Paisley Patterns

1.  Stamp flowers from the Paisley Pattern set on watercolor paper with VersaMark ink and emboss with white.

2.  Paint different colors of Twinkling H20's on the embossed panel.

3.  Stamp paisley on watercolor paper with Onyx Black VersaFine ink and emboss with clear. Paint with Twinkling H20's, when dry use the matching die set to cut out and set aside

4.  Stamp Scrolled Enjoy on white cardstock and diecut using Fitted Frames A and layer onto a larger frame.  Glue to card.

5.  Pop up diecut paisley piece and layer onto a black panel and glue to a blue card.

6.  Randomly add Dot Sparklers to the card.

Suppplies
Stampendous
CRS5100 Paisley Pattern
L272 Scrolled Enjoy
DCP1005 Fitted Frames A
AC672HSG Gold Dot Sparklers
AC672HSV Violet Dot Sparklers
EP100 White Embossing Powder
EP020 Clear Embossing Powder
VM001 VersaMark
STF082 VersaFine Onyx Black Ink
HT400 Heat Tool
MPW811 Mixed Media White Paper

Plus
My Colors Cardstock- Poolside
Watercolor Paper
Black Cardstock
Beacon Adhesives Zip Dry Glue
Twinkling H20's- Autumn Skies, Kiwi, Snap Dragon, Sunburst

Louise Healy

Jamie Martin

Kristine Reynolds

Janelle Stollfus

Disclaimer- You guys know I get free goodies for blogging about craft products!  Today I'm sharing some fun new products sent to me from Stampendous!

Stay connected and don't miss a thing!

 Follow Stamp This 

(I follow crafty people back!)

Facebook

Pinterest 

Instagram

Twitter 

Website/Purchase

Stampendous Impressions Blog

Pinterest

Facebook

Season of Peace

Dove Music (Stampendous) is such a pretty stamp I just had to use it to make a card!  The Dove was stamped on white paper and watercolored then cut out and layered onto white sparklely paper and cut out again.  Fran's Sticky Panels (Stampendous) were cut into strips, layed onto the card then Gold and Red Encrusted Jewels (Stampendous) were used.  The final touch were the pearls, one for the eye and three on the left side.

Now today I will be preparing for the storm that will be rolling in today and for about a week of below freezing weather!  I know for some of you this is no big deal but I'm from sunny warm Southern California and so NOT used to this, brrrrrrrr. 
Stay warm and stop by tomorrow to see a Christmas card with a vintage look :)

Stay connected

Follow my blog (in the right column)

Follow me on Pinterest

Follow me on Twitter

 Follow me on Instagram- Jamieusc

Stampendous

Follow Stampendous on Pinterest.

Follow Stampendous on Facebook

The Stampendous Blog

Like Home

This card was made for the Freshly Made Sketch Challenge (FMS81) and I thought these stamps would be perfect for it. The stamps are "No Place" and "Amazing Shoes" by Stampendous (in stores soon!). They have a  great line of stamps called the "Lisa Hindsley Collection" which has really cute Wizard Of Oz images that can be used in a variety of ways!

1. "No Place" was stamped on white paper with Versamark ink and embossed in black (this helps keep the watercolors inside the lines), then the image was watercolored with pencils except for the shoes Twinkling H2O's was used but you can't see the shimmer in the picture.
2.  The edges were stippled with denim Adirondack ink then layered onto a black circle.
3.  "Amazing Shoes" was stamped with black Versafine and red bling dots were added to the side.  White ribbon was tied around the panel and everything was mounted.

Keep stopping by to see new Stampendous stamps!! :)

Happy, Happy, Happy

I enjoy using the same stamp in a variety of ways.  Here is the same butterfly stamp by Stampendous that I used yesterday for a completely different look.

The butterfly was stamped on white paper with Versamark ink and embossed in white.  Then I brushed water over it and painted with orange and pink Twinkling H2O's.  By wetting the paper before you paint, it helps the paint blend together. Once the paper is dry tear the top corner and glue it to the bottom right corner inside the card.
Glue the image to a black panel and place the white sticker by Stampendous to the corner.  Glue this to the left side of a white card.
Stamp happy by Hero Arts onto white paper with Versamark ink and emboss with black glitter powder.  Wet the paper and paint with Twinkling H2O's, let dry and glue to a black panel.  Mount to card using foam squares.  Stamp happy twice with black Versamark ink. 
Apply thin double sided tape to the bottom of the card and sprinkle with black glitter.
Stamp birthday inside and you are done!

