Pumpkin Kiddo

This week is Stampendous' Kiddos showcase week and I have a cute little Pumpkin Kiddo card for you today.  Is she a little doll or what?  I haven't been coloring much lately but the kiddos are always fun to color with copics, speccies, pencils, or whatever you choose.

I colored her with my copics  (E00, E000, YR68, YR16, YR12, YG17, YG23, YG21, E27, E25) then cut her out with a Lifestyle Crafts die and put her aside.

My background was created by filling in a white sheet of cardstock with Tim Holtz Distress ink in Peeled Paint, Spiced Marmalade, and Broken China using a blending tool.  I then stamped the Haunting Background over that in Black archival ink.  She was finished with some layering and a bit of fun chevron ribbon from May Arts.

Be sure to check out what the rest f the team is posting this week on the Stampendous blog.

HAlloween Altered Book

This altered book was one of my favorite projects for Stampendous for July CHA.  It began life as a duplicate hard back book (otherwise I could never bring myself to paint it!)

The cover was painted in Hematite Maya Gold paint and after that dried the fun began!

My focal point is the new Mirror Mirror stamp from Stampendous.  I stamped her in Versamark ink on previously painted paper then embossed her in Aged Black embossing Enamel then set this aside.

On the book itself I added multiple layers of paper (Echo Park), stenciling (Copper Embossing Creme through Ronda Palazzari's Quatrefoil stencil from The Crafter's Workshop), and moe stamping with Haunting Background embossed in Aged Spice.

I added some black Mesh ribbon from May Arts...

And lots of fall flowers from Petaloo...

Overall a very fun cover to alter!  Plus the insides began to take shape but I of course forgot to take picture of the inside before I mailed it off, LOL.

Stampendous and Envirotex Resin Blog Hop

We hope you've enjoyed the inspiration this week as our team has been playing with the Resin Crafts Blog featuring EnviroTex Jewelry Resin from ETI and their brand new Jewelry Clay! We've had fun bringing you these terrific projects. Be sure to comment on all the blogs for the best chance to win these terrific products. Our prize package includes BOTH the clay and resin, plus a nice assortment of bezels from Nunn Designs, and, of course, some stamps and Essentials from Stampendous! One of the things we love best are the terrific videos that show you just what to expect from these products. Here's the EnviroTex Resin Video: [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whnsO3dsHOk] And this one shows you all the details on Jewelry Clay: [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c22EQ-ARn8E] There are also downloadable .pdf's on the Environmental Technologies site, and the directions that come in each package are extremely complete and very helpful. We're creating crazy around here with this too fun resin and clay!

For my project today I am pulling one out of the archives from last year.  Why?  1> because I really liked it! and 2> i won't whine but with end of the school year and lots more going on, well, you know, we procrastinators go belly up sometimes.

I used Halloween Sprite, Black Glass Glitter, and Trick or Treat Color Fragments in my Resin for this one along with a piece of Ranger Memory glass.  Halloween Sprite is now retired but can be found in many stores by searching HERE and I know that my local store Betty's has some still.

She was colored with my Spectrum Noir markers (PL3, PL2, PL1, Lv3, LV2, Lv1, OR3, OR2, TN5, IG7, IG5, IG3, IG1, FS9, FS4, DG3, CG3)


You have until Sunday night to comment on the blogs below to be in the running for our prize packages! Here's who made some new inspiration for you today:

Resin Crafts Blog

Asia King

Cyndi Bundy

Janelle Stollfus

Krissy Fossmeyer

Kristine Reynolds

Lea Kimmel

Rhea Weigand

Suzanne Czosek

Tenia Nelson

Tobi Crawford

For more chances to win fun stuff, join us next week for another Blog Hop! (I don't know how we got three in a row either, but hey...more prizes!!) This time we're playing with Core'dinations, and May Arts Ribbon. You know paper and ribbon get us going every time, so don't miss a minute! (you really should just subscribe if you don't already... it's at the very top of the post) PLUS - remember this is the final week of May's Fabulous Floral's Challenge! Be sure to add your project to the linky tool in the right sidebar or on the May Challenge Page.

