March {Fishy} Madness

Its time for the March Madness challenge at Dreamweaver Stencils and that means anything goes!  But its also the more out of the box or just more is more!  For today I have a summery card for you, cause I'm itching to be rid of the snowy weather!

I used the Letterpress technique for the background using the Large Scales stencil, Blue Martini Memory Mist , and my cuttlebug.  Papers are from Graphic 45.

My Open Fish was stenciled with versamark ink and then I added Metallic f/x  mica powders.  I then cut this out and adhered it to my tag on the card base.

Have a fabulous day and thanks for topping in!

Sir Rabbit mixed media card

Have you enjoyed the projects that you've seen from the Stampendous DT for the Stampendous/ Faber-Castell collaboration?  They're not over yet!  I have one more for you today, plus be sure to check the Stampendous blog today for more links.  Don't forget to check in on Friday as well for our blog hop!

Today is a card using gelatos again, but this time I've used them as watercolors over Pan Pastels.  I first stamped Sir Rabbit onto Kraft cardstock then colored his pants and bow tie with blue pan pastel.  After setting that with a quick fixative I added some gelato highlights.

I scribbled my colors onto my craft sheet then pulled the color with a waterbrush to add accents.

Mixed Media Heart with Gelatos and Fran'tage

Good morning!  This week Stampendous is collaborating with Faber-Castell so it's going to be a mixed media type week!  Faber-Castell sent the DT all kinds of fun Design Memory Craft products: gelatos, pencils, gesso and more!

For this card I began with a white panel of heavy watercolor paper and swiped three colors of gelatos across the panel.  I spritzed that with water then blended it out with a flat brush.  I then added some of the darkest shade of red around the edges and blended that in with my finger.

After that was dry I stamped the Cherish Heart stamp in versamark ink then embossed it with a combo of Aged Scarlet and Aged Hunter embossing enamels.

I finished the card off with a panel of green embossed with Botanical Blooms and Aged Hunter embossing enamel and a large May Arts ribbon.

Be sure to check in at the Stampendous blog all this week to see who's playing along and we'll finish with a big Hop this Friday!

Clear Scraps project for Ink, Paint, Stamp!

For those of you that haven't heard, I'm now working as the manager at a new store in High Point called Ink, Paint, Stamp!  We'll be open for business the beginning of April, but in the meantime we've been busy ordering and laying out the new store.  I did get a chance to put together a mini album the other day:

We received a huge shipment from Clear Scraps and they were generous enough to send us a few samples to play with including this adorable Lacey mixables album.

It came as a kit with precut papers and embellishments, but I changed it up with some different products that we'll be carrying in the store.

The paper line is called Art of Life collection from Kaisercraft.  I also used black Staz-on, some Tim Holtz stamps, and some flowers from Petaloo.

Ithink it turned out super fun, sorry for the bad pics though, they were taken at work.  I'm still trying to get my craft room together after the move, LOL

I am so thrilled that we'll be carrying a huge variety of Clear Scraps products, I've alway loved their albums and acrylic shapes and I'm totally excited to work with their  new mascils and more!

Hope you have a fabulous Monday!

Paint: Its Elementary!

In celebration of Stampendous being at the   Vegas Paint’s Creative Painting event for Decorative Painters this week the design team are posting painterly projects.  Here's one I did with Liquitex paint and the Creative Palette.

The two background mats were both created with the CP.  I brayered paint out then stamped into the wet paint and transferred the prints.  On both pieces I used the Square Illusion stamp and the Chunky Chevron stencil from The Crafter's workshop. 

I also added touches of black paint with a bottle cap imprinted into the paint on the CP and then stamped onto my prints.

The focal image is the new Sherlock Cat stamped then colored with my Copics.

Hope they have fun at the convention, I wish I were there too!  Stay tuned I have another painted project for you for tomorrow :)

Stampendous and May Arts Blog hop

Welcome to Blog Hop day with Stampendous and May Arts!  May Arts was very generous with the Stampendous design team as always and they have the largest selection of the most yummy ribbon!

For my card I used the new Creative Palette with some earthy paint colors, the Giraffe stencil from The Crafter's workshop, and the Square Illusion stamp for my backgrounds. 

