Tropical Treasures

Fran’s Watercolor Series continues with more Fabulous Friday FUN and some beautiful beach scenes to warm your winter day! The three newest Perfectly Clear Stamps supporting her lessons are perfect for combining or using separately to create colorful cards and mini-masterpieces to share with friends and family.

In Lesson 137, Fran focuses on the Dolphin Play and Go Fish sets of stamps showing how to use their many, interactive pieces to build various scenic panels. She also studies new background effects for creating underwater, ocean scenes.

You can watch the video here on our YouTube Channel –

In Lesson 138, Fran adds the gorgeous Shell Beach Perfectly Clear Stamps to the mix and shows you how to embed the shells in sand and create dimensional, layered images. Bright, natural colors give the finished cards the same spectacular looks as nature.

You can catch up with today’s video if you missed it here –

We hope you’ve been following along and enjoying Fran’s Watercolor Series this year. She’ll be previewing three new stamp sets next week, the last selections of the series. Do join us on Fridays, and remember that this resource will continue to be available so that you can enjoy the fun of watercoloring great projects to share with others.

Sepia Tones Create Dynamic Depth

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!

Happy Holiday Cards from Mini-Masterpieces

Join Fran for this week’s Watercolor Series Lesson 125. These sweet Winter Pals are ready to help you make simple, small vignettes perfect for easy Christmas, Holiday, or Winter cards. Combine them with your stash of colored and patterned paper to make some simple, quick, sweet greetings.

The Winter Pals set includes 14 Stampendous Perfectly Clear Stamps, made in the USA, that are perfect for interactive greetings or simple stamping.

We’ve got some really sweet cards featuring this set as well.

 

So grab this great set and your favorite coloring medium and color or paint along with Fran this week!

Poinsettia Season! Join us for National Watercolor Month!

Hello, Everyone! We hope you’re well and staying safe. What a great time for relaxing and doing some crafting. July is even National Watercolor Month!

This week on Fran’s Fabulous Friday FUN Watercolor Series, she’s sharing with the Poinsettia Season Perfectly Clear Stamps to create tons of gorgeous masterpieces perfect for Christmas cards or seasonal greetings. Why not grab your watercolors and paint along?! There are so many ideas here, be sure to check out the completed card gallery at the end of the video.

Here’s the stamp set. So pretty with holly and a gorgeous poinsettia, plus lots of great Holiday greetings!

And here’s Fran’s newest video!! Enjoy! Be sure to subscribe and click the little “thumbs up” to like the video. We’d love to read your comments as well. Hope you’ll try it!

Fran’s Fabulous Friday FUN Watercolor Series

We are counting down on our YouTube channel!! This brand new program from Stampendous creator Fran Seiford will have you enjoying easy, fun, affordable watercoloring in no time! The full program of classes, sharing and inspiration will start Friday, February 7, 2020 and we will have your local stamp stores charged up and ready to show you how.

Leading up to the launch, we’ll have several weeks of introductory videos that will act as a reference guide and will familiarize you with products in this field. We started our countdown on #15 and we’re down to Countdown #10 already!

PRIZES!!

Our introductory videos feature prizes for comments on the video each week. There will also be two Grand Prizes, one will be an Individual Pack of the products needed to play along with Fran’s video lessons. Grand Prize #2 will be a Party Pack for you to play along with friends!! Weekly prizes include products, projects, and more!

Comments on all videos for prizes must be submitted by February 5, 2020. Prizes will be announced in a special video on February 7, 2020. Of course, our usual Official Contest Rules apply, and we can only mail prizes to U.S. Mailing Addresses.

We hope you’ll join us for all the inspiration by subscribing to our YouTube Channel and clicking the bell to make sure you get notifications about each new video!!  Help us count down by watching our first video on Creativity!

In case you missed it this week, here’s Countdown Video #10 which explains how the classes will work and offers the Grand Prize of a Party Pack of products so you and five friends can watercolor together! Be sure to visit and comment!

 

Fucshia Trio – Vicky P Stamps Again

We’re super excited today because Vicky Papaioannou is stamping with Stampendous. And, of course, it is just WOW! Check out her great video using our new Fucshia Trio Cling Stamps and Cutting Dies here –

 

You can see the complete supply list for her project in her video description, and the project is featured on her blog here – Clips and Cuts

We know you’ll love these gorgeous flowers, and this project is just gorgeous! We’re always so happy when Vicky shares with Stampendous!

