MARCH 2019 DESIGNER'S CHOICE CHALLENGE AT THE HOUSE THAT STAMPS BUILT

Hello House Fans!!! 

It's the first Wednesday of a new month and that means it's a Designer's Choice Challenge at The House That Stamps Built.  

This month, the very talented Joy Hadden is our challenge host and she has selected Spring/Easter.  

My card for Joy's challenge uses Repeat Impressions Stamps #702-K "Clover Bunny" and RI# 3909-F "Happy Easter/Spring".    I used Copic Markers to color the bunny image.  The tiny "petals" around the bunny were the centers of the bow die I used over the plaid scrap at the top edge.  I also scattered a few tiny drops of Viva glue pen in light pink for a little more dimension.  

I hope you'll join us over at The House for Joy's challenge.  The details for entering and prizes can be found there.  Check it out.  

Also, check out the blogs of my team mates for more fantastic inspiration for this challenge.  

Donna - Heather - Joy - Laurie - Esther - Shirley

Thanks so much for stopping by today.  I hope you found some creative inspiration while you were here.  

If you'd like to purchase some awesome Repeat Impressions Stamps, I have a coupon code for you RR10CW for a 10% discount on your entire order!  

JANUARY 2019 DESIGNER'S CHOICE CHALLENGE AT THE HOUSE THAT STAMPS BUILT

Happy New Year, House friends!!! 

We begin a new year, and a new month of weekly challenges from The House That Stamps Built.  

You're invited to join the challenges all month long, any time during the month.  At the end of the month, one of the entries will be drawn to win a $25.00 gift certificate to Repeat Impressions Stamps.  

To begin this month, Esther has a designer's choice challenge for us and she has selected "snow globe" as her challenge.  

I love this snow globe stamp.  It's RI#8902-L "Moose Snow Globe".  Repeat Impressions has a fabulous collection of snow globe stamps, and I'm sure you can find one you'd love to add to your collection.  The snowy background was created by stamping in white gouache for more texture using RI#8914 "Snowflake Solid (sm)", #8916-E "Snowflake Outline (sm)", #8917-I "Snowflake Outline (lg)" .   The sentiment is RI#424-G "Wishing You a Season".

I was inspired to try and create a no line coloring technique of the Moose Snow Globe with Faber-Castell Polychromos color pencils after watching a video by Debby Hughes.  I loved the process and changed a few things, such as where Debby used a white gel pen for highlighting, I used a Posca pen.  

I used a nesting torn edge die by Penny Black to frame the globe panel.  

Come on over and join us as we take Esther's challenge of "snow globe".  All the details are at The House.  

For more incredible snow globe creations please visit my team mates blogs.  They have some awsome things to show you.   

Donna - Heather - Joy - Laurie - Esther - Shirley

Thanks so much for stopping by today!  

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.  

SEPTEMBER 2018 DESIGNER'S CHOICE CHALLENGE

Hello House Fans!!! 

It's the first Wednesday of the month and it's Designer's Choice Challenge at The House That Stamps Built.  Laurie is the challenge hostess and her challenge is "Anniversary".  

This card uses RI Stamp #4321-J "Swan Love" and RI#1144-D "Happy Anniversary" , RI#5118-H "Heart Sil (lg) and RI#3405-C "Random Hearts".  

To create the focal image of the swans, I stamped them on a white scrap card stock piece, colored them with Copic Markers.  I then made a mask for them and stamped the Heart silhouette in Victorian Velvet color Distress Inks so it would appear behind the swan.  I then die cut the image and using the same dies created a frame for them.  

The background panel was created by swiping a baby wipe across the Victorian Velvet Distress Ink then swiping it from top to bottom along the panel.  I did the same using the color Black Soot, avoiding heavy swiping in the center of the panel.  

I added the Random Heart stamp to the layer after deciding where it would be on the panel.  

I hope you'll join in on Laurie's challenge and join us.  The details on how to enter and what you could win can be found at THE HOUSE.  

For more Anniversary inspiration, check out the blogs of my super talented team mates.  

Donna - Heather - Joy - Laurie - Esther - Shirley  

Thanks so much for stopping by.  I hope you found some inspiration.  

