Stampendous Stencil Week - Vintage Box

This is one of my favourite Dreamweaver stencils and I love the vintage look of it on my altered box. This project started life as a cheap plywood box from the craft store, transformed with a little paint and Embossing Paste into a treasure box fit for something special!

Stampendous products used:
Dreamweaver Antique Keys Metal Stencil (FMFMS4053)
Dreamweaver Embossing Paste: Copper, Gold

Other:
Metal embellishments
Treasure Gold Gilding Wax
Brown paint

Here's how I made it:

1) Paint the box with raw umber paint all over. Wipe back in some areas to distress.

2) Place the stencil on top of the box -stencil through with both Copper and Gold Embossing Pastes, randomly applying them and allowing them to mix in places. The stencil doesn't quite cover the box so I waited for that to dry before adding additionally stencilling in the gap.

3) Add gilding wax around all the edges using your finger - I used a gold and copper shade to match the embossing.

4) Finish with metal embellishments (I also treated these with a little Treasure Gold).

Thanks for visiting!

Happy creating,

Katy x

PYL Blog Hop Christmas Tag

Hope you are enjoying our celebration of Pink Your Life stamps this week at Stampendous. I've used one of the Christmas releases today to create a seasonal tag. I don't like a lot of Christmas stamps but this Santa is just adorable isn't he?

Here's how I created it:
1 Repeatedly stamp the snow background with Versamark onto a kraft tag, emboss with Sparkle Puff embossing powder.
2 Press a Versamark pad through the stencil that comes with the snowflake set. Emboss the area with Sparkle Puff. Stamp, emboss and die cut another snowflake and place it offset over the other snowflake.
3 Tear a scrap of kraft card, dab the top edge with Versamark and emboss with Sparkle Puff. Glue to the tag so that Santa can 'stand' on it.
4 Colour Santa with Graph-It markers and ad him on 3D foam. Use a Stabilo All pencil to add some shadowing around him.
5 Rub the edges of the tag with white paint and finish with a bow.

Thanks for stopping by!
Katy x

Stampendous products used:
Perfectly Clear Pink Your Life Winter Friends
Cling Stamps Delicate Snow
Cling Stamp International Snow
Sparkle Puff Embossing Powder

Tando Stampendous Blog Hop - Christmas Birdhouse

Today's the last day of our blog hop with Tando Creative and I'm sharing a piece I created for the Stampendous catalogue. I used a kit with three little houses from Tando - it's designed as a vertical hanging but I chose to use just one of the houses to make a freestanding Christmas decoration. Apologies to my bah humbug friends that I am sharing a Christmas project already! I do love these little birdies though. Instructions for how I created it are further down this post.

We have PRIZES too!!! Each prize package includes a Tando Mini Heart Printer Tray and a Nathalie Kalbach NK Studio Fiesta stamp set and there are three up for grabs! To be eligible, leave a comment telling us where you live on the Stampendous blog, the Tando Creative blog and on each of the designer's blogs. Each comment counts so make sure you check out the posts all week! The draw is open to all commenters with a US or UK mailing address.

It's a hop and a half today - look at this amazing list of inspiration!!!

Stampendous BlogDee AdamsKristine ReynoldsKarenKazWendy PriceCarolJamie MartinIritLouise HealyLisaLaura DrahozalDanaJanelle StollfusGezKaty Leitch - you are hereDiAlison HeikkilaTenia NelsonLea FrittsTando Creative Blog

Here's how I created my piece:

1 Paint all the pieces of the Tando house with white gesso to prime it.

2 Stamp International Snow with Ultramarine StazOn all over the chipboard panel (the piece with the ‘window’ cut in it).

3 When the ink is dry, edge the piece roughly with Versamark and emboss with Ice Blue embossing enamel. Sponge the edges with Ultramarine StazOn.

4 Stamp Snowflake Sky in Versamark onto dark blue cardstock and emboss with Sparkle Puff embossing powder. Cut to fit the back panel making sure it will fill the whole of the aperture in the chipboard piece. Glue to the back piece of the house kit.

