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.

Imagine my delight with this week's theme at Stampendous 'cuz I could use my absolute favorite Dreamweaver Fairy stencil!  My project today has many layers, elements and parts to it, but It began with stamping the Stampendous flowers several times onto mixed media paper with Versafine Onyx Black ink and coloring them with Faber-Castell Gelatos and water.

Here's the finished project:

The Dreamweaver fairy was pasted with white paste and set aside to dry.  Next, I tackled the inside panel and background.  It's pretty much all covered up by the embellishments, but the gist of it was this:

Starting with a gessoed 8-1/2x11 mixed media cardstock, I cut the panel to the specified size.  TIP:  Spray Krylon Gesso Spray outside (bad fumes!)  'cuz I want that part done fast using my handy-dandy home-made large spray paint box.  I was going for soft and dreamy colors of Gelatos and scribbled one color at a time and blended with my finger.  I touched the piece with a heat tool in between layers.  The next layer was to stamp a Stampendous image that was colored with Gelato and spritzed with water.  I love this technique because one Gelato colored image goes a very long way.  Unfortunately, you can't really see it in the photo below, but it is the specks of darker color.  Finally (my fav part!), I grabbed a baby wipe and a stencil from the Stampendous Filigree set, and wiped into the stencil open areas to remove color!  Voila!

Here's a leftover scrap which gives you an idea of the design.

Working on the fairy was next and all coloring was done before I cut her out.  I gessoed the fairy using my regular formula with a paint brush as I wanted assurance of true colors.  Wings (Peerless Gold), body (Gelatos in a mix of Dreamweaver FX) to get lots of shimmer.

Once the color was dry, then I fussy cut her out and applied an encrusted jewel technique using Stampendous Pink Encrusted Jewels and mounted on the card.  TIP:  Hold the fairy with tweezers rather a clamp to avoid teeth marks!

Notice the sage fragments in front of the fairy?  That is an acrylic piece I cut and hot glued to the fairy.  The Stampendous Build A Bouquet Butterfly and flower (Paper Mart) are also affixed to the acrylic.  A ribbon (Hug Snug) was tied around the bottom panel to help fill in open space.

Before affixing the inner panel to the outer panel, I dry embossed the outer panel with the Dreamweaver Plaid stencil.  To pretty up the bottom edge, I embossed the Stampendous Cling Filigree Stamp with Versafine ink and Stampendous Gold ultra fine embossing powder. Once all the pieces were assembled onto the inner panel including the Stampendous Timeless Fairytales Sentiment, I added Pink Encrusted Jewels to the top and bottom to add more texture and excelsior (my stash) to add more dreamy fantasy.

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Hope you like my little diorama today!  It is time to hop to the next designer's blog but before you go, I'd love you to comment.  Thank you for stopping by!

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Jamie Martin 

Pam Hornschu 

Lyn Bernatovich (that's me!)

Kristine Reynolds 

Laura Drahozal

Louise Healy

No-line watercoloring is the technique I used on the Stampendous Cling PenPattern Giraffe.  I love this technique because it gives you the outline of an image to work from.  The lines literally disappear while watercoloring because the image is stamped in a water-based dye ink.  I used Distress Antique Linen.  

Here's my project for today:

Pretty cool, huh?  This technique is especially beautiful using flower images.  TIP:  For further instruction on this technique, go to YouTube and search 'no-line watercoloring' for some great videos.  The watercoloring technique I used was Tombows scribbled onto Palette Paper with a spritz of water nearby.  I used a slim paint brush rather than an aqua brush as I wanted more control over how much water mixed with the Tombow color. The finished image is blended around the edge with Distress Antique Linen and Vintage Photo.

The stamped image looked like this before I began coloring:

Here's a visual of the Tombows I used for the giraffe, grass and sky background.  I referred to my trusty Pinterest and searched 'watercolor giraffes' and found this image to use as a reference.

