Pink Your Christmas Week

Stampendous is celebrating Christmas with all their fun new Whisper Friends stamps from Pink Your Life all week long!

This is Whisper Friends Gift Wrap.

I created the background with Graduated Dots metal stencil and Clear Pink Embossing Powder.

I colored the image with Prisma color pencils.

The Patterned Paper is Bo Bunny and the ribbon is from Creative Impressions.

You can find more details on the project page.

Make sure you stop by the Stampendous Blog to check out more Pink Your Christmas inspiration.

Thanks for stopping by!

Kristine

Feliz Cupleanos

Happy Hump Day!

This week the Stampendous Design Team is celebrating BIRTHDAYS!
Stampendous has more than 60 images to help you make birthdays great for your friends and family, and most of them are available in either wood mounted or cling rubber stamps.
 We think you’ll be super excited to pick up some of these great images, especially with the Free Shipping offer that’s good through August. You know, the one where your shipping is free if you order $50 or more at www.stampendous.com with Promo Code BLG717! You’ll want to pick up lots of birthday options for all your card recipients.

For my card today I used Party Peeking by House Mouse Designs

I colored the image with Prisma color pencils and blended with gamsol and blending stumps.

Then I covered the entire panel with VersaMark ink and embossed with Kaleidoscope Embossing powder to make it all sparkly.

This is a fun image to color and perfect for anybodies birthday!

Check out more birthday inspiration on the Stampendous Blog.

Thanks for stopping by!

Kristine

Sparkly Birds

The Stampendous Team has been hopping all week showing off the wonderful ribbon that Creative Impressions gave us to play with!

It's the last day and I have a card featuring a fun new image from Stampendous and some fun sparkly ribbon from Creative Impressions.

The image is Birdie Trio.

What else did I use???

Stampendous:
P289 Birdie Trio
SSC1231 Holiday Expresions Perfectly Clear Stamp
DCP1005 Fitted Frames ADWLL332 Picasso Stencil/Shield
SSH57 Jumbo Perfectly Clear™ Acrylic Handle
MEM01 Memento™ Tuxedo Black Ink by Tsukineko®
MPW811 Mixed Media White Paper
EJS02 Spoonful of Snow

Plus:
My Colors Cardstock by My Minds Eye® (Dare Devis, Sky)

Creative Impressions 1/4" Pastel Blue Glimmer Ribbon
Adirondack Aqua dye ink
Scrapbook Adhesives 3D foam squares

TombowUSA ® Recycled Colored Pencils
Zip Dry™ Paper Glue by Beacon Adhesives

Here's a close look at the ribbon.

Directions:

1. Fold an 8 1/2" x 5 1/2" panel of red cardstock in half to create a card base

2. Tie to lengths of ribbon around the card

3. Stamp image on a white panel and color with pencils

4. Use the picasso tool to sponge clouds on the image panel

5. Sprinkle snow on the bottom of the panel and heat from underneath to melt

6. Back the panel with sky blue cardstock and adhere to card

7. Stamp sentiment on a white die cut panel

8. Back image panel with a sky blue dye cut panel and adhere to card with 3D foam Squares 

Comment during our hop on our posts and participating design team posts linked below for a chance to win one of these great prize packages! Each winner will receive a package that includes an assortment of ribbons and hardware from Creative Impressions, PLUS winner’s choice of Create Winter, Create A Poinsettia or Create Fall stamp set. US winners only. See Official Rules for details. Deadline to comment is Sunday, August 7th, midnight PDT. Winners will be announced early next week.

Now let’s get hopping for great inspiration from our designer’s posting a project today.

Stampendous Blog

Kristine Reynolds-that's me!!!

Jamie Martin

Louise Healy

Pam Bray

Janelle Stollfus

Tenia Nelson

Laura Drahozal

Final Peeks

Today I have another new Stampendous Stamp Set to share with you.

This is Truck Tidings Cling Stamp set.

I colored the image with Prisma Colored Penils and blended with gamsol and blending stumps.

I used Spoon Full of Snow Embossing Elements.

I used Fitted Frames A for the sentiment panels.

