A Stampendous Haunted Week and Spooky Month

Happy {haunted} Monday! 

Oh boy, are you in for a surprise. I worked up a great little "bendy card" for two very fun reasons. This week at Stampendous is a fun little theme, "You GOT it? FLAUNT it!!" Sooooo, I thought I better get a little spooky and haunt my blog today.

The second reason is also a fun challenge that Stampendous is also a participant in and the design team took the challenge to create a NEW project every day and link it up to the Stampendous blog.

Smeared Ink Blog

So with my best creepy and spooky self, I created a haunted forest.

And a creeky and spooky house.

With a cursed black cat crossing the road.

Windy road to a haunt on a hill.

A haunted house on a hill with a petty graveyard for a view, just to say "Have a Spooktacular Halloween"

Click on any photo to enlarge it, and my camera was on a tripod so I only angled my shots in one direction when taking the close up, so I'm sorry if it makes you feel like your sliding off a hill. lol I guess it might just be you are!

Supplies:

Stampendous:
SSC1229 Spooky House Perfectly Clear Stamps
DCS5078 Create Fall Die Cut Set
DWLL332 Picasso Stencil/Shield
EP215 Hermatite PEARLustre Embossing Powder
MPW811 Fran's Mixed Media White Paper
MEM01 Memento™ Tuxedo Black Ink by Tsukineko®
Perfectly Clear Acrylic Stamp Handles (various)

Plus:
Cardstock by Paper Accents®
Colorbox Pigment Ink by Clearsnap® in Iris, Royal Blue and Frost White
Markers by Copic® (T2, T4, T6, Y31, YR24, YR27, Y35, YG21, YG63, YG93, YG97, B39, BV02, BV04, BV20, BV23, E33, E43, E44, E70, E74, E87, E89, 0 - blender pen)
Colored Pencils by Prismacolor® on owl highlights and leaves
Mono Liquid Glue by Tombow®
Double-sided tacky tape
Sponge
Craft knife


Instructions:

1. Cut two pieces of cardstock 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches, then cut one piece at 2 1/2 inches so there is 2 1/2  x 5 1/2 inch and 1 3/4 x 5 inch flap pieces.
2. Score the two flap pieces along the short edge in 1/4 - 1/2 inches to use as the edge to glue onto the card base.. On the opposite end create a tab, this example has them 1/4 inch deep and about 1/2 to 1 inch wide. Free-hand cut curves on the long edge for hills.
3. Die cut grass on skinny pieces of green cardstock. Cut slits across the bottom and glue to the back side of the curve side of the flaps.
4. Cut two pieces of gray paper the same length as the flaps and cut into curves, one at a time, by first sketching lines in pencil. Color top edges with gray markers and blender pen.
5. Add more grass panels where needed and set flaps aside.
6. Dab a corner of sponge with Frost White and rub on craft mat to soften on sponge, then in a circular motion rub onto top half of 5 1/2 x 4 1/4 inch card base.
7. Using the Picasso as a shield sponge cloud tops with Iris ink on a corner of sponge and premixing into the sponge onto craft mat or plastic plate. Go back over some areas with Royal Blue ink.
8. Cut green cardstock the size of card base and trim long side into a curve for house hill, glue to card base.
9. Stamp all images except cat from the Spooky House Perfectly Clear Stamp set in black ink and color.
10. Cut out all pieces with scissors and/or craft knife.
11. Begin adhering pieces where desired.
12. Stamp graveyard, moon and sentiment with black ink onto card base.
13. Stamp cat with watermark ink and emboss with Hematite PearLustre Embossing Powder, cut out and use black Foam Square to pop up on road.
14. Adhere ghost onto a piece of clear plastic packaging and then onto flap (as shown).

You can search online for photo and video instructions to make a basic bendy (bendi) card, that is where I started.

Whew! I think that is it! If you have any questions you can leave a comment and I'd be happy to answer them as soon as I can.

