Happy National Scrapbook Week!

It’s National Scrapbook Week and we here at Stampendous love our scrapbookers! So many pages and so many opportunities to use fun stuff.
Using our Sticker Background Technique makes pages that really pop!  Here are a couple of new pages that we have using this technique.

The Peacock page is amazing.  We just did this as a Make and Take at Camp Croppin’ in Calgary and it was a huge hit.  What’s not to love about these colors?  And so fast to make – about 20 minutes to produce this dazzling page.

Stampendous Supplies for the Peacock Scrapbook Page:

• AC1023 Peacock Plumes Class A’Peel Stickers
• CK08 Peacock Fringe Benefit Kit

Why not try embossing a background for your page?  While we were Camp Croppin’, we also made this vibrant peacock card using the same Sticker Background Technique as the scrapbook page alone with embossing a background pattern. Our large stamps make wonderful all over patterns that are perfect for pages.  And our crystal embossing powder gives you a beautiful tone-on-tone background like the one on this peacock card.

Stampendous Supplies for the Peacock Card:

• AC1023 Peacock Plumes Class A’Peel™ Stickers
• AC964 Jumbo Circles Class A’Peel™ Stickers (in Holograph Green & Holograph Turquoise)
• CK08 Peacock Fringe Benefit Kit
• R113 Floral Dream Woodmounted Rubber Stamp (Also available in Cling Rubber!)
• EH050 Crystal Embossing Powder

This page is using our copper glitter and velvet leaves.  Very elegant and pretty.

Stampendous Products Used in the Autumn Scrapbook Page:

• AC990 Velvet Jumbo Damask Leaf Class A’Peel™ Stickers (Mocha Brown & Olive)
• GM225U Copper Ultra Fina Jewel Glitter

Have you used our products on your pages?  Send us photos of your pages and we will publish right here on our blog this week!

Halloween Sticker Background Technique

We’ve recently been making unique & appealing backgrounds using our Therm-O-Web Double-Sided PEEL n STICK™ Adhesive with our Fuzzy Fun Flocks™…  We call it the Sticker Background Technique! During CHA we taught this amazing method to store owners and designers that came to our trade show booth including Kimberly Crawford, card maker extraordinaire! She went home, played around with the Sticker Background Technique and then created this stunning Halloween card (you can check it out along with her other beautiful cards on her blog):

Recipe:

• FL400 Cotton Ball White Fuzzy Fun Flock
• FL401 Plain Ol’ Black Fuzzy Fun Flock
• AC988K Jumbo Damask Class A’Peel™ Stickers in Black (to find this sticker, ask your local retailer. Find your local retailer here).
• AC672HSO Dot Sparklers Class A’Peel Stickers in Orange Holograph
• FX70 Therm O Web Double-Sided PEEL n STICK™ Adhesive

Instructions:

1. Cut a piece of Therm O Web doubled sided adhesive sheet to the size you want. Peel off the backing and apply it to the black card base.
2. Then peel two damask stickers off and apply Plain Ol’ Black Fun Flock to the sticky side and rub the flock in.
3. Peeling the top double sided adhesive sheet backing off of the card base,  gently place the damask stickers where you want. You can finagle the stickers a bit on the adhesive sheet, but not much, so commit carefully.
4. Here is the fun part, dump a ton of white Fun Flock all over the adhesive sheet and damask stickers. Rub it in a circular motion until the background becomes mostly white. Tap off the excess and with a paint brush, sweep away the white Fun Flock from the damask stickers.
5. Add an orange ribbon and  distress the edges of the black card base with a tool and added white ink.
6. Cut out a small tag, hole-punch it, stamp a cute Halloween sentiment on it and tie it to the orange ribbon with a bit of  string.
7. Feel free to add Dot Sparklers to the card to give it more color!

And check out our video with Fran Seiford demonstrating how to do the Sticker Background Technique!

Be sure to check out our Paper Craft Planet Back to Basics Tutorial next Wednesday, October 14th when Lesson 7 will feature more great ideas for using this technique. If you haven’t joined in on these lessons yet, it’s not too late. Fabulous prizes are offered for participants each week, and you can still join and watch all the lessons from the beginning. Check it out at www.papercraftplanet.com!

Stamps & Glue Pad with Fun Flock Tutorial

We love all the great things Kimberly Crawford creates over at For the Love of Paper! Today’s blog post is a tutorial using stamps and a glue pad with Fun Flock by Kimberly Crawford herself!

When I use Fun Flock, The Essential Glue Pad has always worked well for me. There is a little trick to it, so read on. It also cleans up easily with stamp cleaner. (clean the glue off as if it was ink, any cleaner will do)

When I am going to Fun Flock in a darker color, I stamp the image in ink similiar to the Fun Flock color I am going to use first. Using acrylic stamps makes this so much easier.

Once the colored ink has dried, push your stamp into the glue pad, just like it was ink. Line up the two images and stamp. Here is the little trick *let the glue dry for a minute or two*. Yep, let it just sit there. (remove the stamp though)

After a few minutes, be very liberal with your Fun Flock application. I poured almost the entire bottle over this ornament. Gently push the Fun Flock down onto the image and let it dry for several minutes. (get a soda or a treat while you wait )

Here is the finished card. Fun Flock is wonderful for holiday cards and believe it or not, it is time to start thinking and planning for those! *wink*

For this card, I stamped the leaves on the bottom half of the card with glue and then applied the Fun Flock.

On this card, I stamped the entire butterfly image on the cardstock and another piece of cardstock. The second butterfly got stamped with glue and then Fun Flock was added. I cut out the butterfly and foam mounted it. (stamping it first, lets you “keep” the antennae )

The background was stamped with glue and then Fun Flock was applied. The butterflies were stamped with watermark ink.

Recipe

Stamps:

• SSC169 Wild Blossoms Perfectly Clear™ Stamps
  
• SSC098 Happy Flowers Perfectly Clear™ Stamps
• SSC195 Butterfly Beauties Perfectly Clear™ Stamps
  
• SSC1022 Damask Season Perfectly Clear™ Stamps (to find this stamp set, ask your local retailer. Find your local retailer here)
• SSC1023 Damask Fall Perfectly Clear™ Stamps (to find this stamp set, ask your local retailer. Find your local retailer here)

Other:

• Stampendous Fun Flock (FL402 Chili Pepper Red, FL821 Chocolate Lotto, FL407 Lemonade Yellow, FL803 Pixie Pink )
• Tsukineko Versamark Watermark
• Tsukineko Essential Glue Pad
• Palette Ink (Belle Rose, Chartreuse, Paris Lights, Ripe Avocado, Dark Chocolate)
• Prism Cardstock (Simply Smooth, Frosted Pink, Intense Pink, Frosted Teal, Intense Teal, Suede Brown Medium, Suede Brown Dark)
• Ribbon (Offray Striped, May Arts White Sheer, American Crafts Pink Striped, Papertrey Ink Pure Poppy Grosgrain)
• Button from Making Memories
• Twine from May Arts