I just couldn't leave yesterday's scrap piece without doing something with it, so as I was rummaging through my Dreamweaver drawer, I found a previously letter pressed stencil using the Dreamweaver Corner Flowers Stencil colored with Memories Mists.  I thought the purple matched the mixed media piece quite well and proceeded to create a card!

 The mixed media piece was only about 2-1/4 x 6 so I added a torn and discarded piece from yesterday's card.  It was literally 1/4" wide but worked well to create an interesting edge.  Refer to yesterday's post for details on the mixed media piece.

Letterpress Technique:  (To create the raised and colored floral panel.)  Place the stencil over a paper towel in your spray box or some contained area.  Spritz Plum Sake 2-3 times.  It doesn't need to be too wet, just well moistened.  Spritz on top with a metallic spray (Iridescent).  Gently pick up the stencil by the sides and place on the diecut platform with the sprayed side facing up.  Lay the mixed media white panel over the stencil.  Lay the rubber mat carefully over the paper.  Carefully lay two cutting plates over that and crank through the diecut machine.

Affix the mixed media scrap over the floral panel and corner round the lower right corner.  Wrap a double strand of May Arts silk ribbon around the piece and double bow.

Stamp the sentiment from Hoppy Moments Cherish Clear Set with Versafine Onyx Black and cut apart to fit the McGill punched tag from a scrap stash.  Add a punched heart from a previously embossed scrap with foam mounting tape.

Stampendous Products:
Corner Flower Stencil
Flourish Stencil
Hoppy Moments Clear Stamp Set
Mixed Media White Paper
Versafine Onyx Black

Products:
Stewart Superior Memories Mist
McGill Heart Punch
May Arts Ribbon
3M ATG Tape Runner
3M Foam Mounting Tape

Thanks for stopping by today!  I'd love you to leave me a comment before you hop to the next designer's blog.

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Alison Heikkila

Kristine Reynolds

Pam Bray

Lyn Bernatovich

Lea Kimmel Fritts

Pam Hornschu

Wendy Price

Today is all about getting out of the traditional 'paste' box.  My interpretation of  'Playing with Paste' is to use it as a mixed medium to create a card base.  I approached this project as though I were creating a journal page full of texture, color, and stamped images.  I had no pre-planned ideas other than I was using Dreamweaver pastes, Stampendous sentiment and Ken Oliver's Color Bursts.  To my delight, a little puff of Color Burst goes a long way to add beautiful color to paste!  It blends beautifully with a palette knife.  Not only did I use Dreamweaver's Regular White Paste, I also used Glossy Blue Paste for very interesting results!

Here's my finished card:

The process of how I got to the finished card  follows and I'm hoping you'll see the fun my journey!

The final layer added more dimension with the filigree flourishes.  I mixed a tiny blob of Metallic Gold paste with some FX Powder and swiped it in the lower right corner.  The long flourish cling stamp was inked with WaterMark ink and pressed vertically making sure one end was firmly pressed into the gold paste.  Gold embossing powder was sprinkled over the image and heat set.  I also sprinkled some FX into a few other areas that were still wet and heat set it in place.

The greenish colored flourishes were a combination of gold paste, Pthalo Green and Gold FX.  It was a cool green patina result.  The stencil was laid over an area and quicky pasted with a palette knife, again, not worrying about perfectly pasted designs here.  I decided to heat the flourishes with a heat tool and because it was glossy paste, it reacted with the heat giving a puffy dimension.  The piece was set aside to dry.

The tough part was to decide how to cut down my piece for the card front!  I chose to tear along the vertical flourished edge and cut it down to 5-1/2 x 4-1/4 from there.  You can visualize just where the sentiment needed to be placed, right?  TIP:  Once you have a background, ignore it in order to free your mind to create the foreground.  Sometimes we get visually confused between the two, so just ignore one or the other!  It works, so try it!

Part of the discard piece was used for the sentiment and the rest saved for a future purpose (check back tomorrow)!  The sentiment was inked with VersaMark and gold embossing powder.  It was hand torn on one edge and trimmed to the desired size.  After ribbon was tied on, the sentiment was mounted with foam mounting tape.  One of the leftover leaves was fussy cut and gold metallic thread (my stash) was affixed to the back.  The leaf was mounted with foam mounting tape to the sentiment.

