31 Days of Halloween – Day 20

October 20, 2015November 2, 2015 Janelle Stollfus12 Comments

No genies in a bottle, of course, because it’s all about Halloween with 31 Days! Check out what Amy has been bottling up to share on her blog today!

This fantastic event involves tons of Halloween inspiration for those of you who love the spooky side. Tons of crafty bloggers will be posting a Halloween project each day in October 2015. And our Design Team has accepted the Challenge.

Visit us each day to see the new list of who is posting, plus a tease of their project. Every project for this blog hop will be brand new!

And of course there are PRIZES!!! There will be scavenger hunts and heaps of prizes hidden all over the interwebs. These will all be given out by the folks at www.smearedink.com who are in charge of the event. And there will be a Grand Prize Drawing as well. Be sure to visit them to find out all about the prizes!

Playing today from the Stampendous Design Team –

Amy Hurley-Purdie

Your next hop is on to Shell’s blog! Thanks for stopping by!

Here is the complete hop list for those who want to start at the beginning! Happy hopping!

Lost Coast Portal To Creativity

Stampendous Stamps

Happy World Card Making Day 2015!

October 3, 2015October 3, 2015 Janelle Stollfus12 Comments

As you know we here at Stampendous LOVE making cards and we wouldn’t be here if our fans and team didn’t love it, too. So we are celebrating World Card Making Day with a few of our favorites from 2015. Enjoy and let us know what you are creating for WCMD 2015!

Laura Drahozal

Pam Hornschu

Amy Hurley-Purdie

Lea Fritts

Jamie Martin

Pam Bray

Louise Healy

Wendy Price

Asia King

Janelle Stollfus

Lyn Bernatovich

Alison Heikkila

Kristine Reynolds

Tenia Nelson

Clinging To Pumpkins On A Dreamweaver Thursday

October 1, 2015October 1, 2015 phornschu7 Comments

We are clinging on to our pumpkin theme this week with a great tutorial that could be a little clingy and addicting, because you’ll be clinging to everything once you’ve seen what’s up with stencils and pumpkins. Speaking of pumpkins here are a few of the popular stencils on our website.

Here’s a great tutorial from the archives that will help you cling to new ways of using your stencil designs.

Supplies:

Dreamweaver Stencils Vintage Decor and Large Bats stencils, Matte Black Embossing Paste, Palette Knife, and Spreader
Black Micro Glitter
Ranger Non-stick Craft Sheet
Elmer’s Glue All
3M Scotch Removable Tape

Step 1: Apply tape to all four sides of stencil and onto craft sheet.

Step 2: Using palette knife, apply paste along edge of spreader approximately the same width as the stencil design.

Step 3: Spread four fingers along back of spreader, and apply paste at an acute angle across the stencil. If there are gaps, place paste with palette knife in them, and then go back over the design with the spreader at a 90 degree angle.

Step 4: Carefully remove tape from three sides and use a fourth piece as a hinge to lift stencil up and away. Clean stencil immediately with warm water and a nail brush.

Step 5: Pour glitter over wet paste and carefully press into surface. Set aside to dry.

(Follow above steps with Bats stencil as well.)

Step 6: When dry, shake off glitter onto scrap paper, and funnel back into jar. (Note: A “Swiffer” cloth is great for removing excess glitter.) Apply drops of glue between each section of design as a bridge. Let dry.

Step 7: Carefully peel “clings” from craft sheet and press apply onto clean pumpkins, no extra glue needed. Clings can be removed if desired. They can also be pressed onto windows, glass hurricane lanterns, etc.

Now for some pretty pumpkin projects from these stencil artists —

Are you joining us this week in our partner hop? Come have some fun and inspiration!

Colorful Saturday Hop with Tombow

September 19, 2015September 19, 2015 Janelle Stollfus12 Comments

Hello and welcome back to our second day of our hop with Tombow! The first day was a huge day of inspiration and today’s designer line up is going to be filled with even more! If you missed our first day here’s a snapshot of all the projects from the designers. To see there projects and more details including tutorials you can go back to day one here.

