Sneak Peek July Catalog!

The Stampendous July Catalog has loads of new goodies for your holiday crafting. Tons of Halloween, Fall and Christmas images from all our licenses as well as our own Fran Seiford, plus lots of new surprises, will all go live for retail sale at http://www.stampendous.com on Friday, June 30th. This week our team is each sharing a favorite project created for this catalog to give you a little sneak peek of what's to come. Some of these great stamps and stencils may already be available in your local stamping or scrapbooking store!" Remember that the Stampendous website at www.stampendous.com is offering Free Shipping through August with any order of $50 or more! Use Promo Code TEAM717 at checkout.

Supplies:

Stampendous:

FMS4082 Ornament Mix Metal Stencil
SSC1266 Snowman Wishes PCS
FRGL02 Twinkle Glitter
FRG02C Champagne Crushed Glass Glitter
TP101 Silver Tinsel Embossing Powder
Acrylic Handle

Dreamweaver:

DWDGP Dreamweaver Gold Embossing Paste

DWDPK Dreamweaver Palette Knife
DWLM2010 Paste Spreader

Plus:

Olive Cardstock
Cream Cardstock
VersaMark Ink
Heat Tool
Small Stylus or Die Cut Tool
Removable Tape
Foam Tape

Instructions:

Step 1:  Fold a 6 3/4" x 10" piece of Olive cardstock in half to form a card

Step 2: Cut a 4 5/8" x 5 7/8" piece of cream cardstock and adhere to the card front
Step 3:  Tape the Ornament Mix stencil to a 4" x 5 1/4" piece of Cream cardstock with removable tape
Step 4:  Use a palette knife and paste spreader to apply Gold Embossing Paste over the design, remove stencil and place in water for cleaning later, immediately sprinkle the wet paste with the Twinkle Glitter, tap off extra, let paste dry
Step 5: When the paste is dry, use the stylus to clean out extra glitter in the openings or where you dont want glitter

Step 6: Mat the Ornaments on a 4 1/8" x 5 3/8" piece of Olive cardstock, adhere to the card front
Step 7:  Stamp the "Merry Christmas" on a small piece of Cream cardstock with VersaMark ink, sprinkle with the Silver Tinsel Embossing Powder, tap off extra powder, heat set, trim to 5/8" x 2 3/8"
Step 8: Mat the saying on a 3/4" x 2 1/2" piece of Olive, use foam tape to add it to the card

We hope you've enjoyed our sneak peeks this week. Stop over at the Stampendous Blog for today's list of designers, and to catch up on any peeks you missed!

Happy Creating,

Louise

Birdhouses in the Garden

WOW! We have a fun week planned for you! Stampendous is working with the wonderful products provided to us by DecoArt for our projects. Our two teams will share ideas all week with a grand finale hop on Friday!

Of course there are Prizes!!!!! 
Comment to win one of three HUGE prize packages that includes Andy Skinner stamps and DecoArt Media™ Paint plus more!  US winners only, see Stampendous Official Contest Rules here for more details.

Want to see all that’s in each prize package? Take a look below:

Stampendous:
ASCRS07 Cling Handle with Care ASCRS08 Cling Skuldoggery ASCRS09 Cling Unexplained
DecoArt:
Quinacridone Magenta Cobalt Turquoise Hue Cobalt Teal Hue Primary Magenta Transparent Yellow Iron Oxide Paynes Gray Carbon Black Titanium White Prussian Blue Hue Phthalo Blue	Quinacridone Gold Diarylide Yellow Pyrrole Red Green Gold Primary Yellow Media Mister Titanium White Antiquing Cream Patina Antiquing Cream 8oz Bottle Lamp Black Americana Acrylic Pain

Today I've created a little canvas that combines stamps and stencils from Stampendous along with paints and liquid glass from DecoArt.

Birdhouses in the Garden

Here are the  supplies and instructions:

Stampendous:

CRP297 Cling Script Lines
FMS4013 Birdhouses Metal Stencil

Dreamweaver:

DWDGP Gold Embossing Paste
DWDPK Palette Knife

Plus:
6" x 6" x 1" Canvas
Flat broad paint brushes
DecoArt White Gesso
DecoArt media Fluid Acrylics - Transparent Yellow Iron Oxide, Primary Magenta, Green Gold, Cobalt Turquoise Hue, Prussian Blue Hue, Paynes Grey, Titanium White
DecoArt media Liquid Glass
Archival Ink - Jet Black
Removable Tape
Heat Tool

Instructions:

Step 1:  Paint a coat of DecoArt White Gesso over the canvas, let dry
Step 2:  Paint the canvas with the fluid acrylics and let dry thoroughly (or use a heat tool)

Step 3: Stamp the Script Lines randomly on the canvas with Archival Jet Black ink, use a block behind the open part to get a better impression, heat set

Step 4:  Place a block under the open part of the canvas, use removable tape to place the birdhouses stencil near the left side of the canvas, use a palette knife to apply a coat of Gold Embossing Paste over the image, remove stencil and place in water for cleaning
Step 5:  Apply various sizes of Liquid Glass drops over the canvas randomly, let drops and paste dry well

Hint: pasting on canvas can be difficult, if some paste slips under a bridge, simply use a pointed tool (a toothpick will work too) to carefully clean out the bridge areas

Step 6:  Use a small  brush to add some white highlights around the Liquid Glass and around the canvas, use a moist cloth to wipe some off if it gets too heavy

I loved each stage s0 it was hard to keep adding layers, but I love the finished product too! It fits into my studio display great!

