Christmas Coloring Fun

Our week is rolling by just as quickly as the seasons seem to pass by, so we can never be too early getting started on those Christmas cards. Our designers are staying ahead with the projects they finished for our July catalog release and this week they are sharing the inspiration with all of us.

Speaking of a new release, did you see our What’s New section of the website? It has all of our fabulous holiday stamps we’ve been talking about, ready to drop in a shopping cart or add to your wish list! We are so excited to share all these images with you here, but maybe just one stamp from our website for now will do because there are plans for more weeks of Christmas and holiday themes in the weeks ahead.

These Candy Canes framed with holiday pine and ornaments make a perfect image for greeting cards, tags and more!

CRP269 Cling Candy Canes Stamp

Tenia Nelson used Chameleon Pens to color these ombre candy canes and they look delicious! You can create this card too with Tenia’s supply list and instructions on our website.

Candy Canes by Tenia Nelson

Just like Tenia’s Candy Canes card was colored with Chameleon Pens we have a collection of projects from our designers during the hop this week that definitely cross over to the Christmas in July theme and are below in a sneak peek review. Check them out if you haven’t seen them yet!

Louise Healy

Amy Hurley-Purdie

Janelle Stollfus

Louise Healy

We’ll be back tomorrow morning to hop along with more colorful projects!

Three Days of Colorful Chameleon Projects

Welcome to our midweek hop day with a gallery of the projects already posted by our designers. We love how this week is looking and there is still more to come. There are prizes available during our hop, look for details later on in our post.

Day 2 (Clockwise): Janelle Stollfus, Louise Healy and Amy Hurley-Purdie

Day 1 (L to R): Kristine Reynolds, Wendy Price (inset), Pam Bray, Pam Hornschu and Louise Healy

Let’s see what inspiration our participating designers have today —

Jamie Martin

Louise Healy

Chameleon Pens Blog

Stampendous will offer three prize packages to winners in the US, UK or Canada.  Be sure to tell us where you live when commenting.

US or UK winners will receive a Cling Create Christmas Stamp Set and Perfectly Clear™ Stamp Handle from us or our UK distributor, Woodware Craft Collection.

Winners from Canada will receive a $20 USD Rewards Card to spend on our website.

Deadline to comment is Sunday, July 19th, 11:59 pm PDT.  Chameleon will be offering a fantastic prize as well, so be sure to visit their blog for more details.

There is more! Our Australian Distributor, The Stencil Specialists, are sponsoring a prize for one friend “down under” to win a Stampendous Stamp, a Dreamweaver Stencil and a surprise goodie from their terrific stock of Stampendous merchandise!  Tell us where you live when you comment to be in the drawing!

Christmas in July!

The temperatures are creeping up and we are dreaming for cooler days, so what better time to share our NEW catalog products with a Christmas in July theme! Be on the look out for posts about our catalog, but we also have another great event this week too.

We are joining Chameleon Art Products in a hop with our design teams sharing some fabulous projects and we hope you have been following along so far. If not we would love for you to join us over on our first day here.

Are you ready to start your Christmas projects? Well we have some pretty fun stamps and stencils as well as a few new embossing enamels to get you started!

P273 Quilted Santa Wood Mount Stamp

Debbie Cole, a decorative painter and instructor, is an artist consultant with us and she has some fantastic projects like this Quilted Santa box that can transform your home decor for the holidays.

Quilted Santa by Debbie Cole

Quilted Santa Angle View by Debbie Cole

Here are some sweet projects to get your Christmas mojo started off on a great stride. Remember we are also hopping along with Chameleon Art Products and our design team just might be posting for both events. What a treat!

Amy Hurley-Purdie

Pam Bray

Kristine Reynolds

Pam Hornschu

Come back and check out our blog hop with Chameleon Pens.

Memories By the Sea

Time to pack up our things here by the sea or beach and relax for the weekend, because we’ll be back on Monday with a few products relating to our new tree stamps from the April 2015 catalog!