Once the giraffe was painted, I began the textured background using Faber-Castel Gelatos.  I used another piece of Gessoed Stampendous Mixed Media Paper and scribbled a color of Gelato one at a time in order to blend each color with my finger.  Once I was satisfied, I dried the panel with a heat tool.  For added texture, I dry embossed it using the Dreamweaver Mosaic Swirls Stencil.  TIP:  When blending out Gelatos with your finger, I found I was leaving fingerprints from holding the paper with my other hand.  To alleviate that I used my Palette Paper to hold the down the panel while I was blending and it worked great!  No more fingerprints!  Try wax paper if you don't have anything else.

Here are the Gelato colors used for the 'jungle' background.  My Gelatos don't have the name of each color printed on them, so a visual will have to suffice.

I knew I'd be embellishing using a variety of Dreamweaver Leaf Dies (Monstera Leaf, Leafy Branch, Petit Fern).  Two of them were cut from Bazil cardstock and one was from my paper stash.  The tag paper is from Authentique Playful and Stampendous Wild Sayings Perfectly Clear Stamp Set was stamped with Versafine Onyx Black.  May Arts jute was tied around the tag.  Tag and Monstera Leaf are mounted with foam squares (Scrapbook Adhesives).

Hope you enjoyed my card today and you'll give this watercolor technique a try if you aren't familiar with it!  It's time to hop on over to the next designer's blog.  I'd love a comment before you go!

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Pam Hornschu

Laura Drahozal

Lyn Bernatovich

Amy Hurley-Purdie

Pam Bray

Lea Kimmel

This week's challenge theme at Stampendous is Let's Go Wild!  Since it's Dreamweaver Thursday, I had the perfect stencil for today's theme.

Here's today's card:

Actually, this is the 'baby elephant' stencil from Dreamweaver called Small Open Elephant.  I like this little guy 'cuz there's more room to add card enhancements.  I've done a lot of designing with the Dreamweaver Large Open Elephant stencil but this is my first time playing with the baby.  I'm still in Zentangle mode and now when I see 'open spaces,' I'm thinking tangles!  I referred to a Design Originals Zentangle Basics book that helped me decide on tangle designs.  

Once again, I went into my trusty pre-colored Dreamweaver scrap drawer and pulled the background piece for the elephant stencil.  The paper is glossy and I (believe) I used the 'smoosh' technique where I sprayed 2-3 colors of Memories Mists in Margarita, Orange Juice and Strawberry Daiquiri onto glossy cardstock.  I 'smooshed' another piece of glossy cardstock over the first piece and peeled it off to reveal the smoosh!

The baby elephant was laid over the dried glossy panel and traced using a Small Sized Black Faber-Castell Pitt Artist Pen and then the stencil was removed.  The tangle designs used the Xtra Small Sized Black Faber-Castll Pitt Artist Pen as well as the Small pen.

Once the tangling was done, I wanted to add embellishments (of course!) and I had a previously Gelatoed piece leftover from tomorrow's project consisting of greens which worked beautifully for my Dreamweaver diecut leafy branch and petite ferns.  The sentiment from Stampendous Wild Sayings Perfectly Clear Stamp Set was stamped with Versafine Onyx Black onto a scrap from my Dreamweaver drawer.  It was diecut with (I believe) a Spellbinders, but I've lost the packaging I've had it so long.

Here's a fun discovery, as I was assembling the card and layering the cardstock panels, I had pulled a painted scrap from my Dreamweaver drawer.  It looked a little too plain to me, so I laid the Dreamweaver I-Beams stencil over it wondering if a baby wipe would remove some of the paint.  It worked!  Happy dance!  So now I had my jungle primitive background panel.

One more embellishment to go and that was to grab some rafia and hot glue strands into the corner.  Remember, even if you have thick strands of rafia that you glued in place, take a pin (or even small scissors) and run it up the length of rafia to create skinnier strands.  Works like a charm!  Cut them in various lengths as desired.

Hope you enjoyed my jungle card today!  Before you go to the next designer's blog, I'd love you to leave me a comment!  See you tomorrow!