Other Stampendous used in the video –

SSC1282 Big Words Happy Perfectly Clear Stamps

6CR005 Cling Mixed Mesh 6″ X 6″ Background Stamp

New Die Sets Plus Winners!

Our newest die sets are super versatile sets that you’ll reach for all year round. They’re great for holiday card making, but they have some awesome elements you’ll use again and again all year! Fran made some great samples with these which are shown in the video below. And our Design Team has been playing with these and others all week. Check out their links.

First, Christmas Bright  includes a couple of small clear stamps, nesting cutting die words which will look great out of your favorite paper patterns or cardstock colors, a bow to duplicate as many times as desired, and nesting ovals which will be awesome for so many everyday uses!

CSD21 Christmas Bright Dies

Our second new die set is Wings Die Set. Send holiday love to friends and relatives, then send more love all year! Great for Valentines, wedding, anniversary, or just a quick “I love you.”

DCP1010 Wings Die Set

Fran has had so much fun with these sets that she’s made a great, short video to share them with you! You’ll love all the inspiration, ideas, and clever tricks she’ll show you. Plus the end is full of samples from our whole team.

Here are some of Fran’s projects, there are instructions and supply lists for all of them on our website.

The Design Team has also been playing with these wonderful new die sets and our current die sets adapted for the holidays!

Janelle Stollfus

Jamie Martin

Lea Fritts

 

WINNERS

Last week we featured our wonderful new 6″ X 6″ background stamps, Winter Blizzard and Poinsettia Collage. Three lucky winners from last week’s comments on our blog, YouTube video, designer blogs and Facebook will win both of the stamps to enjoy this holiday season.

Our lucky winners drawn by random.org are:

Regina Hay

Kareajo

McStamper

You lucky people, please email us with your U.S. Mailing Address at submissions@stampendous.com, and we’ll get your prizes right out to you!

The Newest Products to Die For!

We have a couple of new die sets in our latest release, and we think you are going to be so excited by these super versatile sets that you’ll reach for all year round. They’re great for holiday card making, but they have some awesome elements you’ll use again and again all year!

First, we have this awesome Christmas Bright die set. It includes a couple of small clear stamps for the word “and” and the small holly so that you have something you can color or stamp in color. The words will look great out of your favorite paper patterns or cardstock colors, and the bow and nested ovals will be awesome for so many everyday uses!

CSD21 Christmas Bright Dies

Our second new die set is this gorgeous Wings Die Set. This versatile set can send holiday love to all your friends and relatives and then send even more love all year! Great for Valentines, wedding, anniversary, or just a quick “I love you.”

DCP1010 Wings Die Set

Fran has had so much fun with these sets that she’s made a great, short video to share them with you! You’ll love all the inspiration, ideas, and clever tricks she’ll show you. Plus the end is full of samples from our whole team. All of these great projects are on our website with full supply lists and instructions.

The Design Team has also been playing with these wonderful new die sets and our current die sets adapted for the holidays! Check out their creative cards and come back Friday for more fun!

Alison Heikkila

Jamie Martin

Kathi Rerek

 

Vicky P is Playing with Flowers

 

The amazing Vicky Papaioannou is playing in her art journal again, and she’s chosen some of our favorite new stamps! Our wonderful Coneflowers are taking shape in her book which is surely destined to be a Greek national treasure when she’s finished.

Enjoy her gorgeous artwork! We’ll be featuring all of our new flowers in a week of blogs, March 19-23. But we just couldn’t wait to share this incredible video with you!

You can see all the details on her blog Clips-N-Cuts.

Here are the Stampendous Products she used: (you can click on the pictures to see them larger or to see other samples on our website)

CRS5085 Coneflower Cling Rubber Stamp Set

DCS5062 Coneflower Cutting Die Set

LBCR003 Laurel Burch Cling Hummingbird Blossom

LBR003 Laurel Burch Hummingbird Blossom Rubber Stamp

 

Where the Wild Things Are – Wednesday

If you’re loving our new Laurel Burch wild animal stamps, you might be wondering how Fran made those wonderful backgrounds on the samples that appear on our website and in our catalog.

 

She’s made a video to share this technique with you, and we think you’ll love it! Take a look, then enjoy the samples our design team members have created to celebrate the wild things in our lives!  Just click on the image below.

Team members posting today!

Kristine Reynolds

Louise Healy

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