There’s Gnomebody Like You!

At Stampendous we’re wild about Gnomes, and our new Gnomes and Friends Die set is so much fun, we can’t stop playing with it!

The sweet set includes everything you need to make large gnomes, small gnomes, girl gnomes, boy gnomes, and a whole woodland of friends and accessories for them to enjoy. There are an incredible 27 pieces in this set, and so many of them can be used with our other great die sets like Snowmen Melt and Truck Load. And, of course, all the gnomes and their friends fit in our new Dome Jar Shaker Die Set for even more fun!

Fran has been having a lot of fun creating cards with these sweet dies! Check out her video on how to use them here –

And take a look at these terrific cards. You can click on each one to see it larger.

 

The Stampendous Design Team also been playing with the Gnomes and Friends Die Set! Take a look at their great projects and go leave them some love! We’d really appreciate your sharing these with your friends, too! Thanks!!

 

Kathi Rerek

 

WindowRama Photo Frame Card Kits

Our brand new WindowRama Photo Frame Card Kits are an easy and beautiful way to send a holiday or everyday greeting!

Simple to assemble, each package comes with enough pieces to make 8-3D diorama cards that stand for display and fold flat for mailing. Envelopes and a small stamp set of greetings are included. You can simply glue them together and add a photo or gift card in the pre-punched slots, or you can embellish them as much as your heart desires.

WindowRama Photo Frame Card Kits are available in Christmas, Winter, Wedding, and Baby themed sets. Baby and Wedding are ideal for Everyday occasions as well. You’ll find them in your local stamping and scrapbooking store or on our website (where your orders are filled by a local, independent store!).

We’ve created a series of YouTube videos that will show you the basics of assembling these easy-to-use products, and they will give you some additional ideas for adding your own artistic flair if desired.

The Basics of the WindowRama Photo Frame Card Kits

Beyond the Basics – Christmas WindowRama Photo Frame Card Kits

Beyond the Basics – Winter WindowRama Photo Frame Card Kit

Wedding/Baby WindowRama Photo Frame Card Kits

 

Everyday Chicks Get Around

Going out into the world with the whole family can be such an adventure! Keeping track of your chicks, is always a challenge as well. With our Everyday Chicks and their handy cutting dies, you can celebrate the victory of getting everyone together for Mother’s Day or just getting out of the house in the morning! Everyday Chicks can do it all!

Check out a few cards by our own Fran Seiford showing the chicks in action. You can click on the picture to visit the project on our website with complete supply lists and instructions.

CSD20 Everyday Chicks Graduation by Fran Seiford

Everyday Chicks Father by Fran Seiford

Everyday Chicks Mother by Fran Seiford

 

You’ll notice on these cards that our terrific chicks are designed especially to complement our Greetings Galore Perfectly Clear Stamps™ Set. This set of greetings has a clean, crisp font that goes perfectly with our fluffy chicks and provides a wonderful amount of versatility when used on its own or with any other stamps!

SSC1281 Greetings Galore Perfectly Clear Stamps

Our talented Design Team is playing with our chicks this week as well! Please flap on over to their blogs and give them some love.

Lea Fritts

Chicks at Home

Everyday Chicks are having fun at home today. It’s so easy to have the right number of kids, moms, dads, cousins, uncles, aunts, whatever you need for your special family when you play with our terrific chicks. Every occasion can include the whole gang!

The chicks are premium clear stamps with a set of coordinating dies right in the package. You can find them in your favorite store or on our website by clicking the picture below.  You can see that the set comes with three sizes of chicks and a ton of everyday and special occasion accessories. The dies are all attached in one big piece so that you can easily clip them apart for use. They do not line up with the stamps to cut in a big group, because every stamp is separate to save on paper. There are 25 stamps, each with its own die. The accessories die cut right on the edge of the image, but the chicks have a little space around them so they look fluffy. You can color outside the lines on your chicks to get that fluffy, feathery look.

CSD20 Everyday Chicks Clear Stamps and Dies Set

Our very own Fran Seiford has made some super fun cards featuring our chicks. Click on each one to be taken to the project page on our website for step by step instructions and a full supply list.

Everyday Chicks Hello Hello by Fran Seiford

CSD20 Everyday Chicks Birthday by Fran Seiford

We’re giving away three sets of our Everyday Chicks this week as part of the Autism Awareness Blog Hop. Go check out our Monday Post for all the details and to comment on our great designer cards!

And we have more designers sharing today! Go take a look at how fun these chicks are in action!

Louise Healy

Janelle Stollfus

Jamie Martin

Autism Awareness Blog Hop

We’re joining today with some awesome crafters to help raise awareness of Autism by creating some really fun stuff!! 1 in 68 children in America is diagnosed with some form of autism, and we all need to learn more about this disorder and how to work with and help autistic people and their families. April is Autism Awareness Month. We hope you’ll hop all around the blogs and show us some wonderful, supportive spirit. There are prizes for lucky U.S. Winners from the comments! Click on the picture below to check out the Autism Blog Hop. Click the picture above to visit the Autism Society and learn more about autism and how they are helping families that deal with this issue.

