Teatime Reflections – Layout by Asia King

To bring our fantastic sojourn at Tea Time to a close, we have a terrific tutorial from BlogStar Asia King. She’s here to dwell on her obsession with tea time and it’s accessories, plus she’s got a gorgeous project for you to make!

Hello Stampendous friends! Asia here and today I am inviting you for tea . When I first saw these awesome teapot stamps I squealed with joy, because I immediately knew what I would create with them. I have this thing you see, I just love vintage teapots and tea cups. I have a small collection at home which I am really proud of . So I made a scrapbook page to ‘celebrate’ my little teatime obsession…

As I also happen to have a set of beautiful teatime themed serviettes, I was able to include some napkin art in my layout. Can life get any better than this? lol .

Let’s begin.

Step 1:

- prepare your pattern papers, napkins and photos you’d like to scrap

- arrange your papers in layers and distress the edges

Step 2:

- adhere the papers to the base cardstock with re-positional adhesive. I find it difficult to work on a page when the elements don’t stay in place. With re-positional glue dots I can always rearrange the items if necessary

- cut out elements from your napkins and adhere to the page with Beacon’s Fast Finish medium

Step 3:

- for the banneer choose paper with a subtle background

- stamp cling Royal Teapot and cling Queen Teapot with brown ink

- colour the images

- cut out the teapot flags for the banner

- finish off with ribbons and pearls

Step 4:

- add a sprinkle of Shabby White Embossing Enamel and Vintage Lilac Embossing Powder over the main background paper

- heat from underneath to melt (if the layers are too thick, this is when re-positional glue stuff comes handy!)

Step 5:

- emboss a selection of chipboard shapes with Shabby White, Vintage Lilac and Aged Wine Embossing Enamel

Step 6:

- heat emboss ornate corner embellishments with Shabby White enamel

- make sure to wait until they cool down – it will take a bit longer that you might expect…

Step 7:

- to create a ‘secret’ journaling card you will need: old postcard, Tim Holtz Tag & Bookplates die, Rusty Hinge distress ink and blending tool, Coffee Archival ink, cling King Teapot and Luggage Labels

- die cut the tag from an old postcard

- ink the reverse side with Rusty Hinge ink

- spritz the background with coffee (I know, I know…but coffee works better than tea for this!). The ink will react with water and create a mottled effect

- stamp the King Teapot with Rusty Hinge

- stamp a chosen label from the Luggage Labels set with Coffee Archival

- add a sentiment. I found this sentiment long time ago and I’ve always loved it. Not sure who the author is, sorry. If you don’t have a favourite quote, make sure to check out our collection of the Digital Downloads - lots of WordArt inspiration there!

Step 9:

- stamp the cling Kettle On onto a patterned journaling card with Coffee Archival

- add bling to your photo and the rest of the page. I used Beacon’s Gem Tac to fix the gems in place

Step 10:

- adhere all the elements. Mount the photo onto 3d foam pads allowing sufficient room underneath for the secret journaling tag

- add final embellishments and flowers. For a shabby chic look alter the blooms by swiping Boss Gloss over the flowers and heat embossing them with Frantage enamels

To finish I also added a Ruffled Bloom. The flower centre was embellished with Champagne and Lavender glass glitter and little pearls.

That’s all for now! Thank you for popping in today and I hope you’ve enjoyed this little Tea Party . If you’d like to see more of the close up pictures, please visit my blog .

Big crafty hugs

Asia

New Elements and Project Life by Asia King

BlogStar Asia King is back again to introduce this week’s focus – the new Elements stamps in our April Catalog. These 5 images focus on a collage of several elements on a particular theme, the ones she’s chosen to use are the Typing Elements and Phone Elements. These are big stamps, meant to be the focus of most of a card.

W093 Typing Elements

W094 Phone Elements

Since Asia is in the UK, it takes a little longer to get our goodies over to her. So she’s also bringing the Elements into our Project Life event we did a couple weeks ago.  Suzanne Czosek also did a Project Life page that didn’t get included in the original event, so we’d love you to go look at it as well.

Hello Stampendous Friends! It’s time for another inspiration with Asia King . Today I am playing with Becky Higgins’ Project Life. My super talented DT Sisters have recently provided lots of inspirational eye candy for you with their Project Life pages – in case you missed it, be sure to check it out here. Project Life is all about celebrating your every day stuff so I decided to scrap about the thing that ‘happens’ to me every day….(except the weekends! lol) – my job. One of the things I love about crafting is that it’s a way of recharging my batteries after a challenging day. Crafting helps me to ‘leave’ my work behind. So you might say that scrapping about my work would defeat the object lol .