5 Stamp the birds onto white Mixed Media paper and onto several colours of cardstock. Lightly colour the image with Inktense pencils. Paper piece the scarves and hats and colour the designs on them with Sakura metallic pens. Apply wet glue to the hat brims and bobbles and sprinkle with multi glitter.

6 Assemble the house and use a palette knife to apply lots of regular embossing paste, adding texture with the palette knife to resemble snow. While the paste is still wet, sprinkle it with multi glitter.

7 Smear a dried twig with white gesso then some small areas of embossing paste. Glue in place. Stick the birds to background with 3D foam tape so that they overlap the twig and appear to sit on it.

8 Ink a Tando snowflake with Ultramarine StazOn ink. When dry smear with wet glue and apply multi glitter all over. Add to the house to embellish it.

Products used:
Stampendous products:
CRP289 Birdie Trio Stampendous Cling Stamp
CRY032 International Snow Stampendous Cling Stamp
CRR234 Snowflake Sky Stampendous Cling Stamp
DEPRegular Dreamweaver Embossing Paste – Regular
FREG048 Stampendous Embossing Enamel – Ice Blue
EP525 Stampendous Embossing Powder – Sparkle Puff
FRGL01 Stampendous Frantage Multi Glitter Mix
MPW811 Mixed Media Paper
WA101 Versamark Watermark Ink Pad

Other:
Tando Creative – Triple House Hanging
Tando Creative Chipboard – Mini Snowflakes
My Colors Cardstock – Deep Indigo, Seafoam, Spearmint, Madras Blue, Winter Lake
StazOn Ink – Ultramarine
DecoArt Gesso – White
Sakura Metallic Glaze Pens
Twig
Palette knife
3D foam tape
Wet clear drying glue

Tando Stampendous Blog Hop - Gothic Arch

All this week, Stampendous have teamed up with Tando Creative for a fantastic mixed media blog hop! I know it's only July but it's never too early for Halloween! I really love this Steam Pumpkin stamp and he will make an appearance again before the 31st October I am sure! I used a Tando arch kit to create my Steampunk-inspired piece.

What could be better than a blog hop? A blog hop with PRIZES!!! Each prize package includes a Tando Mini Heart Printer Tray and a Nathalie Kalbach NK Studio Fiesta stamp set and there are three up for grabs!

To be eligible, leave a comment telling us where you live on the Stampendous blog, the Tando Creative blog and on each of the designer's blogs. Each comment counts so make sure you check out the posts all week! The draw is open to all commenters with a US or UK mailing address.

This is the hop list for today:

Stampendous Blog

Jamie Martin

Dee Adams

Louise Healy

Katy Leitch - you are here

Tenia Nelson

Tando Creative Blog

Here's how I created today's project, step-by-step:

1) Paint the back panel of the Tando arch kit with black gesso. Use the Steampunk Clock stencil with gold embossing paste to add detail to the back panel.

2) Paint a piece of card with two coats of DecoArt Metallic Silver paint and stamp the Steam Pumpkin image with black Archival ink. Cut out part of the image as shown.

3) Die cut some cogs and apply Versamark before embossing them with Spoonful of Rust.

4) Colour a piece of card with Dazzling Metallic paint in Copper and stamp the Steam Pumpkin onto it. Cut out the armour and some of the cog details. Stamp again onto Mixed Media Paper and colour with alcohol markers. Paper piece as shown.

5) Paint the frame part of the arch kit with black gesso. Coat with Versamark then emboss with Aged Copper Embossing Enamel. After heating, add more Versamark then a layer of Aged Teal. Add more Versamark and then add small areas of Verdigris and Aged Copper powders here and there until happy with the result.

Re-heat an area of the powder until molten. Stamp the right-hand edge of the Steam Pumpkin into the molten embossing enamels. Heat areas of the frame and stamp one after the other until the whole frame is textured. Be careful not to melt areas of embossing you've already stamped.

6) Paint another arch frame with black gesso. Add the silver panel from step 2 on foam tape over the embossing background. Add the black gessoed frame on foam pads. Add two chipboard cogs and some metal cogs then the Steam Pumpkin with 3D foam tape, not adhering the hat.

Add the embossed frame on more 3D foam tape then stick the hat to the outside of the frame. Add another cog and a metal number plus some stamped words to the frame. Add Rust embossing cogs and a clock to the rear of the arch. Finish with little cotton reel feet which have been painted with black gesso and embossed to the front with Spoonful of Rust.

