Blog Hop with Arnold Grummer

We have had so much fun making handmade paper in honor of Earth Day with the wonderful Arnold Grummer’s Papermaking Kit.

We hope you’ve enjoyed it, too. Remember, you have until April 30 to leave a comment on the Arnold Grummer Blog post to win a papermaking kit of your own. The winner will be announced on the Arnold Grummer Facebook Page on May 1st.

We have more great projects to post from our Design Team, two from Lea Fritts and one from Alison Heikkila. Check them out and leave some nice comments.

Lea Fritts (Apr. 24)

Lea Fritts (Apr 26)

Alison Heikkila (Apr 24)

 

 

Blog Hop with Arnold Grummer

We’re enjoying making handmade paper in honor of Earth Day with the wonderful Arnold Grummer’s Papermaking Kit.

We’ll be sharing projects with handmade paper through the 30th. And the Arnold Grummer team is also sharing their creations on their blogs as they’ve been playing with Stampendous products. This group of designers has had so much fun with our products, we hope to continue playing with them in the future!

The Arnold Grummer Team has posted lots of inspiration, if you haven’t clicked on their links yet, be sure to do so and leave comments, to try and win an Arnold Grummer papermaking kit of your own!

Becky Conley (from above)

Michele Emerson-Roberts

Nancy Nickel

Anne-Marie Fowler

Steph Ackerman

Sandee Setliff

Stay tuned for lots more from this great collaboration! We’re really excited about how our products work together with great handmade papers.

Our Design Team is also playing with handmade paper! Check out these projects and leave them some nice comments.

Lea Fritts

And in case you missed them earlier, these wonderful folks shared their paper making adventures, too!

Tina Smith

(and Tina made a GREAT video of her process!! HERE)

Alison Heikkila

More sharing next week!! Stay tuned!

 

Blog Hop with Arnold Grummer

Have you ever made paper? We’d love to hear about your experiences if you have! At Stampendous, we’ve been making handmade paper for decades, and we even used to distribute the wonderful Arnold Grummer’s Papermaking Kit to our retail stores. We reconnected with this great company at the Creativation show this year. They proposed a fun blog hop! We sent Stampendous products to their team, and they provided papermaking kits to ours.

For the next two weeks, we’ve got some great projects to share with you as the teams play with the wonderful products we’ve exchanged.

Today, check out this beautiful creation by Becky Conley. Click on her name, or the picture to learn more about how she made it!

Butterfly Trio by Becky Conley

The Arnold Grummer Team has posted lots of inspiration today:

Becky Conley (from above)

Michele Emerson-Roberts

Nancy Nickel

Anne-Marie Fowler

Steph Ackerman

Sandee Setliff

Stay tuned for lots more from this great collaboration! We’re really excited about how our products work together with great handmade papers. Of course there are prizes! Becky has the details over on her blog post today!

Christmas in July with BoBunny Vintage Dot Paper

 

Our holiday catalog is loaded with gorgeous Bo Bunny background papers. They’re the perfect shades for our Laurel Burch Color Palette, and Bo Bunny donated enough papers for us to make our in-house cards, supply some to our Design Team, and even have a few sheets to give away!!

The Vintage Dot line of papers is yummy! There are lovely dots on one side with a “distressing” of color variation, drips, scratches, and visual texture. The reverse side has a damask, pattern with more distressing used all over. It’s thick, it’s textured, it’s beautiful quality! The colors are perfect! You will love working with this paper.

We used these for our holiday catalog, on our store display board programs, and our Design Team loved them, too! Now, you have a chance to love them, as well! Three winners this week will each receive 10 sheets of BoBunny Vintage Dot Patterned Paper (one each of 10 colors), plus choose our brand new Laurel Burch Cling Holly Cat or Cling Holly Pup stamp! That’s some Christmas Card stamping in the bag!  Leave us a comment telling us whether you’d choose the Cat or the Pup and your three favorite colors from the Vintage Dot Papers line! Please also visit BoBunny on their social media and mention how gorgeous this paper is!  You can find them on Facebook HERE, on Pinterest HERE, or you can tag them on Twitter @BoBunnyPress, or on Instagram  @mybobunny. Our Official Contest Rules are, as always, HERE, and it’s open to U.S. mailing addresses only.

