Stampendous, Dreamweaver, Woodware Collaboration Day 2

We have a different sort of collaboration for you!

At Stampendous we’re very excited to be able to offer our products in many countries around the world. We’re able to do this thanks to our terrific distributors in those countries who help retail stores to stock our products. In the UK we have a very long and valued partnership with Woodware Craft Collection. These wonderful folks stock almost all of our products, and they even stock several classic items that have retired from our store here in the US. They also stock almost all of our new Dreamweaver Stencils line, so we thought it would be another great event to celebrate the addition of Dreamweaver to the Stampendous family.

This week we’re going to celebrate with the awesome Woodware Design Team and the Dreamweaver Stencils Dream Team all of the the greatStampendous and Dreamweaver Stencils products that Woodware makes available to the UK market. This is good news for our crafty friends in the UK because we’ll be offering prizes and our UK friends are eligible to win!! We’ll be offering three prizes in the UK and three in the US. Each prize package will consist of  Nathalie Kalbach’s terrific Grunge Mixed Media Cling Rubber Stamp Sets and the beautiful Zen Butterfly Dreamweaver Stencil! Both products are ideal for adding texture and backgrounds to your projects!

And that’s our theme!! Making Texture. We hope you’ll enjoy the wonderful inspiration that three talented teams will bring you this week! Be sure to visit all the blog links listed and leave your comments! Each comment will count as an entry towards one of the terrific prize packages.

Here is my Day 2 project

 

This is what I used:-

Woodware Stamp Clear Magic  FRS227 (Curly Stitched Background)

Dreamweaver Stencil LG759 ( Shell Wreath)

Dreamweaver Stencil LG755 (Sail Boat)

Momento Black Onyx ink Pad

White Matte Embossing paste

Metallic FX powders Assorted colours

Patterned card

Patterned paper

Cream Card blank

Distress ink pad

Liquid pearls White

Ribbon

Palette knife

This is how I completed the card:-

Place a piece of fairly plain patterned paper on to the backing card and distress the edges. Use the shell wreath stencil and use the rouging technique to create the background design. I also placed the stencil back over the middle of the wreath and added more of the shells. I only did 2 of the sides as the other 2 sides wouldn't be seen. I next completed the curly swirly panel, this was stamped with Versafine black ink pad, the edges were distressed with the same colour of green ink pad and this piece was then matted on to a pale beige patterned card.  The final panel was done using patterned blue card the Sailboat stencil and white matt embossing paste, and once the stencil was removed Dreamweaver Metallic FX powder was scattered over the paste the excess removed and the panel heated to give a molten magic finish.  The card was then constructed before the final 2 steps. Once the card is together take white liquid pearls and place a small dot of this to the end of each curl on the stamped panel and also I placed 3 dots on end side of the corners of the top panel.

There you have it  a fairly quick card but suitable for lots of occasions.

Here is what the teams have done for day 2:-

Stampendous Blog

Pam Hornschu

Woodware Craft Collection Blog

Jane Gill

Dreamweaver Stencils Blog

Gill Wilson

If you are in the UK or Europe and would like to purchase any of the products for the above projects they are all available from The Stampman or your local Woodware Stockist.

Thanks for stopping by

Gill

Stampendous, Dreamweaver, Woodware Collaboration Day 1

This week we’re going to celebrate with the awesome Woodware Design Team and the Dreamweaver Stencils Dream Team all of the the great Stampendous and Dreamweaver Stencils products that Woodware makes available to the UK market. This is good news for our crafty friends in the UK because we’ll be offering prizes and our UK friends are eligible to win!! We’ll be offering three prizes in the UK and three in the US. Each prize package will consist of Nathalie Kalbach’s terrific Grunge Mixed Media Cling Rubber Stamp Sets and the beautiful Zen Butterfly Dreamweaver Stencil! Both products are ideal for adding texture and backgrounds to your projects!

Deadline to comment is Sunday, March 29th, Pacific Time. Winners will be picked using random.org and announced Tuesday, March 31st, in the afternoon.

