Stampendous: "Frolic and Play, the Eskimo Way!"

It's impossible to feel the winter drearies when frolicking and playing with this Cling Snowman Friends Trio from Stampendous. Just color them up in happy colors, add plenty of frosty Multi Crystal Glitter Mix, bright and sparkly snowflakes, and a fun banner to a simplistic igloo...and you'll be Eskimo kissing in SNOW time!

Just create an igloo-shaped card from Dotted Swiss Bazzill Basics cardstock in white. Die cut an oval from the front. Add a liner inside of a wintery patterned paper. Stamp and color the trio before cutting out and adhering to the inside oval with dimensional tape, along with a glittered strip from a Drip Border punch. Adhere a hill-and-valley folded base to show off the dimension of this design.  The banner was colored to match, and stamped with the Perfectly Clear Big Top Alphabet set. The end result is a fun display for the entire winter season!

If you've missed the first two days of this week's snowy challenge, be sure to head over to the Stampendous blog for more frosty fun! You'll also find the details for the December challenge for YOU by clicking HERE.

Dreamweaver: Have Yourself a Merry Quick and Cute Christmas!

Merry Christmas to everyone! Hopefully, you now have the opportunity to relax and enjoy and hurry and scurry of the past several weeks. As you know, this month the Dream Team have been all about the Quick and Cute...whether that be cards, gifts, wrapping, or tags...we've had sleigh-loads of ideas! We hope you've been able to play along by posting your creations using the Inlinkz tool on the Dream It Up! blog, for a chance to win the stencil of your choice, and a possible bonus stencil for using Dreamweaver products in your Quick and Cute project! Here's what fun I've been up to this week:

This card is completed quickly, and part of the fun is the polka-dotted paper from BoBunny, as it really gives the impression of a snowfall. I know several people who no longer mail Christmas cards before the holidays, but wait until the new year to send good wishes to friends and loved ones. This card would be perfect for this. The Dreamweaver Season of Joy stencil design is an all-in-one that with one swipe of regular embossing paste, and a sprinkle of Stampendous glitter, your focal panel is complete. Tear the edges if you desire, add a May Arts' silky bow, and you're done with a beautiful winter themed greeting.

Hope you have a wonderful holiday, and a spectacular new year!

I'd love to receive a comment from you before you head on to the rest of the "B" team:

Dream It Up!

Lyn Bernatovich

Louise Healy

Alison Heikkila

Kristine Reynolds

Pam Hornschu

Gill Wilson

Kristi Parker Van Doren

An InLinkz Link-up

Stampendous: Feeling Inspired

As we head to the beginning of a new year, we tend to give more thought to change. Change in ourselves. Change in the world. What needs to be changed. How can I be a part of that change. The world can be a scary place, and various events worldwide seem to add to that frightened feeling. We want ourselves to feel safe, but more so, we want our children to feel safe.

Personally, I wish that everyone would be inspired to truly care about one another, without stereotyping, without prejudice, without judgement. So, my post today is inspired by a desire for PEACE.

This card was created using a ink resist technique. The Stampendous Dove Music Cling Stamp was inked with Versamark ink and stamped on glossy white cardstock. I used a Kaleidacolor inkpad (Tahiti) to ink a brayer, and roll the ink over the panel until I'd built up enough color to please me. I wiped a paper towel over the surface, which aided in removed any ink on top of the image, and the design comes through. I brayered the same ink over the Cling Music Score stamp, and rolled it on a panel of regular white cardstock, which transferred the design along with the ink. A stamped scroll design was added, and everything was added in layers to my card, along with a good sprinkling of Stampendous Color Fragments in Teal and Hot Lime. The cut out bird was edged with a teal marker which helps it to pop off of the background.

What are you inspired by, and for what purpose? Blessings to all...

Pam

We hope that you've been inspired to link your creations to the Stampendous challenge for December. You can find the details HERE.

Feeling Tangled?

Entering that last minute zone of holiday insanity? Whatever you do, "Don't get your tinsel in a tangle"! I thought I'd post this cute and amusing framed mantra for this week, featuring the Stampendous Cling Tangled Tinsel sentiment, stamped and highlighted with a bit of Stampendous purple Micro Glitter. The focal panel was matted with mirror lime, white, and black cardstock, with a larger mat of Core'dinations' textured cardstock.

The frame was one of those cheap $1 frames from Michaels which I gave one coat of black acrylic paint,
and when dry the edges were sanded a bit. I had picked up a bag of these glitter-covered styrofoam balls there as well, so I used an old serrated-blade knife to cut some in half and adhere them to the frame with Beacon Zip Dry as bright spots of color. Hope this is an extra bit of inspiration and laughter to round off the season!

Remember, the Stampendous team have been posting soothing inspirational creations for you this week. Pull up to your computer with a spiked or unspiked mug of cocoa, and enjoy the small bit of time to yourself.

Don't forget to squeeze in some time before January to post a creation for the December challenge. You can find the info HERE.

Happy holidays!

Dreamweaver: Quick and Thick

In a flurry of a hurry? This month the Dream Team are all about the Quick and Cute...whether that be cards, gifts, wrapping, or tags...we have sleigh-loads of ideas! Play along by posting your creations using the Inlinkz tool on the Dream It Up! blog, for a chance to win the stencil of your choice, and a possible bonus stencil for using Dreamweaver products in your Quick and Cute project! Here's what fun I've been up to this week:

As we've finally been getting some "chillier" weather in SoCal, I thought my post today should conjure up thoughts of warm and sunny beaches, just to keep myself confused! I am so in love with the new Dreamweaver Shell Wreath...appropriate for Christmas, yes, but appropriate for those who just love the beach. I made this card for a friend who loves all things beachy, along with an ornament using the same stencil. However, I'll post the ornament another time as it is fairly simple, but very involved and, therefore, does not fall into the "Quick and Cute" category for this month. Now, you're looking at this card and thinking that this card is quite involved as well. Nope. Not really. Here's what I did...