Products Used:
Stampendous:
CRV273   Beautiful Life Cling
CRS5073 Filigree Cling Set
CRV273   Damask Cling
DWLJ896 Large Flourish
DP102     Detail Gold Embossing Powder
VM001    VersaMark Watermark Inkpad

Dreamweaver FX (Mica) Powders:  Glacier Lake, Purple Satin, Ivy Lake
Faber Castell Gelatos:  Black Cherry, Teal, Mint
Ken Oliver's Color Bursts:  Pthalo Green, Alizarin Crimson, Ultramarine Blue
Bazzill Cardstock
Neenah Solar White 110# Cardstock
May Arts Ribbon
Metallic Gold String (my stash)
3M Foam Mounting Tape

Thanks for stopping by today!  I'd love you to leave me a comment before hopping to the next designer's blog.

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Alison Heikkila
Louise Healy
Lyn Bernatovich
Pam Hornschu
Kristine Reynolds
Lea Kimmel Fritts
Laura Drahozal
Wendy Price




Disclaimer:  I'm so happy to be a Stampendous Design Team Member and to help promote their wonderful products. They generously supply us with many free goodies like these Stampendous Stamps and Embossing Powders, Dreamweaver Stencils, FX Powders and Embossing Pastes, Bazill Papers, and May Arts Ribbon that I'm using today.

It's the last day of this week's weekly theme of Pretty Poinsettias.  I've had tons of fun playing with the Cling Create A Poinsettia and Coordinating Die Set.  I'm in my vintage place so indulge me one more day as I create in my favorite design style!

Here's my card creation for today:

The card began on watercolor paper (Strathmore Bristol Smooth Surface) and was stamped with Versamark ink and heat embossed with Stampendous Shabby Pink Embossing Enamel.  The photo really captures the metallic shimmer of this enamel.   My watercolor choice was Peerless Watercolor Sheets.  I used Jackqueminot Red (which is a beautiful vibrant pink), Chrome Green and Grass Green for the holly leaves, Daffodil Yellow for the leafy fronds and Alizarine Red for the berries.  I like having my Palette Paper nearby to add water and be able to play with the color intensity.  I mostly used the wet-on-wet watercolor technique as I love how the color blooms as it spreads into the wet areas.

The background pink panel was color washed with the Peerless Jackqueminot Red.  I really wet my brush and swiped a bit of the Peerless color and painted back and forth down the length of the panel.  Easy peasey!  I set that aside to dry or it could be heat set.

Because I'm a stencil kind-a-gal, I wanted to include a Dreamweaver Stencil.  You might be asking what stencil I used and it is actually a partial section of the Christmas Borders stencil!  It has that one tiny row of poinsettias that I thought were perfect for this card.  All I did was tape with 3M Removable tape above and below the rows I didn't want and proceeded to paste using Translucent Paste.  I used Translucent because I knew I was going to add pink glitter over the wet paste.  That was set aside to dry.

Meanwhile, I wanted to match my ribbon to the card and spritzed a length of May Arts white ribbon and added the Peerless watercolor onto the ribbon with a paint brush.  I may have added more spritz to blend to my liking.  The ribbon was dried with a heat tool.

All that was left was assembling the card.  The poinsettia image was cut down 4-1/2 x 4 in order to fit onto the 5-1/2 x 4-1/4 pink panel.  The ribbon was tied into a double bow first and then the poinsettia was affixed to the pink panel with 3M ATG Tape Runner.

Taking a piece of leftover scrap, Happy Holidays tag was gold embossed and punched with a McGill punch.  The tag was edged with Tsukineko Delegato Golden Glitz ink.  A tiny 1/8" hole was punched at the top of the tag and threaded with gold thread (my stash) and tied around the ribbon bow.

I hope you enjoyed my card today and will leave me a comment before you go!  Thanks for stopping by.

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Pam Bray

Kristine Reynolds

Lyn Bernatovich



Disclaimer:  I'm so happy to be a Stampendous Design Team Member and to help promote their wonderful products. They generously supply us with many free goodies like these Chameleon Pens, Stampendous Stamps, Glitters, Stickers, Dreamweaver Stencils, Bazill Papers, and May Arts Ribbon that I'm using today.

