Winners and a Birthday Surprise!

June 27, 2016June 27, 2016 Stampendous10 Comments

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We’ve got some extra business to take care of today!

First, we need to announce the winners of our blog hop with Nathalie Kalbach and her wonderful Creative Squad from the week before last.

We’re excited to send 3 winners each her three foam and cling rubber stamp sets. Congrats to these three lucky winners. If you see your name below, please email us at submissions@stampendous.com with your mailing address so we can get these fun products out to you right away!

Sabrina Radican

Crimson Owl Creations

Marian Riley

Why, you ask, weren’t winners posted last week? Yes, several of you asked! 🙂 So sorry for the delay, but our amazingly organized and talented Janelle Stollfus has been on vacation. She keeps all our collaborations on task and organized as well as serving on our Design Team for many, many years. She’s a valuable part of the Stampendous Social Media Team and we’d be lost without her. But we guess she deserves a vacation because…

It’s Her Birthday!!

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Our Design Team appreciates all the work Janelle does each week to keep us organized and on track. It’s not easy coordinating all those link lists, especially when blogging software tends to have a mind of its own. But she helps everyone on the team fight the zaniness of internet posting and coordinates our prizes, chooses our winners, and really keeps us going. So it’s time to celebrate her! And we all want to get in on the action. Please hop around the blogs below and see the projects our team designed to celebrate Janelle! Maybe even leave a Happy Birthday comment yourself!

Tenia Nelson

Alison Heikkila

Kristine Reynolds

Pam Hornschu

Katy Leitch

Wendy Price

Asia King

Amy Hurley-Purdie

Jamie Martin

Lea Fritts

Pam Bray

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House-Mouse and Friends Blog Challenge Hop – Day 10

April 8, 2016April 7, 2016 Janelle Stollfus3 Comments

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Today is the last day of our Challenge Hop and a few more hours to add your sweet project into the HMFMCB InLinkz Tool. There were lots of hop stops for inspiration on how to add stenciling to your House-Mouse cards and projects. Need a little refresher? Our Youtube playlist for Dreamweaver Stencils is a handy place to stop by for many of the techniques the design teams used during the hop and as we mentioned yesterday you can stop by our Pinterest boards for ideas with House-Mouse Designs and Dreamweaver Stencils.

HMP40_SSC1190_PB_800 — Balloon Surprise by Pam Bray

Challenge Theme: It’s easy, use ANY House-Mouse Designs® images or characters on your project, and ANY stencils and stenciling techniques that you like. There is never any purchase necessary to enter. And, of course, as always on the HMFMCB, “anything goes” is always an entry option. Link your entry to the InLinkz Tool by the end of Friday, April 8, 2016 (11:59 pm in your own time zone).

There are prizes!! Three entries, chosen at random, will win 1-HMD Stampendous Cling Rubber Stamp, 1 – Large Dreamweaver Stencils Background Stencil, and 1 – Jar of Embossing Paste. This contest is open to everyone!!

Link up your challenge project and then hop on over to these blogs for inspiration today! (If a blog isn’t live when you visit, they might still be sleeping! Please, check back in a few hours!)

Pam Bray

Kristine Reynolds

Pam Hornschu

Amy Hurley-Purdie

Woodware Blog

House-Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge Blog (Monday blog post)

HOW TO ENTER:

Create something fun and a little bit wonderful. It’s not a talent show, winners are randomly selected. Use an HMD image plus a stencil on your work (or choose “anything goes”). It doesn’t have to be a card, it can be any kind of project. NO PURCHASE NECESSARY.
Post your creation online. You can post it anywhere that will give it a unique URL (internet address). Most folks have a blog, but you can post on Flickr, or PhotoBucket, or even on your Google+ account. (ps…creating a blog is free! What are you waiting for?)
Get the URL for the specific post that contains your project – click on the title of your post, copy the URL from your browser’s title bar, click on the inLinkz picture on the HMFMCB post, paste your URL into the tool. Add your name and email address and voila, you’re entered!

Enter your challenge project in the House-Mouse and Friends InLinkz tool here.

House-Mouse and Friends Blog Challenge Hop – Day 7

April 5, 2016April 4, 2016 Janelle Stollfus1 Comment

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One of the techniques that is the go-to technique with our design team is also an easy one that gives your project some sparkly accents that you will love. Check out this video to find out how to create with stencils and glitter.

Our hop with the current House-Mouse and Friends Monday Blog Challenge is quickly coming to an end, but there is still time to join in! Create a project and link it to the InLinkz Tool on the HMFMCB website as your entry for the challenge. For Instructions how to do this, see below.

THEME:

Use ANY House-Mouse Designs® images or characters on your project, and any stencils and stenciling techniques that you like. There is never any purchase necessary to enter. And, of course, as always on the HMFMCB, “anything goes” is always an entry option. Link your entry to the InLinkz Tool by the end of Friday, April 8, 2016 (11:59 pm in your own time zone).