I added the new Geometric Giraffe in detail black EP ver the orange background and finally created a accent piece using the essential elements from the new Survival Stack ARt Essentials kit.

The black mesh May Arts  ribbon was the perfect accent for this piece, with a nice natural organic look to it.

Jamie Martin

Janelle Stollfus (Thursday)

Cyndi Bundy

Janelle Stollfus (Friday)

Kristine Reynolds

Krissy Fossmeyer

Tobi Crawford

Lea Kimmel

Tenia Nelson

Suzanne Czosek

Dreamweaver Stencils Challenge

You still have 2 more weeks to play along with the DWS challenge this month...February Flutters!  A quick post from me...moving day was 2 days ago and I still can't find anything!

Today I'm sharing a card that I created with the new Zen Flower stencil.  I used the double glitter technique and Tim Holtz's dry stickles glitters.  Fast and easy card because thats how I wish my life were this week...easy...

Stampendous' Creative Palette

Good morning from the snow covered piedmont of North Carolina!  This is the most snow and ice we've seen since my freshman year of college over 20 years ago.  Its beautiful but our area is nearly shut down, including no Starbucks! What?!!!

This week has been all about showing off the new Creative Palette from Stampendous.  Its a totally new and different mono printing plate that is similar to the gelli in many ways yet very unique.   I was so thrilled when Fran introduced it so I created tons of catalog samples with printed backgrounds.  Some were cards and others journal pages, like this one.

To use the Creative Palette just squirt on some acrylic paint, brayer it out, and you are ready to print.  For this background I built up many layers of prints using the same paint colors.  On some I printed through a stencil, some the reverse of the stencil, and some I stamped into the plate.  The result is a fun mix of fiery colors. 

After my color was laid down and dry I stamped Glance on a piece of book text with black paint, tore the edges, then adhered that to my page with Gel medium.  After adding more medium on top I added some paint for her hair and skin and cheeks then blended her into the background with more paint.

Finally I added the Live Creatively stamp in black paint, inked my edges with paint, and added some additional texture with the black paint using a hotel key card to make lines.

Suplies:

Stampendous

Glance

Live Creatively

Cherry Print

Square Illusion

Creative Palette

Other:

Stencils (The Crafter's Workshop)

Paint (Liquitex basics)

Gel Medium (Golden)

Brayer

Book text

lids, hotel key card

Mixed Media paper (Strathmore)

Stack Art Mania

Have you seen peeks of the newest rage to hit Mixed Media?  Stampendous' Stack Art is here!  The system has 3 different components and various kits for each component.  Then you can mix and match to your hearts' content!  There are chipboard kits:

Elements kits:

And Stamp kits:

These kits all mix and match for endless possibilities!  I have a Stack Art creation for you today that uses Stack Art kraftboard Regal Bird kit, Stack Art Rubber Stamps Regal Bird kit, and Stack Art Elements Sumptuous kit.

I've painted some of my Kraftboard with Silks acrylic glazes, then for other pieces I used the enclosed pre-cut adhesive on the Kraftboard and then added glitter from the Elements kit.  These kits are so much fun to create with, you should check out more info on them at Stampendous Impressions and while you're there get links for other projects the team has made!

February Flutters

Are you ready for a new challenge from Dreamweaver Stencils for this month?  How about February Flutters...its open wide to interpretation, anything that flutters: a heart, wings, something in the wind...

Head to the Dream It Up bog for all the details on entering and a chance to win!

My card this week is one that I never posted from the last release for some reason, LOL.  It uses one of the new fabulous dies that coordinate perfectly with the stencils!  I used the Apron die all on its own for this card, cutting it 4 times with 4 coordinating pattern papers.  All the edges were distressed with Tim Holtz Frayed Burlap distress ink (Ranger).  I then carefully pieced it back together.

So why an apron?  Well the strings flutter of course!

Now head over to see what my teammates have created for you:

Dream It Up! 

Laura Drahozal 

Lyn Bernatovich 

Pam Hornschu 

Heidi Erickson 

Louise Healy  

Cyndi Bundy