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!
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.
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!!
We’re celebrating the birthday of our nation this week with the cutest little mice on the block! Our House-Mouse Designs® Star Spangled Mice are all wrapped up in America! In case you missed the first round of inspiration, you can catch it here – MONDAY (we fixed the broken links, too).
Look at this adorable wreath that our very own Monika Thomas made! Two versions featuring the fantastic products from DIY Bangles! This project uses their 9″ Floral Craft Ring which they generously donated to our design team. The ribbons and stars are from our ALWAYS generous friends at May Arts Ribbon. The papers are from our also generous friends at Canvas Corp! (It’s so fun knowing all these folks who share well with others!)
And of course some other Design Team members are sharing inspiration today on their blogs. Why not grab a hot dog and a root beer float and pop by to see how they’re celebrating America?! And visit us again Friday for more Patriotic fun!!
This week our wonderful Design Team have been featuring our PenPattern designs on their blogs. These simple designs have large, open areas for you to doodle in and color. They’re fun images to use with kids, and charming enough for any greeting! Of course they’re all available in wood mounted or Cling Rubber.
Here are a few of our favorites:
Love the way Lea took the time to doodle tiny shapes into the sections of our PenPattern Turtle. It adds such texture and life to him! Notice the cool Micro Glitter on the glue dot bubbles! Awesome!
PenPattern Turtle by Lea Kimmel
Another quick one by Lea Kimmel, the alternating of doodling and coloring on the PenPattern Fish is so fun! Plus we love that she left some sections just black and white! The quick coloring time left her time to add bubbles, Color Fragments, and fancy ribbons to really complete the underwater look!
PenPattern Fish by Lea Kimmel
Tenia Nelson adopted this easy color book style for our PenPattern House. The bright, fun colors make it a delightful card for any age!
PenPattern House by Tenia Nelson
Finally, in a really simple card, Fran Seiford took some of our terrific papers made from our Creative Palette and just stamped the PenPattern Heart in different areas. It was a cinch to cut out the pieces and layer!
PenPattern Heart by Fran Seiford
Now go check out what new goodies our designers posted this week! Leave them some love while you’re at their blogs!!
Welcome back! We’re on Day 5 of our collaboration with the folks at Imagine Crafts! We’re just super excited about these terrific inks and the Radiant Neon™ just have us feeling all summer time and happy! Combining them with Stampendous Images and terrific Fran•táge Color Fragments has made some super cheery, bright inspiration for you!! Plus you have a chance to WIN!
Remember to comment on as many posts as you can. You can comment until the end of Sunday, May 25, 2014. We’ll draw three random blog posts from all the posts this week, then choose a winner from each post. You must have a US Mailing address to win, although we sure hope all of you will comment! You can find the Official Rules for all our contests HERE. We’ll announce winners here on Monday or Tuesday next week, so be sure to check back with us. (or subscribe to our blog by email at the top of this page!)
If you missed the earlier posts this week, it’s not too late to comment on those. You can find them here: MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY.
Check out this inspiration today – remember to leave a comment!
***Blog Hop Hint – if you click on a link that takes you to a page saying something like, “Sorry this page cannot be found,” just click on the header at the top of the blog (usually a picture, or the blog’s name), and it will take you to that blog’s most recent post. That post *should* be our hop. If not, you can probably scroll down a short way to find the hop post.
This week we’re celebrating the current neon trend with the folks at Imagine Crafts™! Their new line of beautiful inks called
are just exactly that! They positively glow with brilliant color.
And they coordinate perfectly with our beautiful Fran•táge Color Fragments
The potential for splashes of incredible color are absolutely endless. And you can win some, too!!
We’ll send three lucky winners 3 Radiant Neon™ Ink Pads and 3 jars of Color Fragments (we choose the colors). All you have to do to enter is to comment on as many of the blog posts this week as you can. You have until the end of Sunday, May 25th to comment. On Monday, May 26 we’ll randomly choose three of the blog posts, then randomly choose a winner from each. You must have a U.S. Mailing Address to win, but we sure welcome comments from everyone.
Here’s some inspiration for today from our terrific Design Teams! Go leave them some love!!
In case you missed yesterday’s brilliant start to our Neon Blog Hop – Here is the link.
***Blog Hop Hint – if you click on a link that takes you to a page saying something like, “Sorry this page cannot be found,” just click on the header at the top of the blog (usually a picture, or the blog’s name), and it will take you to that blog’s most recent post. That post *should* be our hop. If not, you can probably scroll down a short way to find the hop post.
Making your own jewelry has become such a huge trend in crafting. What could be more fun with all those gorgeous beads and findings available now than a pendant you crafted yourself. It’s so much more personal when you give a gift that has special meaning for you and your recipient.