And the ribbon is from May Arts.

Here are some more projects from the new Stampendous July Catalog.

Thanks for stopping by!

Kristine

At the Beach

We are heading to the beach this week!

The Stampendous team will be sharing projects that we made using the Beach 5-jar embossing kit.

This embossing kit is perect for creating all your fun summer cards!

Here is my first one that I made using the Painting with Powder technique that you can find on page 92 of Fran's amazing book

Embossing Powder Techniques from A-Z.

What Did I use?

SSC1246 Ocean Wisdom perfectly Clear Stamp set
DWLL3033 Sandcastle Stencil
DWLL332 Picasso Shield/Stencil
DWDEP Regular Embossing Paste
DWDPK Dreamweaver Palette Knife
DWLM2010 Paste Spreader
SSH57 Jumbo Perfectly Clear™ Acrylic Handle
MEM01 Memento™ Tuxedo Black Ink by Tsukineko®
VM001 VersaMark™ Watermark by Tsukineko®
MPW811 Mixed Media White Paper
EK22 Beach 5-jar embossing kit

Plus:
My Colors Cardstock by My Minds Eye® (Sandy Beach, Sky, Poolside)
Adirondack®  Aqua Ink
Recollections®  Gold Brads
Heat Tool
Zip Dry™ Paper Glue by Beacon Adhesives

- Fold an 8 1/2" x 5 1/2" piece of Sandy Beach cardstock in half
- Adhere a 2 1/2" x 4 1/4" piece of Poolside cardstock on to the left side of the card.
- Cut a 3 3/4" x 5" panel of white cardstock.
- Apply VersaMark directly to the panel and heat emboss the various embossing powders to create the ocean scene.

-Stencil the Sandcastle stencil over the scene with regular embossing paste and then cover with Golden Sand embossing powder from the kit and heat emboss to melt

 Remove stencil

Using the Picasso Shield, sponge the Aqua ink on the top portion of the panel to create clouds

Stamp the sentiment, color the flags and complete the card!

Check out the Stampendous Blog for links to more projects and to see a fabulous video that demonstrates this fun technique!

Thanks for stopping by!

Kristine

Altered Altoids

I have been loving Fran Seiford's new book, Embossing Powder Techniques from A-Z!

For today's project I am sharing a fun altered Altoid box.

It started like this....

And ended like this!

I used the technique that she shares on page 80 but you'll have to get the book to get the step by step!

The hummingbird stamp is from the Jumbo Cling Hummingbirds Stamp set.

Some other members of the design team have been playing too.

Check out the links to their projects on the 

Stampendous Blog.

Thanks for stopping by!

Kristine

Batik Resist

This week the Stampendous design team are all sharing wonderful embossed projects!

Fran Seiford, the owner of Stampendous, created an awesome new book, 

Embossing Powder Techniques from A to Z. 

It is full of a bunch of fabulous, creative ways to use all of the fantastic embossing powders available from Stampendous!

For my card today, I used the "K" technique that is on pages 30 and 31.

Here is a closer look at that amazing embossing!

The image is Wild Roses.

Pick up this awesome book so that you can learn all about this amazing technique as well as 25 others!

Hop on over to the Stampendous Blog to see who else is sharing their embossing projects today!

Thanks for stopping by!

Kristine

Molten Magic

This week the Stampendous design team are all sharing wonderful embossed projects!

Fran Seiford, the owner of Stampendous, created an awesome new book, 

Embossing Powder Techniques from A to Z. 

It is full of a bunch of fabulous, creative ways to use all of the fantastic embossing powders available from Stampendous!

For my card today, I used the "P" technique that is on pages 38 and 39.

Here is a closer look at that amazing embossing!

I used the Dreamweaver Flower Lace Stencil.

The sentiment is Celebrate Birthday.

I also used Regular Embossing Paste and Aged Rose Embossing Enamel...but that's all the info you get on how to create this fabulous birthday card.

Pick up this awesome book so that you can learn all about this amazing technique as well as 25 others!

Hop on over to the Stampendous Blog to see who else is sharing their embossing projects today!

Thanks for stopping by!

Kristine