Frantic Stamper 2017 Design Team

Frantic Stamper is pleased to announce our 2017 Design Team!

Returning from our 2016 team are:

Jen Carter, Assistant Team Leader
Karen Oliver
Michelle Leone
Kia Gibson-Clapper
Kendra Sand
Monica Edwards
Lyyn Mangan (through the end of February)

Our new full-time members selected for 2017 are:

Agnieszka Wolnicka-Pawlikk (aka Chanya)
Nancy Hill
Kate Dachovska
Mary Prasad
Jeanette Cloyd

Our guest selections are as follows:

January 1-April 30

Patricia Barton
Karen Letchworth
Holly Brown
Vickie Yeakley

May 1-September 30

Chrissy Larson
Sarah Elliot
Kathi Rerek
Brenda Nakandakari

October 1-December 30

Marleen Gallagher
Birgit Norton
Naki
Keia L. Shipp-Smith

Alternates (in case any of the guests above can't fullfill her term; if not used as an alternate, will have a guest slot in the first part of 2018)

Tasha Jorgensen
Pam MacKay

We want to congratulate those who will join our team in the next year, and thank all of the applicants. We hope that those who were not selected this time will continue to follow Frantic Stamper on social media and will apply again on our next design team call. We had so many very talented people apply, and there was only so much room on the team. It was truly hard to choose! We hope you will help us to welcome the new and returning members of the World's Greatest Design Team!

Please join us, too, in thanking departing members Janine Tinklenberg, Alanna Moses, and Becky Carafa. We will miss them, but we thank them for all they have done for the team, and we wish them all the very best!

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Winner of the Kokeshi Japanese Paper Doll Giveaway

We are happy to announce that the winner of our giveaway is Shari Hensley Garza with this comment



on Karen Oliver's post of the super cute paper clips with a variety of Kokeshi.



Congratulations, Shari! Please contact Fran with your address so we can get your die set on its way to you.

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Visions of the East Die Release and Giveaway

Once again the Frantic Stamper Design Team has outdone itself, producing beautiful cards using Frantic Stamper's newest die and stamp release, Visions of the East. Please take a few minutes to view the release video. We think you will be as enthralled as we are!



In addition to announcing the release, we are happy to share that we are having a giveaway of a die we think will be extremely popular, our Kokeshi Japanese Doll. Be sure to play along before December 14!
 

Lastly, we want to remind you of our Design Team Call. The call closes on December 20.

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Down on the Farm, November 2016

Welcome to the newest release of stamps and dies from Frantic Stamper! The World's Greatest Design Team has out together a video, on the Farm" to showcase the new barnyard products, available now for preorder, shipping on November 1st.



We hope you enjoyed our little show! Please click on over to our preorder page to place your order, and while you are there, be sure to check out all the other products on Frantic Stamper for all your papercrafting needs!

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Winter Wonderland Die Release

We have a wonderful new release of 22 winter-themed dies and one clear stamp set available for preorder at www.franticstamper.com, shipping on October 3.

Please enjoy the video slideshow that Fran put together to introduce the dies and share some inspiration created by the world's greatest design team.



Don't forget to checkout these dies and stamps and all the other wonderful products carried by Frantic Stamper

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Merry Christmas Die and Stamp Release (9/1/2016)

Today we are ready to share our upcoming HUGE release of Christmas and Holiday dies and clear stamps. They are available for preorder today at FranticStamper.com.

Check out the dies and stamps that are included in the release, along with wonderful samples made by the world's greatest design team, in this video.



We hope you have enjoyed seeing what we have available for you for the holiday season, and we hope to see you back here next month for our October die release video, as we continue forward with a monthly release schedule.

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Foiled Seashell (Jen Carter)

Foiled Seashell

by Jen Carter


Frantic Stamper has recently released a whole set of dies with a beach theme.  You can check out all of the dies in that release here. For today's card I went with a sea theme, using several of these new products.  I die cut the seagulls with a die called Flying Gulls.




This new Scallop Shell has so much detail built into it!  I love that about the Frantic Stamper dies!

Scallop Shell

I used a new technique (to me).  I used some Heidi Swapp Reactive Mist Spray on a piece of ivory cardstock and ran that through my Minc Machine with gold foil.  I then die cut the shell from that paper.  I really like the look it gave the seashell!  I then attached it to my card with dimensionals.

Thanks for stopping by today!

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*** Materials for this project available at www.franticstamper.com.

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A Crisp Fall Day Die Release

A new die release, A Crisp Fall Day, is available for pre-order at Frantic Stamper, shipping August first. To preview this release and some wonderful cards made by our design team, check out our new release video:

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Halloween Die Release

We are happy to announce our latest release of dies for Halloween, our mid-July 2016 die release, which are available now for pre-order, shipping on the 15th. We hope you will enjoy the following video we put together to showcase these new dies with cards made for your enjoyment by our fantastic design team!

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Faith and Sympathy Die Release, July 1, 2016

Today we have another release video to share with you, Faith and Sympathy, two of our more highly requested subjects. The dies are available for pre-order, shipping on the first of July.

We hope you will enjoy the video and the release.

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Happy Shaker (Kendra Sand)

Happy Shaker

by Kendra Sand


I LOVE the Retro Card Panel!! There are so many different ways you can use it!

For my card today I decided to create a shaker card. I took a piece of black cardstock and placed double sided tape on one side and then ran the panel through my die cutting machine, so that it would create a sticker. Then I was able to take the sticker panel and adhere it to a piece of acetate to create my shaker window.



