Friday, March 11, 2016

Andy Skinner Stamps and DecoArt Blog Hop Finale!

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What an incredible week this has been! 

 The Stampendous design team has been playing with our friends at DecoArt. Mixed Media Artist and DecoArt International Education Coordinator Andy Skinner has designed some fantastic stamps for Stampendous, and we’ve been showing them off all week long.  
Andy, along with his team of international mixed media artists including Julia Stratford-Wright, Mark Gould, Mel Hookham, and Jools Robertson have been playing too!

Of course there are PRIZES!
The FABULOUS Prize Package!
You’ll want to get your commenting fingers ready…so put down your paintbrushes! Each comment on a post this week will enter you to win a fabulous prize package! (one comment per post, per person) Contest open to everyone!!

We have THREE packages and each has a Fluid Media Starter Kit, all three of Andy Skinner’s new Stampendous Stamp sets, and a Jumbo Acrylic Handle.

Yesterday I shared a Mixed Media piece with you (click here to see it!). Andy's stamps and the DecoArt products lend themselves perfectly to the Mixed Media style, but sometimes you need to created a quick, fun card with a more "Shabby Chic" look! That's the style I'm sharing with you today:

The beautiful Cling Shabby Chic stamp set (ASCRS05) contains 6 great, versatile stamps that can be paired with the background stamps from the Cling Toxic Stamp Set (ASCRS06) as I show here.

 The DecoArt MEDIA fluid acrylics are an ideal media to use on our Creative Palette to create backgrounds or an "ink pad".


I mist my Creative Palette with a little water to move the paints more

Drop on your colors, mine were Cadmium Red Hue and Titanium White
Use a brayer to smooth out and blend the colors as much or as little as you want
Place a piece of white mixed media cardstock over the wet paint and immediately peel it back off, transferring most of the paint to the paper.  Use the brayer to spread back out the remaining paint and use it like an ink pad with the stamps you are using. Be sure to was your stamps right after stamping so the paint does not dry on the stamps.




The stamped images and backgrounds were die cut using the Fitted Frames A Cutting Die Set (DCP1005) from Stampendous, size V. Some pretty background paper, a wonder ribbon from May Arts and you have a beautiful card. I think this would be a pretty birthday or shower card.

 We have so many great designers sharing today! Here's the list:

Louise Healy

We hope you have enjoyed this week of hopping with us! Hop over to Facebook and LIKE our pages!

Happy Creating,
Louise
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Thursday, March 10, 2016

Dreaming Mixed Media

Stampendous and Media March 2016 Blog Hop-01


We’re super excited this week to play with our friends at DecoArt. Mixed Media Artist and DecoArt International Education Coordinator,Andy Skinner, has designed some fantastic stamps for Stampendous that we are featuring this week.

Andy will join us along with his team of international mixed media artists including Julia Stratford-Wright, Mark Gould, Mel Hookham, and Jools Robertson. Plus, there will be posts this week on the DecoArt blog as well. The Stampendous Design Team will be having a blast incorporating the wonderful products the generous folks at DecoArt sent us, and pairing them with Andy's great stamps.

Did someone say prizes?!  Of course! Check this out!
blog-prize-package
The FABULOUS Prize Package!
You’ll want to get your commenting fingers ready…so put down your paintbrushes! Each comment on a post this week will enter you to win a prize package! (one comment per post, per person) Contest open to everyone!!

We have THREE packages and each has a Fluid Media Starter Kit, all three of Andy Skinner’s new Stampendous Stamp sets, and a Jumbo Acrylic Handle!!

The piece I'm sharing today combines a variety of products for a "Mixed Media" feel:

"I spy with my little eye..."

  • To start, I washed a 6" x 8" canvas with a combination of Quinacridone Gold and Titan Buff Fluid Acrylics on a wet brush, sweeping across the canvas, then dried with a heat tool
  • Using the Creative Palette as a palette, brayer a thin coat of the same two colors together keeping the color just a little darker than the background, pick up some color on the peeled paint stamp from Andy's Toxic set (ASCRS06) , stamp randomly across the background, or filling the background, wash stamp immediately, dry canvas with a heat tool
  • Use the Creative Palette to brayer a coat of Carbon Black and stamp the designs from Andy's Curiosity set (ASCRS04) around the background, wash stamps immediately, heat set paint on background
  • Place the Dreamweaver Steampunk Clock Stencil DWLX7018) on the canvas near the left edge, using removable tape to hold it in place, apply a coat of Matte Black Embossing Paste, remove stencil and place in water for cleaning later, randomly sprinkle some aged taupe and aged bronze embossing enamels on some pasted areas, tap off excess, heat with a heat tool to set the enamels and puff the paste a little
  • Use your finger to apply thin swipes of Metallic Copper Embossing Paste around the background, sprinkle with the enamels, heat
  • Apply a wash of Carbon Black around to give a more aged look to the canvas, let dry well, add black jute near the bottom
  • Place an 8" x 10" piece of black cardstock in a dark frame, attach the canvas with ZipDry
  • Apply Copper Paste along parts of the frame, add the enamels, heat set
  • Embellish with buttons or charms, I made the buttons darker by wiping some Carbon Black into the patterned brass areas and wiping off the excess
Notice that where there is only a thin layer of Copper paste and no enamels the stamping still shows through

