Design Team Additions

As you know, we were blessed at the beginning of this year to purchase Dreamweaver Stencils! We’ve been having so much fun learning all the new techniques and sorting out all the new products, finding warehouse space to fill orders, and making room for them in our catalog and on our website! But we’ve also been delighted to add some wonderful talent to our Stampendous Design Team with some former Dream Team members! These wonderful artists are joining our team beginning in May, and you can already see their work in many of our blog posts. We’re thrilled to have them. We’ve also added the delightful Pam Bray, a veteran of Eileen Hull’s ATB Inspiration Team and many other Design Team obligations! We’re thrilled to have Pam join this great group, and we look forward to amazing you with even MORE fun and inspiration in the future!

Visit the website Design Team Page to see the whole team and read the details!

Here are the new fabulous faces!

Laura Drahozal Stamping with Us Since: May 2015 Stenciling with the Dream Team Since 2010 Click to view Laura’s profile!	Louise Healy Stamping with Us Since: May 2015 Stenciling with the Dream Team Since 2010 Click to view Louise’s profile!	Lyn Bernatovich Stamping with Us Since: May 2015 Stenciling with the Dream Team Since 2013 Click to view Lyn’s profile!
Alison Heikkila Stamping with Us Since: May 2015 Stenciling with the Dream Team Since 2014 Click to view Alison’s profile!	Pam Bray Stamping with Us Since: May 2015 Click to view Pam’s profile!

Dream A Little Friday Fun

We love what the design team has created this week sharing tutorials using stencils with watercolor to embossing pastes or applying the letterpress technique for dry embossing. It’s amazing what you can do with these metal stencils with the right care and a few tools. Earlier this week we talked mentioned properly removing the stencil from it’s packaging and easy cleaning after use, today it’s the tools that help make stenciling fun!

Dreamweaver Stencils Embossing Paste

We have seven high quality embossing pastes to choose from on our website. Add almost any color medium to the white or clear pastes for even more options.

 

Dreamweaver Stencils Tools

 

Use the Palette Knife to mix in coloring mediums, spread paste over smaller stencils or load the Paste Spreader to apply paste evenly across the larger stencils.

All that’s left is choosing stencils! You can purchase stencils from the Dreamweaver Stencils section of the Stampendous website where we are continually adding more. During the transition you can still shop the Stencil with Style website to access the entire collection.

Need some help getting started? There are great tips and techniques on how to use these wonderful products here.

With such fun new products being talked about, it’s only right to share some fantastic projects from these designers today!

Kristine Reynolds

Amy Hurley-Purdie

Pam Hornschu

Dreaming of Inspiration

Today is a double dose of inspiration with two teams posting Dreamweaver inspiration!

On Thursday’s we enjoy a weekly shower of inspiration from Dreamweaver Stencils’ Dream Team which is especially true this month’s challenge. Be inspired to design with showers themed projects from the A Team!

Dream It Up!

Lea Kimmel

Louise Healy

Laura Drahozal

Pam Hornschu

Jamie Martin

Here at Stampendous our Dream a Little Dreamweaver week continues with some terrific inspiration from our designers.

Kristine Reynolds

Tenia Nelson

 

 

Easy Clean Stenciling

Stenciling can be fun when you have a system in place for each step of the process. Yesterday we mentioned how to properly remove the stencil from packaging and today it’s about cleaning the stencil. Being able to clean your stencils immediately after use helps you quickly move on to the rest of your project.  Here’s some information to keep you stenciling in style.

• Keep the stencil flat when cleaning.
• Use a flat tray or flat bottom container like our Stufftainers with enough water to cover the stencil and tools. Set them into the water until you’re ready to clean.
• Gently scrub with a soft brush while the stencil stays flat in the tray.
• Place on a clean soft cloth to air dry or use a second cloth to dry while keeping it on a flat surface.

Here’s a fantastic project today from veteran stencil designer,

Pam Hornschu

Dreaming on a Tuesday!

We’re celebrating our new acquisition of Dreamweaver Stencils again this week. There’s just so much to learn and enjoy with these new tools! So much new inspiration from new team members joining us, and so very many new products to play with and enjoy!

When you first get your Dreamweaver Stencils, it’s very important that you start taking care of them right away! Even taking them out of their packaging can be a little tricky. You want to avoid bending the stencil at all, so that you’ll have the flattest, smoothest surface to work with for all the great techniques. We’ve linked to a great video on YouTube on every one of our new stencils to remind you about opening the product carefully. Always BEND THE PAPER, NOT THE STENCIL!  Take a look:

Now go have a look at the terrific inspiration we have for you today!!

Alison Heikkila

Jamie Martin

Amy Hurley-Purdie

There’s NEW Nathalie!!

Stampendous has been so blessed to have internationally acclaimed Mixed Media Artist and Instructor Nathalie Kalbach designing stamps for our collection. She created three image groups last year that were hot, hot, hot! Now we’ve added three more. We caught up with Nathalie at CHA and convinced her to demo in the booth. Her fun and textured art journals aren’t really formal demo material, but we had a great time showing layer after layer of added yumminess as she just played around with paint and her new stamps! Enjoy!

Want to doodle a PenPattern Snowman?

These PenPattern stamps for the holidays are a great way to sneak in some hand-eye coordination with your children over the holidays. The pattern is already started in the stamp image and the challenge is to repeat them in the rest of the snowman. The children aren’t the only ones that can have fun. Join in with them and doodle to de-stress!

