Superstar Birthday

We've been celebrating birthdays all week at Stampendous!  We have so many different stamps and stencils that are perfect for creating anything from a birthday card, to invitations, to home decor, and scrapbook pages to remember it all!  Not just birthdays, but also anniversaries and all of the major holidays.  If there's a celebration to be had, chances are, we have the stamps and stencils to help you celebrate it in style!  Here's my card for today using the sentiment, Superstar Birthday, and the background stamp, Oh My Stars.  

Here's what I used to create this card:

Stampendous® R287 Oh My Stars Rubber Stamp

Stampendous® V331 Superstar Birthday Rubber Stamp

Stampendous® Mixed Media White Paper

Copic® Markers:  Y11,15; B24,26

Memento™ Tuxedo Black Ink Pad by Tsukineko®

Spellbinders® Stars Five Die Set

My Colors® Tuscan Sun Cardstock

My Colors® Banana Pepper Cardstock

E-Z Runner® by Scrapbook Adhesives™

3D Foam Squares by Scrapbook Adhesives®

Thanks for stopping by today!  I hope you've enjoyed our weeklong celebration of birthdays.  I'll see you again next week.  In the meantime, have a wonderful day.

Hugs,

Lea

Sweet Escapes are Awesome!

Desert Island Crafters Challenge is sponsored this round by Sweet Escape Digis and the image I've chosen is Witch Digital Stamp.  I love her images as they're all wonderful!  The faces are so sweet and they're just fun to color.  Here's the list of items to choose from for this challenge:

1.  Turn something sweet into something creepy

2.  Use black, purple and orange

3.  Use spider webs

4.  Add some glitter/sparkle

5.  Use a die cut

6.  Use paint

7.  Tear something

8.  No pink

9.  CASE a DT Member

10.  Something metal

For my image I've used 2, 3, 4, 5,  and 6.  Remember, you must use at least 3 items from the list for your project.

                               

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

Sweet Escape's Witch Digital Stamp

Copic Markers

Hickory Smoke Distress Ink from Ranger

Eerie 6x6 Paper Pad from BasicGrey

Purple Cardstock from Bazzill Basics Paper

Creepy Web Die from Memory Box

Label Eighteen Die from Spellbinders

DecoArt Media Shimmer Mister in Violet

DecoArt Media Mister in Yellow Green

Silver Micro Glitter from Stampendous

E-Z Runner by Scrapbook Adhesives for 3L

Quickie Glue Pen by Sakura (Great for intricate dies)

3D Foam Mounting Squares by Scrapbook Adhesives for 3L

This was such a fun card to create!  It helps to have an awesome stamp to begin the process!  I hope you'll check out Sweet Escapes, I'm pretty sure you'll love them too!  So, let's see what you can create from our fun list!  See you again soon!

Hugs,

Lea

Blankets and Buttons

We are SO EXCITED to be hopping with Buttons Galore and More for a whole week. We have some fun projects to share that all include an abundance of buttons that were so generously sent to our team.

Buttons Galore and More provides a wide selection including specialty designed embellishments for celebrations, holidays, and various other events and themes. Find a plethora of choices on their website at Buttons Galore and More!

This week has been one of those weeks when I would love to grab a blanket, curl up and hide from the world!  Well, since I can’t do that, I’ve got a super cute little House-Mouse® that can!  Isn’t this a sweet stamp?  I love it!  I tried to mimic the patterned paper with my design of circles and hexagons and I have to admit, I’m pretty pleased with the results.  The sweet buttons from Buttons Galore was the perfect finishing touch!

Here’s what I used to create this card:

Stampendous:

HMV24 Baby Blanket

SSCCM5001 Hoppy Moments Perfectly Clear™ Stamps

SSH34 Medium Perfectly Clear™ Acrylic Handle

MEM01 Memento™ Tuxedo Black Ink by Tsukineko®

MPW811 Mixed Media White Paper

Plus:
Cardstock by Bazzill Basics Paper®

Zip Dry™ Paper Glue by Beacon Adhesives

Buttons by Buttons Galore and More® in Tangerine Tango, Wild Berry, Key Lime Pie

Memories Growing Garden Patterned Paper by Ki®

Nestabilities® Hexagon Dies by Spellbinders® Paper Arts

Nestabilities® Circle Dies by Spellbinders® Paper Arts

Aunt Lydia’s Crochet Thread®

Copic® Markers (T2, T4, T6, E50, E51, E53, R02, R81, R83, R85, R87, C0, C1)

Here’s what I did to create this card:

Stamp Baby Blanket image with black ink, color with markers and die cut with largest hexagon die.