You can go back to either the Stampendous blog or Smeared Ink blog for the full hop list, but I guess you can also just hop to Shell's blog and keep hopping! Thank you for stopping by!!!!!!

Pumpkin Yum-o!

It's a favorite in our family during fall. Pumpkin Pie! It's been a few years, back when we started making trips to the pumpkin patch in preschool that I was handed a recipe for scratch pumpkin pie. If you bought a pie pumpkin you received their family recipe. There is a bounty stock of puree in our freezer that is used for our Thanksgiving pumpkin pie! It is the best ever! Yum-O!

Now that I've got our minds and taste buds wandering around our memories of past pies, I'm going to switch it up and move to the theme this week for the Stampendous team. Pumpkins!!!!!! Bet that wasn't a surprise being my intro and it's the last day of the theme week. Haha.

I'm sharing this Eek A Boo card I made a few weeks back for the All In One theme. It's a pumpkin for Halloween sort and these characters were so fun to color.

Supplies:

Stampendous:W154 Eek A Boo Stamp
SSC1208 Tricky Words Perfectly Clear Stamps Set
DCS5081 Create A Poinsettia Die Cut Set
DWLX7029 Graduated Dot Stencil
DWDMBP Matte Black Embossing Paste
DWDPK Palette Knife
DWLM2010 Paste Spreader
FRCK04 Hot Fragments Kit
MEM01 Memento Tuxedo Black Ink by Tsukineko®
MMPW811 Mixed Media White Paper

Plus:
Cardstock by Bazzill Basics®
Chameleon Pens®
Ribbon by May Arts®
Scissors
Mono Liquid Glue by Tombow®
Removable Clear Tape

Instructions:

1. Tape stencil onto cardstock and spread paste along one side of stencil with palette knife.
2. At 30 degree angle with paste spreader, sweep paste across stencil. Return unused paste to container, clean rim and close lid tightly.
3. Remove three sides of tape from stencil using the last tape as a hinge to lift up stencil from cardstock. Set aside paper to dry.
4. Rinse stencil immediately with nail brush in warm water.
5. Stamp Eek A Boo onto Mixed Media White Paper and color.
6. Trim around image with scissors.
7. Cut frame die from Create A Poinsettia and cut in half to glue on the top and bottom edges of Eek A Boo image.
8. Scribble Liquid glue around the middle of the dry stenciled cardstock and sprinkle Hot Fragments over it, tapping off excess and return to container.
9. Glue down Eek A Boo image onto stenciled cardstock and tie a bow around it with ribbon.
10. Glue onto card base.
11. Stamp sentiment from Tricky Words onto white cardstock and color markers. Trim and glue onto card.

There is more inspiration from my teammates today! Please head on over to see what they've created!

Stampendous Stamps

Lea Fritts

Janelle Stollfus

Kristine Reynolds

Easy-Peasy Card Making

Hello there, holiday stampers! Oh yes, it's time to switch gears and prepare for some of those fun and precious holidays were we like to stamp our little fingers to the bone.

The good news is Fran Seiford at Stampendous thought of our tired little fingers and designed some super stamps called All in Ones. There are 10 stamps the cover Fall and Winter holidays and just as they are will take an easy one-stamping to get your card mailing list out faster. 

Fran created these stamps to include the image, sentiment, backgrounds and frame so all we have to do is just stamp it, sign it, and mail it. The simplest way to go is stamping on colored or monoprint paper, and adhere it on to a card base. Even more simple would be to stamp right on the card base adding a few color spots and move on to the next card.

All that said you still can't help, okay I couldn't help myself, to add some other fun elements to my samples today. 

Eek A Boo Stamp by Stampendous with Tricky Words Sentiment

Eek A Boo was colored with Chameleon Pens and hand trimmed then layered with neon green die cut paper onto a black embossed stenciled cardstock. Some Hot Fragments thrown over glue and then finished with a bow before gluing it down on the card base.

Here's the short list of supplies I used to get this card finished.