Products used:
Stampendous products:
RS-R269 Steam Pumpkin Rubber Stamp
RS-V322 Shadows Rubber Stamp
DWDGP Dreamweaver Embossing Paste – Gold
EJS05 Stampendous Spoonful Rust Embossing Kit
FREG025 Stampendous Frantage Embossing Enamel - Aged Copper
FREG036 Stampendous Frantage Embossing Enamel - Aged Teal
EP134 Stampendous Opaque Embossing Powder - Verdigris
WLX7018 Dreamweaver Steampunk Clock Stencil
MPW811 Mixed Media Paper
WA101 Versamark Watermark Ink Pad

Other:Tando Creative – Arches Straight Edged Large
Tando Creative Chipboard – Four Clocks Small
StazOn Ink – Jet Black
Archival Ink - Jet Black
DecoArt Gesso – Black
DecoArt Fluid Acrylics - Metallic Silver
DecoArt Dazzling Metallics - Copper
Sakura Metallic Glaze Pen - silver
Graph-It marker pens
Mini cotton reels
Metal embellishments
Die cut cogs
3D foam tape
Wet clear drying glue

Steam Pumpkin

Shadows 

Steampunk Stencil

Introducing Pink Your Life

New to the Stampendous family are some truly adorable new images by artist Nicoletta Zanella from the Pink Your Life Design Team. The wonderfully whimiscal collection will be in the July catalogue and will soon be available to buy from your favourite stockists. All this week the Stampendous DT has been whetting your appetite a little with our Pink Your Life creations!

If you don't know where your nearest shop is you can find one on the Stampendous Store Locator here - http://www.stampendous.com/store-locator/

Keep a beady eye on the Stampendous Blog all this week for Pink Your Life inspiration and later in the month for your chance to win some of these great stamps.

For my piece I created a whimsical miniature village nestled among toadstools. I think it's rather cute and hope you do too!

Products used:
Stampendous Pink Your Life SSCP102 Mushrooms, SSCP105 Whisper Houses, PLCP03 Cling Mushrooms
Dreamweaver stencil DWLG611 Stone Background
Stampendous Mixed Media Paper MPW811
DecoArt Media Texture Sand Paste
Acrylic paints
Alcohol markers
Wooden box frame

Firstly I used Texture Sand Paste on a background cardstock panel and the frame and painted it with acrylics. The images were stamped on Stampendous Mixed Media Paper then coloured with alcohol markers before being cut out and layered with 3D foam into the frame.

I also added some stamped image to the outside of the frame to give more depth.

I think these stamps are SO adorable - hope you do too!

Katy x

Whisper Houses

Mushrooms

Cling Mushrooms

Stone Background

Announcing the NEW Stampendous Mixed Media Team UK!

Yes, Stampendous have set up a UK-based mixed media team and I am extremely proud and very excited to announce today that I am part of it!

The team has been quietly creating behind the scenes for the new catalogue release and you’ll be able to see our makes with some fantastic new stamps and stencils very soon. There will be autumnal pieces, Halloween creations and a smattering of Christmassy things too. I've been working with some awesome products - not just stamps, but metal stencils, embossing products, and luscious Frantage goodies as well.

I can't share most of my makes yet as they are secret squirrel but you'll already have seen a few pieces that I did for blog hops earlier this month.

We hope you’ll follow our blogs and Facebook pages to see what we getting up to! There’s three of us newbies:

Katy Leitch (UK DT Co-ordinator) – that’s ME!

Facebook: facebook.com/katyleitchcrafts

Dee Adams deeadamsart.blogspot.co.uk

Facebook: facebook.com/deeadamsart.blogspot.co.uk

Mark Gould speshink.blogspot.co.uk

Facebook: facebook.com/speshink

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We are joining one other UK-based teamie who has been with Stampendous for a wee while already – Asia King.

You can follow all of the Stampendous team on Facebook here: facebook.com/stampendous

A huge thank you to Laura Mann Weed for inviting us to be part of this creative adventure! We are looking forward to working together as Team Stampendous UK!

Katy x