This week's theme continues with Christmas in July and features Pretty Poinsettias.  I love poinsettias and couldn't wait to play with the Create A Poinsettia Cling stamp set and Create A Poinsettia Coordinating Die Set!  The possibilities are endless creating with this beautiful stamp and die.  The poinsettia is large and since I prefer creating A2 size cards (5-1/2 x 4-1/4), I couldn't wait to see how I'd make everything fit. 

Here's my project for today:  

First, I cut Bazzill cardstock 11x4-1/4 and scored at 5-1/2.  I taped the Dreamweaver Christmas Borders stencil over the card front on all 4 sides.  Using a Palette Knife, I scooped out Dreamweaver Metallic Gold paste and spread it onto a Paste Spreader.  Starting at the top of the stencil, I pulled the paste all the way down to the bottom of the stencil.  The tape was pulled off on 3 sides and the stencil was gently lifted from the lower corner all the way up and off the card front taking the tape with it.  The card front was set aside to dry.

I knew I wanted to diecut the poinsettia and create a 3D flower and that meant stamping it 3 times onto watercolor paper (Strathmore Bristol Smooth Surface) with Archival Black.  My coloring medium I chose to work with was Ken Oliver's Color Burst Alizarin Crimson.  This was the first time I had an opportunity to play with these intense pigment powders and I LOVE THEM!!!!  I pretty much utilized the wet on wet watercolor technique and puffed the powder directly onto the wet areas.  Sometimes I puffed a little powder onto my Palette Paper and added water to the powder and picked up color that way.  I loved the fluid nature of the powders and the vibrant color I achieved.

Once the water coloring was completely dry, I diecut the poinsettias with the Create A Poinsettia Coordinating Die Set.  They were glued together using a hot glue tool.  The center of the Poinsettia was glittered with Stampendous Sunflower Ultra Fine Glitter from the Spring Micro Glitter Kit using a Tsukineko Quickie Glue Pen.

I felt the poinsettia needed some leaves for added embellishment.  I diecut the same Bazzill cardstock using the Dreamweaver Holly Die.  TIP:  Layer a piece of wax paper between the die and cardstock to smoothly aid in the release of the paper from the die.  Works like a charm!  For added texture, I embossed them with the Dreamweaver Christmas Borders Embossing Folder.  A little swipe of Versafine Olive across the raised areas was added for better definition.  The edges were hit with Tsukineko Delicata Golden Glitz ink.  The individual leaves were randomly inserted under the poinsettia with dabs of hot glue.

A faux tag was created with a scrap piece and the Christmas Visions Perfectly Clear Stamp was inked with VersaMark ink and heat embossed with Stampendous Detail Gold embossing powder.

Card Assembly:  I love creating vintage-style cards and what's vintage without some tulle and gold thread?  A length of the gold thread (my stash) was looped into a figure 8 and hot glued to the back of the poinsettia.  Tulle (Paper Mart) was tied into a bow and also hot glued to the back of the poinsettia.  The poinsettia was then hot glued to the card front.   Ribbon (Hug Snug Venetian Red) and lace (my stash) were added last.  The faux tag was stuck into the ribbon using a hot glue tool.  

I hope you enjoyed my 'rather lengthy' card process today!  I'd love you to leave a comment before you hop to the next designer's blog.  Thank you for stopping by!

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Laura Drahozal
Lyn Bernatovich
Kristine Reynolds
Louise Healy
Pam Hornschu



Disclaimer:  I'm so happy to be a Stampendous Design Team Member and to help promote their wonderful products. They generously supply us with many free goodies like these Stampendous Stamps, Glitters,  Dreamweaver Stencils and Paste, and Bazill Papers that I'm using today.

Hope you're enjoying our week long collaboration with ChameleonTM Markers

Chameleon™ markers bring color control and simplicity to your art, and you can create stunning 3D effects, smooth transitions, highlights, and shading gradations all with one pen.