We have two prize packages up for grabs with some amazing products you’ll see being used during the hop. Each package will include:

A set of 24 Tombow Recycled Color Pencils
A roll of Tombow 3D Foam Tape
A Jumbo Perfectly Clear Handle
Your choice from Create Fall, Create Christmas, Create Winter or Create a Poinsettia Cling Stamp set and Matching Dies

That’s a pretty awesome package.

To win you should:

Have a US Mailing Address (See Official Rules)
“Like” both TombowUSA and Stampendous company pages on Facebook if you use it.
Follow @tombowusa and @stampendous on Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest (or wherever you play along)
And comment on all the blog posts from both teams all week. Including our pre-game posts Mon-Thurs and our Weekend hop Fri-Sun.
We’ll give you until Tuesday, September 22 to get all those great comments in, then we’ll choose 2 winners on Sept 23.

Be sure to comment and tell us where you’re from, because our Australian Distributor The Stencil Specialists are sponsoring a prize for one friend “down under” to win a Stampendous Stamp, a Dreamweaver Stencil and a surprise goodie from their terrific stock of Stampendous merchandise!

Today’s designers with participating blog posts –

Pam Bray

Lyn Bernatovich

Jennifer Priest

Janelle Stollfus

Pam Hornschu

Daniella Hayes

Alison Heikkila

Wendy Price

Lea Fritts

Tombow Blog

We’re Hopping with TombowUSA this Weekend

September 18, 2015September 19, 2015 Janelle Stollfus19 Comments

We are over the top excited to be hopping this weekend with out friends at Tombow and their talented design team! Our images just wouldn’t be as fantastic without color and Tombow has some amazing products that fit the job. This whole week we’ve been previewing these products with projects from our design team that you will find on the Stampendous and Tombow Pinterest Board for instant inspiration.

The folks at Tombow sent our design team this awesome set of 24 Recycled Color Pencils that come in a fabulous storage tin and the team is excited to showcase these pencils with some of their favorite Stampendous stamps and Essentials.

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We have two prize packages up for grabs with some amazing products you’ll see being used during the hop. Each package will include:

A set of 24 Tombow Recycled Color Pencils
A roll of Tombow 3D Foam Tape
A Jumbo Perfectly Clear Handle
Your choice from Create Fall, Create Christmas, Create Winter or Create a Poinsettia Cling Stamp set and Matching Dies

That’s a pretty awesome package.

To win you should:

Have a US Mailing Address (See Official Rules)
“Like” both TombowUSA and Stampendous company pages on Facebook if you use it.
Follow @tombowusa and @stampendous on Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest (or wherever you play along)
And comment on all the blog posts from both teams all week. Including our pre-game posts Mon-Thurs and our Weekend hop Fri-Sun.
We’ll give you until Tuesday, September 22 to get all those great comments in, then we’ll choose 2 winners on Sept 23.

Let’s get this hop started! Here are the designers that are participating today –

Kristine Reynolds

Lyn Bernatovich

Jennie Garcia

Jamie Martin

Laura Drahozal

Beth Watson

Amy Hurley-Purdie

Lea Fritts

Tenia Nelson

Tombow Blog

*Please note, if there is difficulty commenting on any blog, please let us know at submissions@stampendous.com. If the Blog Hop Post isn’t visible when you get to the link, try clicking on the blog header or home button to be taken to the latest post. If you still don’t see it, you may need to scroll down a few posts, sometimes bloggers have more than one event in a day. It’s also possible that the post isn’t live yet, please try back in a bit if you don’t find it. Due to time zone differences, we’re not all always on the same page. Thanks for your patience and your participation and kind comments.

A Mousey Coloring Day

September 16, 2015September 16, 2015 Janelle Stollfus7 Comments

Break out your Tombow Dual Brush Pens or pencils for a House-Mouse coloring day with us! Today we are featuring those wonderful mouse designs by Ellen Jareckie along with two coloring charts that will help get their fur straightened out.

House-Mouse Coloring Chart - Tombow Markers — House-Mouse Coloring Chart – Tombow Markers by Marie Browning

Here’s a little cookie nibbler colored by Kristine Reynolds with Dual Brush Pens. What a darling colored image.

Pam Hornschu made this card with a great color combo of Tombow Dual Brush Pens on tan card stock.

