Ice Pop Treat!

Summer heat is upon us, so what better theme to have than the Stampendous Design Team  "Keeping Cool" theme! This sweet House Mouse Ice Pop stamp, along with the sentiment are some of the wonderful products I receive from Stampendous for being part of their Design Team! 

These adorable mice are cooling off on a hot summer day with a delicious Ice Pop! Hmmm...I can almost taste it!

Stampendous:

HMP76 House Mouse Ice Pop Treat
SSC1213 Life Words PCS

MPW811 Mixed Media White Paper

Acrylic Handle
MEM01 Memento™ Tuxedo Black Ink by Tsukineko®

Dreamweaver:

DWLJ863 Swirls Stencil

DWNHB12 1/2" Brush #12 Natural Handle

Plus:

My Color Cardstock - Banana Pepper
Bright Orange Cardstock
Brilliance Ink - Sunflower Yellow, Pearlescent Orange
Copic Markers - E33, E51, E53, E93, G000, G12, G24, W0, W2, Y00, Y02, Y13, Y15, Y17, YG0000, YR04
Rubber Embossing Mat
Die Cut Machine
Foam Tape

Instructions:

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

Step 2: Use the Tuxedo Black ink to stamp the Ice Pop Treat image on a 3 1/2" x 4 3/4" piece of white cardstock, color with Copic Markers
Step 3:  Place the Swirls stencil face down on the large platform of a die cut machine, spritz a 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" piece of white cardstock with a fine mist of water and carefully line the paper up over the stencil, place a rubber embossing mat over the paper, add two unused cutting plates and run the sandwich through the machine
Step 4:   Place the embossed image face up and use 1/2" stencil brushes to add the yellow, then orange inks over the design

Step 5:   Cut a 2 1/4" x 4 3/4" piece of the embossed image, mat on a 2 3/8" x 4 3/4" piece of bright orange cardstock and adhere toward the left edge of the card front
Step 6: Mat the Ice Pop Treat image on a 3 3/8" x 4 7/8" piece of bright orange cardstock, then adhere to the card front towards the bottom right
Step 7:  Cut a 1 1/4" x 1 1/2" piece of the embossed image, stamp the sentiment on it with Tuxedo Black ink, adhere it to a 1 3/8" x 1 5/8" piece of bright orange cardstock, use foam tape on it's upper edge to add it toward the upper left side of the card

Head over to the Stampendous Blog for more summer fun!

Happy Creating,

Louise

Whisper Bath

Welcome to the final day of the Stampdenous and Pink Your Life Blog Hop!  This week our team has been sharing our fun projects from the October catalog that feature the adorable stamps from the Pink Your Life line. Pair them with the perfect saying and your cardmaking is easy!

Blog Hop means PRIZES!

Comment to win one of these Pink Your Life Perfectly Clear Stamps Sets (Whisper Garden Perfectly Clear Stamp Set or Whisper Fly Perfectly Clear Stamp Set! US winners only, see our Official Contest Rules for details. Deadline to comment is Monday, November 21st by midnight Pacific Standard Time. 

Today I'm sharing a card featuring the sweet new Whisper Bath (PLCW02) stamp paired with a saying from Life Words Perfectly Clear Set (SSC1213). You can change the color scheme to your favorite (or your recipient's favorite) colors!

"Aaaahhhhh..."

Stampendous:

PLCW02 Cling Whisper Bath
SSC1213 Life Words Perfectly Clear Set

MPW811 Mixed Media White Paper

Acrylic Handle

MEM01 Memento™ Tuxedo Black Ink by Tsukineko®

Plus:
My Color Cardstock Fireflies, Ocean Side
Copic Sketch Markers - B0000, B32, B34, B37, G20, G24, G29, Y00, Y02, Y08, Y17, C1, E33, E37, E51, E53, E93, 0

Instructions:

Step 1:  Fold a 4 3/4" X 12" piece of Fireflies cardstock in half to form an A6 card
Step 2:  Stamp the Whisper Bath image on a 3 5/8" x 4 1/2" piece of white cardstock with Tuxedo Black ink, color with Copic markers, stamp the sentiment in the upper left corner

Step 3: Cut a 3 7/8" x 4 3/4" piece of Fireflies cardstock, and a 4 1/8" x 5" piece of Ocean Side, adhere together then to the card front
Step 4:  Adhere the Whisper Bath image to the yellow mat

It's as easy as that! We hope you've enjoyed this week's Hop. Don't forget to comment for a chance to win our Prize Package!

The complete list of today's designers is at the Stampendous blog.

Happy Creating,
Louise

Love you to the Moon!

