Designer's Choice Challenge at Repeat Impressions

Hi blog friends!!!  I'm happy to tell you, it's warmer here in the northeast.  We enjoyed a high of 25 degrees above zero this afternoon.  Woohooo!  Shedding another layer! 

It's Designer's Choice Challenge at Repeat Impressions/The House That Stamps Built and this time Joyce is challenging us to create a BOLD and colorful card.  It's a real "pick-me-up" challenge for us who suffer from cabin fever and long for some bright and happy colors covering our craft tables. 

Here's my card for Joyce's challenge

 

This card was made using RI stamp # 9001-L Butterfly Lg.  I stamped him twice.  First on a piece of card stock and colored in the wings with Copic Markers.  I stamped him again on vellum using VersaMark ink and embossed him in clear ep and again colored the wings with the same colors of the cs butterfly.  I then glued the vellum butterfly to the cs butterfly and the results were amazing!  The camera doesn't pick it up here, but the butterfly looks like fine porcelin.  I have to try this technique again with another image it's quite a dramatic look.  The dp is from the fabulous paper pack by DCWV "Mariposa" and the sketch was one I found in CardMaker's Sektch Book I bought on sale at Annie's Attic.

 

Thanks so much for stopping by.  I hope you'll join me and my Rock Star Teamies and create a card for Joyce's challenge.  If you do, enter it in the linked in area at The House and you'll be entered to win a $25.00 gift certificate for some of RI's fabulous stamps. 

 

For more inspiration check out the other Rock Stars

 

Joyce - Joy - Karen - Kecia - Geri - Christy

 

Get bold and colorful with Joyce's challenge at The House and have some fun and win some great stamps too!!! 

 

 

 

 



 



CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE AT OUTLAWZ

Warmest greetings, blog friends!  I hope it's been warm and toastie where you live.  Here in New England and the US Northeast, we've been living through a deep freeze.  Almost a full week of double digit below zero temperatures - today's better though...it's already up to 19 above zero!!!

Over at Outlawz, the CAS challenge this week is "White Out" and here's the challeng

It's a "White Out Challenge"! An ode to snow, if you will.

Let's celebrate its beauty by creating a card/project that has ONLY white!!! Your stamped image(s) and sentiment may be colored, but the remainder of the card (base, papers and embellies) must all be white.

 

There are some fabulous prizes to win so we hope you'll take the challenge and join us at Outlawz. 

 

Here's my card for the challenge.

 

 

Thanks so much for stopping by and I welcome your comments.  Have a great week everyone. 

 

 

 

WHAT IF? WEDNESDAY AT REPEAT IMPRESSIONS

Happy Wednesday blog friends and welcome to The House That Stamps Built  WIW sketch challenge. 

Here is the sketch for the challenge and we hope you'll take the challenge and join us.

 Here's my card

My card was made using RI Stamp #1930-I and colored with Copic markers.  The dp came from the BoBunny "Powder Mountain" collection.
  
Come on over to The House and play along with this challenge.  You have a full week to enter your card project to win a $25.00 gift certificate for some fabulous Repeat Impression stamps.  If you use RI stamps on your card, you'll be entered twice.  Have some fun and join this sketch challenge. 

Check out my Rock Star Teamies for even more fun ways to show off this sketch.

Christy - Geri - Joy - Joyce - Karen - Kecia

 

 

Thank you so much for stopping by.

 



STAMP OF THE WEEK TIME AT REPEAT IMPRESSIONS

It's Monday blog friends, and once again it's Stamp of the Week Time at The House That Stamps Built.  This means you can purchase the stamp we're featuring this week at 50% off the retail price just by grabbing "the code" from The House and when you purchase this stamp, you use the code at checkout.  The offer on this stamp is good for only this week, but each and every Monday, Wendy and Bill offer another fabulous Repeat Impressions stamp at 50% off. 
So sign up to follow their blog and take advantage of this great weekly deal. 

Here's this week's fabulous stamp

Large Arch Window #621-K

 

I have to say, thinking up a design for this stamp was a true challenge for me.  I had so many ideas yet nothing seemed to come out as I planned or thought it should.  Then I had an image in my mind of an old Masonic Lodge building in the town where I was raised and the windows resembled this stamp enough that I found my inspiration from that memory.  



I stamped the image on acetate with StazOn ink.  When It was dry, I cut out the shape and colored the windows with stickles.  Once the stickles dried, I added Glossy Accents to the side with the Stickles and glued it over the window I created using a Movers and Shapers die.  The window was cut after I'd embossed the "brick" with an ef inked in white ink onto sandy colored cs.  I then layered a panel of grey behind the embossed image and layered it onto a white base.   The window "frame" was made with scrapes and colored with Copics in an attempt to give it a weather-beaten look.  The sentiment is RI #1105-E

Check out these amazing creations by my RI Teamies

Karen - Geri

 

And don't forget...there's still time to play along with the Designer's Choice Challenge at The House.....make a slide or pull card and enter to win a full sheet of RI stamps of your choice....here are the details
Here are all the details…

1. Create a slide or pull style card. And remember, your creation does not have to be made with Repeat Impressions stamps, but if you would like to include our designs we would reeeally love to see them! Plus, there’s an added bonus… you will get an additional entry in our random.org drawing for using our stamps in your submissions!2. Post your DCC creation on your blog or online gallery and be sure to reference Repeat Impressions DCC116 ~ Slide or Pull Cards. Then link it here with the inlinkz widget below. (Please provide a direct link to your post, not the entire blog.)3. Submissions will be accepted until Tuesday, January 29th at 5PM EST.
4. On January 30th we will introduce a new Designer’s Choice Challenge (DCC) to play along with and announce our winner for January. For this challenge the winner will receive any one unmounted sheet of stamps of their choice!

Thank you so much for stopping by.  I hope you have a wonderful week and do some fun crafting. 

 



OUTLAWZ CAS CHALLENGE

Greetings blog friends!

You're invited to join the CAS Challenge at Outlawz where the super talented Stephanie Mino is challenging us to "Tea Time".  Here's her challenge.

It's "Tea Time!"....January is "Hot Tea Month" and if you are like me you enjoy a cup of hot tea every once in a while. This week, your challenge is to create a CAS card that features a beverage. It could be tea, of course......but, coffee lovers, and martini drinkers are also welcomed for this week's challenge! ;-)


Here is the card I made for Stephanie's challenge

Stamp set is from SmARTworks

 

Thank you for stopping by, I hope you'll head on over to Outlawz become a member (if you aren't already) and join any one of the many challengs going on...there are some fabulous prizes for you to win each and every week.