DESIGNER'S CHOICE CHALLENGE AT REPEAT IMPRESSIONS

To all my blog friends!

Wishing you all the best of everything and anything in the coming new year!  

It's time for a Designer's Choice Challenge from Repeat Impressions and The House That Stamps Built - this time the challenge is from my friend and Rock Star teamie the awesome and creative lady, Geri Utterback.  

Geri has  challenge us to use something new!!!!  Perfect challenge for a NEW year, Geri.  

I've been cleaning up my craft area (you may have seen my previous post and POTW) and I am using up some scraps.  I received a big envelop of awesome new stamps from RI some weeks back and I've been wanting to ink up this poinsettia stamp (#2012-H), so I found some pieces of scraps, die cut them with a Lotus die from Spellbinders and used it to frame the poinsettia.  Voila....a card!   

Jump in and play along with us....bring your new toys and have some fun.  Get all the details at The House That Stamps Built Blog.  

Now for more inspiration (and to check out their new toys), link to my Rock Star Teamies and see what they've created.

Geri - Brenda - Deonna - Joy - Joyce - Karen - Melissa

Thanks so much for stopping by!!!!  

PROJECT OF THE WEEK FOR REPEAT IMPRESSIONS

Hello and HAPPY NEW YEAR to everyone!  

It's Cheri Weston here with a new Project of the Week for Repeat Impressions and The House That Stamps Built. 

After the flurry of Christmas and all the projects I've been doing for several months, my craft area looked like a disaster area.  Things are scattered all over the place and organizing and cleaning up is absolutely necessary.  I have pieces of patterned paper and card stock in baggies and stacked along the sides of my work space and  I can't find anything.  Can you relate?  So what can we do with all those scrap pieces of paper?  Why not make more cards!!!  

My Project of the Week is to inspire you to use your scraps and here are a couple of cards I made using up some of the scraps I've had laying around.  

This first one is made using the Herringbone technique.  I cut my strips of paper at 3/8" wide and I assembled them randomly.  The center (first strip) must extend beyond corners of the layer piece so it will need to be longer than the others.

Supplies are minimal, just scraps of paper and adhesive.

Here are the steps:  

• A layering piece of card stock the size you desire.  I cut mine 4"X 5 1/4".  
• Adhere the first piece from corner to corner at the widest part of the layering piece.  
• Adhere a second and third strip on each side of the first strip to each outside corner to form a "T" quadrant and 4 open areas.  
• Begin assembling the strips as desired.

Here are some photos of the initial stages of assembly.

When the entire layer is covered with the strips, flip the project over and trim the pieces to fit the layer base.  This is now your background piece and can be used for a card.  

I used RI Stamp #1113-D "Happy Birthday" I love the font on this sentiment and it worked perfectly against this background.  

Here is other card I made using scraps.  

Stamps used on this card are RI 9309-C and 9313-D from the Pairings collection.  

I hope this will inspire you to use your scraps and create even more fabulous cards with all those left over papers.