We’re so excited this week because we get to play with the generous people at ClearScraps and share some inspiration with you. How this came about…
Last year at we offered a workshop using ClearScraps 8 X 8 Sassy Mixables Album. I LOVED working with this product, and so did all our students. The workshop was such fun, and a huge success.
However, due to unfinalized enrollment numbers at the time, we brought home lots of extra albums… what to do? Of course…send them to our Designers (and save a few for YOU!)
At CHA I got to talk to my friends at ClearScraps, and they told me about their new Send It Clear acrylic greeting cards. An idea began to form. How about a blog collaboration with their design team where each member would make a project for the week and a separate one for the BIG Saturday Blog Hop! YES!
ClearScraps sent enough cards for our Design Team (and for YOU), our good buddies at Tsukineko sent inks for everybody (yes, YOU, too!), and we were off!
Acrylic products always look so cool in the store, but what do you do with it when you get it home? You’re about to find out! A whole week of the most luscious, fun, doable projects you’ve ever seen. AND there will be prizes! (here’s where the stuff for YOU comes in). We’ve got three huge prize packages to give away featuring Stampendous Class A’Peel Stickers, Stampendous Cling Rubber Stamps, Stampendous Perfectly Clear Stamps, a ClearScraps Album just like ours, two Send it Clear Cards from Clear Scraps, an additional ClearScraps product (varies), a colored StazOn ink pad from Tsukineko, an opaque StazOn pad from Tsukineko (with refill), some Sponge Daubers and some Ink Blushers from imagine Crafts/Tsukineko. You can win our prizes in three ways –
Comment here on our blog – all week – we’ll choose one winner from the Mon – Fri Comments
Check us out on Facebook! We’ll keep our ClearScraps collaboration posts at the top. Click SHARE and share them on your wall. We’ll draw a winner from all the folks who SHARE our posts this week (through Saturday’s hop)
Comment on our Hop! Saturday will be our big Blog Hop – comment on the blogs and we’ll enter you once for each comment!
Plus – ClearScraps has a passel of prizes as well. You can win them by visiting and commenting on their blog!
So our Design Teams have been playing with these fun products. Here are the players today! Be sure to leave comments!
It’s time again for another Stampendous Saturday – this month we are challenging ourselves (and you!) to create projects with texture on them. You can emboss, distress, add color fragments or glitter….the possibilities are endless!
This is the final week of our challenge and we’ve got some fun textured inspiration for you to enjoy.
CRS5032 Cling Jumbo Orchid by Pam Hornschu
Just look at this card Pam Hornschu made for our Design Team. It’s got so much texture it’s fairly bursting! The visual texture of the colored and black backgrounds, the layered flower, the additional layer of a butterfly sticker. WOW… this card POPS! She’s used our Cling Jumbo Orchid stamp set, our Cling Butterfly Post, and our retired Bella Butterflies stickers in Mirrored Silver (you may still find these at your local stamp store!) She’s even added textuer to her coloring on the flower by using textured cloth dipped in Copic Blending Solution to remove to color in textured patterns. Scrumptious!
Here is a list of the Stampendous team members playing along today:
We want YOU to play along with us, too! Just add your direct link to your project (make sure you’ve loaded it up with tons of TEXTURE) to the linky tool below no later than March 1, 2012 at 11:00 PM EST. You do not have to use Stampendous products to play along, but we sure love it when you do! And as an extra incentive for playing, one lucky person (drawn at random from all the entries) will receive this gorgeous Corset Ladies Perfectly Clear Stamp Set:
Due to shipping restrictions, the winner must have a US address. We hope you get a chance to play along with us – happy stamping!
The first Saturday in February means it is time for a brand new challenge with Stampendous! This month we are challenging you (and ourselves) to add a little texture to your projects. Need a few ideas? You can emboss using enamels or powders, use fun flock, glass glitter, mica fragments, color fragments, or use some embossing folders. The possibilities are endless!
Below is a card from designer Taylor Usry, using some of our newest products.
