Friday in Fran’s Fabulous Friday FUN Watercolor Video Series, she explored the incredible depth you can achieve with just one color and varying amounts of water. This study in values returned some really stunning mini-masterpieces. These cards would be great for guys, for any occasion!
You can watch the video by clicking on it below. Here are some of the great cards she made!
Both the Field of Flowers and Forest Path stamp sets look amazing in color, but for a quick, striking project that will wow your friends, this sepia approach is a great one to try. Watch the full video below!
Stampendous’ new wild collection from our brand new April 2019 catalog will have you running through the jungle, swinging from the trees, and loping across the savannah with a great new crew of animal friends.
The adorable Lion comes with a fun, fern, circle window die for your WindowRama or other card types. It also includes a separate die for cutting out the lion’s face, and a bobble head die to make his face wobble on a cardstock spring. You can use this wobbler on any of our new animal friends. You’ll love playing with this fantastic set. Of course it comes with the lion stamp and cutting die, some wild grass, and a cute greeting! A complete set!
CLD20 Lion Cling Rubber Stamps and Cutting Dies
The sweet Elephant never forgets your birthday! He comes with a darling, leafy window for your WindowRama cards, shaker card, or other design. Plus, you get the die for extra leaves to make your card a luscious jungle. You’ll also get the elephant stamp and matching die, plus two greetings!
CLD19 Elephant Cling Rubber Stamps and Cutting Dies
Our new Monkey is a bundle of fun! He can swing from so many things on your cards or WindowRama dioramas. In his set you’ll receive the monkey cling rubber stamp, a banana, and a greeting. Plus dies for a jungle vine circle window, extra leaves, the banana, and the monkey are included. A great value!
CLD17 Monkey Cling Rubber Stamps and Cutting Dies
Finally, a tall Giraffe bends down to see you better. With two greetings, the giraffe cling rubber stamp, and a stand of acacia trees, the giraffe is ready to survey the savannah. He also includes an acacia circle die for your WindowRama set, a clouds/bushes die, and the cutting die for the giraffe himself.
CLD18 Giraffe Cling Rubber Stamp Set and Cutting Dies
These wild new friends have a ton of possibilities, but wait until you see the accessories they’re bringing to the safari! Stay tuned the rest of the week to see lots more jungle fun. Meanwhile, here is a great look at some adorable samples by Stampendous Founder, Fran Seiford! You can click on any of the pictures above to be taken to the product on our website.
That perfect hint of grunge… The tang of macabre… The faint aroma of crackled paint… We had a great time in January, sharing Andy Skinner’s new Stampendous Cling Rubber stamps! But his design team is so innovative and creative, that we wanted to take this opportunity to remind you of these great images and share some new creations with you! Plus, at the bottom, give you a chance to WIN!! You can check out the previous post HERE.
These 2, great, new stamp sets join several other Andy Skinner sets that just let you have so much mixed media fun. And they’re all available on our website!
ASCRS11 Andy Skinner Fossils Cling Rubber Stamp Set
ASCRS12 Andy Skinner Textures Cling Rubber Stamps
ASCRS10 Andy Skinner’s Cling Rubber Stamps – Birds and Bones
ASCRS09 Unexplained
ASCRS08 Andy Skinner’s Cling Rubber Stamps Skuldoggery
ASCRS07 Handle With Care
ASCRS06 Andy Skinner’s Cling Rubber Stamps – Toxic
ASCRS05 Shabby Chic
ASCRS04 Curiosity
ASCRS03 Industrial
ASCRS02 Steampunk
Andy’s Design Team have shared some absolutely scrumptious projects using his new stamps over the last few weeks! We wanted to gather those posts for you, so that you can absorb all that great inspiration one more time! Wow…these images are just so much fun!
Would you like a chance to win one of his two new sets, Textures or Fossils? We’re going to make you work for it this weekend!! You’ll get one entry for each of the things you do below. We’ll give away four prizes, two of each set, to U.S. winners –
Leave a comment below! Which of the two new sets would you like to win most! Why is it your fave? Or would you rather have an older one? We can do that, too! 🙂
Leave a nice comment on one of the above posts on Andy’s blog! Tell him Stampendous sent you!
Start a board on Pinterest of Andy’s Stampendous stamp projects (created by anyone) – call your board Andy Skinner by Stampendous so we can find it.
Visit us on Instagram this weekend and leave a comment on one of our posts. Tag us with #andyskinnerstamps and #stampendous so we can find it.
Use Twitter? If you do, tweet this post by clicking the Twitter button at the bottom of the post. Tell folks why they should come look. Tag us with #stampendous so we can find it.
REMEMBER – when you use # (hashtags) there can’t be any spaces or punctuation in what you type after, so #andyskinnerstamps is NOT the same as #andy skinner stamps. The latter only gets you #andy, and we won’t find your post!
email us at submissions@stampendous.com, Becca, and give us your U.S. mailing address and let us know if you’d prefer a wood mounted stamp or a Cling Rubber stamp. The choice is yours! Congratulations!! Hopefully this great stamp will help you plan for the big game!