Merry Creep-mas

Merry Creep-mas!  I saw this image at TheOctopode Factory and just HAD to create a funky journal page.  This is Creepy Santa, and I got him as a set with Mrs Creepy so be on the lookout for a coordinating page soon.  I’ve been a fan of The Octopode Factory for a long while now, but just as a lurker.  After seeing so many Art Journal pages using Lily’s fabulous images I couldn’t resist any longer!

I began by coloring Creepy Santa with my Spectrum Noir markers then cut him out and sat him aside.

My background page in my Dylusions journal was sprayed with Postbox Red, a dab of MeltedChocolate, and Black Marble Dylusions ink sprays.  I did a bit of ghosting on the background with a gears stencil from Crafter’s Workshop and a spray bottle of water.  Next I added some of the trees from the Christmas Backgrounds Dylusionsstamp set.

Next I traced the lights through the large Trees stencil with a micron pen.  I also traced all the lights on plain white cs and added skull faces to each to create some creepy skull lights.  These were cut out and adhered over the lights on the page.  I also added some Lime Dry Stickles glitter to the top of each light for a bit of distressed bling.

My tree was sprayed with a combo of Fresh Lime, Cut Grass, and Melted Chocolate Dylusionssprays to crate an Olive tree.   I then traced around the tree to define it then added some bats from Bits and Bats Dylusionsstamp set.  And what creepy tree would be complete without a skull topper with a bow?

Supplies:

Creepy Claws Digi stamp (The Octopode Factory)

Bits and Bats, Christmas Backgrounds, Christmas Words stamps (Dylusions)

Large Trees stencil (Dylusions)

Black, Postbox Red, Melted Chocolate Ink Sprays (Dylusions)

Lime Dry stickles Glitter (Ranger)

White poster pen (sharpie)

Black micron pens

Spectrum Noir markers: DG3, DG2, CG2,R5, DR2, CR9, IG9, IG7, IG6, IG5, IG2, IG1

Hope you enjoy and hope you have a creep-tastic Christmas!

Stampendous meets Core'dinations

The Stampendous team is  having another week of fun with Core'dinations this week!  I must say I looove my Core'dinations cardstock...my go to cardstock!

My card today features two different styles of Core'dinations.  The Poison panel was dry embossed on Black Magic cardstock and then sanded with my Sand It Gadget.

I used Tim Holtz Distress Kraft Core Cardstock for the base and stamped the Tin Panel background stamp directly onto it with Archival Black Ink (which gives a lovely textured look).  I also stamped the tin panel onto the kraft side of more of the Kraft Core cardstock and then sprayed that with Dylusions ink sprays.  (I used Crushed Grape, Squeezed Orange, and Pure Sunshine)  After I cut out this panel with a Nesting Label die I gently sanded part of the edges.

I also stamped Punkin Kitty on the Kraft side and colored her with my Spectrum Noir markers.  And of course not card is complete without a bit of Fran'tage Essentials.  I added some Aged Black embossing Enamel to the Oval Tin panel.

Be sure to hop around and see the other fabulous projects today!

Stampendous Blog

Core'dinations Blog

April Derrick

Cyndi Bundy

Janelle Stollfus

Krissy Fossmeyer

Wendy Price

Andrea Amu

Halloween Art Journal pages

I've been playing in my Art Journal again...this is a set of pages that I started a week or so ago and finally finished this morning.  I started by spraying my pages with water and then Squeezed Oranges, Lemon Zest and Crushed Grapes Dylusions ink sprays.

I did Dyan's ghosting technique with the Chequered Dots stencil and a water mist.  I then used the same stencil and added new Tim Holtz Metallic Distress Stain in Antique Bronze.

The letters on this page I drew myself mimicking Dyan's style :)  The spider, web and cat are from the Bits and Bats stamp set by Dyan Reaveley.  Also added some doodling with my favorite white gel pen from Signo.

Here's the kitty closer...and we all know I love anything feline!  I created a fence for him to sit on with a chevron stencil and Black Marble Dylusions ink spray.

This is the facing page.  Same colors and techniques on the background.

The trees are from the same Bits and Bats stamp set.  Stamped in Versafine Black and then colored with Crushed Grape Dylusions spray and a Ranger water pen.