We want YOU to play along with us! Just add your direct link to your card (make sure you’ve loaded it up with tons of TEXTURE) to the Changito Button linky tool below no later than March 1, 2012 at 11:00 PM EST. You do not have to use Stampendous products to play along, but we sure love it when you do! And as an extra incentive for playing, one lucky person (drawn at random from all the entries) will receive this gorgeous Corset Ladies Perfectly Clear Stamp Set:
Due to shipping restrictions, the winner must have a US address. We hope you get a chance to play along with us – happy stamping! Congratulations to the winner of last month’s Bling it On challenge, Barb King. Email us, Barb, at submissions@stampendous.com with your address so we can get that right out to you!
And make plans to join us next Saturday, February 11 for a fun Blog Hop, complete with prizes you don’t want to miss. We’ll be showcasing our new Color Fragments together with all sorts of products just released at CHA!
Here’s the Linky Tool for your Texture Challenge Project!
Welcome back for the last Saturday of Stampendous’ January Challenge. This month we’re urging you to Bling us your Best as you doll up your creations with Glitter, Embossing Powder, Stickers, Jewels, whatever is shiny and wonderful.
Just link your project to our Changito Linky Tool below then sit back and enjoy the beauties our Design Team have cooked up for this month’s challenge! You’ll love all the new images and products!!
It’s the very first Saturday of the month (wait – it’s actually the first Saturday of the year!!), and that means our fabulous designers at Stampendous have a brand new challenge to play along with. This month we are all about bringing in the New Year with some BLING! Glitter, rhinestones, sparkly stickers…you name it. Just make it shiny and get it on your project!
Take a look at what these Stampendous team members have created to dazzle you today:
We want YOU to play along with us! Just add your direct link to your card (make sure you’ve loaded it up with tons of BLING) to the linky tool below (or in the comments and the elves will help you link it) no later than February 2, 2012 at 11:00 PM EST. You don’t have to use Stampendous products to play along, but we sure love it when you do! (and we weep when you don’t…) And as an extra incentive for playing, one lucky person (drawn at random from all the entries) will receive this gorgeous Cherub Wishes Perfectly Clear Stamp Set:
Last month’s winner of the Amore Frame Perfectly Clear Stamp set is Cyndi Honor. Email us, Cyndi, at submissions@stampendous.com with your address so we can get that right out to you!
Due to shipping restrictions, the winner must have a US address. We hope you get a chance to play along with us – happy stamping!
Every now and then (and not as often as I should) I like to open up our blog statistics and see how many folks are looking at our blog and what they’re looking for. This week several folks searched our blog for Nativity stamps, so I thought we’d post some terrific samples with some of our best sacred stamps in case you still need help with Christmas card ideas.
Design Team member Jennifer Dove made this fantastic card using our CRV186 Cling Sacred Silhouette (also available wood mounted, like all our cling stamps, as V186). If you click on these links you’ll be taken to the product page on our website for the products. Below each product are little pictures of sample cards. Double click those small pictures and they’ll get big. Then, click to enlarge to really see the detail. You can also drag or copy them to your desktop to save them for ideas. Cool, huh? Here’s Jenn’s card. It’s a really easy one because she uses Class A’Peel Stickers to make it look fancy.
I have always loved this fantastic large Wisemen stamp of ours, and every year I breathe a huge sigh of relief when it makes the cut for another year. Our in-house Sample Artist, Debi Hammons, used our new Aged Embossing Enamels on this beautiful piece. She inked the stamp with VersaMark and stamped it. Then she sprinkled Aged Copper on the leftmost king, to remove the powder she tipped the card away from the other two wet kings and tapped off the excess copper. Then sprinkle the center king with Aged Gold, tip away from the remaining wet king and let the powder fall across the copper one. Sprinkle the remaining king and the star with Aged Silver and tap off the excess. Heat and WOW! Don’t they look regal? Adding our new L251 Seek Him (or CRL251 Cling Seek Him) greeting in Aged Gold was just the finishing touch! And that fancy looking background?? She sprayed Kraft card stock with instant coffee mixed very strong with water in our spray bottle! While the paper is wet, sprinkle a few extra coffee grounds on it to create a variety in intensity. Do all your backgrounds and let them dry before embossing.