And that’s our theme!! Making Texture. We hope you’ll enjoy the wonderful inspiration that three talented teams will bring you this week! Be sure to visit all the blog links listed and leave your comments! Each comment will count as an entry towards one of the terrific prize packages.

Here are the designer’s sharing the projects today:-

e have a different sort of collaboration for you!

At Stampendous we’re very excited to be able to offer our products in many countries around the world. We’re able to do this thanks to our terrific distributors in those countries who help retail stores to stock our products. In the UK we have a very long and valued partnership with Woodware Craft Collection. These wonderful folks stock almost all of our products, and they even stock several classic items that have retired from our store here in the US. They also stock almost all of our new Dreamweaver Stencils line, so we thought it would be another great event to celebrate the addition of Dreamweaver to the Stampendous family.

This week we’re going to celebrate with the awesome Woodware Design Team and the Dreamweaver Sten Dreamweaver Stencils Dream Teamall of the the great Stampendous and Dreamweaver Stencils products that Woodware makes available to the UK market. This is good news for our crafty friends in the UK because we’ll be offering prizes and our UK friends are eligible to win!! We’ll be offering three prizes in the UK and three in the US. Each prize package will consist of  Nathalie Kalbach’s terrific Grunge Mixed Media Cling Rubber Stamp Sets and the beautiful Zen Butterfly Dreamweaver Stencil! Both products are ideal for adding texture and backgrounds to your projects!

And that’s our theme!! Making Texture. We hope you’ll enjoy the wonderful inspiration that three talented teams will bring you this week! Be sure to visit all the blog links listed and leave your comments! Each comment will count as an entry towards one of the terrific prize packages.

Day one of a 5 day collaboration and the combination of 3 different areas of papercrafting, all come together.  I really enjoyed making this card and I know that this could be used for numerous occasions. 

Here is my project for day 1:

Here is what I used:-

Green card (for base)

Black card

White Card

Patterned paper

Distress ink pad

Stampendous Gold Halo glitter mix

Stampendous stamp CRR222 Cling Bird Gears

Dreamweaver Stencil LJ911 Gears

Blending tool

Waterbrush

Quickie glue pen

Adhesive gems

Big Shot Die cutting machine

and this is what I did:-

1 Take stencil and run through the die cutting machine, and once done colour the piece using the Strie technique.  Trim the piece down and then cut into 4 equal panels.

2 Matt these on to black card.

3 Stamp the image on to another piece of white card and use waterbrush to watercolour certain areas.  I chose to colour the bird, around the wheel and the frame.

4 I then used a blending tool and applied the same coloured ink pad to the background...... this was to make the white card blend and not seem so stark.

5 Use the Quickie glue pen to highlight some of the stamped image.......I highlighted the feathers of the bird, the dots around the circle, certain areas of the wing, the circles of the wheels and the long pieces in the bottom right of the stamp.

6 I then matted this panel on to black card and put the card together, the final touches were to add the adhesive gems to the corners of the panels and for the birds eye I used a small star shaped adhesive gem.  I coloured all the gems with a black alcohol marker (as I didn't have any black gems to hand). 

Thats my card, and here are the designer’s sharing the projects today:-

Stampendous Blog

Janelle Stollfus

Pam Hornschu

Kristine Reynolds

 Woodware Craft Collection Blog

Dorothy Adam

Dreamweaver Stencils Blog

Lyn  Bernatovich

Francoise Read

Cindy Groh

Gill Wilson

Alison Heikkila

If you are in the UK or Europe and would like to purchase any of the products for the above projects they are all available from The Stampman or your local Woodware Stockist.

Thanks for stopping by.

Gill 

March into Spring week 2

Ready for fresh air, sunshine, new leaves, and flowers blooming? Well, the Dream Team is right there with you! Our challenge for the month of March is...coincidentally...Marching into Spring. Per usual, we'd love to have you play along with us, and link your own creations to the Inlinkz tool on the Dream It Up! blog, or at the bottom of this post. Play as many times as you'd like. Those of you who work Dreamweaver and/or Stampendous products into your projects receive bonus points, but everyone has an opportunity to be the winner who receives the stencil of their choice.

I must admit I cannot wait for the longer days, the warming of the sun and spring flowers.  

