Not Your Ordinary Block!

We are thrilled to bring you a blog hop today with more amazing artist trading block projects! Our designers have created some fabulous projects for today and we know you are excited to see them.  Here's my project for today's hop:

Here's what I used to create this ATB:

Sizzix® 3D Block/Cube/Bank Die by Eileen Hull Designs

Stampendous® Snow Bird Rubber Stamp

Stampendous® Quill Rubber Stamp

Stampendous® Spotted Feather Rubber Stamp

Stampendous® Cling The Look Stamp Set

Stampendous® Andy Skinner Industrial Perfectly Clear™ Stamps Set

Stampendous® Regal Bird Quotes Perfectly Clear™ Stamps Set

Stampendous® Bronzed Fran•táge Mica Fragments

Stampendous® Teal Fran•táge Mica Fragments

Stampendous® Mint Fran•táge Color Fragments

Stampendous® Teal Fran•táge Color Fragments

Archival Ink™ Pads in Coffee, Sap Green and Aquamarine

Memento Ink™ Pad in Teal Zeal

Tim Holtz® Distress Ink in Frayed Burlap

Scor-Tape™

Copic® Markers: E23, 41, 42; BG00, 01; W1, 4, 7

Faber-Castell® PITT Pens in Raw Umber, Warm Grey III and Cobalt Green

Build UR Beads Wooden Beads

Bronze Tulle

White Feather

I loved creating my projects for yesterday and today.  Yes, I did some thinking outside the box and in the box and all around the box!  This was a truly fun collaboration.  

Here are today’s participating designers:

Stampendous Blog

Pam Hornschu

Asia King

Jamie Martin

Kristine Reynolds

Janelle Stollfus

Tenia Nelson

Amy Hurley-Purdie

Wendy Price

Lea Kimmel (me)

Anna-Karin Evaldsson

Anne Redfern

Donna Budzynski

Diana Hetherington

Oxana Moupasiridou

Eileen Hull’s Blog

PRIZE INFO:

We know this form of crafting will spark your interest and give your mojo a serious boost! That’s why we have prizes!!!  We’ll choose three winners at random from the comments on all blogs in the hop. Then from those three we’ll randomly pick a GRAND PRIZE winner! Two of the winners will receive Stampendous PenPattern Petal and PenPattern Flutter cling stamps, just like you’ll see on Kristine Reynolds amazing ATB sample. They’ll also receive enough pre-cut, premium matboard from Sizzix to make two boxes of your own, plus some extra pieces for fiddly bits! The Grand Prize winner will receive the stamps as above, a whole package of matboard, AND the Sizzix die to cut your own ATB boxes! Uh, WOW! If that weren’t enough, eligibility for these amazing prize packages has expanded to include our international fans too!

We know you won’t want to miss a single creation in this hop, and the Eileen Hull Designs Inspiration Team has several members that live outside the United States, so it took a while for them to get their products from us. We need to give them time to post and you time to comment, so the comment deadline will be Sunday, March 8th. A whole extra week! We will continue posting links as we receive them from the Inspiration Team, so be sure to keep checking back. You get one entry for every comment, so you don’t want to miss the chance to leave a thoughtful comment on each project. For those who tend to get lost, we’ll post a “cumulative” link list of links so far on Saturday, February 28th and Saturday, March 7th. Then you can check your progress.

We want to thank Eileen Hull, her amazing team and the fabulous products we were able to use this week. The idea of creating an artist trading block has changed our way of creating with new excitement. Even though we traditionally end our product partner weeks on a Friday the inspiration will continue as more projects come in and will be posted in a cumulative list at the end of each week.  Down below I have a list of links you may find helpful.  Thanks so much for stopping by on your crafty travels!  I hope you enjoy the hop, we've all enjoyed creating our projects for your inspiration.  Have a wonderful day and a fabulous weekend!

Hugs,

Lea

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Kick up your heels...

...with Stampendous®!  Yeeee Haaaw!!! This week our team at Stampendous® is celebrating the new cowgirl images from our April catalog! These images are all available in wood mounted or Cling Rubber™.  So,  saddle up and join us for the ride while we share some inspiration with you.  I have two cards for you today!

Here's my first card,  I hope you like it!

