Madison Avenue: Jumbo Cling Blog Hop

June 11, 2011

Jumbo Cling Blog Hop

Hello and welcome to the Stampendous Blog Hop, we are featuring the latest Cling Jumbo flowers for this fun hop, they are:

They are all so pretty, I had a hard time deciding which one to use. In the end though I chose the beautiful dogwood, because there are lots of dogwood trees in bloom around Northern California right now and I love love love them! I chose to interpret a beautiful pink dogwood, like this-

Isn't it gorgeous? I used colored pencils and some gamsol to color my dogwood, it is stamped on kraft cardstock first. I really like how colored pencils look on kraft cardstock, gives the color a bit more depth I think. After coloring my image, I carefully trimmed it out, this is kind of a chore but so worth the extra effort for a special card. Or if you didn't want to trim the whole thing, consider just trimming out the main flower and popping it up to give your card some dimension.

Before adhering the trimmed out flower, I stamped the Dream Text Background on a white cardbase using Frayed Burlap Distress ink, I added some Spun Sugar and Old Paper Distress inks around the edges too. I also trimmed a strip of pink cardstock and punched a scalloped edge along the top before adding a sentiment (from Happy Messages Perfectly Clear Set) , button and some coordinating twine. I love how all these simple embellishments allow the flower to stand out and be the star of the card.

Now just a few of my thoughts about the Jumbo Cling stamps from Stampendous:

They are large enough to fill an entire cardfront and stand alone.
They can also be stamped off the edge of a card and/or not used in their entirety to create a different look.
They make great background paper, simple and quick to cover a whole sheet.
They are so detailed that you do not have to color them in (great for people like me who are coloring challenged).
They work fabulously with acrylic paints also, I have used them for picture frames and I love the way they turned out.
Each large image also comes with a smaller coordinating image, I love to use these images as accents on all different projects (like the flourish I use ALL the time).
The Jumbo Perfectly Clear Handle that Stampendous sells to use with the Jumbo Clings works perfectly everytime, I always get a great impression.
Did I mention they are B-E-A-U-T-I-F-U-L???

So if all of these projects weren't enough, Stampendous is giving some of these flowers away. All you have to do is comment on all 13 blogs and your name will be entered to win! Here is the order of hoppin', be sure to check out all the stampy goodness out there!

Woo, that's a lot of hoppin' right? So get settled in and enjoy! Thank you so much for visiting! Have a fabulous weekend!

Jun 11, 2011 11:00:00 AM | Stampendous

63 Comments

Very pretty CAS card!

Posted by: Kristine Reynolds | June 11, 2011 at 11:19 AM

aackkkk.....LOVE every element of this. the background is so clever and the flower is gorgeous. CASE time!

Posted by: Joan B | June 11, 2011 at 11:23 AM

My goodness- so pretty- I love the colors-it looks so crisp and clean.

Posted by: Meg | June 11, 2011 at 11:24 AM

Beautiful card.

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Posted by: Michel Espey | June 11, 2011 at 12:28 PM

Love the gorgeously saturated pink of your dogwoods highlighted with your pretty scalloped pink border. Wonderful.

Posted by: Pam Hornschu | June 11, 2011 at 12:40 PM

beautiful! Love this flower on the dream background! And the button is the perfect finishing touch!

Posted by: Krissy | June 11, 2011 at 01:41 PM

Vibrant color! So pretty.

Posted by: Elissa Lyman | June 11, 2011 at 01:53 PM

Love your dogwood card and the subtle background is so pretty with your bright pinks.

Posted by: Anne Temple | June 11, 2011 at 02:11 PM

Thats gorgeous Geny! Love the colors, and you are right they are very rich!!
Cyndi

Posted by: Cyndi | June 11, 2011 at 02:14 PM

Beautiful color on the dogwood card! I love the twine and pink scalloped trim! Great job!

Barb F.

Posted by: Barbara Flass | June 11, 2011 at 02:55 PM

Simply beautiful card!
Hugz,
Gramma

Posted by: Marilynn Weaver | June 11, 2011 at 03:09 PM

Loving it! The background is just perfect with this stamp too!

XXX

Posted by: Lelia Pierce | June 11, 2011 at 04:01 PM

I love the Dogwood as well, we just went to Yosemite and they had some beautiful white Dogwood Trees there. Gorgeous job and I too consider myself 'coloring challenged' LOL!

Posted by: Barb Turpin | June 11, 2011 at 04:16 PM

I totally agree, these stamps are beautiful. So is your amazing card!

Posted by: Michelle Peterson | June 11, 2011 at 04:17 PM

Such a beautifully elegant card....looks sooooo classy!

Posted by: Anne-Marie | June 11, 2011 at 04:18 PM