For a complete list of today's designers:

Stampendous Blog

DecoArt Blog

Happy Creating,
Louise

Wise Men from afar

We're in the final days before Christmas and the Stampendous Design Team is sharing samples featuring some of our inspirational designs. The combination of Dreamweaver's Wise Men Stencil (DWLL306) and the beautiful  Quiet Beauty (V324) sentiment fit the Christmas Season perfectly.

Stampendous:

CRV324 Cling Quiet Beauty Rubber Stamp
GL220U Crystal Glitter

Dreamweaver:

DWLL306 Wise Men Stencil

DWDGP Metallic Gold Embossing Paste

DWDPK Dreamweaver Palette Knife

DWLM2010 Paste Spreader
DWNHB-12 1/2" Brush #12 Natural Handle

Plus:
My Colors Cardstock - Velvet Night
Cream Cardstock
Memento Ink - Paris Dusk, Grape Jelly
Copic Markers - R39, YG03, YG63, E33
Creative Impressions 1/4" Pastel Blue Glimmer Ribbon 70263
Craft Glue Dots
Foam Tape
Removable tape

Instructions:

Step 1:  Fold a 6" x 9 1/2" piece of Velvet Night cardstock in half to form an A6 card

Step 2: Tape the Wise Men stencil to a 3 1/4" x 4" piece of cream cardstock with removable tape, taping off below the "sky"

Step 3:  Use the 1/2" stencil brush to rouge the Paris Dusk and Grape Jelly inks into the top opening of the stencil, remove and clean stencil

Step 4:  Tape the clean, dry stencil back over the sky area lining up the "ground" and star from the lower part of the stencil

Step 5:  Use a palette knife and paste spreader to apply a coat of Metallic Gold Embossing Paste over the stencil, remove stencil and place in water for cleaning

Step 6:  Sprinkle Crystal glitter on the"sand" and star, tap off extra, let paste dry

Step 7:  When the paste is dry, trim around the image leaving a small cream border all the way around

Step 8: Stamp the Quiet Beauty on a 2 1/4" X 2 7/8"  piece of cream cardstock using the Paris Dusk ink, use the markers to color holly, use the 1/2" brush to rouge Paris Dusk around the outside and along the edge
Step 9:  Cut a 2 1/2" x 3 1/8" piece of cream, adhere the saying to the cream mat
Step 10:  Wrap two pieces of the blue ribbon around the bottom part of the card and hold in place on the front with Craft Glue Dots
Step 11: Adhere Wise Men to the upper left of the card

Step 12: Use foam tape to add the saying to the lower right

See the Stampendous Blog for more inspiration.

Happy Creating,
Louise

Stampendous and Creative Impressions!

Welcome to the Stampendous and Creative Impressions blog hop! 

This week the design team has been sharing samples we created for the July catalog featuring ribbons and embellishments from Creative Impressions.  A big THANK YOU to Creative Impressions for providing our team members with TONS of their wonderful  ribbons and hardware!!

What's a hop without PRIZES!

Comment for a chance to win one of these great prize packages! US winners only. See Official Rules for details. Deadline to comment is Sunday, August 7th, midnight PDT. Winners will be announced early next week.

Three prize packages that include:
An assortment of ribbons and hardware
PLUS winner’s choice of Create Winter, Create A Poinsettia or Create Fall Stamp Set

Today is Thursday, so I'm sharing a creation using stencils and some great ribbon and brads from Creative Impressions.

Stampendous:

MG11 Red Micro Glitter

Dreamweaver:

DWLM250 Merry Christmas Stencil
DWLL467 Three Deer Stencil

DWDGP Metallic Gold Embossing Paste

DWDPK Dreamweaver Palette Knife

DWLM2010 Paste Spreader

Plus:
My Colors Cardstock - Firecracker
Cream Cardstock
Graphic 45 Merry Mistletoe 4500991
Creative Impressions 80234 1/4" Red and Green Grosgrain Ribbon
Creative Impressions Brads
Copic Marker R29
Foam Tape
Removable tape

Instructions:

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

Step 2: Tape the Merry Christmas and Three Deer stencils to a 4" x 6" piece of cream cardstock with removable tape
Step 3:  Use a palette knife and paste spreader to apply a coat of Metallic Gold embossing paste over the image, remove stencils and place in water for cleaning, carefully sprinkle the red glitter on the "MERRY" and the reigns connecting the reindeer, tap off extra, let paste dry
Step 4:  Trim the dry, pasted image to 3 3/4" x 5 3/8"
Step 5:  Adhere the trimmed image to a 4" x 5 5/8" mat cut from the Merry Mistletoe paper, using the more red side, edge the patterned paper with the R29 marker

Step 6: Adhere a piece of the red and green ginham ribbon across the center, punch two small holes and add two brads
Step 7:  Cut a 4 3/4" x 6 3/4" piece of the Merry Mistletoe paper using the more creamy side, edge with R29, adhere to front of card

Step 8: Use foam tape to add the pasted image to the card front setting it at an angle

Here's a close up of the embellishments:

Today's list of designers:

Stampendous Blog

Kristine Reynolds

Louise Healy

Pam Bray

Happy Creating,

Louise