31 Days of Halloween – Oct 1

31 Days of Halloween Banner

We’re excited to have you join us for 31 Days of Halloween. The Stampendous Design Team and guest artists are bringing you the cutest, sweetest, trick-or-treat-iest Halloween projects. It’s going to be booooooooo-tiful!

Each day we’ll have fun creations from our July Catalog. Then we’ll let you know who is sharing that day so you can hop around and see the inspiration. Leave a comment on all the blogs to be entered multiple times.

Join the fun! Make a Halloween project (card, treat, home decor…) to enter our challenge. Post your image online on your blog, instagram, pinterest or other feed to grab the link. Nowhere to post? Email it to us at submissions@stampendous.com and we’ll host it for you.

We’ll draw winners weekly for great Halloween prizes. Enter early and as often as you like. Our Official Contest Rules are HERE.  A couple limitations! You must have a U.S. Mailing address to win, although you can share your creations without one. Your projects must be family-friendly or they’ll be removed.

Each day this link will be at the bottom of the post, and in our sidebar. Click on the picture or words to enter your creation.

We’ll start things off with the fangtastic set on our banner above. Our QSets have fun images, funny sayings, and available cutting dies. Check out some cards by Stampendous Owner and Designer Fran Seiford. Our Batty Cat Set is adorable Halloween fun. Click on the images to see these projects on our website.

Batty Cat By Fran Seiford

Now have a look at some great inspiration from the team. Be sure to comment here and on their blogs to enter for some Halloween fun of your own. We’ll announce new winners each week. Today we have:

Jamie Martin

Kelli Green

 

Don’t miss an additional 31 Days of Halloween Blog Hop sponsored by Leigh Brunton. We’re providing some cool prizes for that fun hop as well! Click on the image to check it out!  (Remember that Leigh’s participants might post spookier designs than we will!)

Stampendous Bible Journaling Stamps

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Last year, we shared our two bible journaling stamp sets with inspiration right from bible pages. Today we have a few clean and simple card designs that we think are the coolest!

Bible Journal Card by Jamie Martin

Bible Promises Card by Jamie Martin

Bible Promises Card by Jamie Martin

Bible Journal Card by Tenia Nelson

There are still plenty of ideas to be done with these sets and Fran shows some great techniques in this terrific video for using the new stamps sets, inks, and more media in the margins of your Bible.

 

Part of Your World 4: Yo Ho, Treasures!

We are back, mateys, with a little treasure between pirate lad and lassie! Nicoletta Zanella illustrator and creator of Whisper Friends from Pink Your Life created these pirate stamps with tons of character that are so fun to color!

Each stamp has a background scene and appears as though one has stayed back as the Lookout while the other found the loot, both with so many fun coloring opportunities!

Speaking of opportunity, there is a Whisper Friends Pirates Perfectly Clear Stamp Set to give to THREE commenters! Comment here on our blog and that of the designers participating in our pirate theme week! Deadline to comment is June 4, 2017, at midnight Pacific Time. US winners only. See Official Contest Rules for details.

Ready for some pirate inspiration? Here are designers participating in today’s hop –

Kristine Reynolds

Jamie Martin

Part of Your World 3: Anchors Aweigh!

Nautical Anchor by Dee Adams

This week has been about coastline views and activities on the shore but next week be on the lookout for more treasure, ye mateys! Until then let’s anchor aweigh with more fantastic sea and beach themed stamps!

SSC1261 Nautical Anchor Perfectly Clear Stamp Set

We had two maritime Perfectly Clear Stamp Set in our April 2017 catalog. We shared Nautical Treasures last week to you in this post and today is Nautical Anchor with wonderful phrases and images for a masculine style card or project.  Here are some fabulous projects from our design team using this set perfect for your seafaring friends and family!

And our week isn’t complete without the beloved characters of House-Mouse Designs and their playful side to getting some sunshine in their day!

We have a great little sentiment that goes well with these sunbathing mice or anytime you want to add a smile to someone’s day.

PYL Hammock by Louise Healy

And to wrap up our week of inspiration, stop by our designer’s blogs today to see their fabulous projects for our theme week and be sure to check out our other posts from this week for more inspiration and ideas!

Pam Bray
Lea Fritts
Jamie Martin
Lea Fritts (Wednesday Post)

Monday

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Alison Heikkila
Kristine Reynolds

Wednesday

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Louise Healy
Kristine Reynolds

Part of Your World 3: Warm on the Sand

SSCP110 Whisper Friends Beach Day Perfectly Clear Stamp Set

What would I pay, To spend a day, Warm on the sand!

We might have a view of sailboats and surfers, seashells and beach huts, too with Pink Your Life stamps by artist Nicoletta Zanella.

For a day at the beach, Nicoletta provides all that is necessary to enjoy the ocean and stay cozy on the shore in our Beach Day Perfectly Clear Stamp Set.  Check out the versatility with these stamps from our designer’s projects that go from pastels to grunge hues!

Assemble your scene from Beach Day or make it easier with these stamps, too!

Enjoy a stroll on the beach, a sunset nap or catch a wave in these stamps sized just right for a greeting card. Or add these fun beach activities to a scrapbook page, as table decor or a party theme invitation!