Here's what I used to create this card:

Stampendous® Stamps Q195 Cowgirl Boots
Stampendous® Stamps SSC1195 Steampunk Shoes Perfectly Clear™ Stamps
Ranger Archival Ink Jet Black Ink Pad
Bazzill® Cardstock
Creative Imaginations® Patterned Paper (No collection name)
Neenah® Classic Crest™ Solar White
Foam Mounting Squares
Scor-Tape™
Misc. Twine
Derwent® Inktense™ Pencils:

Carmine Pink (0520)
Willow (1900)
Amber (1710)
Tan (1720)
Saddle Brown (1740)

Outliner (2400)

Here's what I did to create this card:

Stamp image, color and trim to desired size
Create card base with a tent fold
Trim patterned paper as shown
Stamp sentiment and trim to desired size
Create mats for both images
Cut twine into two pieces, tie them together, determine length needed and cut off excess
Adhere twine to back of patterned paper

Adhere all layers to the card base as shown

And, here's my second card for today!  I hope you like it, too!

Here's what I used to create this card:

Stampendous® Stamps M312 Boots
Stampendous® Stamps W126 Button Shoe Elements
Derwent® Inktense™ Pencils:

• Mustard (1700)
  
• Amber (1710)
  
• Tan (1720)
  
• Saddle Brown (1740)
  
• Willow (1900)
  
• Dark Chocolate (1930)
  
• Outliner (2400)

Memento™ Rich Cocoa Ink Pad
Ranger® Archival Ink™ Pad - Jet Black
Neenah® Classic Crest™ Solar White
Neenah® Classic Crest™ Natural White
Red Cardstock
May Arts Ribbon® - Ivory Grosgrain
Copic® Marker E37 (to color buckle)
Tim Holtz® Distress™ Ink in Vintage Photo
Tim Holtz® Distress™ Stain in Vintage Photo (to color ribbon)

Scor-Tape™ (to secure ribbon)
Beacon Adhesive® Zip Dry™
Foam Mounting Squares
Glue Dots®
Stipple Brush 

Here's what I did to create this card:

Stamp Boots image with Archival™ Ink, color and trim as shown
Stamp Elements image four times with Rich Cocoa forming a large square; trim a section out to fit an A-2 card
Trim card base from red cardstock with a tent fold and trim a mat for the boots with the same paper
Using Vintage Photo distress™ ink, ink both images doing the edges of the boots and all over for the background piece
Stain ivory ribbon with Vintage Photo Stain, set aside for a few minutes to dry
Color buckle with Copic® marker to give it a brass look to match the boot’s hardware
Thread buckle with ribbon and attach to background piece as shown
Adhere background piece to card base
Adhere boots to mat and add foam mounting squares to back of mat
Attach boots image to card base

That's if for me today!  I know I have a few team members playing along today.  I hope you'll check out there projects and leave them some love.  Next week Stampendous and DecoArt Paints are collaborating for a week long blog adventure in paint!  You won't want to miss it!   Have a wonderful weekend!

Hugs,
Lea

PenPattern Play

Stampendous® has come out with a bunch of fun new PenPattern stamps that you can doodle in to create your own pen pattern design.  How cool is that!?  If you love to stamp and love to doodle, these new stamps are perfect for you!  Today I'm going to share a project I did with PenPattern Turtle:

This is what the stamp looks like without any form of doodling.  It's neat how different you can make it look just by adding some simple designs.  Also, you can make the image look different each time you stamp it by simply creating a different design.  The possibilities are only as endless as your creativity! 

Here's what I used to create this project:

Stampendous® PenPattern Turtle
Stampendous® Wishing Fun

Stampendous® Creative PaletteStampendous® Teal Micro Glitter 
Copic® Marker BG57
DecoArt® Paint - Neo Green Glamour Dust, Deep Turquoise Satin, Peacock Pearl Dazzling
Metallics, Apple Green Satin
Derwent® Inktense™ Pencils - Tan (1720), Felt Green (1530), Spring Green (1550), Leaf Green (1600)
Liquid Frisket
Tim Holtz® Distress Ink™ - Antique Linen
My Mind’s Eye™ “Indie Chic”
Neenah® Classic Crest™ Solar White Cover Stock
Memento™ Tuxedo Black Ink Pad
May Arts Ribbon®Water Brush
Glue Dots™ (3 different sizes)
Foam Mounting Squares
Scor-Tape®


