WindowRama Photo Frame Card Kits

October 14, 2019October 11, 2019 Stampendous2 Comments

Our brand new WindowRama Photo Frame Card Kits are an easy and beautiful way to send a holiday or everyday greeting!

Simple to assemble, each package comes with enough pieces to make 8-3D diorama cards that stand for display and fold flat for mailing. Envelopes and a small stamp set of greetings are included. You can simply glue them together and add a photo or gift card in the pre-punched slots, or you can embellish them as much as your heart desires.

WindowRama Photo Frame Card Kits are available in Christmas, Winter, Wedding, and Baby themed sets. Baby and Wedding are ideal for Everyday occasions as well. You’ll find them in your local stamping and scrapbooking store or on our website (where your orders are filled by a local, independent store!).

We’ve created a series of YouTube videos that will show you the basics of assembling these easy-to-use products, and they will give you some additional ideas for adding your own artistic flair if desired.

The Basics of the WindowRama Photo Frame Card Kits

Beyond the Basics – Christmas WindowRama Photo Frame Card Kits

Beyond the Basics – Winter WindowRama Photo Frame Card Kit

Wedding/Baby WindowRama Photo Frame Card Kits

A Charming Cherub Christmas

August 17, 2018 Stampendous6 Comments

Super sweet cherubs are perfect for Christmas greetings to convey the wonder of the Holiday season. These adorable angels are Fran’s favorite this year as they interact with sweet animals for the season. Combine one or more on a holiday card, or you could even use them for sympathy cards, or just daily encouragement. There are so many ways to color them to feature year ’round charm.

Fran made a quick video with some coloring tips, and it features some wonderful samples from our Design Team and Fran herself for using these great stamps. Check it out.

Our design team is also sharing their samples on their blogs this week along with other designs that would make delightful cards for kids or from kids. Check them out here –

Kathi Rerek

Jamie Martin

Lea Fritts

Hip, Hip, House-Mouse!

March 9, 2018March 10, 2018 Stampendous5 Comments

Hooray for our little friends in mousey grey and brown! This little family is just the cutest thing around, and they’re always having so much fun together. You know they each have personalities and quite the story, and even though you can color them how you like, each one has a color scheme especially for them. Our House-Mouse Designs® Coloring Pages tell you their little story and help you color them to match. You can find those here. Each page can be downloaded as a pdf on your computer to guide you.

The House-Mouse family in our April catalog are celebrating birthdays and babies in addition to Summer. Here are a few more sweeties and some Design Team Sharing.

First up, Mudpie has fallen into a snooze from eating too much birthday cake, and Maxwell has a surprise planned! Those two!!

You can click on them to check them out on our website. They’re available now at all your favorite stamp stores.

Our Design Team has some great project to share. Remember to comment, because we’re giving away three sets of our So Sweet Perfectly Clear Stamps to lucky US Winners. (all the details on Monday’s post HERE).

Louise Healy

Lea Fritts

Alison Heikkila

Janelle Stollfus

Brushed Alphabet Greetings

February 22, 2018February 21, 2018 Stampendous6 Comments

We’re sharing our Brushed Wishes and our Great Big Greetings this week. For the article about our Brushed Wishes Perfectly Clear Stamp Set, see TUESDAY’s post. We’ve even added a new alphabet to our collection with our new brush lettering. It’s so clever, too! Fran wanted to make this alphabet big enough for your mixed media, decorative painting, scrapbooking, or cardmaking uses. In order to get the letters bigger, she left out the Q, X, and Z in the set and supplied you with a handy extra stroke that can be used as quotation marks, an apostrophe, or can be added to other letters to make the missing ones. Here’s how it works (this guide is included with your alphabet set):

Here’s the Brush Alphabet Caps:

Here’s the Brush Alphabet Lower Case:

You can see how this cute alphabet makes it easy to put any greeting you want on your card or project:

House-Mouse Teddy Friend — HMM19 Teddy Friend and SSC1273 Brush Alphabet Lower Case by Kristine Reynolds

Brush Alphabet and Great Big Love by Kristine Reynolds

Check out some other alphabet samples from our team:

Janelle Stollfus

Oh, Baby Sentimental!

April 14, 2017April 14, 2017 Janelle StollfusLeave a comment

We like to get sentimental about new additions to the family and today we’ll wrap up our baby theme week with sentiments and phrases that are great on their own or support any of our baby stamps and stencils images.

Babies are the nicest addition to a home and our newest sentiment Baby Makes is perfect for those sharing thoughts with friends and family. The modern calligraphy style makes this perfect for a focal point on a card or journal area on a scrapbook page!

Here are more phrases with project ideas and stop by our website by clicking on the caption for more in the gallery of each product.

Here are today’s designer’s inspiration over on their blogs! Have a great weekend, and we’ll see you here next week!

Louise Healy

Kristine Reynolds

Janelle Stollfus

Oh, Baby Mice!

April 12, 2017April 12, 2017 Janelle Stollfus3 Comments

House-Mouse® Sitting Pretty by Louise Healy

New House-Mouse stamps are on our blog today and they are making a sweet impression for this week’s Oh, Baby! theme. Whether the mice are sitting pretty, in crib time or gathering in unexpected places, they are sure to stand out as the main focus on cards, announcements, and scrapbook pages.

HMD01 House-Mouse® Sitting Pretty Stamp (also available in cling mount)

Monica is Sitting Pretty on Louise Healy’s Batik stenciled background card (above) with a darling Scrolled Thinking of You sentiment to go with it.