 

Here are some of the cards we made in-house, Debi Hammons made these cards from images Fran Seiford colored using our Laurel Burch Coloring Guide –

Laurel Burch Holly Cat by Debi Hammons

Laurel Burch Kindred Holiday by Debi Hammons

Laurel Burch Reindeer Spirit by Debi Hammons

Our Design Team is sharing some Christmas in July that they created using these great papers! Be sure to leave them some love on their blog posts for extra entries into our contest!!  Here’s who is sharing today!

Kristine Reynolds

Louise Healy

Leadonna Fritts

 

You might want to go back and comment on Monday’s post if you missed it – MONDAY, and be sure to come back Friday for another chance to win.

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Christmas in July with BoBunny Background Papers – And A Winner!

 

We were super blessed for our holiday catalog to be able to play with some of these gorgeous Bo Bunny background papers. They are the perfect palette to coordinate with the Laurel Burch Color Palette, and Bo Bunny was so generous to us and donated enough papers for us to make our in-house cards, supply some to our Design Team, and maybe even have a few sheets to give away!! 😉

The Vintage Dot line of papers is just so gorgeous! There are lovely yellow/gold dots on one side with a “distressing” of color variation, drips, scratches, and just so much visual texture. The reverse side has a gorgeous damask, tone-on-tone pattern with striking distressing used all over. It’s thick, it’s textured, it’s beautiful quality! The colors are just yummy! This is one of those papers that you hate to choose which side to use, because it means the other side gets glued down to your project.

We loved using these in-house for our holiday catalog, we’ve included them on several of our store display board programs, and our Design Team loved them, too! And now, you get a chance to love them as well! We’ll have three winners this week who each receive a package of 10 sheets of BoBunny Vintage Dot Patterned Paper (one each of 10 colors), plus either our brand new Laurel Burch Cling Holly Cat or Cling Holly Pup stamp, winners choice! Oooh… that’s some Christmas Card stamping in the bag!  Just leave us a comment telling us whether you’d choose the Cat or the Pup and which three are your favorite colors from the Vintage Dot Papers line! It would be really sweet if you could visit BoBunny on their social media as well, and mention how gorgeous this paper is!  You can find them on Facebook HERE, on Pinterest HERE, or you can tag them on Twitter @BoBunnyPress, or on Instagram  @mybobunny. Our Official Contest Rules are, as always, HERE, and it’s open to U.S. mailing addresses only.

Our Design Team this week will be sharing some Christmas in July that they created using these great papers! Be sure to leave them some love on their blog posts for extra entries into our contest!!  Here’s who is sharing today!

Kristine Reynolds

Alison Heikkila

Louise Healy

 

And, finally, we have a Winner from last week’s Birthday Bonanza Blog Series.

Karen E.

who commented on our blog on July 13th! Karen, you’ve won a $20 Stampendous Reward Card. Email us at stamp@stampendous.com and we’ll get you set up to redeem your reward on our website!!  Thanks for playing, and Congratulations!

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Sneak a Peek at Paper! Mixed Media Paper!

One of the things we’re excited about at the Craft and Hobby Association Mega Show is that we can now bring you our very, very favorite white cardstock at a terrific value. Our new Mixed-Media White Paper is a gorgeous, ultra-brilliant, super-white 80lb cover stock that is perfect for any media you enjoy using. It takes alcohol markers beautifully, but also works brilliantly with colored pencils, water colors, acrylic paints, ink refills, embossing and even computer printing. We use it for absolutely everything here in the Stampendous Graphics Department, especially monoprinting with our Creative Palettes. We’re thrilled to be able to offer you a 25 sheet package of 8-1/2″ X 11″ paper for a suggested retail of just $7.99. That’s amazing for a premium paper like this. You’ll just love it – we promise!

Our Mixed Media White Paper will be available on our website January 23, but our wholesale store customers can buy it now. They’re stocking up, so check with your local stamping, scrapbooking or craft store to see if they’ve added it to their shopping list.

Here Fran shows you some favorite projects and techniques using this incredibly versatile paper.

Mixed Media White Paper

Are you Dazzled?

Hope you’re enjoying all the inspiration featuring Add a Little Dazzle Craft Metal Sheets and Stampendous Stamps and Essentials this week! We know you’d love to win some goodies to try yourself!  If you missed the earlier posts, here are the links for you. MONDAY, TUESDAY

The team over at Add a Little Dazzle has created a special featuring the metals from this blog hop for those of you who have already realized you’re going to need these products. You can find it here – Add A Little Dazzle Stampendous Hop Special.

