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

Picnic Fun Week!

April Showers must have flipped the calendar an extra month, because it has been sweeping across most of the US leaving its wet footprints behind. We’re always thankful for some rain in our region and It has us anticipating the days when we can head outdoors for picnics under blue skies, but why wait for the weather to change when we can have a week of picnic fun here!

Our picnic theme stamps from the April catalog have all the fixin’s for a great project that celebrates some family fun for summertime! Get ready for a week of fresh ideas starting with this original design by Fran Seiford in the Picnic Spread Stamp makes it feel like you are already relaxing in a peaceful setting with a delightful spread just short of a small feast. It’s made for a mouth watering project!

P266 Cling Picnic Spread Stamp

Our in-house designer, Debi Hammons created this flavorful card as a seaside picnic with some puffy clouds in her sky. Are you thinking what I’m thinking? A picnic isn’t complete without playing the game of guessing what animal or person you see in the clouds.

Picnic Spread Card by Debi Hammons

Be on the lookout for more picnic scenes this week from our design team that have different countryside interpretations. What do you see in the background of our Picnic Spread stamp?

We have some fabulous design team projects to link up today for some picnic inspiration.

Jamie Martin

Kristine Reynolds

Check back later today for our winners announcement from last weeks hop with Clear Scraps. We have all the design team projects from the blog hop wrapped up nice and pretty on our Stampendous and Clear Scraps board on Pinterest for some inspiration!

Any Time Friends and Family

It’s always nice to have friends and family stop by and a nice way to say thanks is with a card using our fun PenPattern House stamp!

PenPattern House Stamp

Jamie Martin’s Any Time PenPattern House card is great for those informal invitation cards. What’s your favorite invitations?

PenPattern House Any Time by Jamie Martin

You can always cheer up a friend with a sweet heart focus card like this one by Kristine Reynolds. Who doesn’t need an uplighting card sent from a friend?

PenPattern House by Kristine Reynolds

If you’re looking for more ideas with our newest Home Sweet Home stamp set, you just might find a few on these designer’s blogs today.

Kristine Reynolds

Amy Hurley-Purdie

Janelle Stollfus

 

Home Sweet Home

Welcome back to the Stampendous blog, we had a fabulous time with Eileen Hull and the Inspiration Team during the block party collaboration and we want to remind you that commenting is still open! Head back to Saturday’s post to see a cumulative list of players last week and we’ll update you again this Saturday with any new posts for the collaboration.

It’s seems we’ve been gone from our normal week and this week is going to be another exciting time of announcements, so stay tuned to our blog by subscribing by email on our sidebar.

For our product focus we have the awesome Family Home Set that is perfect for so many occasions. Friends or family moving? Check. Parents Day? Check. Mother’s Day or Father’s Day? Check. Oh, it’s endless!

Family Home Perfectly Clear Set

During last week’s product collaboration, Jamie Martin posted this amazing artist trading block with Family Home.

Family Home Artist Trading Block by Jamie Martin

 

Here are a few designers sharing their homey projects today —

Pam Hornschu

Janelle Stollfus

 

The Cat’s Meow Friday Video

Start the air popper and get some corn popping because we have a Friday video just for you! Before the video gets rolling take the time to see what our designers are sharing on their blogs today and also if you’ve missed seeing earlier posts on MONDAY and WEDNESDAY for more fabulous projects this week.

Pam Hornschu

Kristine Reynolds

 

The cat’s whiskers of coloring videos, Fran Seiford shares how to color these kitties from our October 2014 catalog with even a tip on stretching the feline fur factor for long hair and full coated versions.

Feline Fun Rubber Stamp

Feline Curious Rubber Stamp

Feline Sleepy Rubber Stamp

We had so much fun sharing or kitty cats with you this week and come back next week to see some exciting new projects that are out of the box awesome!

 

Kitty Come Home

We have our suspicions that these tabby’s are anything but domestic! The return from their auspicious outings have accessorized them well in these design team projects and we’ve got the how-to over on our website. Check the links on the Cattus Librum, Sherlock Cat and Bonjour Kitty product pages to make one for some feline crafty fun!

