Elements of Excitement!

August 18, 2017 Stampendous11 Comments

This week we’re celebrating those cool Elements that make our holiday cards so exciting. And we’re offering a special shout out to our newest family favorite, Twinkle Glitter!

Fran’s Glitzy Adhesive Technique and Encrusted Adhesive Technique are perfect for making a glittering area of bling behind any focal point layer. They’re super easy to do! Just apply a layer of our Sticky Panels, adhere your focal point on the adhesive area, then sprinkle your favorite blings on the remaining, exposed adhesive… Voila!! If you use embossing powder, you’ll want to heat it, but you can mix embossing enamels, glitters, mica, color fragments, glass glitter and more for some ultimate excitement. There are sooo many looks you can achieve!

Layer your focal point on an angled panel of Sticky Paper then add Frantage Embossing Enamel to the remaining areal. Heat for wow! – by Jamie Martin

candle nap by Kristine Reynolds — You can die cut shapes from the Stick Panels then use those to glitter! – by Kristine Reynolds

Use our Wreath Die set to create stunning background scalloped circles of bling! – by Janelle Stollfus

You can use just a strip of Sticky Panels and glitter that for a great accent. – by Kristine Reynolds

Mix glitters on die cut circles of Sticky Panels and create the look of ornaments. – by Kristine Reynolds

Use a Sticky Panel layer, cut with Fitted Frames dies, to frame a polar bear family in snow! (or Shaved Ice!) – by Alison Heikkila

Use our Wreath Die Set to die cut pine boughs from Sticky Panels and use green micro glitter to bring this to life in the background. – by Kristine Reynolds

Cut a frame from Sticky Panels using two layered dies, and bling it on! – by Jamie Martin

Use dies to cut out snowflakes from a background panel of Sticky Panels for use on another project. Save the frame and add Embossing Enamels, Mica, Color Fragments, and more for a dynamic background panel. – by Sandra Ghidara

Use an edger to create a fun glitter border from Sticky Panels and Micro Glitter – by Kristine Reynolds

Apply a rainbow of Micro Glitter to a Sticky Panels layer for a whimsical, fun background. – by Kristine Reynolds

Laurel Burch Mermaid Fish — Don’t save your bling for the holidays! Position your die cut shapes on your Sticky Panels then fill up the space with all kinds of Elements of Excitement – by Fran Seiford

As you can see, the Design Team has lots to share with you today!! Click below to see more of their great projects, some of them have more than one, because they posted on Wednesday as well! Leave everyone some love so we can enter you in the drawing to win a jar of Twinkle Glitter. (contest details are HERE from Monday). AND, in case this doesn’t give you enough to work on this weekend, here are some videos of Fran demonstrating this incredibly fun and easy technique.

Sharing Today –

Jamie Martin (Wednesday)

Kristine Reynolds (Wednesday)

Louise Healy (Wednesday)

Louise Healy (Friday)

Janelle Stollfus (Friday)

Thanks for visiting with us today!! We appreciate your visits. Remember we’ve got free shipping on our website, too! But only until the end of August.

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Get Your Free Shipping Before It’s Gone!

August 15, 2017August 14, 2017 Stampendous1 Comment

Time is running out on our Free Shipping promotion!! Stock up on your Holiday Stamping needs while you can eliminate that pesky Shipping! Summer is the perfect time to start your holiday creations, or to hide inside in the air conditioning and craft away the heat. Take this opportunity to stock up on all our great Frantage Embossing Enamels, or to add to your collection of Vintage Glass Glitters. Or, maybe, just get those new Laurel Burch Stamps you’ve been craving! Or that wonderful Build a Lighthouse Set with coordinating Cutting Dies and those great sea creatures we just released in April.

You can use this Promo Code as many times as you like through the end of August, so start saving on stamping from Stampendous!

Free Shipping is available ONLY on orders shipped to U.S. Mailing Addresses.

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Elements of Excitement – and A Winner!

August 14, 2017 Stampendous16 Comments

The time for Holiday stamping is here! And this year, why not add some Elements of Excitement to your Christmas and holiday creations? Our July Catalog featured a really nice, two-page spread showcasing the Embossing Powders and Glitters that are just so perfect for seasonal glimmer and warmth.