Artist Nicoletta Zanella from the Pink Your Life Design Team has created some wonderful, whimsical characters that are now part of the Stampendous Family. We're so excited to welcome the Whisper Friends to our lineup and have a chance to play with these darling images. Our July catalog introduced Pink Your Life to stamping audiences everywhere, and we know you'll be as excited as we are.

The Stampendous design team is back for a second week of Pink Your Life in a blog hop with prizes, just as we promised back in July during our sneak peek week. 

We'll be giving away one set of each Pink Your Life Perfectly Clear Stamp Set. US winners only.

SSCP103 Whisper Friends Perfectly Clear Stamps Set
SSCP104 Whisper Friends Christmas Perfectly Clear Stamps Set
SSCP105 Whisper Houses Perfectly Clear Stamps Set
SSCP101 Little Angels Perfectly Clear Stamps Set
SSCP102 Mushrooms Perfectly Clear Stamps Set

Here's a sweet little card featuring the Little Angel stamp (PLV01) from Pink Your Life.

Stampendous:

PLCV01 Little Angel Cling Stamp
SSC1213 Life Words Perfectly Clear Set
DCP1005 Fitted Frames A Cutting Dies

MPW811 Mixed Media White Paper

Acrylic Handle

MEM01 Memento™ Tuxedo Black Ink by Tsukineko®

Plus:

My Colors Cardstock - Tuscan Sun, Coral Rose

Copic Sketch Markers  Y00, Y02, Y17, YR000, R00, R81, R85, R89, B60, B41, E53, C1, T3, 0

Foam Tape
Creative Impressions Crepe Ribbon
Die Cut Machine

Instructions:

Step 1:  Fold a 5 1/2" x 11" piece of Tuscan Sun cardstock in half to form a top fold A2 card
Step 2:  Stamp the Little Angel on a 2 3/8" x 3 1/4" piece of white cardstock with Memento Tuxedo Black ink

Step 3: Color images with the Copic Markers
Step 4:  Mount the colored Angel on a 2 5/8" x 3 1/2" piece of Coral Rose cardstock
Step 5:  Stamp to sentiment on white cardstock and use a small square die from the Fitted Frames A set to cut out the sentiment and a matching Coral Rose mat
Step 6: Tie a matching ribbon around the bottom edge of the card and tie a small knot

Step 7:  Use foam tape to adhere the Little Angel and the sentiment to the card front

See more ideas and get the details for winning a prize over at the Stampendous Blog!

Stampendous Blog

Pam Bray

Louise Healy

Happy Creating,
Louise

More Picnic Fun!

Today wraps up our Stampendous Picnic Fun weekly theme. If you missed some of the fun, you can check over on the Stampendous Blog for this week's links. There have been so many wonderful ideas!

I love going on picnics with family and friends, so my card today shares that sentiment. These two little owl friends are having a picnic on a beautiful summer day in the shade of their favorite tree!

"Picnic buddies"

Can't you just feel the warm summer breeze...I wish I could, it's very cold here again and we would love our warmer days back. Oh well, soon enough.

To create this little "picnic" really didn't take very long because I keep a stash of images that I've made in the past and didn't use right away. So I looked, and found that I had paste embossed the Owl Pair stencil (LL3013) on tan paper  with Translucent Embossing Paste tinted brown with Metallic FX Cocoa. They were perfect for my picnic. I cut them out and set them aside while I created their background.

I placed the Leafless Tree stencil (LX7020) near the left side of a 4 3/4" x 6 3/4" piece of white cardstock and taped it down. Using a 1/2" stencil brush and Memento Rich Cocoa ink, I stenciled the tree. I also added a little Memento Tuxedo Black for some depth. The "leaves" were created using a 1/2" stencil brush and Memento New Sprout and Bamboo Leaves, keeping each color concentrated in little circular areas.  The "grass" was done with Bamboo Leaves and the "shade" under the tree with Memento Cottage Ivy.

Of course, the perfect image of a summer day is a sky filled with fluffy white clouds, so I used the Picasso tool (LL332), 1/2" brush and Memento Bahama Blue to add a few clouds.  The little saying is from Stampendous SSC1213 Life Words set and was a perfect sentiment for the feeling I was trying to express.

The red and white gingham ribbon from May Arts made a great tablecloth, but what would they eat at their picnic? I didn't think it would be very cute to have dead mice on the tablecloth, so I created some nice healthy little apples for them instead using the Lg Cherries stencil (LL3032), a 1/4" stencil brush, Brilliance Rocket Red ink, and a little Bamboo Leaves.  I made two "apples", cut them out, pressed them in VersaMark, sprinkled with clear embossing powder and heat set them.

I'm on vacation this week (at the happiest place on earth, you know, WDW!) with my family, so I'm just going to send you to the Stampendous blog for the list of wonderful links today!

Stampendous Blog

Happy Creating,
Louise