Snowflake To/From

Our Stampendous Design Team theme this week is "Santa, I've Been Good!". Here's a quick and easy project to make gift card giving fun for all your "good" family and friends! It uses the To/From Snowflake Stencil (DWLS25) from the Dreamweaver line.

Supplies:

Dreamweaver:

DWLS25 Snowflake To/From Stencil

DWGHB-6 1/4" Brush #6 Gold Handle

Plus:

My Color Cardstock Ocean Side
Whisker Graphics Small White Bag
Brilliance Ink Mediterranean Blue
Creative Impressions 1/8" Blue Grosgrain Ribbon 70505
Mini Glue Dots

Instructions:

Step 1:  Cut a 3" x 4 3/4" piece of the Ocean Side cardstock

Step 2: Tape the Snowflake To/From stencil to the lower left corner of the white bag with removable tape
Step 3:  Use a stencil brushes to add color to the image,  carefully remove the stencil, tape off the words and stencil more snowflakes around the front of the bag, leaving room for adding names, clean stencil
Step 4: Adhere the stenciled bag to the blue cardstock, trim top edge of the blue to match the angle of the bag
Step 5:  Wrap a piece of ribbon around the tag and adhere to front with Mini Glue Dots, tie a small matching bow and add with another Mini Glue Dot

Don't miss more "good" ideas at the Stampendous Blog!

Happy Creating,

Louise

Gingerbread Baker!

It's that time of year again! Time for the Fall/Halloween/Christmas release from Stampendous! We've been busy for the last several months creating lots of samples with these great new stamps and are so happy to be able to finally share them with you!

This week Fran is in the UK sharing all kinds of great ideas on HOCHANDA (a TV station) featuring the new  catalog products. Well, we couldn't let that happen without sharing them here too!

I love making lots and lots of cookies during the Christmas season. It's really the only time of year that I do so much baking any more. While my family would like to hoard them, I like to share them with everyone, so the new Gingerbread Baker Clear Stamp and Die Set made me very happy! Here's a cute way to share cookies with teachers, friends, mailman, whoever!

Stampendous:

CSD07 Gingerbread Baker Clear Stamps and Dies
EP100 White Opaque Embossing Powder

Acrylic Handle

MEM01 Memento™ Tuxedo Black Ink by Tsukineko®
HT400 Embossing Heat Tool

Plus:

My Colors Cardstock - Sandy Beach
Cream Cardstock
Whiskers Graphics Paper Bag - kraft with dots

Copic Sketch Markers - R29, E31, E33, E37
Brilliance Ink Rocket Red
VersaMark

Creative Impressions Ribbon - 80234 1/4" Red and Green Gingham
Beacon Adhesives FabriTac
Zutter 1/2" corner rounder
Scrapbook Adhesive White Foam Squares

Instructions:

Step 1:  Cut a 3 1/2" x 4 " and 1" x 1 1/2" piece of cream cardstock, and a 3 1/4" x 4" piece of Sandy Beach cardstock
Step 2:  Die cut the Gingerbread Baker from the Sandy Beach cardstock

Step 3: Stamp the face and buttons on the die cut image with Memento Tuxedo Black ink
Step 4:  Shade around the edges with Copic markers, using the R27 on the cheeks and buttons
Step 5:  Ink the Ric Rak stamp with VersaMark and stamp the arms and legs, sprinkle with white embossing powder, heat set

Step 6: Ink the checkerboard pattern stamp with Brilliance Rocket Red and stamp along the bottom edge of the larger piece of cream cardstock, repeat several times to create the checkered table cloth look, round the top two corners, edge with R27 marker
Step 7:  Tie the red and green ribbon around the cream piece near the top of the stamping, tie a know near the right side, adhere to the front of the bag

Step 8: Use foam squares to attach the Gingerbread image

Step 9: Stamp the "Homemade" saying on the small piece of cream using Tuxedo Black, round all the corners, edge with R27, adhere with foam tape

Step 10: Stamp the "Baked just for you by:" image on the back with Tuxedo Black

Here is a list of today's designers.

Stampendous Blog

Kristine Reynolds

Louise Healy

Alison Heikkila

Jamie Martin

Happy Creating,

Louise

Stampendous and Whisker Graphics Finale!

Wow, it's been a fun week of idea sharing between the Stampendous and Whisker Graphics design teams! I hope you've had time to enjoy the creations this week. 

I am finally settled into temporary housing in Cincinnati (until our house is built), and am still trying to find the right boxes for each event, but I'm getting there! I was smart and kept my Whisker Graphic supplies where I could find them quickly. Of course, when we hop, we offer prizes!

PRIZES!

With all the fabulous inspiration that we have been sharing from both design teams, we thought some of you would like to play along with these great products too, so there are PRIZES! Just comment along the hops each day and leave a thoughtful comment for the designers. Winners will be announced Monday, May 9th.

Three prize packages consisting of one each –
Divine Twine Diva – Crushed Lavender Solid
Divine Twine Diva – Crushed Lavender Stripe
Divine Twine Diva – Dried Celadon Solid
Divine Twine Diva – Dried Celadon Stripe
An assortment of bags in a variety of sizes and patterns.
Winners choice of a Stampendous Cling Rubber Stamp Set and Matching Dies (from available stock)

These three winners MUST have a US mailing address (or territories or military).

But wait! Additionally, we will give away one prize to an Australian winner courtesy of our distributor there – The Stencil Specialist – which will consist of distributor’s choice of one stamp, one stencil and a surprise goodie.

Today I combined a cute House Mouse stamp from the Stampendous April Catalog with some of the cute little colored tags and Divine Twine that Whiskers Graphics so generously provided us, to create a birthday card.

"Time to Celebrate!"

The adorable Snail Mail stamp (HMCP49) would be great for a belated birthday wish too (get it...because you sent the card "snail mail"!). Here I've paired it with the Celebrate Birthday stamp (CRL266), but it would be perfect with the Celebrate Late stamp (CRL267) too!

Snail Mail stamp (HMCP49), stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black, colored with Copic Markers

Add some cute Divine Twine to hold on the packages!

I cut 1" off two small tags, edged them with a black marker, put a little twine in and attached them to the back of the Snail Mail image, then stamped the third tag with the senntiment and attached it with foam tape

Today's list of designers:

Stampendous Blog

Pam Bray

Janelle Stollfus

Jamie Martin

Kristine Reynolds

Lea Fritts

Laura Drahozal

Louise Healy

Wendy Price

Tenia Nelson

Whisker Graphics Blog

Happy Creating,

Louise