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

Happy Colors for a Happy Card!

 We're back with Day 4 of our wonderful collaboration with the folks at Imagine Crafts! This terrific company has been so good as to supply us with some amazing inks. They generously support all of our events, so we are super excited for this opportunity to really showcase their products! Our focus this week is on the luscious Radiant Neon inks, but Imagine Crafts also supplies us with the must-have StazOn for stamping permanently on non-porous surfaces like glass and metal, the can't-live-without Memento inks for using with our Spectrum Noir and Copic markers, and the ooooh-wow-love-it VersaFine inks - our total favorites for use with Perfectly Clear Stamps. We are so super lucky! We got to feature the StazOn inks in our blog hop with ICE Resin earlier this month. Don't worry, we'll be featuring the other inks as the year goes on. Lots of chances for you to win. Speaking of winning!! We've got some Radiant Neon inks to give away with our wonderful Fran•táge Color Fragments! We'll give three prize packages (we choose the colors) randomly drawn from the comments on all the blog posts this week.

 

 These inks are just as brilliant and opaque on paper as they are in the package! You'll be so pleased with them. Look at this terrific sample from Design Team Member Kristine Reynolds:


Neon Sunflower by Kristine Reynolds

There's a fantastic step-by-step tutorial for it on her blog HERE.

Here's the card I created for today:

Here's what I used to create this card:

Stampendous® PenPattern Flower
Stampendous® Spanish Loving Messages PCS™
Imagine Crafts®/Tsukineko® Radiant Neon™ Inks in these "Electric" colors: Coral, Orange, Blue, Green, Purple, Yellow and Pink
Neenah® Classic Crest™ Solar White
Cosmo Cricket™ DeLovely™ 6x6 Paper Pad
Bazzill® Cardstock
May Arts Ribbon®
Zip Dry™ Adhesive

Here's what I did to create this card:

Stamp flower twice with each color on white cs
Create card base with a tent fold
Trim patterned paper as shown
Trim stamped paper as shown
Cut a piece of ribbon long enough to wrap around patterned paper and image
Adhere ribbon and layers as shown
Stamp sentiment on scrap of blue paper and attach with foam mounting squares

Here's who is hopping today:

Stampendous Blog

Imagine Crafts

Sharon Morrison

Janelle Stollfus

Naghma Husain

Wendy Price

Baerbel Born

Lea Kimmel (me)

Emily Lanham

Thanks for stopping by today.  I hope you're enjoying our blog collaboration and will come back tomorrow for the big hop!  See you then!

Hugs,

Lea

***Blog Hop Hint - if you click on a link that takes you to a page saying something like, "Sorry this page cannot be found," just click on the header at the top of the blog (usually a picture, or the blog's name), and it will take you to that blog's most recent post. That post *should* be our hop. If not, you can probably scroll down a short way to find the hop post.

May Arts Time!

In case you didn't already know, Stampendous is doing a blog collaboration with May Arts Ribbon this week and I always enjoy it when we collaborate with them, May Arts is my favorite ribbon in the whole wide world!!  That's no exaggeration!  I love their ribbon and twine!  They have the best variety and if there's ribbon or twine on one of my projects, 99% of the time, it's May Arts.  Today I have a fun project that was so easy to do!  I've been working on organizing my craft room and it seems I'm always in need of a box or jar to put something in.  I love to use clear jars because you can easily see the contents and they're just pretty to look at!  I decided to decorate one of my jars that I think I'm going to use for paint brushes on my mixed media table.  I haven't decided for sure if that's where I'm going to use it or not.  Actually, I think it's pretty enough that I could just as easily put a candle in it and stick it in my living room!  Anyway, here's my jar, you can tell me what you think:

I really like the shabby vintage look of this project.  While I do have the ring on the top of the jar, I have intentionally left the insert off.  I like the look of the jar ring.  I considered painting it or covering it in some fashion and decided against it.  On the jar itself all I did was layer a wide 2 1/2" May Arts ribbon on the bottom, a 1 1/2" burlap May Arts ribbon over the sheer and a piece of May Arts twine around the middle.  I used another May Arts ribbon to create my ribbon flower on a Gluber from Cosmo Cricket.  If you've never seen Glubers, they're like giant glue dots you use to create flowers; they're pretty darn cool!  I used my ribbon flower to cover the area where the ribbons connect.  Next I created my tag! I kept it pretty simple using Stampendous SSC1194 Vintage Ladies Perfectly Clear Stamps that I stamped with Coffee Archival Ink on a small shipping tag.  I used Peeled Paint, Scattered Straw, Tattered Rose and Dried Marigold Tim Holtz Distress Markers to color her in.  I used Vintage Photo Distress Ink Pad and a stipple brush to add some ink around the edges.  Next I added a touch of Zip Dry Adhesive around the edge of the tag and dipped each side in Stampendous Cinnamon Micro Glitter.  Once my glitter was dry, I tied the tag onto the twine around the jar.  Really simple but simply pretty!  My teammate Janelle is also playing along today, here's her link, check her out!

Janelle

That's it for today.  I hope you'll come back tomorrow for a look at my Blog Hop project.  I'm kinda crazy about it, too!  Thanks for stopping by and I'll see you again soon! 

Hugs,

Lea

How now brown cow?

Guess what?  Today, I'm a star!  Not just any star, a Stampendous BlogStar!  I can't even begin to tell you how excited I am to play along with such a talented design team.  You know how much I love stamping and creating and to be able to do so with a company I love is just beyond wonderful.  In honor of this awesome opportunity, I've decided to "Milk it for all it's worth!" 

 I'm not sure if you've met Cowlik yet or not but isn't he adorable?  Cowlik is one of the new characters from Stampendous that has joined Fluffles and Changito.  I'm just in love with this little guy!  I've made him brown since we all know the brown cows are where chocolate milk comes from, right!?  I'm not sure where the strawberry milk comes from and I don't think I want to know! 

