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Stampendous and Deflecto Blog Hop Day 1!

Deflecto has great product for organization, as well as pieces that you can customize for your home or craft space. Stampendous stamps are of course my go to for customizing anything. Today I made a really fun and simple photo frame.

I used their clear frame and Stampendous Sketchy Blooms Stamp to customize my frame. I stamped the frame with Versamark, and used some Detail Black Embossing powder.

If you want to customize this for a unique gift you could stamp the Sketchy Blooms stamp several times onto watercolor paper, and paint several versions of the stamp for different occasions. For example you could paint a pastel one for Easter, a red and green version for Christmas, or perhaps black flowers with red leaves for Halloween. The possibilities are endless! I used white embossing powder, and painted in some blues and greens using my Distress Inks.

You cut it out, and simple slide it in making sure to line it up in between the frame. Viola! Customized frame that's fun for your craft room, home, or as a gift!

 

 Be sure to checkout The Stampendous blog, it has THREE prize packages that include:
CRS5087 Cling Woodland Friends Rubber Stamp Set
DCS5097 Woodland Friends Die Set
SSH57 Jumbo Perfectly Clear Acrylic Stamp Handle

 

You can find lots more inspiration here:

Stampendous Blog

Louise Healy

Jamie Martin

Tenia Nelson

Deflecto Blog

DecoArt products together with Andy Skinner's new stamps!

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, and we’re going to be showing them off all week long.

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. Naturally the Stampendous Design Team will be checking in as well

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. Look at this great prize!

Andy Skinner is an incredible Mixed Media Artist that created a line of stamps with Stampendous! Therefor giving all of us the opportunity to more easily create amazing mixed media pieces!! These stamps combined with Deco Art paints can help you create projects worthy of being called fabulous!!! THE MEDIA PAINT is great for tinting embossing pastes as well.  I created a 12x12 canvas project about my adorable grandson DJ.

I loved how layering the Deco paint created this faux rust kind of look, and combined with Andy Skinners chipped paint stamp and some black ink, the paint looks much older than it is. To see more on how to do this awesome technique check out this tutorial by Andy Skinner HERE.

I used Stampendous Wood Grain Stamp to create this faux wood frame. It compliments the rustic picture of my adorable grandson.

I also used Dreamweaver Gears Stencil and Silver Embossing Paste to add some visual interest to the layout. I used Dreamweaver Maple Leaf Stencil to trace onto cardstock, cut out 5 of them, glue them together to make a thick leaf. I then spread White Embossing Paste over the leaf and stamped it with Stampendous Elegant Scroll stamp. Once it was dry I used Deco Art paints to layer colors onto it.

The final touch was adding more embellishments using Andy Skinner Toxic Stamp Set, as well as Stampendous Wild sayings clear stamps to add a little sentiment.

 

 

 

 

Check out more inspiration by hopping here:

Stampendous Blog

Wendy Price

Asia King

Pam Hornschu

Janelle Stollfus

Pam Bray

Jamie Martin

Louise Healy

Alison Heikkila

Lea Fritts

Amy Hurley-Purdie HERE

Tenia Nelson

Debbie Cole

DecoArt Blog

 

Links

Stampendous Facebook

DecoArt Facebook

 

 

Shattered Fun

I found this shattered tag tutorial by Tammy Tutterow and had to make my own version of it. I love the colors she chose as well as the Shattered Tim Holtz Stencil she used. You can pop over to her blog and see her tutorial HERE. It's worth a peak, it really is quite stunning.

I love all the layers and embellishments she used, and I was really inspired by the colors ! I wanted to make a clean and simple card where the color blend was really the focal point. I want the impact, but a 15min version.

I love this sentiment stamp from Riley & Company. It seems like the perfect saying for hen your friends are going through a hard time.

I used :

Distress Ink - cracked pistachio, peacock feathers, salty ocean, blueprint sketch, hickory smoke, black soot

Tim Holtz Shattered Stencil

Versamark Ink

Stampendous Embossing Powder - ultra fine black and clear

Jewel Border Dazzles - black

Rhinestones

 

Bokeh Background

I have always loved Bokeh Backgrounds and when I saw this stamp from My Favorite things I had to try it.

Stamp from My Favorite things : Bokeh Background

Image from : Polkadoodles

 Here's how I did it.

First you use any combination of Distress Inks and a blender tool on white paper. I used:

Then you will use a white pigment ink for your circles. (I have a very old large circle stamp I threw into the mix, but you could just use the ones that come with the stamp)

Have a scratch paper near by so you can sometimes stamp it first before going to your background to remove some of the excess ink.

Stamp 1st, 2nd, and 3rd generation so you get lots of circles. Some bright and some faint.

Next heat set until ALMOST completely dry

Then take a blender with a clean pad and gently move over the whole paper making small circular motions.