Here's my hint of Spring:

The swirl background stencil swirls into the Daffodils and the stamped image words are Trumpet and ........ trumpets lead to marching............that was my thought process......mmmmmm!!

This is what you will need:-
Green card
Black card
White card

Ribbon
Alcohol pens
Stampendous stamp Trumpet daffodil
Dreamweaver Stencil LX7029
Sentiment stamp Hello

To complete the card:-

1 Take a piece of white card and stamp with black Momento ink pad.  Once dry colour in with colouring medium of your choice.  (I used alcohol pens). When colouring finished put to one side.

2 Take a piece of white card and attach the stencil to this.  I just taped on 2 sides, and then went around all the stencil pattern with a Sakura Black Glaze pen.  Once done leave to dry, when dry start to colour in the design, I used the colours of the rainbow.

3 It is then just a case of matting the daffodils and the stencil design on  to black card.  Stamp the sentiment in black on to white card, matt on to black card and complete the card.

The "B" team would love to share their interpretations of this theme:

Dream It Up!

Louise Healy

Alison Heikkila

Kristine Reynolds

Pam Hornschu

Gill Wilson

Cindy Groh

I hope you like my 'March into Spring'.

If you are in the UK or Europe and would like to purchase any of the products for the above projects they are all available from The Stampman or your local Woodware Stockist.

Thanks for stopping by

Gill

An InLinkz Link-up

Frilly and frou frou week 4

Break out the frou frou! For the month of February, the Dream Team are going Frilly and Fabulous! Vintage, retro, or modern, adding extra charm with fun Fran•tagé products from Stampendous, ribbons and lace from May Arts, buttons, crystals, charms, or even creating your own dimensional decor! A snippet or a pile, whatever your creative heart desires! Remember to link your creations using the Inlinkz tool on the Dream It Up! blog for a chance to win the stencil of your choice! Bonus points for Dreamweaver and/or Stampendous product in your work of heart.

Having just spent 2 full days with Lynell completing the Dreamweaver Certification Part 2.  It is good to just to make a card and share with everyone.

Here is my card:-

   
and this is what you will need:-

Dreamweaver Stencil LX7029 Spiral Dots
Dreamweaver Stencil LM175 Eyelet Edge
Stampendous Stamp CRP255 Tiered Dress
Black Momento Ink Pad
Deep Violet Cameleon Pen
Black Iris Co-ordinations card stock
Quickie Glue Pen
White pearl adhesive gems
White card stock
Dreamweaver Rubber embossing mat
Big Shot machine or machine of your choice
Stampendous Frantage Encrusted Jewels Kit - Vintage lilac embossing tinsel
Vintage Silver embossing paste
Heat Gun
Stampendous Pastel Glitter - Lavender
Promarker Bluebell
Organza Ribbon lilac and lilac with dots
Low tack tape

             
This is what you do:-

1 Take piece of A4 white card and cut to 51/2'' X 11 1/2'' and score at 5 1/4'' and fold.

2 Attach the eyelet edge stencil to longer edge of card. (The over hanging edge).

3 Cover the scalloped edge of the stencil with low tack tape, attaching to the card base.  Attach on all 4 sides and use palette knife/ spreader to apply the silver embossing paste.  Remove stencil and place in water for cleaning.

4 Take the Vintage Lilac embossing powder and cover all of the paste design, remove excess poder and return this to the pot.

5 Take heat gun and heat the embossing tinsel, as the paste is wet the heat will cause the paste to bubble and the embossing powder to melt giving a textured finish.  This is the Molten Magic technique but using embossing powder rather than mica powder.  Put the card base to one side.

6 Take the background stencil (Spiral Dots) and use 2 small pieces of low tack tape and attach the stencil to the Black Iris Co-ordinations card stock, using the rubber embossing mat run through the Big Shot (machine of your choice).  The layering of the Big shot plates is as follows:- main base plate of Big Shot, co-ordinations card stock, Stencil, rubber embossing mat plus the 2 Big Shot cutting plates.  Wind through the Big Shot

7 Once this has been done take the the sanding tool and distress the surface with a sanding tool.  The piece is then trimmed down so that the piece fits on to the front of the card.

