We are really excited for the upcoming hop with Tombow on September 18 – 20th!  There's just so much Tombow mojo, plan on being inspired all week!

Here's my Zero Eraser inspired card today:

My card technique is totally created with a graphite pencil and an eraser!  That's it!  To see a video of this cool technique, click HERE.  I think it's pretty darn easy to accomplish this card with great results.  Once the bats (DWLL525) were 'erased' using a Tombow Mono Zero eraser, they were tangled with the same graphite pencil!  The Leafless Tree (DWLX7020) was laid over the bats and then 'erased' to reveal the design.  The sentient (Stampendous SSC1227) was stamped with Versafine Onyx Black.  Ribbon (May Arts).  Papers:  Stampendous Mixed Media and Core'dinations.

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

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Lyn Bernatovich

Louise Healy

Wendy Price

Alison Heikkila





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 Dreamweaver Stencils, Stampendous stamps, Mixed Media Paper, Tombow Graphite Pencil and Mono Zero Eraser, and Versafine inkpad that I'm using today.

It's the last day to Create Christmas with this fabulous stamp set and today, I combined my design with the Pop-Up Die Set!  I just kept adding and playing and having so much creative fun.

I wanted a retro 50's kind of feel and chose Simple Stories papers I had on hand for the inside card base.  As in yesterday's card, I also created the tree paper with my Creative Palette and acrylic paints.  I just can't resist a reason to play with paint and the palette!  Don't forget to make extra papers for your stash drawer!

The tree was stamped, diecut and layered onto a second stamped tree that acted as the base.  Dew Drops were adhered randomly on the tree and a Maya Road star pin was attached to the back of the tree with Glue Dots.  The tree trunk was a scrap of A Muse studio paper.  The tree was mounted to the card base with foam mounting tape.  May Arts ribbon was tied behind the tree trunk in a double bow.  
Two little stockings were diecut and mounted to the tabs on either side of the tree.

Season's Greetings was stamped with VersaMark ink and detail gold embossing powder and heat set.  The paper was the piece I used to clean off my brayer!  The sentiment was diecut and mounted to the card.  The cardinal was diecut and colored with Wink of Stella Red and mounted to the sentiment with foam mounting tape.

To fill in the bottom portion of the card, I diecut three presents and mounted them on craft foam for extra depth.  The holly was diecut and adhered to the card and then the presents were layered with Glue dots and adhered to the card.  A solid card stock base was cut and affixed to the striped card panel.

Thank you for stopping by today and leaving me a comment before hopping to the next designer's blog!

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Louise Healy

Lyn Bernatovich

Kristine Reynolds

Amy Hurley-Purdie

Leadonna Fritts

Are you having fun with Create Christmas stamp set this week?  We sure are!

One of the loved traditions of Christmas season is finding the perfect evergreen tree and decorate it with treasured ornaments and accessories. Now we can create a grove of fun Christmas trees in assorted styles and decorations with two new products from our July 2015 catalog.

Here's my vintage romantic Create Christmas card today:

I wanted to create a pink tree, which was the first step in my card design.  Usually, on Dreamweaver Thursdays, I design with the stencil first, but I couldn't be happier with the final results of this card.  I was thinking retro vintage and made the background paper with the Creative Palette, acrylic paints and a re-inker.  As usual, I made a bunch of papers to have on hand later.  I also made light and dark hues of pink papers so they weren't all identical.  The excess papers went in my 'Dreamweaver' stash drawer.

 After heat embossing the tree in Sparkle Puff embossing powder, it was diecut with the matching Create Christmas diecut set.  The sparkly ornaments were made with Glue Dots, a straw with the end cut at an angle, and micro glitters from the Christmas Micro Glitter set.  Push the glitter into the Glue Dot with a piece of the release paper or wax paper.  I actually used a silicone tool that is used with glue guns.  Not sure where to place the Glue Dots?  Here's my trick:  I stamped a second tree and placed sequins in the areas where the glue dots would go with my craft tweezers.  Using sequins, I could re-position them for better visual balance.  Once they were in place, I referred to the sample as I affixed the Glue Dots to my pink tree.  TIP:  Bring the paper tree to the Glue Dot rather than try to push the Glue Dot dispenser onto the tree.  I tried lifting them off with craft tweezers, but because they are really gummy, they lost their shape as they were pulled off the release paper.

