I Have a ScrewLoose!

If you don't have a ScrewLoose, or a Sparky, then you need one or more!  They are two of the cutest little robots you will ever find and some of the newest characters at Stampendous!  We've been  celebrating their arrival all week long and today I have a fun little card to share that's perfect for a little boy (or girl!).  ScrewLoose looks a little rusty but that's actually a reflection on the chrome tape!

Here's what I used to create this card:

Stampendous® ScrewLoose and Sparky Perfectly Clear™ Stamps Set

DecoArt® Americana® Spa Blue Acrylic Paint

DecoArt® Americana® Hauser Light Green Acrylic Paint

DecoArt® Americana® Lemonade Acrylic Paint

DecoArt® Americana® Multi-Surface Satin™ Cottonball Acrylic Paint

StāzOn® Jet Black Ink Pad by Tsukineko®

Faber-Castell® PITT Pens in Black, Cold Grey III, Cold Grey IV, Cold Grey VI

Copic® Markers E07, E08

Neenah® Classic Crest™ Solar White Cover Stock

Limeade Cardstock by Bazzill Basics Paper®

Miscellaneous Items - Gear, Wire, Metal Flashing, Chrome Tape (for HVAC systems)

Beacon® 3-in-1 Advanced Craft Glue

Here's what I did to create this card:

Create A2 horizontal card base with a tent fold from green cardstock

Trim a piece of white cardstock to fit on front of card base

Add light green paint across the bottom of the white cs

Add blue paint on the rest of the white space, set aside to dry

Cut out doghouse shapes from flashing, set aside

Stamp ScrewLoose on chrome tape and cut out

Stamp Sparky on chrome tape and cut out

Add darker green paint with a flat brush in upward strokes to create grass

Using fingertip, create clouds on sky, set aside to dry

Using scrap of paper, create Sparky sign and attach with wire to gear

Adhere doghouse pieces to card front

Adhere Sparky's sign to front of dog house

With Faber-Castell® PITT pens, darken inside of doghouse using lightest grey on bottom and getting  darker as you go up

Adhere Sparky inside doghouse

Adhere ScrewLoose beside doghouse and stamp sentiment on screen

Using Copics®, add color to Sparky and a little "rust" to doghouse and sign

This is such a simple card to create and I think it's perfect for a boy even though it would work for a girl, too.  I just love these little robots and I know you will, too!  Be sure to check out the rest of my teammates projects here:

Stampendous Blog

Wendy Price

Tenia Nelson

Kristine Reynolds

Lea Kimmel (me)

Amy Hurley-Purdie

Thanks so much for stopping by today.  I hope you've found some inspiration to create your own little ScrewLoose and Sparky project.  Have a wonderful weekend ahead and I'll see you again soon!

Hugs,

Lea

Got Heart?

It's all about love this week at Stampendous as we celebrate our theme of "Be Mine, Valentine."  It wouldn't be a Valentine without a heart so for my card today, I've used Gothic Heart.  I'm so in love with this gorgeous stamp!  It's perfect for creating a vintage or shabby chic Valentine for your special loved one.  Have you got heart?

This is what I used to create this card:

Stampendous® Gothic Heart
Stampendous® Vintage Note
Stampendous® Detail Copper Embossing Powder
Stampendous® Aged Copper Embossing Enamel
Stampendous® Tea Stained Mica Fragments
Stampendous® Boss Gloss Embossing Ink with Dauber
Stampendous® Jumbo Perfectly Clear™ Acrylic Handle
VersaMarker™ Pen by Tsukineko®
Cardstock by Bazill Basics Paper®
Union Square Paper by My Mind’s Eye™
StazOn™ Spiced Chai Midi Ink by Tsukineko®
Tim Holtz® Tea Dye Distress Ink by Ranger®
Hug Snug Seam Binding
Key Embellishment
Tim Holtz® Paper Distresser
Paintbrush
Heat Tool
Zip Dry™ Paper Glue by Beacon Adhesives

This is what I did to create this card:

1. Ink heart stamp with Boss Gloss, stamp on patterned paper, add a mix of embossing powder and embossing enamel, heat.
2. Trim patterned paper to desired size, distress edges, brush on distress ink, mist corners, roll with paint brush, heat to set curl.
3. Create card base for a standard A-2 card with a tent fold.
4. Trim patterned paper for background as shown, stamp word stamp over design with StazOn, distress edges, brush on distress ink around edges, mist corners, roll slightly with paint brush, heat to set curl.
5. Cut strip of seam binding and dye with distress ink, heat to dry, cut a piece about 3″ in length off and set aside.
6. Knot ribbon on right side and wrap ends around background paper and adhere to back.
7. Adhere background paper to card base.
8. Adhere embossed heart piece to card.
9. Using VersaMarker, add ink around edges in a random manner, add copper embossing powder, heat.
10. Add glue to attach mica flakes as shown, shake off excess flakes.
11. Using additional piece of dyed ribbon, attach key to ribbon

I really enjoyed creating this card.  I love doing the vintage style cards with the cool mica fragments and embossing powders scattered here and there.  I find them very inspiring artistically.  