When you combine this simple coloring versatility with Stampendous® and House-Mouse Designs® images, you can create fantastic projects quickly. Stampendous stamps are beautifully enhanced by the simple blending made possible with this range of innovative markers. The colorless blending tool acts as a “foolproof” finish for your project. You won’t believe the stunning range of colors that can be achieved with these markers, and the array of original projects you can create with the combination of Stampendous and Chameleon.

Prize details!
Stampendous will offer three prize packages to winners in the US, UK or Canada.  Be sure to tell us where you live when commenting.

US or UK winners will receive a Cling Create Christmas Stamp Set and Perfectly Clear™Stamp Handle from us or our UK distributor, Woodware Craft Collection.

Winners from Canada will receive a $20 USD Rewards Card to spend on our website.

Deadline to comment is Sunday, July 19th, 11:59 pm PDT.  Chameleon will be offering a fantastic prize as well, so be sure to visit their blog for more details.

There is more! Our Australian Distributor, The Stencil Specialists, are sponsoring a prize for one friend “down under” to win a Stampendous Stamp, a Dreamweaver Stencil and a surprise goodie from their terrific stock of Stampendous merchandise!  Tell us where you live when you comment to be in the drawing!

Okay, ready for my project today?

Here's another adorable Stampendous image called Furry Friends that is stamped with Memento™ Tuxedo Black Ink Pad by Tsukineko® and colored with Chameleon Pens BR5, BR2, OL3, BL3, CG8, PK3, and RD4.  Nothing but coloring fun and a little help from Pinterest to figure out the polar bear coloring.  I sure do like these pens.  They are so user friendly and easy to use!  The longer you hold the blender barrel in the brush tip, the lighter the shading.  It's that simple!

The card base is cut 8-1/2 x 5-1/2 and scored at 4-1/4.  The green panel is 5 x 3-3/8.  The colored Furry Friends panel is cut down to 4-1/2 x 2-7/8.  Both panels are affixed with 3M ATG 1/4" tape runner and mounted slightly to the right to allow room for the May Arts lace trim and gingham ribbon. 

 The heart is cut from an Accucut diecutting machine.   The Stampendous sentiment and holly is from the Perfectly Clear Stamp Set called Holiday Expressions and is stamped with Tsukineko Versafine Onyx Black.  Holly was colored in with Zig Wink of Stella Christmas Green and Red pens.  Faber Castell Pitt Artist Pen Black 199 was used for the faux stitching.  A hole was punched with a McGill 1/8" punch and affixed with a length of crotchet thread (my stash).  It is held in place with a Scrapbook Adhesive Foam Mounting Square.

I hope you enjoyed my card today!  I'd love you to leave me a comment before you hop to the next designer's blog.  Thanks for stopping by!

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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

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Disclaimer:  I'm so happy to be a Stampendous Design Team Member and to help promote their wonderful products. They generously supply us with many free goodies like these Chameleon Pens, Stampendous Stamps, Stampendous Mixed Media papers, Bazzill papers, Versafine inkpad and May Arts Ribbon that I'm using today.

Chameleon™ markers bring color control and simplicity to your art, and you can create stunning 3D effects, smooth transitions, highlights, and shading gradations all with one pen.

When you combine this simple coloring versatility with Stampendous® and House-Mouse Designs® images, you can create fantastic projects quickly. Stampendous stamps are beautifully enhanced by the simple blending made possible with this range of innovative markers. The colorless blending tool acts as a “foolproof” finish for your project. You won’t believe the stunning range of colors that can be achieved with these markers, and the array of original projects you can create with the combination of Stampendous and Chameleon.

Prize details!
Stampendous will offer three prize packages to winners in the US, UK or Canada.  Be sure to tell us where you live when commenting.

US or UK winners will receive a Cling Create Christmas Stamp Set and Perfectly Clear™Stamp Handle from us or our UK distributor, Woodware Craft Collection.

Winners from Canada will receive a $20 USD Rewards Card to spend on our website.

Deadline to comment is Sunday, July 19th, 11:59 pm PDT.  Chameleon will be offering a fantastic prize as well, so be sure to visit their blog for more details.

There is more! Our Australian Distributor, The Stencil Specialists, are sponsoring a prize for one friend “down under” to win a Stampendous Stamp, a Dreamweaver Stencil and a surprise goodie from their terrific stock of Stampendous merchandise!  Tell us where you live when you comment to be in the drawing!

