Birthdays are Best – and Winners!

July 14, 2017July 13, 2017 Stampendous12 Comments

Birthday Bonanza Weekly Theme

This week we’ve been looking at tons of great ways to wish your friends and family a Happy Birthday with Stampendous products. And we’ve been LOVING your stories of surprise parties, celebrations, grandkids, and all the joy you’ve shared for birthdays. We think it’s so special that some of you focus your birthdays on the CARDS and not the gifts! We’re so glad when we can help with that. And we’re offering you the chance to win a $20 Stampendous Reward Card to celebrate your birthday on our website, whenever it is! That $20 will go even farther with our Free Shipping (U.S. Retail Orders over $50) promotion running through August 31.

If you’ve read this far… if you’re in Southern California or within visiting distance, make sure you’re on our email list for notifications! Just sayn’! A little teaser for now! hee hee…. you can sign up on our website home page.

Our birthday offerings at Stampendous are just so fun! And our House-Mouse Designs® images just shine at creating birthday fun!

House-Mouse Designs Birthday Bird by Amy Hurley-Purdie — Birthday Bird by Amy Hurley-Purdie

And check out these adorable cards from our classic Design Team samples, then take a glance at some new fun from our team.

Birthday Balloons Card by Jennie Lin Black — Birthday Balloons by Jennie Lin Black

Here’s some new, birthday fun from our team! Be sure to give them some love!

Jamie Martin

Louise Healy

Pam Bray

And WINNERS!

We were reminded that we never announced the winner of our Keeping Cool themed week. Thanks for keeping us honest, guys! We always have so much going on, that it’s easy to lose track!

The winner of a House-Mouse Designs® Dessert Dive Stamp, chosen by Random.org is

Michelle K Henderson of Crimson Owl Creations

Congratulations!! Michelle, email us with your mailing address at submissions@stampendous.com and we’ll get your prize right out to you!

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Paisley for All!

July 7, 2017July 6, 2017 Stampendous10 Comments

We have two great stamp sets with coordinating dies to share this week. On Monday we met our Poised Peacock and our Paisley Patterns. Both Cling Rubber Stamp Sets come with a free template for masking the images or creating super cool backgrounds. Both also have available, matching, cutting dies! You’ll love these gorgeous sets! (and Free Shipping with Promo Code BLG717 on orders over $50)

On Wednesday we took a closer look at our Poised Peacock. So today, let’s investigate our Paisley Patterns set a little more closely! This awesome set includes six stamps. Five are very definite elements and they have corresponding cutting dies in the die set. The sixth stamp is a wonderful background that is delightful colored in, tone on tone, or even used as a resist pattern. The included stencil/mask set for the five elements is perfect for masking/layering or for coloring them in with stencil brushes, sponges, paint, or other methods.

Paisley Pattern Cling Rubber Stamps — Paisley Pattern Cling Rubber Stamp Set

Paisley Pattern Cutting Dies — Paisley Pattern Die Set

Fran has created a great video sharing her samples with these fun stamp images:

Wanna win one?

We’ll give away one Poised Peacock Stamp Set and Cutting Dies and one Paisley Patterns Stamp Set and Cutting Dies (so two lucky winners) this week! Just leave us a comment telling us if you’ve ever seen a live peacock! Where? When? Was it just the coolest? We want to know! Or if you’re more Paisley than Peacock, tell us about your lifelong love affair with those irresistible patterns! U.S. Winners only – Official Rules.

We have so enjoyed this week reading your hilarious adventures with peacocks all over the world. Who knew so many people had chased or been chased by them! You’re all awesome story tellers!! We can sure see that a lot of you would love one of these sets!

We have Design Team Members playing along today –

Pam Bray

Louise Healy

Lea Fritts

And some inspiration from our website – All these samples are by Fran Seiford. You can find them all on our website by searching “Paisley”.

Paisley Patterns featuring Creative Palette Papers

Paisley Patterns Card — Paisley Patterns featuring Pop Up Stages Die Set

Paisley Patterns Birthday — Paisley Patterns featuring Matching Cutting Dies

Paisley Pattern Pop Up card using Pop Up Stages and Creative Palette

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Keeping Cool! Summer at the Sea

June 23, 2017June 19, 2017 Stampendous8 Comments

We’re Keeping Cool this week on the Stampendous Blog, and in our MONDAY post and WEDNESDAY post we explored how our House-Mouse Friends keep their cool. We also have some gorgeous new stamps for those of you who like to keep cool seaside. You can see lots of inspiration with them in our earlier Part of Your World blog series. As a refresher, we’ll share some of them here! Be sure to comment and tell us what your weather is like this week, ours has been hanging around the low 90’s. Pretty hot for June in Southern California. Are you melting where you are?

