Stampendous and May Arts Finale!

Here we are at the final day of the  Stampendous and May Arts blog hop!  Both teams have been sharing some wonderful creations this week with the products from these two great companies.

If you leave us all a comment, you could win one of our great prize packages!

Today I'm sharing a beautiful image from the Stampendous January 2016 catalog. This fabulous Fairy Aviary stamp (CRR245) is gorgeous and easy to color and embellish, especially when you have the lovely ribbons from May Arts.

Supplies
Stampendous
CRR245 Cling Fairy Aviary
MPW811 Mixed Media White Paper
MEM01 Memento™ Tuxedo Black Ink by Tsukineko®
Acrylic Handle
GM220U Crystal Ultrfine Glitter

Plus
My Colors Cardstock Waterside Fern
Canvas Corp Cardstock Black and Ivory Zig Zag Reverse
Copic Sketch Markers - BV0000, BV00, BV02, YG11, YG03, YG06, YG17, E51, E95, E31, E33, E37, B0000, B02, T0, T1, T2, W2, Y17, Y26, R29, 100
May Arts Ribbon
Scotch Quick-Dry Adhesive
Double-sided tape

Instructions

Step 1:  Fold a 7" x 10" piece of light green cardstock in half to form an A7 card

Step 2:  Stamp the Fairy Aviary on a 3 3/4" x 5 1/4" piece of Mixed Media White Paper with Memento Tuxedo Black and color with Copic markers

Step 3:   Cut a 4 1/4" x 5 3/4" piece of the Canvas Corp black and white paper and edge with a black marker

Step 4:  Adhere the Fairy to the black mat, then tie a purple ribbon around the two layers and make a bow near the lower left side, add a small piece of green curly ribbon

Step 5:  Adhere the image to the card front

Step 6: Use a small brush to brush a thin coat of glue to the wings and sprinkle with Crystal glitter, let dry

Thanks for a great week! Here's the grand finale list:

Stampendous Blog

Jamie Martin

Wendy Price

Laura Drahozal

Kristine Reynolds

Pam Bray

Louise Healy

Amy Hurley-Purdie

Janelle Stollfus

The Ribbon Resource

Happy Creating,

Louise

Welcome to the Hop!

Welcome to the Stampendous and May Arts blog hop for Thursday!  Both teams have been sharing some wonderful creations this week with the products from these two great companies.

Leave us comments for a chance to win a great prize package!

The new Fitted Frames sets A and B from Stampendous work perfectly with the stencils too!

Stampendous:

SSC1242 Animal Mobile Perfectly Clear Set

MPW811 Mixed Media White Paper

Acrylic Handle

MEM01 Memento™ Tuxedo Black Ink by Tsukineko®

DCP1006 Fitted Frames B - P, K

Dreamweaver:

DWLL482 Pineapple Stencil
DWDEPT Translucent Embossing Paste
DWNHB-12 1/2" Brush #12 Natural Handle
DWGHB-6 1/4" Brush #6 Gold Handle

DWDPK Dreamweaver Palette Knife

DWLM2010 Paste Spreader

Plus:
My Colors Cardstock - Herb Garden
Canvas Corp Cardstock - Green and Ivory Lattice
Memento Marker - Rich Cocoa
Brilliance Inks - Sunflower Yellow, Pearlescent Orange, Pearlescent Rust, Rocket Red, Pearlescent Olive, Pearlescent Thyme
May Arts Ribbon
Mini Glue Dots
Micro glitter Gold
Foam tape
Removable tape
Paper towel

Instructions:

Step 1:  Fold a 4 5/8" x 12" piece of Green & Ivory Lattice cardstock in half to form an A6 card
Step 2:  Die cut a white and green layer from the nesting frames set

Step 3: Tape the stencil to the white die cut frame with removable tape
Step 4:  Use a 1/2" stencil brush to rouge a coat of yellow ink over the whole design, use 1/4" brushes to add more colors, remove and clean the stencil
Step 5:  Place the clean, dry stencil back over the colored image and use a palette knife and paste spreader to apply Translucent Embossing Paste over the stencil, remove the stencil and place in water for cleaning, let the paste dry very thoroughly, it will dry with a clear, glossy finish

