Stampendous and Artist Trading Block Hop Finale ....

The big “block” hop day is here! It’s time to pull up your comfy chair and favorite beverage while you are inspired by what the designers are creating for their own Artist Trading Blocks.

We are thrilled to bring you a blog hop today with more amazing artist trading block projects! Our designers have created some fabulous projects for today and we know you are excited to see them.

I have had so much fun working with the Artist Trading Blocks! For today's project, I pulled out some of my all time favorite stamps to create a bit of Halloween decor. 

Supplies Used:

•Stampendous (Tricky Words Perfectly Clear Set, Tomb Elements,  Damask Bats, Skull Stack, Tombstone Owl, Pop Up Die Set, Aged Silver Embossing Powder) 

•Sizzix (Artist Trading Blocks, Mat Board)

•Derwent Inktense Watercolor Pencils

•dry wall mesh, staples

I stamped the Tombstone scenes and colored them with watercolor pencils. When they were dry, I inked them up with a scrap of dry wall mesh as a stencil. Finally I added a bit of Aged Silver Embossing Powder around the edges randomly.  

I diecut stars from the scraps of mat board to use as embellishments on the blocks. Sentiments were stamped on Ticket diecuts from the Pop Up set and added to the block. 

We want to thank Eileen Hull, her amazing team and the fabulous products we were able to use this week. The idea of creating an artist trading block has changed our way of creating with new excitement. Even though we traditionally end our product partner weeks on a Friday the inspiration will continue as more projects come in and will be posted in a cumulative list at the end of each week.

We know this form of crafting will spark your interest and give your mojo a serious boost! That’s why we have prizes!!!  We’ll choose three winners at random from the comments on all blogs in the hop. Then from those three we’ll randomly pick a GRAND PRIZE winner! Two of the winners will receive Stampendous PenPattern Petal and PenPattern Flutter cling stamps, just like you’ll see on Kristine Reynolds amazing ATB sample. They’ll also receive enough pre-cut, premium matboard from Sizzix to make two boxes of your own, plus some extra pieces for fiddly bits! The Grand Prize winner will receive the stamps as above, a whole package of matboard, AND the Sizzix die to cut your own ATB boxes! Uh, WOW! If that weren’t enough, eligibility for these amazing prize packages has expanded to include our international fans too!

We know you won’t want to miss a single creation in this hop, and the Eileen Hull Designs Inspiration Team has several members that live outside the United States, so it took a while for them to get their products from us. We need to give them time to post and you time to comment, so the comment deadline will be Sunday, March 8th. A whole extra week! We will continue posting links as we receive them from the Inspiration Team, so be sure to keep checking back. You get one entry for every comment, so you don’t want to miss the chance to leave a thoughtful comment on each project. For those who tend to get lost, we’ll post a “cumulative” link list of links so far on Saturday, February 28th and Saturday, March 7th. Then you can check your progress.

Here are today’s participating designers -

Stampendous Blog

Pam Hornschu

Asia King

Jamie Martin

Kristine Reynolds

Janelle Stollfus

Tenia Nelson

Amy Hurley-Purdie

Wendy Price

Lea Kimmel

Anna-Karin Evaldsson

Anne Redfern

Donna Budzynski

Diana Hetherington

Oxana Moupasiridou

Eileen Hull’s Blog

Stampendous Links:

Shop Stampendous

Stampendous BlogFollow Stampendous:  Facebook * Twitter * Pinterest * Instagram

Eileen Hull Links:  

Eileen Hull Blog

Shop Eileen Hull Sizzix DiesFollow Eileen Hull: Facebook * Twitter * Pinterest * Google +* Instagram

The Artists on the Block Links:

The Artists on the Block BlogFollow The Artists on the Block: Facebook * Twitter * Pinterest