Okay, ready for my project today?

I loved this Stampendous Cling Snow Queen at first sight.  She was colored with Chameleon BL3, and NU1.  That's right just 2 pens were used to get all this shading!  After the Snow Queen and snowflake were colored, I fussy cut them out and then added Stampendous Crystal Glitter and Stampendous Blue ultra fine glitter with a Sakura Quickie Glue Pen.  Stampendous Class a'peel stickers (silver) were added for additional bling.

Cut an acrylic sheet (my stash) 5-1/2 x 8-1/2.  Score at 4-1/4.  Mount the Snow Queen onto the acrylic.  I used Beacon 3-1 Glue.  Affix 3M Foam Mounting Tape to the back of the snowflake and position above her hand.  Ink the sentiment from the Stampendous Holiday Expressions Perfectly Clear Set with Archival Black ink and carefully stamp onto the acrylic panel.

Cut a piece of Bazzill light blue cardstock 11 x 4-1/4 and score at 5-1/2.  Tape the snowflake stencil over the cardstock on all 4 sides.  Scoop Dreamweaver Translucent Paste using a Palette Knife and spread onto the edge of a Paste Spreader.  Starting at the top of the stencil, pull the paste down over the entire stencil.  Remove tape from 3 sides leaving the top edge taped.  Gently lift up the lower corner of the stencil and pull off of the cardstock taking the tape with it.  While the paste is still wet, sprinkle with Stampendous Blue Ultra Fine Glitter and set aside to dry.

Once dry, cut the folded panel down by following the edge of the stencil design.  It should now measure 5-1/4 x 4.  Lay a 1/4" strip of Scor-Pal Scor-Tape along the top edge of the blue panel.  Peel away the top release tape and lay the acrylic panel over the blue panel and center it.  Open the card and tie a 1/2" satin ribbon around both cardstock and acrylic to hide the taped edge.

I hope you enjoyed my card today!  Before you go to the next designer's blog, I love you to leave me a comment.

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Lea Kimmel

Lyn Bernatovich

Kristine Reynolds

Tenia Nelson

Pam Hornschu

Alison Heikkila

Louise Healy

Laura Drahozal

Jamie Martin

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Disclaimer:  I'm so happy to be a Stampendous Design Team Member and to help promote their wonderful products. They generously supply us with many free goodies like these Chameleon Pens, Stampendous Stamps, Glitters, Stickers, Dreamweaver Stencils, Bazill Papers, and May Arts Ribbon that I'm using today.

May Arts ribbon is an extremely generous sponsor for us here at Stampendous and our Design Team is absolutely in love with their gorgeous ribbons, cords, strings and specialty items. You’ll find loads of beautiful May Arts on all our samples.

All week you’ve got a chance to check out our Design Team Inspiration as well as the Ribbonistas over at the May Arts Blog.  Be sure to comment and tell us where you’re from, because our Australian Distributor The Stencil Specialists are sponsoring a prize for one friend “down under” to win a Stampendous Stamp, a Dreamweaver Stencil and a surprise goodie from their terrific stock of Stampendous merchandise!

There are Stampendous prize packages up for grabs. THREE US commenters  will receive a prize of their choice in any one roll of ribbon from May Arts and a $20 reward card. Tell us what state you live in when you comment. Stampendous Official Rules.


This week's theme is by far my all time favorite!  I love my beach vacations and am totally enjoying my annual visit to Cape May as we speak!

Here's my card for today:

So, when I retrieved the above piece, here's what happened:  This background was originally meant for last week's Flowers and Fairies theme!  I used Gelatos (Faber Castell) to create background color.  It still looked a little blah, but once I added the drippage, it really gave me an impression of an under the sea feeling.  Funny how those experiments work!  

To create the drippage, I generously scribbled the purple Gelato at the top of the panel.  Here's the magic:  Spritz water directly onto the Gelato and watch it drip!  With the drippage, it looks like it should orientate as you see here, right?  Well, I turned it upside down because I wanted the darker color at the bottom.  Amazingly, it looks great turned that way.  TIP:  Rotate a background panel in all four directions just to see what happens at each rotation.  One side may work better for your project than you originally planned!