Of course you might win some, too! We’re giving away three prize packages this week for comments on the blogs. A nice package of Metal Sheets, Stamps and Cutting Dies!

Here’s a fun project featuring our Cling Blossom Beauty plus our Cling Hydrangea Garden Set and the Hydrangea Garden Cutting Dies Set. This card was made previously by our in-house Sample Artist Debi Hammons. I was able to bling it up very quickly with the addition of just a few hydrangea blossoms cut from the gorgeous turquoise metal sheets. I stamped them with StazOn Ultramarine ink, die cut them with our Sizzix Big Shot, cut between the petals with scissors and crumpled them up a bit, then added some of our gorgeous Teal Micro Glitter with a drop of Zip Dry by Beacon Adhesives. Talk about adding a LOT of Dazzle!!

Hydrangea Blossom Beauty by Debi Hammons with A Little Dazzle added by Laura Weed

Individual Hydrangea Blossom with Micro Glitter Center

 

Check out all the terrific projects and leave us your comments! The designers so appreciate when you comment on their blogs. Thanks for hopping with us! Here’s who is playing today:

Stampendous

Asia King

Add a Little Dazzle

Jamie Martin

Lee-Anne Cross

Martha Lucia Gomez

Kate Capper

Lydia Brooke-Evans

Graciela Chavez

Keren Baker

Vicki Dutcher

Cathy Parlitsis

 

P.S. If you click on a blog link and receive a notice that says “this post is not hear” or something similar, just click on the blog header or look for a link that says Home. That should take you to the home page of that blog and the correct post should be near the top. Thanks for your patience.

 

 

Dazzle ’em with Stampendous!

This week we’re playing with the wonderful Add a Little Dazzle Craft Metal Sheets and all of our terrific Stampendous products. We hope you’re enjoying the inspiration so far! If you missed yesterday’s post, here’s a link for you.  MONDAY

The team over at Add a Little Dazzle has created a special featuring the metals from this blog hop for those of you who have already realized you’re going to need these products. You can find it here – Add A Little Dazzle Stampendous Hop Special.

Of course you might win some, too! We’re giving away three prize packages this week for comments on the blogs. A nice package of Metal Sheets, Stamps and Cutting Dies!

Check out all the terrific projects and leave us your comments! The designers so appreciate when you comment on their blogs. Thanks for hopping with us! Here’s who is playing today:

Stampendous

Lea Kimmel

Add a Little Dazzle

Pam Hornschu

Cathy Parlitsis

Vicki Dutcher

Kate Capper

Amy Hurley-Purdie

PS. If you get to a blog and it says something like “that post isn’t here”, just click on the blog header or look for a link that says Home near the top. That will take you to the blog home, and the blog hop post should be somewhere near the top. Thanks for your patience!

We have a Winner!

Thanks so much to all of you who commented on all the team blogs last week as we gave you a sneak peek of the great Authentique papers we’re going to be using in our October Catalog Projects.

We had 614 Comments for the week on all the blogs combined (starting on Monday as #1 and counting Stampendous blog first then the connected blogs each day)(for those who care about this stuff).  According to Random.org our winner is:

Which means our winner is

Joan V

from Wentzville, MO

She commented on Kristine Reynolds’ Monday post –

Congratulations, Joan! You’re going to win a bunch of Authentique papers and a $20 Stampendous Reward Card. Just email us at submissions@stampendous.com with your mailing information, and we’ll get your prize package right out to you! Thanks for playing!

Sneaky Peek, Authentique!

Our Design Team is sneaking you some peeks of the gorgeous papers the folks at Authentique Paper shared with us for our October catalog. You’ll love these gorgeous creations, and you’ll want to tune in in October when we join Authentique in a big Blog Hop. If you missed yesterday’s post, here it is – MONDAY

For this week, it’s just us, but we’ve got some beautiful papers to send as prizes and we have a $20 Stampendous Reward Card as well. (one prize this week) So, head on over to these hoppin’ blogs today and check out their gorgeous creations! Be sure to leave comments here and on each one below so you can get entered to win!

Pam Hornschu

Wendy Price