Season of Joy stencil is 6-1/4 inches tall and I decided to mask off the sentiment and star area to reduce my card size to 5-1/2 inches tall.  The background was pasted with regular white paste and while wet, was sprinkled with Crystal Micro Glitter from the Christmas Micro Glitter Kit.  Once dry, it was trimmed to 4-1/4 x 5-1/8.  'Tis the Season was heat embossed with Versafine Ink and Detail Gold.  

The finished pink panel was mounted on Mixed Media White cardstock.  I added a Maya Road star pin to the back of the tree with a Glue Dot.  Gold floral wire was tied in a bow under the star.  Two strips of 3M Foam mounting tape was adhered to the tree and affixed to the pink stencil panel.

Stampendous Products:
CRS5080      Cling Create Christmas
DCS5080      Create Christmas Die Set
DWLX7016   Season of Joy Stencil
DWDEP         Regular White Embossing Paste
DWDPK         Palette Knife
DWLM2010  Paste Spreader
MGK02          Christmas Micro Glitter Kit
EP525            Sparkle Puff
VM0001        VersaMark Inkpad
DP102           Detail Gold Embossing Powder
SSC1147       Tis the Season Perfectly Clear Stamps

Other Products:
Glue Dots Dot N Go
Maya Road Star Pin
Gold Floral Wire - Craft Store

Thank you for stopping by today and leaving me a comment before hopping to the next designer's blog!

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Louise Healy

Lyn Bernatovich

Laura Drahozal

Kristine Reynolds

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 Dreamweaver Stencils, Stampendous stamp, Mixed Media Paper, Micro Glitter, Detail Embossing Powder, Glue Dots, and Versafine inkpad that I'm using today.

I've had so much fun with All-in-Ones stamps!!!!  They're definitely addicting to work with.  I especially love this Snowman Sweater cling because of its simplicity and it's so easy to cut out and pop up.  In fact, my cutie snowman is mounted on an Action Wobble!  This image differs from Thursday's card in that the bracket frame is in the background and images are in front of the frame.  On Thursday's card, the frame and images were behind the frame!

Here's today's cutie, patootie card:

There are so many aspects of this card that I'm gaga over and probably the most exciting is the Christmas Borders background that was the first step in making this card.  Once the water coloring was dry, it was cut down to 5-1/4 x 4.  Ribbon was wrapped around the lower portion of the card and then it was adhered to a Bazzill cardstock card base.  

I made a video so you can see how easy and fun water coloring a stencil background is.  P.S.  I'm not a fancy video maker by any means and prefer to just talk and demo all at the same time! 

I stamped the image three times on watercolor paper  'cuz I knew I'd be cutting apart the snowman, sentiment and the frame.  I chose to color with Prang water color paints.  I had color puddles leftover from the stencil painting on my palette paper, so it was easy to color the snowman, sentiment and bracket frame background.

Once all the color was added, I fussy cut all the pieces.  The bracket frame is mounted on craft foam (my new favorite dimensional mounting material).  To add a little more sparkle, I used a Quickie Glue Pen on the frame and sprinkled it with Ice Blue Glittter.   The bracket frame was adhered to the card front.  The sentiment was mounted with foam mounting tape.  The snowman was covered with Quickie Glue Pen and glittered with Crystal Glitter.  A little pom pom was adhered to the snowman's hat.  The snowman was mounted to the bracket frame with an Action Wobble.  For added pizzaz, Encrusted Jewels were heated at the lower portion of the card front.

