POP Frames will get you Poppin’!

The new Stampendous POP Frames let you add an easy pop-up frame to your cards in so many different ways! You can use these frames horizontally, vertically, or even in a clever method to double it and make a shaker card! Would you like to win a set of these dies??? Then read on!

Perfect for framing photos, greetings, or for using with seven, new, coordinating Perfectly Clear Stamp Sets, this set of dies can do it all. Three sets of nesting dies are perfect for framing greetings or small images, and a great card edger helps you make a decorative panel perfect for your personal messages.

Fran is sharing a great video this week with tons of great ideas on how to make this set really shine. Check it out and leave us a comment on our YouTube Channel to get an extra entry to win this great set!

Our Design Team has been crafting with this wonderful set of products! Check out their posts below and leave them some love. Plus, leave a comment here telling us what you’d pop up with this new die set!! We’ll enter comments on our blog, those of our Design Team, plus our YouTube comments on this video into a random drawing and choose one winner with a U.S. mailing address to receive a set of dies. Our Official Contest Rules are always HERE.

Alison Heikkila

POP Frames add a Pop of Fun!

The new Stampendous POP Frames let you add an easy pop-up frame to your cards in so many different ways! You can use these frames horizontally, vertically, or even in a clever method to double it and make a shaker card! Would you like to win a set of these dies??? Then read on!

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Perfect for framing photos, greetings, or just for using with any of the seven coordinating Perfectly Clear Stamp Sets, this set of dies is so very versatile. Three sets of nesting dies are perfect for framing greetings or small images, and a great card edger helps you make a decorative panel perfect for your personal messages.

Our Design Team has been crafting with this wonderful set of products! Check out their posts and leave them some love. Plus leave a comment here telling us what you’d pop up with this new die set!! We’ll enter comments on our blog plus those of our Design Team into a random drawing and choose one winner with a U.S. mailing address to receive a set of dies. Our Official Contest Rules are always HERE.

Jamie Martin

Kathi Rerek

Watercolor Series Bonus Week

Fran’s Fabulous Friday FUN Watercolor Series videos are continuing with the great Daniel Smith Watercolors and other products, along with brand new Perfectly Clear Stamps for October. These great stamp sets are fun for watercolor, but also perfect for any media you like. They will go live for retail on our website on October 15th. But they’re available at your local stamping, scrapbooking, and craft stores now!

Check out Fran’s Bonus Video for this week (since there are five weeks in October!). It’s a quick look at some really simple watercolor techniques that can get you painting in no time!

Looking for Something Crafty? WINNER

March was National Craft Month… and we offered you an opportunity to win this beautiful Butterfly Frame Perfectly Clear Stamps™ Set. Then the world went nuts!

We never announced a winner and couldn’t ship the prize anyway, but now we’re back to our warehouse with modified hours, and we’d love to send out this great stamp set to the winner! Which is…

Janis in ID

Congrats, Janis!! This set is super cute and just the perfect thing for sending greetings to friends when you’re just thinking about them. The butterflies are all one stamp with the frame for super easy cards, just color and add the greeting of your choice.

Send us an email at submissions@stampendous.com with your U.S. mailing address, and we’ll get this prize out to you lickety-split!

Thanks for your patience everyone! We’re happy to be back shipping products to our wholesale customers!

Looking for Something Crafty?

March is National Craft Month… are you looking for things to create? Our great Design Team are sharing so many fun creations on their blogs! Take a look, and leave them some love!

Kathi Rerek

Jamie Martin

Alison Heikkila

We’d love to hear what you’re creating! Leave us a comment below letting us know what’s on your work table, and we’ll enter you to win this beautiful Butterfly Frame Perfectly Clear Stamps™ Set. Of course our Official Rules apply and you need a U.S. Mailing Address to win.

This set is super cute and just the perfect thing for sending greetings to friends when you’re just thinking about them. The butterflies are all one stamp with the frame for super easy cards, just color and add the greeting of your choice.

Or, if you have some extra time and want to step it up, you can use an oval die to cut out the frame and make a shaker card, then cut an extra butterfly to overlap in style.

We think you’ll love this new set and want to play all Spring with these delightful butterflies.

What are you making??

Blog Hop with Arnold Grummer

Have you ever made paper? We’d love to hear about your experiences if you have! At Stampendous, we’ve been making handmade paper for decades, and we even used to distribute the wonderful Arnold Grummer’s Papermaking Kit to our retail stores. We reconnected with this great company at the Creativation show this year. They proposed a fun blog hop! We sent Stampendous products to their team, and they provided papermaking kits to ours.

For the next two weeks, we’ve got some great projects to share with you as the teams play with the wonderful products we’ve exchanged.

Today, check out this beautiful creation by Becky Conley. Click on her name, or the picture to learn more about how she made it!

Butterfly Trio by Becky Conley

The Arnold Grummer Team has posted lots of inspiration today:

Becky Conley (from above)

Michele Emerson-Roberts

Nancy Nickel

Anne-Marie Fowler

Steph Ackerman

Sandee Setliff

Stay tuned for lots more from this great collaboration! We’re really excited about how our products work together with great handmade papers. Of course there are prizes! Becky has the details over on her blog post today!

