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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.

Hop on over and see what the other Designers have for you today!


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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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Thursday, March 10, 2016

Pop of Color Birthday Cards


Last month my stamp club had a theme of black and white with a pop of color.  Here is my take on it with these birthday cards and each card has a different color ribbon because I couldn't decide which color I liked better. These cards were quick and easy to do and would be perfect to stamp a stack to have on hand.  I used the Decorative Border stamp and the sentiment is from the Birthday Assortment Perfectly Clear Set, it was stamped with Tuxedo Black VersaFine ink and glue together with 3 in 1 Glue.

Tomorrow I will have a mixed media card to share for the Stampendous/DecoArt Blog Hop.  Thanks for popping in today.

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Wednesday, March 9, 2016

Get Creative

Stampendous and Media March 2016 Blog Hop-01

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!!


Here is my card for today.  I love mixed media but I have a very hard time making it since I am more of a neat, clean and precise crafter.  With mixed media you never know what you are going to get, and while creating you experiment and get dirty, that drives me crazy.  With that being said I am happy with the way this turned out.

First I brayered Primary Cyan Media Fluid Acrylic onto a full sheet of Mixed Media White Paper followed by Primary Yellow, then Titanium White to tone it down a bit.

Once the paint was dry,  stamps from the Toxic Set were randomly stamped with Gama Green, Lightning Black and Pearlescent Orange Brilliance Ink.

Now the paper was cut into four 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 pieces, three to use later.
Next the butterfly stencil from the Butterfly Duet Set was placed on the panel and held in place with removable tape.  Paint with DecoArt Media Gesso, let dry and outline with the pen that comes with the Butterfly Duet Set.

Layer stencils, secure with removable tape, then stipple with Rocket Red Brilliance.  Remove stencils and shadow with black chalk using a flat brush.

To finish it off Aged Black Embossing Enamel was sprinkled on, heated from underneath and glued onto a goldenrod card with 3 in 1 Glue.  A key charm was glued to the center of the butterfly with 3 in 1 Glue. Then lastly a sentiment was stamped at the bottom from the Say It Today Perfectly Clear Set.

Now go take a look at what the other designers have for you today.

Jamie Martin (That's me!)
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