Stamp sentiment with black ink and die cut with smallest hexagon die.

Die cut largest circle and smallest circle from green cardstock.

Create an A2 card base with a tent fold from green cardstock.

Trim a piece of patterned paper to fit 1/8″ smaller than card base on all sides.

Adhere patterned paper to card base.

Adhere hexagonal die cut sentiment to small die cut circle.

Adhere hexagonal die cut main image to large die cut circle and then adhere to card front.

Layer sentiment onto large button, adhere to card.

Layer smaller buttons with crochet thread and adhere to card as shown.

Thread single button with crochet thread and adhere to card as shown.

Here’s a list of my teammates that have additional inspiration to share:  

Stampendous Blog

Kristine Reynolds

Lea Fritts (me)

Pam Bray

Jamie Martin

Laura Drahozal

Pam Hornschu

Louise Healy

Janelle Stollfus

Wendy Price

Tenia Nelson

Buttons Galore and More

Yes, we have PRIZES! There are three (3) prize packages that include one of each:

• Cling Create Christmas Stamps Set

• Create Christmas Die Cut Set

• Assortment of Buttons

To be eligible, you must be a US resident (see Official Rules), comment on our blog and that of each Stampendous designer’s blog posts each day of the hop and tell us in what state you live. Deadline to comment for our prizes is Sunday, October 18, 2015. Winners will be selected by random.org and will be announced sometime on Monday, October 19th.

Wait! For our Aussie friends, be sure to comment and tell us where you’re from, because our Australian Distributor The Stencil Specialists are sponsoring a prize for one friend “down under” to win a Stampendous Stamp, a Dreamweaver Stencil and a surprise goodie from their terrific stock of Stampendous merchandise!

Thanks so much for stopping by today!  I’ve got a 31 Days of Halloween post for you tomorrow so come on back by and get spooked!  Also, in case you missed it yesterday, please go check out my "cute as a button" apple tree canvas from yesterday!

Hugs,

Lea

Spooky Spellbinders

Hello and welcome to the final day of the Spellbinders® Whimsical Woodland Blog Fest!  I decided to create two different bezel inserts with our Stampendous® stamps, one that fits our woodland theme and another that's a little spookier for Halloween.  I will use a glue dot on the back of each insert to hold it in but it will also allow me to switch them out.  For easy storage, I'll just keep a piece of acetate that I can stick them to when I'm using a different insert!  

Here’s what I used to create this bezel and the inserts:

Stampendous®:

Spooky House Perfectly Clear Stamps
Halloween Diamonds Perfectly Clear Stamps
Aged Green Embossing Enamel
Jade PEARLustre™ Embossing Powder
VersaMark™ Watermark Ink Pad
Memento™ Tuxedo Black Ink Pad by Tsukineko®

Plus:

Spellbinders® Shield Bezel - Large Silver

Spellbinders® Die Set
Memento™ London Fog Ink Pad by Tsukineko®
Copic® Markers - W0, W1, W4, C1, C3, C4, T4, BV01, BV02, BV04, B91, B93, B95, Y11, Y13, Y32, Y35, Y38, YG11, YG13, YG17, YG93, YG95, G05, G07, E41,E42, E43, E44, E47
Miscellaneous beaded chain
Glue Dots® Adhesives - Craft Dots

Here’s what I did to create this bezel and the inserts:

Die cut two large shields and stamp images
Color images and set aside
Mix embossing enamel and embossing powder in a separate container
Rub VersaMark™ pad around one complete side of bezel
Sprinkle embossing mix on bezel over ink, shake off excess mix and heat
Repeat steps on other side of bezel
Create chain and attach bezel with a jump ring
Add a single bead in bottom hole of bezel