Rockin' Ride by Pam Hornschu — Rockin’ Ride by Pam Hornschu

If your Tombow medium of choice are Irojiten Colored Pencils then you might want to take a look at this second chart of fine mousey colors.

House-Mouse Coloring Guide - Tombow Irojiten Colored Pencils by Marie Browning — House-Mouse Coloring Guide – Tombow Irojiten Colored Pencils by Marie Browning

Marie Browning made up these sweet cards to go along with the coloring chart in one of her posts for an earlier blog hop we did with Tombow and their design team.

House-Mouse Designs look good in Tombow colors and we have more great projects to share from our team as we are stretching our mojo through the week to our hop. Enjoy these new projects today and we’ll be back tomorrow with an awesome technique with Dreamweaver Stencils and Tombow products.

We are getting closer to our hop with Tombow and so excited to share even more fabulous colored images, Join us this weekend for a great time and prizes!

Project Pop Up Trees

September 11, 2015September 11, 2015 Janelle Stollfus2 Comments

We think this week’s theme is boughs to bows above the rest with Christmas tree projects inspiration. If you missed any of our posts on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday you are missing some tree-mendous product combinations. An easy way to catch up though is to check out the design team projects through our Christmas Inspiration Pinterest board.

Today’s inspiration gallery here on our blog are the cards you might have spotted during Fran’s video shared here on Wednesday’s post. There were a some darling Pop Up cards that always make a fun greeting. To see these up close, clicking on the caption will lead you to a project page with a larger photo and more information on supplies and instructions.

Create Christmas Season’s Greetings by Fran Seiford

Create Christmas Keep Calm Pop Up card by Fran Seiford

Create Christmas Pop Up Card by Fran Seiford

Create Christmas Friends by Fran Seiford

We have news for you before we send you hopping off to see more awesome projects from our design team.

This month Create Christmas is popping up at your favorite stamping and scrapbooking store with our Pop-Up card of the month program! Everything you need in supplies and full instructions are available to create this featured card by designer Debi Hammons and they might even have it as a class. If you don’t see it in your store, ask about the Pop-Up Card program from Stampendous.

Here’s a pretty fabulous list of projects to hop on over and see.

Come join us all next week as we share projects using some of our favorite products from TombowUSA and then starting Friday, September 18th we’ll be hopping with their design team. See you back

Winter and Christmas Card Making

September 4, 2015September 4, 2015 Janelle Stollfus2 Comments

Today is Winter and Christmas card making day here on our blog with six All in One stamps to see! Christmas is the biggest season for card giving and if you have made your cards before you know that it can be a time consuming task.

Our All in Ones are here to help to create oodles of quick cards that are cheerful and darling surely to put smiles on friends and families faces. Each stamp has a focal image, a phrase, a background and a frame so finishing up your holiday cards will be a breeze.

W158 Sweater Snowman Rubber Stamp

W159 Christmas Train Rubber Stamp

With a cheerful greeting this chilly penguin sends holiday wishes to friends in cold places. One of our new All in Ones.

W160 Robin Greetings Rubber Stamp

W161 Penguin Holiday Rubber Stamp

W162 Santa Paws Rubber Stamp

W163 Love Was Born Rubber Stamp

Here are stacks of each stamp design on a colorful monoprint paper made with the Creative Palette Monoprinting Plate, DecoArt paint and a couple NK Studio Stamps Sets for texture, then they were glued onto a neutral card base for quick work of your mailing list. Now isn’t that a vision of fun!

W157_163_one-stamping_topview — All in One Holiday Cards by Janelle Stollfus

From the simple one-stamping technique like Janelle created with her set of cards to wherever your creativity leads you, the All in Ones work great in any design.

Jennie Lin Black created a set of cards with a few adorable embellishments for a special touch. These are all so sweet!

Now let’s see what design direction our team went on their All in One cards. Enjoy, leave some comment love and we’ll see you back here next week when we’ll be creating more for Christmas.

There have been a lot of wonderful projects this week that covered Fall, Halloween, Winter and Christmas. We wouldn’t want you to miss finding them again, so each project is added to our Pinterest boards. Subscribe to these boards to see Fall Season Ideas, Halloween Inspiration and Christmas Inspiration.