Stylized Whale – http://stampendous.com/shop/stamps/animals/stylized-whale-rubber-stamp/

Jellyfish – http://stampendous.com/shop/stamps/animals/jellyfish-rubber-stamp/

Sea Turtle – http://stampendous.com/shop/stamps/animals/sea-turtle-rubber-stamp/

We’ve got some teammates sharing today with their ideas about keeping cool.

Pam Bray

Louise Healy

Remember, there’s FREE SHIPPING on the Stampendous website for orders over $50 through August 31! Time to stay indoors where it’s cool and do some crafting! Use promo code BLG717 at checkout as many times as you like.

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Where the Wild Things Are – Friday

June 9, 2017June 8, 2017 Janelle StollfusLeave a comment

We’ve been celebrating some Wild Things this week. We’ve got a couple more team members who are sharing today with their wild creations. Be sure to join us next week when we are “going to the dogs” (and cats)!

We have a couple more of Fran’s samples she made with the Laurel Burch stamps. These great cards show you that wild things don’t have to have wild colors! In fact, black and white can be deliciously wild. Especially when combined with some great embossing powders! Take a look! (you can find all the great wild animals from this week’s posts on our website HERE)

Laurel Burch Rainbow Safari by Fran Seiford

Now head over and take a peek at some great inspiration from the team!

Pam Bray

Louise Healy

Part of Your World 4: Yo Ho, Yo Ho Friday

June 2, 2017June 2, 2017 Janelle Stollfus6 Comments

Yo, ho, me hearties! Today is our last of the pirate adventure with Pink Your Life Whisper Friends. We’ve had quite an adventure with treasures yet to be won and if you’ve missed one of our earlier posts this week, you’ll be able to catch up with links at the end of our post! Come back next week as we’ll travel Where the Wild Things Are for our theme week!

SSCP111 Whisper Friends Pirates Perfectly Clear Stamps

Our buccaneer’s in the newest Whisper Friends Pirates Perfectly Clear Stamp Set includes are sailing for adventure with plenty of images to create a fun scene all on its own or coordinates well with other Pink Your Life stamps for oodles of projects!

We couldn’t help putting together a few more products with the beach theme to end our Part of Your World series. Just imagine these little feet on a beach taking its first steps along the shore. Pair this stencil with our Beach 5-Jar Embossing Powder Kit for a real fantastic beach look.

And this Clipper Ship with lively waves would make a swift project for any stencil technique! Stop by a few of our projects pages below for ideas!

Clipper Ship Special Day by Jamie Martin

Ready for some pirate inspiration? Here are designers participating in today’s hop –

Pam Bray

Lea Fritts

Keep on the adventure with posts you may have missed earlier this week!

Monday

Stampendous Blog

Alison Heikkila

Janelle Stollfus

Kristine Reynolds

Wednesday

Stampendous Blog

Kristine Reynolds

Jamie Martin

Part of Your World 3: Anchors Aweigh!

May 26, 2017May 26, 2017 Janelle Stollfus2 Comments

This week has been about coastline views and activities on the shore but next week be on the lookout for more treasure, ye mateys! Until then let’s anchor aweigh with more fantastic sea and beach themed stamps!

SSC1261 Nautical Anchor Perfectly Clear Stamp Set

We had two maritime Perfectly Clear Stamp Set in our April 2017 catalog. We shared Nautical Treasures last week to you in this post and today is Nautical Anchor with wonderful phrases and images for a masculine style card or project. Here are some fabulous projects from our design team using this set perfect for your seafaring friends and family!

Nautical Anchor Compass by Alison Heikkila

And our week isn’t complete without the beloved characters of House-Mouse Designs and their playful side to getting some sunshine in their day!

We have a great little sentiment that goes well with these sunbathing mice or anytime you want to add a smile to someone’s day.

PYL Hammock by Louise Healy

And to wrap up our week of inspiration, stop by our designer’s blogs today to see their fabulous projects for our theme week and be sure to check out our other posts from this week for more inspiration and ideas!

Pam Bray
Lea Fritts
Jamie Martin
Lea Fritts (Wednesday Post)

Monday

Stampendous Blog
Alison Heikkila
Kristine Reynolds

Wednesday

Stampendous Blog
Louise Healy
Kristine Reynolds

Part of Your World 2: Under the Sea Treasures

May 19, 2017May 19, 2017 Janelle StollfusLeave a comment

SSC1262 Nautical Treasure Perfectly Clear Stamp Set

Look at this trove, treasures untold! How many wonders can one cavern hold?

