The House That Stamps Built: Anything Goes

 

 

I have been watching some Kevin Natagawa's Stampscape video's, so

 I thought I would try my hand at the blending they do on the video's using

Repeat Impressions: By the Stream.  Nowhere near their level

but I was very happy with it.

 

I hope you join in with our challenge weekly, you might just be the

lucky winner of the monthly drawing for the $25 Repeat Impression's gift

certificate. Each entry gets a chance, two if you use a

Repeat Impressions stamp.  My followers get a 10% discount -see

my sidebar.  Drawing is the first Wednesday every month.

For inspiration check out what my teammates have created:

Cheri  Esther Heather  Joy   Laurie  Patti Shirley

 

A few fun challenges:

Crafting by design  8/31

Crafty Creations #397  9/8

Lavina World Challenge #8 9/9

The Male Room  #118 Flight 9/3

Creative With Stamps #41 Dad or Masculine 8/31

Starz Stamps #1 Summer  9/3

 

 

 

Baby Shower

 

Today I am hosting a baby shower for my daughter-in-law along

with my two sister in laws and help from a lot of

family and friends! 

 

Thank you Sharon, Sue, Amanda, Shirley and Mom!!

 

Above is my card, and below are some of the decorations,

if you can't tell, those are socks on the flowers, and

in the vase the flowers are made of diapers.

The House That Stamps Built: Inspiration Photo

Wendy has another beautiful photo to inspire us this week at the

House:

 

 

 I went with the floral theme and the lovely colors:

 

I used my Copics on Repeat Impressions: Flowering Hearts & Heart Shutters Window

and then embossed Cat Sil. (sm).  Embossed background is by Sizziz-Tim

Holtz.

 

I hope you join in with our challenge weekly, you might just be the

lucky winner of the monthly drawing for the $25 Repeat Impression's gift

certificate. Each entry gets a chance, two if you use a

Repeat Impressions stamp.  My followers get a 10% discount -see

my sidebar.  Drawing is the first Wednesday every month.

For inspiration check out what my teammates have created:

Cheri  Esther Heather  Joy   Laurie  Patti Shirley

 

A Gem of a Challenge #15 8/26

A Bit More Time to Craft #98

Colour Crazy Challenge Week 32 9/1

2 Crafty Critter Crazies #29  9/25

Happy Craft Challenge August 8/30

 

The House That Stamps Built: Tic-Tac-Toe

 

 

 It's Tic-Tac Toe week at The House That Stamps Built! 

 

 I was going for diagonal bottom left up: dimension, texture

and border but it looks like I did the top row too: by the sea, watercolors,

and border! I used my Distress Oxides to watercolor Repeat Impressions

Under the Sea, this was a new and fun technique for me.  I added

the Starfish (lg) and Find beauty. I used an embossing

 folder for dimension, embossing added the texture.

 

I hope you join in with our challenge weekly, you might just be the

lucky winner of the monthly drawing for the $25 Repeat Impression's gift

certificate. Each entry gets a chance, two if you use a

Repeat Impressions stamp.  My followers get a 10% discount -see

my sidebar.  Drawing is the first Wednesday every month.

 

For inspiration check out what my teammates have created:

Cheri  Esther Heather  Joy   Laurie  Patti Shirley

 

 

 

Happy Birthday

A dear friend has a birthday this coming week and this is the card I

made for her. We celebrated with lunch and shopping, along with my mom,

 in the little town of Kimswick, MO which includes a stamping store!

 

 Last week on The House That Stamps Built our

Designer Choice Challenge was to try a technique new to you

and one of my teammates did inking an embossing folder.  I'd been

wanting to try this and her beautiful card motivated me.  The stamps

came with a magazine Creative Stamps and Papercraft Ideas,

$14 and an 8x10 sheet of images and an 8x10 sheet of

sayings, can't bet that deal!

The House That Stamps Built: Designer Choice Challenge

This week at The House That Stamps Built, Esther challenges us

to try a new technique.  I have had Tim Holtz Distress Crayons

for at least a year so I pulled those out.

 

Stamps: Repeat Impressions:  Flower Power Background,  Because
 

 

I stamped my Repeat Impressions: Flower Power Background,and embossed

 it on watercolor paper.  Then I scribbled the Distress Crayons on my mat

and picked my colors up with a watercolor brush.  I did several layers

 in areas for shading and contrasts and made sure to save one

 of the 6 colors in the pack for my background. I added a Repeat

Impressions sentiment: Because.

 

I was having so much fun I wanted to use the crayons in

another way:

Stamps: Repeat Impressions:  Flower Power Background, Thinking

 

I stamped my Repeat Impressions: Flower Power Background again and

embossed  it on watercolor paper.  Then I scribbled the Distress Crayons

across the paper and brushed it with my watercolor pen.  It was not

as smooth a look as I wanted so I scribbled the crayons on my

multi media matt and colored over the layers and got a much

smoother look.  I then added Repeat Impressions: Thinking.