Stampendous: 
Eek A Boo Rubber Stamp
Tricky Words Perfectly Clear Stamps Set
Create A Poinsettia Die Set
Graduated Dot Stencil
Black Matte Embossing Paste
Palette knife and Paste Spreader
Hot Fragments Kit
Fran's Mixed Media White Paper
Memento™ Tuxedo Black Ink by Tsukineko®

Plus:
Chameleon Pens
Cardstock
Ribbon by May Arts

My next card has some fun layers, but the image is quickly done in one-stamping fashion, colored and hand trimmed with a bow added before gluing down on a few layers on the card base.

Scarecrow Kisses by Stampendous

Stampendous: 
Scarecrow Kisses Rubber Stamp
Fran's Mixed Media White Paper
Memento™ Tuxedo Black Ink by Tsukineko®

Plus:
Chameleon Pens
Color cardstock
Ribbon by May Arts
Black rhinestones

I hope you've enjoyed my cards today and if you are looking for more inspiration and more All in One stamps you are in luck. Take a look at what my fellow teammates created this week, too!

Stampendous Blog

Asia King

Jamie Martin

Amy Hurley-Purdie (Tuesday Post)

Janelle Stollfus

Amy Hurley-Purdie

There are even more projects on the Stampendous blog here!

Owl Send you a Card

Stampendous is wrapping up the Halloween season with a theme on WHOOOOOOO's ready for Halloween. Yes, we've got the OWL about are blogs.

This card today is one I made up just this month. It showcases Tombstone Owl from last seasons study of owls, but it also has THIS SEASON's Tangled Border stamp. I'm really loving the way it works at creating pattern paper. Love it!

Supplies:

From Stampendous:

Y029 Tangled Border

P241 Tombstone Owl

CP811 Creative Palette

EKM04 Fusion Stack Art Kit

Versafine Onyx Black Ink by Tsukineko

Plus:

Dark Cashmere Ink by Colorbox® (for Graphics 45®)

White cardstock by Bazzill Basics®

Brown Cardstock by Bazzill Basics®

Blue Cardstock by Graphics 45®

Square envelope (5 1/2 inches)

Copy Paper or notebook paper

Metallic Silver Cardstock by Wausau Paper®

Acrylic Paint by DecoArt®

White Big Brush Pen by Faber-Castell®

3-in-1™ Glue by Beacon Adhesives®

Thin 3D Foam Adhesives by Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L®

Ribbon by May Arts Ribbon

Craft Heat Tool

Stamp Position Tool

Sponge

Instructions:

Mask Preparation

1. Stamp Tombstone Owl twice onto copy paper. 
2. On the first image (background mask) cut out the owl on the tombstone.
3. For the second image (owl mask) cut around the edge of the image keeping the owl and tombstone still attached to the larger sheet of paper.

Card Assembly

1. Fold an 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inch brown cardstock in half so the fold is along the 5 1/2 inch length of the card. Finished folded size will be 5 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches.
2. Stamp Tangled Border on blue cardstock cut to 5 1/4 x 4 inches with Dark Cashmere in offset rows. Glue to card base. Doodle highlights with white brush pen. Add a border with a dark colored marker (optional).
3. Tie ribbon in a knot onto the card and trim tails.
4. Create monoprint paper with Creative Palette and acrylic paints in blues and charcoal gray. Set aside to dry or use a heat tool.
5. Place the background mask onto your monoprint paper and sponge white acrylic paint where the owl and tombstone would be on the image. Let dry while cutting away the moon on the background mask.
6. Place the owl mask over the sponged masked area just completed, then temporarily add the moon cut from the background mask for a guide to place the rest of the background mask. 
7. Take away the moon mask and sponge with white paint around the owl and tombstone for a glowing effect. Now sponge the moon area.
8. Use a stamp position tool to stamp Tombstone Owl with Onyx Black ink onto monoprint paper. Trim around outer edges of image and adhere to brown cardstock. Adhere to card base with foam adhesive squares.
9. Using 3-in-1 glue, create a web of adhesive around three corners of the image and onto the card. Sprinkle Teal Mica Fragments from Fusion Kit onto glue and lightly press down. Shake off excess and repeat this time using the Lime Micro Glitter.
10. Stamp a couple of the clouds and cut out from metallic silver cardstock. Adhere onto sponged image with foam adhesives.
11. This card will fit into a 5 1/2 inch square envelope.