HMR56_SSC1239_PB_800 — Lily Pad Life by Pam Bray

Even though you will be entering to win by linking up a challenge piece, we sure hope that you’ll hop around to each designer’s blog and leave a sweet “eek” of delight at their inspiration! They’ve worked hard to create something you’ll love! Please give them some love right back! Here are the links to the Sponsor’s blogs and our designers playing today: (If a blog isn’t live when you visit, they might still be sleeping! Please, check back in a few hours!)

Amy Hurley-Purdie

The Stencil Specialists Blog

Woodware Blog

House-Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge Blog (Monday blog)

HOW TO ENTER:

Create something fun and a little bit wonderful. It’s not a talent show, winners are randomly selected. Use an HMD image plus a stencil on your work (or choose “anything goes”). It doesn’t have to be a card, it can be any kind of project. NO PURCHASE NECESSARY.
Post your creation online. You can post it anywhere that will give it a unique URL (internet address). Most folks have a blog, but you can post on Flickr, or PhotoBucket, or even on your Google+ account. (ps…creating a blog is free! What are you waiting for?)
Get the URL for the specific post that contains your project – click on the title of your post, copy the URL from your browser’s title bar, click on the inLinkz picture on the HMFMCB post, paste your URL into the tool. Add your name and email address and voila, you’re entered!

Enter your challenge project in the House-Mouse and Friends InLinkz tool here.

House-Mouse and Friends Blog Challenge Hop – Day 5

April 1, 2016April 1, 2016 Janelle Stollfus4 Comments

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The House-Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge Blog is hosting a unique challenge that started on Monday, it’s already five days old! We have teamed up with their design team plus the designers from Woodware Craft Collection and The Stencil Specialists (Stampendous and Dreamweaver Stencils distributors in the UK and Australia) to add daily inspiration to the two-week challenge.

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IMPORTANT: Create a project and link it to the InLinkz Tool on the HMFMCB website as your entry for the challenge. For Instructions how to do this, see below.

THEME:

Pam Bray

Pam Hornschu

Amy Hurley-Purdie

Woodware Blog

House-Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge Blog (Monday post)

Stop by the Woodware blog on Saturday for more inspiration!

HOW TO ENTER:

Create something fun and a little bit wonderful. It’s not a talent show, winners are randomly selected. Use an HMD image plus a stencil on your work (or choose “anything goes”). It doesn’t have to be a card, it can be any kind of project. NO PURCHASE NECESSARY.
Post your creation online. You can post it anywhere that will give it a unique URL (internet address). Most folks have a blog, but you can post on Flickr, or PhotoBucket, or even on your Google+ account. (ps…creating a blog is free! What are you waiting for?)
Get the URL for the specific post that contains your project – click on the title of your post, copy the URL from your browser’s title bar, click on the inLinkz picture on the HMFMCB post, paste your URL into the tool. Add your name and email address and voila, you’re entered!

Enter your challenge project in the House-Mouse and Friends InLinkz tool here.

Stampendous and Deflecto Craft Blog Hop Day 5

March 18, 2016March 18, 2016 Janelle Stollfus10 Comments

We have had a great time with the products from Deflecto and their talented team of designers. We hope you’ve been hopping along with us all week long and enjoying this new mix of products. If you’ve missed a day or two you can find links to each day of the hop after today’s participating designers.

Remember to comment along the blog hop each day (one comment per blog per day) for a chance to win one of THREE prize packages. Each package will include one Cling Woodland Stamps Set plus it’s matching die set and one Jumbo Perfectly Clear Acrylic Stamp Handle. See Official Contest Rules for details. Deflecto Craft is also having a prize drawing so be sure to stop by their blog!

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We just love ending the week on a hill of inspiration, so we round up the team for one more project. Here are the designers participating today –

Wendy Price

Louise Healy

Kristine Reynolds

Jamie Martin

Janelle Stollfus

Pam Bray

Tenia Nelson

Lea Fritts

Amy Hurley-Purdie

Laura Drahozal

Alison Heikkila

Marilyn Gossett

Lorrie McCullers

Deflecto Blog

*Please note, if there is difficulty commenting on any blog, please let us know at submissions@stampendous.com. If the Blog Hop Post isn’t visible when you get to the link, try clicking on the blog header or home button to be taken to the latest post. If you still don’t see it, you may need to scroll down a few posts, sometimes bloggers have more than one event in a day. It’s also possible that the post isn’t live yet, please try back in a bit if you don’t find it. Due to time zone differences, we’re not all always on the same page. Thanks for your patience and your participation and kind comments.

Just finding our hop today and need to catch up? Stop by our posts on MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY to see what everyone created this week. One could also stop by our new Stampendous and Deflecto Pinterest board and hop through the projects in one easy spot.

Stampendous and Deflecto Craft Blog Hop Day 3

March 16, 2016March 16, 2016 Janelle Stollfus11 Comments

We are hopping with Deflecto Craft and their design team this week having a great time altering products like their Tabletop sign holder and Carousel Rotating Organizer with stamping, stenciling and adding sparkly glitters and more!

Remember to comment as you hop along the blog hop each day (one comment per blog per day) because three commenters will be picked to receive one of THREE prize packages that include Cling Woodland Stamps Set plus it’s matching dies and a Jumbo Perfectly Clear Acrylic Stamp Handle. See Official Contest Rules for details.

