Buttons Galore!

We are SO EXCITED to be hopping with Buttons Galore and More for a whole week. We have some fun projects to share that all include an abundance of buttons that were so generously sent to our team.

Buttons Galore and More provides a wide selection including specialty designed embellishments for celebrations, holidays, and various other events and themes. Find a plethora of choices on their website at Buttons Galore and More!

Prizes

Yes, we have PRIZES! There are three (3) prize packages that include one of each:

• Cling Create Christmas Stamps Set
• Create Christmas Die Cut Set
• Assortment of Buttons

To be eligible, you must be a US resident (see Official Rules), comment on our blog and that of each Stampendous designer’s blog posts each day of the hop and tell us in what state you live. Deadline to comment for our prizes is Sunday, October 18, 2015. Winners will be selected by random.org and will be announced sometime on Monday, October 19th.

Wait! For our Aussie friends, 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!
Here is my post for the day:

Materials:
SSC1190 Say it Today Clear Stamps
DWLL3025 Mushrooms Stencil
Blue Tinsel Embossing Powder
Stampendous Pearl Glitter in White, Tiger Lily, Green and Royal 
Stampendous Jewel Glitter in Royal and Western Blue
Stampendous Micro Glitter in Gold and Copper
Acrylic Stamp Handle
3/4" Stencil Brush
Versamark Ink
Buttons Galore & More Buttons Scary HB109 Collection and Pet Shop BCB127 Collection
Glue Dots Craft Dots
Amplify in White
May Arts Twine
3D Foam Squares
Double Sided Mounting Paper
Handmade Hawaiian Soap
Heat Tool

Instructions:

1. Cut the Double Sided Mounting Paper to fit the stencil
2. Using the Acrylic Handle and Versamark Ink, stamp the Thank You from the Say It Today stamp set onto white paper.
3. Pour Blue Tinsel Embossing Powder over the Thank You and shake off the excess.
4. Emboss with the heat tool.
5. Rub the bar of soap on the back of the Mushrooms Stencil.  You should have a light film of soap all across the back of the stencil when you are finished.
6. Use the brush to gently remove the soap "crumbles" off the back of the stencil.
7. Remove the backing from one side of the mounting paper, revealing the adhesive.
8. Place the stencil, soap side down, on the adhesive side of the paper.
9. Pinch the colored glitter into the wells of the mushrooms.  You will be "coloring" these in any colors you like.
10. When all of the stencil wells appear to be colored, rub the glitter in with your finger.
11. Brush off any excess glitter.
12. Place the project upside down on a hard, flat surface.
13. Peel a little of the mounting paper from the a corner of the stencil.
14. Using this piece, slowly remove all of the mounting paper from the stencil, while leaving the stencil flat.
15. Pour the White Pearl Glitter over the top of the project, brushing off the excess.
16. Squeeze the Amplify onto the project to create dots.
17. Heat the dots until they puff up.
18. Remove the backing from the mushrooms and place on a dark green card stock mat.
19. Adhere the words onto a dark green card stock mat.
20. Adhere the mushrooms onto a yellow card stock background.
21. Wrap the May Arts Twine around the bottom of the card.   Tie and adhere to the background with a Glue Dot.
22. Adhere the words with 3D Foam Squares
23. Adhere the project to a dark green card base.
24. Adhere the buttons with Craft Glue Dots.

 Here Are the Rest of the Players for today.  Be sure to leave comments for your chance to win!

Stampendous Blog

Wendy Price

Pam Bray (DW)

Pam Hornschu (DW)

Alison Heikkila (DW)

Louise Healy (DW)

Laura Drahozal (DW)

Kristine Reynolds (DW)

Buttons Galore and More Blog

Dreamweaver Art

Apparently, I have the world's SLOWEST mail service.  You see, Stampendous is having a blog hop with Clear Scraps that we, the Dreamweaver Specialists, could also get in on.  We were sent some Clear Scraps, but ours went out later than the rest of the team's.  EVERYONE got their goodies.  Except me........I still don't have them.  Therefore, today I am posting a project that does not include the Clear Scraps, but it does have an art theme.  Clear Scraps and Stampendous do encourage you to follow your art.....

For this card, I embossed the white card stock through my Cuttlebug Machine.  I used Stencil LJ 801 Splats and Stencil LG 761 Chunky Art Tools.  I placed them face down on the Cuttlebug A Plate, followed by the card stock, the Stamping Details Rubber Embossing Mat and two Cuttlebug B Plates.  I placed the corresponding stencil on top of the embossed card stock and used the Circus Splendor Ink Pad and my Black Soot Distress Ink Pad with my stencil brushes to add all the color.  I poured Stampendous Clear Embossing Powder over the image and heated it.  Wherever the pigment ink was still wet, it stuck and showed up glossy on the final image.

The silver portions were created by using Versamark with the stencil brush and covering it with Stampendous Silver Embossing Powder.  Of course, the Follow Your Art Stamp is from Stampendous and stamped with Versafine.  The ribbon is May Arts and the words and art supplies were raised with 3D foam.

The rest of the Dreamweaver Specialists are also posting today.  I included their links.  I also included a link to that blog hop that I mentioned earlier.

Stampendous Blog 

Louise Healy 

Pam Hornschu 

Laura Drahozal 

Lyn Bernatovich 

Kristine Reynolds 

Alison Heikkila

 Jamie Martin

Meanwhile, as I have mentioned, the rest of the team is posting a great blog hop with Clear Scraps.  Under this great banner, you will find the link to one of today's posts.....and a great way to start hopping for wonderful prizes:

CHECK OUT TODAY'S POSTS