Halloween Day 13

Welcome to Day 13 of the Stampendous 31 Days of Halloween!  The Stampendous Design Team loves Halloween and we love to share our creations, however, we also love to see what you make with our stamps.  Look below for instructions on how to play along with us, you just might win a prize!

For my small canvas today, I've used the Andy Skinner Skuldoggery Cling Rubber Stamp Set.   This is such an awesome stamp set I had to use it again!  It's just so creepily perfect for Halloween decor!

Here's what I used to create this canvas:

Stampendous Products:

ASCRS08 Andy Skinner Skuldoggery Cling Rubber Stamp Set

ASCRS09 Andy Skinner Unexplained Cling Rubber Stamp Set

FRGL02 Twinkle Glitter

MPW811 Mixed Media White Paper

MEM01Memento™ Tuxedo Black Ink Pad by Tsukineko®

SSH34 Medium Handle

Other Products:

DecoArt® Americana® Multi-Surface Satin Paints

DecoArt® Media™ Gesso

Copic® Markers

StāzOn™ Jet Black Ink Pad by Tsukineko® 

We’ve got two groups of prizes we’ll be giving away. First, you can comment on our blog and those of our designers, and we’ll randomly choose winners each week to win some Halloween product love. Second, you can enter your own creation in our Challenge Link. It will be at the bottom of every post and in our sidebar. It looks like this:

Stampendous 31 Days of Halloween Link Up – Click Here

To enter, your project needs to be online somewhere, blog, flickr, Instagram, Pinterest, etc. Just click on the picture or words above to enter the link. If you can’t make a link to your project, email it to submissions@stampendous.com and we’ll host it for you. We will choose a winner each week from the links, winners must have a US mailing address to win, but anyone can share their projects with us.

Thanks for creeping by and I'll see you next week for more spookiness!

Boo!
Lea

Halloween Day 11

Welcome to Day 11 of the Stampendous 31 Days of Halloween!  The Stampendous Design Team loves Halloween and we love to share our creations, however, we also love to see what you make with our stamps.  Look below for instructions on how to play along with us, you just might win a prize!

For my card today, I've used the Andy Skinner Skuldoggery Cling Rubber Stamp Set   This is such an awesome stamp set.   It's perfect for Halloween or anytime you want to get your creep on!

Here's what I used to create this card:

Stampendous Products:

ASCRS08 Andy Skinner Skuldoggery Cling Rubber Stamp Set

MPW811 Mixed Media White Paper

MEM01Memento™ Tuxedo Black Ink Pad by Tsukineko®

SSH34 Medium Handle

Other Products:

Black Cardstock

love Nicole™ vintage halloween paper pad

love Nicole™ dark shadows paper pad

3D Foam Squares by Scrapbook Adhesives®

E-Z Runner® by Scrapbook Adhesives™

Copic® Markers

General's® Pastel Chalk™ Pencil in White 

We’ve got two groups of prizes we’ll be giving away. First, you can comment on our blog and those of our designers, and we’ll randomly choose winners each week to win some Halloween product love. Second, you can enter your own creation in our Challenge Link. It will be at the bottom of every post and in our sidebar. It looks like this:

Stampendous 31 Days of Halloween Link Up – Click Here

To enter, your project needs to be online somewhere, blog, flickr, Instagram, Pinterest, etc. Just click on the picture or words above to enter the link. If you can’t make a link to your project, email it to submissions@stampendous.com and we’ll host it for you. We will choose a winner each week from the links, winners must have a US mailing address to win, but anyone can share their projects with us.

Thanks so much for stopping by!  I'll see you again on the 13th for more Halloween goodness!

Creep it real!
Lea

Curios Collection

Stampendous® has a new cool stamp that debuted in the January 2018 catalog, our new Curio Rubber Stamps.  They're awesome stamps that are made with the same wonderful, gray, graphic rubber that our regular stamps use, but, their mounts are really cool, full-color, three-dimensional wood blocks that are fun to stamp with or just sit there looking cute.  I plan to collect them all so I can have them to stamp with or just look at for inspiration or a smile!  My card today uses CURIO Butterfly Stretch.