That’s why in my page I wanted to focus on the ‘little’ things I enjoy about my work place, like beautiful aubretias trailing down the wall nearby, sipping coffee from my ‘Best Wife in the World’ mug (given to me by my hubby, just to clarify!) or shopping in the new Polish deli shop at lunch time. But most importantly – all the lovely people I work with whose optimism and sense of humour really brighten my days .

Let’s start with the supply list:

Stamps: Cling Typing Elements, Cling Phone Elements, Cling Blossom Spray, Perfectly Clear Smashing Notes, Perfectly Clear Big Top Type, Perfectly Clear Vintage Lowercase, Perfectly Clear Vintage Uppercase.

Essentials: Aged Wine Embossing Enamel, Aged Ivory Embossing Enamel, Stamp N Bond powder, Sunflower Micro Glitter, White Detail Embossing Powder.

Other: Project Life page protector – Design A, coffee spritzed papers, alcohol ink markers, clear embossing ink, Sepia or Coffee Archival ink, Black Memento ink, ColorBox chalk inks, selection of photos.

1. Spritz some coffee over white card and allow to dry.

2. Cut two panels from the coffee card to the size of your journaling pockets.

3. Stamp the Typing Elements and the Phone Elements onto your journaling cards with brown ink.

4. Stamp Blossom Spray along the edges and in corners with black Memento ink.

5. Stamp the word ‘office’  in Google colours onto scrap coffee papers with a selection of alpha stamps and using ColorBox inks. Add to your photo some additional journaling and a ‘Google maps’ pin.

6. Colour the flowers with the alcohol ink markers.

7. Stamp an accent letter from the Vintage Uppercase set with clear embossing ink and sprinkle the image with Stamp N Bond powder. Warm the heat gun for a few seconds then heat the powder just until it melts.

8. Quickly sprinkle the image with the Sunflower Micro Glitter. Press the glitter with your fingers to aid bonding.

9. Fix the letter to your card with small staples.

10. Sprinkle your cards sparingly with Aged Wine and Aged Ivory embossing enamels. Heat the powders from underneath.

11. Stamp various expressions from the Smashing Notes set directly onto your photos using clear embossing ink. Heat emboss with White Detail embossing powder.

As you can see, these Elements stamps are just perfect for everyday life scrapbooking, especially documenting your office/working endeavours. Their vintage look adds a really quirky contrast against their modern ‘equivalents’ .

Thank you for popping in here today and I hope you enjoyed reading about this project. As always, I’d love to know what  you think!

Happy crafting!

Big hugs

Asia

Can you say FREE SHIPPING??!!

We’re so excited to announce FREE SHIPPING on retail orders over $50 on our website through July 31!  (U.S. orders only)

Your orders will still be filled by local retailers or our warehouse, same as always, but now you can go crazy, because shipping will be FREE!

April 2013 Catalog

Make your shopping list from our newest April Catalog images,

Stampendous Micro Glitter

our January Catalog Essentials,

Surfer Kiddo by Kristine Reynolds

collect all the Kiddos you’ve been wanting,

Jumbo Bird of Paradise by Cyndi Bundy

or snag our limited edition Jumbo Cling Rubber Flowers while they’re still in stock!

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Up, Up and Away! – Ballooning to Oz!

One of the most fantastic bits of the new movie “Oz The Great and Powerful” was the amazing Hot Air Balloon trip that Oscar Diggs takes to arrive in Oz. Combined with the cool, steampunk themes in the movie, well, we’ve been so inspired that we just had to have lots of our own!

Dorothy looks out from under a parasol in a very steampunk outfit in our fantastic Overlooking Oz stamp! And Design Team Member Cyndi Bundy did it just soooo cool in almost sepia with a pale blonde Dorothy! Good thing she brought her own shade on her journey!

Overlooking Oz by Cyndi Bundy

Love the way she used the travel themed embossing folder on the brown panel and our Wander Lost stamp on the top! She even used our Blue Encrusted Jewel Technique kit on the bottom corner of the panel! Wow!

Design Team Member Janelle Stollfus gives us a Dorothy with raven tresses and a fantastic Classifieds background.

