You Paint My Heart Happy

 

I send a lot of cards out but do not send many just because cards 

to my husband so when I say this MFT  sketch I thought I

would make him a card. I started with an oval stencil and

a rainbow of Distress Oxide inks, splattered them with

white paint.  I colored up a Builder Bear by My Favorite

Things and stamped one of the sentiments and die cut it.

I am sure he will be happy to receive this.

Wishing you all a happy day.

A few fun challenges:

MFT's Wednesday Sketch Challenge #5262/1

Simon Says Stamp: ATG Wednesday Challenge  2/2

Sisterhood of Crafters: Create Your Own Background  2/7

Word Art Wednesday #475-476  2/2

The House That Stamps Built: Anything Goes

               Continuing with the January theme of Anything Goes at The House That Stamps Built:

 

 I wanted to make a fun fold card this week.  I have been trying to build my

stash of masculine cards especially birthday cards, so I dug through my papers

and have been using up scraps from many years ago.  I paper pieced 

Repeat Impressions: Hot Air Balloon Cluster and added  Happy Birthday.

 

Join our weekly challenge, you might just 

be the lucky winner of the monthly drawing for the

 $25 Repeat Impression's  gift certificate. you don't have to use

Repeat Impression stamps but an extra chance if you do.  

Drawing is the first Wednesday every month.

 

Use my discount code on my side bar for 10% off: rr10df.

For inspiration check out what my teammates have created:

 Heather  Joy   Laurie  Patti Shirley

 

A few fun challenges:

Craft Rocket Challenge #77  2/1 

Crafty Sentiment Designs  2/1

Use Your Stuff #414 -Everything was from my stash,

patterned paper over 20 years old 2/1

SSC249 2/5

The Card Concept #147 I was inspired by the colors and 

masculinity of the card 2/1 

The House That Stamps Built: Anything Goes

 Continuing with the January theme of Anything Goes at The House That 

Stamps Built:

 

 

This is the first card I made after creating numerous backgrounds with the Gelli

Plate I bought over the holidays.  It was so much fun creating backgrounds. I hesitated

to buy one as I did not like the lines a brayer leaves.  I decided to try Distress

Oxide Inks and they leave such a smooth canvas like look with no lines! I left this

one as is but have gone on to stencil, splatter etc on some of the other backgrounds

I made one my first time playing.

 

Repeat Impression Stamps:

Portland Head Light (sm)

Happy Birthday

 

Join our weekly challenge, you might just 

be the lucky winner of the monthly drawing for the

 $25 Repeat Impression's  gift certificate. you don't have to use

Repeat Impression stamps but an extra chance if you do.  

Drawing is the first Wednesday every month.

 

Use my discount code on my side bar for 10% off: rr10df.

For inspiration check out what my teammates have created:

 Heather  Joy   Laurie  Patti Shirley

 

A few fun challenges:

Aud Sentiments #266-ATG&A Sentiment  1/24 

Dare 2B Artzy  2/6

Happy Little Stampers: ATG with dies   2/1 

Gem of a Challenge #2  1/26

 

The House That Stamps Built-POTW

My week for the POTW - Project of the Week at The House That Stamps Built. I

am going to share how to make a Criss-Cross Card. Below is my card.

Let's get started. You will need a 12 x 12 piece of card stock, coordinating

patterned papers, some solid color card stock and stamps of your choice. I

used Repeat Impressions: Cape Hatteras Light and Hope your birthday.

 

Trim your 12 x 12 sheet of card stock to 5", and scor at 4" and 8". Then

trim from top of scor line to bottom right and left corners as below.

 Fold as below:

Take two 4" x 5" pieces of patterned paper and trim diagonally. Trim a small

amount off the bottom straight edge to fit the triangle sections of the card,

inside and out.

Cut center of card 3 7/8" x 4 7/8 ", may cut a white or ivory center, slightly

smaller, stamp with sentiment and add a tab or ribbon at the top.

Add image and any finishing touches:

This adds another masculine card to my stash, one of my January goals.