8 Take a piece piece of white card and stamp the dress on to it, use Momento ink pad and then using the colouring medium of your choice colour the image. ( I used the Deep Violet Chameleon pen).  To add some detail to the dress I used a quickie glue pen and did a number of tiny dots on the bodice and waistline of the dress and then put the Pastel glitter on the top.

10 I used the same pen to colour my pearls, before adding them to the top right and bottom left corner

11 The final piece of decoration was a bow tied with 2 organza ribbons in lilac and lilac with white dots

The card is relatively quick to make and isn't too much over the top.  I hope you like the card.

Here is what the rest of the 'B' team have been doing :

Dream It Up!

Lyn Bernatovich

Louise Healy

Kristine Reynolds

Pam Hornschu

Gill Wilson

Cindy Groh

If you are in the UK or Europe and would like to purchase any of the products for the above projects they are all available from The Stampman or your local Woodware Stockist.

Thanks for stopping by

Regards

Gill 

An InLinkz Link-up

Frilly Frou Frou week 2

Break out the frou frou! For the month of February, the Dream Team are going Frilly and Fabulous! Vintage, retro, or modern, adding extra charm with fun Fran•tagé products from Stampendous, ribbons and lace from May Arts, buttons, crystals, charms, or even creating your own dimensional decor! A snippet or a pile, whatever your creative heart desires! Remember to link your creations using the Inlinkz tool on the Dream It Up! blog for a chance to win the stencil of your choice! Bonus points for using Dreamweaver and/or Stampendous product in your work of heart.

A total change in themes this month.  I thought I wouldn't do a card but something that could be a small 'present' or thank you.  Dreamweaver Stencils and Stampendous products work so well together, here is my effort combining the two.

What you will need:-

Dreamweaver stencil LJ899
Silver Embossing paste
Palette knife / spreader
Stampendous Stack Art - Kraftboard Angel wings
Stampendous Frantage encrusted purple jewel kit
Small piece of black lace
Low tack tape
Versa Mark ink pad
Lilac acrylic paint
Blending dauber
Distress ink pad - Dusty Concord
Paper flowers
Lilac ribbon

Paint brush

Heat Gun

and here is how to complete the card:-

1 Take the backing  panel from the Stack Art Kraftboard and the tag, remove the internal pieces from the tag and paint the two pieces with the lilac acrylic paint. Cover them completely.

2 Once painted put them to one side to dry.

3 When dry take the backing panel and attach the stencil to it with low tack tape.  Because the panel was small and there were lots of areas the would waste paste I taped the panel on all four sides on the top of the stencil and on the back of the panel. Apply the paste with the palette knife, remove the stencil and put in water ready for cleaning and put the panel to the side to dry.

4 Take the tag and randomly stamp small areas with the Versamark ink pad, scatter the Purple encrusted jewel products on to this.  Use the heat gun to heat the powders and get the textured surface.

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5 When the paste has dried take the finger dauber and the Dusty Concorde ink pad and distress the edges of both the panel and tag

6 Cut one of the sayings from the sentiment sheet and go around the edge with the Dusty Concord ink pad blending into the centre so that the cream colour of the card is changed only slightly.

7 To ensure the ink was dry on the panel and tag I used a piece of kitchen paper and gently buffed them to remove any ink still wet.

8 The sentiment panel was attached to the back of the tag covering the aperture, and the tag was then fixed to the back panel with 3D foam squares.

9 I trimmed the wires from the flowers and placed them on to the panel in the bottom left hand corner, I stuck them with a strong wet glue but you could use a hot glue gun.

10 The final step is to tie 2 bows and attach them to the top of the backing panel and the tag

Thats it the project is complete.  Hope you like it.

For more frilly fun, visit the "B" team: 

Dream It Up!

Lyn Bernatovich

Louise Healy

Alison Heikkila

Kristine Reynolds

Pam Hornschu

Gill Wilson

Cindy Groh

If you are in the UK or Europe and would like to purchase any of the products for the above projects they are all available from The Stampman or your local Woodware Stockist.

Thanks for stopping by.

An InLinkz Link-up

Thank you!