Just Hatched!

Easter is right around the corner and we have some super cute stamps at Stampendous to help you celebrate the season!  Today I'm sharing a card with one of those stamps and it is adorable!  

This is what I used to create this card:

Stampendous® Just Hatched Stamp
Stampendous® Regal Bird Quotes Perfectly Clear™ Stamps Set
Stampendous® Memento™ Tuxedo Black Ink by Tsukineko®
Stampendous® Jumbo Perfectly Clear™ Acrylic Handle

Blue Oasis Cardstock by Bazill Basics Paper®
C’est La Vie Collection by Bo Bunny®
Latest & Greatest 6×6 Paper Pad by Authentique®
Copic® Markers  (E40, E41, E42; Y11, Y13, Y15, Y18, YR24)
Tim Holtz® Antique Linen Distress Ink™ by Ranger®
Ribbon by May Arts
Zip Dry™ Paper Glue by Beacon Adhesives

This is what I did to create this card:

1. Stamp image, color and trim to desired size, add distress ink all around white space.
2. Create A-2 card base with tent fold.
3. Trim patterned papers as shown.
4. Stamp sentiment, trim and add distress ink.
5. Create mats for both stamped images.
6. Adhere all layers but do not attach to card base.
7. Create bow with tails and attach to card as shown.
8. Adhere all to card base.

Some of my teammates have projects to share with you as well, so, be sure to check them out:

Stampendous Blog

Jennifer Dove

Kristine Reynolds

Pam Hornschu

Lea Kimmel (me)

Jamie Martin

I do hope my little chick has put a smile on your face.  Thanks for stopping by today.  I'll have another project for you on Wednesday so do come back by!  Have a blessed day!

Hugs,

Lea

Key to My Heart

Break out the froufrou! For the month of February, the Dream Team is going Frilly and Fabulous! Vintage, retro, or modern, adding extra charm with fun Fran•táge products from Stampendous, ribbons and lace from May Arts, buttons, crystals, charms, or even creating your own dimensional decor! A snippet or a pile, whatever your creative heart desires! Remember to link your creations using the Inlinkz tool on the Dream It Up! blog for a chance to win the stencil of your choice! Bonus points for using Dreamweaver and/or Stampendous product in your work of heart.

Here's what I've been playing with:

Here's what I used to create this card:

Dreamweaver Stencils© LG 672 Heart Lock Stencil

Dreamweaver Stencils© Metallic Silver Embossing Paste

Stampendous® Say It Today Perfectly Clear™ Stamps Set

DecoArt® Acrylic Gesso™

DecoArt® Metallic Lustre™ in Black Shimmer

Spellbinders® Classic Scalloped Heart Nestabilities® Die

Authentique™ Latest & Greatest 6x6 Paper Pad - Suave

Bo Bunny® Love Letters 6x6 Collection

River Reed Cardstock by Bazzill Basics Paper®

VersaFine™ Pad in Onyx Black by Tsukineko®

Faber-Castell® PITT Artist Pen in Warm Grey IV (Brush Style)

May Arts Ribbon® - Crochet Ribbon and Twine

Key Charm from Stampin' Up!®

Miscellaneous Brads

Beacon® 3-in-1 Advanced Craft Glue

Scrapbook Adhesives® 3D Foam Mounting Squares

Here's what I did to create this card:

• Die cut heart from Bo Bunny® paper
• Add a thin layer of gesso over entire die cut heart
• Tape stencil in center of heart and paste emboss with silver paste
• Set aside heart to dry
• Create 5x5 square card base with a tent fold
• Trim wood grain paper to fit in background as shown
• Once paste is almost dry, heat with heat gun allowing some areas to bubble up, this gives a rough, worn look
• Once paste has cooled, replace stencil over paste and buff on Metallic Lustre™ all over 
• Using PITT pen, outline the entire pasted design and color the keyhole
• Punch three holes and add brads
• Adhere heart to background paper
• Stamp sentiment on wood grain paper and layer onto green mat as shown
• Trim ribbon to fit across the front of background paper, wrap ends under each side
• Loop twine through top of key charm and attach to ribbon as shown with knot on back of ribbon
• Attach sentiment with foam squares as shown
• Using PITT pen, ink key to reduce shine and age key slightly

I love the shabby chic feel of my card.  For more frilly fun, visit the rest of the "A" team: 

Dream It Up!