Also, let me point out I have a discount for Repeat Impressions Stamps for you, just use RR10CW at check out and enjoy a full 10% off your entire stamp order. 

Have a great week!  

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

Hello House Friends!!!! 

We've been given a challenge by our talented team mate Joy for a designer's choice challenge at The House That Stamps Built.  Her challenge?  "Circles"....that's it, circles!!!  You can do this!!!! 

I wanted to try something different for Joy's challenge.  I have seen some stamp collages on Pinterest and I thought I might like to try my hand at it using "found items" around my house as well as these fabulous Repeat Impression Stamps:  RI#5016-N "Genealogy", 5812-I "Compass", 2704-H "Sailboat", 3918-F "Wind In My Sails" and 3404-C "Random Dots".  

The colored images were colored with my Polychromo pencils and blended with Gamsol. The additional circles were created using tops or bottoms of bottles I had on my desk.  The colored circle inside the upper circle is actually a tiny wood circle I colored with ink....it looks like a piece of fuzz in this photo....note to self, I need a better camera.  

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you'll take a few minutes and visit the blogs of my team mates....they are incredibly talented artists of stamps.  

Donna - Heather - Joy - Laurie - Esther - Shirley 

Join Joy's Circle challenge (and all other challenges this month - we have a new challenge every Wednesday) and enter yourself in the drawing at the end of the month for a $25.00 gift certificate for your own collection of Repeat Impression Stamps.    All the details can be found at THE HOUSE.

  

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

Hi house friends!!! 

Today is another challenge at The House That Stamps Built, and this week it's a designer's choice challenge and it's Esther's turn to challenge us.  Her challenge is "Summer Vacation".  

How about a beach vacation and building sandcastles in the sand?  My card uses RI# 9016-M "Sandcastle" and RI#9003-E "Happy Summer" and RI#5105-I "Cloud Sil (lg).

I did a little no line coloring with Copic Markers on this card, highlighting with my white gel pen and sponging Mustard Seed and Squeezed Lemonade Distress ink along the edges.  The cloud was stamped with Faded Jeans Distress Oxide Ink.  

Thanks so much for stopping by and I hope you'll play along in Esther's challenge with us.  All the details of how you can enter and what you could win can be found at The House.

Check out my awesome team mates for more Summer Vacation inspiration.  

Donna - Heather - Joy - Laurie - Esther - Shirley 

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

Hello and welcome, house friends!  

We begin each month with a designer's choice challenge.  One of us, gets to challenge you and this month it's Donna's turn to challenge us and her challenge is to make a one layer card.  Easy, right?  Not for me!  I always need a layer or two of something, something.  So here goes....my card for Donna's DCC.

I had to keep it simple....otherwise I would get lost in the details of layers....oh, Donna, how you've challenged me!  I spent some time on Pinterest and found a couple of ideas and they all inspired this card.

I needed some thank you cards and so I started there.  I wanted something simple yet would make a statement that would fit the challenge.  While going through my RI Stamps I decided on this one RI#9706-U "Flowers" from the "Contain Yourself set.  Stamped in VersaFine black ink onto kraft cs, I colored it all in white pencil and accented with a yellow PrismaColor pencil for the center of the daisy.  The sentiment is RI#8607-D "Thanks".

My team mates have some incredibly gorgeous DCC projects to show you.  Here are links to each of their blogs.  I hope you'll pay them a visit.

 Donna - Heather - Joy - Laurie - Esther - Shirley 

Thank you for stopping by.  I hope you'll check out the challenge and join in.  You might just be the winner of $25.00 worth of RI stamps!  All the details can be found at THE HOUSE. 

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

Hellooooo...house people!!! 

Here we are with a new month and a new designer's choice challenge at The House That Stamps Built.  This month Esther has a challenge for us and it's "to use a jar"!  

One of my most favorite Repeat Impressions Stamps is RI#708-K "Rebecca".  She's so inspiring and can be interpreted in so many ways...she has a mystical aura about her.  Since St. Patrick's Day is coming, I created her as an Irish girl remembering her homeland after fleeing with her family from the potato famine of the 1800's.  The sentiment is RI#3905 "Where We Love" a beautiful quote from Oliver Wendell Holmes.  The jar is RI #9701-S "Jar with Lid".  

