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Saturday, September 28, 2013

Fall Note


Todays card is clean and simple, I love the crisp look.  I tore paper to mask the right side and stamped the text.  On seperate paper the text was stamped and punched out with a leaf punch then the edges were sponged.  Stamp a sentiment at the bottom and you're done!

Inks-Adirondack Lettuce, Mushroom, Versafine Sepia, Distress Antique Linen

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Thursday, September 26, 2013

Fall Fun

 
This Leaf Boy stamp is perfect for fall greetings. I'm so ready to enjoy cool weather and changing of the leaves!  I pared it with the Foliate Quad Cube and the Marble Quad Cube for great backgrounds and for just a touch of bling Dot Sparklers were added in the top corner and in between the leaves.  The boy and leaves were colored with Staedtler colored pencils and gone over with a blender pen.

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Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Time To Give Thanks

I really love the colors of fall and enjoy making cards of the season.  Today is a friendship card sure to warm anyones heart. All stamps are by Stampendous!

1.  Stamp Kind Friendship on cream paper with black Versafine ink and over stamp with Leaf Background with butterscotch Adirondack ink.
2.  Apply Gold Encrusted Jewels to the edges and heat.  Layer onto papers and wrap with cord.
3.  Ink the large leaf on the Leaf Background stamp with black Stazon, stamp onto clear shrink plastic and cut out.  Lightly color the rough side with chalks and shrink.  The colors will intensify when shrunk. Attach to cord with a jump ring.
4.  Stamp Leaf Background on a cream panel and sponge with butterscotch, lettuce and rust inks. 
5.  Attach gold photo corners and assemble card.

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Look below, Congratulations to Christi, one of the Stampendous winners for commenting on my blog!!!!! 
Be sure to e-mail Stampendous to claim your prize (see below for details).

We have WINNERS!!

Hello Blog Hoppers!! Did you just have a blast hopping around the blogs last week? Aren’t those Maya Road girls talented? To say nothing of the talented gals on OUR team!! Wow…what a ton of inspiration for some great gifts and greetings!
Well those of you that worked hard, clicked your mouse, and made it around to comment as much as possible deserve a reward. So it’s PRIZE TIME!
Now, remember, Maya Road did their own prize package. I checked their Design Team Blog and their Facebook Page today, and it doesn’t look like they’ve drawn their winner yet. So keep checking there to see if you’ve won.
But here at Stampendous we’ve got three packages up for grabs, so let’s get some Random.org working and see who our winners are!  First we chose three of our Design Team Blog Posts for the week, and then we chose one comment from each of them.

From Jamie Martin’s Friday post

Christi

From Krissy Fossmeyer’s Friday post:

Katie B

From Stephanie Lee’s Friday post:

Gavi

Remember, you need to have a US address for us to send your goodies! If you’ve won, please email us at submissions@stampendous.com with your full name and address so we can get your prize right out to you!
Thanks so much to everyone who took the time to hop around and comment on all the posts! We so appreciate your comments, they make us want to make more and more wonderful stuff. Every time you leave a comment, we smile for the rest of the day!

Friday, September 13, 2013

Mini Binder

     We’re so excited at Stampendous this week to have been playing with the fantastic products of Maya Road! It’s been a fun week stamping down the road of inspiration! You will want to start right away creating fantastic gifts for your family and friends for the holidays! 
     And, of course, there are prizes!! Maya Road will have one grand prize you can win by commenting on their blog, liking them on Facebook, and commenting on their Facebook page. We’ll have three prizes for the week comprised of a Maya Road alterable book (I have two chipboard and one canvas), Some MR chipboard or other embellies, and Stampendous EJK08 White Encrusted Jewel Kit – perfect for covering chipboard with blingy goodness and Stampendous CRW092 Cling Artist Elements and SSC1122 Elegant Borders Perfectly Clear Stamp™ Set.
     Readers will have until Sunday night September 15th to comment on as many of our team blog posts as they can. Monday we’ll choose three bloggers at random from the week and each blogger will choose one winner from her comments. Winners must have a United States mailing address.

Today I have a mini album to share with you and I had so much fun making it!  Here are all the details.
1.  Using a stencil, I patted a white Brilliance pad over the top of it only going diagonally down the middle of the 3x6 mini album from Maya Road. When dry chalk a couple of edges of the honeycomb shape with pink then define the line with a pink colored pencil.
2. Stamp Butterfly Post  (Stampendous)on pink paper with Versamark and emboss with Vintage Mahogany Embossing Tinsel (Stampendous) and color butterfly with a white Gelly Roll pen.  Tear edges and sponge the sepia Verafine ink.
3.  Stamp Butterfly Post diagonally with sepia ink and glue torn pink piece over it. 
4.  Randomly stamp Butterfly Charms set (Stampendous) over album with sepia ink.
5.  Stamp Leaf Sprig by Stampendous on kraft colored paper with white Brilliance, let dry and chalk the edges of leaves with green and line with a green colored pencil. Chalk the little twig flower part with pink ink and dot with a white Gelly Roll pen.  Tear edges, sponge with sepia and layer onto torn pink paper with sponged edges.
6.  Stamp butterfly from set on white paper with sepia ink and color with pencils and to with a teal sparkle Gelly Roll pen.  Cut out, curl wings, glue to Leaf Sprig and add pearls on the body.

