Exciting new Stamps from Stampendous October Catalog

Only a few days left of our release week reveals. I know you've seen some wonderful samples from the days so far. It's a fantastic release of ephemera style stamps and those coloring qualified Kiddos. I have two stylish cards today that have a lot of bling in a clean and simple style. Here we go!

Some of the joys of artistic stamps is bringing character to life of the image. This is Sir Toad. He's quite the gent and I think just perfect for an all-occasion card or those masculine cards we all have so much trouble putting together. I coupled his muted toad tones with the Stampendous Color Fragments for texture and it all gets nicely tied together with the embossed Leaf Sprig stamp.

Here is the enabler list for Sir Toad card.

Sir Toad Stamp

Leaf Sprig Stamp

Fresh Green Color Fragments

Ochre Color Fragments

Versamark Watermark Ink Pad

Aged Green Embossing Enamel

Pirate's Gold Embossing Enamel

Aged Gold Embossing Enamel

button

May Arts Ribbon

Beacon Zip-Dry Glue

Kraft card stock

Treasured Sage card stock

Copic Markers

Here's another card with focus to embossing. I loved the bold sketch lines of Running Horse and wanted to enhance them by embossing with Midnight Black powder. I wanted to show the racing motion so I went to being inspired by Fran's signature Encrusted Jewel technique. She has a few sample cards that I fell in love with using only embossing as a frame! It was perfect for a rustic card like this one.

Here's the enabler's list for this card.
Running Horse Stamp
Versamark Watermark Stamp Pad
Aged Copper Embossing Powder
Chunky Black Embossing Powder
Chiffon Color Fragments
May Arts Burlap Ribbon

To make the embossed border, lightly mark with pencil a desired border. Dab onto the edges with the stamp pad and then pour the embossing powder around the edges. Brush off any areas that might have been covered with the border powder. Check often as some of the chunky essentials like Color Fragments may move across the paper as you emboss and get stuck in the horses mane. :) I know what I'm talking about. Whenever the Encrusted Jewelry Technique is mentioned we always mean to heat from the back side of the paper, but even then sometimes the air can vibrate the paper enough to move some Essentials around on the paper. That's just part of the art in the technique.

For more fantastic samples hop over to these Designer blogs.

Wendy Price
Lea Kimmel

Thanks for staying through my post this long and if you want to see more delicious stamps and Essentials you can flip through the October catalog by clicking on the cover below. You can also print or download a pdf of it to your computer for future reference.