Compare the above photo to the one below and you can see how it softens it.

Once this is done I repeat the process adding circles where I think it needs, and then it's done!

REMEMBER to let this dry completely before heat embossing any words onto it. Otherwise the embossing powder will stick everywhere!

Stampendous and Canvas Corp Canvas Shoulder Bag!

We are hoppin' this week with Canvas Corp® and Stampendous! We are featuring this adorable little shoulder bag!

You can win AWESOME prizes! Go Here to see Official Contest Rules

Australian fans can comment for a chance to win a Stampendous Stamp, a Dreamweaver Stencil and a surprise Stampendous goodie.

Now your going to see lots of creative ways to use this bag from my fellow design team members . . . So my choice on how to decorate it might not make sense, so let me explain. My family LOVES to save gift bags. (Alright stop judging, you know you do it too!) So when I got this little bag I knew right away I was making a Happy Birthday bag! This bag will stay in my family for years. Each family member re-gifting it back and forth over the years. My mother holds the record with a white box with a beautiful lid and bow she received from her wedding. She re-gifted that stinkin box for 35 years back and forth every year. I know we're weird . . . what can I say we have a thing for boxes and bags.

Stampendous Fronds Stamp Set

Stampendous Happy Birthday Stamp

Dreamweaver Feather Stencil

Canvas Corp - shoulder bag

StazOn - black

Distress Ink - Twisted Citron

Acrylic paint - white, pale teal, teal, purple

Paint Pen - black

Paintbrush

Instructions:

1. Start by randomly add white paint to lower right corner of bag. Let dry. Spray randomly with Distress Spray. Let Dry.

2. Place stencil and paint pale teal, teal, purple onto stencil. Remove and clean stencil. Let dry completely.

3. Place stencil over feather again and trace with black paint en. Stamp sentiment and fronds stamp as shown using StazOn ink.

 

Come check out these other inspiring ideas:

Stampendous Blog

Louise Healy

Amy Hurley-Purdie

Tenia Nelson

31 Days of Halloween Day 26!

 

Welcome to day 26 of 31 Days of Halloween!

If you haven't been with us since day 1 be sure to check out the Stampendous Blog as well as The Smeared Ink Blog to see all the Halloween fun we've been having! Today I decided to do something a little special. A mini Halloween album. For those of you who don't know I am a HALLOWEEN FINATIC! I love all things Halloween and I especially love doing Halloween make-up. I thought it would be fun to create a mini album of my Halloween Make-up looks.

I altered an all ready adorable stamp from Stampendous Eek a Boo Stamp, and in order to create some brains I used Stampendous Bowl Bouquet flower Stamp. Let me show you how I do it!

 You'll need:

Stampendous Eek a Boo Stamp

Stampendous Bowl Bouquet flower Stamp

Stampendous Tricky Words Stamps

Stampendous Music Score

Stampendous Witchy Legs Clear Stamps

Dreamweaver Bare Tree Stencil

Stampendous Detail Embossing Powder - white

Memento Ink - black

VersaMark Ink

Cardstock - black, white

5" x 5" Canvas

Copics (C1,C2,C3,C5,C7,BG40,BG93,RV23,BV02,BV00)

Acrylic Paint -Purple, white, black

Paintbrush

Glossy Accents

Distress Ink - Barn Door, Brushed Sage, Black Soot

Blending Tool

Cosmetic Sponge

Craft Sheet (or wax paper)

Heat Gun

Foam tape

Black Buttons

Front Instructions:

1. Paint back of canvas purple, and back edge black. Paint canvas front and sides with purple paint, and let dry. Mix purple and a small amount of white paint to create a lighter shade of purple. Place stencil on top of canvas and pat light purple paint over stencil with cosmetic sponge, covering canvas. Let dry.

2. Stamp Eek a Boo stamp twice onto white paper using Memento Ink. Use blending tool to blend Brushed Sage, Black Soot Distress Ink over entire stamped image, cut out. On the second stamp color the pumpkin and rat using Copics. Cut pumpkin and rat out making sure to not cut out the hat as shown. Stamp small flower stamp onto with cardstock using Barn Door Distress Ink. Color with RV23. Cut out and glue behind cut out pumpkin. 

3. Foam tape background stamp onto black cardstock and tear edges. Foam tape pumpkin on top of stamped image. Glue centered onto canvas using Glossy Accents. Tear strip of paper and stamp with "Enter if you Dare!!" sentiment. Glue onto canvas as shown.

4. Rub Barn Door Distress Ink onto craft mat. Add Glossy Accents to mat and mix with ink. Drip onto canvas and stamp as shown.

