It's All About the Dead Theme Week

This week, the Stampendous Team is All About the Dead!  Yes, it is Halloween Week, and we are getting creepy!  This project will also serve as a post for the Smeared and Smudged 31 Days of Halloween.

Materials:

Stampendous Skeleton Lady Rubber Stamp RS-R229
Mixed Media White Paper
Real Red Opaque Embossing Powder
Red Tinsel Embossing Powder
Aged Black Embossing Enamel
Versamark Pen
Stazon Black Ink
Crayola 24 Count Crayon
Black Chalk Paint
Red Rhinestones
Paint Brush
Paper Towels
Embossing Heat Gun
Black Card Stock

Directions:

1)  Stamp the Mixed Media Paper.
2)  Color the image with crayons.  Make sure to color the white sections.  Use a lot of pressure in the areas that you want to make more colorful and less pressure where you would like a more muted look.
3)  Paint over the entire piece with chalk paint and wipe off with a paper towel.
4)  Use the Versamark Pen on the edges and emboss with the Aged Black Embossing Enamel to "distress".
5)  Use the Versamark Pen to add a layer of Real Red Opaque Embossing Powder to create a bloody drip from the top.
6)  Use the Versamark Pen to add an additional layer of embossing powder--this time, using Red Tinsel Embossing Powder to make it appear a little shiny.
7)  Assemble the card.

Thanks for stopping by and checking out my All About the Dead and 31 Days of Halloween post.  I hope you liked it!

Glue Dots Blog Hop

Welcome to the Glue Dots Blog Hop!

As our fans know we love a contest while we hop so three lucky commenters will win a prize package that includes:

Glue Dots® Craft Dots 3/8”
Glue Dots® Mini Dots 3/16”
Glue Dots® Removable Dots 3/8”

CRS5080 Cling Create Christmas Stamp Set by Stampendous®
DCS5080 Create Christmas Die Set by Stampendous®
MGK02 Christmas Micro Glitter Kit by Stampendous®


Just comment on both company blogs and all the design team posts for our hop with Glue Dots. Commenting is open until Sunday, November 1st at 11:59 pm and winners will be announced sometime on Monday, November 2nd. See Official Contest Rules.
Here is my post for today:

Materials:

Stampendous Pumpkin Cat Rubber Stamp RS-R232

Mixed Media White Paper

Aged Black Embossing Enamel

Lime Micro Glitter

Glue Dots Mini Dots

Glue Dots Craft Dots

Stazon Black Ink

Tombow Dual Marker #606

Water Brush

Prismacolor Pencils in Jasmine, White, Canary Yellow, Orange, Neon Orange, Pale Vermillion, Neon Green, and Marine Green

Core'dinations Card Stock

Black Embroidery Floss

Non Stick Craft Mat

Heat Gun

Scissors

Craft Knife

Directions:

1)  Stamp on the mixed media paper and let dry.

2)  Color the background using the Tombow Dual Markers and water brush.  Let dry.

3)  Color the pumpkin, moon and cat eyes with Prismacolor Pencils.

4)  Use the Craft Glue Dots to adhere to the orange card stock.

5)  Adhere Craft Glue Dots along the edge of the stamped image.  I found the easiest way to do this is to place the dispenser where you want the dot and wiggle it back and forth a couple of times before you remove it.  

6)  Count the dots you laid down in step 5.  This is how many "spiders" you need.

7)  Cut a 12" piece of the embroidery floss and remove 2 strands of the 6.

8)  Lay the floss on the craft sheet and place Mini Glue Dots over the top of the floss at about 1/2" intervals, starting about 1/4" from the end.

9)  Cover the first Glue Dot with a good deal of Aged Black Embossing Enamel.

10)  Press the embossing enamel into the Glue Dot.  Brush the excess down to the second dot.  Repeat until all the dots are covered in powder.

11)  Heat emboss the powder on the Glue Dots.

12)  Cut the embroidery floss between the Glue Dots.

13)  Using the craft knife, remove the "spiders" from the craft sheet and place carefully in the centers of the Craft Glue Dots.

14)  Use the craft knife to seperate the thread "legs" and press them into position on the larger Glue Dots.

15)  Cover the Glue Dots with Lime Micro Glitter, press in gently and brush off the excess.

16)  Use the craft knife to gently scrape off any glitter that may have stuck to the bodies of the spiders.