Come on over and play along with Esther's challenge "Just Jars".  You can find out how to enter the challenge and what you could win, at THE HOUSE. 

To see oodles more great inspiration using Jars check out these incredibly talented ladies.

 Donna - Heather - Joy - Laurie - Esther - Shirley 

Thanks so much for stopping by.  

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

Hello House friends!!!! 

So glad you're here today for the new designer's choice challenge at The House That Stamps Built.    This month it's Shirley's turn to challenge us and her challenge is "A Way With Words".  

I used RI Stamp #10202 "Flower Power Frame", which I stamped with VersaMark on black cs and heat embossed with gold ep to accent my "word".   The flowers were colored with my Derwent Inktense pencils.  The sentiment/word is a partial stamp from RI# 3924-G "Friends Together" and also heat embossed with white ep.  After framing the panel with a die cut frame, I added some white enamel dots along the vine area to bring the white accent together with my sentiment.  When the card was finished I thought it looked like a rich tapestry - not what I had in mind when I started, but a pleasant surprise.  

Great challenge from Shirley and I hope you'll join us at The House and play along.  All the details can be found there.  

For more fabulous ideas on Shirley's challenge, check out what fabulous projects my team mates have done.  

 Donna - Heather - Joy - Laurie - Esther - Shirley

Thanks so much for stopping by today!  

  

DECEMBER 2017 DESIGNER'S CHOICE CHALLENGE - GLITTER

Hello there, House friends!  

Today it's Joy's designer's choice challenge for The House That Stamps Built and it's to use glitter.  Easy, and approriate challenge, especially at this time of year when we're making lots of Christmas and holiday cards.  

Before I get to my card for Joy's challenge, I want to welcome our newest Rock Star, Esther Asbury!  I'm so happy to have you on the team Esther and looking forward to creating with you.  

I want to bid a fond farwell to Patti J., an incredibly talented designer and one I'm thrilled to have shared places on this team with.  Patti has been a major inspiration to me in so many ways and I'll miss her here.  

This is my card for Joy's challenge.   I kept it very CAS.  It's difficult to see the glitter here, but the shepherd boy is painted with a gold Wink of Stella glitter pen.  In real life it truly looks gorgeous.  For additional glitter, I added some Stickles to the center of the stars which were from a sticker collection.  This stamp RI#2008-K "Shepherd Boy" is a fabulous stamp and all you need to create a beautiful Christmas card.  This sentiment paired perfectly with the shepherd boy stamp RI#2201-I "For Unto You".

Don't miss out on the 20 days of Christmas Sale-a-Bration going on now at the Repeat Impressions Facebook page where there will be a 20% off code for Repeat Impressions stamps each day.  Check in daily and grab yourself some goodies!  

For more inspiration for Joy's challenge this week, have a look at what my teamies have done.  

Deonna - Donna - Heather - Joy - Laurie - Esther- Shirley  

Thanks so much for stopping by today.  I hope you found some inspiration and that you'll come over to THE HOUSE and play along in our challenge.  Details of how to play can be found there.  

OCTOBER 2017 DESIGNER'S CHOICE CHALLENGE AT THE HOUSE

Hellooooo House friends!  

Wednesday challenge at The House That Stamps Built is a designer's choice challenge.  Patti J is hosting it this month and her challenge is to "Count Your Blessings" (bring thankful, grateful, blessed, Thanksgiving) into your project.  

Apples are one of my most favorite fruits and here in Maine it's apple season so I wanted to use this adorable stamp RI#512-H "Apple Basket" in my creation this week.  

The bg was created by sponging Oxide Ink (vintage photo) through a burlap stencil.  I reverse embossed a stitched round die into the bg and then used other circle dies to frame the image after coloring it with copic markers.  (disclaimer:  I have a new camera...I haven't gotten the hang of it yet, so my cards may look a little wonky for awhile...in this case, the apples look orange and you don't see the highlights...I'm working on it).  

The sentiment is RI#3214-G "Thanksgiving Blessings" (love that font).  

I hope you found some inspiration here and you'll join our challenge this week.  The details can be found at THE HOUSE .

For more inspiration here are the blogs for my team mates and their fabulous projects for this challenge.   

