Stampendous and DecoArt Winners!

What a fantastic week! Thank you for hopping along with us and we hope as well that you were inspired to create with Stampendous and DecoArt! We loved hearing from the comments that were left on each blog post over the week.

Now for prizes! We have three packages to giveaway and each has a Fluid Media Starter Kit, all three of Andy Skinner’s new Stampendous Stamp sets, and a Jumbo Acrylic Handle. Look at this great prize!

Pam Bray’s Monday Post

Jean Bullock

Wendy Price’s Tuesday Post

Lindi Phillips

DecoArt’s Wednesday Post

Kathy Gledsdale

Congratulations winners! Please email your mailing address with a subject line “DecoArt Blog Hop Winner” to submissions@stampendous.com

Stampendous and DecoArt Blog Hop Day 5

 

Here we are on our last, and biggest hop day with international mixed media artist Andy Skinner and his wonderful Design Team at DecoArt. We hope you’ve been amazed and delighted at the inspiration we’ve shared with you. Andy’s stamps are just so exciting and fun to use, and we know you’ve loved seeing the range of the DecoArt Fluid Media line as well.

One reason we focused on the Media range for this blog hop, is that it’s the perfect acrylic paint to use when tinting your Dreamweaver Embossing Pastes! Just one drop of these pigment-rich media paints is enough to tint a generous quantity of paste for making your favorite backgrounds. Don’t be afraid to color your pastes to match your projects. Most Dreamweaver Embossing Pastes can be tinted very easily.  Here are some examples from our own Leadonna Fritts! You might just recognize some of these made into projects on her blog this week.

Bare Trees Stencil, Carbon Black Media Mister, Cerulean Blue Media Acrylic, Regular Dreamweaver Paste

Pop Rectangles Stencil, Light Yellow Green Media Acrylic, Primary Yellow Media Mister, Regular Dreamweaver Paste

Mosaic Swirl Stencil, Cobalt Teal Media Acrylic, Regular Dreamweaver Paste

 

Now get hopping and be sure to leave a trail of comments on each of the designer blogs. Each comment gets you one entry for a great prize package (open to everyone) of all three of Andy Skinner’s newest stamps for Stampendous PLUS a Fluid Media Acrylic Starter Kit.

 

Wendy Price

Asia King

Pam Hornschu

Janelle Stollfus

Pam Bray

Jamie Martin

Louise Healy

Alison Heikkila

Lea Fritts

Amy Hurley-Purdie

Tenia Nelson

Debbie Cole

Laura Drahozal

DecoArt Blog

If you missed stopping by the other days of the hop we gathered up the links lists below for convenience.

Thursday Stampendous Blog Pam Hornschu Alison Heikkila Louise Healy Lea Fritts Debbie Cole Laura Drahozal DecoArt Blog	Wednesday Stampendous Blog Jamie Martin DecoArt Blog
Tuesday Stampendous Blog Wendy Price Tenia Nelson DecoArt Blog	Monday Stampendous Blog Asia King Pam Bray Janelle Stollfus DecoArt Blog

Stampendous and DecoArt Blog Hop Day 4

 

Hope you’ve been enjoying some mad mixed media skills as we hop this week with Andy Skinner and his fantastic international design team from DecoArt. Even if mixed media, grunge, shabby isn’t your favorite look, we want you to know that Andy’s stamps, designed exclusively for Stampendous, can be used for some really fun and adorable art.

How about this darling card from Pam Bray?

Sunflower Nap by Pam Bray

 

Or this elegant and chic Chocolate Box by Asia King?

Chocolatier by Asia King

 

Or the sweet distressed frame on this darling wall hanging by Debbie Cole, CDA?

Piglet Pals by Debbie Cole

 

A great set of backgrounds is one of the most versatile things you can have, and Andy Skinner’s stamp sets just hit the mark perfectly! We know you’ll reach for these again and again to add a little texture to your art!

Right now, reach for your mouse and start clicking on the links below! Each featured Design Team member has a great project to inspire and amaze you. Leave a comment on each one to be entered to win a wonderful prize package of each of Andy Skinner’s newest stamp sets from Stampendous plus a Fluid Media Acrylic Starter Kit from DecoArt!

 

Pam Hornschu

Alison Heikkila

Louise Healy

Lea Fritts

Debbie Cole

Laura Drahozal

DecoArt Blog

Stampendous and DecoArt Blog Hop Day 3

 

Still hopping this week with our good friends at DecoArt and mixed media artist Andy Skinner. Wow, we sure love the resources DecoArt provides on their website for using their products. They are so awesome. Please take a few moments and check out the DecoArt website. Particularly their Mixed Media Education page. Here you’ll find quick video tutorials on all of the Media line products, wonderful techniques and projects, PLUS you can sign up for their Mixed Media Newsletter (hint, hint…tons of giveaways and prizes… easy to win… ohmygoodness)

Of course we have a chance to win HERE today! Just check out the links below and visit all the blogs. Leave a comment about how wonderful the projects are, and you’re entered each time (one per post) to win one of three prize packages of Andy Skinner’s Mixed Media Stamps designed for Stampendous AND a Media Fluid Acrylic Starter Kit! uh… wow!