Step 6: Die cut a small white and green mat using the nesting frames set
Step 7:  Place the Welcome Baby stamp from the Animal Mobile set on an acrylic handle, mask the word Baby and ink only the Welcome with black ink, stamp on the small white frame

Step 8: Adhere the Welcome to the matching green mat, add a Mini Glue Dot at each end and sprinkle with Gold Micro Glitter

Step 9: Wrap  a yellow May Arts ribbon around the card front and tie a bow near the left edge

Step 10:  Adhere the Pineapple layer to the matching green mat and use foam tape to attach the pineapple and welcome to the card front

Keep on hopping:

Stampendous Blog

Laura Drahozal (DW and May Arts)

Pam Bray (DW and May Arts)

Louise Healy (DW and May Arts)

Happy Creating,

Louise

Love those Hearts!

Brrrrrrrrr it's COLD outside!  I don't know about where you are, but today in the Chicagoland area it is COLD!  The sun is shining so it looks like it should be nice out but as the saying goes, "Looks can be deceiving!"

Oh well, it's the perfect weather to stay inside and craft. This week's Dreamweaver Thursday theme is "Hearts and Love!", and the Stampendous Design Team is sharing some of the beautiful heart designs in our stencil line. They make lovely wedding cards and are perfect for Valentine's Day which will be here before we know it! This gorgeous Swirly Heart (DWLJ928) stencil looks wonderful in any color.

Supplies
Stampendous
MG10 Micro Fine Teal Glitter

Dreamweaver
DWLJ928 Swirly Heart
DWDPP Pearlescent Embossing Paste
DWDPK Dreamweaver Palette Knife
DWLM2010 Paste Spreader

Plus
Bazzill Basics cardstock
Graphic45 cardstock Ladies Dancing 4500729
Neenah Papers Classic Crest Natural Cover 80#
Copic B72 Ice Ocean
Double-sided tape

Instructions

Step 1:  Fold a 4 1/4" x 11" Teal cardstock in half to form an A2 top-fold card

Step 2:  Edge a 4" x 5 1/2" piece of patterned cardstock with a matching marker and tape to the front of the card

Step 3:  Tape a 2 1/4" x 5 1/2" piece of Teal cardstock to a 2 3/8" x 5 1/2" piece of Natural cardstock then to the front center of the card

Step 4:  Paste emboss the Swirly Heart stencil on a 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" Natural cardstock with Pearlescent Embossing Paste using a Palette Knife and Paste Spreader, remove stencil and place in water for cleaning

Step 5:  Sprinkle the wet paste with Teal Micro Glitter, tap off extra, let paste dry

Step 6:  When the paste is dry, measure in 1 1/8" on each side of the long sides and make a mark along both the top and bottom edges

Step 7:  Connect the top and bottom marks lightly with a pencil, stopping when it reaches the paste and restarting on the other side of the paste

Step 8:  Cut along the left line with a scissors and then around the design to the other left line, repeat on the right side

Step 9:  Mount the cut out image on the teal mat in the center of the card

Stop by and see more Heart and Love designs at these designer's blogs:

Stampendous Blog

Jamie Martin

Laura Drahozal

Alison Heikkila

Pam Hornschu

Louise Healy

Don't miss a day next week when we will be hopping with the May Arts team! Of course there will be prizes!!

Happy Creating,
Louise

Butterfly Bookmark

Welcome to our Stampendous Dreamweaver Thursday! This week the Design Team is continuing to share some our creations from the October and January catalogs. These designs were just featured in our booth at CHA in Anaheim. We had a wonderful show, it always refreshes my creative juices to be around so many talented artists! Here are a couple of pictures from our booth:

Stampendous booth, Fran's Demo Table

Pam Hornschu and I in front of the beautiful poster of the January Catalog cover! 