Wisemen by Debi Hammons
You’ll notice this year that silhouette styles are in. They make creating a large number of cards so easy because there’s no coloring necessary. Here DT member Lynn Mercurio used the Manger Scene and Precious Bundle to create her CAS card for our challenge earlier this year.
Manger Scene by Lynn Mercurio
DT member Wendy Jordan used the Manger Scene and Precious Bundle to created this sample embossed in Aged Black on Burlap. What an interesting texture!
Manger Scene by Wendy Jordan
If you’re new to stamping, or just want something simple, we created this sample for a demonstration at Michael’s Stores. It features our Traveling Far stamp and Blue Magic embossing powder.
Traveling Far by Laura Weed
Design Team Member Wendy Price created this beautiful take on the gifts the Wisemen brought the baby Jesus. Wendy embossed our Dream Text with VersaMark ink and Clear Embossing Powder on her paper. then she stamped our fantastic Three Gifts stamp over the top. The embossing powder resists the new ink, when you wipe it with a tissue the words show through in the paper color. Simple but fantastic.
Bottled Dreams by Wendy Price
Hopefully, this gives you some great ideas for using Stampendous products to create your cards celebrating Jesus’ birth. Here’s a link to all the Inspirational themed stamps on our website where you can find many more stamps which will work well for Christmas and year-round cards. Please let us know if we can help you find something specific by emailing us at stamp@stampendous.com.
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BUT GOSH! What if you lived in Southern California? !! You could shop at our new Stampendous Outlet Store! This is your chance to pick up (or have your relatives come pick up for you) (or just take a vacation from the snow, darn it, and come pick up yourself) some fantastic deals on some of our amazing images, accessories, and even completed projects for your holiday giving/stamping/creating!!!
Do come see us! Everything is at least 50% off retail, plus we’ve got extra special deals on lots of classic products that just aren’t available in stores anymore. We’ve got as is factory close-outs, overstock, clearance items, too, but it’s all still fantastic, top-quality Stampendous product.
Adding to your Holiday Shopping pleasure in the Southern California area, we’re really excited to announce the opening of the Stampendous Outlet Store!
Here in our manufacturing facility in Anaheim we’ve set up a spot for you to come and get the best deals in overstock, factory close-out, and inventory clearance merchandise. You’ll enjoy at least 50% off retail prices on these products. Many of them are older, classic images no longer available in your local stamp stores or accessories we no longer sell to our wholesale customers. There’s also a $1 bargain bin for the very best deals! Our Outlet Store is located at 1240 N Red Gum St., Anaheim, CA 92806.
Our Holiday Shopping Hours – beginning Monday, November 14th – will be Monday – Friday 7am – 2pm PLUS Tuesdays we’ll stay open until 8pm! We can wait to meet you!! Please help us get the word out by sharing this post on Facebook, Twitter, your blog, wherever we can reach more stampers who want great deals!
We’re down to the wire now on our CAS (Clean and Simple) Holiday Card Challenge. You have until the end of November 3rd to attach your projects to the Linky Tool at the bottom to be entered in our random drawing for a Cling Jumbo Sparkle Joy stamp set.
Our Design Team has been just loving this Challenge since they’re getting their Christmas cards done while entertaining all of us! This week we have new cards appearing on the blogs of each of these DT members. Be sure to check them out and leave them a sweet comment, too!
We’d like to share some simple, clean, holiday fun with you today from our home office. Our in-house sample artist, Debi Hammons, takes CAS to a new art form. We’ll start you off with a CAS Thanksgiving card from her. We don’t want to skip any holidays you might make cards for, and Fluffles the Cat couldn’t be happier this year that he’s finally got a Thanksgiving feast all to himself!!
Here Melinda Gleissner uses CRN221 Cling Fluffles Garland with a Tuxedo Black Memento Pad by Tsukineko, her Copic Markers, and some simple die cutting to create a really CAS Christmas greeting.
So… whatcha got?? Link it on up to the linky tool below and let’s see your Clean and Simple best! IF you can’t figure out the linky (it’s really easy, just click on it) you can put your link in the comments and we’ll get our elves working. Can’t wait to see what you come up with!
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