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Alison Heikkila 
Lea Kimmel
Lyn Bernatovich (that's me!)
Pam Hornschu 
Laura Drahozal
Louise Healy
Kristine Reynolds
 

This week our team will be showcasing the Art Grip Aquarelles Watercolor Pencils, the PITT Pastel Pencils, and our very special guest Nathalie Kalbach will be featuring the Gelatos! There will be guest-starring roles by the PITT Artist Pens for doodling and drawing!

3 Lucky Winners this week will get three sets of the PITT Pastel Pencils (red/yellow, blue/green, neutrals), a jar of Faber-Castell Chalkboard Paint, and $20 http://www.stampendous.com reward card to choose their favorite images to color! WOW… these winners must have a U.S. mailing address (official rules here!).  Click on the Stampendous Blog link for further details.  For more great information about Gelatos, go to Designing with Gelatos found on YouTube.

Here's my project for today:

I knew I would be using the Dreamweaver Corner Flowers stencil and Gelatos for this card!  The Stampendous mixed media paper was prepared with gesso and allowed to dry.  It was then dry embossed using my Sizzix Big Kick and the Corner Flowers stencil.

I  scribbled a summery assortment of Gelatos over the embossed paper.  Next, a little spritz of water was sprayed over the paper.  With my finger, I moved the colors around but not too much as I wanted to still see the individual colors.  More Gelato color was added here and there where needed.

Once dry, the Stampendous Birthday Assortment Perfectly Clear sentiment was colored with a Faber-Castell Artist Pitt Pen Big May Green and stamped onto the card.  TIP:  Here's how to color ribbon to perfectly match a card!  My ribbon (May Arts) was originally white.  I colored it directly with a salmon colored Gelato and then spritzed with water.  I used my fingers to blend the color.  You can make the color blend as even or uneven as you desire.  I added some lace from my stash just to add a bit more femininity.  It was affixed with Beacon Fabri-Tac.

The butterfly is from Stampendous Cling Build a Bouquet Stamp Set and was stamped with Archival Black and colored with Faber-Castell Art Grip Aquarelle pencils.  The colors were blended out with water and a fine tip paint brush that came with the set of pencils.  A little Stampendous Crystal Glitter was added with a Quickie Glue Pen for additional sparkle.  Gold thread from my stash was randomly affixed to the bow with Fabri-Tac.  The butterfly was affixed with hot glue.

Stampendous Chiffon Fragments were glued on with Tombow Mono Aqua Liquid Glue.  Stampendous Pink Dot Sparklers were added to some of the embossed flower centers.

Hope you enjoyed my card today and I'd love you to leave a comment before you go to the next designer's blog!

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Nathalie Kalbach

Louise Healy

Janelle Stollfus

Lyn Bernatovich (that's me!)

Pam Bray

Asia King

Pam Hornschu

Tenia Nelson

Laura Drahozal

Lea Kimmel

Alison Keikkila

Wendy Price

Faber-Castell Design Memory Craft Blog*

This week our team will be showcasing the Art Grip Aquarelles Watercolor Pencils, the PITT Pastel Pencils, and our very special guest Nathalie Kalbach will be featuring the Gelatos! There will be guest-starring roles by the PITT Artist Pens for doodling and drawing!

And, since it's Thursday, we're including Dreamweaver Stencil projects today!

3 Lucky Winners this week will get three sets of the PITT Pastel Pencils (red/yellow, blue/green, neutrals), a jar of Faber-Castell Chalkboard Paint, and $20 http://www.stampendous.com reward card to choose their favorite images to color! WOW… these winners must have a U.S. mailing address (official rules here!).  Find more details on the Stampendous Blog link.  Also, I found a wonderful video on YouTube - Designing with Gelatos I recommend watching.

Here's my Stampendous/Faber-Castell/Dreamweaver project for today:

I have been in love with this dog stencil and diecut and was so excited to work with it again for this week's Perfect Pets theme.  To begin the project I gessoed my Stampendous mixed media paper for better results when blending Gelatos.  Once the gesso was dry, I scribbled various Gelatos onto my paper and blended them with my finger until I was satisfied with the colors.

