Hats On for Watercolor!

Fran’s latest Watercolor Series Video really makes use of the fabulous On My Mind Perfectly Clear Stamps Set.

The set comes with darling flowers you can use to make all kinds of lovely thoughts spring from the head of this beautiful face.

She also demonstrates how to use the wonderful Gift Card Wallet Die Set to make gorgeous gifts for any occasion.

But she really started creating some fun when she explored making hats for this sweet character with only a circle and an oval cutting die.

To find out how she created all these great looks, and to see lots more inspiration, be sure to check out our YouTube video. You might want to click on the video so you don’t miss a minute, from mixing flesh tones to making hats! All the great samples are here –

Pinit Canada!

Stampendous is proud to be sponsoring a class in the new Pinit Canada Live event October 23-24 beginning at Noon EST. It’s open to anyone anywhere to enjoy and learn!

The event will have “amazing product demonstrations, techniques, learn about new products and a great way to connect with so many other artists around the world!  The event is inspirational, creative and educational.  It’s so awesome to have a FRONT ROW seat for each of the Pin It Canada presentations!”

The event is FREE to anyone to view on the Pinit Canada Live Facebook pages or on the Pinit Canada YouTube Channel.

Our own Deb Antonick will be teaching a class creating some adorable shakers using some of our newest holiday stamps! These would be ideal as ornaments, package tags, refrigerator magnets, and more. Here’s an example of the sweet projects she’ll be teaching LIVE. We hope you’ll join the fun. Click on the Pinit Canada logo above for all the details!

The Party Just Keeps Going!

The second round of the Stampendous Virtual Catalog Party is happening at your local stamping, scrapbooking, or craft store.

Each participating store, find one by clicking the image above, will be giving away a great prize package, a $40 retail value, of our Gift Card Wallet Die Set and our Birthday Gift Perfectly Clear Stamps set. Super fun products that can help you make gift card holders, coupon books, and treats for all occasions. Here are just some projects we’ve made with this cute set!

 

We know you’ll love it, and once you start playing, you can’t stop!!

Today our Design Team is sharing some fun projects as well. Go take a look and keep making your wish list!! Your orders are due to your store by Monday, August 31. Be sure to contact your store to make sure they’re playing along, or find one that is on our Participating Stores Page

 

Kathi Rerek

 

And your store is sharing one of Fran’s great videos, too!

 

New Gift Card Wallet Dies

Our new Gift Card Wallet Die Set has so many possibilities. We cannot wait to see what you create with it.

Gift cards are often the present of choice for your gift recipients. They love doing the shopping and getting exactly what they want. But sometimes a gift card doesn’t seem like much of a present to the giver. The new Gift Card Wallet Die makes each gift card a present and a presentation that will be remembered.

In a new video, Fran shares our wonderful Gift Card Wallet and the other coordinating Cutting Dies and Perfectly Clear stamps that make gifting so much fun. More options are on the way for the Holidays in July! This die set will become a must-have in your collection. It’s not on our website yet, but you can find it at your favorite, local stamp store, and on many online places that sell Stampendous Products. The links to all the products are in the video description.

Take a look:

Wrap It Up! Gift Wrap and WINNERS!

It’s a great catch-up blog today! Getting things finished before the Holiday Crazy!

First, we have some cute gift wrap ideas for you! Our Design Team has been working with products we recently received from PaperMart. This wonderful online resource for all things wrapping is such a lifesaver this time of year when you want to create gifts for the office or classroom or large family gatherings. If you can put it in a bag or box of any size, you can find that bag or box at PaperMart.

The team has taken some of PaperMart’s plainest products and added a stamped flair with Stampendous that you’ll just love. Plan to make some homemade gift wrap and wait for the ooh’s and aah’s to roll in. So much fun, so reusable. Check out the team’s work. Leave some nice comments for your chance to win a PaperMart gift pack and some stamps to make it holiday festive.

Kathi Rerek

Jamie Martin

Leadonna Fritts

Janelle Stollfus

 

Next we have some Winners!!

First, from the Save the Crafty YouTuber Video Hop, Stampendous’ winner was:

Mary Hrasky!! Congratulations, Mary. We had 714 comments from excited crafters on this video! It was fun to make those colorful Penguins, and fun to see how much you enjoyed it! Mary wins $50 in Stampendous products of her choice. Mary, you need to fill out the winner’s form here –

https://goo.gl/forms/QM2qtH0zZ9jf7Ou73

It’s a Google Form and will allow you to claim your prize.

You can see ALL the winners for all the videos here! Lots of folks still haven’t claimed their prizes.

AND…

We have a couple prizes left from our 31 Days of Halloween! One of our fans reminded us the other day that we hadn’t done the last prizes. So the winners from the last week for Comments and Challenge Submissions are:

The Comment Winner is from Alison Heikkila’s Blog Post and it is

karenajo

Congratulations, Karen. Email us at submissions@stampendous.com with your U.S. Mailing Address and we’ll get your prize right out to you. Please let us know if you’d prefer a Christmas product or if you’d still like a Halloween one.

The Final Winner for the Challenge Submissions is:

myasperations

Kathy A entered tons of projects for our challenge! That always increases your chances. Congratulations, Kathy! Email us at submissions@stampendous.com with your U.S. Mailing Address and we’ll get your prize right out to you. Please let us know if you’d prefer a Christmas product or if you’d still like a Halloween one.

We also wanted to thank the Super Stick Chick who won one of our prizes and quickly turned around and got it entered in the challenge!! We LOVE it when you use our products.

Go visit her cute card by clicking on her name, and leave her some love!!

