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Wednesday, March 30, 2016

Birthday Bear


Today I made a quick fun card using Stampendous stamps to play along with two challenges, Color Throwdown #386 and CAS(E) this Sketch #165.  In case you don't know what CAS and CAS(E) are, here is the definition from the CAS(E) this Sketch blog;
The acronym CAS stands for Clean and Simple.

1. Usually only one layer but can include a simple layer or two.

2. A lot of open space sometimes called "white space" can include subtle color, texture or pattern.

4. Usually no embellishments but can include something minimal. (1 or 2 embellishments)

3. Only one focal point. Embellishments should only support not dominate your card.
(Exception to this rule is that you've made the focal point an embellishment and not an image.)

5. Minimal color palette. (up to 3 colors in general)

6. Simple, uncluttered, quick and easy to create.

The acronym CASE stands for Copy and Share Everything.

Here is what I used to make my card;
From Stampendous
Spring Short Stack Perfectly Clear Set
Brush Strokes- available at Simonsays Stamp
Celebrate Birthday
Onyx Black VersaFine-Imagine Crafts
Plus
My Colors Cardstock-Waterside Fern, Poolside
3 in 1 Glue
balloon punch
embellishments
stream and citrus inks

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Cheesy Gift


This hop is based on the House-Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge Blog. So for people to be entered to win they must play in the challenge. No commenting is considered an entry to win prizes. 
Design teams from the following groups are creating projects and posting on their blogs during the challenge period.

Prizes
Three entries from the House-Mouse and Friends Linky gallery, chosen at random, will win 1-House-Mouse Designs® Stampendous Cling Rubber Stamp, 1 – Large Dreamweaver Stencils Background Stencil, and 1 – Jar of Embossing Paste.  This contest is open to everyone!!
Enter your challenge project on the House-Mouse and Friends blog post for HMFMC #215  Use Stencils!

Here is how my card was made.
1.  Stamp Cheesy Gift onto white cardstock, color with pencils and cut out.  Layer onto dark blue paper.  Set aside.
2.  On a light blue panel, stencil image from Kaffee Klatsch with Sky Blue ink.
3.  Place Sticky Panel onto white cardstock and cut edge with die from the Build A Bouquet Die Set.  Spinkle with Party Fragments and glue to the bottom of the blue panel.  Tie with yellow ribbon and mount to a yellow card.
4.  Stamp Sweet Surprises onto white cardstock with black ink, emboss the edges with Spoonful of Confetti heating from underneath so it doesn't blow off and layer onto dark blue paper.
5.  Mount pieces to card as shown.

Supplies
Stampendous
HMCV15 Cheesy Gift
E280 Sweet Surprises
NKCRS05 Kaffee Klatsch
DCS5074 Build A Bouquet Die Set
EJS07 Spoonful of Confetti
FRC25 Party Fragments
Sticky Panels
Wagner Heat Gun

Plus
Memento, Sky Blue Brilliance
Prisma colored pencils, May Arts Ribbon, 3D Squares from Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L

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Tuesday, March 29, 2016

Daisy Circle


I love this Daisy Mix Set and the matching dies! They are easy and fun to color with just a little bit of pencil and embossing powder that not only adds beautiful color, but also sparkle. Here is how it was done.

1.  Die cut a circle out of a yellow panel and glue to a green card.
2.  Stamp sentiment on yellow panel with black ink.
3.  Stamp daisy and leaves on white paper with black ink and shade just a bit with colored pencils.
4.  Color pieces with a VersaMarker pen and emboss with powders from the Spring Sparkle Embossing Kit.
5.  Glue to card as shown.

Stampendous
CRS5082 Daisy Mix
DCS5082 Mix Die Cut Set
SS1239 Spring Sentiments Perfectly Clear Set
EK20 Spring Sparkle Embossing Kit
MPW811 Mixed Media Paper White
VM001 Watermark Pen by Imagine Crafts
STF082 VersaFine Onyx Black Ink by Imagine Crafts

Plus
Spectrum Noir Pens- CT1, CT3, GB3
Prisma Colored Pencils
Zip Dry Glue by Beacon Adhesives
Circle Die

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Monday, March 28, 2016

Cupcake Coma


This hop is based on the House-Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge Blog. So for people to be entered to win they must play in the challenge. No commenting is considered an entry to win prizes. 
Design teams from the following groups are creating projects and posting on their blogs during the challenge period.


1. Stamp Cupcake Coma on white paper with black ink.  Color with colored pencils and sponge the edges with orange ink.
2. Layer onto Caribbean Sea paper then off onto Grasshopper paper on the diagonal.  Set aside.
3. Lay Paint Splats stencil on a white panel and stipple with orange ink, sponge edges, glue to a Caribbean Sea card and mount Cupcake Coma.
4. Stamp Happy Birthday from the Friendly Phrases Perfectly Clear Set on white paper and diecut using Fitted Frames B. Layer onto a larger Grasshopper color diecut piece.  Pop up on card.

Supplies
Stampendous
HMP45 Cupcake Coma
SSC1141 Friendly Phrases Perfectly Clear Set
DWLJ801 Paint Splats
MPW811 Mixed Media White Paper

Plus
Radiant Neon Electric Orange ink by Tsukineko
Tuxedo Black Memento ink by Tsukineko
Zip Dry Glue by Beacon Adhesives
My Colors Cardstock- Caribbean Sea and Grasshopper
Prisma colored pencils

Prizes
Three entries from the House-Mouse and Friends Linky gallery, chosen at random, will win 1-House-Mouse Designs® Stampendous Cling Rubber Stamp, 1 – Large Dreamweaver Stencils Background Stencil, and 1 – Jar of Embossing Paste.  This contest is open to everyone!!
Enter your challenge project on the House-Mouse and Friends blog post for HMFMC #215  Use Stencils!
Take a look at what the other Designers have for you today!
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Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Embossed Accents


Fran Seiford, owner and founder of Stampendous has a new book out, "Embossing Powder TECHNIQUES from A to Z, and is 104 pages of everything you need to know about embossing and more!  Today I used technique Y- Deep Impression Basics With Griddle on page 82 to make the wire wrapped embellishment.

