Perfect Pairing with PaperMart

Today, Stampendous is doing a mini blog hop using PaperMart products.  PaperMart has a pretty wide range of products, but, not all of them are paper!  You should make a point of going to their website and taking a look around.  There's a lot to see!  For my project today, I chose to use one of their Gold Window Stackable Steel Tin Cans.  I love little tins of any sort and this was right up my alley.  

I happened to notice the tin was the perfect size of an Artist Trading Coin.  I enjoy creating ATC's!  It's fun to see what you can do on such a small scale.  I thought it would be fun to create an ATC with our Frog Yoga Perfectly Clear Stamps Set.  I love this set!  These frogs are just too cute!

 Top of the Tin

          

  

Inside of the Tin lid

Here's what I used to create this tin:

PaperMart® Gold Window Stackable Steel Tin Can

Stampendous® Frog Yoga Perfectly Clear™ Stamps Set

Stampendous® Dreamweaver Stencils Pearlescent Embossing Paste

Stampendous® Mixed Media White Paper

Stampendous® Color Fragments (Retired)

Memento™ Tuxedo Black Ink Pad by Tsukineko®

Copic® Markers

DecoArt® Americana® Acrylic Paints

3D Foam Squares by Scrapbook Adhesives®

Zip Dry™ Paper Glue by Beacon Adhesives

I love my little froggy tin!  I hope you'll visit PaperMart and check out their many wonderful products!  I think they pair perfectly with our stamps!  Thanks for stopping by and I'll see you again soon!  Have a wonderful weekend!

Hugs,

Lea

Perfectly Stampendous

Welcome to another day of the Stampendous hop with the awesome folks and talented designers at Perfect Paper Crafting!  I am loving their Perfect Tools!  Today I’ve used the Color Spritzer to add some fun colors to my project along with a couple of awesome Stampendous Dreamweaver Stencils celebrating the arrival of Fall!

Here’s what I’ve used to create this card:

Perfect Airbrush Color Spritzer from Perfect Paper Crafting

Stampendous® Dreamweaver Stencil DWLL3004 Falling Leaves Stencil

Stampendous® Dreamweaver Stencil DWLL3043 Oak Leaf Stencil

Stampendous® Dreamweaver Stencil Metallic Copper Embossing Paste

Stampendous® Halloween Haunts Perfectly Clear™ Stamps

Stampendous® Jade Pearlustre Embossing Powder

Stampendous® Carnelian Pearlustre Embossing Powder

Stampendous® Mixed Media White Paper

Tombow® Markers - 925, 933, 885, 847, 055, 993, 133, 173, 177

Staedtler® Pigment Liner - Black 0.5

Memento™ Potter’s Clay Ink Pad by Tsukineko® for Imagine®

Orange Cardstock by WorldWin® Paper

E-Z Runner by Scrapbook Adhesives® for 3L

3D Foam Squares by Scrapbook Adhesives™ for 3L®

Don't you just love the texture on embossed leaves?  It's a technique called Molten Magic and you can learn how to do that super easy technique and a bunch of others with Fran's book, Embossing Powder Techniques From A-Z.  

Prize Info:

To be eligible for one of the prize packages comment during our hop! Leave a comment on our company blogs and on each designer blog post, each comment is an entry.  The winning commenters will receive one of these prize packages; a Perfect Ruler and Pop-Up Die Set combo package, a Mini-Perfect Layers and Pop’cessories Die Set combo package or a Perfect Airbrush, 1 – Holly Pattern Stencil and 1 – Holly Scroll Stencil combo package. US winners only, see Official Contest Rules for details.

Are you ready for some project inspiration? Here are today’s links, enjoy!

Stampendous Blog

Kristine Reynolds

Jamie Martin

Lea Fritts

Louise Healy

Perfect Paper Crafting Blog

Thanks so much for stopping by today!  I hope you’ll come back tomorrow for the final day of our hop.  Until then, have an awesome day!

Hugs,

Lea

Dreaming of Pink

That's right!  We're going to Pink Your Life at Stampendous this week!  To make it even more fun, I've added some Dreamweaver Stencils into the mix on this Clean and Simple card.  I think one of the things I love about the Pink Your Life (PYL) stamps is how they just lend themselves to bright happy colors.  For my card today, I've used the PYL Whisper Friends Perfectly Clear Stamp Set and I so love it!

Here's what I used to create this card:

Stampendous® Pink Your Life Whisper Friends Perfectly Clear™ Stamps

Stampendous® Love Always Perfectly Clear™ Stamps

Stampendous® Dreamweaver Graduated Dot Stencil

Stampendous® Crystal Micro Glitter

Stampendous® Mixed Media White Paper

Copic® Markers:  RV63, 55, 17; R24, 27, 29, 32; YR04, 07, 61, 65; Y02, 08; YG11, 13, 17; G43, 46; B0000, 23, 24; E50, 51, 53

Imagine® Memento™ Ink Pads by Tsukineko®:  Tuxedo Black, Dandelion Cantaloupe, Tangelo, Lady Bug, Love Letter, Lilac Posies, Danube Blue

Imagine® VersaFine™ Ink Pad by Tsukineko® in Onyx Black

Imagine® Sponge Daubers

Pink Cardstock by Bazzill Basics Paper®

Zip Dry™ Paper Glue by Beacon Adhesives

3D Foam Mounting Squares byScrapbook Adhesives™ for 3L®

Here's what I did to create this card:

Tape stencil to white paper.