Done!

Details:
Stamps: Tangled Border and Tombstone Owl (Stampendous)
Paper: White and Brown Cardstock (Bazzill Basics), Blue Cardstock (Graphics 45), printer or notebook paper, Metallic cardstock (Wausau)
Ink: Versafine Onyx Black Ink (Tsukineko)
Accessories: Creative Pallette and Fusion Stack Art Kit (Stampendous), acyrlic paint (DecoArt), white brush pen (Faber-Castell), 3-in-1 Glue (Beacon Adhesives), Thin 3D Foam Squares (Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L), ribbon (May Arts Ribbon), heat tool, stamp position tool, sponge

A Spooky Pumpkin Parade

The Stampendous design team gets to parade our pumpkin projects this week. I'm so excited to share my project. It's rare I have the time to create a 3-D project and so without further lingering here's my spooky house! 

You can see the instructions (including Copic marker colors) over on the Stampendous website as well as other Halloween projects.

Details:
Stamps: Punkin Ghouls and Tricky Words (Stampendous)
Paper: White cardstock
Ink: Tuxedo Black Memento, VersaMark Watermark Ink (Tsukineko), Electric Purple, Electric Orange (Tsukineko), Black Gesso (DecoArt), Alcohol Markers (Copic)
Accessories: Spoonful of Midnight Kit, (Stampendous), Jumbo Perfectly Clear™ Acrylic Handle (Stampendous), ribbon (May Arts), Paper Mache house (Paper Studio), Zip-Dry glue (Beacon Adhesives)

Stampendous Witchy Wonders Theme

Hey there crafty friends, it's all hallow's month and Stampendous has been showcasing the Halloween Collection from the July 2014 Catalog. This week as you have gathered from the title post is Witchy Wonders.

My card today is with an image that reminds me a lot like June Cleaver admiring her jack-o-latern mastery. She even has the pearl necklace and web net apron to work in fashion with the jack-0-lantern. So here it is!

The design team at Stampendous has been sharing their Witchy Wonders from the July 2014 Catalog and you can see more by going to the Stampendous blog for a link list.

You can see the instructions on how I made this card over on the Stampendous Website. Thank you for stopping by and checking out my Lady and Jack card today.

Details:
Stamps: Lady and Jack (Stampendous)
Paper: Cardstock by Bazzill Basicx®
Ink: Memento™ Tuxedo Black ink by Tsukineko
Accessories: Spoonful of Midnight Kit (Stampendous), ribbon by May Arts Ribbon®

House-Mouse Designs from Stampendous

While there are a few weeks yet before we arrive to Halloween, my children managed to get through a whole day of school before calculating a countdown to the upcoming holidays and even creating a list of Christmas gifts, That my friends is what going to school is all about. I just love how a child's mind works.

I'm not quite yet ready to start shopping for Christmas, but I have come to the conclusion that I need costumes are quick on the horizon of my holiday to-do list. The crisp air is preparing us for the fun and festive months ahead, but today we can enjoy cute House-Mouse Designs images available through Stampendous.

Instructions:

1. Cut colored cardstock into a strip and tie ribbon in a bow.
2. Adhere to card base.
3. Make a dotted line of glue above and below strip of cardstock.
4. Sprinkle Vintage Mahogany Glitter from the Green Kit over the wet glue. Tap off excess and return to jar.
5. Stamp Star Costume onto white cardstock and color.
6. Cut out image with circle die and also a larger circle in colored cardstock.
7. Glue image to larger circle.
8. Add Thin Square Dots to back of image panel and put on card base.

You can enjoy more House-Mouse Designs® from the Design Team this week on the Stampendous blog.

