MY PICKS OF THE WEEK FOR THE HOUSE THAT STAMPS BUILT

Happy New Year, everyone!!!!  

I'm here with my stamp picks for the week of December 31.  The stamps are discounted at 20% so grab them while you can.  

The stamps I've selected for you are RI#10201-W "Flower Power Background", 10307-H "Patti's Flower Outline", #10303-H "Kathy's Flower Outline", #10313-H "Daisy Outline Large", and #2501-H "Happy Birthday From..."

Here's how I put them together on a monochromatic card.

Here are the supplies and the process for creating this card

Supplies:  VersaMark Ink, embossing buddy, card stock, vellum, scissors, embossing powder, Copic Markers (or coloring medium of you choice) and a heat gun (not shown).  

After treating a teal card stock panel with an embossing buddy, Flower Power Background stamp was inked with VersaMark and stamped on the panel.  (I used a MISTI stamp positioner).  I sprinkled white embossing powder over the panel and heat embossed it.  

The three outline individual flower stamps were stamped the same way only onto a piece of vellum paper that is heat tolerant. (Bazzill makes one).  I then fussy cut the vellum pieces.   

Here's another look at the end result after putting the card together.  As a final detail and for more dimension I used Ranger Enamel Accents. 

  Thanks for stopping by today.  Don't forget to grab these stamps while they're discounted 20% from today until Sunday, January 6.   

DECEMBER 2018 ANYTHING GOES CHALLENGE AT THE HOUSE THAT STAMPS BUILT

Hello House Friends!!! 

I hope you all had a fabulous Christmas.  

It's the last Wednesday of December and for that matter, the year, and The House That Stamps Built has an Anything Goes challenge for you.  We hope you'll join us.
  

I made this card with all of you in mind....I sincerely wish you a happy, healthy 2019, surrounded by love and kindness every single day.  

The stamps used for this card are RI#4803-M "Clock Face #3", RI# 4810 "Minute Hand" and RI# 4811-C "Hour Hand".  The sentiment is RI# 3804-I "Happy New Year"  which was heat embossed with gold embossing powder. 

The background on this card was created using round sponges and Distress Oxide Inks as well as Nuvo Glittler Pen Markers.  

This card is a CASE (copied and shared with everyone) of my own card from 2015 .

Get more inspired to join our challenge by visiting the blogs of my awsome team mates

Donna - Heather - Joy - Laurie - Esther - Shirley

Thanks so much for stopping by today.  Check out THE HOUSE on how to enter the ATG challenge and what you could win if you do.  

MY FAVORITES FROM MY TECHNIQUE JUNKIES STAMPS POST IN 2018

Hello Technique Junkies Stamps Peeps!  

How fun it is to look back over this year and see the cards I've created using the fabulous stamps from Technique Junkies Stamps.   Being part of the TJ Design team is a true honor.  

Thank you for all the visits and comments on my cards, I truly appreciate you taking the time to encourage and inspire me.  

These are, in no particular order, my favoite five Technique Junkies Stamps creations from 2018.  

https://stampnboomer.blogspot.com/2018/08/so-she-danced.html

https://stampnboomer.blogspot.com/2018/08/august-2018-technique-junkies-stamps.html

https://stampnboomer.blogspot.com/2018/02/my-kind-of-crazy.html

https://stampnboomer.blogspot.com/2018/01/one-must-live.html

https://stampnboomer.blogspot.com/2018/05/a-dusky-cityscape.html

If you'd like to purchase the stamps I've used here and would like a little discount, please feel free to use my personal discount code TJ10Cheri.  

DECEMBER 2018 INSPIRATION CHALLENGE AT THE HOUSE THAT STAMPS BUILT

Hello house friends!  

We've got an inspiration challenge for you at The House That Stamps Built blog today and we hope you'll be inspired to join us.  

To create this card I first stamped then masked off RI Stamp #3814-K "Ornament Frame" in the area where I wanted the focal image to be on an 80# white cs panel.  I then sponged two Distress Inks (Peeled Paint and Spun Sugar) for a background.  

Once the background was semi-dry, and leaving the mask in place, I very, very lightly sprayed RI# 5103-I "Ornament Sil" with water and set it down on the background in areas were I wanted the ink to be removed, creating a "ghost" effect.  I quickly dabbed up any excess moisture with a soft cloth. 

Letting this process to completely dry, I then splattered some white acrylic paint mixed with water over the panel.  

The mask was removed from the focal image and RI#2012-H "Poinsettia"  was then stamped in light gray ink in the center of the bulb.  I used Copic markers to color the background of the bulb around the poinsettia as well as the poinsettia itself.  