Hello

I got a new butterfly set yesterday and had to get it inky today.  Unfortunately the picture doesn't do it justice, it's so much prettier in person.  I'm taking pictures in all of my rooms trying to get good lighting but can't find quite the right spot. 

The butterfly by Stampendous was inked with Versamark and embossed with a sparkling Cranberry.  It was painted with Twinkling H2O's, the edges were sponged with Crimson Brilliance and layered onto sparkling plum paper.
 Gold stickers by Stampendous were applied to the top right corner and gold ribbon was wrapped around the bottom left.
An embossing folder was used on blush paper and sponged with Crimson Brilliance.

Thanks for stopping by :)

Amazing Twinkling H2O's

This card was made for todays Splitcoaststampers color challenge CC413 using green, tangerine and white.  I thought these colors would be perfect  for one of my favorite stamps, a pear stamp from A Stamp In The Hand. 
Using Twinkling H2O's I painted the stamp with Key Lime and Orange Peel, stamped it on a white panel, let it dry and stamped Amazing from Hero Arts using black Versafine.
I rubbed a small tag with Brilliance, Pearlescent Lime and applied a  butterfly sticker by Stampendous, tied with a tangerine ribbong and glued to the card. 
The corners were made using a Stamp n Up punch and the dots are stickers from Stampendous.

Today is the perfect day to stamp because it's SNOWING in Oklahoma!!  Being from Southern California seeing it snow still amazes me.

Even my dog Minie is amazed by the snow :)

Are You Ready For Spring?

I'm ready for spring, I haven't been able to warm up my hands all day. This spring card is for todays SCS color challenge CC203, the colors we had to use are Garden Green, Baja Breeze and Pacific Point. Well I don't have any of these SU papers but these are pretty darn close. I used my new spring stamp from Stampendous. It is stamped with VersaMark ink and painted with Twinkling H2O's, I love the way you can blend them when used on water color paper.
Sorry about having to scan the card, Melanie took my camera to school today and I wanted to get this posted on the day of the challenge. I'll take a picture of the card tomorrow and replace it, photos look soooo much better.

Now here are two more pictures from CHA of the My Favorite Things booth. Unfortunately you can't see the cards very well, they really are stunning.

Here is a close up of one of the panels, they really are wonderful IRL. Well I'm off to make some hot tea so I can warm my hands while holding the cup. ~~Be sure to take a look at my "Top Commenter's" on the left side of my blog, this is automatically generated and will change depending how often people leave comments. Check out their blogs, they have wonderful cards.~~

Have a great day!

40 Something

For this card I broke out the Twinkling H2O's, they blend so nicely. To begin with, the cake by Stampendous was stamped on watercolor paper with VersaMark ink and embossed with disco black. The image was then painted with Twinkling H2O's and blue chalk was used to add a shadow. Then the Twinkling H2O's were painted directly on the confetti stamp and randomly stamped at the top. Now for the decorative paper, it came from my Christmas paper pack I got last month and here they don't even look Christmasy! I love being able to use paper for multiple occasions :)
This is also for the Stamp Something challenge, for this week it is to use something new and it is the first time I'm getting this great stamp set inky.

Now for a few goofy pictures. My husband was off for two weeks at Christmas, it was really nice having the whole family home. The top is a picture of me and Greg at Chick-fil-a with our new Christmas cow that got a little cut off in the picture. I now have three Chick-fil-a cows in my kitchen, they're just too cute!

