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.