Snow Many Friends, Snow Much Time

August 28, 2015August 28, 2015 Janelle Stollfus5 Comments

It has been a great week of building new fantastic projects with our design team using the Build A Snowman Perfectly Clear Set and the ideas are still coming like this project from the archives by Jennifer Dove.

This is the sweetest pendant using the three faces from Build A Snowman set. Click on the picture or caption to find out how Jennifer made this beauty.

Snowman Ornament by Rhea Weigand — Snowman Pendant by Jennifer Dove

The Build A Snowman stamp set combines well with our other snowman stamps to create a countryside dotted with our snow buddies. Here are a few stamps linked to their spot on our store and a great project to inspire.

These snowman friends are bundled up for winter! Send a snowy holiday greeting this Christmas with these buddies, or embellish your favorite Winter scrapbook page.

CRP235 Cling Snowman Friends Stamp with card sample by Monika Thomas — CRP235 Cling Snowman Friends Stamp with Snowman Friends by Monika Thomas

A sweet snowman cradles a little bird in a Winter wonderland. A charming image for scrapbook pages and Christmas, Holiday or Season’s Greetings.

CRM318 Cling Country Snowman Stamp with sample by Wendy Price — CRM318 Cling Country Snowman Stamp with Country Snowman by Wendy Price

This cozy snowman is putting on a winter hat to keep warm! Send warm holiday wishes and a Merry Christmas to your friends and family.

CRV301 Snowman Warm Ears Stamp with sample by Lea Kimmel Fritts — CRV301 Snowman Warm Ears Stamp with Snowman Warm Ears by Lea Kimmel Fritts

There is still more for our Friday finale! Our designers have fantastic projects to share today and we can’t wait to see what they did. Do you wanna build a snowman now?

We hope you’ve enjoyed our fun theme this week we sure have had fun building snowmen with you. Did you miss out some of the projects? Hop back to Monday where we show our snowman-building stamp set, Wednesday with plenty of glittery ways to create snow and snowflakes, and Thursday on some snow play with Dreamweaver Stencils.

Have a great weekend and we look forward to sharing more of our new holiday stamps from our July 2015 catalog!

Dreamweaver Double Days Finale…a Bit of Magic with Mica

August 21, 2015August 20, 2015 phornschu3 Comments

Here we are on our final day of Dreamweaver Double Days! We’ve loved all of your wonderful comments regarding the technique videos and the samples that we’ve shared here, as well as on the individual team blogs. This tells us that YOU love it when we share all of our not-so-secret tips with YOU! So…expect to see more in the future! Today’s video is a technique tutorial that always has the recipients of your creations going, “Ooooh and aaaah”! Follow along as Dreamweaver Stencils‘ founder, Lynell Harlow, demonstrates using mica powders* with Matte and Glossy Embossing Pastes…

Amazing, isn’t it? And super easy to do. How about a double dip of samples from our team members featuring this technique?

alison_Textured-Feather-1 — **Created by Alison Heikkila featuring the Dreamweaver Open Feather design with Pearlescent Embossing Paste and Metallic F/X powders. This technique is called Molten Magic!**

Kristine_floral with dots F:X — **Created by Kristine Reynolds featuring the Dreamweaver Stylized Dahlia, Matte Black Embossing Paste, and Metallic F/X mica powders.**

WHOA! Wait just one minute, you say? Alison’s card is not the same technique at all. Mmmm. Yes it is, with one variation. This is the Molten Magic technique, so called because you paste-emboss just as in the video (preferably a glossy paste), sprinkle it with mica powders*, and HEAT it using a heat tool until it is puffy and bubbly. This adds great texture, and a totally different look, and all she did was heat it! Pssst, you can do this technique with Stampendous Fran•tagé Embossing Enamels, for a totally different look as well!

Now, let’s go see what the team members have been playing with for today. Oh, and leave them some love, please. They’ve worked hard this week!

*Just a note: Many of the items that you may see in our videos may not show on the website, but most are still available either from the Stencil With Style site, local stores, and/or the Stampendous website. Just leave a comment in the order form regarding the product that you’d like to purchase.