Thank you for stopping by today and leaving me a comment before hopping to the next designer's blog!

Stampendous Blog

Lyn Bernatovich

Louise Healy

Kristine Reynolds

Pam Bray

Jamie Martin

Amy Hurley-Purdie

Leadonna Fritts



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 Dreamweaver Stencils, Stampendous stamp, Mixed Media Paper, Micro Glitter and Versafine inkpad that I'm using today.

I adore this Pumpkin Kisses image and it fits right in with my love of fall.  The mosaic swirl background was pasted a few weeks ago with the intention of using it here today.  I really like Dreamweaver's Orange Paste as it's more of a rust color.  I also combined Dreamweaver Metallic Copper Paste in between the orange paste on my paste spreader just to see what would happen when I pulled it down over the stencil.  

In order to show you the copper and orange paste result, the pumpkin image was full of glare, but it's worth it to see how cool this looks.  I'm sure I can play some more with combining the pastes and getting even more copper highlights.

Here's a close up of the image that is basically paper pieced after everything was colored, cut out and edged with Vintage Sepia and a finger dauber.  The panel behind the image was a handy dandy piece from my Dreamweaver scrap drawer!  It's so fun to create seasonal backgrounds and then they're ready whenever you need it.  The image was stamped with Versafine Toffee on watercolor paper and stamped a second time with Versafine Vintage Sepia on the background paper.  I used my new favorite Zig Clean Brush markers to color the stamped areas.  Every piece was fussy cut out.  The scarecrow has foam tape behind it and then the acetate frame is glued to the bottom of the scarecrow.  Narrow little strips of foam mounting tape were cut and laid along the remaining edge of the frame.  The bird body was cut out and foam taped onto the background.  Pumpkin Kisses was adhered flat onto the background.

The frame was then ready to mount onto the stenciled background.  Ribbon was wrapped around the stenciled panel and tied in a double bow.  The framed pumpkin was affixed to the stenciled panel with Beacon 3-1 glue.  A piece of Core'dinations was cut 5-1/2 x 4-1/4 and sanded and edge distressed to reveal the orange core and then was mounted to the stenciled panel.  Buttons were affixed with Glue Dots for added interest.

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

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


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 Dreamweaver Stencils and Embossing Pastes, Stampendous All-in-One stamp, Mixed Media Paper, and Buttons that I'm using today.

Okay, you already know what's going on this week at Stampendous featuring the Build-A-Snowman stamp set with a cuteness factor of 10!!!!  LOVE this set and you will too.  

Here's today's easel card with these little cuties.

This easel card is so easy because its base is the same as a regular A2 card base.  The only difference is to score at 2-1/8 on the 'card front' and fold toward the inside of the card.  Keep in mind this fold needs a bumper to keep it in place; hence, the Snow Buddies sentiment button!

Look closely at the light blue panel insets and you'll see they are dry embossed with the featured Dreamweaver Snowflakes background stencil.  White Encrusted Embossing Enamel covers the upper right and lower right corners.

The snowmen were stamped with permanent black ink and colored with Zig Clean Color Real Brushes.  Crystal Glitter was added to the hat brims with Glue Pen.  Snowmen were fussy cut out.  The heads were stamped separate from the bodies.  The heads were attached to the bodies with foam mounting tape.  Individual pom poms were dipped in a glue pad and Crystal Glitter was adhered to each hat.  Each snowman was adhered together and Crystal Glitter was added to the top of the snow mounds.  The snowman trio was affixed to the easel with foam mounting tape.  Ribbon was tied around the card and tied in a double bow.

A scrap of colored paper from Thursday's card was used for the sentiment that was stamped with Versafine Onyx Black.  Each end was fishtail cut and the piece was affixed to the button with foam mounting tape.

I sure hope you enjoyed my card today and I would love a comment before you hop to the next designer's blog.  Thank you for stopping by!