Leadonna Kimmel (me)

Louise Healy

Laura Drahozal 

Lynn Mercurio

Pam Hornschu

Jamie Martin

Thanks for stopping by!  I hope you like my card and found a little inspiration here today.  If so, I would love for you to leave me a comment and tell me what you think.  If you're not one of my followers, I would love for you to consider following my blog.  I love sharing my creations!  As a matter of fact, I'll have another card on my blog tomorrow.  Hope to see you again soon!

Hugs,

Lea

An InLinkz Link-up

Tea, Anyone?

Who, besides me, would love a spot of tea?  How about pretty Stampendous Teapot Posies?  I'm so in love with the new teapot and teacup stamps as I collect both teapots and teacups, the older the better! Here's my version of a no-line coloring Teapot Posies that's ready to greet Spring!

Here's what I used to create this card:

Stampendous Teapot Posies
Stampendous Happy Greetings Perfectly Clear™ Stamps
Stampendous Regal Bird Quotes Perfectly Clear™ Stamps
Stampendous Tuxedo Black Memento™ Ink by Tsukineko®
Stampendous Valentine Micro Glitter Kit
Zip Dry™ Paper Glue by Beacon Adhesive
Cardstock by Bazzill Basics Paper®
Neenah® Classic Crest™ Solar White Cover Stock
Memento™ Desert Sand Ink by Tsukineko®
Authentique® Latest & Greatest 6×6 Paper Pad
Copic® Markers:  YG91, YG93, YG95, YG97, YG99; R81; RV17, RV55; BG18, BG72, BG75, BG78; C0, C1

Here's what I did to create this card:

1. Stamp teapot image with Desert Sand for no-line coloring, color image and trim to desired size
2. Create card base for a 5×5 square card and using same paper, trim a mat for image
3. Trim patterned paper as shown
4. Adhere all layers as shown
5. Stamp sentiment in upper right corner
6. Add pink glitter to each dot on teapot

Thanks for stopping by today and I hope to see you again soon!  In the meantime, I sure hope you have a wonderful day.

Hugs,

Lea

Got Leaves?

I do!  Stampendous® has two awesome large sets of leaf stamps, Cling Jumbo Leaves and PenPattern Leaves, along with a fantastic die set that cuts them out beautifully, no more fussy cutting required!  How awesome is that?!  For my card today, I used all three products and a lovely sentiment, Kind Friendship.  Here's my card:

Here's what I used to create this card:

Stampendous® Cling Jumbo Leaves

Stampendous® PenPattern Leaves

Stampendous® Leaf Die Set

Stampendous® Kind Friendship

Memento™ Inks by Tsukineko® in Toffee Crunch and Rich Cocoa

Tim Holtz® Distress Ink in Tea Dye

Neenah® Classic Crest™ in Natural White

Light Brown Cardstock by Bazzill Basics Paper®

Authentique™ 6x6 Bundle Thankful Collection

Copic® Markers: Y13, 15, 17; YR07, 12, 15, 18, 21, 23, 24; R05, 08, 17, 56; E34, 35

Zip Dry™ Paper Glue by Beacon® Adhesives

Here's what I did to create this card:

Stamp each leaf with Toffee Crunch and color with markers

Die cut each leaf

Clean up any edges of leaves if needed

Create 5.5" x 5.5" card base 

Stamp sentiment with Rich Cocoa, trim closely and create a mat from light brown paper

Trim sheet of patterned paper to fit card

Adhere patterned paper to card base and sentiment to mat

Adhere each leaf and sentiment as shown

This was a fast and easy card to create with a bit of a wow factor.  Thanks for stopping by to take a look.  I hope you have a wonderful weekend and I'll see you next week. 