Accent any shore with the look of real sand using our Golden Sand Embossing Enamel! Kristine used it on her Beach Girl (below) and Beach Day (shown above) cards for a great effect. Find our embossing powder in a single jar or in a 5-Jar Beach kit in the Opaque Embossing Powders category of our website.

PYL Beach Girl by Kristine Reynolds

We have more great beach inspiration from our designers today with Pink Your Life!

Louise Healy

Kristine Reynolds

Jamie Martin

Lea Fritts

Part of Your World 2: Happy Fish

Fish Wishes by Fran Seiford

Down here all the fish is happy! As off to the waves, they roll.

We have so many fun images for our Part of Your World theme that include fish, just look at the happy ones in our Laurel Burch Fish Wishes Stamp set waves and all.

SSCL104 Fish Wishes Perfectly Clear Stamp Set

More fintastic fish can be found in our metal stencils that have great open designs to show off colorful scales or filled in a fun zentangle design. Get some help filling them in with the Small and Large Scale stencils too.

Even our House-Mouse Amanda shows a fish some love! Isn’t that adorable!

For more deep sea inspiration stop by to see projects from our design team today!

Jamie Martin

Louise Healy

Celebrate Mom in Laurel Burch Style!

Laurel Burch Blossoming Woman by Fran Seiford

Today we have our post spotlighting all the fabulous Laurel Burch stamps and dies that are perfect for celebrating mom this year.

The beautiful Blossoming Woman card created by Fran Seiford is symbolic to how magical and expressive Laurel Burch created her artwork and with our cling stamp set you can customize a Blossoming Woman with your own mom’s unique spirit and expression for a Mother’s Day card!

We have much more Laurel Burch stamps that are perfect for Mother’s Day on our website too! Stop by there for a look-see and find catalog samples for you ideas toward your project for mom, here are just a few from the collection as inspiration starters.

There is still time to create a one-of-a-kind project for mom, and if you like something you see from the gallery above clicking on any photo’s caption will take you to our website for more information. Remember that when you purchase from our website, your order will be fulfilled by a shop closest to you when possible.

Friday

Stampendous Blog

Jamie Martin

Pam Bray

Kristine Reynolds

Louise Healy

Keep hopping for inspiration from our posts earlier this week if you happened to miss them and we hope you have a great weekend everyone!

Monday

Stampendous Blog

Alison Heikkila

Kristine Reynolds

Louise Healy

Wednesday

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Jamie Martin

Kristine Reynolds

Louise Healy

Janelle Stollfus

Celebrate Mom with Thanks and Dessert!

Thank You Daisies by Rhea Weigand

It’s Wednesday, and we are celebrating mom by showering her with gratitude add in a few sweet treats too!

R264 Thank You Daisies

Let’s say thank you in a big way with these great stamps in different styles! Thank You Daisies stamp is an all-in-one design, just stamp and color then send! And these small sentiments create a big message for a quick card!

And for all the times our moms prepared delicious meals and desserts for us here are some decadent treats for her too!

We think she’ll love the thoughtfulness of a handmade gift with any of our Mom theme stamps, too. Stop by our website to see more!

Our design team is sharing more mom inspired projects with our newest products from the January and April catalogs. Hop on over to their blogs for more ideas for Mother’s Day!

Wednesday

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Jamie Martin

Kristine Reynolds

Louise Healy

Janelle Stollfus

We also posted earlier this week if you want to keep hopping along!

Monday

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Alison Heikkila

Kristine Reynolds

Louise Healy

Celebrate Mom!

Spring Tweets by Fran Seiford

Mother’s Day is just around the corner in the U.S., and there is still time to create a beautiful project for the occasion!

What better way to show appreciation for all that moms do for our family than to make a homemade stamped card, gift or scrapbook memory. We have tons of stamps and stencils worthy of a project for our moms.

Let’s take a look at some of our latest blossom images that are perfect for a card, tag or gift wrapping!

Vintage rose with a postcard backdrop, country pitcher holds a hydrangea bunches, and fresh cut flower bouquets are all fabulous images for a project from mom, we also have a ton more flowers of different styles available in our Flower Garden category of our website, stop by and see them all!

Our talented design team is back again this week sharing their favorite projects to celebrate mom!

Alison Heikkila

Kristine Reynolds

Louise Healy

April Showers in Stencils!

Spring Short Stack Umbrella Background by Amy Hurley Purdie

Get your stencil brushes, embossing pastes and ink pads ready, we are in a shower of stencils today!

A sweet little Panda from our Spring Short Stack Perfectly Clear Stamp Set is surrounded by soft rain and umbrella patterns using ink pads and sponge daubers. For more information on this cute card, click on the caption below the photo.

DWLJ908 Umbrella Background Stencil

Give the effect of rain on your project with embossing paste or ink and our Rain Stencil. Remember to bring along the Umbrella Stencil to keep dry!

Kristine and Louise both created a little rain shower for their House-Mouse characters, and we just love the different ways you can use the stencil. There are even more projects today for our April Showers theme from our design team!

Jamie Martin

Kristine Reynolds

Louise Healy