We have been taking a look this week in the deep sea with a trove of ideas to get crafting for summer fun! After today’s post, we’ll be up where they walk next week, and we hope you’ll come and join us!

Nautical Treasure Bookmarks by Lea Fritts

For today we have treasures to be found on the sea floor and Nautical Treasure is an excellent mixture of images and phrases to make dozens of great projects!

We also have two fabulous single sentiment stamps from our April catalog that go swimmingly with so many of our sea theme stamps and stencils, of course, Stylized Whale stamp and Have A Whale are a perfect match!

That’s it from our blog this week and be sure to stop by our designers posting projects today for more inspiration!

Pam Bray
Louise Healy
Kristine Reynolds

If you missed any of our earlier posts and want to see, all the other fantastic theme products just keep clicking on the links below.

Monday

Stampendous Blog
Alison Heikkila
Louise Healy
Katy Leitch
Kristine Reynolds

Wednesday

Stampendous Blog
Jamie Martin
Louise Healy

Part of Your World 1: Mermaids and Friends

May 10, 2017May 10, 2017 Janelle Stollfus2 Comments

Mermaids are really hot right now! You see them everywhere you shop. We’re lucky enough to have some of the coolest mermaids in town.

In addition to the wonderful Mermaid Fishes Set from artist Laurel Burch that we introduced Monday, we still have our awesome Mermaid Friends set.

CRS5088 Mermaids Cling Stamp Set and DCS5088 Mermaids Die Set

Like most of our Cling Rubber Stamp Sets with coordinating Cutting Dies, this is a Limited Edition. If you’ve been waiting to add this gorgeous mermaid, staring into a beautiful pearl, surrounded by her fun, eager friends, to your collection, you might not want to wait much longer. Take a look at just some of the great inspiration using this wonderful set. You can see that all the pieces work seamlessly together, and they all shine separately as well! (And they all look amazing with those Graphic45 papers! Thanks G45!) You can click on an image to see it full sized.

Loving our Mermaid and Friends??? We sure do! Take a moment or two to watch Fran make some of these gorgeous cards!

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Celebrate Mom in Laurel Burch Style!

May 5, 2017May 4, 2017 Janelle Stollfus2 Comments

Laurel Burch Blossoming Woman by Fran Seiford

Today we have our post spotlighting all the fabulous Laurel Burch stamps and dies that are perfect for celebrating mom this year.

The beautiful Blossoming Woman card created by Fran Seiford is symbolic to how magical and expressive Laurel Burch created her artwork and with our cling stamp set you can customize a Blossoming Woman with your own mom’s unique spirit and expression for a Mother’s Day card!

We have much more Laurel Burch stamps that are perfect for Mother’s Day on our website too! Stop by there for a look-see and find catalog samples for you ideas toward your project for mom, here are just a few from the collection as inspiration starters.

LBCRS01 Laurel Burch Cling Blossoming Woman

Laurel Burch Woman Spirit by Fran Seiford

<a href="SSCL101Laurel Burch Floral Reflections

There is still time to create a one-of-a-kind project for mom, and if you like something you see from the gallery above clicking on any photo’s caption will take you to our website for more information. Remember that when you purchase from our website, your order will be fulfilled by a shop closest to you when possible.

Friday

Stampendous Blog

Jamie Martin

Pam Bray

Kristine Reynolds

Louise Healy

Keep hopping for inspiration from our posts earlier this week if you happened to miss them and we hope you have a great weekend everyone!

Monday

Stampendous Blog

Alison Heikkila

Kristine Reynolds

Louise Healy

Wednesday

Stampendous Blog

Jamie Martin

Kristine Reynolds

Louise Healy

Janelle Stollfus

April Showers and House-Mouse Designs®

April 28, 2017April 28, 2017 Janelle Stollfus1 Comment

It’s Friday, and our April Showers are just about over! All this week we’ve outfitted ourselves with boots, and cute sayings stamps, layers of umbrellas and let the rain fall with stencils so today we get to play in the rain with our House-Mouse Designs characters and still stay dry!

Monica mouse is so thirsty she takes the chance of a few raindrops crashing upon her nose so she can drink the fresh water from a Crocus bloom.

And here are more rainy scenes of the House-Mouse characters from Ellen Jareckie!

These mice know when to weather the stormy skies or create their own precipitation for their outdoor adventures. You can stop by the House-Mouse Designs section of our website to see the entire collection or go to the New House-Mouse Designs section in our What’s New section.

There are still more projects for our April Shower theme from our design team!