7. Paint the Maya Road Jonathan Chipboard Alphabet pieces (Maya Road) with Deco Art American paint in cottonball.  Then apply Duo Glue by US Artquest on the letters with your finger, let dry and dip letters into the Crystal Micro Glitter Jar by Stampendous and rub off excess.  Glue onto mini album with Beacon 3 in 1 Glue.
8.  Glue a Vintage Lace Mums-silver fox by Maya Road to a green flower and glue to the album.
9.  Tie the fold of the mini album with pink satin ribbon and stick with a Trinket Pins-Vintage Pearls by Maya Road


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Thursday, September 12, 2013

Fall Birthday

Today I made this card to play along with  Freshly Made Sketches #103 and it was super easy!  Don't let all of the steps scare you :)

1.  Paint white cardstock with Radiant Pearls (tip-brush paper with water before applying paint), let dry and stamp leaf from the Jumbo Leaf set from Stampendous with black Versafine ink.  Let dry and cut out.
2.  Using a course sponge, sponge on the yellow and orange Radiant Pearls onto a cream panel and glue on leaf.
3.  Stamp sentiment from Soaring Sentiments from Stampendous on cream with black Versafine, cut out, layer and pop up using 3D Foam Squares by Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L.
4.  Stamp rust paper using the Marble stamp from Stampendous with gold Brilliance ink, glue to cream paper and use a corner rounder punch on the corners.
5. Wrap with gold blingy ribbon and mount to a green Core'dinations Distress panel that has been dry embossed with a word folder then sanded. 
6. Mount to a tan card using Beacon 3 in 1 Glue.

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Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Stampendous & Maya Road


We’re so excited at Stampendous this week to be playing with the fantastic products of Maya Road! It’s going to be a fun week stamping down the road of inspiration! You will want to start right away creating fantastic gifts for your family and friends for the holidays!  And, of course, there are prizes!! Maya Road will have one grand prize you can win by commenting on their blog, liking them on Facebook, and commenting on their Facebook page. We’ll have three prizes for the week comprised of a Maya Road alterable book (I have two chipboard and one canvas), Some MR chipboard or other embellies, and Stampendous EJK08 White Encrusted Jewel Kit – perfect for covering chipboard with blingy goodness and Stampendous CRW092 Cling Artist Elements and SSC1122 Elegant Borders Perfectly Clear Stamp™ Set. Readers will have until Sunday night September 15th to comment on as many of our team blog posts as they can. Monday we’ll choose three bloggers at random from the week and each blogger will choose one winner from her comments. Winners must have a United States mailing address.

Now here are all of the details on how the card was made.
1.  Stamp Leaf Background on tan paper with Latte Adirondack ink and over stamp it with  Kind Friendship using Sepia Versafine ink.  Tear the top edge, sponge all sides with the same inks and layer onto light blue paper.
2.  Stamp a light pink card with Leaf Background in Latte.
3.  Layer decorative paper onto brown using Scrapbook Adhesive by 3L, tie with blue ribbon and add pearl stick pen.
4.  Mount paper pieces to card.
5.  Paint small heart and love from the Hand & Heart set from Maya Road with Deco Art Americana paint in cottonball and paint the bigger heart with sky blue.
6.  Apply Duo Glue from US Artquest to the large heart, let dry it will be tacky and rub Teal Blue Micro Glitter.
7.  Rub love and the small heart with Versamark ink and emboss with the Encrusted Jewel Pink kit.
8.  Attach chipboard pieces to card as shown using Beacon 3 in 1 Glue.

Now go take a look at what the other designers have created!
 
 



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Friday, September 6, 2013

Beautiful Butterflies

 
I just can't get enough of this Butterfly Charm set from Stampendous!  It is so fun and versatile so it can be used on a variety of projects.  The sentiment is from the Soaring Sentiments clear set.  Today is just a quick post since I am off to sell Icee's at my son's high school which I do every Friday. 
 
Be sure to check out the Stampendous Blog for the the new September challenge, you can find the link below. 
 
Have  a great weekend and get to stamping!
 
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Wednesday, September 4, 2013

Fall Memories

Happy September!  I can't believe fall starts in just a couple of weeks.  I'm looking forward to seeing the leaves change to beautiful colors of the season.  So what better way to kick off fall (almost) with a scrap page featuring  the Jumbo Leaves set from Stampendous!

 When you buy a jumbo stamp set, it comes with a stencil that helps you create beautiful projects.  Here are the tips and tricks to make this page.
1.  Stamp leaves twice on white cardstock with black Versafine ink and heat set.
2.  Place the stencil over the leaf so the leaf portion is open and the background is covered.  Then stipple or sponge one leaf with Caramel and Lettuce Adirondack ink and the other with Lettuce and Raisin then cut out and set aside.

 3.  Now place the solid leaf stencil anywhere on a 8x8 white page and stipple or sponge Caramel ink around the edges, move stencil and repeat several times then repeat the process with Lettuce and Raisin inks until desired effect is achieved.


4.  Layer a picture on butterscotch and plum papers using  E-Z Sqquares Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L , add burlap, rhinestones and stamp Sentiment "Cherish Family" in black.
 
 
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