The next step was the coolest!  I took my Dreamweaver Checkerboard Stencil (LJ803) and laid it over the gessoed paper.  With a baby wipe, I simply wiped away color through each window of the stencil!  The result was like magic and the checked pattern I was going for was really taking shape.

Next, I wanted to stencil a tree over the checked panel.  I created 'tree-green' paste simply by shaving bits of Faber-Castell Gelato onto a small blob of white embossing paste.  With a palette knife, I worked the Gelatos into the paste until I had a smooth consistency.  I still hadn't achieved quite the color I was looking for, so I added a little bit of Dreamweaver Glossy Green embossing paste and that did the trick!  I pasted the tree with Dreamweaver Tree of Life Stencil and let it dry.  Meanwhile, I pasted the dog with Dreamweaver Matte Black and let that dry.  

I wanted to create background paper to make my paper pieced dog whimsical.  I chose a small cling stamp out of the Stampendous Regal Bird Stack Art Stamp Kit and scribbled it thoroughly with a Gelato.  The colored cling was then spritzed with water and stamped onto Neenah Kraft cardstock.  I couldn't believe how many stamped impressions I got out of this Gelatoed stamp!  I spritzed it each time before stamping with it.  The Dreamweaver diecut dog was put through my Sizzix Big Kick.  All that was left was to edge each piece with Distress Vintage Photo prior to affixing to the stenciled dog that had been fussy cut.  To affix the tiny little pieces, I spread my Quickie Glue Pen directly onto the stencil.  With tweezers, I picked up one piece at a time and affixed to the stenciled dog.  A googlie eye was affixed for even more whimsie.  The dog is affixed to the card with foam squares by Scrapbook Adhesives.

A Maya Road tiny wooden bird was colored with a Faber-Castell Artist Pitt Pen and hot glued onto the tree. A Stampendous Blue Dot Sparklers Class A Peel Sticker was added for its eye.  Ribbon - May Arts.  Stampendous Perfectly Clear Stamps Dog Sayings sentiments were stamped with Versafine Onyx Black.

Hope you enjoy my card today!  Before you go on to the next designer's blog, I'd love you to leave me a comment!

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Louise Healy
Kristine Reynolds
Lea Kimmel
Alison Heikkila 
Lyn Bernatovich (that's me!)
Pam Hornschu
Laura Drahozal

Faber-Castell Design Memory Craft Blog

By now, I'm hoping you've tried your hand at Doodlie-Doo-in' and find it relaxing and fun!  My card today was actually created before the feather tag of yesterday.  I hadn't doodled in quite a long time and once I pulled the Zen Butterfly (go figure) scrap out of my Dreamweaver drawer, I was immediately inspired.  It was in my scrap drawer not because I was discarding it, but because it was meant to come back to later.

Here's my little Doodlie-Doo for you today:

The Dreamweaver Zen Butterfly was originally a monoprint, which is similar to the letterpress technique without dry embossing it through a diecut machine. The print was made with Memories Mists Mango Lemonade and was the perfect starting piece for this project!  The Zen butterfly stencil was laid in place and taped at the top with removable tape (3M).  I used the Faber-Castell Artist Pitt Pen (XS) to outline the butterfly and then removed the stencil in order to fill in with doodles/tangles.  Since I don't tangle very often, it's quite the challenge to look at a blank butterfly and imagine how to add designs!!!   I just started on one side of the top wing and it grew from there.  Pinterest was my go-to reference for ideas.

I wanted to fill in the the area behind the butterfly and the beauty of doodling is hand drawn lines are okay!  I like that they are a little wavy and wonky.  The bold outer line was filled in as a border to ground the hand written sentiments.  Pinterest to the rescuse for inspiring messages that worked with butterflies!  To finish the card, I mounted it on card stock from my stash (A Muse) and added Stampendous Micro Black Glitter with a Sakura Quickie Glue Pen and Stampendous Gold Dot Sparklers Class A Peel Stickers.