The letters for this page were traced through the Ho Ho Holly and Let it Snow stencils then doodled in and colored with Squeezed Orange Dylusions and a water pen.

And finally the two pages together.  As a scrapbooker at heart I have a hard time not doing two-page spreads sometimes...and especially when it comes to my favorite time of year...Halloween!

Supplies:

Dylusions Rubber Stamps: Bits and Bats

Dylusions Stencils: Chequered Dots, Hoho Holly & Let It Snow

Dylusions Ink Sprays: Crushed Grape, Lemon Zest, Squeezed Orange & Black Marble

Tim Holtz Metallic Distress Stain

Versafine Onyx black; Ranger Water pen

Signo White Gel pen; Copic Multi-liner pens

Stampendous Homemade Holiday Gifts

Good Morning!  All this week the Stampendous! team will be showing off some homemade gifts for the holidays ahead.  AND of course you know I had to do Halloween first, right?

I stamped little Scruffles Candy and colored him with my Spectrum Noir markers then cut him out with Nesting frame 9 from Lifestyle Crafts.  I backed that on a mat cut with Inverted circles die from LSC.

The cute little Treat box is also a die from LSC called Treat Box die which was cut out with pattern paper.  Then just add some Halloween candy, add a mesh bow and you are ready for a special Trick-or-Treater!

Today we also have four of our team sharing with you:

Cyndi Bundy

Kristine Reynolds

Wendy Jordan

Jennifer Ingle (Jingle)

And of course there will be prizes!! Be sure to visit the blogs we list each day and comment on each one! We'll be drawing for some of our favorite stamps for gift giving!

Stampendous! New Catalog Blog Hop!!

 Top of the morning!  Are you ready for a Hop full of amazing new samples of the totally awesome new Stampendous products?  If you hopped here from Lea's blog then you are right where you should be, and if not then why not start at the beginning of today's hop so you don't miss any fabulousness!  Hop order is at bottom of post if you get lost or stumbled by :)

Today I have 2 of my favorite Halloween cards for you!  The first features the new Bat Girl stamp who was colored with my Spectrum Noir markers.  The background was embossed with new Cling Autumn Words in new Aged Wine Embossing Enamel.

My second card uses the new Kitty Candy Kiddo cut out and adhered to a window card.  The window has a Spiderweb die from Cheery Lynn Designs in the peek hole.  My black background was embossed with the gears from Gears Kiddo Perfectly Clear set in Black EP.

Here's a closer peek of her :)

OK, so short and sweet from me today.  Don't forget I have Blog Candy on THIS POST, you can still comment through tonight on that one.  PLUS Stampendous! has more 3 more prize packages today so be sure to stop at all the DT's blogs today and leave them some love for a chance to win!

From here its time to head over to Pam's Blog!!

Kristine Reynolds

Lynn Mercurio

Jennifer Dove

Taylor Usry (has additional blog candy)

Jan Garber

Lea Kimmel (has additional blog candy)

Cyndi Bundy

Pam Hornschu (has additional blog candy)

Rhea Weigand

Janelle Stollfus

Wendy Price

Tenia Nelson

Jennifer Ingle

Melinda Gleissner

Stephanie Lee

Susie Moore

Suzanne Czosek

Wendy Jordan

Krissy Fossmeyer

April Derrick

Tobi Crawford

Stampendous! New Release Peeks Day 1 & Blog Candy

Welcome to a week of peeks of all the brand new stamps and Fran'tage essentials from the Stampendous! team!  Everyday this week we will be sharing new stuff with you!  Be sure to check the Stampendous! blog daily so you don't miss out on the daily list of who's posting!

The new July Catalog is up for your viewing pleasure, and the individual items should be on the website in the next fews days.  Many of your local stores already have shipments of new product in!

My first tag for you today appeared on the new July catalog. I stamped the Raven Background in Versamark ink then het embossed it with NEW Aged Wine embossing Enamel (my new fav!!)  I then added some pine branches from Jumbo Pine Boughs embossed in Aged Green embossing Enamel.