 

Thanks Esther for this fun challenge!

 

Join in for a chance to win a $25.00 gift to Repeat Impressions, details

here.

 

Take a look and see what technique my talented teammates tried:

Cheri  Esther Heather  Joy   Laurie  Patti Shirley

 

The House That Stamps Built:Sketch

Wendy has a fun sketch this week at The House That Stamps Built:

My card just seemed to design itself once I picked a main paper, I used

watercolor markers on Repeat Impressions: Butterfly (sm) for my

image, added some die cutting and gems and was done in no time.

I hope you will join our challenge weekly, you might just be the

lucky winner of the monthly drawing for the $25 Repeat Impression's gift

certificate. Each entry gets a chance, two if you use a

Repeat Impressions stamp. 

My followers get a 10% discount -see

my sidebar.  Drawing is the first Wednesday every month.

For inspiration check out what my teammates have created:

Cheri  Esther Heather  Joy   Laurie  Patti Shirley

I hope you join in with our challenge weekly, you might just be the

lucky winner of the monthly drawing for the $25 Repeat Impression's gift

certificate. Each entry gets a chance, two if you use a

Repeat Impressions stamp.  My followers get a 10% discount -see

my sidebar.  Drawing is the first Wednesday every month.

For inspiration check out what my teammates have created:

Cheri  Esther Heather  Joy   Laurie  Patti Shirley

A few fun challenges:

Mrs A's Butterfly Challenge #126 J: Juicy Orange, Jewels, Butterfly 8/24

Ally's Angels #24 Anything Goes  8/7

Die Cuttin' Diva's: Anything Goes #431 8/6

Cute N Crafty #30 Anything Goes 

Cut It Up #179-Critters  8/8

Crafty Creations #395 Anything Goes  8/14

Cupcake Inspiration #475 (colors)  8/10

 

Simon Says Stamp Monday: Bright and Cheery 8/6

The House That Stamps Built: Pick of the Week

It is my week over at The House That Stamps Built to do the
 POTW-Pick of the Week.  I wanted to share some of my stamping tips
that I hope will make your crafting easier for you.

 

To line patterned paper up to match a full sized A2 or any size card

front, lay your card front in the corner of a Scor Pal or Scor Buddy

and then match your paper up starting in the top left corner, works

every time:

 

To cut out words and intricate dies layer a piece of wax paper, your

card stock and then your die.  Cut as you normally do: 

The paper and all the little pieces come right out of the die:

 

When die cutting an image, leave the die on and sponge the edges: 

When you have a spare 5 or 10 minutes or are not in a creative mood cut your card stock,

leave some in half sheets and scor some into ready to go cards:

Now these pieces will go together quickly into cards, on this card I used

Repeat Impressions My Sunshine

 

On this card I used Repeat Impressions Flower Power Background.

I embossed it in white and then colored it with Peerless

Watercolors and added my die cut Hello. 

 

Thanks for stopping by today!

The House That Stamps Built: Anything Goes

It is Anything Goes week again at The House!

 

I accidently made two cards on the Red, White and Blue Designer

Choice week and I really liked this card so thought I would

share it this week!

 

I colored up Repeat Impressions Daisies & Butterfly and

Beautiful Days with the Copics above.

I hope you will join our challenge weekly, you might just be the

lucky winner of the monthly drawing for the $25 Repeat Impression's gift

certificate. Each entry gets a chance, two if you use a

Repeat Impressions stamp.  My followers get a 10% discount -see

my sidebar.  Drawing is the first Wednesday every month.

For inspiration check out what my teammates have created:

Cheri  Esther Heather  Joy   Laurie  Patti Shirley

 

 

 

The House That Stamps Built: Inspiration Palette

 

 

Inspiration Palette week at The House That Stamps Built

 

I went with the colors and the photo which reminded me of a fun

summer birthday.  I used Birthday Vertical, embossing it on  heat

resistant acetate, and on the balloon I stamped Random Dots.

Why not pick what inspires you in the photo and join the challenge, you
 might just be the lucky winner of the monthly drawing for the
 $25 Repeat Impression's gift certificate. Each entry gets a chance,
 two if you use a Repeat Impressions stamp.  My followers get a
10% discount -see my sidebar.  Drawing is the first
Wednesday every month.

 

For inspiration check out what my teammates have created:

Cheri  Esther Heather  Joy   Laurie  Patti Shirley

 

A few fun challenges:

MFT Camp Create: Day 3 Shaker Cards

 

The House That Stamps Built: Tic-Tac-Toe

 

 

I've been itching to ink up this cute Happy Bees scene from

The House That Stamps Built, is it not just adorable!  I used

the diagonal on this weeks Tic-Tac Toe board, Vellum, Fun Fold,

and Dew Drops, see additional photo's for a better view of the

Bee"cause on Vellum and a close up of the bee, I used Copics,

Jelly Roll Stardust pens, and Souffle Puffy Ink pens. Designer

paper is Bo Bunny.