You’ve seen our PenPattern Gift, PenPattern Moose and PenPattern Penguin this week and now it’s time for PenPattern Snowman.

PenPattern Snowman Wood Mount Stamp

Design team alumni, Krissy Fossmeyer, created this fun colored Snowman for a quick holiday card project a sparkly bed of snow at the foot of the snowman. See how she made it HERE.

PenPattern Snowman Card by Krissy Fossmeyer

PenPattern Penguin is back today on a card by Wendy Price with instructions right HERE. Look at how adorable this image is with just a little bit of color.

PenPattern Penguin Card by Wendy Price

We have more inspiration for you before the weekend begins, just check out the delightful projects from our designers.

Pam Hornschu

Kristine Reynolds

Lea Kimmel

Rhea Weigand

This week’s designer projects can be seen on our PenPatterns Board. You’ll never miss a new entry when you Follow us on Pinterest.

Stampendous and Core’dinations Mini Holiday Hop

Welcome Everyone to our mini-hop with the folks from Core’dinations! We thought we’d bring you just a bit more fun and a great chance to win some more prizes this week! We’re hoppping with Core’dinations on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, and you’ve got the chance to win a great prize!!  Our wonderful Dear Santa Stamp Set comes with a terrific border, plus a free mask/stencil to mask off the Santa and stencil a candy cane background! You’ll love it. And the gorgeous recycled cards from Darice (makers of Core’dinations Cardstock) are just gorgeous! They’re a big, A7 for your best greetings, and they’re two colors of kraft…so use the side you like best!! Plus they’ve got matching envelopes!

We’re also hopping along with our friends at Art Anthology this week, so we don’t want to confuse you! If you’re looking for that hop, and hoping to win some goodies there as well, you can check it out HERE.

But now it’s time to check out the gorgeous artwork from today’s designers!

Jamie Martin

Janelle Stollfus

Pam Hornschu

Lea Kimmel

Core’dinations Blog

Keep those Small Businesses Growing!

Our Black Friday through Cyber Monday Sale is celebrating Small Business Saturday today!

We’re so delighted that our Shopatron website supports small scrapbooking and rubber stamp stores all over the United States. Each of our www.stampendous.com orders is filled by an independent retailer, helping them to grow and build a thriving business. Every time you order on our website, you’re supporting small businesses in our industry!

Our Black Friday Sale Feature Products can be found on the home page of our website.  We’re featuring them here on our blog all weekend, so you can see the great projects our Design Teams have made with these products. If you missed the great post on making holiday tags with our Stack Art Products, check it out HERE.

Meanwhile, one of our most popular sets on this deeply discounted sale is our Forest Friends Jumbo Cling Rubber Set.  Fran demonstrated this terrific set at CHA last year, and it sold out almost immediately. Here’s a short video showing this terrific set with our White Encrusted Jewel Kit to sparkle it up!!

 

Our Design Team has had lots of great ideas for this set as well…let’s take a look!

CRS5053 Forest Friends Jumbo Cling Rubber Set

Forest Friends Template – The set includes 5 stamps plus a free Template with mask for the deer image plus stencils for a birch forest, snowfall, and even some ground area.

Forest Friends Scrapbook Page by Debi Hammons

Forest Friends Wood Frame by Tammie Wilson

Forest Friends Card by Debi Hammons

For even easier sparkle, you might want to pick up our Spoonful of Snow kit to use with these terrific images!

Small Business Saturday is HERE!!

Good Morning! It’s Small Business Saturday! And we’ve got the perfect way for you to support small businesses without ever leaving your home!

Did you know that every order you place on our website is filled by an independent scrapbooking, rubber stamp, or craft retail store? The only time we fill an order is if no one else has the products you’re ordering. But the majority of our orders are filled by small, local businesses. You’re helping these great retailers while, at the same time, having the opportunity to choose from our entire line of products!! Win, Win!!

Our retailers have had a chance to order our great Black Friday – Cyber Monday products at super deep discounts, so they’re standing ready to fill your sale orders! You can see the Featured Products on sale on the home page of our website – www.stampendous.com

We’re sharing projects for our sale items this week so you’ll have a chance to get inspired and see what you can make. If you missed the tag post featuring our Stack Art, it’s HERE.

One of the great Jumbo Cling Rubber Stamp Sets on SALE this weekend is our adorable Top Hat Snowman! He’s just the cutest Snowman around and the little bird on his head agrees!! He comes with a FREE Template that can mask him for background stamping or treatments, plus a great snow stencil pattern. He’s a four stamp set including a terrific “snow” border/background, a tiny snowflake, and an adorable little tree. An Amazing Value!!

Here’s some inspiration using this great stamp set!!

CRS5056 Top Hat Snowman

Top Hat Snowman by Laura Weed

Top Hat Snowman Candle Holder by Debbie Cole

Top Hat Snowman Background on a Jumbo Handle Ornament by Debbie Cole

Top Hat Snowman Project Life Page by Cyndi Bundy

Top Hat Snowman Card by Debi Hammons

Top hat Snowman Winter Journal by Jennifer Dove

Top Hat Snowman by Kristine Reynolds

Top hat Snowman Card by Cyndi Bundy

Top Hat Snowman Border on Build a Snowman Card by Kristine Reynolds

Top Hat Snowman Template Stencil on Bouquet Kiddo card by Jamie Martin