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My Dream Day layout – by Asia King

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Hello Stampendous fans! Time for another inspiration from your favourite Foreign Correspondent Asia King :). Today is quite special because not only I’m sharing a scrapbook page but it’s a layout of my Dream Day – my Wedding Day that is :).

Let’s start the creative process, shall we?

For the first stage you will need: kraft and patterned papers, mini mister, sanding file, Martha Stewart decorative punch, Vintage Photo distress ink, blending tool.

First, we are going to distress the edges using a technique I first saw in the UK’s Scrap365 magazine.

1. Your kraft card will be your base – you can distress it or leave it unchanged, as I did here.

2. Punch a decorative border all around the patterned page that will be your first background layer. Keep changing the angle of the punch to get an uneven pattern – this will add to a ‘tattered’, vintage look.

3. For the other papers spray some water with a mini mister around all the edges and leave it for a minute or so. This will soften the papers ready for the next step.

4. Working your way all along the edges pinch, crunch and wrinkle the papers. Then leave the papers to dry.

5. When dry, smooth the creases slightly and distress with the sanding file. Distress further with the distress ink. Once you’re happy with the look, adhere the layers together except the top patterned paper (we will come back to it in step 11).

For this step you will need: Cling Ruffled Corset stamp (UK peeps click here), stamping handle, Coffee Archival ink, White Opal Liquid Pearls, Viva Decor Transparent Croco, spatula, Inktense pencils (or alcohol markers), water brush, decorative card from leftover packaging, 3d foam pads and ivory card. Oh – and you also need a photo to scrap!

6. Stamp the Ruffled Corset with Coffee ink onto the cream card twice. The ink will react with the Croco medium and fade slightly adding to a vintage distressed look. If you want a sharper image use StazOn or Memento  ink instead.

7. Colour the corsets with your pencils/pens. Cover with Croco medium and leave to dry.

8. When dry, cut the stamped images into 3/4 width, one from the left and the other one from the right. Cut three matts from the decorative packaging card. Mount the corsets and the photo onto them with 3d foam pads.

9. Embellish the panels with Liquid Pearls as shown.

For this step you will need: Shabby White Embossing Enamel (UK crafters click here), Beacon’s 3 in 1 Advanced Craft Glue, Lettuce Colour Wash, Gold Cosmic Shimmer Mist, selection of lace, ribbons and fabric flowers, burlap, eyelets and eyelet setting tool.

10. Randomly spray the colour wash and the shimmer mist over the lace, ribbons and flowers.

11. Sprinkle the Shabby White enamel in the bottom right corner of the remaining patterned paper. Heat from underneath with a heat gun and watch the shabby magic happen. Repeat in the opposite corner.

12. Punch 8 holes in the enamelled areas and embellish with eyelets. Thread ribbons through the eyelets to mirror the lace up corsets. Finish the lace ups with bows and previously died flowers.

13. Adhere the last layer to the rest of the background papers.

14. Arrange the burlap, lace and images over the page and when you’re happy with the layout, fix them in place with the 3 in 1 glue.

Now onto my favourite part. You will need Champagne and Fresh Green glitters from the Glass Glitter kit, 3 in 1 glue, Shabby White moulded flowers, selection of additional pearl brads, sparklies and flowers.

15. Add pearls/brads and jewels as accents around the main photo panel.

16. Trace around the main photo with a generous layer of 3 in 1 glue, add some glue partially over the brads too.

17. Sprinkle the glass glitters over the glue.

18. Arrange a flower cluster below the photo from the fabric and moulded enamel flowers (you can watch my moulded flowers tutorial here).

For the final part you will need: Shabby White EE, embossing ink, die cut alphas, Lettuce Colour Wash, additional alpha stickers and die cuts.

19. Spray the die cut alphas with the colour wash and allow to dry.

20. Swipe the embossing ink over the letters leaving some areas dry. Sprinkle the Shabby White powder over the letter and heat with a heat tool.

21. Arrange all alphas and die cuts over the page and adhere with the 3 in 1 glue.

If you’d like to see additional close up photos of this layout, be sure to visit my blog!

I hope you enjoyed sharing my Dream Day with me! What would be/has been your dream day? Let me know in the comment below :).