Here's what I used to create this card:

Stampendous® Products - 

CUR03 Curio Butterfly Stretch
ASCRS12  Andy Skinner Textures Cling Stamp Set
MPW811 Mixed Media White Paper
STF082 VersaFine™ Onyx Black Ink Pad by Tsukineko®

Other Products -

Zig® Markers in Green Shadow, Turquoise Green, Light Green, Lilac, Light Blue, Violet
Memento™ Angel Pink Ink Pad by Tsukineko®
Memento™ Pear Tart Ink Pad by Tsukineko®
Memento™ Bahama Blue Ink Pad by Tsukineko®
Memento™ Grape Jelly Ink Pad by Tsukineko®
Memento™ New Sprout Ink Pad by Tsukineko®
Memento™ Summer Sky Ink Pad by Tsukineko®
Lime Pop Cardstock by My Colors®
May Arts Ribbon®
Zip Dry™ Paper Glue by Beacon Adhesives

Here's what I did to create this card:

1. Stamp image on white paper with black ink and color
2. Fussy cut butterfly 
3. Create an A2 card base and mat for image from green cardstock
4. Trim white paper as shown and ink with various pads for background paper
5. Stamp images from Textures set randomly on background paper
6. Cut a piece of ribbon to fit across card and adhere to background paper
7. Adhere background paper to card base
8. Stamp sentiment in black ink as shown
9. Adhere butterfly to card

Thanks so much for stopping by today.  I'll see you next week with more fun Stampendous inspiration!  Until then, have a blessed week!

Hugs,
Lea

Stampendous, DecoArt & Andy Skinner

Welcome back!  Have you enjoyed this week of creativity with Stampendous and DecoArt?  I don’t know about you but I’m loving the stamps Andy Skinner has designed for Stampendous.   I’m almost sad that today is the last day of the collaboration, however, we’ll still be using all of these amazing products together.  

For today’s project I’ve made a sweet little sign I’m going to hang on a wall somewhere in my house, I just haven’t decided where yet.  This was one of those fun projects that all fell in place with looking at one stamp!  Those are my favs!  I painted several different layers onto my little 5”x7” canvas board.  I really wanted it to look like it’s been painted multiple times over the years, I think it does.  Sweet and simple!

Here’s what I used to create this canvas:

Stampendous® Andy Skinner Shabby Chic

Stampendous® Andy Skinner Toxic

Stampendous® Nosy Cat

Stampendous® Dreamweaver Nested Teacups Die Set

Stampendous® Mixed Media White Paper

DecoArt® Media™ Fluid Acrylic in Yellow Green Light

DecoArt® Media™ Fluid Acrylic in Viridian

DecoArt® Media™ Fluid Acrylic in Green Gold

DecoArt® Media™ Fluid Acrylic in Blue Green Light

DecoArt® Media™ Fluid Acrylic in Translucent White

DecoArt® Media™ Fluid Acrylic in Transparent Yellow Iron Oxide

Americana® Decou-Page™ - Matte

Copic® Markers - YR21, YR23, YR24; R30; C1, C4, C5, C6, C7

VersaFine™ Onyx Black Ink Pad by Imagine Crafts®

StāzOn™ Jet Black Ink Pad by Imagine Crafts®

StāzOn™ Ganache Ink Pad by Imagine Crafts®

Basic Grey® True Love Patterned Paper

Faber-Castell® PITT Artist Pen in Black

5”x7” Canvas Board

Here's a list of my teammates playing along today:

Stampendous Blog

Wendy Price

Asia King

Pam Hornschu

Janelle Stollfus

Pam Bray

Jamie Martin

Louise Healy

Alison Heikkila

Lea Fritts (here)

Amy Hurley-Purdie

Tenia Nelson

Debbie Cole

Laura Drahozal

DecoArt Blog

You’ll want to get your commenting fingers ready…so put down your paintbrushes! Each comment on a post will enter you to win a fabulous prize package! (One comment per post, per person.)  This contest is 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. This is a great prize package!

Thanks so much for stopping by today!  I hope you’ve really enjoyed this week.  Don’t forget to comment so you’ll be eligible to win.  Have a wonderful weekend and I’ll see you next week!

Hugs,

Lea

Mixing It Up

Hello, hello!!  I’m beyond excited this week as the Stampendous Design Team is playing with our BFFs over at DecoArt!  As you probably already know, Andy Skinner has designed some amazing stamps for Stampendous.  What you might not know, Andy just happens to be the DecoArt International Education Coordinator.  How cool is that job!?

Andy and his band of merry mixed media artists are playing along with us, including Julia Stratford-Wright, Mark Gould, Mel Hookham, and Jools Robertson. Plus, there will be posts this week on the DecoArt blog, too.  Since, I know you’ve already been wowed by my teammates earlier this week, I hope today’s posts will be just as awesome!  I've prepared some step-out photos just for you!

Once stencil is taped down, sponge on ink in a random fashion.  I purposely did not cover the entire area the stencil covered.

Squeeze one drop of Diarylide Yellow Media Fluid Acrylic into Regular Embossing Paste. As you can see here, I've only used one drop of Fluid Acrylic.  Since they're so highly pigmented, it only takes one drop to get amazing color results.