I then inked over the whole tag in Spiced Marmalade, Cried Marigold, Chipped Sapphire and Vintage Photo using a sponge applicator, added some ribbon and twine from May Arts and volia!

And I wanted to share a tag with you that I created yesterday on a whim combining the Fran'tage style with Dylusions ink sprays.  I was demoing at The Stamp Scrap Art tour with both products and thought it would be fun to combine!  (sorry its a bad pic, its from my phone) 

I started by spraying orange, purple, and brown ink onto the tag and drying that.  Then I added a dot mask over the top and spritzed with water for a bleached effect.  Again let dry.  Next I stamped my new Steampunk Owl in Archival Black ink and then removed some color around his eyes with a water pen.

Then comes the fun Fran'taging part!  I scattered some Aged Gold Embossing Enamel under the owl and added some Tea Stained Mica and Black Glass Glitter before I heated it.  I added some color to his buckles with a versamark pen and more Aged Gold EE and to his bowtie with Aged Wine EE.

Lastly I added Cling Clock Works background to the top of the tag embossed in Aged Gold EE.  Pretty fun, huh?  I plan to play more with this double technique soon!

OK, so want to win some NEW Stampendous! goodies?  I have blog candy this week (through Saturday at 12am EST)

I'm giving away a Treasures Glitter kit to one lucky person who comments on my blog this week AND is a follower..so be sure to follow me if you don't already!

PLUS Stampendous has a fun giveaway each day this week:

How do you win it? It's easy! One of the featured bloggers today will be choosing a random commenter from her blog, and that lucky person will be announced on the Stampendous blog tomorrow. The more places you leave a comment, the better your chances are to win! Below is the list of team members who are sharing inspiration today:

Stampendous Impressions

Cyndi Bundy (has additonal blog candy)

Kristine Reynolds

Jennifer Dove

Taylor Usry (has additional blog candy)

Jan Garber

Wendy Jordan

Lea Kimmel

Rhea Weigand

Wendy Price

Halloween Sprite in Glittery Resin

Are you ready for a week of fun from Stampendous! and Envirotex?  You can catch posts at the Stampendous Blog and  Resin Crafts Blog all week!  EnviroTex Craft Resin is the store site for this fun sticky stuff, so go check it out!   You can float or embed all kinds of amazing stuff in the resin...ooh... Fran•táge, here we come!

For my project today I knew I wanted to float some of the new Trick or Treat Color Fragments (coming this month to a store near you!)  So, I needed a slightly bigger piece of media to work with than the bottle caps and bezels that I had.  I grabbed a couple of square Ranger Memory Glass Frames and went to work!

First I stamped my image, Halloween Sprite ( a new large stamp from Stampendous available soon) and cut out a small portion.  I also cut a chipboard square the same size.  After I colored her with my Spectrum Noir markers I applied a thin coat of Glossy Accents to seal the color and let that dry.  Then I adhered this to the chipboard then inserted it into the frame.

Next I added a small amount of my craft resin to the inside of the frame then dropped in bits of Trick or Treat Color Fragments and Black Glass glitter.  Finally I added more of the resin and let it set.  This stuff is like a kazillion coats of varnish, so pretty and shiny, but takes forever to dry so I did the whole project over my Craft mat so I could peel it off if any escaped the frame!  Added a few ribbon scrps and voila!

Today you can view posts here:

ResinCrafts Blog
Cyndi Bundy (me!)
Kristine Reynolds
Susie Moore
Wendy Jordan



 NATURALLY there are Prizes!! Carmi has 3 prize packages that can be won by our fans in Canada where she lives. She will draw three Canadian winners from the comments on her blog all week. We have 3 prize packages for our friends with US mailing addresses.

• We'll draw one winner from the weekly comments on our blog.
• We'll draw one winner from the comments on Saturday's Big Blog Hop
• We'll draw one winner from Facebook - You need to SHARE one or more of our posts about this project on your Timeline **

Each prize package from us will include a Jewelry pack of Resin, a bottle cap, bezel and button to try, and the Stampendous Charm Collection Perfectly Clear Stamps - perfect jewelry sized stamps for your crafting pleasure! So who has made something fun for us today? Visit them, leave some love! Win some cool stuff!