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

Stampendous Stamps

Lea Fritts (me)

Alison Heikkila

Jamie Martin

Tenia Nelson

Spellbinders Blog

Spellbinders is having THREE daily prizes and one grand prize during the hop so you will want to see Spellbinders Official Rules for the complete detail, deadlines and rules.  We have THREE prize packages of our own that include the Cling Create Fall Stamp Set and matching dies. To be eligible, you must be a US resident, comment on the Stampendous blog and that of each Stampendous designer’s blog posts each day of the hop and tell us in what state you live. Stampendous Official Contest Rules apply. Deadline to comment for our prizes is Monday, October 5th and winners will be announced sometime on Tuesday October 6th.

Thanks so much for stopping by today.  I hope you’ve enjoyed our hop, I’ve certainly had a good time creating my project for you.  I'm going to make some more inserts so I'll have even more to switch around.  Have a wonderful weekend and I'll see you next week with some hauntingly good fun!

Hugs,
Lea

Summer Fun with Spellbinders

It’s summer time and we are hopping with some fabulous companies in the Summer Road Trip Partner Hop with Spellbinders.  Stampendous Stamps is hopping all three days with some fabulous summer inspiration from the design team and today two of our designers are featured with tutorials using some new Spellbinders products! How fun is that!

Spellbinders is having a great giveway during this hop with three daily winners and one grand prize winner! Check out the details here.  Stampendous rules can be found here,  Official Rules   Here's my card for today:

Here's what I used to create this card:

Spellbinders® Hexagons Nestabilities® Die Set (I used #2)

Stampendous® Relax Enjoy Rubber Stamp

Stampendous® Dreamweaver Stencils LJ806 Hexagons

Stampendous® Dreamweaver Stencils 1/2" Brush

Stampendous® Mixed Media White Paper

Bo Bunny® Barefoot & Bliss

Intense Yellow Cardstock by Bazzill Basics Paper®

May Arts Yellow String Burlap Ribbon

ColorBox® Chalk Primary Pastels & Soft Pastels

Memento™ Danube Blue Ink Pad by Tsukineko

Zip Dry™ Paper Glue by Beacon Adhesives

Here's what I did to create this card:

Create A2 card base with a top fold from yellow cardstock

Trim a piece of mixed media white paper to 4" x 5 1/4

Tape stencil to white paper to secure and using a stencil brush, add ink

Remove stencil and set aside

Using the #2 Hexagon die, cut out 7 hexagons from a variety of papers

Adhere hexagons to stenciled card front as shown

Trim hexagon pieces that hang off card front

Stamp sentiment with blue ink as shown

Adhere card front to card base

Wrap string burlap around top of card twice and tie in a big bow

Here are my teammates that are playing along today:

Stampendous Blog

Feature Designer – Tenia Nelson

Feature Designer – Lyn Bernatovich

Laura Drahozal

Janelle Stollfus

Lea Kimmel

Asia King

Spellbinders Blog

Thanks so much for stopping by today!  I hope you have enjoyed our little hop with our awesome crafty partners!  I'll be back again tomorrow with another post to celebrate some May Arts Ribbon love.  Have a wonderful day!

Hugs,

Lea

Terrific Trio

This week we are playing with some fantastic products from our friends at Clear Scraps and we’re excited to share our finished projects. You can image how much fun it is to have a clean canvas to start with but when you use Clear Scraps it’s a see-through canvas!

Our friends at Clear Scraps take pride in new product inventions with the best interactive albums and the best innovative designs.  In addition to their own fantastic and innovative products, Clear Scraps sells a huge selection of Stampendous products as they travel the nation visiting various consumer shows like Scrapbook Expos and others.