Details:
Stamps: Star Costume (Stampendous)
Paper: White Cardstock (Neenah Paper), Chocolate, Orange and Orchid cardstock by Bazzill Basic
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black (Tsukineko), Copic Markers (R01, Y11, Y13, Y15,  Y26, Y35, YR00, YR01, YR07, YR14, YR15, YR24, BV20, BV23,  V91, E21, E23,  E25, E42,  E50, E51, YG61, YG63, YG67, YG91, YG97)
Accessories: Frantage Encrusted Jewel Technique 5-Jar Green Kit (Stampendous), glue, ribbon (MayArts)

Stampendous July 2014 Catalog Sneak Peek!

This week the design team at Stampendous is posting sneak peeks for the NEW July 2014 Catalog! Keep checking on the Stampendous blog daily for a hop list of designers.

Details:
Stamps: Scraggly Cat, Tricky Words and Damask Bats Background (Stampendous)
Paper: White cardstock (Neenah), colored cardstock (Bazzill Basics®)
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Versamark Watermark (Tsukineko), colored pencils (Prismacolor)
Accessories: Spoonful of Midnight Kit (Stampendous), Aged Wine Embossing Enamel (Stampendous),  Color Fragments in Ochre, Caramel and Purple (Stampendous), ribbon (MayArts), 3-in-1 Glue (Beacon Adhesives)

Stampendous Still Spooked

Happy Halloween Kiddos! Well, that's what I'm showcasing from the July Catalog today, my second post this week with another really cute Halloween Kiddos.

These Kiddos are great for scrapbook pages when trick or treating is over and it's time to store those memories. Find more on the Stampendous Catalog, your favorite online store or a good ol' fashion store with doors near you!

Doesn't it always seem to be more spooky on Halloween night. Boo!

Copics Used:

Skin: YR000, E51, E44, BV00

Hair: E25, E49

Bag: YR04, YR16, YR18

Costume: W-2, W-5, W-7

Flashlight: E44

There are some other fabulous projects being shared today. Find out who they are on the Stampendous company blog. Have a great day.

Details:
Stamps: Burglar Kiddo (Stampendous)
Paper: Ruby Vintage and Black Magic textured paper (Core'dinations), white (Neenah)
Ink: Tuxedo Black (Memento, Tsukineko), Copic Markers
Accessories: Scissors, Sand It Gadget (Core'dinations)

Here's a moonlit scare

Have you all enjoyed watching the Stampendous team all wobblin' in style with the Action Wobbles team? It has been so much fun to try out the springs on Changito Pilot, Christmas Kitten and now Bat Girl Kiddo. Thanks for stopping by and letting me humor you with some creativity in cards and videos. Today is our last hop with the Action Wobble team and it's going to be a two-cup hop (we're all hopping today) so grab your cup of choice and enjoy some fun time with us!

Bat Girl Kiddo is wobblin' from a spook in the night! LOL Colored with Copic Markers and fussy cut out, she's the right size and shape for the action wobble spring. I wanted this Kiddo to pop off the page from the card background so I used the paint with powder technique on the Cling Crowscape (with Aged Ochre Embossing Enamel, Aged Wine Embossing Enamel and Aged Teal Embossing Enamel then for a bit of Fran•táge technique I threw a dash of Aged Black Embossing Enamel on a couple of corners and heated from the back side of the card).

Today's hop has prizes!

We're going to be giving away

 

6 Action Wobbles Springs

and

CRV265 Cling Hula Kiddo

To one lucky Blog Hopper!

But there's more! How about a second prize of

 

6 Action Wobbles Springs

and

 

CRW076 Tree Trim Kiddos 

to a second lucky Blog Hopper!!

(because we want to see that top Kiddo wobbling with that star!)

How can you win? Comment on the blogs below! At the end of the weekend (yes, you have until Sunday night, August 19th) we'll choose two of the blogs below at random. They will then choose a random winner and we'll notify you on the Stampendous blog! Be sure to come back on Monday to see if you are a winner!