Our design team was busy all week with not only our theme, but also a couple of collaboration hops with Spellbinders and May Arts. What an eventful week and I bet they were excited to see all the great friends and fans of Stampendous stop by and leave some delightful comments about their projects. They did an amazing job this week and we couldn’t have done it without their projects and your attendance, so thank you from the bottom of our hearts for stopping by to say hi!

If you weren’t able to catch all the festivities this week and have some time this weekend, you can still jump through the hops for inspiration and some of the hop prizes are still open for commenting. Here are the links for our hops this week. Spellbinders Summer Road Trip Partner Hop 2015  on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Our week long hop with May Arts on Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4 and Day 5.

W144 Seashell Jar Wood Stamp

If we could take a part of the beach with us it would probably be in one of the trendiest containers around these days. Our Seashell Jar stamp is just the image to remind us of our time by the sea, or beach.

Here’s glimspe of the cards from this week using Seashell Jar in so many different coloring mediums. They all turned out so fabulous!

Now for the last projects for our time by the sea theme. Stop by and say hi if you haven’t already, we think they are pretty awesome.

Amy Hurley-Purdie

Kristine Reynolds

Tenia Nelson

Lyn Bernatovich

Pam Bray

Alison Heikkila

Pam Hornschu

Laura Drahozal

Louise Healy

Coral Trees Go by on Seahorse Rides

Our theme, By The Sea, is shaping up to be a nice relaxing week with sailing on Monday and a cozy place to rest on Tuesday Let’s take a dive into the sea today with Seahorse Rides, a new stamp from the April 2015 Catalog available now at your local or online store. This noble mermaid and regal seahorse might be taking a journey through the sea or appearing in a grand show of splendor. Who know what they will find and your imagination is only the beginning to where they will go and do.

R226 Seahorse Ride Wood Mount Stamp

Maybe our Seahorse rider might find this Coral Tree along the way and stop for a rest. This stamp is really quite versatile. It could be added as plant life to a fish bowl with our Goldfish Pair or make a haunted backdrop to Witchy Dance for a spooky scene.

V307 Coral Tree Wood Mount Stamp

We have some fabulous projects this week using these stamps so be on the look out for them in our theme week links and our hops with Spellbinders and May Arts.

Stampendous Blog

Pam Hornschu

Jamie Martin

These designer’s are also playing along in our hops with May Arts or Spellbinders today with our By the Sea theme. That’s a great combination if you ask me!

Asia King

Janelle Stollfus

Have you seen our April 2015 Catalog? It’s a source for every product that’s in our What’s New section of our website. You can see product number, name and a sample or two for inspiration and ideas. You can also find more of our catalogs on our website in the “About Us” section where you can browse each catalog online. Go to “Browse Our Print Catalogs Online” to browse our January catalog for the complete line of products we carry.

Crafty Streams of Ribbons

 

We are on our way to a ribbon finish blog hop with May Arts and the Ribbonistas Design Team this week. Each day we are wrapping up all of our projects with pretty bows made with May Arts Ribbon, of course! May Arts ribbon is an extremely generous sponsor for us here at Stampendous and our Design Team is absolutely in love with their gorgeous ribbons, cords, strings and specialty items. You’ll find loads of beautiful May Arts quality ribbon on all our samples.

Did you know? May Arts has a new online retail store so now these high quality on-trend ribbons are a fantastic resource to everyone! Take some time to check out the store before the end of the week and see if you can spot some of the fine products our designers are sporting on their summertime projects.

All week you’ve got a chance to check out our Design Team Inspiration as well as the Ribbonistas over at the May Arts Blog.  Be sure to comment and tell us where you’re from, because our Australian Distributor The Stencil Specialists are sponsoring a prize for one friend “down under” to win a Stampendous Stamp, a Dreamweaver Stencil and a surprise goodie from their terrific stock of Stampendous merchandise!