House-Mouse® Crib Time by Kristine Reynolds

Crib Time is a great image of when a few House-Mouse mice were babies and colored so beautifully by Kristine Reynolds

HMP78 House-Mouse® Crib Time Stamp (also available in cling mount)

House-Mouse® Rainfall Shelter by Janelle Stollfus

Monica and Amanda with a few small friends pass the time under a leafy branch during a rainfall and Janelle Stollfus has captured the mice beautifully on her card.

HMR101 House-Mouse® Rainfall Shelter (also available in cling mount)

Our House-Mouse stamps come in either cling mount or wood mount for your crafting preferences and images are made from deeply etched and precision cut premium gray rubber. Stop by our website to see more mice adventures in baby booties, building blocks, measuring up, and more! Add a perfect saying or phrase from our Sentiments selection to finish your project off perfectly.

Looking for some baby project ideas? Our team is joining us with sweet new baby project ideas and here are today’s participating designers.

Louise Healy

Jamie Martin

Oh, Baby! Rub-a-Dub Fun!

April 10, 2017April 10, 2017 Janelle Stollfus2 Comments

SSC1258 Rubber Duckies Perfectly Clear Stamp Set

Oh, boy or girl, do we have a sweet week of inspiration ahead for all of you! That’s right, we are shining the spotlight on our newest stamps welcoming those precious babies into our lives.

Today’s charming new project ideas use the Rubber Duckies Perfectly Clear Stamp Set, and boy does it make a splash of adorable with Silver Ultra Fine Halo Glitter added to the bubbles in the water.

Fran Seiford had our Pop Up Stages Die Set to use with our Rubber Duckies Stamp set, and we’ve put together a short video sharing a couple sweet baby card that resulted.

Now isn’t that an amazing couple of pop-up card ideas! You can also see how the whole set of Pop Up Stages Die Cut Set works in this video on our Youtube channel.

We love this idea for a gift tag by Kristine Reynolds. It really makes the gift bag extra special, and it can also be saved for use later in a scrapbook when baby arrives!

Our team is joining us with sweet new baby project ideas and here are today’s participating designers.

Kristine Reynolds

July Catalog Sneak Peek – Whisper Angels

July 8, 2016July 8, 2016 Janelle Stollfus1 Comment

SSCP101_Little_Angels_PKG_800 — SSCP101 Little Angels Perfectly Clear™ Stamp Set

It is the end of our sneak peek into the new July Catalog release. The wonderful new images from Pink Your Life design team member Nicoletta Zanella will be available soon through online and local retailers here – http://www.stampendous.com/store-locator/. For more details about Nicoletta and Pink Your Life you can stop by our Tuesday post.

What’s our sneak peek today? They are precious Whisper Angels to welcome a little one into the world. Every image is adorable in both the Perfectly Clear stamp set and single image we just can’t help but oh and ah over them. Take a look at this sweet tag by Debi Hammons ready to be added to a gift bag or present.

PLV01_DH_800 — Little Angel by Debi Hammons

PLCV01_Little_Angel_PKG_800 — PLCV01 Cling Little Angel Stamp

We’ve come to the end of the sneak peeks for now, but stay tuned to the Stampendous Blog to win some of these great stamps after they are released to the public.

And now, here are today’s designers sharing their catalog samples!

Wendy Price

Pam Bray

Janelle Stollfus

Jamie Martin

Kristine Reynolds

Alison Heikkila

For convenience, here are this weeks hop lists, enjoy!

National Polka Dot Day

January 22, 2016January 22, 2016 Stampendous6 Comments

According to my email from the Disney Store, today is National Polka Dot Day! Wow… well, if you’re a huge fan of polka dots, you’re in luck, because we have a really fun option for you!

Our Graduated Dot Stencil from Dreamweaver Stencils is perfect for adding polka dots to any project you’d like. This stencil is awesome because it really lends itself to all the terrific stenciling techniques, plus it makes a perfect background for any of our wonderful Stampendous Images. Let’s take a look (you can click on the pictures to be taken to the project on our website with complete supply lists and instructions) –

This darling card using House-Mouse Designs® Baby Blanket image was created by Kristine Reynolds using the Graduated Dot stencil. She pasted it with regular embossing paste then stenciled it with Paintsticks and a stencil brush. She used it in a landscape position to provide a quick and darling background.

In this sweet card, Kristine used Dreamweaver Regular Paste and a Paste Spreader to create a background with the Graduated Dot Stencil that really makes the rest of the card pop! The card features our Garden Frog Stamp and our Spring Sentiments Perfectly Clear Stamps™ Set.

In this wonderful card by Lyn Bernatovich, the Graduated Dot Stencil has been dry embossed using a Big Shot die cutting machine. To do this, place the stencil, copyright side down, on the Multipurpose Platform of your Big Shot. Then spritz the back of your card with a bit of water and place it on the stencil. Next add a rubber embossing mat and two new, uncut, clear plates on top. Then run it through. The little spritz of water gives you a crisp embossed finish.

Another terrific card by Amy Hurley-Purdie shows that adding some Crystal Micro Glitter to the pasted stencil design can make a really dynamic finish when you’re using a smaller stamp on a larger card.

Finally, a quick stenciling with ink has made a terrific, simple background for this wonderful Christmas card by Tenia Nelson.

Need more ideas? Check out our website at http://www.stampendous.com and just search Gradated Dot Stencil. You’ll find a tab for product then a tab for projects that will help you find just the things you need. Happy Polka Dot Day!!

Dreamweaver Stencils Challenge Inspiration

April 9, 2015April 8, 2015 Janelle Stollfus3 Comments

It’s a new blog post on the Dreamweaver Stencil blog with the Dream Team. There’s more inspiration with this month’s

April Showers to Showers Challenge

Add your showers theme project to the challenge gallery found in the Dreamweaver Stencils post today and to whet you whistle we’ve brought over last week’s A-Team challenge samples! Details for each project are linked in last’s week challenge post.