Overlooking Oz by Janelle Stollfus

But if you really want to swoon… Just take a look at what BlogStar Rhea Weigand did with this terrific image!

Overlooking Oz Sepia Box by Rhea Weigand

Ok, WOW! Just wow! Rhea had better be planning on just sending that on over to Anaheim for little ol’ me! She’s got a whole tutorial for this one over on her blog today! Joining some serious hardware, Rhea used the No Place stamp!

Rhea Weigand

Jennifer Dove

Janelle Stollfuss

Cyndi Bundy

Join us tomorrow for some loveable favorite characters with Lisa Hindsley flair as our Deisgn Team takes on the Scarecrow, Tinman, and Cowardly Lion !

We Are Soooo Excited!!!

We have so much new goodness for you at www.stampendous.com!!

First, we’re going to OZ!!! So excited to be visiting this magical land! Look for lots of fun with our Design Team using these new images!

Overlooking Oz by Kristine Reynolds

We’re introducing The Lisa Hindsley Collection!! Our fantastic Art Director Lisa Hindsley has started designing stamps for Stampendous, and we couldn’t be more excited!! Look at her fantastic Jazz Cats!

Pajama Cat by Cyndi Bundy

And we’re introducing Digital Downloads! We wanted so many new sentiments for our Oz characters, our new Elements line, our tons of gorgeous new florals… we created downloadable digital files for you to add to your cards! Print them out on cardstock, cut them out, and attach them to cards and scrapbook pages. You can print them right on your project or you can use them with digital layouts and your normal digital scrapbooking solutions! We’ll have lots more info, but they’re available on our website now!!

Lion Reader by Rhea Weigand and Lisa Hindsley

Of course from Fran Seiford there are new Jumbo Flowers with FREE Template, Kiddos for Summer, New Encrusted Jewel Technique Kits, heaps of Mother’s Day flowers, even some great Safari animals and a Fran•táge Motorcycle Elements stamp for Dad.

April 2013 Catalog

Our April Catalog is now available to download as a pdf, print, purchase, or view as a flippy book online! All the April products are available on our website and our retailers around the country are ready to ship your orders placed on our website! YAY!! Stay tuned for lots and lots of inspiration!

Best of all FREE shipping on orders over $50 beginning May 1! So make your wish list today, and get ready to shop and stamp!

Easy Scrapbooking with Project Life and Stampendous Stamps!

Our Design Team has been having fun all week with Becky Higgins, LLC Project Life page protectors. The good folks over there were nice enough to send us some so that we could show you how Stampendous Stamps can really enhance this easy scrapbooking method that’s absolutely on fire right now.

Our newest team member is celebrating Spring planting in Oklahoma with her darling page! Be sure to check out (and welcome to the team!):

Jamie Martin

Also check out a terrific wedding layout from our very own

Lea Kimmel

She used some of our newest Perfectly Clear Stamps to be featured in Michaels Stores on her layout.

And our Design Team Member

Kristine Reynolds

is back today with an adorable page celebrating some really cool chicks in her life! You’ve gotta see this page, it’s toooo cute!

Tomorrow, everyone will be back with more of Project Life together with Stampendous! We’re hoping some of you are getting excited about stamping the Project that is your Life! We’ll have some really cool prize packages with some of our best scrapbooking products and LOTS of Project Life page protectors to get you going. And we’ll keep going as well…who knows what we might scrap in the future…we’ve gotta admit, it’s pretty addicting!

Project Life – Even more fun with Stampendous!!

Becky Higgins’ Project Life has taken the craft and scrapbooking world by storm. Lots of folks have embraced the commitment to simply scrapbook one single page or a two page layout of ordinary life per week. A way to celebrate all that is normal and right with your world, or even the special occasions or big events that happen with some normal life in between.  Here’s the Project Life Philosophy -

The Project Life system includes divided page protectors, books for them, and little, pre-printed cards you slip into pockets next to your photos. It’s designed to be easy and quick for folks who think they don’t have the time for more “creative” scrapbooking.

But what if you have lots of stamps, glitter, glue, and creativity? What if you love embossing, Fran•táging, and breaking out all those goodies you’ve collected? Yep, you can use the Project Life approach, too! You can embrace the trend, AND use your stash!!