From Stampendous, we’re offering three sets of our Everyday Chicks Clear Stamps and Dies as prizes. Official Rules are always HERE. Our Chicks are designed so that you can stamp and die cut a whole chick family of any size , and show all your family’s everyday activities involving everyone! We’ll be sharing our Chicks all week, so we hope you’ll join us for our regular blog posts on Wednesday and Friday to see more of this great set in action. Here’s a card from our own Fran Seiford.

CSD20 Everyday Chicks by Fran Seiford

The Autism Blog Hop –

 

Janelle Stollfus

Jamie Martin

Kathi Rerek

The April Catalog is HERE!

 

Hooray! Our new April Catalog is all finished! Want to peek at it? Take a look! This convenient flippy book lets you see all our newest images plus you can download it as a pdf to your computer, or you can print it out at home! (or just parts of it!). This can be a great reference if you’re working on a card, and you’d like to use one from our catalog as a sample.

 

Of course on March 30 all of our newest products will be online for our retail customers (they’re already live now for wholesale customers), products like our adorable Sassy City set. You’ll see lots more samples of the Sassy sets in May blog posts, but here are a couple of cards that will pique your interest. They’re so easy and fun with just a splash of inks in the background and our great Sassy Silhouettes doing their thing in front.

SSC1280 Sassy Travel by Fran Seiford

 

SSC1279 Sassy City and SSC1282 Big Words Happy by Fran Seiford

 

Let’s have a look at some sneak peeks from our Design Team and guest blogger, Sue Drees.

Lea Fritts

Janelle Stollfus

Sue Drees

 

These great new stamps are just getting started! Next week we’ll look at the last of our Spring selection from the January catalog, then we’ll dive in to this new collection. We hope you’ll visit us often to see what’s new!

 

Embellishing Wreath Accents

Enjoy building wreaths for any season of the year with our Build A Wreath Cutting Die Set and more when you look at this terrific die set a little closer.

These terrific die shapes can be found on each project shown above that accents a stamped or stenciled image and adds a fun and unique dimension. The possibilities are really endless with this set!

Stop by today’s design team projects for more inspiration.

Friday Pam Bray Louise Healy

See even more wreath inspiration from earlier this week!

Wednesday Stampendous Blog Louise Healy Jamie Martin

Monday Stampendous Blog Kristine Reynolds Janelle Stollfus

Festive Wreaths Aplenty

Build A Wreath Wood by Debi Hammons

There are plenty of ways to make a wreath with our Build A Wreath Die Cut Set for any occasion or any season.

DCP1007 Build A Wreath Cutting Die Set

Send a wreath card in the mail for a housewarming welcome, hang a garland of seasonal wreaths in the entryway to welcome visitors and add table decorations for that special dinner party. There are endless possibilities with this set and we have a few projects tips to get you started.

Build A Wreath by Debi Hammons

This fall foliage wreath has a wonderful dimension with pinecones that are inked lightly on the scales to create texture and depth.

Build A Wreath Merry Christmas by Debi Hammons

Add a few glittery ornaments on a wreath using the smallest circle die in the set.

Build A Wreath Spring by Debi Hammons

Each leaf shape works for any season by simply changing up the color of cardstock or using pattern paper and add dimension by gently bending the leaf shapes so they pop off the wreath base.

Woodsy Stack Raccoon Wreath By Wendy Price

We have more inspiration today from our design team. Stop on by their blog posts to get more ideas with the Build A Wreath Cutting Die Set.

Wednesday Stampendous Blog Louise Healy Jamie Martin

 

Monday Kristine Reynolds Janelle Stollfus

We can’t wait to see what you make too! Share them on social media like on your Facebook wall or in our Facebook Group, Instagram, Flickr or any other social media channels you use. You can find our favorite channels up in the sidebar of our blog. Just add our name, Stampendous, in your title or description so we can find you!

Build A Wreath For All Seasons

We are circling up a new theme this week with inspiration from a popular decoration this time of year. Fran Seiford created an innovative die cut set to create darling wreaths any way you like and for any holiday!

The new Build A Wreath Cutting Die Set has a variety of wreath sizes with leaf shapes, berries and a darling bow to build up layers of detail on cards, scrapbook pages, tags, and home decor plus so much more! Fran shares some creative ways to build up a wreath with this set, plus fun accents for any project.

We are excited to see what the design team builds up this week with this set and all throughout the holiday season! Stop over to today’s designer’s blogs and start gathering ideas with our Build A Wreath Cutting Die Set.

Monday Kristine Reynolds Janelle Stollfus

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