Spring Mash-Up!

March 19, 2018March 19, 2018 Stampendous11 Comments

We’re still excited about releasing our new April Catalog for Summer, but we’ve still got some great samples you haven’t seen from our January Spring release. This week our Design team will treat you to all the inspiration from our October and January catalogs that they haven’t posted yet. And it’s a wonderful Spring-a-palooza!

Jamie Martin

Louise Healy

One thing we haven’t shared enough yet, because they’re our favorite thing right now, is our Spring Borders Die Set. Fran herself had an opportunity to play with these this last week, and she created a terrific collection of even more ideas for these wonderful edge dies.

You remember that the set looks like this –

Spring Borders Die Set Packaged — DCP1009 Spring Borders Cutting Dies

It has 6 dynamic cutting dies for a huge variety of looks and uses. Well, Fran said, “what if I just get into the stash of scraps we have and go crazy?” She cut a ton of strips and just had a great time layering them on to cards. Card-making doesn’t get easier than this!! It’s all about finding a color story in the scraps you love and just playing with the shapes and patterns.

Can you spot the Easter bunny??

Glitter papers, adding some white with a greeting here and there, you can even make this the surprise interior of a card with a fun window peeking through!

She even used the strips to decorate a hat pattern that she downloaded from the web. Wouldn’t these be a cute project for a little girl’s party!! What fun!

So we have to tell you that the hat above that Fran made is actually sized for her cat, Beaver. We challenged her to get a photo of him wearing it, after all she would have to tie it under his chin, and cats aren’t known for their love of hats… but SHE DID it! And she even got photos!! She’s not even bleeding! Good job, Beaver, such a good sport!!

You’ll still see a lot of projects using these great border dies in our April catalog as we go, our team just loves them so much! And Fran may just have more ideas as we go along, she’s always thinking of something special. Come back Wednesday for more recap from our January catalog projects!

Let’s Go Climb A Tree

July 6, 2015July 6, 2015 Janelle Stollfus10 Comments

Do you have time to climb up or swing in a tree with us? We have just the right products to take you back to childhood memories of backyard adventures, if you do. Come join us for our tree house theme this week.

First up are these friends of the forest who have come together to play in our Cling Pop Up Forest Stamp Set. These adorable animals are accompanied by a fun hollow tree trunk and a healthy limb full of leaves to have a forest of great cards and this stamp set is designed to work with our Pop Up Die Set for dimensional card making a breeze.

TRI-lingual_Jumbo Cling Pkg_FRONT — CRS5077 Pop Up Forest Stamp Set

Here is the inside of a card designed by Fran Seiford that shows just the beginning of the many different scenes you can create with this stamp set for some incredibly unique cards. Oh boy, It looks like these woodland creatures are drawn to someone having a great birthday as they sit on neatly cut tree branches.

CRS5077_DCS5077_DCP1001_SSC1224_FS_Summer — Pop Up Forest by Fran Seiford

To achieve these nicely cut out images, you can use the coordinating Pop Up Forest Die Set that will cut down the time it takes to put it all together.

DCS7004_INSERT_FRONT — DCS7004 Pop Up Forest Die Cut Set

We have this great video on how to use our stamp set and it’s coordinating dies with great tips and techniques.

Hang out with our designers today while they show you their tree-mendous projects

Kristine Reynolds

Layered Paper Bezels with Debbie Cole

January 12, 2015January 12, 2015 Stampendous6 Comments

We’re still at the Craft and Hobby Association Trade Show. The Wifi here is TERRIBLE, but we’re sending all the peeks we can when we get to the rare hotspots around the show area. Thanks for your patience.

Our booth demonstrations have been going really well. We’re processing the videos from them as fast as we can. Hope you had a chance to see Debbie Cole’s brilliant new jewelry creations, but, in case you missed it, here’s a peek!

Layered Bezels and Pendants

We just love this idea! We have had lots of generous companies donate bezels for our jewelry creations featuring stamps and resin, but the ability to make our own bezels using our Pop-Up Die Set is just sooooo thrilling. And when you combine the gorgeous painting talent of Debbie Cole, well, you just get some stunning results. Here’s a closer look! (you can click on it to make it larger!)