Thanks for stopping by!

 

Hello

 Hello!  Hope you  have a wonderful weekend!

 Laying flat.

 I made this card for a few of my favorite challenges and had a lot of 

fun making it.  As you know I like butterflies and it was fun to make a

gap card, it's been awhile since I made one. I had a snippet of this

patterned paper on my craft table, the gold and green behind

the hello was also a snippet.

A few fun challenges:

Butterfly Challenge #150-all elements of the wheel 1/26

Pixie's Snippet #394 1/24

The House That Stamps Built: Anything Goes

 It's another Anything Goes week at The House That Stamps Built.

  My card:

Unfortunately we all need sympathy cards far too often. I wanted this

one to be bright and cheery.  I started with a die cut panel and brushed 

on die inks, I added a white layer for extra dimension.  I used Repeat

Impressions Deepest Sympathy and then a few die cut butterflies.

Join our weekly challenge, you might just 

be the lucky winner of the monthly drawing for the

 $25 Repeat Impression's  gift certificate. you don't have to use

Repeat Impression stamps but an extra chance if you do.  

Drawing is the first Wednesday every month.

 

Use my discount code on my side bar for 10% off: rr10df.

For inspiration check out what my teammates have created:

 Heather  Joy   Laurie  Patti Shirley

 

A few fun challenges:

Butterfly Challenge #150 (#1-Butterfly, Granny smith, Geranium) 1/28 

Shape Winner Top 3
 

 

CCC Digi Creations #121 Include a Sentiment 2/1 

Chocolate Baroque  Feminine  January  2/1 

Corrosive Challenge #1 January  2/1

Color Dare #426  1/22

 

Happy Little Stampers  2/1

Word Art Wednesday #473-474 1/24

 

 

 

 

 

 

The House That Stamps Built: Anything Goes

  It's a fun month at The House That Stamps Built.  Wendy is shaking it

up a bit and making the entire month an Anything Goes!  One of my January

goals is to build up my stash of masculine cards as I always struggle with this.

I have two similar cards to share with you this week:

I started with two pieces of water color paper, I sprayed them with

Distress Resist Spray.  Once they were dry I did layers of

Distress Oxide Spray -this is so fun and quick for a

background! 

On the first card I used stamps (Genealogy and Random Dots)  to add interest to my 

background and then added my layered Happy Birthday.  

 

On the second card

I used a stencil to add interest after stamping the dragon flies

and then added a Happy Birthday to the gate fold card.

Join our weekly challenge, you might just 

be the lucky winner of the monthly drawing for the

 $25 Repeat Impression's  gift certificate. you don't have to use

Repeat Impression stamps but an extra chance if you do.  

Drawing is the first Wednesday every month.

 

Use my discount code on my side bar for 10% off.

For inspiration check out what my teammates have created:

 Heather  Joy   Laurie  Patti Shirley

A few fun challenges:

Allsorts Challenge: ATG 1/9

MIUCB #5-ATG, optional bleaching 2/3

Stamplorations Stencil Challenge  2/1

Gelli Plate Fun

I finally gave in and got a Gelli plate after seeing so many beautiful backgrounds. Yesterday 

I played with some inexpensive card stock, and used Distress Oxide spray inks and

made lots of backgrounds.  They came out beautifully, more of a canvas look.  I got a nice 

smooth  background and I did not have to use a brayer.  

 

On this background I dropped a wet stencil in a couple  areas, 

stenciled some blue inks, did some light splatters, cut some die cuts from 

the same sheet of paper, splattered some water and sprinkled

 embossing powder on the splatters and heat it. I die cut a layer, added

a blue layer and found a scrap of patterned paper that pulled the 

colors together.

It was a lot of fun trying something new and different, you will be seeing

more cards in future posts with the backgrounds I made.

A few fun challenges:

Die Cut Diva's: Frame It 2/1

Crafty Sentiments Designs: ATG   1/4

Tuesday Morning Sketches #586-ATG 1/5