Deonna - Donna - Heather - Joy - Laurie - Patti J - Shirley 

Thanks so much for stopping by....have a fabulous week!  

SEPTEMBER 2017 DESIGNER'S CHOICE CHALLENGE AT THE HOUSE

Hello house friends,

Here we are at the beginnig of a new month at The House That Stamps Built and we're off and running with a new challenge for you.  

It's Designer's Choice and today it's Shirley's choice and her challenge is to make a sympathy card.  Not the most cheerful of cards to make, but necessary cards to have on hand. 

My card uses RI#1704-P "Great Blue Heron", which I stamped on blue cs with VersaMark ink and heat embossed it with white ep.  I used my Chemeleon Colortone pencils to color the image.  The sentiment is RI#4025-F "Deepest Sympathy".  Again it was stamped with VersaMark ink on black cs and embossed with white ep.  

I hope you found some inspiration here today and for lots more inspiration, check out my team mates blogs

Deonna - Donna - Heather - Joy - Laurie - Patti J - Shirley 

For all the details on how to play along with this challenge, head on over to THE HOUSE.  And don't forget to check to see if you won in our month long challenge for August.  

Thanks so much

for stopping by.

AUGUST 2017 DESIGNER'S CHOICE CHALLENGE AT THE HOUSE THAT STAMPS BUILT

Hello House Friends!!!! 

It's my turn to host a Designer's Choice Challenge at The House That Stamps Built and I have been re-watching a bunch of my favorite movies lately and thought it might be fun to create a card using one of those movies as the subject and challenge you to do the same.  

My favorite movies are girly flicks....I can't help it, I'm a romantic at heart.  Pretty Woman, Dirty Dancing, Sleepless in Seattle, Sweet Home Alabama....oh, I had so many to chose from.  

Sweet Home Alabama won out....I attempted to capture the lightening striking the sand on the beach and creating beautiful glass from the movie.  

I did say "attempted"  I wasn't creative or artistic enough to draw "lightning" for my card, so I used a tree limb stencil I had and sponged white pigment ink through it. This also helped me "light up" the sky.  I sponged the "sand" with a darker grey ink but kept the "lightning" penetrating the "sand".  I stamped RI#9503-L "Wine Glass" in VersaMark ink and heat embossed it with white ep.  I used Copic Markers to color the wine.  The sentiment is from the same set  RI#9510-E "Wine Time".

I hope you'll play along...it might be a little harder than some other challenges, but that's what a challenge is.  Just enjoy the process.  

For details on how to enter and what you might win, please link on over to THE HOUSE and get the details.  

For even more incredible creations and to see what movies rock the Rock Stars, take a look at what these awesome ladies have created.

Deonna - Donna - Heather - Joy - Laurie - Patti J - Shirley

Thanks so much for stopping by and I hope you get some craft time this week.  

DESIGNER'S CHOICE CHALLENGE FOR MARCH 2017 - LONG TALL SALLY

Hey there blog friends!!!  

It's a Designer's Choice Challenge over at The House That Stamps Built and this month it's Laurie's turn and her challenge is to create a "Long Tall Sally" card.  

I had never heard of this type of card, but found out it's a card that would fit into a business sized envelop.  What a fun idea!!!!  I often get caught up in A2 size cards and rarely, if ever, make any others.  This was such a great change and cool idea.  

My card uses RI#k9601-I Beer Foam, RI#9602-O "Beer Mug" and 9607-E "Happy Beerday To You".  All are from the "Bottoms Up" Series.    

I stamped the mugs on a sandy colored card stock and colored the mugs with (what else?) my Copic Markers.  I painted the foam with white acrylic paint and then went back in with a Memento gray marker to redraw the definition.  I layed that panel against a black panel to accent it and white heat embossed the sentiment on a separate strip of black card stock.  The star is a tiny punch.  

You really will have some fun playing along with this challenge and I hope you do.  The information on how to enter and what you can win, can be found at THE HOUSE.  
 If you'd like some incredible inspiration check out my team mates...they will blow you away with their creations.  

Deonna - Donna - Heather - Joy - Laurie - Patti J - Shirley 

Thanks so much for stopping by and thank you for your comments.