A few of the great samples from our Design Team!

Nathalie Kalbach of n*Studio and Pam at Nat's demo table

One of Fran's book signing breaks!

The design I'm sharing with you today uses the Dreamweaver Vertical Butterflies stencil (DWLL518) to create both the background and a pretty bookmark for the recipient.

Stampendous:
SSC1213 Life Words

Dreamweaver:
DWLL518 Vertical Butterflies Stencil
DWGHB-6 1/4" Brush #6 Gold Handle

Plus:
Memento Tuxedo Black
Distress Inks mustard seed, wild honey, spiced marmalade
Bazzill Basics Cardstock - Daisy
Neenah Papers Classic Crest Cover Solar White 80#
Graphic45 High Style Holiday 4500196
May Arts Ribbon QKK18
Zutter 1/2" corner rounder

Instructions:

Step 1:  Fold a 7" x 10" piece of yellow cardstock in half to form an A7 card, round the corners with a corner punch

Step 2: Tape the stencil along the left edge of the card front and use stencil brushes to add color to the butterflies, remove the stencil and move to another part of the front until the whole front is stenciled with butterflies
Step 3:  Tape the stencil to a 1 5/8" x 5 1/8" piece of white cardstock (round the corners first) with removable tape, use the stencil brushes to add color, run the wild honey pad around the edge of the white cardstock
Step 4:  Mount the white stenciled image to a 2" x 5 1/2" piece of yellow cardstock that has rounded corners and edge with the wild honey ink pad, punch a whole near the top and add a ribbon to finish the bookmark
Step 5:  Cut a piece of decorative cardstock 3" x 6" , round the corners, edge with Copic BG72 or matching marker

Step 6: Measure down 2 1/2" from the top and 1/2" in from the sides on each side, and up from the bottom 2  1/2" , cut slits side to side to hold the bookmark, edge the cut edges with the marker, slide the bookmark through the slot
Step 7:  Use foam tape to add the decorative layer to the front of the card

Step 8: Stamp the saying from the Life Words set on white paper with Memento Tuxedo Black and trim to 3/4" x 1", mount on decorative paper 1" x 1 1/4", then on yellow 1 1/4" x 1 1/2", decorate with small pieces of ribbon and add to the card front

Our designers posting today are:

Stampendous Blog

Kristine Reynolds

Pam Hornschu

Alison Heikkila

Louise Healy

Laura Drahozal

Happy Creating,

Louise

Get Amplified!

The Stampendous Design Team is "Amping Up" our stamping and stenciling this week with some great products from Imagine Crafts! Imagine Crafts generously supplied each team member with their fun Radiant Neon inks PLUS their fabulous new Radiant Neon Amplify! product! Check out this video to see how dimensional they become when heated!

Of course we have prizes! Three lucky commenters will receive a prize package that includes:
1 Radiant Neon Ink Pad and Ink Refill
1 Color Fragments Jar
a Creative Palette Rectangles Set

See Official Contest Rules for details.
I decided to combine the Radiant Neon Inks and Amplify! products with our Dreamweaver Shasta Flower Trio stencil (DWLL3031) to create a bright and cheerful all-occasion card.

To create this card, follow these easy steps:

1. Tape the stencil to white cardstock with removable tape
2. Use 1/4" stencil brushes to apply Radiant Neon Electric Yellow, Coral and Green inks to the design, using the Picasso (DWLL332) to help keep colors from overlapping
3. Remove the stencil and place in water for cleaning
4. Apply the Electric Yellow Amplify! to the flower centers, heat with a heat tool until they puff up
5. Outline each flower petal with the Electric Coral, heat until puffy
6. Outline each leaf with the Electric Green, add a "vein" to each leaf, heat until puffy
7. Trim 1/2" off the left side of the flower, cutting around the flower, and 1/4" off the top cutting around the flower
8. Use the Creative Palette Rectangle to create the background
9. Place several squiggles of ink around the CP Rectangle using the matching Radiant Neon reinkers
10. Spread the inks on the palette with a brayer
11. Lay a piece of Mixed Media White Paper over the brayered inks and rub it down to transfer the ink, it will look something like this
    
