House-Mouse Designs for Summer

Once again we’ve added to our family of mousey friends with the delightful images or House-Mouse Designs® from Ellen Jareckie. Our miniature furry friends are having so much fun for Summer.

We know you’ll love what our Design Team have done with these adorable creatures. Please visit their blogs for a squeak-peek into mousey paradise! Leave a comment here and on their sites for a chance to win a $20 Stampendous Reward card to fill your mousey dreams. (Reward cards are only available to winners with U.S. Addresses and must be used on http://www.stampendous.com before Dec 31, 2018). Official Rules are always HERE. We’ll give away 3 Reward Cards!

 

Monday

Kathi Rerek

Louise Healy

Alison Heikkila

 

Wednesday

Janelle Stollfus

Kathi Rerek

Louise Healy

Jamie Martin

Friday

Louise Healy

Kathi Rerek

Lea Fritts

 

 

RubberStampMadness Magazine

Happy 36th Anniversary to one of our industry’s most amazing publications! RubberStampMadness Magazine and I started stamping together 36 years ago, and they’ve always been one of my favorite magazines in the industry.

They’re not cutesy, they’re not trendy (although they are always aware of the trend), but they are always “artsy” – with a little fartsy mixed in!! Their contributing artists have humor and HUGE stamp collections which they mask and layer to create works of art more often than “greeting cards”.  They’re not everyone’s cup of tea, but they’ve sure been mine. I still have every single issue and have subscribed almost continuously for their entire time in print. I’ve met pen pals in their classified ads with whom I’ve exchanged cards for years, I’ve used their store location guides on every road trip vacation we’ve taken, and I’ve even been published in their pages.

Now you have an opportunity to get a free issue! In honor of their anniversary they are going to send the first 36 people who email them and mention our blog and my name a free issue. So fire up your email, send a note to kendra@rsmadness.com with your home address, and tell her that Laura from the Stampendous Blog sent you! Good Luck! Even if it’s the only RSM issue you ever own, you’ll thumb through it a million times! And you’ll see something new every time you do!

Thanks, RSM for your generous offer!! And here’s to at least 36 more years of inspiring stamp art, new techniques and artsy folks!

Laura Weed – Graphics Manager, Website Administrator, Social Media Marketing Manager, Design Team Manager – Stampendous

 

Stampendous and Tombow Blog Hop Day 3

We are happy to have you back on the last day of our hop! The designers have created some wonderful projects with great tips or instructions as well and there will be more in today’s hop.

It is always a pleasure to play along with the Tombow team and their fantastic markers.  We hope you’ve enjoyed the projects during the hop and are inspired to use these products together. If you missed a day of our hop, take a quick jump to FRIDAY and SATURDAY before you start here. The inspiration doesn’t have to stop once the hop is over! You can like both Stampendous! and TombowUSA on Facebook to get an endless supply of inspiration and product updates!

Our prize package will be a Top Hat Snowman stamp set and a Jumbo Perfectly Clear Handle, PLUS a set of Tombow Dual Brush Pens! To be eligible to win, you need to comment on our blog that of each designer in the list provided below. We’ll pick three (3) winners and announce on Monday, November 24th at 11:30 am PT. Comments that provide a valid email and indicate a U.S. mailing address are eligible for the prize package. Here are the Stampendous Official Rules for all contests.

Lea Kimmel

Janelle Stollfus

Marie Browning

Asia King

Tombow Blog

Yesterday Wendy Price’s blog was inadvertently omitted from the list and Laura Weed’s blog was published later in the day. If you missed their projects I’m sure they would love to have you stop by and see them.

 

Stampendous and Tombow Blog Hop Day 2

The weekend hop with our friends at Tombow continues today with more fabulous winter wonderland theme projects. If you missed our first day of hops you can start on Friday’s post here. We wouldn’t want you to miss out seeing our designers amazing projects.

There is a prize package waiting for an owner in this hop. Our prize package will be a Top Hat Snowman stamp set and a Jumbo Perfectly Clear Handle, PLUS a set of Tombow Dual Brush Pens! To be eligible to win, you need to comment on our blog that of each designer in the list provided below. We’ll pick a winner each day (3) and announce them on Monday, November 24th at 11:30 am PT. Eligible winners are those comments that provide a valid email and indicate a U.S. Mailing address. Here are the Stampendous Official Rules for all contests. Like both Stampendous! and TombowUSA on Facebook, too!

Stampendous Blog

Jamie Martin

Laura Weed

Jennie Garcia

Wendy Price

Tombow Blog

 

Stack Art Winners!