The light wash of black helped create shadows around the buttons

It's a great addition to my Craft Room!



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Tip: The MEDIA fluid acrylics are great for tinting embossing pastes. Just use a tiny bit!



And, in case you've missed any of this week, here are the earlier links!



Monday




Tuesday

Wednesday


You won't want to miss the big finale tomorrow!

Happy Creating,
Louise
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Thursday, March 3, 2016

Easter Season!

The Stampendous Design Team has the week off to finish our April catalog samples, but I couldn't let a Thursday go by without a Dreamweaver post! Easter is coming fast, so here is a quick and easy card perfect for Easter! This card was in our October 2015 catalog.



Supplies
Stampendous
MPW811 Mixed Media White Paper

 Dreamweaver
DWLM234 Happy Easter Stencil
DWLJ907 Small Damask Stencil
DWNHB-12 1/2" Brush #12 Natural Handle

 Plus
Bazzill Basics cardstock
Rubber Embossing Mat
Big Shot Die Cut Machine
VersaFine Ink Imperial Purple
Removable Tape
May Arts Ribbon
Glue Dots Minis
Double-sided tape


 Instructions

 Step 1:  Fold a 6" x 9 1/4" piece of yellow cardstock in half to form an A6 card

 Step 2:  Adhere a 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" purple mat to the card front

 Step 3:  Place the Damask stencil face down (so you can't see the stencil number) on the large platform of a die cut machine, place a  4 1/4" x 5 1/2" piece of white cardstock over the stencil (I like to mist my paper with a little water first), add a rubber embossing mat, two clean cutting plates, a put stack through the machine

 Step 4:  Remove the embossed image and stencil from the machine, place the embossed image face up on your work surface

 Step 5:  Use a 1/2" stencil brush to brush purple ink in from each side of the image in a sweeping motion across the card, repeat until you get the intensity desired

 Step 6:  Trim around the Damask image right up to the embossed edge of the design, use an ink blusher to add a little purple ink to the edges, adhere to the purple mat on the front of the card

 Step 7: Emboss the Happy Easter on a 2 1/2" x 4 1/2" piece of white cardstock using the method described in Step 3

 Step 8:  Place the embossed image face up on your work surface and place the stencil back over it, tape in place with removable tape

 Step 9:  Use a 1/2" stencil brush to brush purple ink through the stencil openings, remove stencil, trim sides to be the same width as the damask layer

 Step 10:  Use a scrap piece of paper as a ruler and add a little purple edge around the words (important to use paper and not a ruler to prevent smudges)

 Step 11:  Tape yellow strips along the top and bottom edges of the Happy Easter, then adhere to the Damask layer

 Step 12:  Tie a small bow with May Arts Ribbon and adhere to the card with Glue Dots
Happy Creating,


Louise
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Friday, February 26, 2016

Stampendous and Eileen Hull Hop!

The Stampendous and Eileen Hull Design Teams have joined together this week and exchanged products to bring you a week of fun, imaginative projects using the exciting new clear stamps and dies sets as well as the heavy hitter Scoreboard dies from Sizzix designed by Eileen Hull.



Where there's a hop, there are prizes!

Yesterday I shared the first part of my "Woodland Home" scene:

Today I've added another house to the scene using the Eileen Hull canister die cut and the Cottage Home Perfectly Clear Stamps and Dies Set (CSD06). 
The "thatched roof" cottage adds a homey touch to the display!
Stacking the cubes makes them look like a tree trunk!
I stamped extra window boxes to pop them out and popped out an extra window too.

The Matte Black Embossing Paste and aged ochre embossing enamel
used with the Mosaic Swirl stencil make great "bark"!


We hope you've enjoyed our week of fun ideas with these great products. Don't forget to leave comments for a chance to win some wonderful products!



Louise Healy


Happy Creating,
Louise
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Thursday, February 25, 2016

Are You Dreaming?

Are you dreaming or are these adorable projects from the Stampendous and Eileen Hull Design Teams real! Our two teams have joined together this week and exchanged products to bring you a week of fun, imaginative projects.