Here’s something great from the master himself using these products:

Cling Toxic Tag by Andy Skinner

 

And more inspiration awaits on these terrific blogs…

Jamie Martin

DecoArt Blog

Stampendous and DecoArt Blog Hop Day 2

 

We’re playing with Andy Skinner and DecoArt this week! Did you know that Andy Skinner has started a Facebook Group? “Groups” on Facebook are a great way to communicate directly with artists and companies as well as share your projects you make with their products. On a “Page” you can see what the company is sharing and what their focus is for that day. But in a group you can share with other fans and the focus is on you and your interaction with the company or artist. If you’re a Facebook Member you may want to check out these groups and pages, be sure to click on the links when you’re logged in to Facebook:

Andy Skinner and Friends – Group

Stampendous – Group

Stampendous – Page

DecoArt Media – Page

Also remember, in a group you have to wait to be admitted. So be patient, that can take a day or so for the administrator to add you, especially if you’re in another time zone!

Shabby Chic Box by Andy Skinner

Meanwhile – whether or not you’re on Facebook, you’ll want to visit these designer blogs today because you could win a wonderful set of Andy Skinner’s stamp sets designed for Stampendous PLUS a Fluid Media Starter Kit from DecoArt! Each comment on a participating blog is an entry for one of three prize packages!

Wendy Price

Tenia Nelson

DecoArt Blog

Stampendous and DecoArt Blog Hop Day 1

We’re super excited this week to play with our friends at DecoArt. Mixed Media Artist and DecoArt International Education Coordinator Andy Skinner has designed some fantastic stamps for Stampendous, and we’re going to be showing them off all week long.

Andy will join us along with his team of international mixed media artists including Julia Stratford-Wright, Mark Gould, Mel Hookham, and Jools Robertson. Plus there will be posts this week on the DecoArt blog as well. Naturally the Stampendous Design Team will be checking in as well.

You’ll want to get your commenting fingers ready…so put down your paintbrushes! Each comment on a post this week will enter you to win a fabulous prize package! (one comment per post, per person)  Contest open to everyone!!
We have three packages and each has a Fluid Media Starter Kit, all three of Andy Skinner’s new Stampendous Stamp sets, and a Jumbo Acrylic Handle. Look at this great prize!

Andy himself was kind enough to visit our booth at CHA and demonstrate his new stamps for us as well as showing us how to use DecoArt’s Media Antiquing Cream. You’ll love this product (which is included in the prize!) and you’ll just be wow’d. Take a look at the video of Andy’s Demonstration –

 

Now click on the links below and let’s get hoppin’!!! What a week we have in store!

Asia King

Pam Bray

Janelle Stollfus

DecoArt Blog

RubberStampMadness Free Issue Offer

The Summer Issue of RubberStampMadness magazine will feature our Beauty Face stamp (W168) on the cover with the work of our own Fran Seiford. We’re super excited, and our blog readers can get this wonderful issue of RSM for FREE when subscribing to the magazine for just $23.90 a year.

Just visit the RSM Website Store and use coupon code Stampendous5 to get this free issue added to your subscription. Be sure to note in the order form comment section that you want your subscription to start with the #192 Summer Issue.  Just click on the image below.

But Wait… There’s MORE! Our Beauty is Famous!

We have had so many requests for this wonderful stamp to return to our line, and now it’s back! But there’s even more in store…

The Summer Issue of RubberStampMadness magazine will feature this gorgeous stamp on the cover with the work of our own Fran Seiford for the magazine theme Women of the World. We’re super excited that this cover and the article that goes with it will put our Beauty Face (now W168 Beauty Face in wood mounted and CRW168 Cling Beauty Face in Cling Rubber™) on the world map!

You, our blog readers, have the opportunity to get this wonderful issue of RSM for FREE when you subscribe to the magazine. Just visit the RSM Website Store and use coupon code Stampendous5 to get this free issue added to your subscription. Be sure to note in the order form comment section that you want your subscription to start with the #192 Summer Issue. You’ll get 5 issues instead of just 4 for the amazing price of $23.90. You can click on the image below.

The Hairstyle Templates and instructions for making terrific hairstyles can be found on our blog page HERE.   The YouTube video for using them can be found HERE.

You can even receive the .svg files for cutting your own templates/stencils/masks with your electronic cutting machine, including the original one that came with the Blossom Beauty set, by emailing us at stamp@stampendous.com and requesting Hairstyles Templates in the subject line.

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

“Zero” Art With Tombow and Dreamweaver by Stampendous

Have you ever played with the “Zero Drawing” technique, made popular by Marie Browning? You sand some graphite to create a dust that you daub over your paper until covered. Then you use erasers to remove graphite from areas to create a design. Sort of the reverse of how you would normally create. Once you have the graphite all over your paper, and your various sizes of erasers in your hand…then what? What if you’re not the type that feels comfortable doing your own design-work, or you need a bit of a nudge to get going? This is where Dreamweaver Stencils are your new friend! First of all, here’s the video that tutorial that Fran Seiford, Chief Creative Officer for Stampendous, and new owner of Dreamweaver Stencils, has created to show just how perfect this technique is with our stencil designs…

How fun would this be with these stencil designs shown here?

Large Poinsettia • Owl Buddy • Holly and Swirls • Large Oak Leaves • Jack O’ Lanterns

Maybe you’ll see those designs used in the posts below! Oh, and don’t forget to return for our Stampendous and Tombow blog hop, this Friday – Sunday, September 18 – 20!

Laura Drahozal

Lyn Bernatovich

Jamie Martin

Kristine Reynolds

Pam Bray

Louise Healy

Pam Hornschu

Amy Hurley-Purdie

Tenia Nelson

Lea Fritts