever know!

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Hello friends. This is BlogStar Annette Witherspoon and I’m back with some clean and simple cards. We usually associate masks with Halloween, not Christmas, but today, I’m going share a masked Christmas card. I’m not talking about the disguise. Masking is a technique in which you cover an area of your project that you don’t want to stamp on or ink in any way.

In the card I’m sharing, I used the masking technique to create a clean edge. First, I stamped some snowflakes from the Snowflake Symphony Perfectly Clear set with Versamark and embossed them with Detail White Embossing Powder. In this case, clear would also work because the paper is white. Then, I masked off the edges of the white card stock. I used paper scraps and adhered it with re-positionable glue, but a low tack tape will work well in this case, too.

Once I masked off the edges, I used a brayer to apply ink to the paper. I used light blue on the bottom and darker blue on top to give it a graduated look. Finally, I stamped and embossed the ornament from the Ornament Greetings Perfectly Clear set onto red cardstock using Detail White Embossing Powder. I added the sentiment, also from the Ornament Greetings set, with Sterling Silver Embossing Powder and some ribbon and gems to finish it.