Stampendous Blog

Lyn Bernatovich

Kristine Reynolds

Wendy Price

Pam Bray

Janelle Stollfus


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 Dreamweaver Stencils, Stampendous Perfectly Clear stamp, Mixed Media Paper, Micro Glitter and Versafine inkpad that I'm using today.

For today's card, I went into my Dreamweaver stash drawer and found this adorable scarecrow already pasted on some cool background paper!  Score!  Even the panel behind the scarecrow was in my stash drawer.  TIP:  I'm telling you, whenever you're making backgrounds, make several in different colors 'cuz it's a great way to have a variety of papers to draw from.  

I wanted my scarecrow to look like burlap, which is simply the cross stitch screen laid over the dry stenciled image.  Color was pounced through the screen with a stencil brush and Splendor ink.  Pretty cool, huh?

Oh, you're wondering how I made the backgrounds?  Well, remember I said I went to my stash drawer?  I'm guessing this scarecrow piece started with Distress inks smooshed on a craft sheet, spritzed with water and mixed media paper was pressed into the puddle.  The paper was lifted and re-pressed into the puddle a few times.  TIP:  Use full sheets of paper at a time to have the option of cutting it up later.

Keep in mind that any coloring medium can be used for this technique.  I'm a huge fan of using sprays such as Memories Mists and, honestly, I believe the card base panel was done this way.  I like giving my paper a little twist when I lay it into the puddles.  TIP:  Have several sheets of paper handy 'cuz you don't want to waste any of that gorgeous color you've created!

If you look closely at the card base panel, you'll see a hint of stamping using the Wired cling set.  I highly recommend that set because of its subtle versatility when creating backgrounds and mixed media work.

Trim the scarecrow panel to 4-1/4 x 3-1/2 and adhere to the card front.  Wrap ribbon around the base of the scarecrow and tie in a double bow.  Double a length of jute and thread through a large button to form an X pattern.  Tie in a bow behind the button and cut the loops to create fringe.  Affix to the ribbon with 3-1 glue.  Stamp sentiment to the lower right corner of the card front.

Thank you for stopping by today and especially for leaving me a comment before hopping to the next designer's blog!

Stampendous Blog

Lyn Bernatovich

Louise Healy

Pam Hornschu

Kristine Reynolds

Jamie Martin



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 Dreamweaver Stencils, Embossing Paste, Mixed Media Paper, Perfectly Clear stamp, Button and Versafine inkpad that I'm using today.

1.  Cut mixed media paper 5-1/4 x 4-1/8.  Stamp the Cling Leaf Plunge image with Versafine onyx black in the lower right area of the card front.  Stamp image a second time on a scrap piece of mixed media paper as you'll be cutting out the pile of leaves once they are colored.  Proceed to color the image with your favorite medium.  Today I used Zig Clean Color Real Brushes.  Fussy cut out the second pile of leaves.
2.  Cut a scrap of mixed media paper and place it on a work surface.  Lay the great pumpkin stencil over the paper and tape down on all four sides.  Paste the pumpkin with matte black paste.  Remove the tape from three sides and gently lift the lower bottom corner of the stencil up and off the paper taking the tape with it.  Set aside to dry.  Once dry.  Prepare the pumpkin to be pasted with the crackle paste in the same manner as the first pasting step.  Once pasted, remove the tape from all three sides again and carefully lift the stencil up and off the paper.  Set the pumpkin aside to dry.  This will take awhile but it is worth the wait!  Once it is perfectly dry, you'll see all those wonderful crackles.  Lay the clean stencil over the pumpkin and add color with stencil brushes and Splendor inkpads (or any pigment inkpad).  Fussy cut out.
3.  I decided I wanted to paste a tree behind my little pumpkin scene and I used another favorite technique, Molten Magic using the tree of life stencil.  It was pasted with metallic copper and sprinkled with bits of FX Mica Powders.  The tree was heated with a heat tool enough so the paste formed bubbles. There is a trick to this technique and moving the heat tool quickly is key to not scorching the paper. Another trick is to immediately lift the heat tool away from the bubbles when they start to form and into another section.
4.  For the background, create a color wash and spread the Zig brush color for the green area and then the sky blue area.  Use lots of water!
5.  Once dry, cut a slit using an X-acto knife along the mouse and leaves long enough to insert the pumpkin.  The pumpkin is held in place with Beacon 3-1 glue.  Ribbon is threaded through the slit and tied in a bow around to the left side of the pumpkin.  The second cut out of leaves are foam taped and placed in front of the pumpkin.
6.  Stamp sentiment on a scrap and trim close.  Staple to upper right corner.  Mount onto card base.