When I created my card, I went old school and used Prismacolor Pencils.  I wanted this to have a softer feel and I thought the pencils would do just the trick.  Without further ado, here's my card:

 Front of card

Inside of card

Here's what I used to create this card:

Clear Scraps Send It Clear Bell

Stampendous® Cling Build A Bouquet Stamp Set

Stampendous® Build A Bouquet Die Set

Stampendous® Happy Greetings Perfectly Clear Stamp Set

Stampendous® Mixed Media White Paper

Stampendous® Copper Metallic Embossing Paste

Stampendous® Dreamweaver Stencil LX 7001 Damask

VersaFine™ Onyx Black Ink Pad by Tsukineko®

Spellbinders® Curved Rectangles Nestabilities®

Spellbinders® Labels Eighteen Nestabilities®

Memento™London Fog Ink Pad by Tsukineko®

Memento™ Angel Pink Ink Pad by Tsukineko®

Prismacolor® Pencils

Bo Bunny® C'est La Vie Collection

3L® Scrapbook Adhesives® 3D Foam Mounting Squares

Fast Finish by Beacon Adhesives

Clearly we have prizes!!! We have three prize packages up for grabs each will include our Cling Jumbo Filigree Stamp Set, a Jumbo Perfectly Clear Acrylic Handle, PLUS a Clear Scraps Mixable Album and some extra acrylic accents! Comment on our blog and each designer’s blog of the day throughout this week of our hop and the winners will be announced Monday, May 18th. Official Rules apply for Stampendous prizes. Please let us know where you live. As you know, prize winners have to be US residents EXCEPT….

Aussies – Look HERE!
An exciting treat for our fans “down under”!!

The Stencil Specialists , one of our Australian Wholesale Distributors, is going to offer a prize to one Australian fan every time we have a giveaway!!  How completely exciting! Plus they’re stocking way more than stencils from Stampendous now!  For the Clear Scraps Blog Hop, The Stencil Specialists are offering:  A Stampendous Stamp, A Dreamweaver Stencil (LL size customer choice), A Silicone Mould,  A Tub of White Ultra Light Paper Clay and 3 packs of Adhesive Gems.  WOW… Now there’s a prize package! Comment each day on the Stampendous and participating designer blogs and include in which area you live! We’ll announce the winner the following week!

Here's the list of teammates posting today:

Stampendous Blog

Amy Hurley-Purdie

Lea Kimmel (me)

Tenia Nelson

Jamie Martin

Alison Heikkila

Clear Scraps Blog

Thanks for stopping by today to have a look!  Don't forget to leave a comment to be eligible to win a prize!  Tomorrow is the big hop so don't forget to stop back by for my next project.  In the meantime, I hope you have a wonderful day!

Hugs,

Lea

A Little Tombow Togetherness!

Today is the last day of our fantastic weekend hop at Stampendous with our friends at Tombow. They have so many amazing products; we are excited to have joined them for the past three days. We love their paintbrush style Dual Brush pens the most and we’ve teamed them up with some of our winter wonderland stamps for some truly great projects.  Here's my card using the sweet new image, Winter Delivery:

Here's what I used to create this card:

Tombow® Bright Palette Dual Brush Pens
Tombow® Jewel Dual Brush Pens
Stampendous!® Winter Delivery
Stampendous!® Lavender Crushed Glass Glitter
Stampendous!® Aged Green Embossing Enamel
Stampendous!® Boss Gloss™ Embossing Ink

Spellbinders® Wonky Squares Die

Ranger® Archival Ink™ in Onyx Black

Tim Holtz® Distress Ink in Antique Linen

Light Mauve Cardstock by Bazzill Basics Paper™

Neenah® Classic Crest™ Solar White Cover Stock

Cosmo Cricket™ Mitten Weather™ 6x6 Mini Deck

May Arts Ribbon® Ric Rac
Tim Holtz® Paper Distresser

Zip Dry™ Paper Glue by Beacon® Adhesives

Scrapbook Adhesives® 3D Foam Squares

Here's what I did to create this card:

Stamp image with black ink

Using an acrylic block, add ink from brush pen onto block and mix colors needed

Apply ink from block using blender pen (this gives a nice soft color like a watercolor)

Once coloring is complete, cut out image using die

Create 5"x5" card base with a tent fold
Trim your patterned papers as shown
Using your paper distresser, distress the edges of your image and both patterned papers
Add distress ink to the edges you've just distressed
Adhere the two patterned papers together
Trim a piece of ric rac to fit across and around to back side of layered patterned papers and adhere
Adhere layered papers and with ribbon to card base
Using foam squares, attach image to card
Add Boss Gloss™ in a few spots around edges, add embossing enamel and heat to melt
Add glue where desired and sprinkle on glitter, set aside to dry