We’re so glad you joined us last week to see some of the super fun projects you can create with Stack Art. As you could see the product is just so versatile, every project will be unique and amazing.

We wanted to share with you one more video. In this short video Fran gives you the very best tips for working with the Stack Art die cut adhesive sheets that come in your Stack Art kit!

Now, we know you’re excited to get to the winners, so here we go!

There were 22 posts total, including ours, so we chose three winning posts from those using Random.org.

Blog number 22 is the Stack Art Blog from Debbie Cole Designs from August 1.  – Debbie had 23 comments, but 2 were from Design Team members. So out of 21 posts, Random.org chose…

Which turns out to be:

Victoria Banaszak

Blog number 11 is the Stampendous Impressions Blog from July 31 – We had 11 Comments on this blog post. Plugging in potential winners, and Random. org says…

Which means our winner is

Barb Macaskill

Blog number 10 is Alyce Keegan’s Kit and Clowder post from July 30th – She had 34 comments, but 4 of them were from our Design Team or Duplicates, so plugging in 30 potential winners. And Random.org says…

Which means our winner is

Yolanda from Puerto Rico

 

So Victoria, Barb and Yolanda, please email me your mailing address to submissions@stampendous.com and we’ll get you each a Stack Art Prize Package right out to you! Congratulations! And thanks so much to all of you who took time to comment on the blogs. It means so much to the individual bloggers to get your happy feedback!

 

Tuesday’s Winner

Tuesday’s New Release Week Winner was chosen from Tenia Nelson’s Jazzy Paper Designs Blog. And it’s

JOVAN

Please contact us at submissions@stampendous.com with your address to receive your prize of our Cling Soldier Kiddo and Aged Teal Embossing Enamel:

Subscribe to Stampendous Impressions Blog!

Thanks to our  Sales Department for pointing out that we haven’t mentioned how to subscribe to our blog in a while. We want everyone to see our fantastic samples and to win the MANY prizes we give away here. (like the ones we’re going to give subscribers!)

It’s easy!! Go to the top of this page. ALL the way to the top.

See the word “Subscribe”? – click on it – it goes to a new page. (when you’re done, come back here…there are prizes!!)

Click on the pink button that says subscribe.

If you’re NOT a computer whiz  just choose “Email”.

Enter your email info.

Voilá! Stampendous Impressions in your inbox!! When you get an email from us you can read it as an email, or you can click on it to be taken to the blog where you can leave a comment.

Need help??? Just email us at submissions@stampendous.com.

Thanks!! We really appreciate our fans who subscribe!  Here’s a treat from one of our fans!

Chinese Celebration by Stacey Kong

Stacey Kong made this adorable scrapbook page and shared it with us. We love what she’s done with our Jumbo Cling Peony stamp! Wow!  You can pick this stamp up at your local Michael’s Stores where it’s still Stamptember, and there’s a 25% off your entire regular price purchase coupon on their website this week. They also have a number of other projects on their website with detailed instructions using our Peony like this great sample from our own Geny Cassady!

Peony Hope by Geny Cassady

Hey! If you read this far, good job! Now sign up! Monday, September 26 we’ll choose 4 folks randomly from our list of subscribers (all, old and new) and they’ll win a goodie box of Stampendous stamps and May Arts ribbon!! Yum!!

Stampendous Sketch Challenge!

For this challenge all you have to do is creatively stamp your image on pattern paper.  Here are two samples to show you so you can see how you can go simple or crazy wild.  Have fun with this one!

Jennifer, from Just 4 Fun Crafts, used the N199 Santa trio Stamp to make this card. And she admits that it’s her most used stamp! Gorgeous! And we love the color palette! It’s nice that she broke away from the traditional red and green Christmas colors and used pink and lime green.

And Jen also made this easy-on-the-eyes card! Made with the Ponderosa Pine Stamp, the Polar Path Cling Rubber Stamp Set, and the Clear Bark brown powder from the Scenic Selections 14 Jar Embossing Powder Kit, this card would be great for anyone!

Last week we had a color challenge. The requirements were to use all the colors of the rainbow in a card. Here are the two winners:

Carol made this beauty of a birthday card. Taking the birthday cake image and repeating it to make a pattern is a fantastic idea! We love it! She made this card using the SSC1051 Changito Baker Perfectly Clear Stamps Set and White Embossing Powder.

And an awesome job to Melissa with this marvelous creation! She used the NEW Peony Border Panel Stamp and embossing powders to make the main image. Simply stunning!