I'm hoping you'll try doodling and stay with it because it goes through so many stages before it's finished.  Try not to pre-judge your doodles.  You'll know when it's done and whether it makes it to a card front.  See it through and enjoy the journey!  For more Zentangle ideas specifically using stencils, check out  Zentangle 6: Terrific Stencils and Cards by Suzanne McNeill.  This book offers fascinating ideas for using Dreamweaver Stencils© to make memorable personalized greeting cards.  

It's time to hop on over to the next designer but before you go, l'd love hearing from you!

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Pam Hornschu

Kristine Reynolds

Lyn Bernatovich

Louise Healy

Tenia Nelson

Wendy Price

Pam Bray

Lea Kimmel

Laura Drahozal

Linnie Blooms,  Stampendous AND Dreamweaver!  What a fantastic combination!  Here's hoping by this final day you've found oodles of fun projects to really take your mixed media in a new direction.  Of course there are prizes for 3 lucky winners!  Just click on the Stampendous link HERE for details.

My project today features all three companies!  The Linnie Blooms canvas file folder was Gessoed on both sides first.  Next, I sprayed Memories Mists Pale Ale and hit it with a heat tool.  I folded the folder in half and laid the Dreamweaver Graduated Dot Stencil (that I can't stop using!) over the canvas and sprayed Memories Mists Iced Coffee with great results!  Before I cleaned the stencil, there was wonderful puddles of paint on it so I smooshed cardstock over it to pick up the reverse (negative) stencil design.  That piece went into my scrap drawer.  I repeated the process for the back cover.

Once I had my base design done, it was a matter having fun creating the cover design with my little puppy!  When I saw the Stampendous Pop Up Puppies, the Coordinating Die Set AND the Dog Sayings, I had to have it all!!!  I knew I wanted to use the puppy head and its paws without the body.  I had a leftover scrap from the sprayed inside covers which became the rectangle piece to anchor the puppy.  It's hard to tell, but the reverse Pop Rectangles Stencil is smooshed onto the cardstock.

My puppy's head is mounted onto an Action Wobble!  The heart (Paper Shapers punch) is affixed to his mouth so the whole thing jiggles in the cutest way.  Puppy was stamped (Archival) on Kraft cardstock (A Muse), colored with Prisma Pencils and edged with Distress Vintage Photo.  Dreamweaver diecut letters and paper strip from Bazil paper.  Paw twill (May Arts).  Sentiment Stampendous Dog Sayings (love this clear stamp set!)  Adhesive used to affix twill and paper strip to canvas (Beacon Fabri-Tac).  Adhesive to attach heart and paws (Beacon 3-in-1)  The dog bone was stamped onto a left sprayed scrap and diecut.

Bo is our chocolate lab and he is 11 years old now, but he looked a lot like this puppy when we brought him home!  Even though my mini book isn't finished on the inside, I plan to create a photo journal of our dog for our son.

 Thank you for stopping by!  Be sure to leave a comment for a chance to win!

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Amy Hurley-Purdie

Louise Healy

Janelle Stollfus

Wendy Price

Pam Hornschu

Jamie Martin

Laura Drahozal

Kristine Reynolds

Tenia Nelson

Lyn Bernatovich

Pam Bray

Lea Kimmel

Linnie Blooms Blog

Linnie Blooms,  Stampendous AND Dreamweaver!  What a fantastic combination!  Here's hoping by Day 4 you've found oodles of fun projects to really take your mixed media in a new direction.  Of course there are prizes for 3 lucky winners!  Just click on the Stampendous link HERE for details.

My Dreamweaver focused interpretation used one of my absolute favorite stencils...the Fairy.  After adding a few layers of acrylic paint (drying in between), I decided to go with stenciling the Fairy right onto the canvas cover.  I used Dreamweaver Regular Embossing Paste and while wet, sprinkled Stampendous Encrusted Jewels Kits - Teal on the wings and Pink on the fairy.  Each section was heated with a heat tool (separately) from underneath until it melted sufficiently.  Clear glue was applied to the upper right and lower left corners and Teal fragments were sprinkled into the glue.  I laid a piece of cardstock over the fragments and pressed over the glue and and let it dry.  A scrap piece of painted paper was stamped using the Stampendous  Eclectic Charms clear stamp set and Versafine onyx black ink.  Tiny attachers (Tim Holtz) affixed the sentiment in place.  Flowers from my stash (Prima, Paper Mart) were hot glued in place.  Two holes were pierced through the pages and the spine of the canvas mini and tied with seam binding (Hug Snug).  I literally tried 8 different ribbons until I finally felt satisfied with the ribbon color against the painted canvas!  It is a double piece of ribbon and is scrunched with a few spritzes of water.