Hugs,

Lea

Thoughtful Fall

As we officially head into the holiday season, the Dreamweaver Stencils Dream Team is challenging all of our followers to be especially "Thankful and Thoughtful" during the month of November. We hope that you will link your creations with this theme in mind on the Dream It Up! blog using the Inlinkz tool. Our "thanks" to you is providing you with the opportunity to win the stencil of your choice, and a bonus stencil of our choosing could be yours for using Dreamweaver product(s) in your artwork. I'm posting this for you today:

Here's what I used to create this card:

Dreamweaver Stencils© DD001 Nesting Frames Die Set

Dreamweaver Stencils© LJ 874 Fall Borders

Dreamweaver Stencils© LS 78 Maple Leaf

Inky Antics® Every Leaf Fluttering

Authentique™ 6x6 Bundle Thankful Collection

Neenah® Classic Crest™ Natural White

Green Cardstock by Bazzill Basics Paper®

ColorBox® Fluid Chalk Paintbox® Inks - Primary Pastels 

ColorBox® Fluid Chalk Petal Point® Inks - Autumn Pastels

Tim Holtz® Distress Ink - Tea Dye

May Arts Ribbon®

Zip Dry™ Paper Glue by Beacon® Adhesives

Scrapbook Adhesives® 3D Foam Squares

Here's what I did to create this card:

Tape stencil down onto natural white cover stock, using stencil brushes, ink design

Trim stenciled image to desired size

Stamp sentiment, die cut and stencil leaves over sentiment

Using a stiff flat brush, add detail to leaves on both images

Die cut mat for sentiment and adhere the two together

Create card base from green cardstock

Adhere main stenciled image to card base

Trim ribbon, attach to card

Using foam squares, attach matted sentiment to card base over the ribbon

By the way, the Dream Team is very THANKFUL when our followers are THOUGHTFUL enough to leave us a nice comment on our posts! Here's the "A" team lineup for this week, as well as our very special guest designer, Linda Neff!

Dream It Up!

Linda Neff (GD)

Leadonna Kimmel (me)

Louise Healy

Laura Drahozal 

Lynn Mercurio

Pam Hornschu

Jamie Martin

Thanks so much for stopping by today!  I hope you'll check out my teammates and possibly find a little inspiration along the way.  I'll have another post tomorrow so be sure to come back and check it out, too!  Have a wonderful day!

Hugs,

Lea

An InLinkz Link-up

Happy HalloThanksMas!

Can you tell that sometimes Dream Team's "Fearless Leader", Pam Hornschu, has a hard time deciding on monthly challenges? Since the team will be taking turns all month with the Smeared and Smudged 31 Days of Halloween, and we are doing a Christmas collaboration with Stampendous and Core'dinations the 13th - 17th, the confusion should be understandable. Therefore...happy HallowThanksMas! As usual, we'd love for you to play along with the challenge and link your creations to the Inlinkz tool on the Dream It Up! blog. Just in case you are wondering...NO, YOU DO NOT NEED TO POST SOMETHING WITH ALL THREE HOLIDAYS ON IT! However, you get bonus points for actually using Dreamweaver stencils and product on your creations! And bonus points might actually earn you an extra stencil as our monthly winner...just sayin'!

Here's my creation for today:

Okay, I have been dying to use the metallic copper paste on a pumpkin.  I have to say, I am not disappointed!  It is just as yummy as I imagined.  I went over the copper with crackle paste just on the body of the pumpkin and I LOVE it!  Talk about awesome texture!  Plus, do you see how cool the copper looks shining through the crackle?  You should see it in real life, delicious!

Here's what I used to create this card:

Dreamweaver Stencils© LL3036 Great Pumpkin Stencil

Dreamweaver Stencils© Metallic Copper Embossing Paste

Dreamweaver Stencils© Crackle Embossing Paste

Authentique® Papers Thankful Collection 6x6 Paper Pad

Cardstock by Bazzill Basics Paper™

Tim Holtz® Distress Ink in Rusty Hinge

Copic® Marker E08

Queen & Co. Pearls

Zip Dry™ Paper Glue by Beacon® Adhesives

Here's what I did to create this card:

Paste emboss pumpkin stencil on patterned paper with copper paste, set aside to dry

Once the copper has dried, replace the stencil and paste with the crackle paste, set aside to dry

Create an A-2 card base with a tent fold from brown cardstock

Trim patterned papers as shown

Once pumpkin has completely dried, trim to desired size

Ink over crackle paste with distress ink, also ink all edges of paper

Trim a mat from brown cardstock for stenciled piece

Adhere all layers as shown

Add pearls to card and color with Copic® marker

Remember to visit the rest of the team, as well as our guest designer, as confusion takes rein...could be interesting!