There are Stampendous prize packages up for grabs. THREE US commenters  will receive a prize of their choice in any one roll of ribbon from May Arts and a $20 reward card. Tell us what state you live in when you comment. Stampendous Official Rules.

Be sure to stop by the May Arts blog each day, because they are having a prize also! How’s that for an amazing week of prizes!

If you are just now joining our hop with May Arts you can also jump back to our posts on Monday and Tuesday for some fabulous inspiration. If you’ve been hopping with us so far let’s start checking out these ribbon-inspired creations from our designers and then jump on over to May Arts blog for more!

Asia King

Janelle Stollfus

May Arts Blog

Spellbinders Product Partner Summer Hop

Welcome to our stop on the Spellbinders’ Summer Road Trip Partner Hop

It has been a pleasure to join Spellbinders and many other fine companies in this third time of Spellbinders’ Partner Blog Hop. Each day travelers are taking a crafty road trip to see some pretty fantastic points of interest along the way and gathering up memories of inspiration to take home a craft up on their own. We are so glad you stopped in for some inspiration during your hop travels.

Spellbinders sets a special route of featured partners for site-seeing and today along with us at Stampendous you will also see featured companies like Canvas Corp, Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L, and DCWV. We hope you’ve been hopping with Spellbinders already, but if you just started today you can also catch their other featured routes on Day 1 and Day 2.

And a hop isn’t really one unless you can

Spellbinders is giving away some spectacular prizes during the hop! There will be three daily prizes and one grand prize! See Spellbinders’ official contest rules.

We love our Stampendous fans, so here on our blog we will have some fun prizes as well. Three lucky winners will win one $20 Rewards Cards to go shopping on our website! To be eligible, you must be a US or Canadian resident, comment on our blog and that of each Stampendous designer’s blog posts each day of the hop and tell us in what state you live. Stampendous Official Contest Rules apply.

Wait! Do you live in Australia? You could have a chance at a prize from our distributor down under, The Stencil Specialists, for commenting on our blog and designers blogs during the three day hop. Wow! This is going to be a win-win for our fans! Please make sure you add the region you live in when you comment.

Deadline to comment is Thursday, July 2nd 11:59 pm Pacific Daylight Time. A winner will be announced Friday July 3, 2015. If you are just stopping in today, we wouldn’t want you to miss out on all the inspiration from our posts on Monday and Tuesday to comment on our design teams crafty projects.

There are some must see spots while you are in the neighborhood starting with our featured designers, but we also have some more designer inspiration, too! Enjoy and we’ll see you again in the crafty web soon.

Feature Designer – Tenia Nelson

Feature Designer – Lyn Bernatovich

Laura Drahozal

Janelle Stollfus

Lea Kimmel

Asia King

Spellbinders Blog

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A Stroll By The Sea Tuesday

It’s a great day at the beach  as we continue our shore theme with Seaside Chair Perfectly Clear Stamp Set. This set include chair, umbrella, drinks and beach surroundings for a great beach scene. It also includes lots of expressive sentiments to finish off your project.

 

 

SSC1225 Seaside Chair Perfectly Clear Stamp Set

If one seaside chair isn’t enough we have you covered with different angles in our Single and Pair Adirondack stamps. All three of these stamp options will have you creating a relaxing card or scrapbook page by the seaside or in your backyard.

Here’s Single Adirondack Stamp, that has all the relaxation built right in to the image. It’s a sign to sit back with a cool summer drink on a hot summer day.

Q210 Single Adirondack Wood Stamp

Debbie Cole, artist consultant and decorative painter designed this amazing wire basket with a reverse image of Single Adirondack and the complementing Adirondack Pair Stamp. This is an amazing art piece and captures that seaside relaxation so well. Click on this project to find out how Debbie put this project together.

Single Adirondack / Adirondack Pair Basket by Debbie Cole

The complement to Single Adirondack is this pair of chairs aptly named, Adirondack Pair Stamp. Just in case you want to scrapbook or put on a card that special getaway with someone special, we have two open seats reserved on the beach ready to color and texture with a beachy twist.

