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!

A Kiss From the Rose

Clean & Simple says it all! Blog Star Janelle Stollfus sure knows how to keep it clean and keep it simple with Stampendous Jumbo Stamps!

 

“The Jumbo flowers have become my CAS (Clean & Simple) go-to stamp. They create such a dynamic quick card there’s really no need to add more! Here’s what I did to make this card.” - Janelle Stollfus

Supplies:
CRS5006 Cling Jumbo Rose
SSC1116 Friendship Assortment Perfectly Clear™ Stamp
Jumbo Perfectly Clear Handle
Other Supplies:
Ink pad
Embroidery Thread (coordinate with ink color)
Piercing Tool
Sewing Needle
Cardstock for card base
Coordinating Pattern Paper
Utility knife

Cut a piece of pattern paper to within 5/8” from the edge of your folded card base. This card uses a 3 5/8-inch by 4 7/8-inch cut pattern paper.

Stamp the jumbo rose onto the bottom left side of the pattern paper.

On a coordinating patter paper, stamp the sentiment from Friendship Assortment set. Trim down the paper and cut the right edge with a shallow ribbon tail angle cut.

Pierce around the edges and sew a straight stitch with embroidery thread.

Cut along one of the outer petals on the right side with a utility knife in the height of the sentiment paper. Slide the sentiment into the cut and adhere from the back.

Glue the pattern paper to the card base.

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: