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

Bunny Luv

Do you know what day it is?  It's Wicked Wednesday ATC Challenge Blog day!  I have the sweetest little image for you today from A Day for Daisies called Bunny In A Rose.  I have a special affection for bunnies so I really love this image, I hope you do, too!  Here's my project:

Here's what I used to create this project:

A Day for Daisies "Bunny In A Rose"

Stampendous® Tiny Alphabet Perfectly Clear™ Stamps

Neenah® Classic Crest

Copic® Markers

Bo Bunny® - Isabella Collection

Bazzill®

Queen & Co.® Pretty in Pink Rhinestones

Zip Dry™

That's it for today!  I hope you like my little project.  I'll have a Stampendous project for you on Friday.  Thanks for stopping by and see you again soon!

Hugs,

Lea

Hooray!

I wish I had a stamp that says "Hooray!"  It would have been perfect with Bootsie, the image I've used today from Rick St. Dennis for the Desert Islands Crafters Challenge Blog.  Bootsie is just one of the images available for this period and I fell in love with him the minute I saw him!  He's totally adorable!  We have six cats and of those six, not a single Siamese but I do love them and this one just called out to be colored as such.  Here's my project using #'s 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, & 10:

Here's my project with the semi-hidden tag pulled out:

And just to show you how he dances through the flowers, here's a little short clip:

Here's a list of what I've used to create this project:

Bootsie by Rick St. Dennis

Copic Markers

Bazzill Cardstock

Neenah Cardstock

Basic Grey's "What's Up" 6x6 paper pad

Fiskars Tag Die

May Arts Ribbon and Twine

Zip Dry Adhesive

Action Wobble 

Thanks for stopping by today!  I hope you've enjoyed my little project.  It was a lot of fun to create!  Be sure to stop by tomorrow as I'll have another post for your viewing pleasure!  See you soon!

Hugs,

Lea

Inspiration Winged Cross

This week at Stampendous®, we're featuring our beautiful cross images, I think these are perfect for the Easter season.  For my project, I've used Winged Cross.  I have to admit, it's my favorite!  I have a collection of angels and a collections of crosses so this kind of combines the two!  I've used the Fran•táge technique on this card with lots of crusties and texture.  It's so much fun to create this way!  So here's my card with details below:

Here's what I used to create this card:

Stampendous® R189 Winged Cross
Stampendous® Gold Encrusted Jewel Kit
Stampendous® Champagne PEARLustre™ Embossing Powder
Stampendous® Boss Gloss
VersaMarker™ by Tsukineko® Memento™ London Fog Ink by Tsukineko® 
Antique Linen, Pumice Stone, & Vintage Photo Distress Ink by Ranger®
Kraft Reflections Paper by Graphic 45® 
Clear Rock Candy Distress Crackle Paint by Ranger® 
Silver Bling Glamour Dust Paint by DecoArt® 
Copic® Markers - W1, W2, W4, W5, E33, E34, E35, E37 
Multi-Medium Matte by Claudine Hellmuth Studio 
ZipDry™ Paper Glue by Beacon Adhesives®

Here's how I created this card:

Stamp R189 Winged Cross on white with Memento Ink.
Color image with Copics.
Paint wings with Silver Bling paint, set aside to dry.
Trim image closely and distress edges with distresser tool.
Create card base from Bazzill in a tent fold and distress sides and bottom of front only.
Trim patterned paper to mat image and distress edges. 
Add antique linen distress ink all around image.
Add pumice stone distress ink around outer edges going in close to the image but not all the way.
Add vintage photo distress ink just to distressed edges of all papers.
Adhere image to patterned paper with Zip Dry and curl corners of image piece slightly.
Sponge Boss Gloss around card randomly and add Aged Gold EP and heat.
Using VersaMarker, outline swirls on image, add Champagne Pearl EP and heat.
Randomly sprinkle Aged Gold EP and heat from underneath.
Randomly dot on distress stain.
Adhere image and patterned paper to card base.
Add crackle paint to cross and let it dry.

That's it for today, I hope you've enjoyed my project and that it has inspired you to create your own!  Thanks for stopping by and I'll see you again soon.  Have a blessed day!

Hugs,
Lea

Perfect Pear!

Hey there, crafty people!  It's time for another Dreamweaver Stencils Thursday post!  As you know, this is our last week to post for March Madness and I didn't want to post a card since I do cards all the time.  Instead, I have another canvas for you.  This is a smaller one, though, however, I really like it and I'm going to use it in my den since the colors match.  Here's my project:

Here's what I used to create this project:

Dreamweaver Stencils LL 563, Large Pear

Dreamweaver Stencils LJ 927, Floral w/Dots

Dreamweaver Stencils White Embossing Paste

Dreamweaver Stencils TAP Acrylic Paints

Artist's Loft 5"x7" Canvas Panel

Copic Markers R29 & YG95

Copic Multiliner SP Sepia

DecoArt Gesso

Ranger's Tim Holtz Distress Ink in Vintage Photo

Here's how I created this project:

Prime canvas with gesso and set aside to dry

Paint canvas and set aside to dry

Stencil corners with sponge and distress ink

Mix paste and paint

Paste emboss pear, set aside to dry

Using Copic R29, air brush red onto pear

Using Copic YG95, draw veins on leaf

Using Copic Multiliner, color stems and add sentiment

This was a super fast project to create and very easy to do.  I've been looking at it and I have to admit, I might go over the sentiment with paint and stencil the two corners like I did for the other two corners I've completed.  I hope you have enjoyed my project and will check out the rest of the team's creations, links are below:

Georgia Sommers

Dream It Up!
Lea Kimmel
Louise Healy
Stacey Rumsby
Terrece Siddoway

Wendy Jordan
Pam Hornschu

Cherylynn Moser

Thanks for stopping by today and I'll see you again tomorrow with a Stampendous post!  Have a blessed day!

Hugs,

Lea

Tombow Hop Time!

It's Friday, you know what that means!!!  It's HOP Day! Yay!!  The Stampendous Design Team is hopping along with the TombowUSA Design Team and I'm sure there will be plenty of eye candy to soothe your sweet tooth!  Remember, we have prizes to give out but you must comment to win a prize!  So, you may or may not recall that I received the set of 6 Jewel Dual Brush Pens and a Blending Kit from Tombow.  My first project uses five of the colors, 847/Crimson, 636/Imperial Purple, 245/Sap Green, 476/Cyan and 946/Gold Ochre.  I didn't use N25/Lamp Black for obvious reasons!  Here's my card using the Splash Technique:

Here's what I used to create this project:

Stampendous® W116 Filly Sketch

Stampendous® SSC109 Happy Messages Perfectly Clear™ Stamps

Tombow Dual Brush Pens - Jewel

Tombow Blending Kit

Canson® Watercolor Paper

Black Cardstock

Archival Ink™ - Jet Black

Hug Snug® Seam Binding - White

Mono Adhesive Power Bond

Here's how I created this project:

Trim watercolor paper to fit blending palette

Color blending palette with markers in wide stripes (as shown above)

Spritz blending palette with water

Apply watercolor paper to blending palette and rub paper to make sure it picks up ink evenly

Set wet paper aside to dry (dry paper shown above)

Trim seam binding to desired length

Re-color blending palette and mist

Lay ribbon across palette and rub ribbon to help apply ink

Continue doing sections of ribbon while moving down palette

Set ribbon aside to dry (you can use your heat gun to speed this process up)

Stamp image on dry inked watercolor paper

Trim away excess paper at bottom

Stamp sentiment

Create card base to fit image

Adhere image to to card base

Tie dried ribbon around top of card with a simple knot in front

For my next project, I went back to mixing colors on the blending palette and applying the color using the Indirect Blending Technique to color my image with the blender pen.  I really like this technique!  

Here's what I used to create this project:

Stampendous® P219 Jar Bouquet

Stampendous® SSC109 Happy Messages Perfectly Clear™ Stamps

Tombow Dual Brush Pens - Jewel

Tombow Blending Kit

Bazzill® Cardstock in Parakeet and Lava

Making Memories Kids™ Collection - Emma

Canson® Watercolor Paper

Archival Ink™ - Jet Black

Mono Adhesive Power Bond

Here's what I did to create this project:

Stamp image and color, trim to desired size, set aside to completely dry

Create card base from green cardstock

Trim red-orange cardstock pieces as shown

Trim patterned paper as shown

Stamp sentiment on dry image

Adhere all layers as shown

So that's both of my projects, I hope at least one of them may have inspired you to give this a go yourself.  Easy and fun, what more can a girl/guy ask for!?  Here's the complete link list, I wouldn't want anyone wandering lost around the Internet, it could be light years before you're found! 

Tombow Blog 

Tobi Crawford 

Debbie Fisher 

Lea Kimmel (me!)

Melissa Cash

Janelle Stollfus  

Kristine Reynolds 

Jennie Garcia

Jamie Martin  

Marie Browning  

Krissy Fossmeyer
Cyndi Bundy 

Stampendous Blog

Don't forget to leave some love along the way in order to be entered to win a prize.  Thanks for hopping by and I hope to see you again soon!  Have a blessed day!

Hugs,

Lea

Time for Tombow!

And a Toadal Makeover!  This week has been all about Stampendous® Stamps and TombowUSA and lots of wonderful creations designed to inspire you!  I love it when the Stampendous Design Team does a blog collaboration with a fantastic company like TombowUSA; it's just so much fun!  Of course, as you can see, there are prizes to win, too!  However, if you want to win a prize, you have to comment on our blogs, the more blogs you leave comments on, the better your chance of winning!  Pretty darn simple, right!?  So, without further ado, here's my project for today:

  

These were the colors I received, the Jewel set of 6!  I also received one of their new Blending Kits, which includes the Blending Palette I've shown you here, a Blender Pen and a Compact Spray Mister.    I wanted to show you my blending palette with colors still mixed on it so you could get an idea of how easy it is to get the color you need even from the Jewel set of 6 markers.  There's a super cute coloring chart for all the House-Mouse mice that can be found here, however, since I wasn't sent any of those colors, I had to mix my own! By combining purple and golden yellow, I was able to get my brown for the mouse fur, combining the golden yellow and red gave me the peachy tones I needed for his skin.  As you can see here, I mixed a few other colors, too, I wouldn't want you to think you are limited to just these six colors.  I used the Indirect Blending technique for this card.

Here's what I used to create this project:

Stampendous® HMM04 Toadal Makeover
Tombow Dual Brush Pens - Jewel
Tombow Blender Kit
Archival Ink™ - Jet Black
Bazzill® - Ruby Slipper
Canson® Watercolor Paper
Bo Bunny® Mistletoe 6x6 Paper Pad (Wonky Squares)
Crate Paper® Party Day 6x6 Paper Pad (Stars)
May Arts Ribbon®
Mono Adhesive Power Bond
Foam Mounting Squares

Here's how I created this project:

Stamp image and color; trim to desired size
Create card base and image mat from Bazzill
Trim patterned papers as shown
Adhere patterned papers and attach ribbon as shown
Adhere patterned papers with ribbon to card base as shown
Adhere image to mat and attach to card base with foam mounting squares

This was a very easy card to create and I have to tell you, I really enjoyed mixing my colors and applying them with the Blender.  I know my colors are a little Christmas-y but when you have a green toad and red lipstick, you just have to go with what looks good, no matter what the season may be!

Thanks for stopping by today and don't forget to comment if you wish to be entered to win a prize.  Don't forget that tomorrow is the BIG HOP!!  You don't want to miss it and I'll have two projects to share tomorrow!  Have a blessed day and I'll see you again soon!

Hugs,
Lea