You can see the whole catalog here – JULY 2017 Stampendous Catalog or for a look at our Elements suggestions, we’ve made a quick PDF you can download here: Elements of Excitement

These sparkly and super dynamic elements are perfect for Fran’s Encrusted Adhesive Technique and Glitzy Adhesive Technique. Both of these techniques allow you to make dynamic cards with a ton of bling and excitement! A perfect example is this great card by Design Team Member Kristine Reynolds. You can click on it to see the project instructions and supplies.

This great card also features one of our brand new elements, Twinkle Glitter! This super cool glitter is ultra shiny and full of random shapes, so the light just bounces off of it in every direction. So lush and fantastic!

And it comes in a really big jar! Bet you’d like to win some… !!! We’ll send three winners their own jar of new Twinkle Glitter. U.S. addresses only, OFFICIAL RULES LIVE HERE. Just leave us a comment below on any post this week and tell us your favorite thing about holiday stamping!

Our design team is sharing their Elements of Excitement this week! Here’s a start from two of our talented designers:

Kristine Reynolds

Louise Healy

And we have a Winner!

In our Lighthouse Day giveaway, we’d like to congratulate

Kayla F.

oooh, and we’d really love to read her story about a haunted lighthouse! But meanwhile, Kayla, email us your mailing info and we’ll get your stamp right out to you. Drop us a line at submissions@stampendous.com

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Goodbye Summer Vacation

August 4, 2017August 4, 2017 Stampendous6 Comments

We’re celebrating the last vacations of Summer, here on the Stampendous blog. We really want to thank you all for sharing your vacation stories with us. We love getting to know our fans a bit better! Keep sharing for your chance to win the Pink Your Life Beach Day Perfectly Clear Stamps Set. (click on it to see it on our website)

Our team has made some great samples with this set! (click on them to see the complete project on our website)

Whisper Friends Surfer by Janelle Stollfus

Here at Stampendous, our Summers have often culminated in a Warehouse Sale! We haven’t done one in a very long time, and I’m NOT making any promises here (wink, wink), but if you’re anywhere near Southern California, you might want to just make sure that you’re on our email list. Just say’n! Our previous Warehouse Sales have been, shall we say legendary?! You definitely won’t want to miss it (if we have one, that is)! Our email newsletter also gives you great info like telling you first about our Free Shipping promotion. Even if you can’t come to Southern California, you’ll want to sign up. You can sign up for newsletters and promotion information here at the bottom of our website home page – http://www.stampendous.com/.

We’ve got some great Summer Vacation projects and inspiration from our Design Team today. Please comment on their posts, and be sure to tell us about your favorite Summer Vacation for a chance to win. We’ll be back with Winners and a new theme on Monday!

Alison Heikkila
Jamie Martin

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One Last Summer Vacation – Plus Winners!

July 31, 2017August 1, 2017 Stampendous10 Comments

At Stampendous we can see the end of Summer approaching as the kids all get ready to go back to school. Several areas have already started their Fall Semesters.

We think it’s time for One Last Summer Vacation. And we know you’ll agree. One lucky winner can document his or her vacation with our Pink Your Life Whisper Friends Beach Day set. This darling set contains so many fun little stamps from the pen of Nicoletta Zanella. And you can see in our banner above how adorably it works with our Waves Stencil and regular stencil paste.

Leave us a comment this week telling us about your favorite summer vacation! Sorry, U.S. winners only (although we’d love to hear about ANY of your vacations!) Official Rules live HERE.

We have some awesome Summer Vacation ideas from our design team here, be sure to hop by and give them some love as well.

Alison Heikkila

Louise Healy

Kristine Reynoles

Janelle Stollfus

And WINNERS!

We have a winner to receive our House-Mouse Designs School Mice Cling Rubber stamp! That winner is…

Lisa

(from Lisa’s Everyday Life.)

Just drop us an email at submissions@stampendous.com, Lisa, giving us your mailing info, and we’ll arrange to have it shipped immediately.

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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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Birthday Bonanza!! and Winners!

July 10, 2017July 6, 2017 Stampendous14 Comments

Welcome to a new week on the Stampendous Blog! You know, one of our biggest categories for stamps is BIRTHDAY! We have more than 60 images to help you make birthdays great for your friends and family, and most of them are available in either wood mounted or cling rubber stamps. And we added some really cute images to this collection in our April Catalog.