** Why do I need to SHARE the post ? Because Facebook has changed the way they show posts from a Page to that Page's fans. (There are millions of posts a day now!) When you "share" a post it lets Facebook know you want to see posts from us. It also tells your friends what we're up to and extends our "reach". Maybe they will come like us, too! That IS why we're doing this, to meet more people! How do I SHARE a post? Visit our page on Facebook - Stampendous - We'll keep an EnviroTex post pinned at the top this week - just find it and click on SHARE underneath the post, it's blue. It will pop up a window that says Share On Your Own Timeline. You can write a message in the box if you like then click Share This Link. That's it...easy!!

Trick or Treat Blog Hop!

We're Hopping again today at Simply Betty Stamps!!  The DT and some friends got together and did a Secret "Great Pumpkin" Exchange!  How totally fun!!  If you hopped here from Betty's blog then you right on your way through the trail of treats...

And what would a hop be without prizes????

Today's prize is this awesome bucket... it contains six brand spankin' new stamps from our Jude and the Rockers Fall release, embellishments, and candy!  All the fun stuff in this bucket will allow you to make six cards total, and have extra paper for more projects if you wish!

Details on how to win this prize will be in tomorrow's post at the SBS blog, be sure to come on by tomorrow for our final Hop day!  Of course Betty has one single prize for today and that too will be a new secret Betty digi that will soon be available, but again only in clear stamp form!  Only the DT and the winner of today's Betty will have her in digi form TOMORROW!  Everyone else will have to be a winner on different occasions!

For this hop we get to show off what our Secret Pumpkin gave us, and I got the bestest Pumpkin in the world...Betty Boo herself!  Look at this totally fabulous bucket Betty made using a Stampendous! clear pail, papers from Echo Park and Christian Addams stamp from Simply Betty Stamps!  Eeeekkk!!!

Here's a shot at the whole thing including all the yummy goodness inside :)

She even decorated the lid, and personalized it for me!

And just lookie at all the wicked cute ribbon!!

I got a card too, this one features the Teen Scene Halloween Group Shot....does she have serious copic skills or what??!!

And the bestest part is the Halloween socks!  a three pack of Snoopy socks (you know the original Great Pumpkin was in Charlie Brown, remember??) with skulls!  LOVE them!!

Had to sport the socks for a pic, but Betty didn't say I had to have my face in the pic....bwahahahaaaa

OK, from here hop over to the totally terrific Rio's blog!!  Have fun and happy hopping!

On the Twelfth Day of Halloween

WE made it!  12 days is here and it's the final one!  

Let's recap a bit... you have until the 30th at 10pm PST to enter any of the 12 days at the Simply Betty Stamps blog.  Each day has prizes.  One person will win each prize for each day by votes.  One person will be chosen to be the next DT member for 2011, you must enter all 12 days and have the most votes to win this prize!

Now that the recap is out of the way, let's get flappin' on the last day...

On the twelfth day of Halloween

My true love gave to me

Twelve bats a-flying

Eleven casks a-leaning

Ten ghouls a-groaning

Nine ghosts a-booing

Eight monsters shrieking

Seven pumpkins glowing

Six goblins gobbling

Five scary spooks!

Four skeletons

Three black cats

Two trick or treaters

And an owl in a rotten oak tree

As you all may have guessed, incorporate bats in your projects!  

Today's prize is any three digis in store winner's choice!

I've gotten a bit behind so I have 2 cards for you today featuring the new and adorable Simply Betty Stamps Coquettes!  First up is Nicholas with a bat on his hat.

I kept both my cards pretty CAS for today.  This one also uses the Enchanted Flight Frame die from Cheery Lynn Designs.  I simply cut it out and left as is over a paper pieced background.  Papers for this card are from the We R Memory Keepers Spookville line available in the Simply Betty Stamps store.

And next is Priscilla, complete with a frilly fan!  Papers for this one are from Doodlebug.  The yummy ribbon is  by May Arts.

Here's a closeup of her:

OK, thats it today!  Hope to see lots of your spooky Halloween creations this week for the challenge!  LOTS of chances to win!  Thanks for flying by my blog today!  Hope you have a great weekend :)

-Cyndi