    
    
12. Mist the palette with a little water and rub another piece of paper to another background that will be a little lighter than the first
13. Keep tranferring ink from the palette until it is gone, you can do your brayer too!
14. Layer on coordinating papers

Here are some close ups of the flower:

Shasta Flower Trio with Radiant Neon Amplify!

background closeup

Here's today's list of participating designers:

Stampendous Blog

Louise Healy

Laura Drahozal

Lea Fritts

Pam Bray 

Kristine Reynolds 

Amy Hurley-Purdie

Alison Heikkila

Pam Hornschu

Happy Creating,

Louise

One of my Favorites!

Welcome to 2016! The Stampendous Design Team is so excited to start sharing projects from the October and January catalogs this week.  A lot of us will be in California for CHA at the end of the week showing store owners all these fabulous new ideas. Be sure to check the Stampendous Blog everyday for a list of designers showcasing their ideas!

We also are having a fun HOP(click here for today's participants) with the folks from Imagine Crafts. You'll want to check that out too!

This week we have been asked to share our favorite projects from the latest catalog releases. Here is one of my very favorite things that I created for the January catalog.

This peaceful home decor piece features the beautiful Maidenhair Fern Stencil (DWLJ846), with the Honeycomb Stencil (DWLJ806) in the background.  Here's how it's done:

Supplies
Stampendous
MPW811 Mixed Media White Paper

Dreamweaver
DWLJ846 Maidenhair Fern Stencil
DWLJ806 Honeycomb Stencil
DWDEP Regular Embossing Paste
DWDPK Dreamweaver Palette Knife
DWLM2010 Paste Spreader
Metallic F/X Kiwi

Plus
6" x 8" Canvas
Faber Castell Gesso
Paint brush
DecoArt Metallic Lustre Iced Espresso
Palette Stamp and Stick
Foam Applicator
Swiffer cloth
Black Frame 8" x 10"
Tacky Glue

Instructions

Step 1:  Tape the Honeycomb stencil towards one end of a 6" x 8" canvas with removable tape

Step 2:  Use a palette knife and paste spreader to apply a coat of Regular Embossing Paste over the stencil, remove and clean the stencil, let paste dry

Step 3:  Line up the stencil over part of the dry paste and towards the other end of the canvas, and apply paste over the other end of the canvas, remove and clean stencil, let paste dry

Step 4:  Paint a coat of Gesso over the entire canvas, dry well

Step 5:  Use your finger (dip it in a little water first) to apply a streaky coat of DecoArt Metallic Lustre Iced Espresso across the embossed image and around the edges, let dry

Step 6:  Tape the Maidenhair Fern stencil over the Honeycomb pattern with removable tape and apply a coat of Regular Embossing Paste, remove and clean the stencil, let the paste dry

Step 7:  Place the clean, dry stencil over the dry paste and use a foam applicator to apply Palette Stamp and Stick Glue, remove and clean stencil while the glue gets tacky

Step 8:  Use a soft brush to apply a coat of Metallic F/X Kiwi powder on the fern, use a Swiffer cloth to gently buff off any extra powders

Step 9:  Cut an 8" x 10" piece of Mixed Media White Paper and use a finger to swipe Metallic Lustre Iced Espresso over the paper

Step 10:  Adhere the canvas to the background paper, let dry

Step 11:  Apply some Metallic Lustre Iced Espresso lightly around the frame, buff lightly with a soft cloth, place the canvas in the frame

On a side note...I think this would be stunning with the fern done in Black Matte Embossing Paste, then the Kiwi powder on black, it would give it a whole different feel.

For more great ideas, stop over at these designer's blogs:

Stampendous Blog

Louise Healy

Kristine Reynolds

Amy Hurley-Purdie

Wendy Price

Alison Heikkila

Happy Creating,
Louise