These winners will be contacted and sent a Stampendous prize in the mail. If you have won a contest in the past and have not received your prize, please don’t fret! We want to make sure you get your goodie. Please email submissions@stampendous.com and let up know which challenge you won and didn’t receive a prize for. Thank you!

Saturday Sketch Challenge

This week was, hands down, the hardest Challenge to choose winners from! We have to show you what everyone made because there was just so much great creativity! So we will be posting those cards later this week. But for now we will show you the two cards we did choose…

Angela’s! Congrats, this card has a lot of great detail and I love the accessories she paired with the stamp image. It turned out so great!! Angela used the SSC263 Costume Kids Perfectly Clear Stamps, which will be available on our website later this week.

And congratulations to Melinda! I love how you used the background paw prints stamps as the background and to the U. Melinda used the Fluffles Wuv Perfectly Clear Stamps and the Love Journal Perfectly Clear Stamps.

This week’s challenge is to send us your best Christmas and Winter cards (or scrapbook pages) using Stampendous Christmas and Winter products, since we just released a TON of them online and at your local retailer carrying Stampendous product. The prize will be a Holiday stamp so you can use it to get ahead on this year’s holiday cards! Good luck everyone and check out what the design team made for a bit of holiday inspiration:

Cyndi made this playful card using the new Polar Path Cling Rubber Stamps set and White Ultra Fine Pearl Glitter.

Wendy made this perfect card using the Snowfall Rubber Stamp, Holiday Home Perfectly Clear Stamp Set (SSC1067), the Cling Rubber Cardinal Path Stamp Set, Cotton Ball White Flock from the FF906 Lollipop Flock Kit, white embossing powder from EK08 Carousel Embossing Kit, Copic markers and Creative Impressions ribbon

Check out the cards Jen Dove made! In this one she used Crystal ultra-fine glitter, Snowman Flurry Perfectly Clear Stamps, Versafine™ Onyx Black Ink Pad, Pattern paper, glimmer ribbon and Copic Markers: YG11, G000, B95, BG10, YR02, YG03

In this one she used M232 Cozy Penguin Trio woodmounted stamp, patterned paper, Copic markers, Chainletter Christmas Class A’Peel Stickers, Dot Sparklers Class A’Peel Stickers and Versafine™ Onyx Black Ink Pad

And here’s yet another fun card by Jen. She was on a roll this week! She used the NEW Polar Gifts Cling Rubber Stamp, Creative Impressions Silk Ribbon, a button, patterned paper, Prism Cardstock, Versafine™ Onyx Black Ink Pad and Copic markers: C1, C3, C5, C7, B95, BG10, YG63, 0, G000, RV95, R11

Saturday Sketch Challenge

Cyndi B. from The Scrappy Chick Blog, designed this week’s sketch! It’s simple, but you can embellish it to your heart’s delight! Try using the Sticker Background Technique or Painting With Powder for a fun card with more dimension!

And here’s Cyndi’s example of a card she made following the sketch:

Supplies:

• Stamps: New stamps from our new catalog!! L246 Bake Memories & V214 BlockArt Cookie Cutie (Stampendous) to find these stamps, go to your local craft supply store selling Stampendous stamps. You can find your local store here.
• Paper: Eskimo Kisses pp (Basic Grey); White cs (Neenah); green cs (Bazzill)
• Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black (Tsukineko)
• Accessories: Copics & ABS1 (Imagination International); Labels 11 Nestabilties (Spellbinders); ribbon (Creative Imaginations); buttons (Basic Grey)

Congratulations to last week’s Christmas/Winter/holiday sketch challenge winners! Carol & Melinda!

Carol made a stylish Christmas card using the Chainletter Christmas Class A’Peel stickers. We absolutely love how she made a cool pattern with them for the card background. It’s so simple, yet it looks super trendy!

Melinda’s card is so cool! We love that she layered the stickers and the stamp! She used our the Swirl Tag rubber stamp and the new AC1021MRS Snowflake Ornaments Class A’Peel stickers, which will be available on our website soon!

Good luck to everyone on this week’s challenge! You could be one of the lucky winners! So get out your stash and make something beautiful with Stampendous products. Post your creation to your blog, website, or in any public forum like Paper Craft Planet.com, Splitcoast Stampers.com, Stamp Shack.com or others. Copy the link to your card and paste it into the comment section of this blog post. Don’t worry if you try and post a comment and it doesn’t show up immediately! We post them on Monday. Find out more information by clicking on the “Sketch Challenge Rules” link at the top of this blog.

We can’t wait to see what you create with our products! You may use any other products that you like to complete your project!