Where there's a hop, there are prizes!

Today I've combined the Mosaic Swirl Dreamweaver Stencil (DWLJ901) with one of the block sets from Eileen Hull to create a "woodland" background for the Mushroom Home Perfectly Clear Stamp and Die Set (CSD05).

The mosaic patterns on the boxes was done with Matte Black Embossing Paste with Aged Ochre Embossing Enamel
I think they have the feel of old logs on the forest floor!

The Mushroom house is colored with Copic markers
I used the stand from the new Popcessories Die Set on the back of the Mushroom House
DCP1003 Pop'cessories Die Set

Check back tomorrow to see who else has moved into this "Woodland Home"!

Here's a video that Fran put together using these great sets!

 Team members hopping today:
Louise Healy


 Happy Creating,
Louise
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Thursday, February 18, 2016

A Different Kind of Face!

This week the Stampendous Design Team has been featuring "The Faces of Stampendous" on our blogs. It meant we were to use one the beautiful "face" stamps such as Beautiful Braid, Feminine Face, Beauty Face, or Glance and The Look stamps that are available, but I decided to choose a different "face". Or rather, two faces, the face of this fun clock an the face of the wise owl  on the new Owl Clock (R248) stamp!

 Ok, ok. I know I'm stretching a little, but I just love this stamp, and I especially love it combined with our great Gears Stencil (DWLJ911) in the background!

"I'm late!"
Stampendous:
CRR137  Owl Clock Cling Stamp
SSC1115 Birthday Wish Perfectly Clear Set
MPW811 Mixed Media White Paper
Acrylic Handle
MEM01 Memento™ Tuxedo Black Ink by Tsukineko®

Dreamweaver:
DWLJ911 Gears Stencil
DWNHB-12 1/2" Brush #12 Natural Handle

Plus:
My Colors Cardstock - Charcoal, Beach Grass
Copic Sketch Markers - E31, E33, E37, E51, YG91, YG93, YG95, YG97, Y13, Y17, YR21, BV02, BV04, BV08, W1, W4, W6, W8, T0, T1, T2, T4, T6
Foam tape

Instructions:
Step 1:  Fold a 7" x 10" piece of green cardstock in half to form an A7 card
Step 2:  Stamp the Owl Clock image on a  4" x 5 1/4" piece of Mixed Media White paper, color with Copic Markers
Step 3: Stamp the saying on a 1 1/4" x 2" piece of Mixed Media White paper
Step 4:  Cut a 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" piece of charcoal cardstock and adhere the Owl Clock to the mat
Step 5:  Cut a 1 1/2" x 2 1/4" piece of charcoal cardstock and adhere the saying to the mat
Step 6: Tape the Gears stencil to a 2" x 7" piece of the Beach Grass cardstock and use a 1/2" stencil brush to apply Memento Tuxedo Black ink to the design, carefully move the stencil and finish stenciling to the bottom
Step 7:  Cut a  2 1/4" x 7" piece of charcoal cardstock and adhere the Gears image to the mat
Step 8: Adhere the Gears to the left side of the card front
Step 9: Adhere the Owl Clock image towards the top, then use foam tape to add the saying near the bottom right

 To see more "Faces of Stampendous", head over to these designers:


Happy Creating,
Louise
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Thursday, February 11, 2016

Embossing Dreamweaver Style!

This week the Stampendous team has been featuring techniques from the new Embossing Powder Techniques from A to Z by Fran Seiford, the founder and owner of Stampendous!
The book is filled with lots of pictures and helpful tips to make any embossing project easy!

 To celebrate the release of Fran's new book, three lucky people will win their very own copy!


Today I am featuring one of the embossing techniques we use with stencils.



This card features the Daisies Stencil (DWLL548) using Technique P - Molten Magic. You can learn how to do this on pages 38-39 of  Embossing Powder Techniques from A to Z . The only difference is I used Regular Embossing Paste and the Summer Shine Embossing Kit powders (EK21) - Clear Lime, Clear Lemon, Clear Pink. The words stamped in the background of the various layers are from the newly released Floral Charms Perfectly Clear Set (SSC1243) by Stampendous.

Stampendous now carries an Embossing Heat Tool (HT400). Our heat tool by Wagner Tool is made by Milwaukee and is a heavy duty, long lasting, durable heat tool with more power and precision than the kind you can buy in the big box stores.


Here's the list of designers posting more techniques from the book today:


Jamie Martin (DW and Embossing)

Laura Drahozal (DW and Embossing)
Pam Hornschu (DW and Embossing)
Louise Healy (DW and Embossing)

 Happy Creating,
Louise
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