Big hugs

Asia

Life Is Art – Tobi’s Butterfly Canvas

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We have an amazing piece of “art journal” style art for you today! BlogStar Tobi Crawford joins us with a gorgeous canvas and a super tip on using Glass Glitter on your Mixed Media projects!
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Hello! It’s Tobi Crawford here with a unique project using some great Stampendous! products. Namely:

Very Soon I will do a tutorial on how I do my mixed media canvases, but for now I want to show you a trick with the Stampendous Crushed Glass Glitter. This is the last step because the glitter needs to sit ON TOP OF the paint. You will need matte/gel medium (I used the thicker variety) that dries clear and a spatula.

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1. Mix the medium and glass glitter with a spatula. I eye-balled it knowing that I wanted a fairly thick concentration of glitter on my project.

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2. Smear/spread the mixture onto the canvas around the edges. If you’re using thicker medium you can allow the spread to be more dimensional. When it dries it will keep its shape.

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3. Once the medium dries you will be left with the glass glitter. It’s there for good!

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I hope you enjoyed my canvas and please let me know in the comments if you have any questions!

Rhea Weigand Shares Some Bling

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Hi Stampers, We have a post for you today from BlogStar Rhea Weigand. It’s one she sent us a couple weeks ago.
In the middle of last week Rhea suffered 3 strokes, and while she got hospital care immediately, she’s still hospitalized as of the scheduling of this post. We’d sure appreciate your prayers for Rhea and her family as she recovers from this devastating health obstacle. We’re just hoping to have Rhea’s sunny self back stamping with us soon!!  If you have a cheery get well card sitting around, feel free to send it to us at Stampendous and we’ll forward it to her. You can address them to Stampendous Graphics, 1122 N Kraemer Pl, Anaheim, CA  92806.
What girl doesn’t like a little bling?
Rhea here, playing with another “NEW RELEASE” from Stampendous!  And yes, I love my bling!!  Gold Halo Mix Glitter brought exactly that to the new Cling Jumbo Magnolia…which is FAB!!
Magnolia Bling by:Passionate Paper Creations

This was seriously so simple.  I used Copic markers. But if you don’t have a Copic addiction any markers or watercolors even distress inks would also be Fab!!

I colored the Jumbo Cling Magnolia with my Copics first adding yellow here and there for my highlights.  I then added Pirate Gold on the edges of the pedals and leaves.  Finally, paint a medium layer of glue on the background and pour on the Gold Halo Mix Glitter.  I worked in small areas to insure accuracy.   Add your ribbon, I used my favorite green and gold tulle, and you’re done.
Ok, now for a confession.  If you’ve watched Fran’s videos you’ve probably heard about mistakes or mishaps that end up being awesome.
Well, After I had all the coloring done on this tag.  I even colored the background which I also really liked and I embossed the edges of the pedals and leaves.  I wanted to carefully place the gold Halo Mix here and there for additional dimension and highlights.
Well, I walked away for a couple of minutes and when I returned my glue bottle had tipped, and I had a BIG glob of glue on the background.  In a panic I tried to wipe it off with my finger.  Nah, that didn’t work so I said to my self…”Self, you got nothin’ to loose” and poured the Gold Halo Mix on it and that is my friends is what made me decide to cover the background with the glitter.  🙂  Keep smiling and look forward to mistakes.  Because Inspiration comes from everywhere.

Introducing Jan Garber

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We’d love you to meet new BlogStar Jan Garber! She’s sent us a clever post today to remind you of our July Challenge – Citrus Colors. Be sure to check out our Challenge post for the linky tool where you can link your own creations.
Plus – Join us tomorrow and all next week when we play with clear resin and our stamps. Wow…you won’t believe what we’ve made!
Here’s Jan:
What wonderful colors for SUMMER!

Lime Green, Lemon Yellow, and Orange!

The challenge for the month of July here at Stampendous Impressions is to use the refreshing colors of
CITRUS!
That’s what I have done in this Garden Journal made for my friend who lives in Iowa!

I am originally from the St. Louis area, and 15 years ago I relocated to Arizona.  A friend I went to high school with, also moved. But she went north to Des Moines. She still enjoys the Spring and Summer flowers in her backyard garden, while I sit indoors and watch the cactus out my window! (LOL!) I DO get to have a chuckle in the winter, however, when she texts to say she’s shoveling two feet of snow from her driveway! 🙂

It is my hope that she fills this journal with tons of photos and memories! 
I started with a blank 6 x 6 canvas mini album cover and back.
I began by covering the back canvas piece with pattern paper, being careful to fold it over
the edges and glue securely.  I cut a piece of “solid” paper to cover the inside and the cut edges of
the pattern paper. Next, I punched the holes for the 1″ bookrings.
I decided that I wanted to make dividers for the Spring, Summer, and Fall seasons.
So I cut 3 acrylic pieces from recycled packaging and again punched the holes for the bookrings. It wasn’t
until I had all of the insert sheets cut to size that I rounded all of the corners.

