OUTLAWZ CAS CHALLENGE

Hi blog friends!!! 

I'm hosting the CAS challenge at Outlawz this week.  If you get a chance, come on over and play along. 

Here's the challenge:

"Bright November Color Challenge" - November is a grey and drab month here in Maine, USA....all the bright and glorious colors  of summer and fall have left for warmer and sunnier areas and it's going to be many months before they return.  It's personal....I want to fill this week with bright colors......use one, some or all of these five colors and brighten up the week - Green, Yellow, Orange, Pink, Blue.  Combine them or use them alone, just keep it CAS and BRIGHT!  

 

The design team has created some fantastic cards for the challenge.  I hope you will check them out. 

 

Here's the inspiration for my card:  a few years ago my husband and I took a cruise and one of the ports we landed at was Curacao.  The image of the colorful buildings lined against the edge of the ocean and against the bright sky stays in my memory today. 

 

 

This is not my photo....I took this from the Internet - however, my photo looks much like this. 

Because I'm trying to develop my CAS skills using dark backgrounds, I decided to try my hand using this inspiration using a nighttime image. 

I hope to see you over at Outlawz this week and I hope you'll play along in the CAS challenge. 

 

Thanks for stopping by,

 

 

WHAT IF? WEDNESDAY AT REPEAT IMPRESSIONS

Hello my friends! 

It's WIW time at Repeat Impressions and The House That Stamps Built!!!  Have you played before?  Don't you love it????  If you haven't, give it a try and have some fun and possibly win $25.00 worth of FABULOUS stamps from Repeat Impressions. 

What if? Wednesday happens every other Wednesday.  Wendy (owner and stamp designer) creates a sketch and challenges her design team to create a card using the sketch with Repeat Impressions Stamps.  It's fun.  If you like a challenge and like sketch designs, join us.  You don't have to use an RI stamp, but if you do, you'll be entered into the drawing twice.  You can head on over to The House That Stamps Built for all the details. 

In the meantime....here's this WIW sketch challenge

 

Here's a card I created using the WIW sketch.

 

 

For my card I used RI Stamps #512-H Apple Basket and colored the image with Copic Markers and used Glossy Accents to shine up the apples.  I created a little "water color" accent under the apple basket with Copics.  I liked how that turned out.  Instead of lining up the half pearls, I wanted to angle them, and I like how it looks. 

 

Thank you so much for stopping by and I hope you'll find some time to play along with us. 

 

Check out the Rock Stars for more inspiration

 

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

 

 

DESIGNER'S CHOICE CHALLENGE AT REPEAT IMPRESSIONS

Hello blog friends!!  

It's another DCC at The House That Stamps Built and I think you're going to love this challenge by Rock Star Karen Hasheck this week!  It's paper piecing!!! It's a favorite of mine because it's a way to give your stamps new life each time you piece with them.   It's also a fantastic way to use up scraps.  (and you know you've got them). 

So getting on with the challenge, here's my paper pieced card.

 

For this card I used RI Stamp #514-I "Prize Pumpkin" and the sentiment is RI #1139-F "Halloween".  I used an assortment of  scrap Halloween papers that I've had in a box for years.  It's not a scary Halloween card, but then, I'm not into "scary".  LOL. 

 

We would all love it if you played along with us and joined Karen's challenge and for more awesome inspiration, please check out my Rock Star Teamies. 

 

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

 

Head on over to The House That Stamps Built blog.  The details of how to play along are there and you just might win $25.00 worth of incredible RI stamps if you play along. 

 

Have a great day and rest of the week!!! 

Thanks so much for stopping by!

 

 

 

DESIGNERS CHOICE CHALLENGE AT REPEAT IMPRESSIONS

Hi everyone....

It's Wednesday....(not going to go through the commerical)....and it's always an exciting day of the week here at Repeat Impressions and The House That Stamps Built blog. 

This week it's my friend and the fabulous Geri's turn to challenge us and her challenge is Halloween!  BOO! 

Play along with us.  Create a card using Geri's challenge and link it up to The House and you'll be entered into a drawing for a $25.00 certificate for any RI Stamps of your choice.  If you use a RI stamp in your project, you'll be enterd twice.....play to win!  We'd LOVE to see your creation. 

RI Stamps:  #2308-E Bats, #1139-F Halloween, #2307-E Trick or Treat Ghost.  For the bg I used a tree ef from Darice.  The image was sponged with Memento Inks, Cantaloupe and Tangelo by masking using a negative Spellbinder Classic Oval.

Play along with my Rock Star Teamies - this is a fun challenge, Geri. 

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

 

Thanks for stopping by!

 

 

 

 

STAMPTV CSS TEAM OCTOBER SKETCH CHALLENGE BLOG HOP

Welcome everyone to the October StampTV CSS group sketch blog hop! 

If you got here from my super talented friend Geri's blog, then you're on the right hopping trail.  If not, you may want to go back to THE BEGINNING and catch each and every incredible piece of inspiration. 

You're also invited to play along with us - just post a link to your project at the Hop Forum - we'd love it see what you come up with.

There is a bonus to this hop....Make sure to leave a comment as you go along because we will choose a random comment and that stamper will win a grab bag of Gina K. Designs products! Look for the announcement on Tuesday, October 15."

Here's the sketch

 

Here's a card I made using it

 

 

 

GKD Stamp Set I used "Stamp it Big" and the chalkboard technique (I did a tutorial here).  Die is from MFT. 

 

Hop on over to Geri's very talented daughter Brenda's blog and see her amazing project. 

 

Thanks so much for stopping by!!!!