Dream It Up!

Linda Neff

Leadonna Kimmel

Louise Healy

Laura Drahozal

Lynn Mercurio

Pam Hornschu

Jamie Martin

Thanks so much for stopping by today.  I hope you've enjoyed my project and I hope it inspires you to play along with our fun challenge this month.  I'll have another post tomorrow, so come back by for another visit!  See you then!

Hugs,
Lea

An InLinkz Link-up

Stampendous and Authentique Hop

Today several of our Design Team Members have a second project to show you featuring the gorgeous papers sent to us by Authentique™ Paper. These papers were intended for our BIG Blog Hop in October and our team is using them on our October Catalog Samples. But we couldn't resist sharing them just a bit early with some other images. We have a fun prize to give away this week. Only one, but it's a good one! One lucky winner will get some Authentique papers of their own, plus a $20 Stampendous Reward Card. WOW! How? Just comment on the blogs this week! Miss the earlier posts? Here they are: MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY You have until Sunday night to comment, then Monday we'll choose one winner for the prize! So hop around and leave these hard-working gals some love on their terrific projects! (that means comment on their blogs!)


For my card today, I decided to celebrate fall in all her glory with the help of a friend.  Who, you might ask, well that would be the awesome PenPattern Owl, that's whooo!  Yeah, corny pun intended!  Anyway, here's my card and I do hope you like it!

Here's what I used to create my card:

Authentique™ Paper Adventure Collection - Nomad and Explore

Stampendous® PenPattern Owl

Stampendous® Jumbo Leaves

Stampendous® Leaves Die

Stampendous® Boss Gloss

Stampendous® Color Fragments - Ochre, Caramel, Burgundy

Stampendous® Embossing Powders - Carnelian PEARLustre, Paprika, Honey

Memento™ Tuxedo Black Ink Pad

Neenah® Classic Crest™ Solar White

Tim Holtz® Distress Inks® - Antique Linen

May Arts Ribbon

Beacon Adhesive® Zip Dry™

Spectrum Noir Markers:

• CG1, CG2, CG4
• GB1, GB4, GB6, GB8, GB9
• EB1, EB2, EB6, EB7
• TN2, TN3, TN4, TN6, TN7, TN8, TN9
• DG3
• BG4, BG6

Here's what I did to create my card:

Stamp owl image with black ink onto cs and color
Trim image to desired size and ink with distress ink
Create card base with a tent fold
Trim patterned papers (pp) as shown and trim a piece of ribbon to fit across pp

Attach ribbon to pp and adhere pp to card base
Adhere image to pp mat and attach to card
Stamp leaf onto pp and die cut
Using Boss Gloss, add ink in steps while applying embossing powders and heat setting
Attach leaf to card
Mix the three different colors of color fragments and apply as shown with glue

So, that's my card, I hope you like it!  I'm going to enter it in the Spectrum Noir monthly challenge so be sure to check that out and you can enter it with your project, too!  Here are links to the rest of the team showcasing their projects for your inspiration:

Tenia Nelson

Kristine Reynolds

Pam Hornschu

Jamie Martin

Lea Kimmel (me)

Jennifer Dove

Thanks so much for stopping by!  I do hope you will stop by again tomorrow as the Dreamweaver Dream Team is wrapping up our week-long blog collaboration with WoodWare.  Don't forget to comment to win for today's post (and tomorrow's)!  See you then! Have a blessed day!

Hugs,
Lea

Authentique-ly Wonderful Paper

All this week the Stampendous Design Team has been creating projects using some amazing papers sent to us by Authentique!  I love their papers, the designs, the quality, they're truly superb papers in every way!  Plus, we have a pretty cool prize for one lucky winner!  So, for a chance to win some sheets of this delightful patterned paper and a $20 Stampendous.com reward card, be sure leave each designer some love along the way!

