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.

Dolphin Play Perfectly Clear Stamps
Go Fish Perfectly Clear Stamps

You can watch the video here on our YouTube Channel –

Fran's Watercolor Series Lesson 137 Video

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.

Shell Beach Perfectly Clear Stamps

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

Fran's Watercolor Series Lesson 138 Video

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.

Fishy Fun!

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The Stampendous April Catalog is full of darling Summer fun for everyone. Especially those who love the sea! With undersea Cling Rubber Stamp sets and Perfectly Clear Stamps, we’re brimming with fun from the briny deep.

Our sweet Fishy Fun Perfectly Clear Stamps are a cute and creative way to send a summer greeting or an invitation for some beachy keen fun!

SSC1312 Fishy Fun Perfectly Clear Stamps
SSC1312 Fishy Fun Perfectly Clear Stamps

Our own Debi Hammons made the sweetest card featuring these darling underwater friends. You can click on the image for project supplies and instructions. Or see the card in person at your favorite stamping or scrapbooking store on our May Store Display Board!

Fishy Fun WindowRama by Debi Hammons for Stampendous

For those who prefer an “above water” approach, we also have our darling new Floaties Perfectly Clear Stamps Set

SSC1313 Floaties Perfectly Clear Stamps Set
SSC1313 Floaties Perfectly Clear Stamps Set

Fran made this sweet and simple card that comes together in minutes with colored pencil coloring.

Floaties by Fran Seiford
Floaties by Fran Seiford

We also brought out four darling Cling Rubber Stamp sets in our ocean theme this year.

These four sets, which retail for only $8.99 each, have two greetings and a complete scene for easy, quick cards. Debi created a darling group of cards using these sets, plus we’ll be sharing more projects featuring them in some top stamping publications later this year.

Our Design Team have also been sharing with our super fun Summer sets. Take a look at their cute contributions. Which set is your fave?

Alison Heikkila(1)

Kathi Rerek (1)

Jamie Martin

Alison Heikkila (2)

Kathi Rerek (2)

Alison Heikkila (3)

 

Today is Lighthouse Day! and Winner!

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One of our Design Team members tells us that today is Lighthouse Day! (It might be unofficial!) And it just so happens that we have lots of lighthouses if you want to celebrate this very special event! You can find these lighthouse images on our website, of course. Just type “lighthouse” in the search box at the top. They’re also under “Stamps” then “Travel” (and “Scenic” and “Summer”).

CRS5098 Cling Build A Lighthouse Stamp Set

 

 

 

Tell us about your trip to a lighthouse! Or have you never been? We’ll give away one of our new Lighthouse Christmas Cling Rubber stamps!

Cling Lighthouse Christmas
Cling Lighthouse Christmas

 

Some of our Design Team are sharing samples of this great image! Take a trip to their lighthouses and leave them some love for more chances to win.

Lea Fritts

Janelle Stollfus

 

Winner

of  a Pink Your Life Beach Day Perfectly Clear Stamps™ Set from last week’s One Last Summer Vacation is

Brian Poteraj

Be sure to email us at submissions@stampendous.com and we’ll get your prize right out to you . Congratulations, Brian.

 

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Goodbye Summer Vacation

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We’re celebrating the last vacations of Summer, here on the Stampendous blog. We really want to thank you all for sharing your vacation stories with us. We love getting to know our fans a bit better! Keep sharing for your chance to win the Pink Your Life Beach Day Perfectly Clear Stamps Set. (click on it to see it on our website)

SSCP110 PYL Whisper Friends Beach Day

Our team has made some great samples with this set! (click on them to see the complete project on our website)

Here at Stampendous, our Summers have often culminated in a Warehouse Sale! We haven’t done one in a very long time, and I’m NOT making any promises here (wink, wink), but if you’re anywhere near Southern California, you might want to just make sure that you’re on our email list. Just say’n!  Our previous Warehouse Sales have been, shall we say legendary?! You definitely won’t want to miss it (if we have one, that is)! Our email newsletter also gives you great info like telling you first about our Free Shipping promotion. Even if you can’t come to Southern California, you’ll want to sign up. You can sign up for newsletters and promotion information here at the bottom of our website home page – http://www.stampendous.com/.

We’ve got some great Summer Vacation projects and inspiration from our Design Team today. Please comment on their posts, and be sure to tell us about your favorite Summer Vacation for a chance to win. We’ll be back with Winners and a new theme on Monday!

Alison Heikkila
Jamie Martin

 

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Summer’s Last Vacation

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We’re celebrating One Last Summer Vacation here at Stampendous, a quick getaway before the bustle of school starting and the holidays approaching is completely on us. (This is a warning, by the way, that holiday cards are coming quickly to our blog!) Those last days of relaxation and travel, how have you spent them in a memorable way? We’ll be giving away one of our Pink Your Life Whisper Friends Beach Day sets of Perfectly Clear Stamps to one lucky commenter this week. Please share a great summer story with us!

You can catch up with all the rules and things from our MONDAY post, if you missed it. As well as some great inspiration from our Design Team. And they’ve got more to share with you today! Check out these Summer Fun projects from the team below. Be sure to leave them some love on their blogs.

