Feeling Distressed? Friday

So what is all this fuss about distressing? It’s nothing to actually stress about because we have all sorts of products and technique to help achieve the distressed look on your projects.

Spoonful of Rust is a great textural mix of embossing powders and elements that can be used with Fran’s great Encrusted Jewel Technique.

Take a look at how Fran found this technique from a mishap during the CHA convention one year.

You can really put the rust factor on over drive when added as the final touches with the line of  Media Fluid Acrylic paints from our partners at DecoArt. To see this great technique go to Monday’s post for Andy Skinner’s video on stamping and painting a rusty finish. Tuesday and Wednesday two guest bloggers, Tracy Weinzapfel and Terry Sproul created fabulous projects using Andy’s technique. Thursday you can see just how great adding stenciling to the rust technique can be.

So many great reasons to try out this technique, but there is one more reason you might want to have a go with this technique!

There are three prize packages we are giving away to commenters this week. Here is what each prize will include —

1 Bottle/Jar each from DecoArt:

• Media Fluid Acrylics Payne’s Gray
• Media Fluid AcrylicsPrussian Blue
• Media Fluid AcrylicsQuinacridone Gold
• Media Fluid Acrylics Titan Buff
• UltraMatte Medium
• White Chalky Finish

Plus 1 each Stampendous Stamp Set:

• ASCRS01 Cling Nature by Andy Skinner
• ASCRS02 Cling Steampunk by Andy Skinner
• ASCRSgb03 Cling Industrial by Andy Skinner

Just comment on all the Distressing posts this week on our blog and our Designer’s blogs (and our Guest Designers’ blogs). We’ll count each comment as a separate entry. That’s a lot of opportunities to win some distressing products for your stash!

Let’s see a great line up of distressing projects today by these designers —

Lyn Bernatovich

Pam Bray

Kristine Reynolds

Lea Fritts

Amy Hurley-Purdie

Wendy Price

Dreamweaver Thursday: Rusty and Rustic Distressing

You’ve probably seen this fascinating video from Andy Skinner for Stampendous at least a couple of times this week, but just in case you missed it, we’re featuring it once again! Since this is our Dreamweaver Thursday post, we have a warm, yet frosty, project created by team member, Pam Hornschu, that uses parts of Andy Skinner’s faux rust technique, some great products from our craft partners, and the perfect Dreamweaver Stencil to highlight this rusty and rustic design. We even have step-outs so that you can follow along…

Supplies: Dreamweaver Heart Ornaments stencil, 3/4 Stencil Brush, Palette Knife; DecoArt® Snow-Tex, Media Fluid Acrylics (Titan Buff, Quinacridone Gold, Paynes Grey); Art Anthology Stone Effects Dimensional Medium (Brick); Copic® Sketch Markers (E29, E31, G09, G28, BG75); May Arts® Cotton Striped Ribbon; Loew-Cornell® Sanding Sticks; Zip Dry by Beacon Adhesives®; galvanized wire, pliers; black foam core board (one piece 3 1/2 x 6″, and one 5 x 7 1/2″); 1/2″ wide paintbrush

More of our Dreamweaver posts can be found here:

Stampendous Blog

Laura Drahozal DW

Lyn Bernatovich DW

Pam Hornschu DW

Kristine Reynolds DW

Lea Fritts DW

Louise Healy

Tenia Nelson

Alison Heikkila

Wendy Price

Looking Old and Worn Out

Welcome to another day of that distressing feeling! We mean the kind when you make a new project then add the right touches to make it look old and worn.  Our team is using the fantastic Stampendous Cling Rubber Stamps designed by DecoArt‘s Executive Creative Consultant, Andy Skinner. We’ve got a special guest today, too! Terri Sproul is playing along with the Industrial Stamp Set, DecoArt Media Fluid Acrylics, and her Proxxon tools to create a visionary piece. She’s made a video so you can follow along with the process! Check it out!!

Terri Sproul

Of course the Stampendous Design Team is playing along as well! Be sure to leave comments on Terri’s blog post, her YouTube video, and the designer projects below for your chance to win a terrific prize package from Stampendous and DecoArt!

Here’s how the prize packages look for three lucky commenters this week.

1 Bottle/Jar each from DecoArt:

• Media Fluid Acrylics Payne’s Gray
• Media Fluid AcrylicsPrussian Blue
• Media Fluid AcrylicsQuinacridone Gold
• Media Fluid Acrylics Titan Buff
• UltraMatte Medium
• White Chalky Finish

Plus 1 each Stampendous Stamp Set:

• ASCRS01 Cling Nature by Andy Skinner
• ASCRS02 Cling Steampunk by Andy Skinner
• ASCRSgb03 Cling Industrial by Andy Skinner

Just comment on all the Distressing posts this week on our blog and our Designer’s blogs (and our Guest Designers’ blogs). We’ll count each comment as a separate entry. That’s a lot of opportunities to win some distressing products for your stash!

Amy Hurley-Purdie

Pam Hornschu

Jamie Martin

Janelle Stollfus

Feeling Distressed This Week

This week is going to be a fun week in all things distressing! Yes, fun. It’s all about rough and worn looking projects.

To start off our week we’ll be learning a great technique from Andy Skinner with DecoArt Media Fluid Acrylics, Stampendous Andy Skinner stamps sets and a few common tools. We caught Andy on camera at the CHA Mega Show 2015 creating with this technique and here’s the master artist of rust and distressing at work.

In the video Andy used his Cling Industrial Stamp Set which is a favorite with a few of our design team. It is great for backgrounds and making projects look rusty, peeled paint and scratched. Here’s the set that is linked to our website.

ASCRS03 Cling Industrial Stamp Set

This week our team is de-stressing with lots of ways to distress projects, let’s see what technique these designers have for today!

Pam Hornschu

Kristine Reynolds

Louise Healy

Be sure to visit our weekend blog hop with Tombow on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Details and deadlines are mentioned about the prize offerings, too!

Just Rusting with Andy Skinner at CHA

International Mixed Media Artist and Instructor Andy Skinner is DecoArt’s Executive Creative Consultant. He leads their international design team and is now designing stamps for Stampendous! We’re super excited to have his new designs to expand our Mixed Media offerings, and he was kind enough to demo in our booth at CHA. Here he shows us how you can use just a couple of DecoArt’s Fluid Media Acrylic paints and his new stamps to make a rusty piece of metal out of a piece of cardboard. You’ll be itching to try this one!!