Meadows Edge and Meadow Edgers

Our new January 2019 Catalog is full of great innovation from Fran for making interactive, 3D cards that are simple and fun to create. You loved our WindowRama Die Set, and the next step is the Meadows Edge and Meadow Edgers sets.

SSC1294 Meadows Edge Perfectly Clear Stamps contain a ton of elements, 16 clear stamps, that can create all types of scenic backgrounds when stamped and colored in different combinations. From cactus and mesas to fields of flowers or sand, you can have a cottage at the beach or a mountain hideaway with these great stamps.  (You can click on the pictures to be taken to products or projects on our website).

SSC1294 Meadows Edge Perfectly Clear Stamps

They coordinate perfectly with so many of our other stamps, as well as with the WindowRama for perfect backgrounds.

Or take it a step farther with the Meadow Edgers Cutting Die Set. This set of 7 dies is designed to cut right along the edge of the different Meadows Edge stamps to create 3D looks easily without fussy cutting.

DCP1013 Meadow Edgers Cutting Die Set

Use them with the stamps to create intricate or simple layered backgrounds.

You can also use them without the stamps to add some cutting flair to your backgrounds using colored or patterned paper.

Fran has created a wonderful video showcasing these two products working together and separately. We know you’ll love them both. Plus our Design Team has created lots of fun projects to share. Hop around to their posts and leave them some love for your chance to win these two great projects. We’ll choose three winners with U.S. Addresses from the comments on their blog and ours. (Be sure to tell us where you live in your comment). Official Contest Rules are always Here.

 Check out our Design Team projects on their blogs here –

Jamie Martin

Jamie Martin #2

Kathi Rerek

Janelle Stollfus

(shared earlier but uses the Meadow Edgers grass die SO Creatively as party banners)

Stay tuned for more new fun and ideas!

Laurel Burch – Part I

We were very excited to add to our collection of Laurel Burch images in our April Catalog. These whimsical images which lend to bright, beautiful colors just have us completely enchanted. We’ll look this week at some of the new images and then  a little later on in May at the rest of them. Remember that our Laurel Burch Coloring Guide is yours to download so that you can get the Laurel Burch look on your own projects.

First up is the beautiful Imagine Butterflies set! Five lovely butterflies with masks/stencil included plus a pair of antennae to share and the word “imagine,” can be paired with the matching Cutting Dies set to create an entire garden full of magical flutterings.

LBCRS08 Imagine Butterflies Cling Rubber Stamp Set with Template

LBDCS08 Imagine Butterflies Cutting Dies

 

Our Design Team has been working hard to bring you some beautiful project inspiration, and we have some extra friends stamping along this week.

First up, with a gorgeous card you “can’t resist” (get it?, go look at the card), is the amazing:

Sharon White

Then our delightful guest with two natural and beautiful butterfly cards:

Sue Drees

From the Queen’s Inkling, the always talented:

Judi Kaufman

And more from our wonderful team:

Kathi Rerek

Alison Heikkila

Louise Healy (Monday)

Louise Healy (Wednesday)

 

Circle Time

We have two beautiful new stamps, released in April, that have a fun circular design. This gives them a very unique look and lends to some beautiful creations. One of them, the Tree Circle, is a gorgeous silhouette. The other, the Wisteria Circle, offers an opportunity to color beautiful, lush flowers in purples, blues, pinks or hues of your choice. Both will remind you of a beautiful, relaxing Spring or Summer day outdoors.

W201 Tree Circle

W202 Wisteria Circle

Our team shared some fabulous art they created for our April catalog and some other wonderful creations last week. We know you will just love these projects. We wonder if you’d like to win one? We’ll choose three winners at random from comments on the blogs below to win your choice of the Tree Circle or the Wisteria Circle. U.S. mailing addresses only, and Official Rules are always HERE.

Monday

Kathi Rerek

Alison Heikkila

Sue Drees

Wednesday

Jamie Martin

Janelle Stollfus

 

Friday

Lea Fritts

Alison Heikkila

Louise Healy

Kathi Rerek

 

Beautiful Paris

The beauty of Paris is famed the world over. Walking her charming streets is the one place in Europe that looks exactly how you’ve always imagined it would look. Small sidewalk cafes, the stunning Tour d’Eiffel, the Champs Elysees! It’s all incredible and awe inspiring. What would you MOST like to see in the City of Lights? We’d love to hear about your favorite Paris memory or dream. We’re giving away three sets of this beautiful stamp set and matching cutting dies this week!  If you missed the chance to comment on Monday, be sure to do so as well as today. Our Official Contest Rules are always HERE.

We sent our wonderful Paris Bonjour set and the matching dies to the amazing Vicky Papaioannou and she worked her magic, as usual. We just love how she combines products to create a stunning layout. We know you’ll love her little trip to Paris. She also included our new Paris Map 6″X6″ Background Stamp. It’s such a versatile background for any travel-themed creations. Please leave her some love! These gifted artists thrive on your positive comments!

Meanwhile, back home our Design Team has some wonderful things to share using the Paris set, and we have a terrific post from Sue Drees of the House-Mouse Design Team joining us! Be sure to leave some love for all of them!

Louise Healy (shared during sneak peek)

Sue Drees

Janelle Stollfus