Stampendous Products:
HMCV23      Cling Leaf Plunge
HMCC01      Joy Birthday
DWLL3036  The Great Pumpkin Stencil
DWDMBP    Matte Black Paste
DWDPK        Palette Knife
DWLM2010 Paste Spreader
MPW811     Mixed Media White Paper
STF082        Versafine Onyx Black
DWBHB-3   1/8" Stencil Brush

Products:
Core'dinations Paper
Tsukineko Splendor Inkpad:  Circus, Magic
3M Removable Tape 1/2"
3M Foam Mounting Tape
Beacon 3-1 Adhesive
May Arts Ribbon
Zig Clean Color Real Brush
FX Mica Powders:  07 Plum Royale, 08 Rose Berry, 10 Kiwi

I appreciate you stopping by today and leaving me a comment before hopping to the next designer's blog.

Stampendous Blog

Pam Hornschu

Amy Hurley-Purdie

Lyn Bernatovich

Louise Healy

Kristine Reynolds

Tenia Nelson

Alison Heikkila



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 Dreamweaver Stencils, Embossing Paste, Mixed Media Paper, Perfectly Clear stamp, Versafine Ony Black Inkpad and May Arts Ribbon that I'm using today.

My final day of Mousey Mischief card uses the Mice Wishes clear set again!  This card was all about the ice cream cone and what color I'd paint the ice cream.  When the coloring was finished, I decided I had a scoop of pistachio!  Read on to see how I created today's card.

1.  Cut card base 4-1/4 by 11 and score at 5-1/2.  Set aside.
2.  Heat emboss image onto Mixed Media White paper.  Water color with Prang Watercolors or your favorite water color set.  I prefer using a thin paintbrush over a waterbrush to better control the paint and water.  Once the paint is completely dry, add glitter to the ice cream with a Quickie Glue Pen.  See closeup below.
3.  Cut mixed media white paper 5-1/2 x 4-1/4 and place on a work surface.  Tape the Graduated Dots stencil over the paper on all four sides with removable tape.  Scoop the paste out with a palette knife and spread along the edge of a paste spreader.  Starting at the top of the stencil, pull the paste spreader down to the end of the stencil.  Because we're only going for a narrow border, don't be too concerned with any missed areas, as long as the outer edge is pasted.  Set aside to dry.
4.  Cut a blue panel 5-1/2 x 4-1/4 and dry emboss using a Sizzix Big Kick and the Opto Checkerboard stencil.  Lightly sand the raised areas to reveal a white core.  Diecut the embossed panel with two stitched rectangles to create a frame.  Cut the image to fit the frame and affix the frame to the watercolored image.
5.  TIP:  As an option to foam tape, cut craft foam to equal the size of the framed panel to create a completely smooth surface.  Mount the craft foam to the back of the framed piece with tape runner or liquid adhesive.  Cut the Graduated Dots stenciled panel down to 5-1/4 x 4-1/8 and affix to the card front.  Mount the framed panel to the Graduated Dots stencil.
6.  To create the banner embellishment, cut a scrap pieces as follows:   2-1/8 x 1-1/8, 1-3/4 x 1, 2-1/2 x 1/2.  Snip fish tails out of the first two pieces.  Stamp Make a wish! out of the 2-1/2 x 1/2 piece.  Layer and affix all three banners together.  Wrap ribbon around the top of the banner and tie in a bow.  Affix onto the card front with Beacon 3-1 glue.