Using sponge daubers, add inks allowing colors to overlap creating a rainbow effect.

Remove stencil and trim paper to fit a standard A2 card.

Stamp main image, color and fussy cut.

Using glue, adhere crystal micro glitter to wings.

Stamp sentiment on a trimmed piece of white paper with black ink, dovetail the left side.

Create A2 card base with a tent fold from pink cardstock.

Trim a piece of pink cardstock for sentiment, dovetail the end to match the sentiment.

Layer card as shown.

Attach main image with foam squares.

Prize Info:

Comment to win! To celebrate the new line of Pink Your Life we have 5 stamp sets to giveaway. Follow and comment on our hop each day and we’ll announce our winners early next week. US winners only, see Official Contest Rules.

Thanks bunches for stopping by today.  I hope you're loving these sweet stamps as much as I am.  Don't forget to comment to win!  Have a wonderful day.

Hugs,

Lea

Stick to It!

The Stampendous design team is so excited to hop this week showcasing some of the new April catalog products with great products from Scrapbook Adhesives. To spot the new stuff easily, look through the What’s New section of our website or browse our print catalog online! 

For my project today, I've used the Donna-Salazar Designs with Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L Denim Art Journal.  Well, to be precise, I've used the cover for today.  I'll share more of it with you tomorrow.  

Bare cover, ready to decorate

Section covered with gesso

Gesso covered with paint

Teal paints added for water

Clouds painted and stenciling/pasting complete

Close-up of stenciled/pasted section

Twine added over double-sided tape

Boat added using 3D Foam Squares

Completed cover after finishing touches of additional modeling paste and paint

Here's what I used to decorate this cover:

Stampendous® Cling Sailboats

Stampendous® Sailboats Die Cut Set

Stampendous® Ocean Wisdom Perfectly Clear Stamp Set

Stampendous® Dreamweaver DWLJ838 Waves Stencil

Stampendous® Mixed Media White Paper

Denim Art Journal from Donna-Salazar Designs with Scrapbook Adhesives® by 3L™

Hobby & Home Premium Double-Sided Tape, 1/8" by Scrapbook Adhesives® by 3L™

3D Foam Squares from Scrapbook Adhesives® by 3L™

DecoArt® Media Fluid Acrylics™ in Cobalt Teal Hue, Cobalt Turquoise Hue, Primary Cyan, Translucent White

DecoArt® Media™ Modeling Paste

DecoArt® Media™ Gesso

Copic® Markers:  C0, C1; B23, B24, B26; E42, E43, E44; R24, R27, R29

StāzOn™ Jet Black Ink Pad by Tsukineko®/Imagine Crafts®

Miscellaneous Twine

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

Stampendous Blog

Alison Heikkila

Laura Drahozal

Lea Fritts (me)

Scrapbook Adhesives Blog

I so appreciate your kind comments, but, to enter for the prize packages you need to visit the Stampendous blog and Scrapbook Adhesives blog and enter using the Rafflecopter widget.

We have THREE prize packages that contain one each:

• EZ Dots Permanent Adhesive Dots

• Medium DODZ

• Creative Photo Corners Mixed Colors

• 4″ X 6″ Adhesive Sheets 10 pk

• Adhesive Keepsake Envelopes 10 pk

• 3D Foam Squares White Mixed Sizes

• 3D Foam Squares Black Mixed Sizes

PLUS a $20 Stampendous Reward Card (US and Canada Winners Only) – winners outside USA will receive a stamp, a stencil and a surprise goodie at random plus the above adhesives.

Winners will be announced Monday, April 25, 2016. Enter to win with the Rafflecopter Widget on the Stampendous and Scrapbook Adhesives blog.

Thanks so much for stopping by today.  I'll have more of my fun new art journal to share with you tomorrow so don't forget to stop by and take a look.  In the meantime, have a blessed day.

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

Dreaming of You

So, how are you enjoying the many faces of Stampendous?  Pretty darn awesome, aren't they?  For my card today, I've used Beautiful Braid rubber stamp combined with Stampendous Dreamweaver Stencil DWLG762 Fairy.  From the first time I saw this stamp, I saw butterfly and fairy wings on her back.  You will definitely see this stamp again combined with butterfly wings!

Another thing I love to do is mix the various Stampendous Essentials to get my own mix.  I love having the ability to mix the various fragments, glitters, micas and embossing powders to match my papers and colored image.  If you don't have color fragments, you need them!!  I love those delicious little flakes of color.