You can get this book at your local stamp store or order it directly from Stampendous.


If you need a heat gun to try these embossing techniques, Stampendous now carries a Wagner Embossing Heat Tool that is made by Milwaukee.  It's long lasting and durable with more power and precision than the kind you can buy in big box stores.   I have to say Milwaukee knows how to make a heat gun, I've had mine for over 10 years and it's still going strong!!

HT400 Embossing Heat Tool

Go to the Stampendous blog to see what techniques the other Stampendous Designers have used this week, the link is at the bottom.

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Friday, March 18, 2016

Deflecto Is Perfecto

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Stampendous has been hopping with Deflecto Craft all week and we have been having a great time altering the products they sent to us! 



Today I'm sharing how I deorated the lids of the Carousel Rotating Organizer, which I love and it really is easy!  I traced the lids onto Mixed Media White Paper  and cut to fit down in the lids.  Then I sponged two each of the papers with Twisted Citron and Mowed Lawn, Salty Ocean and Picked Raspberry inks.  Then randomly stamped each panel with the same ink it's sponged with, using the Summer Leaves Perfectly Clear Set.  Then the words were stamped with Calligraphy Alphabet Perfectly Clear Set with Onyx Black VersaFine ink.  Once done the panels were glued onto the lids with 3 in 1 Glue.

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Wednesday, March 16, 2016

Designing With Deflecto

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Wow, Stampendous is having another Blog Hop this week and we are hopping with Deflecto. You know Stampendous loves to give things away, here is what THREE lucky people will win;

CRS5087 Cling Woodland Friends Rubber Stamp Set
DCS5097 Woodland Friends Die Set
SSH57 Jumbo Perfectly Clear Acrylic Stamp Handle

Like my FaceBook page Stamp This to find out if YOU are one of the lucky winners and to see more crafty projects.

These frames aren't just for photos, they can also be used to help accent a room.
My project is perfect for a babies room and when this is out grown all you have to do is pull out the old and replace it with something new. The frame can be used over and over again.

Here is how my project was made-
1.  Cut watercolor paper to 5x7 and sponge the bottom with Twisted Citron and Mowed Lawn inks.
2.  Using the Picasso Tool, sponge clouds with Salty Ocean ink.
3.  Cut tree out of brown paper using the Leafless Tree Die and tape to paper.
4.  Randomly glue pink flowers to the tree. I got these prepunched flowers in the wedding isle at Michaels, you get a lifetime supply!
5.  Stamp elephant from the Jungle Friends Stamp Set onto watercolor paper, color with watercolor pencils and cut out using matching dies, Jungle Friends Die Cut Set.  Glue elephant beside the tree.
6.  Stamp sentiment from the Animal Mobile Perfectly Clear Set on the top right with black ink and color in "Baby" with regular Prisma pencils. I usually blend my colors with a blender pencil but since this is watercolor paper and it has texture, the blender pencil was giving full coverage of color.  I pulled out my VersaMark Pen and used the fine tip to blend the pencils and it worked perfectly!!
7.  Place panel in Craft Frame and stamp the corners with hearts from the Love Always Perfectly Clear Set using Pearlescent Orchid Brilliance.  Not only does it show up on the black, it also dries on the acrylic.  The hearts were stamped in the upper corner and in the lower right, but these are hard to see because of the lighting but they are pretty and shimmery!

Now hop on over to see what the other Designers have for you today!

Jamie Martin (That's Me!)
Deflecto Blog

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Friday, March 11, 2016

Hop With Stampendous, DecoArt and Andy Skinner

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Oh what a week we have planned for you! We’re super excited 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.
Along with the Stampendous Design Team, Andy and his team of international mixed media artists including Julia Stratford-Wright, Mark Gould, Mel Hookham, and Jools Robertson, will be sharing their projects. There will be posts this week on the DecoArt blog as well. 

Prizes

Of course there are pizes, not one, not two but THREE lucky people will win this amazing prize pack, each has a Fluid Media Starter Kit, all three of Andy Skinner’s new Stampendous Stamp sets, and a Jumbo Acrylic Handle. Be sure to like my Facebook page Stamp This, I will post the winners next week and this prize pack could be yours!!

blog-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!!


1.  To make this card a Mixed Media White Paper panel was covered with Gesso, then painted with a mixture of Matte Medium, Primary Cyan, Titanium White and Interference.  While still wet, a couple of drops of Primary Yellow were added to the extra paint left over, blended and randomly painted onto the panel.  This combination made a real pretty green.
2.  After it was dry the background was stamped with Jet Black StazOn using the peeled paint stamp from the Toxic Set.  Queen Annes Lace was stamped across the bottom.
3.  Once the ink was dry, Gesso was painted in the center and Queen Annes Lace was stamped with Jet Black, watercolored and glued onto a white card with 3 in 1 Glue.
4.  The sentiment from the Spring Sentiments Perfectly Clear Set on white paper with black and diecut using the Fitted Frames A Set and layered onto a larger black frame.

Now hop on over to the other Designers blogs to see what they have for you today!

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