Rain Puddles Design

Happy Monday Morning! It's a new week and the Stampendous design crew have been up to double task. It's all about using a stencils and how to get the most out of them. Today I'm sharing something that I was so excited to finish, because it came together so quickly and it has all the design elements I was hoping to get in for the finished card. My Dreamweaver Double is using the same stencil with two different techniques. The first is stenciling with ink and the second is adding a "clear coat" of embossing paste. My supplies for this project: Available through Stampendous: Family Home Perfectly Clear Stamps Set Pop Rectangles Stencil Dreamweaver Translucent Embossing Paste Natural Handle Stencil Brush Set Palette Knife and Paste Spreader Create Fall Die Cut Set (grass die) Mixed Media White Paper Medium Perfectly Clear Acrylic Stamp Handle Plus: Gray color Cardstock Colorbox® Pigment Ink Pads by Clearsnap®  (Razzberry, Moss Green, Royal Blu...

If you've been hopping along with us you are more than almost done, so glad you've kept going to stop by my blog! Here's the hop list just in case you might get lost along the way. Stampendous Blog Lea Kimmel Pam Bray Lyn Bernatovich Jamie Martin Wendy Price Amy Hurley-Purdie Kristine Reynolds Tenia Nelson Pam Hornschu Alison Heikkila Janelle Stollfus Louise Healy Laura Drahozal Chameleon Pens Blog Prizes? Oh yes, please comment along the way and tell us where you live because it really matters! The prizes are uniquely shipped to your region if you live in the US, Canada or UK, AND the Australian distributor for Stampendous is jumping in to sponsor a prize as well! AND Chameleon Pens has a drawing for a package of pens as well! See the details on prizes by clicking the first link in our hop (the Stampendous Blog). Commenting is closed by Sunday night Pacific Daylight Time. So here is my project! If you are i...

Today your have come to my blog for two wonderful blog hops! Yea! The Spellbinders' Summer Road Trip Partner Hop is today and Stampendous is one of the featured companies of the day!  There are prizes available at Spellbinders for commenting each day using the partner company giveaway link (Stampendous has one today on their blog)... and there are prizes on the Stampendous blog for commenting each day. Please take a look at their official rules and deadlines for Spellbinders and Stampendous .   If you came from  Laura Drahozal 's blog you are in the right spot and when you finish here you'll move on to  Lea Kimmel 's blog. Full link list is on the  Stampendous blog . Another company that we know and love, also hopping with Spellbinders, is our second hop. We couldn't make things as beautiful without some fantastic ribbon from May Art Ribbon. Oh yes, prizes are available with our summertime ribbon hop by commenting on the Stampendous blo...

We are playing along this week with Clear Scraps and making some clearly fun projects. There have already been so many amazing projects and it's only Tuesday! You can see all of Clear Scraps fine products on their website and check back with Stampendous Pinterest board  throughout the week for our collaboration projects. If you are hopping along today with us you just came from the Stampendous blog  to see me and then it's a hop on to the Clear Scraps blog for more great project mojo. Now there is also a great surprise for some of our hop fans and it has something to do with prizes!!!! Comment along the hop each day and might be able to grab one of these prize packages. Stampendous is giving away three prizes to commenters that reside in the US. (sorry but there are reasons why, see details HERE ): Cling Jumbo Filigree Stamp Set Jumbo Perfectly Clear Acrylic Handle Clear Scraps Mixable Album and some extra acrylic accents PLUS the Australian Distribut...

We’re excited, once again, to be partnering with the folks over at Spellbinders for a Spring mini blog hop! As Spellbinders design partners this year, we’ve been blessed to use many of their exciting products, and we know their design team is enjoying the Stampendous products we sent for their use! Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday this week our Design Team will be sharing fun projects they’ve made with the Spellbinders products we’ve received.  Wednesday we’ll be a featured company on their blog and two of our designers will be posting tutorials for you focused on the newest Spellbinders products. Here at Stampendous we’ve got some mystery Spellbinders dies up for grabs along with some fantastic Stampendous cling rubber so be sure to comment on our blog posts and those of our designers for the three days. See our Official Rules for eligibility and more. Comment deadline is Thursday, March 26th, and winners will be announced Friday, March 27, 2015. Spellbinders has fantastic ...

Welcome to the Stampendous and Tombow Winter Wonderland Hop! The Tombow blog hop has finally come to stop here on my blog and I will be sharing with you an extremely angelic card today.  If you have been hopping with us you have just hopped here from Leadonna's blog or if this is the first you are hearing about a hop then you'll want to start at the back at the beginning, Friday , Saturday , and today . Tombow was so generous to send the Muted Brush Pen set and it complemented many of my own Tombow pens so I was able to get quite a bit of shading on the Angel Mice stamp. The product details at the end of my post will have marker names and numbers.  I added some bling to the card when I was finished and it was easy to get in some detail with the Mono Glue Pen and glitter. Check out the paper clip halo in Gold Halo Mix. I also used the Mono Glue Pen to create swirls around the holly branch after I glued some Gilded Mica Fragments around the bottom of ...

Welcome to the Holiday Blog Hop with Spellbinders! It's the last day and we've been getting ready for a inspiring day of fantastic projects. Today's hop has four great companies and you'll find a link to them on the Spellbinders blog, we've provided a link back to them once you've seen all our great projects, and if you are just now finding this hop here on my blog, please also stop by the Stampendous blog for a great chance at prizes. All the details for not only a Stampendous blog prize, but also a grand prize from Spellbinders . So here's my card for today and it's using a great House-Mouse Designs stamp called Finishing Touches  which I sneaked in for Getting Ready for Christmas Theme for Stampendous Theme Week. The sentiment is a very fun Retro Christmas stamp trimmed to pop. My little mice are colored with Copic Markers and framed with Spellbinders nestabilities that are embossed with clear powder and then dusted with Micr...

  Welcome to the Spellbinders and  Product Partners Holiday Blog Hop . W e are so excited to have you join us! For the next three days Spellbinders and their Product Partners will be showcasing projects for the holidays. To view all of the great projects you’ll want to start at the  Spellbinders blog . We are promoting each day of the blog hop, so we decided to share extra projects from our designers! You’ll find those here. Do you feel like there should be… Prizes?  Oh yes, there are plenty of prizes.  Spellbinders  has compiled a fantastic giveaway package for each day consisting of three brand new Spellbinders dies/templates plus product from that day’s Featured Partners! Details and Official Rules can be found  here . We will also have a a prize package here on the  Stampendous  blog, and we bet other Product Partners will be doing the same, so visit them all each day! Our prize package each day will ...

Today I'm hosting the Mix-Ability Challenge on Splitcoaststampers and it's going to be ghostly. Check out challenge in the forum and then we'd love to have you join us. We, in the forum, want you to feel like mixed media is fun, easy and approachable so our challenges are made to combine the papercrafting supplies you already have and maybe some basic art supplies you can find in most craft stores, to start a you on the road to mixed media. So today's card is a simple step into mixed media with just one element on the card that works for the challenge today. MIX91: Ghostly Outlines . For my card, I used the Reverse Masking  challenge to create my ghostly outline on the PenPattern Leaves stamp. This stamp set has a free template included in the set, so I grabbed the template (the reverse) and sponged white acrylic paint on the pattern paper. I tilted the template slightly and sponged again so the edge would be slightly blurred.  The PenPat...