JANUARY 2018 - SKETCH CHALLENGE AT THE HOUSE THAT STAMPS BUILT

Hi there House friends!  

We have a fifth Wednesday in this month so that means our challenge at The House That Stamps Built is a sketch challenge.  

It's nearly Valentine's day, but this card was made for a friend who lost her best (doggy) friend a few weeks ago.  It's always such a sad time for us who love our fur babies when they cross the rainbow bride.  

The stamps used on this card are RI#2509-H- "Love, Hugs and Kisses" and RI#4316-I "Flowering Hearts".   I used Copic Markers to color the flowering hearts.  

Here's the challenge, what can you do with this?  

For more fabulous ideas on using this sketch, check out what fabulous projects my team mates have done.  

 Donna - Heather - Joy - Laurie - Esther - Shirley

Now it's your turn to get creative and have some fun with this sketch.  Come on over and play along with this week's challenge at The House.  All the details on how to play can be found there.  

Thanks so much for stopping by and I hope to see you in the challenge. 

SPATTERED OMBRE - JUST CHICKIN'IN

Hi there Technique Junkies!

Have you played in the new challenge, "Spattered Ombre", at the Design Blog yet?  You should play....you might just win yourself some fabulous Technique Junkies Stamps.  

I made this card while playing around with this technique and some incredibly cute Technique Junkies Stamps, "Chicken" and "Chicken Sayings Set of Two".  You can get these stamps for 10% off, and any other stamps you might like from the Technique Junkies store, by using my discount coupon TJ10Cheri.  Just type it in at check out. 

The background was created by dragging a light dye ink pad down the surface of the card panel and then using a credit card, I drew it across a darker brown ink pad and scraped it across the panel.  I like how it turned out.  

There's a lot going on at Technique Junkies, stop by, and sign up to get the Design Junkies Blog so you don't miss any daily postings.  You'll see incredible paper craft artists there and join our monthly challenge.   And come on over to our FaceBook Page and join us there.  

Don't forget to grab my discount for your Technique Junkies Stamps shopping pleasure.

Thanks for stopping by!  

PICK OF THE WEEK - FLORAL ARTIST TRADING CARDS

Hi everyone,

Cheri here with my pick of the week for you.  I don't know about you, but I'm getting tired of snow and cold, so I decided to pick some flowers and spray some vibrant colors around my snowy world to share with you.  I love making ATC's so I picked that as my way of showing off the flowers.  

The stamps I used on my ATC's are RI#4308-J "Lilly of the Valley", RI#904-L "Daffodils", RI#1320-M "Spring Blossoms", RI#5125-C "Dragonfly Sil, Sm" and the sentiment is from the #9900 "Hello Series", the word "love".  

Here are the supplies I used:  Heavy gesso (but you can use any gesso), six ATC cards (2.5x3.5) cut from 140# watercolor paper, water in a spray bottle, various round, found objects, inks/paints (I used ColorBursts pigment powders), paint brush and Washi tape.

I first connected my ATC cards together with Washi Tap.  This is not removed and becomes part of the background.  

I then sprayed the whole area with water and sprinkled on the pigment powder.  I choose three colors and let the pigments work with the water adding more water and powders where I thought they were needed, being careful not to add too much in order to avoid muddying the inks. 

I then sopped up the excess with a paper towel.  Such pretty results.

Keeping the panels together, I dried them completely with my heat gun (you could also let them air dry), but they have to be completely dry before starting the next step of applying Mod Podge (This should have been added to the supply photo)  

Dry completely again and using the found, round objects I dipped them in Gesso and "stamped" circles around the panel.  Once again, dry completely before moving to the next step of separating the ATCs.  I used a ruler and my craft knife, but you can use whatever you have to separate them cleanly.  There were a few pieces of Washi Tape that needed to be stuck down again and I used little bits of wet glue to do that.  But the Mod Podge should have sealed them well.  

The next step is to stamp on them.  Because I used Mod Podge to seal the cards, I needed to stamp my images with an ink like StazOn that stamps on non-porous surfaces.  If you don't use Mod Podge any dye or pigment ink may work fine.  I let the StazOn ink dry completely (I left them overnight).  

Now I have six beautiful ATC's.  See how the Washi Tape gave an additional interest to the background?  Love it!  

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you enjoyed my Pick of the Week!  

For this week only (Jan. 29 – Feb. 4, 2018), get 20% Off the stamps I used in this project when you use the coupon code POTW12918 at the Repeat Impressions store.  

JANUARY 2018 ANYTHING GOES CHALLENGE AT THE HOUSE THAT STAMPS BUILT

Hello house friends!!! 

It's time for our most popular challenge of the month at The House That Stamps Built - Anything Goes!  As most of you know, "anything goes" mean you create whatever card or project you like.

I did some masking and sponging and Copic marker coloring, to create my card.  

The stamps used are RI#2628-H "Comfy Chair" and RI#410-H "Simple Pleasures" .  I used Distress Inks for the background and the "little book" was a piece of card stock edge that I'd cut and was in the trash.  I used my white gel to add a "text" on the binding.  

Come on over and play along.  The details can be found at "The House".  

Just look at the inspiration you'll find on the blogs of my team mates.....

 Donna - Heather - Joy - Laurie - Esther - Shirley  

Thanks so much for stopping by, I hope you found some inspiration here today and I look forward to seeing you in the ATG challenge.  

DECO FACE

Hello Junkies!  

Isn't she (Deco Face) beautiful?  

I'm such a romantic, and this face...well, it captured my imagination the second I saw it in the Technique Junkies Stamps Store.  I even gave her a name...it's Kathleen.  She reminds me of my great-aunt "Kitty" Kathleen (who was a true flapper).  I recently added her to my Technique Junkies stamp collection and I have many ideas of more ways to create with her.  The sentiment I've added to this is from "Sentimental Sayings", was stamped with VersaMark and heat embossed with white ep, and is a fabulous sentiment set to have in your collection.   

If there are any stamps in the TJStore that capture your fancy, I can help you get them by adding a 10% discount to your entire order.  Just use my personal discount code of TJ10Cheri and you're going to get 10% off your ENTIRE order.  

To create this card, using my MISTI, I first stamped her in Blue Danube Memento ink on white card stock.  I colord her face with Copic Markers and then replaced her into the MISTI (I hadn't removed the stamp) and stamped her upper head (hair) again with black VersaMark ink.  This gave the image depth.  An embossing folder piece behind her highlighted with Delicata gold ink gave my version of "deco".  She's framed and mounted on dark blue card stock and I added some touches of a gold gel pen dots for depth to the background.  

There's a lot going on at Technique Junkies, stop by, and sign up to get the Design Junkies Blog so you don't miss any daily postings.  You'll see incredible paper craft artists there and we also have a monthly challenge.    And come on over to our FaceBook Page and join us there.  

Don't forget to grab my discount for your Technique Junkies Stamps shopping pleasure.

Thanks so much for stopping by.