Breathtaking Birds and Dies

January 12, 2015January 12, 2015 Janelle Stollfus4 Comments

We have some fluttering friends of our butterflies that we know you’ll think is a charm! Meet our Hummingbirds Stamp Set from the October 2014 catalog! Yes, while we are peeking the new products from our Winter CHA 2015 booth we’ll be sharing a few delightful products already available in stores and online!

Our hummingbirds are busy gathering up their latest meal from a delightful floral vine stamp. We’ve added a free stencil for use with masking our the birds and a few flowers for easy decorative painting and mixed media projects.

If that wasn’t enough we also have a coordinating die set for this set that completes this set so nicely. Image all the projects from scrapbooking, cards and decor, that can be created with these two products together!

Stampendou Hummingbird Cutting Die Set — Hummingbird Cutting Die Set

Here’s a look at one gorgeous project by Debbie Hammons in such soft hues. We love how she used the cutting dies to pop up a few flowers and added the hummingbird for a dimensional look that really brings them into focus on the card.

CRS5072_DCS5072_CP811_DH_800 — Hummingbirds by Debi Hammons

There are some breathtaking projects to see on these designer blog posts today! We know they are going to be breathtaking!

Rhea Weigand

Kristine Reynolds

Just Add a Little Dazzle!

September 15, 2014September 15, 2014 Stampendous50 Comments

This week we have a special collaboration for you (and yes, there are PRIZES)! We’re playing with Add a Little Dazzle’s Metal Sheets all week, and you’ll be thrilled at the looks you can get when you combine this gorgeous product with stamps, dies, powders, etc!

The company very generously sent each of our Design Team members an assortment of their gorgeous metal. You can punch it, stamp on it, die cut it, cut, sand it to reveal its silver lining, the possibilities are endless! You’ll love playing with this product, and we know you want to win some!

We’re offering three prize packages in exchange for comments on the blog posts this week. The prize package consists of the Stampendous Blossom Beauty Stamp set, the Blossom Beauty Cutting Dies and an Assortment Package of gorgeously colored metal sheets.

Here’s my sample using the Blossom Beauty. I die cut the flowers after I stamped them with StazOn. I stamped the Butterfly with our W120 Rattan Weave stamp before die cutting him and stamped it on the card front as well. The butterfly is from the Lovely Garden Die Set. Notice that I added our Gold Holographic Dot Sparklers Class A’Peels™ Stickers to the flower center for even more dazzle!

Blossom Beauty with A Little Dazzle by Laura Weed

We’re doing our blog hop with a Linky Party this time. Below there is a link to each of the participating bloggers/designers today from both the Stampendous and Add a Little Dazzle teams! Leave comments on ALL the blogs so we can enter you to win one of our prize packages!

An InLinkz Link-up

PS. If the Link Tool doesn’t work for you, here’s who is playing today –

Stampendous (you are here)

Add a Little Dazzle

Kristine Reynolds

Cathy Parlitsis

Lee-Ann Cross

Lee Ann Barrett

Tenia Nelson

If you get to a blog and it says something like “that post isn’t here”, just click on the blog header or look for a link that says Home near the top. That will take you to the blog home, and the blog hop post should be somewhere near the top. Thanks for your patience!

Authentique, Oh So Chic!

August 14, 2014August 11, 2014 Stampendous19 Comments

We’re admiring the beautiful papers Authentique Paper sent to our Design Team for our October Catalog samples. We’ll do another BIG Blog Hop in October with Authentique’s Design Team so you can see the gorgeous projects we’re making using their papers. But for now, we’ve got some beautiful paper to give away along with a $20 Stampendous Reward Card. (just one prize this week) If you missed the other posts, here they are: MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY

Lea Kimmel

Laura Weed

Just Bloggin’ and Hoppin’ and Stampin’ and Dreamin’

April 24, 2014April 25, 2014 Stampendous21 Comments

We’ve had such a fantastic time this week playing with our Blossom Beauty Stamp Set, the matching Blossom Beauty Die Set, and Dreamweaver Stencils products. Several of the Dream Team have played with us before, so you’ve seen a ton of terrific samples using all kinds of products from both companies. Today we’ve got posts from 19 designers, so grab a cup of coffee and maybe a kitten or two so you can visit all the blogs, leave some comments, and be entered to win our great prize package of products for both companies.