Please excuse the reflection in the sheets.

The day was overcast and cloudy
and I HAD to get my photos taken before continuing!
I then stamped a Jumbo Cling
Rubber flower
onto the front of each of the clear dividers!

Next, I carefully considered what information my friend would want to include.
I printed these on my computer, then cut to size, rounded the corners, and punched the holes.
This should enable her to keep a nice record of what needs to be purchased or done at the beginning of
each season.  I included two each of the
“Growing in my garden:” sheets for each section,
knowing that she has soooo very many gorgeous plants and flowers in her yard!
(I also printed lots of extras for her to use in the coming years!
I made three of these pocketed inserts to be used behind the acrylic pages as background for the
stamped see-through flower images.  Any additional infomation can be kept here, such as
receipts for plants or idea photos.

CD pocket for a “Virtual Tour” of the garden!

NOW TO MAKE THE COVER!

I stamped the Jumbo Tiger Lily onto the canvas front in brown Momento and
heat embossed with “Dark Bark” Stampendous embossing
powder.The look was amazing! It really popped right off the canvas!(Of course, I forgot in my excitement to color it, to take a photo!)

This is what the finished Copics colored image looks like! Can you completely blend on the textured
canvas? No, not really, but I drew my markers across the image carefully, pulling the color to the inside
from the outer edge, and it turned out surprisingly well!
To add some soft color around the image, I air brushed in green and yellow.

NOW, to put it all together!

Topping off the prettiness (is that a word?), I sprinkled Color Fragments

and Glass Glitter in
several hues.

A tiny, sheer butterfly has found a wonderful place to land, and the soft ribbons and lace
make for the finishing touch!

I can’t wait to see this album in a year and see what gorgeous memories she has stored there!

And I can relive the gardens I miss, too!

Thanks for joining me for this fun project!

Merci!

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Merci by Tenia Nelson

Merci Bluecoup? Here we have another bold splash of color by BlogStar Tenia Nelson. We love that Tenia takes risks with color and also knows how to say thank you in French with our Cling Jumbo Peony! So, we say Thank You very blue, Tenia for all your lovely and colorful cards! (Yes, we are taking risks with language here- it’s bold and FUN!) Speaking of language, don’t miss our Cling Distressed Type, which Tenia used for that clever background on this bluecoup beauty.

Hop In and “Sea” What’s New! – Color Fragments Blog Hop

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This Saturday the Stampendous team has something extra special planned for you…we have combined our regular monthly challenge with a blog hop showcasing some of the great new products released at CHA last month!  Pull up a chair, grab a warm beverage and yummy snack, and get ready to be wowed!

We’ve asked our Design Team to use our new Color Fragments for this Blog Hop, creating a card, scrapbook page, or out of the box project with these little bits of pure color. Color Fragments can be applied with any adhesive, mixed with resins, paints, clays, or just used around the house in plants, fish bowls, candles, soaps, any craft you care to tackle. They are non-toxic, don’t melt at normal embossing temperatures, and you can easily crush them if you desire smaller flakes or different shapes. You’ll love our five spring colors, and you’ll adore what our team has done with them.  Now, check out the whole list of fabulousness for today:

and a VERY special guest designer for this Blog Hop

As you hop from blog to blog, being wowed by all the amazing new goodies we are showing off, be sure to leave some love (and your contact email) for the designers, as well as here on the Stampendous blog. The more you comment, the better your chances are to win one of these five fantastic prize packs.  Each one includes a brand new stamp set and bottle of color fragments:


 Winners will be randomly selected from all comments left on blogs, so the more you comment the better your chances are to win one!!  You have until Sunday, February 12 th at 8:00 PM EST to leave a comment on each blog; winners will be announced on Monday, February 13th. Due to shipping restrictions, all winners must have a US/APO/FPO mailing address. 

And don’t forget….We want YOU to play along with us in our monthly challenge!  Just add your direct link to your card (make sure you’ve loaded it up with tons of TEXTURE) to the linky tool below my signature (or on the Stampendous blog) 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 the gorgeous Corset Ladies Perfectly Clear Stamp Set.