Deflecto Craft is also having a prize drawing so be sure to stop by their blog!

Here are today’s projects!

Stampendous and DecoArt Blog Hop Day 5

March 11, 2016July 8, 2016 Janelle Stollfus44 Comments

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Here we are on our last, and biggest hop day with international mixed media artist Andy Skinner and his wonderful Design Team at DecoArt. We hope you’ve been amazed and delighted at the inspiration we’ve shared with you. Andy’s stamps are just so exciting and fun to use, and we know you’ve loved seeing the range of the DecoArt Fluid Media line as well.

One reason we focused on the Media range for this blog hop, is that it’s the perfect acrylic paint to use when tinting your Dreamweaver Embossing Pastes! Just one drop of these pigment-rich media paints is enough to tint a generous quantity of paste for making your favorite backgrounds. Don’t be afraid to color your pastes to match your projects. Most Dreamweaver Embossing Pastes can be tinted very easily. Here are some examples from our own Leadonna Fritts! You might just recognize some of these made into projects on her blog this week.

Bare Trees Stencil, Carbon Black Media Mister, Cerulean Blue Media Acrylic, Regular Dreamweaver Paste

Pop Rectangles Stencil, Light Yellow Green Media Acrylic, Primary Yellow Media Mister, Regular Dreamweaver Paste

Mosaic Swirl Stencil, Cobalt Teal Media Acrylic, Regular Dreamweaver Paste

Now get hopping and be sure to leave a trail of comments on each of the designer blogs. Each comment gets you one entry for a great prize package (open to everyone) of all three of Andy Skinner’s newest stamps for Stampendous PLUS a Fluid Media Acrylic Starter Kit.

Blog Prize Package

Wendy Price

Asia King

Pam Hornschu

Janelle Stollfus

Pam Bray

Jamie Martin

Louise Healy

Alison Heikkila

Lea Fritts

Amy Hurley-Purdie

Tenia Nelson

Debbie Cole

Laura Drahozal

DecoArt Blog

If you missed stopping by the other days of the hop we gathered up the links lists below for convenience.

Stamped And A Bow Blog Hop

January 29, 2016January 28, 2016 Janelle Stollfus11 Comments

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It is our final day of the hop with May Arts and we are so glad that you’ve joined us. Enjoy the super hop with our team and the May Arts team over on their blog where there are prizes to be won.

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Winners will be announced early next week for three lucky fans who left comments somewhere along our hop on the Stampendous blog and design team blog posts. Commenting is open until Sunday January 31, 2016 11:59 pm Pacific time. See Official Contest Rules for details. Each package includes Sisters Perfectly Clear Stamps Set, Cling Beautiful Braid Rubber Stamp and an assortment of May Arts ribbons.

Here are the designers participating today –

Jamie Martin

Wendy Price

Laura Drahozal

Kristine Reynolds

Pam Bray

Louise Healy

Amy Hurley-Purdie

Janelle Stollfus

Rhea Weigand

Lea Fritts

Pam Hornschu

Tenia Nelson

The Ribbon Resource Blog

If you missed our hop earlier this week jump back to Monday, Wednesday and Thursday for more inspiration!

Ribbon Resource and Stampendous This Week!

January 25, 2016January 26, 2016 Janelle Stollfus26 Comments

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We LOVE ribbon and the bigger the bow the better! It gets even better when we spend the week sharing all the exceptional ribbons we add to our projects in a blog hop with May Arts! You’ll see the finest ribbons, trims and embellishments on the market adding the WOWness to projects by our design team and the Prima Ribbonistas from May Arts.

It’s a blog hop this week and so we have prizes!

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Three lucky commenters will receive a package that includes our Sisters Perfectly Clear™ Stamps Set, Cling Beautiful Braid Rubber Stamp and an assortment of gorgeous May Arts ribbons. Hop along each day of our hop and comment here and that of each designer blog post along the way! Deadline to comment is Sunday January 31st 11:59 pm Pacific time. See Official Contest Rules for more details.

Here are the designers participating today –

Alison Heikkila

Kristine Reynolds

Amy Hurley-Purdie

The Ribbon Resource Blog

Stamping Styles To Love

January 20, 2016January 20, 2016 Janelle Stollfus2 Comments

Q217_SSC1238_CP745_JS_800 — PenPattern Love by Janelle Stollfus

We are back with some great stamps in popular papercrafting styles. If you like to doodle a valentine, celebrate with steampunk or create with modern style handwriting we have the line up of stamps for you today.

Doodle, glitter, color, and more with this fun PenPattern LOVE stamp or add a little of everything like Janelle’s mixed media card shown above.

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Mixed media and steampunk are a great match for Pam Bray with this stunning wall banner of gorgeous colors and texture.

R240_PB_800 — Time For Love Wall Banner by Pam Bray

R240_Time_For_Love_rendered_800 — R240 Time For Love Rubber Stamp

The Love Always Perfectly Clear Stamp Set has thirteen wonderful sentiments plus icon stamps for your Valentines or anytime. Jamie Martin found the perfect spot for a sweet sentiment on her card.