Kristine Reynolds

Jamie Martin

Louise Healy

Lea Fritts

Bunny Hoyle

Of course, Stampendous has LOTS of ways to help you celebrate Summer! Here are just a few of the great images we have for this family time of year! You can find all of our stamps in the Travel Category  and the Summer Category of our website.

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One Last Summer Vacation – Plus Winners!

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At Stampendous we can see the end of Summer approaching as the kids all get ready to go back to school. Several areas have already started their Fall Semesters.

We think it’s time for One Last Summer Vacation. And we know you’ll agree. One lucky winner can document his or her vacation with our Pink Your Life Whisper Friends Beach Day set. This darling set contains so many fun little stamps from the pen of Nicoletta Zanella.  And you can see in our banner above how adorably it works with our Waves Stencil and regular stencil paste.

Leave us a comment this week telling us about your favorite summer vacation! Sorry, U.S. winners only (although we’d love to hear about ANY of your vacations!) Official Rules live HERE.

We have some awesome Summer Vacation ideas from our design team here, be sure to hop by and give them some love as well.

 

Alison Heikkila

Louise Healy

Kristine Reynoles

Janelle Stollfus

 

And WINNERS!

We have a winner to receive our House-Mouse Designs School Mice Cling Rubber stamp! That winner is…

Lisa

(from Lisa’s Everyday Life.)

Just drop us an email at submissions@stampendous.com, Lisa, giving us your mailing info, and we’ll arrange to have it shipped immediately.

 

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Keeping Cool! Summer at the Sea

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We’re Keeping Cool this week on the Stampendous Blog, and in our MONDAY post and WEDNESDAY post we explored how our House-Mouse Friends keep their cool. We also have some gorgeous new stamps for those of you who like to keep cool seaside. You can see lots of inspiration with them in our earlier Part of Your World blog series.  As a refresher, we’ll share some of them here! Be sure to comment and tell us what your weather is like this week, ours has been hanging around the low 90’s. Pretty hot for June in Southern California. Are you melting where you are?

 

We’ve got some teammates sharing today with their ideas about keeping cool.

Pam Bray

Louise Healy

 

Remember, there’s FREE SHIPPING on the Stampendous website for orders over $50 through August 31! Time to stay indoors where it’s cool and do some crafting! Use promo code BLG717 at checkout as many times as you like.

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Laurel Burch’s Art Themes – Writings and Thoughts

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The Laurel Burch Studios Blog has recently discovered and begun to share some of Laurel Burch’s writings about her various artworks.

They recently shared Ocean Songs about the very underwater images we brought to you in our April Catalog.

Laurel was as eloquent a writer as she was an artist. We really think you’ll enjoy following along with their blog series featuring her writing about her art.

 

 

Laurel Burch Fish Wishes Perfectly Clear Stamps Set
Laurel Burch Fish Wishes Perfectly Clear Stamp Set

 

Want to play with Laurel’s images? Check out all the stamp designs on our website HERE.

 

 

 

 

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Part of Your World 4: Yo Ho, Yo Ho Friday

Yo, ho, me hearties! Today is our last of the pirate adventure with Pink Your Life Whisper Friends. We’ve had quite an adventure with treasures yet to be won and if you’ve missed one of our earlier posts this week, you’ll be able to catch up with links at the end of our post! Come back next week as we’ll travel Where the Wild Things Are for our theme week!

 

SSCP111 Whisper Friends Pirates Perfectly Clear Stamps

Our buccaneer’s in the newest Whisper Friends Pirates Perfectly Clear Stamp Set includes are sailing for adventure with plenty of images to create a fun scene all on its own or coordinates well with other Pink Your Life stamps for oodles of projects!

We couldn’t help putting together a few more products with the beach theme to end our Part of Your World series. Just imagine these little feet on a beach taking its first steps along the shore. Pair this stencil with our Beach 5-Jar Embossing Powder Kit for a real fantastic beach look.

DWLS95 Baby Feet Metal Stencil

And this Clipper Ship with lively waves would make a swift project for any stencil technique! Stop by a few of our projects pages below for ideas!

DWLG763 Clipper Ship Metal Stencil

Ready for some pirate inspiration? Here are designers participating in today’s hop –

Pam Bray

Lea Fritts

Keep on the adventure with posts you may have missed earlier this week!

Monday

Stampendous Blog

Alison Heikkila

Janelle Stollfus

Kristine Reynolds

 

Wednesday

Stampendous Blog

Kristine Reynolds

Jamie Martin

 

Part of Your World 4: Yo Ho, Treasures!

We are back, mateys, with a little treasure between pirate lad and lassie! Nicoletta Zanella illustrator and creator of Whisper Friends from Pink Your Life created these pirate stamps with tons of character that are so fun to color!

Each stamp has a background scene and appears as though one has stayed back as the Lookout while the other found the loot, both with so many fun coloring opportunities!

Speaking of opportunity, there is a Whisper Friends Pirates Perfectly Clear Stamp Set to give to THREE commenters! Comment here on our blog and that of the designers participating in our pirate theme week! Deadline to comment is June 4, 2017, at midnight Pacific Time. US winners only. See Official Contest Rules for details.

Ready for some pirate inspiration? Here are designers participating in today’s hop –

Kristine Reynolds

Jamie Martin