Fran’s Watercolor Series Continues

If you’ve ever wondered how to paint those translucent objects (balloons, vases, jars, cups and glasses) with watercolor, this month’s videos are for you. Featuring three new stamp sets full of see-through objects for you to practice this technique, they also feature everyday and special occasion greetings for making great cards for your friends. They can all be found on the Watercolor tab on our website.

 

Check out Lesson 114 for this week! You can find a list of all previous lessons here – Watercolor Series Links

 

P.S. We still have three prizes unclaimed from our Video Series Countdown. If you haven’t checked it, you might want to take a look at this video to see if you’re a winner.  [and no, we won’t give them to someone else 🙂 ]  If you were a winner who hasn’t claimed their prize, be sure to email us at submissions@stampendous.com with your U.S. mailing address so we can get it out to you!

Craft Warehouse Sale!!

The Stampendous Craft Warehouse Sale

will be held this year on

Saturday, October 21 from 7am – Noon.

For five whole hours you can visit our warehouse in Anaheim and take home some astonishing deals on so many of our great products.
We’ll have stamps, cutting dies, glitter, embossing powder, stencils and more!

We can’t wait to see you there!!  Cash or Credit Cards Accepted.

Directions to our office are HERE.

 

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Stampendous and Creative Impressions Spring Blog Hop Winners

It is time to announce the winners from our Hop last week with Creative Impressions!

Thank you for all the wonderful and thoughtful comments throughout the blog hop. We had a great time sharing all of our ribbon dazzled projects with you and hope you enjoyed all the inspiration.

Each winner receives a prize package that includes a Birthday Ensemble Stencil and a Creative Impressions Ribbon Card. Winners were selected by Random.org from all of the participating blog posts.

Here are the winners —

Pam Bray’s Friday Post

Gilda McStamper

Janelle Stollfus’ Friday Post

Mary Holhouser

Kristine Reynolds’ Wednesday Post

Sue LD

Louise Healy’s Monday Post

Brenda Lilley

Lea Fritts’ Friday Post

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Congratulations! Please send your mailing address in an email with a subject line “Creative Impressions Spring Hop Winner”, to submissions@stampendous.com.

For Your Holidays and More!

Gingerbread Baker Homemade by Debi Hammons

Time to wrap up this week of goodies using Gingerbread Baker Clear Stamps and Die Set, but there is one more round of inspiration to share with you.

Just when you think that every idea has been done using a product there is another idea that will come around waiting to be whipped up into a project.

Gingerbread Baker Banner by Monika Thomas

Make a delicious banner with this set, like Monika Thomas pulled together in no time with just a few supplies!

Gingerbread Baker Bowl by Wendy Price

The projects up until now have been focused on our sweetest gingerbread man, but if you set him aside and use the rest of the dies you’ll find more great projects as did Wendy with this super cute card using the bowl die.

Gingerbread Baker Tag by Janelle Stollfus

What about a cook’s gift tag? Janelle used the apron and hat along with the border pattern stamps for this festive tag, it even has the heart from the bowl stenciled on the apron pocket.

You can create tons of projects with this stamp and die set for more than the holidays, just change the colors and it can be a great summer set for a cook-out or grilling theme!

That’s all from us here on our blog and there is more on our designer’s blog, too!

Friday Kristine Reynolds Janelle Stollfus

And for more inspiration with Gingerbread Baker stop by our other posts this week.

Thursday Stampendous Blog Louise Healy	Wednesday Stampendous Blog Louise Healy
Monday Stampendous Blog Kristine Reynolds Jamie Martin

Stencil In a Personal Holiday

 

Gingerbread Baker Sweater by Janelle Stollfus

The fun in our weekly theme is arriving on Thursday to see what stencils we’ll add in the mix, but today there is a twist and it could be just about any one of our stencils!

We’ve given our Gingerbread Baker a personal day off and out of the kitchen so we can inspire you with some stenciling idea.

DWLX7003 Ornate Christmas Tree Stencil

Janelle created a colorful sweater for our baker with Ornate Christmas Tree Stencil to make the sweater on the first card in this post. Use any stencil to make a colorful design and create a oodles of tops, dresses and pants. All you need are a few sticky notes, ink pads, stencil brushes or sponges and a fresh cut Gingerbread Baker.

Gingerbread Baker Jump Rope by Janelle Stollfus

This gingerbread gal is smiling much wider as she’s enjoying some time jumping rope. That super smiling face was made using the shape templates on the Picasso Shield/Stencil tool. Create more expressions just by changing the angles or choosing a different shape!