Don 't forget to comment on all the blogs.  Here are the posts for today:

Stampendous Stamps Blog

Janelle Stollfus

Laura Drahozal

Alison Heikkila

Glue Dots Blog

Dreamweaver Thursday and Nathalie Kalbach Stamps

Although I am not technically playing along with the Nathalie Kalbach blog hop today, I was inspired to use one of her stamps on my Dreamweaver Thursday card.  Here it is:

Stampendous:
SSC1190 Say It Today Perfectly Clear Stamps™
NKCRS05 Cling Kaffee Klatsch
SSH57 Jumbo Perfectly Clear™ Acrylic Handle
Sparkle Puff Embossing Powder
Blue Tinsel Embossing Powder
Micro Glitter in Black, Teal and China Blue
Jewel Royal Ultra Fine Glitter
Pearl White Ultra Fine Glitter
Versamark Ink

DWLL437 Peacock Feather Stencil
3/4" Brush  DWNHB-18

Plus:
Cardstock by Bazzill Basics Paper®
Double Sided Mounting Paper
Vegetable Based Soap
Scotch by 3M 1/2" Adhesive
Embossing Heat Tool
Scissors
Paper Trimmer

Instructions:

1. Cut the base 8 1/2" by 5 1/2" and fold in half on the side.
2. Cut the Double Sided Mounting Paper to fit the Peacock Feather Stencil.  Leave it in a rectangle shape.
3. Using the Acrylic Handle and Versamark Ink, stamp the Thank You from the Say It Today stamp set onto white paper.
4. Pour Blue Tinsel Embossing Powder over the Thank You and shake off the excess.
5. Emboss with the embossing tool.
6. Using the Acrylic Handle and Versamark Ink, stamp the doily from the Kaffee Klatsch stamp set several times over green paper.
7. Pour the Sparkle Puff Embossing Powder over the stamped images and shake off the excess.
8. Heat with the embossing too until the powder turns white and puffs up.
9. Rub the bar of soap on the back of the Peacock Feather Stencil.  You should have a light film of soap all across the back of the stencil when you are finished.
10. Use the brush to gently remove the soap "crumbles" off the back of the stencil.
11. Remove the backing from one side of the mounting paper, revealing the adhesive.
12. Place the stencil, soap side down, on the adhesive side of the paper.
13. Pinch some of the black glitter into the "eye" of the peacock feather.
14. Continue to pinch glitter colors into the wells of the feather stencil.
15. When all of the stencil wells appear to be covered, rub it in a little with your finger.
16. Brush off any excess glitter.
17. Place the project upside down on a hard, flat surface.
18. Peel a little of the mounting paper from the a corner of the stencil.
19. Using this piece, slowly remove all of the mounting paper from the Peacock Feather Stencil, while leaving the stencil flat.
20. Pour the White Pearl Glitter over the top of the feather, brushing off the excess.
21. Remove the backing from the project and attach it to white card stock.
22. Use scissors to trim the feather and the Thank You words close to the images.
23. Assemble the card.

  Here are the other folks posting for the Dreamweaver Thursday today:

Alison Heikkila

Pam Bray

Louise Healy

Pam Hornschu

31 Days of Halloween

Welcome to my Smeared and Smudged 31 Days of Halloween Post for day 21!  This was a VERY EASY project:

Materials:

Owl Tombstone Rubber Stamp RS-R230

Crayola 24 Count Rubber Stamp

Paint brush

Computer Paper

Stayzon Ink

Black Acrylic Paint

Paper towel

Hemp

Bead

Black Card Stock

Directions:

1)  Stamp onto computer paper with Stayzon and let it dry. 

2)  Color hard with crayons over the entire thing.  Be sure to use an extra layer of crayon in white over the words and the areas you don’t want to color. 

3) Crumple the paper.  

4) Unwrinkle the paper and paint it with the black acrylic paint.  

5) Dab off the excess with a paper towel.

6)  Paint the edges again to "distress".  Let dry.

7)  Assemble the card.

Even More Buttons!

