Vase Bouquet in May!

One of my favorite things about May is all the flowers in bloom.  They're everywhere here in Winston-Salem and they are stunning!  May puts on a radiant show in my neck of the woods!  Well, Stampendous!® has put on quite a show with new floral stamps, too!  This is Vase Bouquet and is one of my new favorites!  I love, love, love this stamp!  The versatility is awesome as this stamp can be used for Mother's Day, which is right around the corner (hint, hint!), birthdays, get well, happy anniversary, thinking of you, congratulations, the list could just go on.  Most of the floral stamps from Stampendous!® could be used in the same manner, you really get a lot of bang for your buck!  Isn't this image just gorgeous!?

So here's what I did to create this card.  For starters, I stamped my image with Memento® Tuxedo Black on Neenah® Classic Crest and colored with Copic® markers.  I trimmed the image down and added Tim Holtz™ Distress Ink in Antique Linen all around the edges and close to the image.  One of the reasons I like to do this is because it really finishes the look and makes the image pop.  This is a good sized image so I wanted to make the card a 6x6.  I could have gone smaller but sometimes I prefer a bigger card!  Anyway, the card base is Bazzill® and my patterned papers are from Bo Bunny's® Little Miss Collection.  I just trimmed them to fit and adhered them with Beacon Adhesive's Zip Dry™.  My ribbon is from May Arts and my pearls are from Queen & Co.  I think the ribbon and pearls are just the right touch for this image!

Stampendous!® is showing off all the new flowers from the April catalog this week so be sure to go to the blog and check them out.  While you're there, you'll notice two awesome things, one is Stampendous!® is offering free shipping on all retail orders over $50 to U.S. addresses.  This awesome offer is going on through July 31st!  The second cool thing you'll notice is a link to our new digital downloads.  We have one called Flowery Phrases Digital Download that is just perfect for our new floral stamps!  There are several other awesome digital downloads available for a very reasonable price so be sure to check them all out, some even have art and not just sentiments; now that's a bargain! Today I'm posting with Cyndi and Jamie, here's their links:  

Cyndi

Jamie

 Here's a recap of my teammates that have posted lovely floral creations designed to inspire you earlier this week; I hope you'll check them out if you haven't already!

Asia

Cyndi

Jamie

Jennifer

Jennifer

Kristine

Kristine

Steph

Steph

Suzz

Tobi

That's it for today, I'll have another new creation for you soon so be sure to check back!  Have a great day!

Hugs,

Lea

Let's Hop with Clear Scraps!

Hey everybody!  All week long Stampendous and Clear Scraps have been collaborating to bring you some awesome eye candy.  Today we are having a blog hop for your enjoyment and to give you the opportunity to win an amazing prize package from Stampendous, Clear Scrap and Tsukeniko.  Each of us on the Stampendous Design Team were given an acrylic and chipboard album from Clear Scraps and some awesome inks from Tsukeniko.  I decided that rather than do an album I wanted to do something a little more simple and will also help me keep track of birthdays each month.  Here's my dry erase birthday board with plenty of room to write dates and names.

These are really a lot of fun as you are only limited by your own imagination.  As I was looking at the pieces of my album, I thought the piece I used as my top looked a lot like the top of a cupcake.  That got me thinking and this is the result!  I used papers from My Mind's Eye Quite Contrary collection, stamps were Party Invite and 15 Candles from Stampendous and stamped with Staz-On Jet Black Ink from Tsukeniko.  I used a variety of Stickles, Ribbons and Rhinestones for bling and the cuteness factor! 

I cut my paper to match my pieces and layered the bottom pieces.  I stamped my images prior to actually attaching the paper to the acrylic so I could flip each piece over and fill in the stamped image with Stickles.  Once the Stickles dry attach the paper to the acrylic with glue dots.  Cover your glue dots that are visible with rhinestones.  Attach the two pieces with large rings and decorate with ribbons.  Using a Crop-A-Dile, punch two holes for the ribbon to hang it, add ribbon and voila!  For the final touch, cover a dry erase marker with paper that matches (I also added a bit of ribbon), add some velcro to the pen and your board to hold it and you never have to look for your marker, it's right where it needs to be!  Simple, right!?

Here's another view that shows the top.

And another view that shows the bottom.

Here's a shot of the main board.

Here's the hop list for the rest of the designers that are playing.  Be sure to comment on each blog and increase your chances of winning!

Stampendous Impressions

Clear Scraps

Jennifer Dove Bonner

Taylor Usry

Cyndi Bundy

Kristine Reynolds

Steph Lee (Arty Carty)

Pam Hornschu

Janelle Stollfus

Suzanne Czosek

April Derrick

Wendy Jordan

Lynn Mercurio

Wendy Price

Melinda Gleissner

Jennifer Ingle

Susie Moore

Krissy Fossmeyer

Tenia Nelson

Lea Kimmel (Me!)

Here's how to win!

Comment on the Stampendous Blog- all week - we'll choose one winner from the Mon - Fri Comments

• Check us out on Facebook! We'll keep our Clear Scraps collaboration posts at the top. Click SHARE and share them on your wall. We'll draw a winner from all the folks who SHARE our posts this week (through Saturday's hop)
• Comment on our Hop! Saturday will be our big Blog Hop - comment on the blogs and we'll enter you once for each comment!

Plus - ClearScraps has a passel of prizes as well. You can win them by visiting and commenting on their blog!

Good luck!  Thanks for stopping by and I'll see you again soon!

Hugs,

Lea

Little Miss Muffin Rio

Making her baking debut on the fifth day of our Simply Betty Stamps Teen Scene Kitchen Fun collection preview is Little Miss Muffin Rio.  She is absolutely adorable!  I love her happy expression on her cute little bespeckled face!

My image is on Neenah and colored with Copics with Tim Holtz Distress Ink around the edge.  My base is Bazzill and for the patterned papers I used Best Creation's Mom's Kitchen line.  I love the paper and thought it was perfect for this image.  I added some Doodle Twine between layers in pink and aqua.  The Queen & Company rhinestones are just a little extra bling but also carry over the polka dot theme from the paper.  I used MS Word to print out my sentiment and layered it on Bazzill,ti along with an oven mitt I cut out of the patterned paper, a cute and inexpensive way to embellish.  So that's it for today, come back tomorrow for our final preview!

Bom appetite! (in Portuguese)