Copic Markers were used to create faint lines or strings for the bulbs and a gel glitter pen was used to add a little sparkle.  It's subtle, but RI Stamp # 2015-D "Tiny Poinsettia"  was stamped into the bg with water to create more texture.  

To finish off the card, I used a Viva glitter pen to add silver dimension to the bulb hanger piece.  A torn edge die was used to cut and frame the panel and Distress Ink was used to add a dark edging.  

Here's the inspiration.  As you can readily see, I gravitated toward the colors and the poinsettia.  

To see outstanding examples for this inspiration please check out the blogs of my team-mates.  

Donna - Heather - Joy - Laurie - Esther - Shirley

Come on over and join this challenge.  Let's see what inspires you. For all the details on how to enter and what you might win if you do, visit THE HOUSE.  

Thanks so much for stopping by today.

DECEMBER 2018 TIC, TAC, TOE CHALLENGE FROM THE HOUSE THAT STAMPS BUILT

Hellooo House friends!!!! 

Welcome to another Wednesday challenge from The House That Stamps Built.  Today we're having a Tic, Tac, Toe challenge.  You select three items from the board in a horizontal, vertical or diagonal position and create a card or project using those three items. 

From the board below, I selected the three items in the first horizontal line.  Sparkle, Penguins and patterned paper.  The stamps I chose are RI#8806-N "Christmas Penguins" and the sentiment is RI#8803-F "Coolest Christmas".   

The Penguins were stamped then colored with Copic Markers then masked off in order to sponge a dye ink background.  Once the mask was removed, I used a Nuvo glitter marker to draw around the outer edge to make a frame for the sparkle and adhered the panel to a piece of polka dot patterend paper and then onto a card base.  Very easy card to make.  For some sparkly snow, I added dots of the Nuvo glitter marker on the penguin panel.  

Come on over and play the game of Tic, Tac, Toe along with myself and my Rock Star team mates.  Detail on how to enter can be found at THE HOUSE.  

Look at the blogs of my team mates and see their incredible creations.  

Donna - Heather - Joy - Laurie - Esther - Shirley

Thanks so much for stopping by today and feel free to grab my discount coupon (RR10CW) if you'd like to purchase yourself some Repeat Impressions Stamps.  Using it will discount your stamp order 10%.  

COUNTRY CHURCH IN DOUBLES

Hi there Junkies!!! 

Can you handle a couple of more Christmas cards?  I know you're all probably ready to see the end of Christmas card posts, so don't shoot me...I'm bringing you my last Christmas card post...PROMISE.   (But, I love making Christmas cards...I really do).

In my last few posts, I've been showing you two cards using one stamp and it's a way to get double the value for your stamps and helps cut down on time making cards.  That's a win/win.  

If you like the stamps I've used here and would like to purchase them or any others in the Technique Junkies Stamps store, please go ahead and use my personal code (TJ10CHERI) at checkout for a 10% reduction on your entire order of stamps and other products.  

The stamps I used for both of these cards are "Country Church" and a sentiment from "Gifts of Christmas Set of 5".  Country Church is a great Christmas stamp, but it has unlimited possibilities such as a wedding card, baptism, anniversary, sympathy or perhaps a birthday card for someone.  Lots of mileage can be gained from that stamp.  It's a beauty.  

To get the image results shown here, using my MISTI, I stamped the church in bright dye color inks on a white card stock panel.  Leaving the stamp in the same position on the MISTI, and without cleaning the stamp, I took a darker ink (Clair) and inked the stamp in various places along the edges and within the image itself.  Then, without cleaning the stamp again, I inked the stamp one more time with the same bright color, but just in the center area, and stamped again.  The results were stunning!!!  The inks trick the eye into seeing depth and layers of texture.    

The sentiment was stamped with VersaMark Ink, then heat embossed with white embossing powder.  

Give this technique a try and have some creative fun.  Don't forget, you have my coupon code if you'd like some new stamps and products for yourself.  

DECEMBER 2018 DESIGNER'S CHOICE CHALLENGE AT THE HOUSE THAT STAMPS BUILT

Hello house friends!  

It's the first Wednesday of the month and that means it's a designer's choice challenge at The House That Stamps Built.  It's Donna's turn to give us the challenge and she wants us to make anything but a card.  

I love to give books as gifts at Christmas so this year I've made some bookmarks using lots of Repeat Impressions Stamps. These are the stamps I used #4603-F "Got Snow" , # 8914-E Snowflake Solid, 8916-F "Snowflake Outline", 8805-K "Snow Flakes",  #8808-E "Knit Cap Penguin (sm), #2012-H Poinsettia, #4715-K "Snow Light", and 2714-D "Small Pine Forest".  This was such a fun project and I hope you'll be inspired to play along with Donna's challenge.  