DWLL332 Picasso Shield/Stencil Tool

On your next day off, try creating new ways to use the designs in your stencils, it’s really a lot of fun! Now, let’s see what fresh designs our team is posting today!

Thursday Louise Healy

And for more inspiration with Gingerbread Baker stop by our other posts this week.

Wednesday Stampendous Blog Louise Healy

Monday Stampendous Blog Kristine Reynolds Jamie Martin

Baking Up Double the Fun

Gingerbread Baker Pair by Fran Seiford

Baking up yummy holiday treats is always fun with someone along to help and our Gingerbread Baker Clear Stamps and Die Set will make an assistant baker easy with the fun mix of dies.

Just think of the possibilities for your holiday paper crafting, gift giving, and scrapbook pages.

Fran’s adorable card shown above would be great for a couple who loves to cook or bake together and how about a delightful way to say thank you to the school’s cafeteria staff!

Gingerbread Baker Clear Stamps and Die Set

This charming set includes an apron, chef hat and bowl to create a variety of merry bakers, and one more die that really adds the finishing touch to the gingerbread die cut is the bow die. Take a look at this merry gingerbread pair with a hair bow and bow tie, what a sweet couple!

Gingerbread Baker Blue by Fran Seiford

Now that you have seen a couple of great ideas here, get ready for some designer projects to get your mojo baking with ideas!

Wednesday Louise Healy

And for more inspiration with Gingerbread Baker stop by our other posts this week.

Monday Stampendous Blog Kristine Reynolds Jamie Martin

Baked Up Just For You

Gingerbread Baker Jar by Debi Hammons

There is nothing like fresh baked goodies for the holidays and what could be sweeter is if they were made for a gift. For all those yummy treats you are planning to make or for a noncaloric treat the new Gingerbread Baker Die and Clear Stamp Set will help create the most darling packaging.

This week we’ll be sharing oodles of ideas for this creative set so prepare your homemade gift list and Gingerbread Baker will deliver them with a smile.

Today we have a great video that walks you through this set and as usual Fran has some great tips and ideas to inspire us!

Now for some fresh baked projects by our designers –

Monday

Stampendous Blog
Kristine Reynolds
Jamie Martin

Hanging Around Wednesday

As the bat theme continues this week we’d like to introduce you to a smaller bat hanging around in our Halloween themed stamps. You can find it in the Tricky Words Perfectly Clear Stamps Set to be used for your next Halloween project or perhaps use it with face paint for a temporary tattoo! There are also plenty of word stamps and small images to build your own sentiment, perfect for tags on your treat bags.

Take a quick hop over to see what

Amy Hurley-Purdie

has on her blog today and let her know you stopped by. Our designers really love to hear from you.

Fran•táge a Friendly Greeting

These beautiful collage stamps we’re featuring this week capture perfectly the Fran•táge style. Vintage, shabby chic, a bit timeworn and well-loved (or neglected), all these elements lend a charm and beauty to items and greetings. We’ve done the work for you with collages of vintage and original images combined with Fran’s flair for composition to create these gorgeous stamps. Each with a small space perfect for the greetings from our Quotes Perfectly Clear Stamps™ sets.

The design team has been sharing all week, and they’ve more to share today! Hope you’ve enjoyed the inspiration and might want to add a couple of these images to your collection!

Kristine Reynolds made this gorgeous card without a greeting! So festive and sweet with all the butterflies adding so much texture, and using the Encrusted Jewel Technique on the edges of her focal point!

Here’s some more inspiration from our terrific team!

Kristine Reynolds

Jamie Martin

Lea Kimmel

Wendy Price

Thanks for following us this week!

Happy Fourth of July!!

Happy 4th!! We’re celebrating America’s Birthday this week with some serious squeeee!  Our House-Mouse Designs® Star Spangled Mice are all wrapped up in an American flag and just waiting for the fireworks! In case you missed the first two rounds of inspiration, you can catch them here – MONDAY  (we fixed the broken links, too), and WEDNESDAY.

Today we’re bringing you a charming card designed by the very talented Jennie Lin Black for our April 2014 Catalog.

Star Spangled Mice by Jennie Lin Black

 

And of course some other Design Team members are sharing inspiration today on their blogs. So throw some burgers on the barbecue and settle in with an ice cold lemonade for some patriotic fun!!

Lea Kimmel

Kristine Reynolds

Wendy Price

Suzanne Czosek