Mix paste and paint thoroughly.

The paste is a little lighter than I wanted so I'm going to darken it some. 

 So, I've added a little drop of Cadmium Orange hue and mixed it up.  Notice, I've used the tiniest of drops to get the perfect color!

Here's my paste, the perfect shade I wanted and ready to spread! Because it takes so little paint to tint the paste, there's not much needed

Here it is, all pasted and drying!

In the meantime, I've stamped my images, created my card base, snipped a flower stem and cut out a leaf that I stamped my sentiment on!  Once my paste dried, I added some distress ink and layered it all to form my card!

So, here's my card with a rather fun and funky sunflower!

Here's the complete list of products I've used to create this card:

Stampendous® Andy Skinner Curiosity Stamp Set

Stampendous® Daisy Thanks Perfectly Clear™ Stamps

Stampendous® Dreamweaver LJ806 Hexagons Stencil

Stampendous® Dreamweaver Regular Embossing Paste

Stampendous® Mixed Media White Paper

DecoArt® Media Fluid Acrylics™ in Diarylide Yellow and Cadmium Orange Hue

Memento™ Cantaloupe, Dandelion and Rich Cocoa Ink Pads by Imagine Crafts®

Vintage Photo ID Distress Ink™ by Ranger®

My Colors® Desert Cactus Cardstock

Faber-Castell® PITT™ Artist Pen in Green Gold

Scrapbook Adhesives® 3D Foam Mounting Squares by 3L®

Zip Dry™ Paper Glue by Beacon Adhesive

WE HAVE AWESOME PRIZES!!

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.)  This contest is 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!

Here's a list of my teammates that are playing along today, be sure to leave them some love:

Stampendous Blog

Pam Hornschu

Alison Heikkila

Louise Healy

Lea Fritts

Debbie Cole

Laura Drahozal

DecoArt Blog

Thanks so much for stopping by today.  I'll have another project for you tomorrow so make sure to come back.  In the meantime, have a wonderful day, I'll see you again soon!

Hugs,

Lea

Distressed Dreamweaver

Hello!  Hope you're having some fun crafty time wherever you happen to be!  I had some fun crafty time in my studio and played with some great Stampendous products for  Dreamweaver Thursday!  We're distressing our projects this week, that could be any one of multiple techniques.  Mine was simple, it just involved using a stamp to create a faux distressed background.  It doesn't get much easier than that and I totally love the look!  Here's my card:

This is what I used to create this card:

Stampendous® Dreamweaver Stencils© Nested Owls Cutting Dies

Stampendous® Dreamweaver Stencils© Leafless Tree Die Cut

Stampendous® Dreamweaver Stencils© Owl Buddy Stencil

Stampendous® Dreamweaver Stencils© Regular Embossing Paste

Stampendous® Andy Skinner Cling Industrial Set

Stampendous® Forest Sayings Perfectly Clear™ Stamps

Stampendous® Mixed Media White Paper

Memento™ Tuxedo Black Ink by Tsukineko®

Memento™ Pear Tart Ink by Tsukineko®

Memento™ Cantaloupe Ink by Tsukineko®

Memento™ Gray Flannel Ink by Tsukineko®

Green Cardstock by Bazzill Basics Paper®

Black Cardstock by Bazzill Basics Paper®

Faber-Castell® PITT Artist Pen in Walnut Brown

Miscellaneous Scraps of Patterned Paper

Miscellaneous Embroidery Thread

Zip Dry™ Paper Glue by Beacon Adhesives

This is what I did to create this card:

Trim a piece of white paper to 4" x 5 1/4" for card front 

Using a stippling brush, add green ink to trimmed white paper

Stamp background in gray ink over in tire piece of inked paper

Die cut a tree and trim pieces for card front

Adhere largest piece of tree to paper allowing pieces to hangover edges

Tape stencil onto card front with owl claws slightly overlapping onto branch, set aside to dry

While the paste is drying, die cut the owl with a variety of patterned papers 

Stamp sentiment with black ink onto a scrap of white paper

Trim sentiment, ink with light orange ink, punch holes and add thread to "hang" sign from branch

Adhere top branch with sign to card front 

Attach die cut owl pieces to dry embossing paste

Trim an A2 card base with a tent fold 

Adhere card front to card base and trim branch pieces that are overhanging
Fill in spaces on owl with marker as shown

Here's the list of my teammates playing along today:

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

Thanks so much for stopping by today!  If you left me a comment, double thanks!  LOL!  I hope you enjoyed my little owl card, I sure had a fun time creating it.  Have a blessed afternoon!

Hugs,

Lea

*Dreamweaver Thursday post