We are still in the spirit for prize package after our Holiday Hop with Spellbinders!  Our prize package will be a Top Hat Snowman stamp set and a Jumbo Perfectly Clear Handle, PLUS a set of Tombow Dual Brush Pens! To be eligible to win, you need to comment on our blog that of each designer in the list provided below. We’ll pick a winner each day (3) and announce them on Monday, November 24th at 11:30 am PT. Eligible winners are those comments that provide a valid email and indicate a U.S. Mailing address. Here are the Stampendous Official Rules for all contests. Like both Stampendous! and TombowUSA on Facebook, too!

Here's the hop list for today.  Leave some love if you want to be eligible to win a prize.

Stampendous Blog

Lea Kimmel

Janelle Stollfus

Marie Browning

Asia King

Tombow Blog

Thanks so much for stopping by and I'll have more projects to share with you this week.  In the meantime, have a wonderful day.  See you again, soon!

Hugs,

Lea

Seasonal Stamping With Stampendous and Spellbinders

If you're looking for my Dreamweavers Stencils post, please click here!  Thank you!

  

 

Welcome to the Spellbinders and Product Partners Holiday Blog Hop.
We are so excited to have you join us!

For the next three days Spellbinders and their Product Partners will be showcasing projects for the holidays. To view all of the great projects you’ll want to start at the Spellbinders blog. We are promoting each day of the blog hop, so we decided to share extra projects from our designers! You’ll find those here.  Here's my project for today:

Here's what I used to create this card:

Spellbinders® Holiday Picture Perfect

Stampendous® Holiday Words Perfectly Clear Stamps™

Stampendous® Chunky White Embossing Enamel

Stampendous® Detail White Embossing Powder

VersaMarker™ Watermark Ink Pen

May Arts Ribbon® 1/8 inch Curly Sparkling Ribbon

Little Yellow Bicycle® Winter Twig Collection - Snowy Window

Light Blue Cardstock by Bazzill Basics Paper™

Neenah® Classic Crest™ Solar White Cover Stock

Memento™ Teal Zeal Dew Drop

Zip Dry™ Paper Glue by Beacon® Adhesives

Scrapbook Adhesives® 3D Foam Squares

Here's what I did to create this card:

Run dies through white and light blue cardstock

Adhere top die onto light blue die cut shape

Using VersaMarker™, apply ink to "ground," add embossing powder and heat

Sprinkle white embossing enamel on "sky" portion of die cuts and heat 

Create 5" x 5" card base with a tent fold from light blue cardstock

Trim patterned paper to fit on background as shown

Adhere die cut to patterned paper

Trim ribbon piece to fit and adhere as shown

Stamp sentiment with blue ink on white scrap, trim light blue mat and adhere the two pieces together, attach to card with 3D Foam Squares

Do you feel like there should be… Prizes? Oh yes, there are plenty of prizes. Spellbinders has compiled a fantastic giveaway package for each day consisting of three brand new Spellbinders dies/templates plus product from that day’s Featured Partners! Details and Official Rules can be found here.

We will also have a a prize package here on the Stampendous blog, and we bet other Product Partners will be doing the same, so visit them all each day!

Our prize package each day will be a Jumbo Penguin Duo stamp set and a Jumbo Perfectly Clear Handle, PLUS a set of Spellbinders greeting dies! To be eligible to win our Stampendous prize package, you need to comment on our blog that of each Stampendous designer in the list provided below. We’ll pick a winner each day (3) and announce them on Monday, November 24th. Eligible winners are those comments that provide a valid email and indicate a U.S. Mailing address. Here are the Stampendous Official Rules for all contests. So hop around and check them out!!

Stampendous Impressions Blog

Lea Kimmel

Janelle Stollfus

Kristine Reynolds

Jamie Martin

Pam Hornschu

Spellbinders blog

Thanks for stopping by today!  I hope you've enjoyed our Holiday Blog Hop with Spellbinders and Partners.  I'll see you again soon!  Have a wonderful day!

Hugs,

Lea