 

Holiday Background for Easy Decor

The two newest Decor Cling Rubber Stamps feature new 6″ X6″ designs for the holidays. You’ll love these easy to use, large backgrounds and the amazing inspiration we have to share with you this week. Each of these stamps is a full 6″ X 6″ to cover most surfaces with ease. Grab the matching acrylic handle for super convenience.

The elegant Poinsettia Collage is a gorgeous stamp perfect for creating a variety of Christmas greetings with very little effort.

6CR010 Poinsettia Collage Cling Rubber Stamp

The Winter Blizzard is a dynamic snowflake background with a twist. The largest snowflake pops out to be used separately as desired!

6CR009 Winter Blizzard Cling Rubber Stamp

Would you like to win these great stamps and an acrylic handle? Ok, here’s what to do – you’ll get one entry for each of these things:

Watch Fran’s video about these great stamps on YouTube and leave us a comment there. It’s posted below.
Comment here on our blog.
Comment on the blogs of our Designers posted below.
Share our post on Facebook

We’ll draw a winner on Sunday, July 29th and give three people one each of these two stamps plus a handle.  We’ll announce the winners next week. You must have a US mailing address to win. But we’d love comments from everyone.

Here’s Fran’s video:

And new inspiration from our Design Team using these and our earlier 6X6 and 8X8 stamps: (hurry back on Thursday for more fun with these great stamps!)

Janelle Stollfus

Lea Fritts

Jamie Martin

Kathi Rerek

 

Backgrounds Made Easy

Our newest additions to our Decor Cling Rubber Stamp family are here with two new 6″ X6″ designs for the holidays. You’ll love these easy to use, dynamic backgrounds and the amazing inspiration we have to share with you this week. Each of these stamps is a full 6″ X 6″ to cover most surfaces with ease. Grab the matching acrylic handle for super convenience.

The elegant Poinsettia Collage is a gorgeous stamp perfect for creating a variety of Christmas greetings with very little effort.

6CR010 Poinsettia Collage Cling Rubber Stamp

The Winter Blizzard is a dynamic snowflake background with a twist. The largest snowflake pops out to be used separately as desired!

6CR009 Winter Blizzard Cling Rubber Stamp

Would you like to win these great stamps and an acrylic handle? Ok, here’s what to do – you’ll get one entry for each of these things:

Watch Fran’s video about these great stamps on YouTube and leave us a comment there. It’s posted below.
Comment here on our blog.
Comment on the blogs of our Designers posted below.
Share our post on Facebook

We’ll draw a winner on Sunday, July 29th and give three people one each of these two stamps plus a handle.  We’ll announce the winners next week. You must have a US mailing address to win. But we’d love comments from everyone.

Here’s Fran’s video:

And inspiration from our Design Team using these and our earlier 6X6 and 8X8 stamps: (hurry back on Thursday for more fun with these great stamps!)

Jamie Martin

Kathi Rerek

 

Curios are Here!

We’re in love with our new Curios stamps and their whimsical, colorful presence in our office and our craft area! They not only make us smile with their fun shapes and colors, they inspire us with card and project ideas all day! By the end of the day we’re brimming with great ideas for using them when we get home. It’s been a very fun experience. These little pops of home decor with their premium quality stamps on the back are just delightful.

Here’s a closeup look at a few more of these darling stamps:

CUR01 Curio Birdie Friend

 

 

CUR01 Curio Birdie Friend

CUR06 Coffee Friend

 

CUR06 Curio Coffee Friend

 

CUR16 Curio Watering Can

 

CUR16 Curio Watering Can

Our design team has had some great fun integrating them into their crafting and their workspace as well.  Take a look:

 

Janelle Stollfus

Kathi Rerek

Lea Fritts

Louise Healy

Homemade Gifts Are Best

The holiday season is approaching, and it’s time to give some thought to gifts you might make for friends and loved ones. Of course nothing says, “I love you” like a handmade gift.

With stamps and stencils, you have soooo many options. And our new Decor Cling Rubber Stamps make a super easy way to transfer a pattern to a home decor piece. They are big, at 8″ X 8″ they can help you get a job done quickly, or even work on a very small card or tag, or stamp a few at one time.

Here’s a look at the Decor Snowflakes stamp. There are four other designs available.

Our Dreamweaver and Fran’s Metal Stencils are also a phenomenal way to create homemade gifts from the heart.  Like this gorgeous canvas from Mixed Media Artist Mark Gould.

A few great designers are sharing some fun ideas to get you started:

Louise Healy

Bunny Hoyle

What types of things do you make for Christmas? We’d love to see you share some with us! You can show us your creations in several places:

Facebook Stampendous Group – lots of sharing between our fans – https://www.facebook.com/groups/Stampendous/

Our Photo Group on Flickr – these have to be moderated so patience is needed 🙂 – https://www.flickr.com/groups/stampendous/

Or tag us anywhere else you share, Pinterest, Instagram, Twitter… we’ll like and share your post! @Stampendous or #Stampendous

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Baked Up Just For You

Gingerbread Baker Jar by Debi Hammons

There is nothing like fresh baked goodies for the holidays and what could be sweeter is if they were made for a gift. For all those yummy treats you are planning to make or for a noncaloric treat the new Gingerbread Baker Die and Clear Stamp Set will help create the most darling packaging.

This week we’ll be sharing oodles of ideas for this creative set so prepare your homemade gift list and Gingerbread Baker will deliver them with a smile.

Today we have a great video that walks you through this set and as usual Fran has some great tips and ideas to inspire us!

Now for some fresh baked projects by our designers –

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