I used an old banner/tag nesting die I've had for'evah and used it to cut card stock bases, then using the next layer die, I cut various design papers and sewed them to the cs base.  What doesn't show, I covered the backs with other designer papers in order to cover the stitching and make the bookmarks look finished.  Pieces of ribbon and trim were added to the bookmarks. Lots of scraps were used up making these, how great is that?  

You don't need dies to create bookmarks. Get creative and join the anything but a card challenge this week at THE HOUSE.  Entering is easy, just check out the details and play along!  

For more incredible ideas and inspiration, check out my team mates...they so rock.  

Donna - Heather - Joy - Laurie - Esther - Shirley 

   

Thanks for stopping by today.  

  

AND A ROBIN IN A HOLLY BUSH

Hello everyone!  

I'm here with a new Christmas card using the gorgeous stamp "Holly Bird" from Technique Junkies Stamps.  

Using my MISTI, the image was stamped with Clair Ink  and colored the image with Chameleon ColorTone Pencils.  Copic Markers were used to color the background and add highlight around the image.  After die cutting the panel I adhered it to a light blue card base layer, then onto the card card base.  For a final touch of texture, Liquid Pearls in Ruby Red was added to the berries.  

The sentiment is from the "Gifts of Christmas set of 5".  

I hope you found some inspiration while you were visiting today.  If you'd like to purchase the stamps used here, please feel free to grab my discount coupon (TJ10Cheri) for a full 10% off your entire purchase.

Have a wonderful week.  

  

NOVEMBER 2018 ANYTHING GOES CHALLENGE AT THE HOUSE THAT STAMPS BUILT

Hi there house friends!  

Wow!  Where did this month go?  Holy smokes!!!! 

If you follow the challenges at The House That Stamps Built blog (blog of Repeat Impressions stamps), you'll know we have challenges each and every Wednesday.  You have the full month to enter every week's challenge before a winner is chosen to win a gift certificate of $25.00 for any stamps in the Repeat Impressions store.  If you use a Repeat Impressions stamp in your entry, you're entered twice in that challenge.  

So, come on over and play along with us, every week or only one, and even if it takes you all month to create a card for each challenge, we hope you'll do it.

Now, it's the last Wednesday of this month so the challenge is "Anything Goes".  Here's a card I made and I hope it inspires you to join us.  

Winter, buffalo plaid (we all wore coats of this wool growing up), wood and Christmas.  They call came together in this card.  I used RI# 6006-M "Forest Positive" and RI#3907-G "Rejoice".  (This stamp is in the "spring" category, but it fits Christmas too.) 

There's a little bit of myself in each card I make and this one took on a life of it's own as I created it.  It's a small snapshot of growing up in a small mountain/lake town, wearing wool coats and playing outside in the woods during the winters.  Christmas was special. My father would take my brothers and sister and I and we'd go out in the woods and find a tree....some of them look very much like the Peanuts' Christmas tree, LOL...but we'd pick it out and dad would chop it down and we'd drag it home. I'm rejoicing in those memories.  

Please join our challenge this week....the details on how to enter and what you could win are at THE HOUSE.  

Also, my team mates are rocking this ATG challenge.  If you need a rocket boost, check them out.

Donna - Heather - Joy - Laurie - Esther - Shirley 

Thanks so much for stopping by today, I'm glad you did.   

NOVEMBER 2018 INSPIRATION CHALLENGE AT THE HOUSE THAT STAMPS BUILT

Hello House people!!!! 

We've got an inspiration challenge for you this week from The House That Stamps Built and it's a beauty!  

I adore this cat snowcat stamp....it makes me giggle when I think of the cat snowman holding a bird house and feeding birds at his base.  It's RI#3813-M "Snowcat and Friends" and the sentiment is RI#4603-F "Got Snow".

The coloring of this image was all done with Copic Markers. Here's your inspiration board.  I was inspired by the background and the neutral colors.  What are you inspired by?  

We all hope you come on over to THE HOUSE and get the details on what you could win and how to enter the challenge.  

My team mates have loads of more inspiration for you to see....check them out.  

Donna - Heather - Joy - Laurie - Esther - Shirley 

Thanks so much for stopping by I hope you'll join the challenge.  

HAVE A GROOVY CHRISTMAS

Hey there TJ fans! 

I'm still playing with the stamps from the October 2018 release....and having a blast.  And I'm happy to tell you, these stamps, and all other stamps from the Technique Junkies Stamps store, are available right now for 10% off by using my discount code TJ10Cheri.  

I've got two cards to show you using only the one stamp set "Have a Groovy Christmas".  

The first is colored with Copic Markers then sprayed with Shimmering Bliss Gold Topper.  

The second is simply heat embossed with gold embossing powder.  The sentiment was also heat embossed (on both cards) with gold ep.  