Here's what I used to create this card:

Stampendous® Beautiful Braid Rubber Stamp

Stampendous® Dreamweaver Stencil DWLG762 Fairy

Stampendous® Dreamweaver Regular Embossing Paste

Stampendous® Mixed Media White Paper

Stampendous® Vintage Lilac Embossing Tinsel

Stampendous® Vintage Blue Embossing Tinsel

Stampendous® Ice Blue Embossing Enamel

Stampendous® Ice Blue Micro Glitter

Stampendous® Amethyst Color Fragments

Stampendous® Purple Color Fragments

Stampendous® Mint Color Fragments

Stampendous® Hot Lime Color Fragments

Stampendous® Powder Blue Color Fragments

Stampendous® Fresh Green Crushed Glass Glitter

Stampendous® Lavender Crush Glass Glitter

Stampendous® Oceanic Crushed Glass Glitter

Stampendous® Steel Blue Crushed Glass Glitter

Memento™ Tuxedo Black Ink Pad by Tsukineko®

VersaMark™ Watermark Ink Pad by Tsukineko®

VersaMarker™ Watermark Ink Pen by Tsukineko®

Copic® Markers

Blue Cardstock by Bazzill Basics Paper®

Memory Box® Viola 6x6 Paper Collection

Zip Dry™ Paper Glue by Beacon

Glue Dots® - Small 

Here's what I did to create this card:

Stamp image with black ink and color with markers.

Paste emboss fairy wings onto back of girl.

Add lilac powder to wings and heat with heat gun for molten magic technique.

Using VersaMarker™, extend wing size with marker, sprinkle on blue embossing powder, heat.

Trim image closely.

Mix fragments, mica and glitters in a separate container and set aside.

Create 6x6 card base from blue cardstock.

Trim background papers as shown and adhere to card base.

Take image and edge with VersaMark™ pad, sprinkle on ice blue embossing enamel, tap off excess.

Sprinkle on essentials mix and heat powder, this will embed the mix into the powder.

Adhere image to card front.

Using glue, adhere additional mix as shown, set aside for glue to dry, tap off loose mix and return to container.

This card might look like it was complicated to create, however, it really wasn't.  It was actually quite easy to put together and I'm so pleased with the final result.

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

Stampendous Blog

Lea Fritts

Pam Hornschu

Louise Healy

Laura Drahozal

Thanks so much for stopping by today.  I'll have another post for you tomorrow sharing another wonderful face from Stampendous.  In the meantime, have a wonderful day!

Hugs,

Lea

New Stencils, New Stamps, New Fun!

What a fun week we’ve been having on the Stampendous Design Team with Imagine Crafts AND new product release.   For my card today, I’ve used my very favorite Dreamweaver stencil ever!  I love this stencil and it’s really cool that it has a matching die, I know you’re going to want, no, NEED, them both!  

Here’s what I’ve used to create this card:

Stampendous® Dreamweaver Stencil LX7020 Leafless Tree

Stampendous® SSC1224 Forest Sayings Perfectly Clear™ Stamps

Stampendous® Mixed Media White Paper 

Imagine Crafts Memento™ Gray Flannel Dew Drop by Tsukineko®

Imagine Crafts Memento™ Espresso Truffle Dew Drop by Tsukineko®

Imagine Crafts Memento™ Nautical Blue Dew Drop by Tsukineko®

Imagine Crafts Radiant Neon® Electric Blue Ink Pad by Tsukineko®

Imagine Crafts Radiant Neon® Amplify!™ Electric Blue by Tsukineko®

Imagine Crafts Radiant Neon® Amplify!™ Electric Yellow by Tsukineko®

Imagine Crafts Radiant Neon® Amplify!™ Electric Orange by Tsukineko®

Imagine Crafts Radiant Neon® Amplify!™ Electric Green by Tsukineko®

Blue Cardstock by Bazzill Basics Paper®

Zip Dry™ Paper Glue by Beacon Adhesives

Look at all the yummy texture!!

Here’s what I did to create this card:

Using a stipple brush, cover a large section of the white paper with blue ink for sky.

Tape stencil to paper and apply gray ink.

Using a small flat paint brush, add espresso ink along edges to add some visual depth.

Mix blue, orange, green and yellow Amplify! inks to get two shades of green.

Stipple on Amplify! mixes for dark and light sections of leaves, heat to puff.

Paint on Amplify! mixes for grass, heat to puff.

Add little dots of blue Amplify! and heat for flowers

Create card base with a tent fold and attach card front.

(Here’s where I decided I wanted the green mixture to go all the way to the bottom of the card, so, I added more of the mix and heated it.)

Stamp sentiment with blue ink.

Here’s a list of my teammates that are playing along today:

Stampendous Blog

Louise Healy

Laura Drahozal

Lea Fritts

Pam Bray

Kristine Reynolds

Amy Hurley-Purdie

Alison Heikkila

Pam Hornschu

Prize Information:

We have prizes! Three lucky commenters will receive a prize package that includes:

• 1 Radiant Neon Ink Pad and Ink Refill

• 1 Color Fragments Jar

• a Creative Palette Rectangles Set

See Official Contest Rules for details.

Thanks so much for stopping by today!  I sure appreciate your company and I look forward to seeing you again tomorrow with my favorite catalog project.  Until then, have a blessed day!

Hugs,

Lea

PS  The fun comes with entering this card into the Monday Greeting Challenge over at The OutLawz!!  Come check out the fun!