Thanks for stopping by today!  I'll see you next week with more fun creations designed to provide you with a little inspiration.  Have a wonderful weekend!

Hugs,

Lea

Core Creations

SANDY Claus is Coming to Town!

Yes...SANDY Claus! All of this week, the Stampendous and Dreamweaver teams are playing with a mix of their products, along with some wonderful, SAND-ABLE papers from Core'dinations. Join us as we sand our way to the "core" of all things Christmas and the Holiday season. Of course, there will be prizes, and we give away the best...this time with a mix of fun Core'dinations products as well. To be one of three prize package winners, follow the posted link lists each day, leave a comment, and winners will be selected from these comments at the beginning of next week. This is what you might win:

Here's my project for today:

Here's what I used to create this card:

Stampendous® Snowman Friends

Stampendous® Holiday Words Perfectly Clear Stamps™ Set

Stampendous® Spoonful of Snow Embossing Powder and Elements

Memento™ Tuxedo Black Ink by Tsukineko®

Dreamweaver Stencil© LJ878 Snowsplatter Stencil

Core'dinations® Core Essentials™ Darks Assorted 6x6 Cardstock Pack

Core'dinations® Core Basics™ White 110 lb Cardstock Smooth 6x6

Bo Bunny® Powder Mountain 6x6 Paper Pad

Bazzill® Cardstock

Copic® Markers - E40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 47, 49, 93; YR12; B0000, 000, 21, 23, 26, 91, 93, 95, 97, 99; 0 (Colorless Blender)

StāzOn™ Midnight Blue Midi Ink Pad

Sharpie® Meanstreak White Marking Stick 

Zip Dry™ Paper Glue by Beacon® Adhesives

Here's what I did to create this card:

Stamp image with black ink onto white cardstock, color and cut out

Run stencil and paper through die cutting mating (I used a Big Shot), sand paper lightly to reveal inner core

Trim embossed piece and lightly go over sanded spots with white marking stick

Create card base with a tent fold

Trim patterned paper to fit card base

Add spoonful mix to bottom of stamped and cut-out image and heat

Stamp sentiment with blue ink and trim closely

Adhere all layers as shown

Here's the rest of the teams posting today, be sure to leave them some love!

Stampendous Impressions Blog

Team members with an (*) are also on the Dreamweaver Stencils Team.

Tenia Nelson

Jamie Martin *

Lea Kimmel *

Pam Hornschu *

Wendy Price

Core'dinations Designer - Suzanna Lee

Continue your blog hop at 

Dreamweaver Stencils Blog

Dream It Up!

Laura Drahozal

Lea Kimmel*

Louise Healy

Pam Hornschu*

Alison Heikkila

*On Stampendous team as well 

That's it for me today!  Thanks for stopping by and I'll see you again tomorrow for the big final hop.  You know it's going to be an awesome hop.  Have an awesome day!

Hugs,

Lea

Bling it On!

With Add A Little Dazzle and Stampendous, you can bling it on your favorite projects!

                       

The team over at Add a Little Dazzle has created a special featuring the metals from this blog hop for those of you who have already realized you're going to need these products. You can find it here - Add A Little Dazzle Stampendous Hop Special. Of course you might win some, too! We're giving away three prize packages this week for comments on the blogs. A nice package of Metal Sheets, Stamps and Cutting Dies!

 

I had a lot of fun with this blog collaboration!  It's always cool to have a new product to play with.  I love to create mixed media pieces and their metal sheets combined with Stampendous Stamps and Dies are perfect for just that.  Here's my project:

Here's a close-up of some of the snowflakes showing the details of heat embossing with some great embossing powders from Stampendous!

Here's what I used to create this canvas:

Stampendous® Snowflake Die Set

Stampendous® Cling Delicate Snow Set

Stampendous® Holiday Words Perfectly Clear™ Stamps

Stampendous® Boss Gloss™

Stampendous® Stardust Sparkly Embossing Powder

Stampendous® Blue Tinsel Sparkly Embossing Powder

Stampendous® Chunky White Deep Impressions Chunky Embossing Enamel

Add A Little Dazzle Metal Sheets - Wondrous White

Add A Little Dazzle Metal Sheets - Perfect Peacock

Add A Little Dazzle Metal Sheets - Ocean Blue

Faber-Castell® Gelatos® - Acqua Dolce, Snow Cone, Cotton Candy, Blueberry

StāzOn™Midi Ink Pads - Blue Hawaii, Midnight Blue

Beacon® Adhesives Zip Dry™

Misc. 8 x10" Stretched Canvas

Here's what I did to create this canvas:

Using all three dies, cut out several snowflakes in all three colors of metal listed, set three small snowflakes aside

With the matching stamps, ink stamps with Boss Gloss™ and add embossing powders, heat emboss

Hand cut a strip of white metal to use across bottom of canvas

Add Gelatos® to canvas with darkest colors along outer edges, lighter colors in the center and blend with water and brush

Adhere white metal piece to bottom of canvas

Using Boss Gloss™, add ink across edge of metal, add embossing enamel and heat

Use Boss Gloss™ to add ink around canvas, add Stardust embossing powder and heat

Stamp words onto the three snowflakes set aside earlier

Arrange and adhere snowflakes onto canvas

We love to hop and here are today’s featured blogs with Stampendous and Add A Little Dazzle:

Stampendous

Lea Kimmel (me!)

Add a Little Dazzle

Pam Hornschu

Cathy Parlitsis

Vicki Dutcher

Kate Capper

Amy Hurley-Purdie

I hope you like my canvas and have been inspired to try these fun metal sheets!  They're so easy to use!  Be sure to stop back by tomorrow for a little Wicked Wednesday fun!  Thanks for stopping by.  Have a blessed day!

Hugs,
Lea

PS. If you get to a blog and it says something like "that post isn't here", just click on the blog header or look for a link that says Home near the top. That will take you to the blog home, and the blog hop post should be somewhere near the top. Thanks for your patience!

How Do You Stack Art?

All this week, the Stampendous Design Team and several guest designers have been showing off a lot of fun things you can create with the new Stampendous Stack Art Kits.  Truly, you are only limited by your imagination with these fun kits!  I've created two different projects with similar themes but two very different looks!  We'll get to my projects momentarily, first, here's an explanation of our Stack Art Kits to help you better understand what they consist of.

Our Stack Art Kits have three components:

• The Stack Art Kraftboard Kit which includes all the kraftboard pieces you’ll need to make at least 4 amazing creations; die cut, double-sided adhesive for all the kraftboard pieces; and sentiments you can use to make each piece a special gift or card embellishment.
• The Stack Art Stamp Sets which include an assortment of terrific background stamps and other images plus an acrylic handle.
• The Stack Art Elements Kits which each include five jars of embellishing goodness to stick to your adhesive covered kraftboard pieces.

Since so many others have shown you projects using the larger kraftboard pieces, I decided to show you a couple of different ways to use the smaller accent pieces and the adhesive pieces.  Here's my first project:

Here's what I used to create this project:

Stampendous® Stack Art Kraftboard Angel Wings

Stampendous® Stack Art Angel Wings Stamp Set

Stampendous® Red Micro Glitter

DecoArt® Americana® Winter Blue Acrylic Paint

DecoArt® Americana® Baby Blue Acrylic Paint

DecoArt® Americana® Snow White

DecoArt® Traditions® Carbon Black

StāzOn® Cloudy Sky Ink Pad

Faber-Castell® Pitt Pen in Warm Grey III

Faber-Castell® Pitt Pen in Black Medium Point

Beacon® Gem-Tac

Artist's Loft™ Canvas Panel

Here's what I did to create this project:

Mix both blue paints and cover canvas

Paint on some clouds and allow to dry

Once clouds have dry, mix a tiny amount of black to some white paint and add some subtle shading in the clouds

Paint the wings with the white paint and set aside to dry

Cover the fronts of two hearts with glue and add the red glitter, set aside to dry

Using gray ink, cover wing stamp with ink, stamp off once and then stamp onto painted wings

Write sentiment on canvas panel

Glue wings and hearts onto canvas panel 

For my second project, I wanted to make a little something different that I could set on my desk or on a shelf around the house.  I have a thing for hearts, I love them!  Hearts with wings remind me of my dad, I bought him a pillow that was a heart with wings attached right after he had quadruple by-pass surgery on his heart.  This project is dedicated to my dad whom I miss dearly!

Here's what I used to create this project:

Stampendous® Stack Art Kraftboard Angel Wings

Stampendous® Stack Art Royal Heart Stamp Set

Stampendous® Chunky White Embossing Enamel

Bo Bunny® Love Letters Collection 6x6 Paper Pad

Neenah® Classic Crest™ Solar White Cover Stock

DecoArt® Americana® Coral Blush Acrylic Paint

Tim Holtz® Distress Inks® in Antique Linen and Tea Dye

StāzOn® Cloudy Sky Ink Pad

Beacon® Gem-Tac®

Frames & Moore™ Medford 3.5 in x 5 in Frame

Here's what I did to create this project:

Stamp background image onto white cs and trim to desired size

Add distress inks to stamped image

Apply wings die-cut, double-sided adhesive  to image as shown

Add embossing enamel over wings and heat

Paint heart with coral paint, set aside to dry, apply additional coats of paint as needed

Trim patterned paper to fit frame

Adhere stamped image to center of patterned paper

Adhere heart to wings

Assemble into frame

That's it for me today!  I do hope you've enjoyed my projects and have found a little inspiration along the way!  Thank you so much for stopping by and I hope to see you again soon.  Have a blessed day!