The fun part for me is the coloring!  I chose to use my favorite watercolor technique with Tombow markers scribbled onto a slick surface such as an acrylic block or Palette Paper.  I use a slim paint brush rather than a waterbrush for better control of the water.  I began the hair using 'light-to-dark' colors.  Keep in mind to create actual color layers, allow areas to dry before adding in the next color layer.  For added pretties, I glittered the shell, flower and her eyelid with Stampendous Crystal Glitter and Quickie Glue Pen (Sakura).  Additional bling was a variety of Stampendous Class-A-Peel Dot Sparklers (blue, gold, pink, violet).

I fussy cut the mermaid and where I didn't get completely around her hair, I simply added a background watercolor.

Isn't the sea horse precious?  It was a tiny little thing to cut out and mount with 3M Foam Mounting Tape!

Here's a coloring closeup of her fishtail.  With the raised heat embossed image, the barriers keep the different colors from bleeding and looking crisp.  I still let areas dry before I paint next to them.  You can see the sea glass pebbles are painted and some areas are glittered with a Quickie Glue Pen (Sakura) and Stampendous Crystal Glitter.  Some areas have added Stampendous Class-A-Peel Dot Sparklers (blue, gold, pink, violet).  I wanted to keep that section of the image as is, so I cut around it and colored the background area.

The Stampendous Cling sentiment was heat embossed with Stampendous White Opaque Embossing Powder on a colored scrap from my Dreamweaver scrap drawer.  May Arts Pink/Purple Iridescent 1/2" ribbon was tied around the card.  The Mermaid was mounted (3M Foam Mounting Tape) onto the card panel.  Stampendous Teal Encrusted Jewels were melted on for the finishing touch!

I hope you enjoyed my magical mermaid card today!  I'd love you to leave me a comment before you hop to the next designer's blog.  Thanks for stopping by!

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Amy Hurley-Purdie

Louise Healy

Asia King

Laura Drahozal

Pam Hornschu

Lyn Bernatovich (that's me!)

Jamie Martin

Pam Bray

Kristine Reynolds

Janelle Stollfus

Tenia Nelson

Lea Kimmel

Wendy Price

May Arts Blog


Disclaimer:  I'm so happy to be a Stampendous Design Team Member and to help promote their wonderful products. They generously supply us with many free goodies like these Stampendous Glitters, Encrusted Jewels, and Embossing Powders, Faber Castell Gelatoes, Dreamweaver Stencils, Bazill Papers, and May Arts Ribbon that I'm using today.

I wanted to customize my May Arts white ribbon and Gelatos to the rescue!  I randomly colored here and there onto the ribbon first with one color orange and then the other.  Water was spritzed over the entire piece of ribbon and then, with my fingers, I worked the color to blend all the way down the length of ribbon until I was satisfied.  I set it aside to dry.  TIP:  I had leftover Gelato 'soup' on my work table after coloring the ribbon, so I 'mopped' it up with a tag from my stash that became the sentiment tag on the card!  Sentiment is Stampendous and was punched with an EK Success punch.

Here are the two Gelato colors I used for the ribbon:

A beach card isn't a beach card without creating dreamy, softness behind the shells.  The mesh was just some gauze from my medicine cabinet and is a perfect medium on a card.  Once the card was all assembled, I just had to add Stampendous Encrusted Jewels from the Blue Kit!  I am gaga over this stuff and I encourage you to play with it if you haven't already.  Silver Dot Sparklers were randomly added for more sparkle.

Hope you enjoyed my card today!  Before you go to the next designer's blog, I'd very much appreciate your comment!  See you tomorrow!

Stampendous Blog
Jamie Martin
Kristine Reynolds
Alison Heikkila
Amy Osborn Purdie
Pam Hornschu
Lyn Bernatovich (that's me!)
Laura Drahozal
Louise Healy



Disclaimer:  I'm so happy to be a Stampendous Design Team Member and help promote their wonderful products. They generously supply us with many free goodies like these Stampendous Glitters, Encrusted Jewels, and Embossing Powders, Faber Castell Gelatoes, Dreamweaver Stencils, Bazill Papers, and May Arts Ribbon that I'm using today.