P253 Adirondack Pair Wood Stamp

Jennie Lin Black has our toes feeling the sand beneath these chairs with an amazing coloring of Adirondack Pair. Love how bright and beach life it looks! She added Relax Enjoy stamp to make sure we did just that. That’s a nice scene, isn’t it. There is a project page just for this card and you can access it one easy click on the image or caption below.

Adirondack Pair by Jennie Lin Black

We hope you enjoyed the seating arrangements of stamp focus and now our design team is keeping the inspiration waves moving along. Let’s see what’s splashed over on these designers blog today!

Amy Hurley-Purdie

Janelle Stollfus

Lovely May Arts Ribbons with Stampendous

It’s summertime and we’re hopping with inspiration this week with May Arts Ribbon. Open up any one of our catalogs and you’ll see how much we love ribbons. The bigger the better! So it seems only fitting that we have a whole week of creating with all sorts of shiny, soft and colorful ribbons! May Arts ribbon is an extremely generous sponsor for us here at Stampendous and our Design Team is absolutely in love with their gorgeous ribbons, cords, strings and specialty items. You’ll find loads of beautiful May Arts on all our samples.

All week you’ve got a chance to check out our Design Team Inspiration as well as the Ribbonistas over at the May Arts Blog.  Be sure to comment and tell us where you are from, because our Australian Distributor The Stencil Specialists are sponsoring a prize for one friend “down under” to win a Stampendous Stamp, a Dreamweaver Stencil and a surprise goodie from their terrific stock of Stampendous merchandise! We also have it on good authority that May Arts is having a prize giveaway, too!

Let’s check these designers ribbon-inspired creations!

Jamie Martin

Janelle Stollfus

May Arts Blog

Spellbinders Product Partner Summer Hop

 

It’s day 2 of our hop along with Spellbinders during the Summer Road Trip Partner Hop. Did you enjoy the great inspiration from designers in day one with the new Sapphire products? They sure are fun, so much that our feature designers and team for tomorrow’s hop are excited to bring you inspiration with a Stampendous twist. Just one more day before we do and until then we have some awesome inspiration for you right here on our blog.

Spellbinders is giving away some spectacular prizes during the hop! There will be three daily prizes and one grand prize! See the official contest rules here.

We love our Stampendous fans, so here on our blog we will have some fun prizes as well. Three lucky winners will win one $20 Rewards Cards to go shopping on our website! To be eligible, you must be a US or Canadian resident, comment on our blog and that of each Stampendous designer’s blog posts each day of the hop and tell us in what state you live. Stampendous Official Contest Rules apply.

If that isn’t enough our Australian friends will have a chance at a prize from our distributor down under, The Stencil Specialists, for commenting on just our blog and designers blogs during the hop. Wow! This is going to be a win-win for our fans! Please make sure you add the region you live in when you comment.

 

Before you start the Partner Blog Hop we have some pretty awesome designers posting their projects using Spellbinders products! Have fun!

Amy Hurley-Purdie

Lyn Bernatovich

Pam Bray

Alison Heikkila

Today the hop with Spellbinders starts on the Spellbinders blog and continues with featured companies of the day DecoArt, May Arts,  Xyron and Chameleon Pens, so be sure to stop by and have fun on the hop today!

Now it’s time for the featured Spellbinders Summer Road Trip Partner Hop!

*Please note, if there is difficulty commenting on any blog, please let us know at submissions@stampendous.com. If the Blog Hop Post isn’t visible when you get to the link, try clicking on the blog header or home button to be taken to the latest post. If you still don’t see it, you may need to scroll down a few posts, sometimes bloggers have more than one event in a day. It’s also possible that the post isn’t live yet, please try back  in a bit if you don’t find it. Due to time zone differences, we’re not all always on the same page. Thanks for your patience and your participation and kind comments.