Here's how I created this project:

Stamp image, color with pencils and trim to desired size
Stamp sentiment with black ink and trim to desired size, ink with distress ink™
Create card base and mats as shown
Using paper created with Creative Palette*, trim pieces as shown
Cover turtle with frisket and airbrush background, remove frisket 
Adhere ribbon to background paper
Adhere matted image to card base
Using foam mounting squares, adhere sentiment to card
Attach glue dots as shown
Cover glue dots with micro glitter, brush off excess

*Stampendous® Creative Palette is used for monoprinting backgrounds as a mixed media tool.  You can use it with any type of media such a acrylic paint, inks, watercolor crayons, etc.  It's easy to use and can be printed on and then picked up and used on journal pages.  It cleans up easily and comes with its own storage container. 

That's it for today!  I hope you enjoy my project.  I had a lot of fun creating it!  Thanks for stopping by and I hope to see you again soon!

Hugs,
Lea

Tiny Bubbles...

Remember the song that Don Ho made famous in Hawaii!?  If you're not familiar with it, you need to Google it for a giggle or two!  Just writing the title has it running through my brain, I hope it goes away soon!  LOL!  So I have another cute little sneak peek from the April 2014 Stampendous® Catalog.  This one uses Stampendous® House-Mouse Designs® Blowing Bubbles.  I just love these little mice!

I wish you could see the sparkle in the bubbles.  They're always so much cuter in real life.

Here's what I used to create this project:

Stampendous® House-Mouse Design® Blowing Bubbles
Stampendous® Crystal Micro Glitter
Making Memories® “Garden Party”
Bazzill®
Glossy Accents™
May Arts Ribbon®
Foam Mounting Squares
Scor-Tape®
Neenah® Classic Crest™Solar White
Memento™ Tuxedo Black Ink Pad
Copics®:
B0000, 000, 41
YR30, 31
G20
R81, 83, 85
YG21, 23, 25
E23, 43, 50, 51, 53, 93
T2, 4, 6
W4, 5, 7

Here's how I created this project:

Stamp image and color
Trim image to desired size
Create card base with a tent fold
Trim a mat for image and patterned paper as shown
Attach ribbon to patterned paper as shown
Adhere patterned paper to card base
Adhere image to mat
Apply Glossy Accents™ to bubbles
Apply glitter over glossy accents and tap off excess
Set aside to dry

Once dry, lightly brush off excess glitter

Well, that's it for sneak peeks from me!  LOL!  Remember, this image isn't on the web site yet so patience is required, and, I hear it's a virtue!  Thanks for stopping by and I hope to you again soon!  Feel free to leave me some love!

Hugs,
Lea

A Little Sneak Peek

Ah, Spring Break is over for our school district and the peace and quiet in the house has returned.  LOL!  Who am I kidding?  There's always noise and if it's not the kids, it's the fur babies!  That's okay, though, because, honestly, that's the way I like it!  Now it's time to give you a little sneak peek of what's to come in the new April 2014 Stampendous® catalog!  Woohoo!  In honor of the return to school, I have an adorable little card created with the Stampendous® House-Mouse Designs® image called Stack of Books.  Is this mouse not just the cutest little thing!?

Here's what I used to create this project:

Stampendous® House-Mouse Designs® Stack of Books
Neenah® Classic Crest Solar White
Memento™ Tuxedo Black Ink Pad
Bazzill® 
Little Yellow Bicycle® “Makin’ the Grade” 6x6 Paper Pad
Tim Holtz Distress Ink™ in Antique Linen
Misc Foam Mounting Squares
Scor-Tape®
Misc Clip-on Mini Chalkboard
Copics®:
B34, 37, 93, 95
G12, 16, 19
R27, 29
Y15, 18
C4, 5
E41, 42, 43, 44, 50, 51, 53, 93
T2, 4, 6

Here's how I created this project:

Stamp image, color, trim to desired size
Edge trimmed image with distress ink
Create card base with a tent fold
Trim patterned paper and image mat (from Bazzill®)
Adhere patterned paper to card base
Adhere image to mat
Adhere matted image to card base with foam mounting squares
Write “A B C” on mini chalkboard with chalk and clip to image

So isn't he sweet?  I hope you've enjoyed viewing my project as much as I enjoyed creating it!  Please keep in mind that this image is not on the web site yet, that's why it's called a sneak peek!  When the April Catalog is released, you'll find it and a whole lot of other awesome stamps and things you're going to want!  Thanks for stopping by and I hope you'll come back soon!  Have a blessed day.