First I created a panel from teal Dotted Swiss, plain white, and kraft cardstocks, with the teal and white edge torn to mimic the shoreline against the sand. Then I went on to paste-emboss the wreath on this panel in Metallic Gold, as well as the Mele Kalikimaka (Hawaiian for Merry Christmas) sentiment on the kraft card base. The sentiment was set aside near a small fan to dry.

Meanwhile, I poured a good portion of Stampendous Aged Teal Embossing Enamel on top of the wet paste. I used my heat tool to melt the enamel, and in the process puff up the paste as well. As a side benefit, the paste is pretty much dry now...and looks gorgeous! Chunky, metallic, and elegant, but more importantly...quick and easy. A great "conveyer belt" type of card to do in multiples, and gather in all the ooohs and aaaahs that will be coming your way.

I'd love to receive a comment from you before you head on to the rest of the "A" team:

Dream It Up!

Leadonna Kimmel

Louise Healy

Laura Drahozal

Lynn Mercurio

Pam Hornschu

Jamie Martin

An InLinkz Link-up

Dreamweaver: Cute, Cute, Cute!

Here for the Stampendous/Art Anthology hop? Please scroll down, and enjoy the view as you go!

In a flurry of a hurry? This month the Dream Team are all about the Quick and Cute...whether that be cards, gifts, wrapping, or tags...we have sleigh-loads of ideas! Play along by posting your creations using the Inlinkz tool on the Dream It Up! blog, for a chance to win the stencil of your choice, and a possible bonus stencil for using Dreamweaver products in your Quick and Cute project! Here's what fun I've been up to this week:

This card is a perfect example of why it occasionally okay to leave a mess on your workspace. I've been working with copious amounts of glitter lately, some of it being rather chunky. So, after I ran my panel of Core'dinations Chalk Core cardstock through my Big Shot with the Dreamweaver Heart Ornaments stencil, there were some additions in the sanding process. Using the Core'dinations sanding tool over the embossed image revealed the stencil design in chalky white which is very cool. However, it also revealed areas where there were bits of glitter underneath. Ordinarily this would not  be something you would want, but in this case, it created the perfect snowy impression!

As far as being quick and cute, the panel takes about a minute to complete before adhering it to the Dotted Swiss card with Beacon Zip Dry, and adding a scrap of May Arts ribbon and ric rac with a quickly stamped tag from Stampendous' Holiday Words set.

I'd love to receive a comment from you before you head on to the rest of the "B" team:

Dream It Up!

Lyn Bernatovich

Louise Healy

Alison Heikkila

Kristine Reynolds

Pam Hornschu

Gill Wilson

Kristi Parker Van Doren

An InLinkz Link-up

Dreamweaver: Quick and Cute for the Holidays!

In a flurry of a hurry? This month the Dream Team are all about the Quick and Cute...whether that be cards, gifts, wrapping, or tags...we have sleigh-loads of ideas! Play along by posting your creations using the Inlinkz tool on the Dream It Up! blog, for a chance to win the stencil of your choice, and a possible bonus stencil for using Dreamweaver products in your Quick and Cute project! Here's what fun I've been up to this week:

Yes, there are several layers to this card, but since most are die cuts, it is quite simple to cut a bunch, and arrange an assembly line to create in multiples! The base card is Bazzill Basics Dotted Swiss cardstock. On top of this layer is a white-matted square of patterned paper. Next a white and blue set of die cut Dreamweaver Nested Frames, with the blue one having a die cut Ornament removed from the center, to be substituted by a die cut ornament using the patterned paper. The sentiment is simply die cut glitter paper using the Dreamweaver Dual Alphabet, edged a bit with a blue marker. The finishing touches are a rhinestone and a yummy May Arts ribbon knot. Get the kids involved with this one! They're great "cheap labor" for assembly line holiday cards, just pay them in sugar cookies and gingerbread people! Don't forget to take pictures to capture the great holiday memories.

I'd love to receive a comment from you before you head on to the rest of the "A" team:

Dream It Up!

Leadonna Kimmel

Louise Healy

Laura Drahozal

Lynn Mercurio

Pam Hornschu

Jamie Martin

An InLinkz Link-up

Stampendous: Warm Wishes for the Season

What is your favorite season, and what is your favorite holiday from that season? For me, it's a bit of a toss up between Fall and Winter, but I know that I love the Christmas season...the decorations, the music, the food, and every year I hope for a bit of a White Christmas. Living in Southern California, this rarely happens, but I dream about it every year. And in my dreams, the view is much like the one in this framed Stampendous image.

The Christmas Cottage has been stamped with black Memento ink, and colored with Copic markers. Edges have been torn or rolled. A bit of VersaMark ink has been smeared to adhere some Fran•tagé Essentials before heating and melding with a heat tool.

I found this great frame at my local TJ Maxx, which already had this faint pattern printed on it. I did add some Stampendous Shabby White Embossing Enamel, and a stamped and embossed sentiment create with the Perfectly Clear Alphabet.

I used bits of ric rac and woven ribbon from May Arts, printed buttons, twine, and a backing of paint-swiped patterned paper to complete my warm and cozy cottage in the country vision.

What are your visions for this season? Stamp and share them with the Stampendous team! If you haven't yet, be sure to visit the Stampendous Impressions blog for more seasonal fun!