They both have some great shimmer and shine for Christmas.  

The background was made using a stencil called "Big Blot" from A colorful Life  and a dauber and Gold Delicata ink.  I made a mask of the VW bus and senciled around it.  

Easy peasy, cards.  I hope you found some inspiration today and if you're in the USA, I wish you all a very happy Thanksgiving.  

NOVEMBER 2018 TIC, TAC, TOE CHALLENGE AT THE HOUSE THAT STAMPS BUILT

Hello house friends!!! 

There's a new Wednesday challenge for you at The House That Stamps Built and it's the ever popular Tic, Tac, Toe challenge.  Come on over and play along.  

My card uses Repeat Impressions Stamps #815-N "Moose", #2709-I "Large Pine Forest", #2719-K "Lg Pine Tree".  The sentiment is #1113-D "Happy Birthday" (which I cut in half so I could use it lengthwise as well as over and under as it comes).  

To create the card, I stamped the moose in Memento Espresso Truffle dye ink and colored him in with Copic Markers.  I then made a mask of him and masked my colored image.  

To create the background, I pressed Distress Oxide Ink in "Evergreen Boughs" on my craft mat. I then spritzed my stamp with a little water, dabbing the excess off on a paper towel if I thought it was too much.  I then stamped into the ink and onto the card panel.   I did it in this fashion, as opposed to inking the stamp then spritzing with water, to see if I could get a more controlled look of the tree forms.  I think it worked.  

With what was left on my craft mat, I added a little more water and with a paint brush splattered it across the panel.  I added twine around the perimeter to create a rustic frame.  

My card follows the upper horizontal line on the tic, tac, toe board; Nature colors, Moose and Twine.

Have some crafting fun this week, and all month, and play along with our Wednesday challenges.  You have all month to join in on any of them in order to get your name in a drawing for a $25.00 GC for Repeat Impressions Stamps.  All the details can be found at THE HOUSE.  

Thanks for stopping by today, and for more incredible inspiration for this challenge stop by the blogs of my team mates.  

Donna - Heather - Joy - Laurie - Esther - Shirley 

30 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS - DAY 30

Hello Junkies!!!!  

Can you believe it!  We have reached the end of our 30 Days of Christmas event. This is the last day and your final opportunity to grab any or all of the Technique Junkies Christmas Stamps for 20% off (they are already discounted...no code needed).  PLUS, if you add my personal discount code (TJ10CHERI) to your purchase, an additional 10% will come off your purchase of all TJ stamps in your cart.  That's a full 30% off TJ Christmas Stamps and 10% off all other stamps. 

Here's a super simple and easy card to make for the holidays... 

The one stamp I used for this card is "Vintage Botanical Holly".  You need to have a MISTI for this in order to stamp repeatedly in the same spot.  

Before stamping the holly image, I masked off the word "Holly" with a piece of scotch tape.  I then inked the rest of the image in a light blue dye ink, removed the scotch tape and stamped it onto my white card stock.  

I repeated this step until I was satisfied with the coverage I had of the holly.  I used a finger dauber to stamp a darker blue dye ink inside areas of the leaves.  

I completely cleaned the stamp and then using a red ink, I stamped the word. Again, using a finger dauber, I used a darker red to ink the word and moved the card on the MISTI, just a tiny bit and got a "shadow" effect.  

A warm gray Copic marker was used to create the shadow around the image.  I next outlined the holly branch with my white gel pen.  For a final touch, I sprayed the panel with Shimmering Bliss Spray Iridescent Topper (get the sprays for 10% off using my discount code).  I LOVE these sprays!!!! 

Once the panel was dry I die cut it, mounted onto a neutral card stock background then onto a card base.  For a final touch, I added red berries with a Viva Pearl Pen.  

I hope you found some inspiration here today and throughout the 30 Days of Christmas.  Don't forget to grab the Christmas stamps for 20% off and add an additional 10% off the Christmas stamps and other stamps and products from Technique Junkies Stamps using my personal discount code.  

NOVEMBER 2018 DESIGNER'S CHOICE CHALLENGE AT THE HOUSE THAT STAMPS BUILT

Hi there house fans!!! 

It's my turn to host a designer's choice challenge at The House That Stamps Built, and since today is national "hug a bear day", my challenge is, (what else) "Bear Hug".  

Repeat Impressions has loads of adorable bear stamps, check them out and you'll also see the stamps I used for my card #1601-K Bear Hug and #1918-F "Beary Special".

  Come on over and join the challenge...we'd love to see your bear hug.  All the detail for joining the challenge can be found at THE HOUSE.  

And for some more fantastic bear hugs, check out the blogs of my team mates!  

Donna - Heather - Joy - Laurie - Esther - Shirley 

Thanks so much for stopping by.