Our Design Team has had a great deal of fun with various bezel styles and resin products creating stamped focal points for jewelry. This beautiful choker/necklace is a wonderful example by Design Team Alumni Stephanie Lee. It features our SSC1194 Vintage Ladies Perfectly Clear Stamp™ Set. This set was designed specifically for jewelry making. The beautiful bezel, ribbon, and beads shown are from the Rue Romantique collection by Kristen Robinson for ICE Resin®. These bezels are delicately styled and really take advantage of the self-doming qualities of the ICE Resin.
Vintage Ladies Necklace by Stephanie Lee
Today Design Team MemberSuzanne Czosek is using ICE Resin on her blog post. She’s also using the Vintage Ladies in addition to some butterflies and other stamped images. Check out her post and leave her some love! Then be sure to come back and visit us tomorrow for more inspiration then Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday for the BIG BLOG HOP! You’ll be so inspired!!
Hello Stampers! We sure hope you enjoyed our blog hop with the Dreamweaver Stencils team last week. We really appreciate all the nice comments everyone left on our blog and those of our team members. Thanks so much for checking out the art. We’ll announce the winners tomorrow, so stay tuned!
This week we’re joining with two more craft industry partners, ICE Resin and Imagine Crafts. We’ll be using our stamps, Imagine Crafts’ Tsukineko® Staz-On™ ink and ICE Resin, bezels and embellishments to make some terrific jewelry. We know some of you have looked at this process when we’ve shared it before and probably thought, “I should try that someday!” Well, there’s no time like the present. This process is so easy and simple that you really need to just dive in, you’ll fall in love with it, we promise, and you’ll be creating jewelry for yourself and all your friends before you know it. The biggest benefit of these projects is that you never have to wonder what you’ll do with it when it’s done! People are so excited to wear your creations!
Our Decorative Painting Artist, Debbie Cole, has fallen in love with Resin Creating. She’s inspired us to make several Perfectly Clear Stamp™ Sets of smaller images that are ideal for making jewelry and resin projects. You can see one of Debbie’s terrific projects on her blog – HERE This project was published recently in Just Steampunk Magazine Vol 4 (along with a lot of other great art from our team!)
Steampunk Lady Necklace by Debbie Cole
Our other designers as well as those on the ICE Resin and Imagine Crafts teams have made some stunning creations to wow you. The official hop for prizes will be a little different this time. We’ll post some more ideas tomorrow and Wednesday, then the “real hop” will be Thursday through Sunday. Just remember to leave comments everywhere you can and you’ll be sure to be entered for the great prize package we’re offering. The lucky winner will get some ICE Resin, bezels, Staz-On Ink, and, of course, some terrific Stampendous Perfectly Clear Stamps designed especially for your jewelry making projects.
***Blog Hop Hint – if you click on a link that takes you to a page saying something like, “Sorry this page cannot be found,” just click on the header at the top of the blog (usually a picture, or the blog’s name), and it will take you to that blog’s most recent post. That post *should* be our hop. If not, you can probably scroll down a short way to find the hop post.
Folks seem to have taken to doodling in and out of shapes for their stamped artwork lately, so Fran has created some images that are perfect for this new trend. These charming images have large open spaces ideal for doodling your own patterns into with either black or colored pens or pencils.
PenPatterns are available in both wood mounted and Cling Rubber
You can also enjoy stamping patterns into them with our new PenPatterns background tiles. (psst…these also make great card and page backgrounds!)
PenPattern backgrounds in Perfectly Clear Stamps, Wood Mounted or Cling Rubber
Finally, these terrific images make just plain fun coloring! We took them with us to Los Angeles this past Saturday for La Feria de los Niños and the kids had an absolute blast coloring them! Our good friends at Faber-Castell USA were good enough to supply colored pencils for us to use. Our friends at Prima Marketing sent along some fantastic adhesive jewels and paper flowers. The kids were in heaven! Look at this proud miss with her finished work!
And have you ever seen anyone color more intently than these two little crafters? Our new PenPatterns were a HUGE hit!
They’ve been a huge hit with our Design Team as well! They’ve got inspiration all week for you featuring these terrific images! Here’s who posted today!
Hello Stampers! Sorry to be absent for a bit, we’ve been tweaking our new website getting ready for the grand reveal. It just took a bit more tweaking than anticipated. Thanks so much for your patience as we’ve worked out the kinks. We’ll make a separate post for that before the end of the week!
Last week we didn’t get to post much, but our Design Team sure did. They were working with the best of Stampendous’ Inspirational offerings sending Easter thoughts out to all of you for our new month! Don’t you love the gorgeous samples by DT Member Wendy Price above? Such rich, luscious color. She’s fantastic! Hopefully you’ll enjoy the creative and gorgeous samples they all made! Hop around, leave them some love in the form of supportive comments! We’ll be back with more excitement tomorrow!
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