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January 2012 Challenge – December Winner!

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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!


Encrusted Jewel Technique Blog Hop – Chipboard Challenge Continues – October CAS Winner

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Wow – it’s a busy week at Stampendous! You saw, no doubt, that we’re opening an Outlet store here on Monday. Whew.. that’s a job! But our busy Design Team doesn’t rest for anything and they’ve got us hopping this weekend.

Just after CHA last July our owner and Design Guru Fran Seiford made a YouTube video announcing the “happy accident” that led to her discovery of Fran’s Encrusted Jewel Technique. Here’s a link to that video for those of you that haven’t seen it yet:

One thing led to another and our amazing Design Team just took off with this idea! They have had so much fun sprinkling and spritzing and heating from underneath that they just HAVE to show you what they’ve done.

DT member Pam Hornschu coordinated a Blog Hop, and we’ve got some fantastic prizes for you so you can try this, too!!

Here are the bloggers in the Hop today:

Stampendous Impressions’ Blog (you are here)
Cyndi Bundy
Trudee Sauer
Jennifer Dove
Pam Hornschu
Wendy Price
Taylor Usry
Wendy Jordan
Lynn Mercurio
Krissy Fossmeyer
Rachel Sztonyk
Suzanne Czosek

As you hop from blog to blog, oohing and aahing over the Encrusted Jewel fabulousness, be sure to leave some love (and your contact email) for the designers, as well as here on our blog. You have until 8pm EST on Sunday, November 13, 2011 to leave a comment on some of these blogs. Your comments are your insurance that you have an opportunity to win one of four blog candy goody boxes of Stampendous Fran•táge Essentials for you to create your own Encrusted Jewel goodness:

 Aged Black Prize Package
 
Aged Silver Prize package
 Aged Gold Prize Package
 Shabby White Prize Package
How’s that for excitement!!! Well, it ain’t over yet!! Because you know we have our monthly challenge going on!
Last month we asked you to create a Clean And Simple Holiday card for any holiday, and tons of you leapt on board with your fantastic creations! We forgot to announce the winner last week for October’s Challenge. Today we’d like to congratulate Tenia Nelson for her non-traditional Thanksgiving Card! The drawing was completely random, but we happen to LOVE this card – the purple bow with the orange card is just so striking, and the chairs… well who isn’t thankful for chairs!!! Especially if you can fill them with family for the holiday meals! Fantastic job, Tenia!! Thanks so much for playing with us! We’ll be sending you the Cling Jumbo Sparkle Joy stamp set so you can share some holiday joy with those you love!  We really appreciate ALL of you that played last month, what a lot of fantastic cards!! And we hope it got you started thinking about your holiday stamping!
This month the challenge is to show us what you can do with chipboard, (cough cough…ahem… encrusted jewel technique…cough cough) and several of our Designers hopped on this train to show us their stuff!
Our own Lynn Mercurio made this fantastic sample featuring our Jumbo Snow Couple from the July 2011 Catalog:
Snowfall Pair by Lynn Mercurio

We’re sad to say this stamp set has sold out, but we’re sure you can find it in one of your local retail stamp stores! We just love the way Lynn embossed on her chipboard after coloring it with ink. It’s just so classy!Many of our designers this week combined the Encrusted Jewel Technique Blog Hop with the Chipboard Challenge, so you’ll see lots of cool samples on your hop around the blogs.

What can you make with chipboard? We hope you’ll show us by clicking on the Linky tool below and linking to your terrific project! This month we have a Cling Jumbo Songbird Stamp Set up for grabs! Here’s the linky tool:


You have until Thursday, December 1 at 11:59 PM EST to add your link to the linky tool, and we’ll draw a random winner.  You can enter as many times as you’d like.
Also a quick reminder that we are still offering Free Shipping on orders over $50 on our website. Just use the promo code FREESHIP at the top of your shopping cart page when you check out to enjoy this savings!

October Card Challenge – CAS Holiday Cards

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It’s the first Saturday of the month, and that means it’s time for a new challenge with the Stampendous team!  This month to kick things off on World Card Making Day, we’re looking towards the holidays AND keeping it Clean and Simple. That’s right – we’re making Clean and Simple (CAS) holiday cards!!  You’ll see a few team members showing off more than one card today; some chose to make one CAS and then take that design and “step it up”.  Others made sets of CAS holiday cards to give as gifts or use to make a dent in the Christmas (or other holiday!!) card list.