I colored these images with my Copics after stamping them on Neenah with VersaFine ink.  I kept the papers to a minimum since I knew I was using three different images.  My papers are Bazzill for the base and background layers and the patterned paper is from a Cosmo Cricket Mini Deck named Garden Variety.



Here's a close up of Cowlick and a close up of the milk bottles.







Even though it's hard to tell in my pictures, I colored the sky with Copic B0000 and colored around the milk bottles and the sentiment with the same.  It's hard for me to leave white space!  I love how this card came out and the simplicity of it.  All I had to do to polish it off was add a lovely bow. 


Here's what the entire set looks like and the link to the site should you want to purchase this very versatile set.  Say hello, happy birthday or, like me, milk it for all it's worth and just have fun!  Cowlik Birthday Perfectly Clear™ Stamps

Thanks for stopping by today.  I'm really looking forward to my time as a Stampendous BlogStar.  There are three other BlogStars I'm sharing the spotlight with and I hope you will check out their blogs and say hello to them as well. 

Tenia Nelson
 http://jazzypaper.blogspot.com

April Derrick
http://memoryvilla.com/blog

Susie Moore
http://www.thedieshaveit.com

I'm sure they're just as excited as I am!
 I hope you'll check back often to see what I've come up with next.  There's all sorts of cards rolling around in my head just waiting to be stamped, colored and created!

Big BlogStar Hugs!
Lea

Spelling Blocks Oscar

Today, we are releasing a new image from the Jude & the Rockers Playtime collection from Simply B Stamps.  This little cutie is called Spelling Blocks Oscar and he is just adorable!  It wasn't that long ago that I had a little one in preschool and to tell you the truth, I miss having one that age.  Not enough to have another baby, though!  Nope, that business is done for me and now I just have to enjoy grandchildren in preschool!  Anyway, here's my card.

I used Copics to color my image that's on Neenah and added Tim Holtz distress ink around the edge.  Bazzill is my base and solid papers and my patterned paper is  Social Club from Cosmo Cricket.  I colored the three wooden stars with my Copic marker Y28 and added some epoxy letters from Piggy Tales that I've had in my stash forever.  I wanted to keep this one masculine and it's hard to find embellishments that let you keep that boyish feel.  Sometimes you just have to create your own!  So that's my card and I do hope you like it!

Thanks for stopping by to take a look and be sure to stop by tomorrow for another preview!

Hugs,
Lea

Simply Betty Stamps Blog Hop and Auction

Welcome to the Xander Zone!!  You are in for quite a trip through todays Blog Hop and Auction.  Our dear friend Betty Roberts, owner of Simply Betty Stamps has just found out this week that her 17 year old son Christian has Stage 1 Throat Cancer.  He will be having surgery next week and many months of Therapy to follow.  (To read more from  Betty on what’s going on please go HERE)

Betty’s DT and the Crafty Sprouts DT along with a few friends have come together today for the From the Xander Zone Blog Hop and Auction!  If you are stumbling into this hop please head to Crafty Sprouts to catch the beginning of the hop!

If you hopped here from Raven then you are right on track!

As you hop along today you will see cards created with Xander, the first in a new series to be released called “From the Xander Zone”.  He is available with a donation to Betty’s family.  Christian will be undergoing Surgery next week to remove his tonsils and then the thrice weekly Therapy will begin on the tumor.  His therapy could last for many months.

                                                                

There is also  a contest running through October 16^th and Christian will pick a random winner who will receive the whole collection!  The details on the contest are at the SBS blog.

As you hop today you will also see many cards and projects up for Auction.  In order to make a bid on an item leave a comment on that person’s blog with your offer AND your name and email address.  Please remember that it might not be you who gets the winning bid, so check back if you really want it! 

At the end of the Hop (Tuesday night October 11^th at 9pm EST the auction will come to a close.  Winners will be sent a paypal invoice and the Winners will be announced on the Simply Betty Stamps blog.  Please note that we are asking for timely payment, with 48 hours of the announcement on Tuesday morning or the runner up will be chosen.  This is for the simple fact that Betty’s family needs this money as quickly as possible for all of these unexpected and out-of-pocket needs.

Here's the card I created for the hop using "Bella the Vampire."  I think she's gorgeous and spooky looking all rolled into one and was so pleased to use her in my card for Christian.  Of course I stamped her on Neenah and colored her with my Copics (E50, E51, E53, R02, YR14, YR16, YR18, E08, G21, G24, G28, BG000).  I cut her out using a Spellbinders Nestie and distressed her with Tim Holtz Distress Inks in Antique Linen all over and Rusty Hinge around the edge.  I layered her on Bazzill and Cosmo Cricket papers.  I typed my own sentiment and printed it out on Neenah, distressed it and layered it as well.  I had a few off-white flowers in my stash that I also distressed, added the bling in the middle and attached to the layered sentiment.  The card itself was so simple to create, however, I think she's as lovely as her name!  I hope you like her too. 

From here please hop over to Lelia at http://greengoddescreations.blogspot.com/

If you get lost along the way, here’s the hop order!

Crafty Sprouts  

 Cyndi

Kristi 

Suzi 

 Zeni 

Wendy

 Rebecca

 Vicki

   Alison  

   Raven 

  Lea  

Lelia 

  Sandra 

Aeryn

 Nicole  

  Elsa 

  Cheri  

Carley  

 Linda

Pam

Simply Betty Stamps

I can't even begin to tell you how honored I am to be included in this hop to raise money for Christian.  It means a great deal to me and I would like to thank Betty and her Design Team at Simply Betty Stamps for allowing me to participate.  It has truly been a pleasure!