Dreamweaver Gone Wild!

Today is Dreamweaver Thursday for the Stampendous Design Team, and we are still going wild this week! We're all excited to share some fun designs with you for our weekly challenge of "Let's Go Wild!" Stop by the Stampendous Blog each day this week for lots of wild ideas!

Several team members are featuring the new Pen Pattern stamps from the April Stampendous catalog. They are wildly adorable and perfect for adding a few tangles to the design.  Well, not to be outshined, and in keeping with the weekly theme, I'm featuring two of the great elephant stencils from Dreamweaver. These are perfect for adding a little, or a lot of wonderful patterns to the design!

LG756 Open Elephant Stencil and a saying from
SSC1226 Wild Sayings Perfectly Clear Stamps set
FRCK04 Hot Fragments Kit - Hot Pink, Hot Lime

LL3042 Small Elephant Stencil and another saying from
SSC1226 Wild Sayings Perfectly Clear Stamps set

Sten-tangled LL3042 Small Elephant Stencil with a saying from
SSC1115 Birthday Assortment Perfectly Clear Stamps set

For all three cards, I used a Faber-Castell PITT artist pen, in black (S), to outline the image on white cardstock. I colored them with Chameleon Color Tones pens,  YG3, PK3, CG8, and CB (the sten-tangled one also had BG4).  Mounted them on fun colorful cardstock from Bazzill, and added the perfect little sayings that were stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black.
The great thing is you can keep it simple, like the first two, or add several tangles for a more patterned look.  The Fragments from Stampendous are fun to add to anything using a little glue where you want to add them. Of course, a beautiful ribbon from May Arts always makes a card look better too!

Here's who else has gone wild today!

Stampendous Blog

Alison Heikkila 

Lea Kimmel

Lyn Bernatovich

Pam Hornschu 

Laura Drahozal

Louise Healy

Kristine Reynolds

Happy Creating,
Louise

Showers of Showers! Week 3

Ever use the expression, "When it rains, it pours"? This does not have to be a bad thing, does it? For the month of April, the Dream Team are featuring "Showers of Showers" as our theme. Our designers have so many choices with this theme, baby, wedding, rain...You'll definitely want to see what we come up with each week of April!

As usual, we'd love for you to play along. Just link your creation on the Dream It Up! blog for a chance to win the stencil of your choice...bonus chances for incorporating Dreamweaver and/or Stampendous in your design. Here's what I'm showering you with this week...

"Wishing you a ton of happiness!"

I just love this Dreamweaver  Sm Elephant stencil (LL3042). It makes a wonderful Baby Shower card and can be done in any color palette. I'm going to a Baby Shower this weekend and they know they are having a boy, so this was perfect timing for me! 

I've been preparing some class samples for a workshop I'm going to be doing for Door County Rubber Stamps in June and it just so happened that I had some left over paste that was perfect for the "Sludge technique" Elephant. Whenever you have left over paste that you have colored, save it to an empty paste jar (or any container that seals well). It will keep quite a while in the right container. Anyway...I had some left over blue (Regular Paste with Metallic FX Navajo Sky added), and matte copper (Regular Paste and Copper Paste mixed in equal amounts). Add alternating dollops of paste along the edge of your paste spreader (LM2010), swirl them together a little with the tip of a palette knife, then paste your image. Do I even have to tell you to save the left over! They turn out different each time. This one is a little more "stripey" than "marbley", but it worked great with the striped paper I chose. I can never throw left over paste away, so Sludge pasting is the perfect solution. Beautiful papers also help tie everything together, as does the fabulous ribbon from May Arts.

Our "A" wants to "shower" you with lots more ideas, so be sure to stop over and leave them a "shower" of comments!

Dream It Up!

Leadonna Kimmel

Louise Healy

Laura Drahozal

Pam Hornschu

Jamie Martin

Happy Creating,
Louise