Art Anthology Hop

Today is the last day of our hop with our new friends at Art Anthology! We are in love with their cool paints and sprays, they’re just the perfect combo for the great mixed media projects our Stampendous Design Team has been making!

There are three amazing prize packages this week consisting of a Stampendous Creative Palette Monoprinting Plate, a $20 Stampendous Reward Card to spend on the Stampendous website, an Art Anthology Stencil, and one each Dimensional Crystal, Colorations Spray, and Dimensional Paint from Art Anthology (colors are random). Wow!! Now that’s something to slip under the tree for yourself! (PLUS – a little reindeer told us that Art Anthology will be giving away EVEN MORE paints and goodies over on their blog!!)

AND we’re celebrating the man in red! He’s checking the harnesses for those magic reindeer! It would sure be great if you found this prize package under your tree, wouldn’t it??!! Our Art Anthology hop has featured Santa in many posts this week. We’ve been the hardest working Design Team in show business!!  Thanks for joining us for some great fun and inspiration this week, oh, and a chance to win one of the great prizes!  Have you been leaving comments along the way?  

My card from yesterday was definitely NOT Christmas or winter themed so today's card is all about winter!  Here's my project:

Here's what I used to create this card:

Stampendous® Snowflake Tree Rubber Stamp
Stampendous® Chunky White Embossing Enamel
VersaMark™ Watermark Ink Pad by Tsukineko®
Art Anthology Sorbet Dimensional Paint - Buttercream
Art Anthology Dimensional Crystal Glaze - Mermaid
Art Anthology Colorations Spray - Grape Soda
Liquitex® Professional Acrylic Ink - Transparent Burnt Umber
Strathmore® Mixed Media Paper
Turquoise and Brown Cardstock by Bazzill Basics Paper™ 
Ranger® Archival Ink - Coffee
Ranger® Archival Ink - Aquamarine
Zip Dry™ Paper Glue by Beacon® Adhesives

Here's what I did to create this card:

1. Stamp tree onto mixed media paper with coffee ink and another with aquamarine ink
2. Mix Mermaid glaze with a bit of Grape Soda spray to create a slightly more blue color and paint a sky for the background
3. Mix Buttercream paint with a bit of Grape Soda spray along with a tiny amount of burnt umber ink to create a brown paint and go over main trunk of tree to darken it
4. Trim painted piece to card size
5. Cut out snowflake circles from aquamarine tree and edge each circle with aquamarine ink
6. Adhere circles to corresponding circles on painted tree
7. Rub VersaMark pad across bottom of trimmed piece, add chunky white embossing enamel and heat from underneath until enamel melts
8. Trim brown cardstock as a mat for stamped and painted image
9. Create an A-2 card base with a tent fold
10. Adhere all layers as shown

This was probably one of the fastest cards I've ever created!  I love the simple design.  It's really neat how easily the various paints, glazes and sprays mix together and expand your color repertoire.  All it takes is some very basic color mixing.  I do want to say that I absolutely love the shimmer in these paints.  They're truly very lovely!  Here's the rest of the team's links for today:

Stampendous Blog

Jamie Martin

Kristine Reynolds

Lea Kimmel (me!)

Asia King

Janelle Stollfus

Pam Hornschu

Wendy Price

Amy Hurley-Purdie

Tenia Nelson

Art Anthology Blog

Thanks so much for stopping by today.  I hope you found plenty of inspiration this week and left comments along the way; you might just win a prize!  I'll see you again soon.  Have a wonderful day!

Hugs,

Lea

Guess Who's Come To Play?

STAEDTLER!  And we're so happy to have them play along with us!  I hope you've enjoyed viewing our various projects and found a little inspiration along the way.  Today I have two projects for you, both are pretty simple.

For my first card, I pulled out my watercolor crayons.  I have used a few other brands of these and I have to say, these are the absolute best!  They go on so smooth and creamy and they just blend beautifully.







I love the color vibrancy of  the crayons, look at how bright and happy the colors look!  Aren't they great!  For this card I used the Stampendous Steaming On Balloon stamped with Archival Ink on Strathmore Mixed Media paper.  The patterned papers are Fancy Pants Designs Childish Things and My Mind's Eye Quite Contrary's Jack and Jill.  The card base is Bazzill, the buttons are from my stash and the ribbon is May Arts.




For the second card, I used the watercolor pencils.  Yep!  I love those, too!  I used the new Air Scapes Perfectly Clear™ Stamps.  I love this set, such a sweet vintage feel!  Like the other card, I used Archival Ink on Strathmore Mixed Media paper.  My card base is green cardstock of unknown origin, the patterned paper is My Mind's Eye Vanity Fair.  The ribbon is May Arts.

This is the final day of our blog collaboration and I've really enjoyed our time together!  There are prizes, too!  That's right, you heard me!  Prizes!!

The Stampendous! prize package will include one prize package per day (total of 5 packages) from those folks commenting on Stampendous bloggers that day. The Stampendous package will include SSC1171 Hot Air Scapes Perfectly Clear Stamps and SSC1170 Soaring Sentiments Perfectly Clear Stamps plus a Jumbo acrylic handle for use with them.

STAEDTLER'S prize package will be awarded at the end of the week, one for each of their bloggers from all commenters on that blog that week.

Their prize photo is below. So for best chances folks should comment on every blog every day.
1 Set of 6 Triplus fineliners, pastel assortment
4 blocks of FIMO soft oven-bake clay in vanilla, peach, lilac and mint
1 Mars plastic eraser
1 Double hole metal pencil sharpener
1 Mars Lumograph sketch pencil
1 Pigment liner sketch pen
2 Creative idea brochures

Package includes:

Here's the list of players for today.  Remember, to be eligible to win, you have to leave a comment on each blog.

Stampendous Impressions

Cyndi Bundy

Jamie Martin

Janelle Stollfus

Jennifer Dove

Krissy Fossmeyer

Kristine Reynolds

Lea Kimmel

Rhea Weigand

Lisa Somerville

April Derrick
Tobi Crawford

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

Hugs,
Lea

Up, Up and Away...

...in my beautiful, my beautiful balloon! Some of you just might remember that song from The 5th Dimension and some of you aren't old enough.  It's an old favorite of mine and one that I used to love to sing along with!    Speaking of favorites, this week two of my favorite companies have come together to bring you a little creative inspiration, Stampendous! and STAEDTLER.  Pretty cool, huh!?  We've loved playing together and each day this week members from both design teams have posted projects on their blogs to share with you.  If you haven't been checking them out, please go back and take a look, you won't be disappointed.  There's a blog hop on Friday and, of course, there will be prizes!  Yay! for prizes!  More info on that below!  Here's my card:

We're celebrating our newest balloon-inspired stamps this week and here I've used our new Hot Air Trio along with Soaring Sentiments Perfectly Clear Stamps Set.  I have always had a thing for hot air balloons so this stamp is right up my alley.  If you know me, you know I love my Copic markers and that's usually my medium of choice, however, this time I've stepped out of my comfort zone and I colored this image with  STAEDTLER'S ergosoft aquarell (watercolor) pencils.  I love how you can layer the colors to achieve just the right shade!  Because I was using watercolor pencils, I stamped the image and my sentiment with Ranger Archival Ink in Jet Black.  My papers are Bazzill, Strathmore Mixed Media paper and Basic Grey's What's Up 6x6 Paper Pad.  Here's a closer look at the image:

                                                

And here's a close-up of the sentiment, this is one of my favs:

The Stampendous! prize package will include one prize package per day (total of 5 packages) from those folks commenting on Stampendous bloggers that day. The Stampendous package will include SSC1171 Hot Air Scapes Perfectly Clear Stamps and SSC1170 Soaring Sentiments Perfectly Clear Stamps plus a Jumbo acrylic handle for use with them.

STAEDTLER'S prize package will be awarded at the end of the week, one for each of their bloggers from all commenters on that blog that week.

Their prize photo is below. So for best chances folks should comment on every blog every day.
1 Set of 6 Triplus fineliners, pastel assortment
4 blocks of FIMO soft oven-bake clay in vanilla, peach, lilac and mint
1 Mars plastic eraser
1 Double hole metal pencil sharpener
1 Mars Lumograph sketch pencil
1 Pigment liner sketch pen
2 Creative idea brochures

Package includes:

So, here are the designers bringing you a little inspiration today, be sure to leave some love:

Stampendous Impressions

Krissy Fossmeyer

Kristine Reynolds

Lea Kimmel (Me!) 

Rhea Weigand 

Suzanne Czosek

Kellie Mowat

Don't forget to leave some love if you want to be eligible to win a prize!  That's it for me today, I'll see you back here again tomorrow for the blog hop!  Thanks for stopping by!

Hugs,

Lea