I love Halloween!  It's my favorite holiday of the year!  When I was a kid, I thought it was awesome that I could be anyone I wanted to be for that one day.  I could be a hippie, a princess, whatever struck my fancy.  My love for it has only deepened throughout the years as I've watched my kids become whatever character they wanted to be for that day.  Now, I even have a granddaughter that trick or treats and I love buying her costumes each year.   Anyway, here's my card:

Here's what I used to create my card:

Stampendous® Crow Caw
Stampendous® Halloween Wish
Authentique™ Paper Harmony Collection's Abundance and Song
Stampendous® Aged Black Embossing Enamel
Stampendous® Detail Black Embossing Powder
Neenah® Classic Crest™ Solar White
Neenah® Classic Crest™ Natural White
Tsukineko® VersaMark™ Pad
Tim Holtz® Distress Ink™ - Antique White
Spectrum Noir Markers BG2, Blender
May Arts Ribbon®
Beacon Adhesive® Zip Dry™

Here's what I did to create my card:

Stamp images with VersaMark™ pad and emboss using Aged Black EE and Detail Black EP
Accent around images with additional Aged Black EE
Create a shadow under the bird with the markers
Trim image to desired size and ink with distress ink
Create a mat for image and adhere the two as shown
Create card base as shown with a tent fold
Trim patterned papers as shown
Adhere the two patterned papers together and attach ribbon, adhere this to card base
Using foam mounting squares, attach matted image to card

That's it for today.  I hope you've enjoyed my post and will come back tomorrow for yet another post!  Don't forget to leave me some love if you're interested in winning our prize, you must comment to be eligible.  Have a blessed day!

Hugs,
Lea

PS:  We're currently experiencing web site problems at Stampendous, please bear with us as we try to get things working properly.

Flora For You!

Welcome to the merry month of May! The Dream Team are challenging you this month to a "Flora and Fauna"theme! Considering most of the Dreamweaver designs incorporate both of these in the huge variety of stencils, you should have no problem playing along with our challenge this month! As usual, link your creations at the end of theDream It Up! blog post, or at the end of our posts where it says, "Add Your Link". 

Here's what I've been playing with this week...

Here's what I used to create this project:

Dreamweaver Stencils Zen Flower Stencil

Dreamweaver Stencils Double Stick Mounting Paper

Stampendous Pacific Blue Embossing Powder

Stampendous Lettuce Embossing Powder

May Arts Ribbon

Bazzill Cardstock

Authentique Patterned Paper

Beacon Adhesive Zip Dry

Here's what I did to create this project:

Soap back side of stencil and place on sticky paper

Apply blue embossing powder

Remove sticky paper from stencil 

Apply green embossing powder

Trim around flower edge leaving a green margin

Create card base in a tent fold

Trim patterned papers as shown and adhere together as shown

Tie bow and wrap tails around back of patterned paper

Attach paper and bow to card base

Adhere flower to card base, tucking it slightly into ribbon

Here's the rest of the team playing along today:

Dream It Up!

Leadonna Kimmel

Louise Healy

Laura Drahozal

Lynn Mercurio

Pam Hornschu

Jamie Martin

Be sure to check them all out and leave these ladies some love!  Thanks for stopping by today, I'll see you again soon!

Hugs,

Lea

An InLinkz Link-up

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Be Afraid...

,,,be very afraid!  Woohoo!  Happy Halloween to all of my favorite ghouls out there! Today concludes our entire month of Magical and Mysterious, and your final opportunity to link your own creepy creations to the Dream It Up! blog for an opportunity to win the stencil of your choice!  Here's my card:

For this card, I used the following:

LJ 816 Spider Web and LS 28 Spider Stencils

DSP Silver Paste

Viva Colour Ferro Special Effect Paste

Authentique Enchanted 6x6 Paper Pad

Bazzill Card Stock - Red and Black

May Arts Ribbon - Puffy Bats

Martha Stewart Drippy Goo Border Punch

Christmas Red Stickles

Beacon Zip Dry

Check out the rest of the team's creations, as well as our wonderful guest designer, Alison Heikkila. Thanks so much, Alison, for joining us for Spooktober!

 

Dream It Up!

Alison Heikkila

Terrece Siddoway

Cherylynn Moser

Pam Hornschu

Lea Kimmel

Lyn Bernatovich

Louise Healy

Thanks for stopping by today!  I hope you all have a safe and fun Halloween!  I'll see you again, soon!

Trick or Treat!