But first…the winner from September’s Sketch Challenge!! We’d love to congratulate our randomly chosen winner – ArtyCarty!!!  Congratulations! We loved your card with buttons on it, and now you’ll have a fantastic stamp set to use on your next challenge entry. Email us your mailing address and we’ll get your prize right out to you!! (email us at  submissions@stampendous.com)

October Sketch Challenge Prize

October’s challenge is to join us in making CAS holiday cards. (any holiday!) We want to help you get into the holiday spirit, so this month we are giving away a Cling Jumbo Sparkle Joy set to a random winner. You don’t have to use a Stampendous image or products to play along, but we sure love it when you do!  You have until Thursday, November 3 at 11:59 PM EST to add your link to the linky tool, and we’ll draw a random winner.  You can enter as many times as you’d like. (link to the official rules at the very top of our blog – you must have a US/APO/FPO or Puerto Rico address to win, but anyone can post their projects!!)

We’ve got a few jump starts for your imagination this weekend with lots of our Design Team creating CAS cards and posting them on their blogs. Here are just a few ideas:

Manger Silhouette by Lynn Mercurio

Lynn Mercurio is starting us off this month with this simple but oh so elegant example of an inspirational Christmas Card. She’s used our CRP137 Cling Manger Scene, CRN240 Cling Precious Bundle, and our luxurious black velvet AC990VK Jumbo Damask Leaves Class A’Peel Stickers. These fantastic velvet stickers are on a vinyl base with a fantastic adhesive that makes them dishwasher and microwave safe plus weather resistant, so they’re marvelous for indoor or outdoor craft use. They lend such an elegant air to a simple card.

Eiffle Noel by Kristine Reynolds

Kristine Reynolds this month celebrates a European holiday flavor with our CRP129 Cling Eiffel Noel embossed in our fantastic Pirate Gold Embossing Powder. What a beautifully simple card that anyone would be excited to receive (especially if you tuck a couple of tickets to Paris in the envelope!). The wood mounted version of this fantastic stamp is available at your local Michael’s Store.

Christmas Greeting by Taylor Usry

Challenge organizer and DT member Taylor Usry offers this CAS card using the fantastically versatile SSC1068 Christmas Wishes Perfectly Clear Stamps greeting set. The holly accents from the set provide just enough image while the sincere greeting remains the focal point. With four large greetings in one set you could create quite a variety of looks as well.

Finally, from the home office, in-house Sample Artist Debi Hammons offers a whimsical Christmas option this year as Changito the Monkey gets himself all tangled up in the Christmas lights. I know how he feels, I seem to end up in this situation every year at some point.

Changito Tree Lights by Debi Hammons

Debi has used CRV230 Cling Changito Tree Lights and CRG121 Cling Old World Greetings for this adorable card. After stamping and coloring Changito, she’s gone back and added some FL400 Cotton Ball White Fun Flock to the fur on his hat and some of our GX220U Multi Ultra Fine Crystal Glitter to the light bulbs for a touch of texture and fun. These were applied with a glue pen. When using flocking, be sure to press it into the adhesive with your finger before brushing away the excess to achieve good coverage.

Most of our Design Team members are playing along with our challenge today! You can check out their cards at the links below! To link your CAS Stampendous card to this month’s challenge just click on the little linky tool below and it will give you a spot to put the link to your card. We can’t wait to see what Clean and Simple Holiday means to you!!

Design Team Blog Links:

Kristine Reynolds – http://stampingandscrapingincalifornia.blogspot.com/
Pam Hornschu – http://1pamperedstamper.blogspot.com/
Taylor Usry – http://taylorusry.blogspot.com/
Cyndi Bundy – http://www.scrappychickcyndi.blogspot.com/
Krissy Fossmeyer – http://www.paperinkspirations.blogspot.com/
Jenn Dove – http://just4funcrafts.blogspot.com/
Wendy Jordan – http://www.papertherapy-wendy.blogspot.com/
Wendy Price – http://paperinkandsmiles.blogspot.com/
Lynn Mercurio – http://www.stamperosity.com/
Melinda Gleissner – http://mynoteworthycards.blogspot.com/
Piali Biswas – http://touchofcreation.blogspot.com/
Suzanne Czosek – http://www.suzzstampingspot.blogspot.com/
Laura Davis — http://adayinthelifeofthepaperpoppy.blogspot.com/
Rachel Sztonyk — http://gingerbreadgallery.blogspot.com/

The Linky Thing: