Brush Up Your Sentiments

 

We always love having new word stamps! They can really brighten and change up a card even if you’re using a well-loved flower or background, and these new sentiments can really take the card to the next level! They have big open spaces that allow for doodling, coloring, painting, stenciling, paper piecing, and so much more! We know you’re going to love our new Great Big Greetings!! They’re available wood mounted or on Stampendous Cling Rubber!

W200 Great Big Thanks

 

W199 Great Big Happy

 

P317 Great Big Love

Our team has come up with some wonderful projects featuring the Great Big Greetings! Here are a couple, and there are links to more below using these or our Brushed Wishes or Brush Alphabet! Wow! So much inspiration for saying just what you want to say!  HINT: Visiting our website at http://www.stampendous.com and typing “great big” into the search box will show you all the stamps and projects!

Great Big Happy by Kristine Reynolds

Great Big Thanks by Kristine Reynolds

Janelle Stollfus

Alison Heikkila

 

Be sure to join us next week for some wonderful fun with the latest Stampendous stamps from Laurel Burch!!! Be sure to subscribe to our blog so you don’t miss it!

A Season of Thanks!

While things are still spooking away over on our 31 Days of Halloween page, we are ready to give thanks this month for all the wonderful blessings in our lives. American Thanksgiving is such an awesome holiday, because it’s so important to live with an “attitude of gratitude” and appreciate all the wonderful things we have every day. We like to focus on our blessings, here at Stampendous, and we know you do, too!

Our banner this week features those adorable meeces. Stuffing themselves with that favorite of all deserts, pumpkin pie! To win a stamp of these adorable mice, tell us how you like your pumpkin pie… whipped cream or no? whipped pie or no? warm? cold? or just no?! We’ll choose three winners on Friday from our blog comments all week! Remember, U.S. mailing addresses only (yes, territories count) and our Official Rules all live here – Official Rules

Our team will be sharing all week, but here are some samples from last year that feature this adorable stamp:

Pumpkin PIe by Debi Hammons

Pumpkin Pie by Kristine Reynolds

Pumpkin PIe by Jamie Martin

Sharing today from the Stampendous Design Team… go leave some love for :

Louise Healy

 

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*Use the Little Extras

“Hello, Stampendous fans!  Today I have a clean and simple card to share with you.  Do you ever look at your stamp sets and notice all the little ‘extra’ stamps that are included with the set.  I think we often purchase a set for the focal images, and then forget to use those little ones that we get with them!  For this card, I decided to focus on the little extras in this stamp set and I LOVE it!  I will be reaching for these tiny flowers over and over again!”  – Jennifer J Ingle

"Thanks" by Jennifer J Ingle

Supplies:
Stampendous Vintage Typewriter Perfectly Clear Stamps
Ink:  London Fog, Buttercup, Tulip
Glitter Glue
Twine

Instructions:
Create card base from white card stock.
Stamp the flowers in the three different colors.
Stamp sentiment amidst flowers.
Tie twine around card.
Embellish with glitter glue.

Thank You!

“There’s nothing like a stamp that says it all and does it all!
The sentiment in the Cling Jumbo Thank You does exactly that for a superb and quick CAS (Clean & Simple) card. Here’s how that happened on my project today.”

–  Janelle Stollfus

Supplies:
Stampendous Jumbo Cling Thank You Set
Cream card stock, 5-1/2 X 8 1/2 inches, folded in half
Pattern paper 5-1/2 X 4 1/2 inches
Light Brown ink
Sponge
Any means to stitch on paper such as sewing machine and white thread, paper piercer, or stamp.

1.       Stitch 1/4-inch from the edges of the pattern paper.

2.       Distress edges with scissors blade or tool and sponge with light brown ink.

3.       Glue pattern paper to cream card stock.

4.       Stamp Thank You sentiment on the center of the pattern paper letting it stamp over the edge onto the cream card stock.

5.       Sponge distress around the edges of the card front.

6.       CAS complete!

You can visit my Rain Puddles Design blog post to see how it dwindled down for me.

Thank You DAHLIng!

Say “Thank You” to your darling friend with a Dahlia card! That would be a DAHLing friend. Another hybrid. Suzanne, you’re on a roll. Yesterday’s Hydrangium (hydrangea/geranium) and today DAHLing friend (Dahlia/darling). Alright, I admit, the DAHLing thing wasn’t Suzanne’s doing. Just thought I’d add to the whole hybrid thing she started yesterday.

Beautiful card Suzanne. Thank You for sharing it with all of us.

“I can’t get enough of the jumbo flowers. This time I stamped the Dahlia over pattern paper to allow the ledger to show through and add texture.  I used an unusual color palette to provide a little fun color to my card.”  – Suzanne Czosek

Thank You Dahlia by Suzanne Czosek

Products Used: Stampendous Jumbo Cling Dahlia, Thank You, Ranger Black Archival Ink, Watercolor Pencils, Pattern Paper, Marvy Uchida Butterfly Punches, Blue Dye Ink, White Gel Pen

Instructions:

1. Stamp Dahlia onto pattern paper using grey ink.
2. Color with watercolor pencils shading with gray pencil  fading out to gold. Highlight with white gel pen.
3. Sponge pattern paper with blue dye ink.
4. Stamp thank you by curving clear stamp to fit the outline of flower with gray ink.
5. Punch butterflies with pattern paper and gray card stock. Accent with clear gem.
6. Layer paper and card stock. Tie with twine.