We asked Becky Higgins to send us some Project Life Page Protectors, and we challenged our Design Team to see if they could document real, everyday life using Stampendous stamps and other products in the little compartments of the Project Life system! It was out of their comfort zone a bit, but we think you’ll be amazed as always at what they’ve created!  Pop over today to Janelle Stollfus’ blog and then come back tomorrow for some more inspiration. Be sure to leave comments and we’ll have LOTS of Project Life Page protectors to send to some lucky winners along with some cool Stampendous products for documenting your everydays and special days!

Janelle Stollfus

Summer of Love

Ok, Carmi Cimicata got me again. You’d think after the fish leather I would have said “no” to her next challenge. “But surely,” I thought, “she couldn’t stump me quite that badly again!”.  Heh heh… I swear that girl is chuckling to herself every time she does this.

Even though I wore bell bottoms and even hip huggers and mini skirts, I’m pretty over the 60′s. But I guess the good folks at Dazzle-It are expecting a revival. So Summer of Love it is. Most everyone else in the hop made jewelry, but cardmaking is what we do.

My box included some GORGEOUS, colorful hemp from Dazzle-It. The colors are fantastic, my only sadnesses were that it doesn’t fit through the holes in the beads and you CANNOT find the end of the hemp to save your life. I had to rip the card to get it off. But it’s perfect for scrapbooking and card making.  So here are my creations! Leave some love and hop on to see what everyone else has made with these fun products! Dazzle It Summer Love Hop

All my Stampendous products used are available at JoAnn Fabric and Craft Stores or on our website at the links!

Here’s what came in my box!

Assembling my card supplies: Fresh Bloom Wood Stamp; Dream Text Wood Stamp; VersaFine Ink, Bazzill Cardstocks

Stamped my Dream Text background. Stamped flower over the top. Colored with colored pencil. Added Micro Glitters in Orange, Teal, Lime, Sunflower with Glue Pen.

I wrapped hemp around the top layer of my card and tied it. Then added beads on narrower hemp string. I secured them with glue dots so they won’t bounce.

My finished cards! They’re very sparkly!

Check out all the Jewelry made with exactly the same products on the Dazzle-It Blog!

Quick and Easy Glitter Tip by Rhea Weigand

Hello, BlogStar Rhea here to bring you another quick and easy tip for Stampendous!  Use your 3D Glue Dots or regular Glue Dots to make glittery flower centers and embellishments.  This inspiration came from my “Bestie” Jennifer Dove who taught this card and oh so simple technique in a class.

This fun, classic flower image is Fresh Bloom, a Stampendous favorite.  You can find it at JoAnn’s and Hobby Lobby.  The sentiment is Beautiful Life.

Most folks buy and use the 3D Glue Dots in a roll.  I prefer to use them as Zots Singles from ThermoWeb.  For this flower center I used Teal Micro Glitter.

Pour out a little glitter and dab your glue dot.  I worked it around to really cover it.

For the smaller detailed dots I used the mini glue dots.

And there you have it!  Not only can you use them for flower centers but try using them for any type of embellishments.  Maybe instead of buttons.  Maybe do the mini’s on a ribbon to make it a sparkly polka-dot.  You can even take thin double sided tape and make a glitter strip instead of ribbon.

Thanks so much for visiting today!  Hugs – Rhea

Create Mixed Media Event – May 29 – June 2

We’re extremely excited to announce that we’re going to be a part of the CREATE Mixed Media Event coming soon to Irvine, California.

For 5 days artists from all realms of mixed media creation will visit Irvine for an opportunity to teach and learn a huge variety of craft styles and play with all sorts of projects and products. Amazing instructors will guide folks as they learn metal working, journal techniques, doll making, jewelry crafts, printmaking, mixed media stitching… OH WOW!

On Friday evening an Artist Faire will be open where all sorts of mixed media craft supplies will be available for sale to the public. Attendance at the rest of the retreat is not necessary and there is no fee to enter the Artist Faire and surround yourself with the most delectable goodies imaginable. Stampendous will be there showcasing our Fran•táge Embossing Enamels, Crushed Glass Glitters, Micro Glitters, Mica Fragments, Color Fragments and on and on. Fran Seiford, our Owner and Chief Artistic Officer will be on hand providing a rare public demonstration of the fantastic way these products combine to work with any other mixed media creations and add that special something!  Do join us for this rare treat.

You can find out more about the Artist Faire and about the retreat (there’s still space!) by clicking the logo above! We hope you’ll join us!