I love the final result of the back cover!  It went through several layers of acrylic paint (that I wasn't happy with) and I finally laid the Dreamweaver Pop Rectangles Stencil over the canvas and spritzed Memories Mists Blue Lagoon over the stencil.  I lifted the stencil off and saw a hole where the green color now is, so I cleaned the stencil and laid it back down and sprayed Memories Mist Kiwi just into the area where the hole was and voila!  I'm doing a happy dance!

Finally, I couldn't resist adding pages to the Fairy mini although they aren't finished on purpose.  Here are more papers from the Stampendous Creative Palette Rectangles acrylic painting fun I had that are the perfect size for each page.  The flip side of the Creative Palette papers were sprayed with Memories Mists.  All I did was cut the pages down a bit which gave me some terrific leftover pieces to stamp on.  I had the Stampendous Cling Beautiful Life previously embossed in gold on vellum in my stash and thought it worked beautifully for my first page.

 I hope you enjoy my project today and that it inspires you to play with canvas, paints, Stampendous stamps, Dreamweaver products and your scraps!  Be sure to leave a comment for a chance to win! 

Stampendous Blog

Amy Hurley-Purdie

Wendy Price

Pam Hornschu

Laura Drahozal

Alison Heikkila

Tenia Nelson

Lyn Bernatovich

Louise Healy

Kristine Reynolds

Linnie Blooms Blog

Linnie Blooms and Stampendous...what a fantastic combination!  You're going to find oodles of fun projects to really take your mixed media in a new direction.  Of course there are prizes for 3 lucky winners!  Just click on the Stampendous link HERE for details.

Here's my interpretation of this totally fun canvas folder!  Front and back covers were painted with various acrylic paints from my stash.  Once dry, I stamped Stampendous Build A Bouquet (CRS5074) with Versafine Onxy Black.  I created a wash of acrylic paint and proceeded to paint over the entire background with the exception of the flowers and butterfly (back cover).  For a fun effect, I laid a Dreamweaver Spiral Dots (DW7029) over the open canvas and sponged white acrylic paint into the dots.  Ribbon (May Arts) was machine sewn into the canvas.  Staples (Tiny Attacher, Tim Holtz).

This is the biggest little project packed with tons of product and was fun to create.  The mini book is by no means finished, but because there's so much to see in each of the additional booklet pages, I made a slideshow.  Some of the pages were created with Stampendous Creative Pallet Rectangles that includes two very cool stamp images that were also used.  The other pages were sprayed with Memories Mists.

With the leftover scraps, I stamped Stampendous Journal Lines (SSC1205) and added bits to various pages.  I also cut up the Stampendous Life is Art that worked beautifully with the pages.  Scraps of previous Dreamweaver papers from my stash were also used.  The photo of me is from the 80's when I used to own an aerobics company called Aerobics by Lyn.  It's actually how I met my husband who came to a class!!!  The Dreamweaver Petite Fern Die was leftover from my stash.  Pages 7,8 used the Stampendous Mixed Media Cling Rubber Motif Stamp (CRS7003).  On pages 3 and 12, I laid the Dreamweaver Quatrefoil (LX7010) over the sprayed paper and re-sprayed again revealing a shadow-like effect. The pages were sewn together into the canvas folder.  For reinforcement, I taped each page with washi tape (A Muse).

 I hope you enjoy my project today and that it inspires you to play with canvas, paints, Stampendous stamps, Dreamweaver stencils and your scraps!  Be sure to leave a comment for a chance to win! 

Stampendous Blog

Lyn Bernatovich

Pam Hornschu

Janelle Stollfus

Linnie Blooms Blog