Gift of Joy by Melinda Gleissner

“This beautiful Stampendous Cling Blossom Spray Stamp reminds me of my next door neighbor’s garden. Jann’s garden is one of the nicest I have ever seen with walkways and benches, constant color and beauty. I know it gives her great joy working in her flower beds. I also know it gives everyone who passes by joy just by soaking in its beauty. And then they get to my house. A flat of dead geraniums still sits dry and crunchy on my stoop, all of my good intentions of planting gone. My garden is sad. My roses have black spot, my hydrangeas never bloomed. Whether it was the heat or the rain or the blues, I just haven’t felt like gardening this year. The amazing thing about it is I am not only blessed with my neighbor’s beautiful garden, I am blessed with a beautiful neighbor.  Jann always comments on how pretty my lone blooming flower is and she is sincere. She always knows when I’m blue and invites me out for coffee (I think she can gage how I’m feeling based on my flower beds). She is the most warm-hearted person I know, always putting others first. She exudes beauty. I made this card for Jann as a way of saying thanks for caring and being my neighbor.” – Blog Star Melinda Gleissner

Stampendous Supplies:
 Cling Blossom Spray CRP136
Garden Beauty SSC1113 (sentiment)

Other Supplies:
Ribbon: May Arts EA14
Ink: Ranger Archival Jet Black; Ranger Distress Ink in Bundled Sage, Peeled Paint, Tattered Rose,Worn Lipstick, Mustard Seed
Paper: Canson Watercolor; cardstock (unknown)
Miscellaneous: Perfect Pearls Mist in Perfect Pearls. Copic Marker BV000, Inkssentials Craft Sheet, Tsukineko Fantastix Coloring Tool

Card Notes:

Create a card base by scoring a 9” x 8” piece of white cardstock. Card dimensions should be 9” x 4”.

Cut both a mat and image panel to fit the card base.

Stamp the Blossom Spray stamp several times on the panel using Archival Jet Black ink.

Create a paint palette by stamping the distress ink pads directly onto a craft sheet, leaving space between each color.

Spritz Perfect Pearls Mist directly over each of your stamped colors.

Using a coloring tool, pick up color from the craft sheet and color the blossom image. Set aside to dry.

Stamp the sentiment in Archival Jet Black ink.

“Color” the ribbon with the Copic marker, let try, and then create a bow.

Assemble the card.

Tweet a Thank You to a Friend with a Card

Twitter is one way to tweet, but you can also tweet a Thank You to a friend with a card.

Blog Star Piali Biswas has made another great card to share on our Stampendous Blog.

Absolutely beautiful Piali. Thank You for sharing!

“Tweet Thanks” by Piali Biswas

Stampendous Products: SSC1116 Friendship Assortment and SSC1075 Birthday Cages Perfectly Clear Stamp Sets, Versafine Onyx Black Ink, Versamark Ink by Tsukineko, Detail White Embossing Powder

Cardstock: Papertrey Ink

Other supplies: Distress inks, Embossing heat gun, We R Memory Keepers Corner Chomper, sponge

 INSTRUCTIONS:

1.  Cut and score the black card base.
2. Cut another piece of the card stock slightly smaller than the card base, sponge different distress ink randomly and blend it well. Distress the edges.
3. Stamp the smallest cage image with the lightest ink, then the round cage with black ink .
4. Stamp the last cage image with Versamark Ink and heat emboss with Detail White EP.
5. Stamp the thanks definition sentiment with distress ink randomly.
6. Pierce hole and make some faux cross stitching on the side.
7. Adhere the stamped panel.
8. Stamp the sentiment and trim the edge to make a banner.
9. Adhere it to the card to finish.

Size: 5.5” X 4.25”

Hydrangea Thanks by Piali Biswas

Wow Piali, nice job. This is a great Thank You card. Those hydrangea flowers just POP! The little bits of Mica in the center of each flower finish it off quite nicely. This is just one great example of use for our NEW Mica Fragments.

Supplies:

Stampendous Products: Jumbo Cling Hydrangea (CRS5005), Versafine Onyx Black Ink, FRM01-R Pearlized  Mica Fragments

Paper: My Mind’s Eye Collection

Card Stock: Papertrey Ink

Other Copics Markers, Sentiment sticker

Instructions:

1. Cut and score the card base;
2. Adhere the card stock and patterned paper strip.
3. Stamp the hydrangea image twice, color both the images with copics/makers.
4. Trim one stamp image to make the focal panel.
5. Trim the individual flowers and the leaves, adhere them to the focal panel using glue & 3D dots for added dimension
6. Attach the lace.
7. Add the sentiment sticker ;
8. Adhere the image to the card using 3D dots;
9. Apply glue to the center of the flowers and sprinkle Pearlized Mica fragments on them, dust off the excess.
10. Embellish with pearls to finish.

SIZE: 5.5” X 4.25”.