Hugs,
Lea

It's Wicked Wednesday...

...and you know what that means!  Time for another Wicked Wednesday ATC Blog Challenge!  This week our sponsor is Sami Stamps and we've got the cutest little image, Leprechaun Cutie, as we celebrate Leprechauns and Luck!  Here's my ATC:

Here's what I used to create this ATC:

Sami Stamps Leprechaun Cutie Digital Stamp

Copic Markers:  YG03, 05, 09, 11, 13, 17; YR12, 14, 16, 18, 21, 23; E08, 50, 51, 53, 93

A Muse Sentiment - Sunshine & Laughter

Bazzill Cardstock

Bo Bunny Mint Dot Cardstock

Bo Bunny Wasabi Dot Cardstock

Neenah Classic Crest Solar White Cover Stock

Memento Tuxedo Black Ink Pad

Memory Box Shamrock Die

Recollections Adhesive Rhinestones - Greens

Scor-Tape

Glue Dots

Foam Mounting Squares

Here's what you need to do to recreate this card:

Print image off and color with Copic markers, trim to desired size

Create ATC base from Bazzill

Trim Mint Dot paper as shown

Stamp sentiment with black ink on Neenah and trim to desired size

Create a mat for the sentiment using Bazzill

Cut out shamrocks with Wasabi Dot paper

Adhere all layers as shown

Using glue dots, attach shamrocks as shown

Using foam mounting squares, attach matted sentiment to ATC

Add rhinestones

This was super easy and so much fun to create!  Since it fits, I think I'm going to enter it into the Sami Stamps Challenge!  So, be sure to enter your ATC in the Wicked Wednesday challenge and if it fits, enter it in Sami's challenge, too!  Thanks for stopping by and I'll see you again soon!  Take care and have a blessed day!

Hugs,

Lea

A Daisy A Day!

Or, maybe I should say, "Think Spring!"  We've had a big snow here in my part of North Carolina and now they're calling for more!  I want Spring!!  I want to say good-bye to winter and hello to spring.  I want to wear my flip flops and put away my boots.  I want to feel the sun on my face, NOT snowflakes!

So, since it's winter and I'm not a fan of cold weather (in case you couldn't tell!) I've spent a lot of time in the craft room.  If you haven't seen the new Creative Palette from Stampendous, you need to check it out!  This thing is so much fun to create with!  The cool thing is, each page you print is different, no two are alike.  I've used acrylics and mixed them with a variety of sprays.  I've stamped into the paint with stamps and squiggled and sponged with other things I've found around the house and my craft room.  The possibilities are only limited to your imagination.  Here's a link to the Creative Palette on the Stampendous site which has a product video to explain how to do monoprinting.  Here's my card, the green background paper is one I've created:

I have to tell you, you won't believe how fun it is to create your own backgrounds!  I love it.  For this card I've used the following:

Delicate Daisy Stamp

Rattan Weave Stamp

Creative Palette

DecoArt Neon Green Glamour Dust Acrylic Paint

DecoArt Apple Green Americana Satin Acrylic Paint

Speedball Rubber Brayer

Neenah Classic Crest

Bazzill

Lasting Impressions Yellow Dot Paper

Memento Tuxedo Black Ink 

May Arts Ribbon

Copic Markers C0; Y13, 15, 17; YG07, 09, 25

Scor-Tape

Glue Dot

Thanks for stopping by today!  I hope you've enjoyed my project and I'll see you again soon.  In the meantime, get you a Creative Palette and get busy monoprinting your own cool backgrounds!

Hugs, 

Lea

PS:  I'm starting a really cool on-going project, I'll tell you more about it next week!