Photography by Martha Schuster featured in Somerset Life 2011 Sometimes as artists, life gives us lemons – the bitterness of writer’s block or the tart inability to create. But instead of letting our day go sour, we must find a remedy to bring sweet ideas to life! While skimming the pages of our past issues, I [...]
What a bright idea! Our creative Shoppe Manager shows how to alter the ordinary by transforming plain fabric into a pretty purse. In just a few simple steps, she unzips the secret to achieve ultimate functionality without compromising beauty and style. Materials: Fabric Page Marrakech Stencils Fabric Flowers Ink Spray Directions: First lay [...]
By the end of the week, your desk and your mind may be cluttered with to-do’s…but you’ve come to the right place if you’re looking to lighten your load. In hopes to transform your day from mundane to magical, our team of professional nit pickers came together to narrow down our 9 most popular Pinboards. [...]
Photograph by Susannah Conway; originally featured in the Winter ’13 issue of Somerset Life. Option 1: Think about a time when you were challenged to see something differently simply by changing your viewpoint. Use that memory as inspiration to write up a fitting caption for the image above. Option 2: If this photo doesn’t [...]
For a shiny New Year, soak up new projects, new techniques, and make a fresh creative start with the innovative ideas inside these stunning January reads! We’re sharing a special discount as per usual — just for our blog readers. (Have you subscribed yet? Click here to have our blog promos and projects sent directly [...]
In less than 24 hours, we’ll not only be welcoming 2013, but also the official arrival of Where Women Create BUSINESS! The highly anticipated premiere issue debuts on newsstands tomorrow and features advice columns and in-depth articles from numerous expert artisans and entrepreneurs, including Anna Griffin, Nancy Soriano, Kelly Rae Roberts, Vicki Brask, Holly Becker, [...]
“There aren’t many mistakes in an art journal. How can there be? An art journal is personal, so who is there to judge?” – Kate Crane We had such an overwhelmingly positive response to Kate Crane’s Guest Artist blog post back in July that we thought it only fitting to bring her back by [...]
We’re inviting you to be a stylist for a day and give us your best shot (pun totally intended) at snapping a styled photo of your favorite August Stampington magazine. We highlight our current titles in our Post Script e-letter that is sent to more than 38,000 readers and fans. Are you signed up? If [...]
Bring your most creative ideas to life with this remarkable selection of brand-new August issues from Stampington & Company. These titles showcase the best in contemporary mixed-media art, from wearable menswear-inspired altered art to a curation of blog-worthy stories told through emotional words and images. You’ll get whisked away to studio spaces of intelligent, creative [...]
We’ve got a tempting contest for you, and we hope you are up for the challenge. Do you have a template design bouncing around in your head that you’re just itching to get on paper? Take your napkin doodles and turn them into published templates! Over the 15 years that The Stampers’ Sampler has been [...]