You can see the cling rubber version, and lots of samples by clicking the picture below! Yay, Becca!!
HMR95 House-Mouse Designs® Game Day
AND BY THE WAY…
We haven’t heard from our August 28 winner of our Andy Skinner Birds and Bones set –
Beckie Williams
Beckie, email us at submissions@stampendous.com and give us your U.S. Mailing address so we can get your prize right out to you.
It’s here, it’s Here, it’s time to Cheer!
It’s American football season, and our little mousey friends are ready to watch their heroes sail to victory! With popcorn and soda (with triple caffeine!) they’re all ready to root on their favorite team!! (pssst… they haven’t told us which team that is, so you can color it to reflect your own favorites!)
Why not start those Game Day invitations now?! We’ve got the perfect stamp! And coloring is the ideal activity while watching the big game. This adorable stamp is available in Wood Mounted and Cling Rubber.
HMR95 House-Mouse Designs® Game Day
And look at the sweet card that Kristine Reynolds made! You can click on it for supplies and directions:
Game Day by Kristine Reynolds
Our in-house designer, Debi Hammons created a great card with this stamp for our Store Display Board Program! Check it out! (It’s probably also hanging in your local store if you want to see it in person!)
Game Day by Debi Hammons (Image colored by Janelle Stollfus)
And the talented Janelle Stollfus has another option to share today, go check it out and give her a Sis-boom-bah!
We have a veritable forest of tree images here at Stampendous! They are among our most popular choices. Trees make great cards for men and guys, always a challenge, and they just lend themselves to any occasion or greeting! We looked at Christmas Trees on MONDAY and Halloween and Fall options on WEDNESDAY. Today we’re going to take a gander at some of our “everyday” trees for those cards you need all year.
R241 Gnome Home
A home for a gnome! This sample by Amy Hurley-Purdie
R164 Tree Poem
Tree Poem by Suzanne Czosek
R250 Growing Tree
Growing Tree and Tiny Trailer by Kristine Reynolds
P121 Tree Swing
Tree Swing by Lisa Hindsley
Cypress Stencil by Kristine Reynolds
Our wonderful Design Team is back today with trees, trees, trees! Enjoy!
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 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
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.
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:
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!
Wow! Wasn’t last week a spectacular inspiration of mixed media projects! Thank you to all the terrific from both design teams who really brought out their best ideas! And thank you for all the kind and thoughtful comments left on our blog posts. If you missed it take some time to hop through for project ideas, tips, and techniques to use on your own projects!
If you missed the hop or want to refresh your inspiration list for project ideas, tips, and techniques here are the Stampendous links to the week of hop; Monday, Tuesday,Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. You can also stop by our Stampendous and DecoArt Pinterest board for inspiration beyond just our hop last week. We add new projects all the time so subscribe to our boards and never miss out!
Now for the exciting announcement of our winners who will each receive a prize package that includes:
Our final day of the hop has arrived and we at Stampendous want to thank DecoArt and their SUPER talented design team for a great hop, great inspiration and a huge thank you to all who stopped by to leave a thoughtful comment.
Prizes!!! Comment to win one of three HUGE prize packages that include Andy Skinner stamps and DecoArt Media™ Paint plus more! US winners only, see Stampendous Official Contest Rules here for more details. Commenting will stay open through the weekend and close at midnight Pacific time on Sunday, March 19th.
Ready for today’s inspiration? Here are the designer’s participating today –
Stampendous and DecoArt are teaming up to bring you a wonderful class opportunity, open to the public!
The Society of Decorative Painters (SDP) show has joined the Association for Creative Industries (AFCI)(formerly CHA) in presenting a fantastic Spring crafting opportunity. If you’re in or near Daytona Beach, Florida, don’t miss this wonderful chance to paint along with the amazing Chris Haughey and our own Tammie Wilson. This class will be fantastic.
Welcome to day 4 of our hop! Enjoy the designer’s projects today, and before you go, here is a quick gallery of tags Andy Skinner created for the product packaging of his new stamps using his painting techniques with DecoArt Media paints.
Handle with Care Tag by Andy Skinner
Handle with Care Unexplained Tag by Andy Skinner
Skuldoggery Tag by Andy Skinner
Prizes!!!!! Comment to win one of three HUGE prize packages that include Andy Skinner stamps and DecoArt Media™ Paint plus more! All the products are sneak peeked in the banner at the top of this post, but a full list is available on Monday’s post. US winners only, see Stampendous Official Contest Rules here for more details.
Here is the list of designers participating in today’s hop plus a link to Kitty Miller’s personal blog post about her Shakespeare Art Blocks. Stop by and give her a little bit of comment love!
Stampendous and DecoArt are teaming up to bring you a wonderful class opportunity, open to the public!
The Society of Decorative Painters (SDP) show has joined the Association for Creative Industries (AFCI)(formerly CHA) in presenting a fantastic Spring crafting opportunity. If you’re in or near Daytona Beach, Florida, don’t miss this wonderful chance to paint along with the amazing Chris Haughey and our own Tammie Wilson. This class will be fantastic.
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