Lea

Friendly Scarecrow

Stampendous! Stamps® has some of the cutest fall stamps ever!  I love scarecrows and their Friendly Scarecrow is one of the cutest!  Just look at that sweet smile!  Doesn't look like he scaring any birds away! That's okay, he just needs to look cute on your card, right!?  Here's mine:

I stamped my image with Archival Ink in Coffee onto watercolor paper and colored it with my Derwent Inktense Pencils.  I trimmed it down to size and distressed the edge with my Tim Holtz Paper Distresser.  I then added some Scattered Straw Distress Ink around the edges.  Next, I trimmed my checked patterned paper  from Authentiques' Thankful Collection to create a mat for my image and distressed and inked the edges of it as well.  I set both of those aside and created my card base from Bazzill and trimmed my patterned background paper to fit my 5" x 5" card with a 1/8" edge.  Using a piece of baling twine, I adhered it to the bottom of the card and tied a couple pieces of hay to the twine.  Finally, I adhered my image and mat to the card and used a couple of glue dots behind the top of the hay to hold it to the card.  Sweet and simple!  I just hope my neighbor didn't catch me swiping the hay out of his yard to finish my card!  Tee hee hee!

Thanks for stopping by today!  I'll have another card for you soon!

Hugs,
Lea

The Smallest Things

Chilly mornings, leaves changing color, apples ripening, these are just a few of the small things that make me happy when fall arrives in a slow blaze of glory!   The sentiment on my card today has always been a favorite of mine!  I fell in love with Christopher Robin, Winnie-the-Pooh and all the other characters of the Hundred Acre Wood when I was very young and I've been in love with them ever since!

To create my card, I used two Dreamweaver Stencils, LL 3004, Falling Leaves and LS 78, Maple Leaf.  Using my stencil brushes, I inked both stencils with ClearSnap's ColorBox fluid chalk ink pads in Autumn Pastels and Primary Pastels.  I also used a small flat paint brush to add "veins" to the leaves.  I stamped my Quietfire Design sentiment Sometimes, Said Pooh with Memento's Rich Cocoa ink.  I  trimmed my inked images down to the sizes I wanted, inked them all over with Tim Holtz Distress Ink in Antique Linen and set them aside.  Using Bazzill for my card base, I created my base with a basic tent fold.  My patterned paper is from Authentique's Thankful Collection and wrapped with a piece of May Arts Faux Burlap Wired Ribbon.  I added Art Glitter's Challis Ultrafine Opaque Hologram Glitter to each of my image pieces by edging them with Tsukineko's The Essential Glue Pad and then dipping each edge in the glitter. I hate that it didn't photograph better as it's really pretty in person!  As a finishing touch, I added a button just 'cause I wanted to!  I like buttons!  So, that's my card for today, I hope you like it!  Here's a list of the others posting today:

Dream It Up!
Lea Kimmel
Louise Healy
Stacey Rumsby
Terrece Siddoway
Wendy Jordan 
Pam Hornschu

Thanks for stopping by and I'll see you again soon.

Hugs, 
Lea

Gathering

One of my jobs at Enchanted Cottage is to create samples for the store.  How lucky is that?  I love creating new things and having so many goodies right at my fingertips to use.  Well, I was recently given the task of creating an album using a Bo Bunny Naked Album with the Authentique Gathering paper kit.  I loved putting this book together and hope you will enjoy the pics.  Keep in mind that I'm not allowed to use photos or do any actual journaling.  Personally, I think that makes the task harder.  It's always so much easier for me to create when I have inspiration from a photo I'm using for the page.  At any rate, enjoy!

I added some Bazzill and May Arts ribbon to the gorgeous papers that came in the kit.  We still have some of the kits available at the store as well as a few paper kits of their other lines.  I used a Copic marker to edge each page and the album itself; I think it gives it a more finished look.  So there it is, I do hope you like it.  Thanks for stopping by!

Hugs,

Lea



Bathing Beauties

Here they are!  Two of the cutest bathing beauties you have surely ever seen!  Meet Summer Fun Rio and Victorian Swimsuit Rio from Simply B Stamps.  Can you guess which one is which?  Tee hee!  I love these images and I really love them with this new line of Authentique paper.  It was truly perfect for these cards.  Hope you like them!

Hope you like these beach babes!  Be sure to check out the rest of the design teams creations on the SBS blog.

Hugs,
Lea