 

Back Instructions:

1. Cut 2" strips and fold every 2" accordion style. glue end pieces together to create one long album. For the cover cut 2" x 2" white cardstock, stamp with music score and use blending tool and Black Soot Distress Ink. Glue to cover. Add a little purple paint, and let dry. Stamp "If you've got it Haunt it!" sentiment with VersaMark Ink and sprinkle with White Detail Embossing Powder, heat set. Add buttons.

2. Cut 2" x 2" pictures and glue on album pages. Glue back page into canvas.

More inspiring Halloween fun Here:

 Stampendous Blog

Smeared Ink Blog

 

 

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Distress Ink blank Ink pads

Just a quick little note about Distress Inks blank ink pads. I recently picked one up and I AM HOOKED! You will have so much fun customizing your own ink pads, and you can even make your own Ombre' ink pads! There are some Ombre' ink pads on the market, but with this option you can create your own!

It's so much fun to customize your own, and all you need are the re-inkers for your Distress Inks.

Look at how beautiful the results are!

You can find them for sale Here:

http://www.simonsaysstamp.com/product.aspx?id=323140

If you live locally (Salem, Oregon) then I encourage you to buy it here:

Creating Christmas with Stampendous!

We all know that Stampendous Stamps can help you create great cards, and scrapbook layouts . . . but did you know you can also make adorable Christmas Ornaments? By stamping, cutting, and gluing your image back to back you can make any ornament you want! It makes for the perfect little gift, and you can even tie it on top of a present! For this project I'm using Stampendous Create Christmas Stamp Set which is awesome because not only do you get 8 themed stamps to create whatever you want.  . . but you also get a stencil with coordinating images!

    

Just imagine, you could totally mix it up and make a tree ornament that is Olive, red, ivory and gold for a more traditional Christmas Ornament. You could even transform this Christmas tree ornament into a Halloween ornament by simply creating a purple tree with orange, green, and black ornaments!

The rhinestones add so much sparkle and shine, but I could totally see pearls on this tree for a more traditional look!

If you would like to make one...let me share with you just how to do that!

You'll need:

Stampendous Create Christmas Stamp Set

Stampendous Silver Embossing Powder

Versamark Ink

Cardstock - grey, lime green

Distress Inks - Twisted Citron, Mowed Lawn, Pine Needles

Fingertip Sponge Daubers

Rhinestones - clear, green, pink, turquoise

May Arts - pink ribbon

Heat Gun

Foam Tape

 

1. First start by stamping 2 trees onto the green cardstock with Twisted Citron. Use the stencil as a mask on each layer to add Twisted Citron, then Mowed Lawn, and finally a touch of Pine Needles using a dauber.

2. Next stamp the tree's with the Stampendous Create Christmas "pine needles" stamp using Twisted Citron Distress Ink.

3. Using the  Stampendous Create Christmas "tinsel with ornaments" stamp and Versamark ink, stamp across each layer of the tree. Sprinkle on silver embossing powder, shake off excess and heat set. Cut trees out. Add rhinestones for the ornaments.

4. Stamp star on grey paper with Versamark Ink, Sprinkle on silver embossing powder, shake off excess and heat set. Cut out and glue star to tree. Add Foam tape to back of one tree, place ribbon, and push trees together.

For more Christmas inspiration go to :

Stampendous Blog

Amy Hurley-Purdie (Here)

Louise Healy

Pam Hornschu

 

Stampendous- Do you want to build a Snowman?

Do you want to build a snowman? I do too!

For this project I'm thinking outside of the box! I love this Stampendous Build a Snowman set, and I thought it would be perfect to create fun decorative art for some Christmas décor! I also used Stampendous Create Christmas tree stamp.

First I stamped my images and colored them using Copic Markers:(B00,B02,C1,C3,R20,RV14,R35,R37,R59,E35,E08,YR68,YR38,100,G82,G94,G28,G29).

When your cutting out the snowmen and tree be sure to leave 1/2" border at the bottom of each image. Cut a vertical slit in the bottom center on each border. Cut a small rectangle from scrap paper and cut a small slit bottom center. push slits together at the bottom of each stamped image to create a stand.

I cut out a circle to fit into the jar, and glued my pieced to the circle. Cover with Glossy accents and set stand up images onto circle, and let dry.

Next I glued cotton balls on top of my circle. Then I dropped it into the jar and sprinkled Stampendous Spoonful of Snow to add all that yummy glitter!

Last but certainly not least I stamped the large snowflake from Stampendous Snowflake Queen onto acetate using Versamark Ink. Sprinkle with Stampendous Detailed White Embossing Powder, heat set and cut out. I taped the snowflakes to thin thread and tape hanging from the inside lid. Add red bow to jar, and you've got a whimsical Christmas décor!

You can be inspired by other designers work by going here:

 

Stampendous Blog

Amy Hurley-Purdie

Louise Healy

Alison Heikkila

Jamie Martin

Pam Hornschu