Rain Puddles Design

Welcome back to our Friday finale hop. This whole week the Stampendous and May Arts design teams have been showcasing these companies products together.  If you've missed a day, never fear you can jump over to the beginning of today's hop at the Stampendous blog and find links to the rest of the hop.  There are three chances to win a prize package including the stamps I've used today, plus an assortment of ribbon. Details and deadlines can be found on the Stampendous blog. My card was made using the no line coloring method with the Beautiful Braid stamp and watercolor markers by Winsor and Newton. Although they are markers, I still chose to use a water and brush to apply the color. Once done with Beautiful Braid, I masked off the image with rubber cement and applied watercolor with a wet sponge to through Dreamweaver Stencils Peacock Background stencil. I added the sentiment from Sisters Perfectly Clear Stamp set  and then overall added ...

Thanks for stopping by my blog today! If you are here from a hop with the Stampendous and May Arts designers, we are excited to have you with us and if you happen to just come by from the interwebs I think you'll be glad you did! I'm part of a blog hop with two great companies that have some pretty amazing products. Just sit back and enjoy the hop today (we are hopping all week if you're interested in coming by again), comment if you like and you just might be one of three winners with Stampendous or another opportunity to win over on the May Arts blog giveaway. Stampendous: HMR49 Gouda Wish DWLX7027 Quatrefoil Stencil MPW811 Mixed Media White Paper MEM01 Memento™ Tuxedo Black ink by Tsukineko® SSH57 Jumbo Perfectly Clear™ Acrylic Stamp Handle Plus: MyColors cardstock by MyMindsEye Markers by Copic® (B000, B12, B14, B16, B26, B60, B63, E21, E23, E25, E29, E50, E51, E53, E42, E31, E33, YR14, YR23, YR30, YR31, V91, V93, BV20, BV23, BV25, C2, C4, C7) 3-i...

Welcome to the May Arts and Stampendous Blog Hop! The Stampendous crew are head over heels for May Arts ribbon and it helps that not only are there so many styles, types and colors, but they have been so generous to send Stampendous goodies for all of us to use on the catalog samples each quarter. Prizes!!! There are Stampendous prize packages up for grabs. THREE US commenters  will receive a prize of their choice in any one roll of ribbon from May Arts and a $20 reward card. Tell us what state you live in when you comment. Stampendous Official Rules . Be sure to stop by the May Arts blog each day, because they are having a prize also! How's that for an amazing week of prizes! Now for my fun little card! I wanted to make sure that I had ribbon to match my project, so what better could I do than to pick out the ribbon first! Yep, the ribbon is what inspired this card! From there I created my own pattern paper with a Creative Palette Rectangles, Stac...

  Happy Friday! Today we are hopping altogether with a big wow! Have we got some wonderful projects to show you today. I'm kind of excited to see them myself. If you have found yourself in the midst of our blog hop, welcome and join in at the beginning to see all of our projects. If you feel a little deja-vu, yes you're here again, my Thursday post is in our hop as well! My card today was created with Stampendous Glance and Vintage Press stamps. Coloring is done with STAEDTLER 's Aquarelle pencils, soft pastel, wax crayon and colored pencils. When applicable I blended with an aqua pen. There have been lots of fun new ribbon from May Arts that I have loved to just hold and run through my fingers, so it can be hard to cut into, but it was worth the trims to complete this card. Look for this brand the next time you need ribbon, May Arts ! I believe I've used Faux Linen ribbon and white Wax Cord. The last few bits of bling are from Stampendou...

Oh we love to play with May Arts ribbon and this week we are showing you why we so love it. Hop along and comment on all the days this week for a chance at some prizes! Monday Tuesday Wednesday and  TODAY! Remember to hop on over to May Arts blog for all their inspiration posts this week, too! I loved having the chance to color this bouquet from Stampendous with my Copic markers even though I lack the coloring ability to do water through glass. When I was done stamping the sentiment and fun background layer I reached for some ribbon that went with my daisy colors and the faux canvas ribbon from May Arts is amazing! For those interested in the Copic markers used here is a screen capture from my CopicColor gallery . Check back on Stampendous blog if you haven't already. There will be more inspiration and links to hop with the Stampendous designers. Have fun! Details: Stamps: Bowl Bouquet , Square Illusion , and Say It Today (Stampendous) ...

  We've managed to fly through another week of inspiration with May Arts and Stampendous! May Arts carries just about every time of ribbon, cord or what not a crafter could dream about... I guess that's why we all have have a splendid time adorning our projects with them. There have been so many wonderful projects for your inspiration and I can't wait to quickly show you mine so that you can keep moving through the hop!  My frame is from another project that was a sweet lemon meringue yellow color, so I grabbed some Burnt Ochre acrylic paint and darkened it up a bit. I painted Beacon's Fast Finish product over it to seal it and give it a shine. :) My image is a collage of background stamp, ribbon and colored image. There is a lot of fun techniques here that makes this an inexpensive gift or holiday decor. Let's look at the techniques from the background up: Embossed Stampendous Tin Panel Background stamp in Aged Gold Embossing Enamel and Chunky W...

I'm back today with a a ribbon trio Christmas card. It's a sample of our day 2 off the bolt fun with May Arts Ribbon designer hop. You can sit back and enjoy a wee bit of fun today with our handy hop list. Have fun! Here's more Design Team Inspiration from: Stampendous Impressions Blog (you are here) Janelle Stollfus Jennifer Dove Stephanie Lee Taylor Usry May Arts Blog Wanna win some ribbon and stamps? Visit all the blogs above and leave insightful comments (the kind that let us know you really looked at the project). We'll choose a random blogger each day to pick a random winner! Congratulations to Monday's winner from Wendy Jordan's Blog: Jengd Email us at submissions@stampendous.com, Jen, to claim your prize of some exciting Stampendous stamps and May Arts ribbons!!   Oh this card was easily made. Three different kinds of ribbon. One stamp set. Two embossing powders and last but not least the Class Appeal Stickers. It...