Here's who is playing today:

1. Stampendous Impressions Blog	17. Theresa
2. Action Wobbles Blog	18. Stephanie Lee
3. April Derrick	19. Susie Moore
4. Cyndi Bundy	20. Jenny
5. Mary	21. Suzanne Czosek
6. Jan Garber	22. Taylor Usry
7. Janelle Stollfus	23. Janis
8. Kate	24. Tenia Nelson
9. Jennifer Ingle	25. Wendy Jordan
10. Krissy Fossmeyer	26. Tricia
11. Julie	27. Wendy Price
12. Kristine Reynolds	28. Tobi Crawford
13. Lea Kimmel	29. Monica
14. Sherri	30. Heather
15. Melinda Gleissner	31. Midge
16. Pam Hornschu

Missed the beginning of our week of wobbles??? Check them out here - MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, FRIDAY


Details:
Stamps: Bat Girl Kiddo (Stampendous), Crowscape Background Stamp (Stampendous)
Paper: White (Mohawk), Brown
Ink: Tuxedo Black (Stampendous), Versamark Watermark Stamp Pad (Tsukineko), Alcohol markers (Copic)
Accessories:  Aged Ochre Embossing Enamel, Aged Wine Embossing Enamel, Aged Teal Embossing Enamel and Aged Black Embossing Enamel (Stampendous), Spring (Action Wobble, Inc.)

Why I love Kittens and Fishing Poles

because a feline's gotta fish! LOL Well, I really love them because Stampendous makes them adorable this summer with new images now available in stores near you or at their webstore! I'm sharing two cards today perfect for the trendy coloring style we all do for our homemade cards. Don't let that stop you if you're not of coloring mind, it's easy to use them on pattern paper for piecing or glitter and Fun Flock or... however you want!

My first card has Punkin Kitty and Autumn Words stamps. I colored with the popular Copic Markers and added some Prismacolor Pencils for some precise shading. I mean, when you mess up and want to cover it up, use colored pencils, right? lol I switched lids on my markers and picked up the darker YR for Punkin's head, so I lightened up with some colored pencils.

Fishing Kiddo is THE sweetest scene stamp for a masculine card! I'm usually hard pressed to finish off a card when it's just a character image, but this one makes it EASY to cover the whole card because it's already got a background included.

Now remember this week there are PRIZES, PRIZES, PRIZES! Comment on all the blogger's post today to win this fabby duo. The winner will be announced on the Stampendous blog tomorrow morning.

Making a comment on any or all of these blogs will provide you multiple chances to win the random drawing for today's prize

Stampendous Impressions	Susie Moore
Jennifer Ingle	Lea Kimmel
Kristine Reynolds	Rhea Weigand
Jennifer Dove	Wendy Price
Lynn Mercurio	Janelle Stollfus (blog candy)
Taylor Usry (blog candy)	Suzanne Czosek
Jan Garber	Tenia Nelson

I've got a blog candy going on this week to celebrate the Stampendous catalog! Just comment on each of my STAMPENDOUS posts (Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday) and I'll draw a winner and announce on Monday morning.

Punkin Kitty Card Details:
Stamps: Punkin Kitty (Stampendous) Autumn Words (Stampendous)
Paper: White (Mohawk), Kraft (Mohawk), Panzy (Bazzill Basics)
Ink: Tuxedo Black (Memento, Tsukineko), Versamark Watermark Stamp Pad (Tsukineko), Alcohol Markers (Copic)
Accessories: Aged Spice Embossing Enamel (Stampendous), Aged Wine Embossing Enamel (Stampendous), ribbon (May Arts), 

Fishing Kiddo Details:
Stamps: Fishing Kiddo (Stampendous)
Paper: White (Mohawk), Candle and Tangelo (Bazzill), Black cardstocks
Ink: Tuxedo Black Ink Pad (Memento, Tsukineko), Alcohol Markers (Copic)
Accessories: Black Gingham Ribbon, Corner rounder, Glue (Tombo Liquid)