Below are Melanie and my hairy hubby Paul. Every year it is tradition for Paul to not shave during his two week Christmas vacation. Since Paul had to go back to work today his face is nice and smooth again, of course he still has a mustache :)

Twinkling H2O Background

To make this card it painted watercolor paper with three different colors of Twinkling H2O's, a green, pink and purple. After it dried, I stamped it with this flower stamp from PrintWorks using black VersaFine ink, heat set it and outlined some of the image with a white gel pen. It was then layered on to black and purple papers, I dotted the purple paper with the white gel pen, then mounted it onto a black card. The water colored strip at the bottom is a piece I cut off of the main image. This is stunning in person since the Twinkling H2O's are very shimmery, the camera just can't pick that up :(

Twinkling Butterfly

As promised here is a card made using Twinkling H2O's! I love the look of this card and it is so easy to do. Here are the step by step directions.

1. Stamp a light blue panel with script (Hero Arts) in beige Brilliance.

2. Paint directly on a large butterfly stamp (Stampendous) with three colors of Twinkling H2O's, I used olive, brown and blue. Be sure the paint isn't too wet, you want it on the thick side so the color will be more vibrant.

3. Lightly mist stamp with water and stamp in the center of your blue panel. Mist stamp again and stamp on a couple of the corners.

4. Sponge the edges with beige and layer onto a dark blue pane, wrap the left side with silver cord and apply a silver circle sticker (Stampendous) to the top right corner.

5. Glue this diagonally to a card that has decorative paper triangles glued down (these are a 3x3 square that was cut corner to corner).

6. Stamp small butterfly three times each time painted once in olive, brown and blue.

IRL this card is very shimmery!

~~~

This weekend the kids are spending the night at Grandma's and my husband and I are going to have date night! I'm really looking forward to it since Paul was out of town two weeks this month, it will be nice to catch up. Hope you also have a wonderful weekend :)

Twinkling Birthday

This was a fun birthday card to make. First I picked out the decorative papers, I wanted something that could be used for a guy or a girl then I chose matching Twinkling H2O's to use. The cake stamp is by Printworks and it is a three layer wedding cake so I put tape over the first two layers, inked it up with VersaMark, removed the tape and stamped it onto watercolor paper and embossed with black glitter powder. Using only portions of stamps is one way to get different looks from the stamps you already have!
Recipe
Stamps- PrintWorks, Hero Arts
Ink- VersaMark, Denim Adirondack
Plus- Twinkling H2O's, ribbon, black glitter embossing powder, corner rounder
Paper- whatever I have on hand which is way too much!

Okay, now it's time for family pictures! My son Greg won two tickets to the Orange County fair and to see BB King in concert! So we only had to pay for two tickets and Greg and Paul went to see the concert while Melanie and I shopped the booths then we met up again went the concert was over. We let Greg play a basketball game but told him most people don't win and guess what, he won! That is his prize he is holding and 8 ball basketball, boy was he happy!

Now this is Greg in his first set of P.E. clothes, isn't he cute!

Melanie played water polo this summer for the first time and she loves it, there is only one week left and she will be sad when it is over but will try out for the team in winter. Here she is in her water polo suit, the blue at the bottom of the suit is her second suit, they have to wear two in case on is torn off!

Have a wonderful weekend and thanks for stopping by :)

Spring Time Card

I made a spring card that could also be used as a Mother's Day card, using this really great PrintWorks stamp that is so versatile, I love it. I stamped it onto watercolor paper with VersaMark ink and embossed it with black glitter embossing powder. I then colored it with Twinkling H2O's that I am finally getting the hang of, I usually use watercolor pencils but I love the shimmer of the Twinkling H2O's. Heart brads were added to the top corners, then layered onto purple, yellow and black papers and mounted to a purple card that has been stamped with dots in wisteria ColorBox Chalk ink.

Twinkling H2O's

I hope all of my blogging friends had a nice Easter! It was so early this year that it just snuck up on me, but we had a nice time with family over at our house to celebrate. Now for the card :)
Twinkling H2O's are a lot of fun to use and give beautiful shimmering results. I stamped the frame with VersaMark ink on watercolor paper and embossed it with white. Using pink and orange H2O's, I painted the colors diagonally having them blend in the middle. It was then cut out and layered onto black paper. White paper was run through the CuddleBug using the swirl folder, when done pastel pink ink was lightly sponged on. This was layered onto black paper and glued to a pink card that was stamped with flowers using pastel pink ink. The bottom of the card was cut with cloud scissors and holes were punched with a micro punch. A black strip of paper was glued to the inside bottom of the card.