Hugs,

Lea

ICE, ICE, BABY!

So, is the song running through your head?  You know the one!  It runs through mine every time I create a project using ICE Resin®.  It drives me nuts!


We're so glad you could join us this weekend for the Stampendous® Stamps, ICE Resin® and Imagine Crafts®/Tsukineko® Blog Hop! We've seen some amazing projects so far, and there is a lot more to come today! If you missed Thursday's post you can find it HERE, Friday's post is HERE, Saturday's post is HERE.   I've created a couple of projects for you.  Here's my first project I've created:

This project uses the medium scrolled heart from RUE ROMANTIQUE!  It's designed to use it as a pendant, however, I've added ribbon that was included with the bezel and added a pin back to it to wear it as a pin.  I love the vintage feel of it.

Here's what I used to create this project:

ICE Resin®
ICE Resin® RUE ROMANTIQUE❤️ Medium Scrolled Heart Bezel
Stampendous® Stamps Vintage Ladies Perfectly Clear Stamps™ Set (Rose)
Stampendous® Stamps Royal Heart Quotes Perfectly Clear Stamps™ Set (Love)
Stampendous® Stamps Fran•táge™Red Crushed Glass Glitter
Imagine Crafts® / Tsukineko® Memento™ Tuxedo Black
Imagine Crafts® / Tsukineko® StazOn™ Jet Black
Copic® Markers - R33, 35, 37, YG93, 95
Neenah® Classic Crest™ Natural White
Beacon Adhesive® Fast Finish™

I also created this this fun keychain (which could easily be transformed into a fun pendant)!  I recently did a canvas and used the larger version of the paintbrush stamp and dripping paint.  I decided to use the smaller version in this heart bezel and drip even more paint.  I love how the paint pooled into the bottom of the heart!  I scattered the fragments around to add more color and stuck to using primary colors.

Here's what I used to create this project:

ICE Resin®
ICE Resin® Mixed Metal Hobnail Heart Bezel, Antique Linen
Stampendous® Stamps Charmed Art Perfect Clear Stamps™ Set
Stampendous® Stamps Royal Heart Quotes Perfectly Clear Stamps™ Set
Stampendous® Stamps Fran•táge™ Color Fragments in Purple
Stampendous® Stamps Fran•táge™ Color Fragments in Canary
Stampendous® Stamps Fran•táge™ Color Fragments in Leaf Green
Stampendous® Stamps Fran•táge™ Color Fragments in Scarlet
Stampendous® Stamps Fran•táge™ Color Fragments in Marine Blue
Imagine Crafts® / Tsukineko® Memento™ Tuxedo Black
Imagine Crafts® / Tsukineko® StazOn™ Jet Black
DecoArt® Paint
Copic® Markers in E23, 25; R35; C0, 1
Neenah® Classic Crest™ Solar White
Beacon Adhesive® Fast Finish™

We know you are going to love making your own jewelry, and to make that easy we're offering a nice prize package this week!  Three lucky winners will receive a package with:

• 2 - Stampendous Perfectly Clear Stamp™ sets with designs sized for jewelry or small project making

• 2 - StazOn™ permanent ink pads by Tsukineko® courtesy of Imagine Crafts® - yummy Ganache and the must-have Jet Black

• 1 - 30ml package of ICE Resin Jeweler's Grade Self-Doming resin

• 1 - pkg Suzan Lenart Kazmer Art Mechanique Silhouettes in Heart Shape

• 1 - pkg Kristen Robinson Rue Romatique bezel(s) (styles vary). WOW!! You'll be crafting some awesome jewelry in no time!

How to Hop:

Each day we'll post the designers participating in the Blog Hop. Click on each one and check out their project. Leave a comment on their blog that lets them know you really looked at their project. We 'll draw three blogs at random from the four days, then randomly draw one commenter from each blog. You must have a U.S. mailing address to win, but we'd love for everyone to hop and comment! You can check out the Official Rules for all our contests if you have questions. We'll draw winners on Monday, May 5 and announce them Monday or Tuesday, so be sure to come back and check for your name!

So let's get hoppin! Here's who is posting today:

Stampendous

Lea Kimmel (me)

Kristine Reynolds

ICE Resin

Candy Rosenberg

Carol La Valley

Imagine Crafts

Naghma Husain

Baerbel Born

That's it for me today!  I hope you've enjoyed our hop and have commented along the way so you can win!  Thanks for stopping by and I'll see you again soon! 

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.