This week our team is celebrating birthdays by sharing some of their favorite birthday creations! We think you’ll be super excited to pick up some of these great images, especially with our Free Shipping offer that’s good through August. You know, the one where your shipping is free if you order $50 or more at www.stampendous.com with Promo Code BLG717! You’ll want to pick up lots of birthday options for all your card recipients.

You could even win a “birthday” present of your own! Leave us a comment or two or three this week and tell us about your most memorable birthday(s)! We’ll give one lucky winner a $20 Stampendous Reward card to spend on our website! U.S. winners only, Official Rules live Here.

Here are some of the really sweet new images perfect for celebrating those special days:

Rose Postcard Birthday — Rose Postcard and Penned Birthday by Fran Seiford

Our Nautical Stamps make great “guy” birthday cards – Nautical Anchor by Kristine Reynolds

Choose an elegant Laurel Burch stamp for colorful Birthday Greeting – Laurel Burch Cling Blossoms by Fran Seiford

Cheerful and Friendly Pink Your Life images make great birthday cards for Kids & Teens – WF Camera Girl by Lea Fritts

Inspire a friend with a colorful Laurel Burch Card – Sister Sun by Fran Seiford

Confetti Showers by Kristine Reynolds — Those House-Mouse meeces can rock a birthday to pieces! Confetti Showers card by Kristine Reynolds

You can find all of these projects and dozens more on our website – just search “birthday”.

Our Design Team will be sharing their creations with us this week as well. Hop on over to their blogs, and leave them some love!! They always love it when you visit.

Louise Healy

Alison Heikkila

Janelle Stollfus

Kristine Reynolds

And Congratulations to last week’s winners!! We laughed and laughed all week at your antics trying to chase/pet/photograph peacocks or save your pets from them. What amazing stories you all have!! Thank goodness for Random.org that let us choose random winners from our U.S. entries. Congratulations to:

Viki Banaszak

who commented on all the posts but was chosen from Jamie Martin’s Wednesday Post.

Viki wins the Poised Peacock Stamps and Dies

and

suzschultz23

who commented on our Monday post

suz wins the Paisley Patterns Stamps and Dies

Super thanks to all of you for sharing your stories! And an extra thanks to those who let us know where they lived! It always helps when we can identify you quickly. Winners, email me at submissions@stampendous.com and send me your mailing address. We’ll get your prizes 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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Peacocks Galore

July 5, 2017July 3, 2017 Stampendous20 Comments

We’re sharing two great new Cling Rubber Stamp Sets with Matching Cutting Dies this week. We met our Poised Peacock and our Paisley Patterns on Monday .

Both Cling Rubber Stamp Sets come with a free template for masking the images or creating super cool backgrounds. You’ll love these gorgeous sets! Today, let’s look closer at our Poised Peacock.

The set has four stamps and a stencil that makes a great peacock feather background. The matching cutting dies cut right on the edge, with even the peacock feet cutting out perfectly. We evened the dies out around the edges of the feathers, so a little coloring “outside the lines” will produce easy-to-cut feathers that look amazing.

Poised Peacock Dies — Poised Peacock Cutting Dies

Fran has made a wonderful video sharing her samples with this great stamp set and dies.

Wanna win one?

We have Design Team Members playing along today –

Jamie Martin

Janelle Stollfus

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

Poised Peacock Card — Poised Peacock featuring matching Cutting Dies

Poised Peacock featuring Pop Up Die Edgers

Poised Peacock by Fran — Poised Peacock with Pop Up Stages Die Set and Creative Palette

Poised Peacock by Fran Seiford — Poised Peacock with Creative Palette and Pop Up Die Edgers

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Happy Birthday, America!

July 4, 2017July 3, 2017 Stampendous4 Comments

House-Mouse Designs Flag Flyer by Jennie Lin Black

We want to wish you a Happy 4th of July from Stampendous! We have some really great House-Mouse Designs® images for celebrating the Holiday, and we wanted to share them with you.

And go ahead and click on the picture above to see more ideas featuring this adorable stamp, Flag Flyer. Remember we’ve got Free Shipping on our website (on retail orders over $50) through the end of August. Time to stock up on products for your Holiday crafting. Be sure to use Promo Code BLG717 so that we know you read our blog.

Here’s who is sharing today –