Stampendous Products:
SSCM5000 Mice Wishes Perfectly Clear Set
DWLX7029 Graduated Dots Stencil
DWLJ915    Opto Checkerboard Stencil
MPW811    Mixed Media White Paper
DP111        Detail Black Embossing Powder
VM001       VersaMark Inkpad
DWDPK     Palette Knife
DWLM2010 Paste Spreader
MPW811   Mixed Media White Paper
STF082      Versafine Onyx Black Inkpad

Products:
Dreamweaver Glossy White Embossing Paste
Ken Oliver Color Burst Pthalo Green
Prang Watercolor
Claudine Hellmuth Studio Paint Brush #2
May Arts Ribbon
Bazzill Paper
Beacon 3-1 Glue
WennoW 8x12 Craft Foam
3M ATG Tape Runner
Authentique Scraps for Banners

Closeup of coloring and glittered areas on ice cream cone.

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

Welcome to the Stampendous Design Team weekly challenge. This week our theme is Mousey Mischief! You'll see lots of great creations with our wonderful House-Mouse Designs stamps all week long!  These little mice are sure to make you smile. 

 I get the feeling that my lazy little mouse from the Mice Wishes clear set ought to be doing something else, but instead is taking a break from life's hectic pace to enjoy herself!  When I was a little girl, a family member always called me Lynnie Mouse, so this card, ironically, could be a self portrait!

1.  Cut card base 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 and score at 4-1/4.  
2.  Here's how to create the pink panel using Color Bursts:  Spritz water liberally over the mixed media sheet (8-1/2 x 11) and puff Crimson Color Burst randomly over the water.  With a wide brush, blend the water and powder to create a beautiful background color.  Let it be uneven rather than a perfectly colored panel.  Once dry, cut a piece 5-1/2 x 4-1/4.
3.  To create the background design, dry emboss the pink panel using the Graduated Dot Stencil.  Lay the embossed design on a work surface.  Lay the stencil back over the embossed panel.  With a Jumbo Dauber, ink it liberally into a Palette Glue Pad and press/twist the dauber over the raised areas.  Once glue is applied, remove the stencil and sprinkle          glitter over the panel.  Flick off the excess and return to the jar.  Allow to dry.  Diecut the curved/stitched edge and mount to the card front.
4.  Heat emboss the mouse image with VersaMark and Detail Black embossing powder.  Color with watercolor pencils.  Using a glue pen, glue areas of the water where glitter will be added.  Glue the flower center and add glitter.  Refer to the photo below for closeup details.
5.  Diecut the image using a stitched square diecut.  Create the black dotted frame using two square diecuts.  Add foam mounting tape to the back of the frame and affix to the image.  Diecut a narrower frame out of a scrap piece of Color Burst paper and affix to the dotted frame.
6.  Wrap ribbon around the right side of the card front and tie in a bow.  Affix the mouse framed piece to the card front.
7.  On a scrap piece of cardstock, heat emboss the sentiment using VersaMark ink and Detail Black.  Diecut using the smallest stitched square.  Punch a hole in the left corner and tie onto the ribbon with jute.  Embellish the sentiment tag with Class-A-Peel Pink stickers.

Close up of the added bits of glitter on the flower center and on the water.  Use a Quickie Glue Pen to add the glitter.

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

Stampendous Blog

Pam Hornschu

Kristine Reynolds

Lyn Bernatovich

Alison Heikkila

Tenia Nelson

Pam Bray

Louise Healy

Laura Drahozal

Leadonna Quick Fritts


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 Dreamweaver Stencils and Embossing Powders, Class A Peel Stickers, cling stamps, Faber Castell Aquarell Pencils and May Arts Ribbon that I'm using today.