WHAT IF? WEDNESDAY COLOR CHALLENGE AT THE HOUSE

Happy, happy Wednesday, blog friends!!!!  

It's What If? Wednesday time at The House and here is your inspiration palette 

We love it when you play along with our challenges...you inspire us!  Each time you play along, you're entered into a drawing for a $25.00 gift certificate for Repeat Impressions Stamps. To further enable you, you're invited to use the code for 10% off your entire RI order which is rr10cw (you can see it on my right hand sidebar). So come on over and join the fun.  Complete details are at The House.  

For my card I used two stamps from the awesome "Contain Yourself" set.  RI#9706-U, and #9712-Q.  The sentiment is RI#1105-E "Thinking of You". 

This is a fun color challenge and the other Rock Stars have aced it....take a peek.  

                              Deonna - Heather - Joy - Karen - Kathy - Patti J - Shirley

Thanks so much for stopping by.  I hope you all have a great week!  

SKETCH CHALLENGE AT THE HOUSE THAT STAMPS BUILT

Hello blog friends and happy Wednesday!!! 

We're having another sketch challenge at The House and we hope you'll find some play time and join in. 

 

Flip it, turn it around, use it as it is....just give it a try and play along.  The most exciting part is....if you enter the challenge, you'll be entered in a drawing for a $25 GC for Repeat Impressions Stamps.  The details are at The House. 

 

My card uses RI#4204-H "Cat Features" and the sentiment is RI#2501-H "Happy Birthday from...". 

 

I can't wait to see your entry in this challenge and if you need more inspiration, you'll love what you see from the other Rock Stars. 

 

 

Deonna - Heather - Joy - Karen - Kathy - Patti J - Shirley

Thanks for stopping by!!! 

 



WHAT IF? WEDNESDAY INSPIRATION CHALLENGE AT THE HOUSE THAT STAMPS BUILT

Hi there blog friends! 

This is an exciting week for the Rock Stars Design Team.  We're welcoming Shirley Hotop to our group.  Shirley is so creative and I know you'll find tons of inspiration from her on our team. 

This week it's a photo inspiration challenge.  Find something from the photo that inspires you and create a card or project from it and then post it to The House. 

 

I was inspired by the fluff of the clouds, their shape in the form of a heart and the pastel colors. 

I used RI #5105-I "Cloud Sil (lg), to create most of the background, including the shadows at the bottom.  I used a collection of soft pastel inks and over stamped the cloud in order to create the base.  I then did second generation stamping to create the upper portion background.  The focal image is RI# 1218-H "Heart Balloon" was first stamped on the card layer in gray ink in multiple places.   Using Brusho color powders, one at a time, I mixed a color with water on my Teflon work surface until I had the soft color I was looking for.  Then I'd lay the watercolor paper into the pool of ink/water and set it aside and mix another color and repeat the process.  The inks weren't allowed to dry too long before dipping into the next color.  I wanted them to mix, but not blend too much.  Once I was happy with the watercolor panel, I then stamped the heart part of the stamp in various places and fussy cut them out and glued them into place on the card layer.  I added Wink of Stella clear glue pen on the balloons for some bling.  The sentiment stamps are from the new RI  big words "HAPPY" set. 

Thanks for stopping by.  We hope you'll join the inspiration challenge this week.  The details can be found over at The House. 

For so much more inspiration, please visit my Rock Star teammates! 

                        Deonna - Heather - Joy - Karen - Kathy - Patti J - Shirley

                           

DESIGNER'S CHOICE CHALLENGE AT THE HOUSE

Greetings, blog friends!  

We're featuring a designer's choice challenge at The House this week and it's Heather's turn.  Heather has chosen "Hearts".  This is an easy challenge and we hope you'll all find some time to join us.  

Like he stole the cheese, this little mouse (RI #4205-G "Cheese Heart Mouse") stole my heart!  What a fun image to make a card with.  For the sentiment I used "You"  word set.  

Take a moment and visit the other Rock Stars for some incredible inspiration and then please join our challenge.  The details are at The House and if you join us, you'll be entered into the drawing for a $25.00 gift certificate for some RI stamps!  

                              Deonna - Heather - Joy - Karen - Kathy - Patti J  

Great challenge Heather!  Happy Valentine's day everyone and thanks for stopping by.

Watercolor Classes

Hey there, Blog friends!  

I love taking the OnLine Card Classes , I've learned some great techniques from outstanding instructors and have taken many of them. 

Recently, I signed up for the Intermediate Watercolor class facilitated by Dawn Woleslagle (of WPlus9) and I've learned so much.  (You can link over to the class from the badge on my right sidebar).  These classes are a great way to grow your creative side and I would encourage you to sign up for any one of them.  

I combined a couple of techniques; glazing and color mixing which Dawn covered in the preliminary class, and made this card.  It's not great, but it was fun and I liked the results.  I used Tim Holtz watercolor paper and Koi watercolor paints.  The image is Impression Obsession "Fair Madien" stamp which I stamps with Archival Ink "Watering Can".  I stamped it off before stamping it on the watercolor paper in order to get the lighter, faded lines.  The sentiment is from Gina K Designs, Hugs and Prayers set. (this set is discontinued).  

Thank you for visiting and I would love to hear what you think of this watercolor image.