Bonjour Kitty Stamp

Sherlock Cat Stamp

Cattus Librum by Pam Hornschu

Bonjour Kitty by Cyndi Bundy

Cattus Librum by Jennifer Dove

Sherlock Cat by Jennifer Dove

Bonjour Kitty by Janelle Stollfus

Cattus Librum by Fran Seiford

Bonjour Kitty by Lea Kimmel

Cattus Librum by Suzanne Czosek

Cattus Librum Stamp

Sherlock Cat by Cyndi Bundy

 

Beware! Cats on the prowl might peek out when links below are clicked.

Pam Hornschu

Amy Hurley-Purdie

 

Here Kitty! Kitty!

Stampendous fans are you ready for a cuddly week of feline love? We have three new kitties that will remind you of and entice you to color them as one your own kittens. Today we’ve got a sleepy little mouser possibly exhausted from the latest chase, but is certainly having sweet dreams perhaps of a successful second go.

Feline Sleepy Rubber Stamp

If you need a darling Mother’s Day card for a cat lover, look at how Jennie Lin Black colored this adorable kitten. Instructions are on the Project section of our website, but  here’s a post from Jennie on her blog.

Sleepy Feline by Jennie Lin Black

Let’s let sleeping kitties lie and see some more delightful samples from today’s designers.

Jennifer Dove

Jamie Martin

Kristine Reynolds

 

Have A Cup Cake with Us

It’s time for a sweet treat with our tea and this Teacup Cupcake pairs nicely with our Teapot Posies or Teacup Trio from earlier in the week.

Teacup Cupcake Stamp (Wood Mounted)

Lea Kimmel’s blue rose version with pink frosted cupcake are just darling!

Teacup Cupcake by Lea Kimmel

I’m just sure that Jennie Lin Black whipped up buttercream frosting with those hints of pale yellow shading, it’s just making my mouth water!

Teacup Cupcake by Jennie Lin Black

Enjoy the sweet treats from our designers today and we’ll see you soon!

Kristine Reynolds

Lea Kimmel

Tenia Nelson

Asia King

 

Eclectic Teacups

Our set of teacups as eclectic individuals as they are stack up nicely together. The Teacup Trio Stamp is perfect for invitations to friends, or a scrapbook page about the tea lover in your life, but let’s not forget the tea lover themselves!

Teacup Trio Stamp

If you’ve ever wondered what to gift the tea lover who has everything, what about a stamped and hand painted tea box! Artist Consultant Debbie Cole created this amazing project, perfect for storing all those special items for taking tea. If you must know she’s created a list of supplies and instructions to demystify the box to make one of your very own. Just click on the picture or caption to hop on over to our website Projects page.

Teacup Trio Box by Debbie Cole

A top view of the painted lid and the lid is not covered with pattern paper, that’s our Rose Pattern Background stamp.

Teacup Trio Box (Lid) by Debbie Cole

Oh and the beauty doesn’t end with Debbie’s project. Check out today’s projects from a few of our designers.

Amy Hurley-Purdie

Jamie Martin

Janelle Stollfus

 

Pop-Up Peek! Our Newest Innovation!

The Craft and Hobby Association Trade show is in full swing, and boy are there some new goodies you’re going to need! If you’re lucky enough to be walking the show floor, be sure to visit Stampendous in Booth #723. Also check out our new acquisition, the fabulous Dreamweaver Stencils in Booth #2342. Such exciting events to start off 2015!

We’ve been peeking our new products to you this week. They’re only available to our wholesale stores right now, but you’ll be able to order them retail on our website beginning January 23. (we have to let them stock up so they can fill your orders from our website!) Start making your shopping list now!

One of our newest innovations is our Pop-Up Card Die Set! Unlike other Pop Up cards, ours features a system of overhanging tabs that add extra dimension to your creations. Fran Seiford shows you how this unique system works.

Pop-Up Die Set

We’ve also created a special Build a Bouquet Stamp Set (with matching Die Set available) that will let you make gorgeous floral Pop-Up cards and gardens full of greetings. The matching dies make it soooooo easy to cut out your flowers. And when you stamp them on monoprinted paper from our Creative Palette, a bountiful bouquet can be yours in just minutes! Here Fran demonstrates how to use these gorgeous blooms!

Build a Bouquet Stamp Set and Die Set