I absolutely LOVE how the card turned out!!

Have a great day!

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*** Materials for this project available at www.franticstamper.com.

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Just Beachy! (Ginette Bourque, Special Contributor)

If you watched our most recent slideshow video, A Day at the Beach, you saw several cards from Ginette Bourque, our newest special contributor. Her work is absolutely amazing! She finds ways to use multiple dies or parts of dies to add perfect details to her beautiful scenic cards.

Here are two more of her fabulous cards that she created for our Day at the Beach die release.

First up is a beautiful scene set with our new lighthouse as the star of the show.



Ginette used five of our dies in creating the scene: lighthouse, seagull and pier posts, little clouds, village trees and shrubs, and the tugboat from our nautical icons.

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Next we have our surfers riding a big wave. For this card Ginette started with a free image from the web, and modified it with WOW Glitter White (surf), Micro Beads White/Clear (surf), Stampendous Fun Flock (sand), Cork Sheet (beach), and Glassine paper (surf). Finally, she added our three surfers.

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*** Materials for this project available at www.franticstamper.com.

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Life is Good in Flip Flops (Karen Oliver)

Life is Good in Flip Flops

by Karen Oliver


Today I am sharing a card using the Flip Flop die from the Vacation at the Beach release. This card also uses another die from this release called Life is Good.  It contains the words Life, live, is, a, good, sweet.

I cut several sets in different colours and used them to make my background to sit the flip flops on.  This is a great way to not only use word dies and scraps of card, but to create your own background paper.  It makes these dies just so versatile.

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*** Materials for this project available at www.franticstamper.com.

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Call Me (Monica Edwards)

Call Me

by Monica Edwards

Hi crafters! Say Hello (no pun intended) to one of Frantic Stampers recent release from the Retro Cool line.  This super cute die is  the Large Retro Telephone each piece is carefully designed to resemble an actual telephone.  Super easy to use and piece together for a clean and fun card!

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*** Materials for this project available at www.franticstamper.com.

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Embossing Backgrounds with Dies + Video (Jen Carter)

Embossing Backgrounds with Dies + Video

by Jen Carter


Hello!  Today I have a card & video to share using die cut card panels as a way to create embossed frames & backgrounds on cards. I LOVE finding ways to get more use out of my stamping supplies! Using a die to cut & emboss is a wonderful way to get more bang for your buck!  It makes the dies so versatile!

First up is a photo of the card I put together in the video.



I've used the Floral Eye Dazzler Card Panel Die to emboss the image onto the white background piece.  I LOVE how this looks on the white paper!  And the neat thing is that the back side of this paper looks equally cool only different (you can see that in the video).  I used the Scribble Roses dies to create the flower and the cute "hugs" sentiment is from the Accessory Words #3 die set.


Check out my video on how to create a background like this using the card panel background dies from Frantic Stamper! 



Here's a closeup of the background:



Don't you love all of that detail...from a die!?  It makes the die that much more versatile!



Next up is this card that I created using the same technique only this time I've layered on top of it so only the edges peek out.  To create the card I've used the Instant Camera 3x4 Photo Card die & the Wooden Wheelbarrow die.  The flowers are die cut from the Singing in the Rain die set.



You can see a closeup here.  I've used the Basket Weave Card Panel die to create the embossed frame.



The sentiment is from the Scribble Flowers #2 set.

Thanks for joining me today!

Have a great day!

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*** Materials for this project available at www.franticstamper.com.

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June 15 die release, Day at the Beach

We are pleased to introduce our newest release of dies, Day at the Beach, available for preorder now, shipping starting on June 15th.

We hope you will enjoy our introduction video with fabulous cards from all of our design team, but also showcasing our special contributor, Ginette Bourque.

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Typed Love Notes (Karen Oliver)

Typed Love Notes

by Karen Oliver


It took me a little while to come up with this idea.  I knew I wanted to make a pretty card to show off the typewriter.  I die cut the typewriter in brown and pushed out all the keys.  I placed double sided tape on the back and cut another in white then placed it on top of the brown one and carefully using a pin pushed the white keys out onto the double sided tape below.  I know I could have just used white card underneath but I wanted the keys to look like they were sitting above the base which I think I achieved doing it this way.  I then cut a small piece of white card and carefully cut along the back of the typewriter so the paper looked like it was in the roller.

I chose some patterned paper with a retro feel and with a bit of red so I could accent it with the heart and XO from the Valentine Confetti die.  I also used my absolute favourite Scalloped Border Trio die to cut the lacy edge.  Add a contrasting brown bow and there you have a pretty card that shows off the typewriter beautifully.

Retro Cool is such a fun release.

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*** Materials for this project available at www.franticstamper.com.

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Congratulations! (Becky Carafa)

Congratulations!

by Becky Carafa


This card was inspired by the colors.  Soft peach, olive-y green, and just a bit of gray.  My first step was to cut all the flowers.  I cut them twice each, from peach and lime cardstock.  I cut the leaves off the peach flowers and glued them on top of the lime ones.  I placed the flowers where I wanted them, then watercolored some patches underneath.  Once that panel dried, I glued all the flowers on and trimmed the edges.  I stamped the Congratulations on a gray strip, and layered it and a scalloped piece on the flower panel.  The whole flower panel is popped up, and I added some sequins last.

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*** Materials for this project available at www.franticstamper.com.

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