 

 

You can see on this view the two folds in the card that I scored with my

Scor Pal:

 

I hope you join in with our challenge weekly, you might just be the

lucky winner of the monthly drawing for the $25 Repeat Impression's gift

certificate. Each entry gets a chance, two if you use a

Repeat Impressions stamp.  My followers get a 10% discount -see

my sidebar.  Drawing is the first Wednesday every month.

 

For inspiration check out what my teammates have created:

Cheri  Esther Heather  Joy   Laurie  Patti Shirley

 

A few fun challenges:

A Gem of a Challenge Wk 13: ATG 7/15

Always Fun Challenge #118: ATG 7/23

Crafty Cardmakers #237: Dies or Punches 7/14

Crafty Friends #113 "Starts with "B" 7/12

Cute Card Thursday  #589 ATG  7/10

Cupcake Inspiration 473 7/13

 

Dragonfly Dreams: Things with Wings 8/1
Scor Pal  July #61

Word Art Wednesday #394-395  7/18

The House That Stamps Built: Designer Choice Challenge

My week to choose for Designer Choice Challenge  at The House That Stamps Built

 and with tomorrow being the Fourth of July, a big celebration in America I went

 with Red, White and Blue:

 

 

I went with a fun fold card that I have seen made with flowers and

changed it up to a Fourth of July theme for my dads birthday.

I used Repeat Impressions fun 9014-M, Fireworks set

and 1113-D, Birthday.  I also used a die set, not sure of the

maker.

 

Happy Fourth of July to those of you who celebrate!

I hope you will join our challenge weekly, you might just be the

lucky winner of the monthly drawing for the $25 Repeat Impression's gift

certificate. Each entry gets a chance, two if you use a

Repeat Impressions stamp.  My followers get a 10% discount -see

my sidebar.  Drawing is the first Wednesday every month.

For inspiration check out what my teammates have created:

Cheri  Esther Heather  Joy   Laurie  Patti Shirley

 

A few fun challenges:

Always Fun Challenge #117: Patriotic  7/6

Crafty Cardmakers #237 Dies or Punches 7/14

Cut It Up  #177: Red,White & Blue

Dare 2B Artzy: June Shaped Cards  7/6

International Art & Soul #61 Stars

 

Congratulations

My niece got a fabulous promotion at work so I made this card for her,

pink is her favorite color and she wears a lot of black, so color choices

were easy. If you are debating the Cut-Align rulers from

My Sweet Petunia I am thrilled with mine, look how nice

and even the edges are around the Congrats and the black

layer around it, easy to use.

 

Have a wonderful weekend!

The House That Stamps Built: Anything Goes

 

Anything goes week at The House That Stamps Built this week!

I made a set of 8, 2 of each of the CAS thank you cards as requested by a special person in my life.  I think this Heart Ribbon designed by Wendy

is the most beautiful cancer ribbon I have seen. On the inside he chose the

"Inspiration" verse "You are such an inspiration" for the left side and

will write his notes on the right side. 

I hope you will join our challenge weekly, you might just be the

lucky winner of the monthly drawing for the $25 Repeat Impression's gift

certificate. Each entry gets a chance, two if you use a

Repeat Impressions stamp.  My followers get a 10% discount -see

my sidebar.  Drawing is the first Wednesday every month.

For inspiration check out what my teammates have created:

Cheri  Esther Heather  Joy   Laurie  Patti Shirley

 

A few fun challenges:

A Perfect Time to Craft #6  6/27 

Crafting with an Attitude #52 7/1

Crafty Gals Corner #194 Polka Dots and/or Strips

Color My Heart Color Dare #347 Blues + up to 2 Neutrals

Dragonfly Dreams Challenge: For a Man/Boy  6/30

Happy Little Stampers: ATG with Dies June 6/30

The House That Stamps Built-Inspiration Photo

 

 Inspiration photo week at The House That Stamps Built, and let me tell

you, this one had me stumped.  I finally went through my  patterned papers

 for inspiration looking for a floral to go with the flowers at the top and to match

 the colors. After gluing it to my paper I embossed it with a butterfly

Paper Studio embossing folder (thank you Mrs. A) for interest,

 and added Repeat Impressions: Thinking of You layered

with the reverse side of the paper.

 

Isn't the reverse of the embossing on the inside pretty too!

I hope you join in with our challenge weekly, you might just be the

lucky winner of the monthly drawing for the $25 Repeat Impression's gift

certificate. Each entry gets a chance, two if you use a

Repeat Impressions stamp.  My followers get a 10% discount -see

my sidebar.  Drawing is the first Wednesday every month.

 

For inspiration check out what my teammates have created:

Cheri  Esther Heather  Joy   Laurie  Patti Shirley