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 button project for today:

Materials:

Snow Queen Rubber Stamp RS-R237

Snowflake Sky Rubber Stamp RS-R234

White Pearl Embossing Powder

Versamark Ink

Buttons Galore & More Autumn Grab Bag

Tombow Dual Markers in  947, 969, 912, 847, 977, 873, 451, 493, 443 and 879

Tombow Blending Palette

Watercolor Paper

Brush  (I used the water reservoir style)

May Arts Ribbon

Rhinestones

Heat Tool

Balger Cord

Large Needle

Thick Foam (like kids' craft foam)

Scissors

Prismacolor Pencils in Non Photo Blue, Cool Grey 90%, Dark Brown, Rose Deco

Card Stock

Adhesive

Directions:

1.  Stamp both images with Versamark on watercolor paper.  Stamp the Snowflake image twice next to each other.

2.  Cover with White Pearl Embossing Powder and shake off the excess.

3.  Use the Embossing Heat Tool to emboss the background.

4.  Color both images with Tombow markers and the brush.  I colored on the blending palette and picked up the color and painted with my water brush.  Let dry.

5.  Cut around the snow queen image with scissors.

6.  Adhere the snow queen to the background.  

7.  Place the project on the foam and use the needle to poke holes in swirl shapes coming from her hand.

8.  Backstitch with the Balger cord into all of the holes, sewing down the buttons wherever you want them.

9.  Enhance the snow queen image by coloring over some of the water colored muscles with colored pencils.  Color around the snow queen image cut out with non-photo blue.

10.  Assemble the card, placing shanked buttons over the May Arts ribbon.

11.  Add rhinestones.

Don't forget that today's post is part of a blog hop!  So, leave a comment and check out the rest of the players for today:

Stampendous Blog

Kristine Reynolds

Lea Fritts

Pam Bray

Jamie Martin

Laura Drahozal

Pam Hornschu

Louise Healy

Janelle Stollfus

Wendy Price

Tenia Nelson

Buttons Galore and More

31 Days of Halloween and Dreamweaver Thursday

Welcome to Dreamweaver Thursday and another 31 Days of Halloween Post for Smeared and Smudged!  Here is my post for today:

This is what it looks like in the shade......

and this is what it looks like in the sunlight.

Materials:

Bats Stencil DWLL525

Damask Bats Rubber Stamp RS-R206

Halloween Wish Rubber Stamp RS-H309

Black Matte Embossing Paste DWDMBP

Paste Spreader

Dreamweaver Palette Knife

Versamark Ink

Kaliedoscope Embossing Powder

Marcasite Embossing Powder

Black Pigment Ink

DecoArt Chalk Paint in Black

Green Raffia

Card Stock in Black, Green and Purple

Removable Tape

Red Rhinestones

Paper Towels

Brush

Embossing Heat Gun

3D Foam Squares

Adhesive
Craft Mat

Directions:

1.  Use the Versmark Ink to stamp the Damask Bats Rubber Stamp on green card stock.
2.  Pour Kaliedoscope Embossing Poser over the stamped image and shake off excess.
3.  Heat Emboss
4.  Stamp Halloween Wish stamp on purple card stock using black pigment ink.
5.  Pour Marcasite Embossing Powder over the word and shake off the excess.
6.  Heat Emboss
7.  Put a little chalk ink onto your craft mat and add some water.
8.  Paint over the top of the bat image and tap off with paper towels.
9.  Use the paint on the edges of the bat image and the words to distress the images.  Let dry.
10.  Tape the stencil over the bat damask image.  Use a large piece of tape across the top of the entire stencil.  Then, tape all around the edges and the bottom.
11.  Use the palette knife to place the embossing paste on the paste spreader.  Make sure that the strip of paste you use is as long as the stencil is wide.
12.  Place the paste spreader on the top edge of the stencil.  The paste should be at the bottom and facing you.
13.  With the spreader in constant contact with the stencil, pull it towards you, filling in all the wells of the stencil with paste.
14.  Use the palette knife to scrape the paste off the stencil and place it back in the container.
15.  Remove the tape from the sides and bottom of the stencil.
16.  Using the tape on the top as a hinge, carefully lift the stencil from a corner.
17.  Remove the stencil completely and let the paste dry.
18.  Tie raffia around the bottom of the image.
19.  Use 3D Foam Dots to attach the words.
20.  Attach the image to the background.
21.  Place the rhinestones for eyes.

Thanks for stopping by.  Here are the rest of the players for Dreamweaver Thursday this week:

PAM HORNSCHU

LOUISE HEALY

ALISON HEIKKILA

KRISTINE REYNOLDS

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