The House That Stamps Built: ATG

 Yes, you guessed it, Anything Goes Week at The House That 

Stamps Built.

My card:

Open:

My card is made with two sided patterned paper 5 1/4" by 11 3/4" scored  at

1 3/4", 4 3/3" and 7 3/4", accordion fold as above, mount 

on a 4 1/4 by 5 1/2 piece of card stock and then 

embellished as desired.  I simply stamped a couple sentiments from

 Repeat Impressions Hello Series.    Very quick and easy.

We would be happy if you 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 #156 Colour from the wheel + Butterfly 4/5

Crafty Calendar Challenge: Spring  4/28

Creative Fingers Challenge #206  4/29

Scor-pal April  5/5

Repeat Impressions: Pick of the Week

 It is my week to share a POTW - Pick of the Week at The House That 

Stamps Built.  

I got a set of Polychromo pencils two Christmas's ago and I decided 

it was time to watch some video's and put in some practice with them.

So today I am sharing my practice card step by step and the tips

I learned from the video's and along the way.  I have to say they

are much easier to work with than the first few times I played

with them.  I will be reaching for them more often.  They

do take more time than Copics but are worth it and it is very

relaxing.

You will need an image stamp of your choice, preferably one with

a lot of lines in it to guide you for shading.  I used Repeat Impressions

Nap Time Fairy and Happy Hello. It is best to use paper with a bit of

roughness to it.

 

Stamp your main image in a light color, not black. You will want to use

a stamping tool as we will be stamping over it again and want exact

placement:

 

 

Gather the colors for your first area to color, you will want 3 shades for

each color, along with a white and a gray.  Start by laying down the white where

you want the lightest areas, then go from lightest to darkest of your colors.

You want to use circular motions and very light pressure with a well

sharpened pencil.  You use light pressure as you will keep adding

layers.  This blends the layers together and gets a nice smooth effect:

 

After you have added the white and your 3 colors you can add more white

for highlight and then use the gray, sparingly to add shadows:

When complete, use embossing body generously as you have gotten oils 

from your hands on the card:

 

Stamp image with Versamark ink and emboss in gold, this makes such a

difference:

I added a mask and some stenciling to add some interest to my card.

Finish as desired:

If you have been debating Polychromo pencils  or already use them,I hope this

 tutorial gave you some helpful tips.

Have a wonderful day!

 

Leaf twofer

 This is my second post today, please scroll down to see the Minions.

 I barely made it in time for Darnell's twofer challenge this month.  I am

glad I came up with ideas today and had some time to craft!

I started with white card stock and using purple tape masked off strips

and with blender brushes blended stripes of color, overlapping some

of the rows.  I splattered some green ink and die cut and attached 

a leaf die that has been in my stash and only used once before.

For my second card I die cut the leaf out of foam and used it as a stamp. I

finished the card with a hello die with a vellum layer underneath.

A few fun challenges:

Twofer Card Challenge: Leaves 4/24

Cut It Up: Masculine 5/5

Happy Birthday Minions

  My oldest son's birthday was this past week and he shares our love of

Minions so I made the above card for him.  The minions started with the

Stampin Up owl punch.  The ballons were cut form a snippet I had

left from a background with Color Bursts.

We will be celebrating this weekend!

A few fun challenges:

Di's Digi Challenge: Animals acting like humans 5/1

Pixie's Snippet Playground #401  5/1

 

The House That Stamps Built: Theme as a Highlight

 This week at The House That Stamps Built Wendy wants us to highlight a sentiment as

 the focal point of our card.  This was a difficult choice as she has so many

fabulous sentiments.  I finally decided on one of my favorites:

I layered some patterned paper on white card stock and then embossed them

together for interest.  I stamped Just Because in navy ink and then in

VersaMark ink and embossed in clear embossing powder, and did the same 

with Dragonfly Sil. (sm). Added some navy layers and ribbon and left it

at that.

If you would like to 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: 

Allsorts Challenge #620: ATG with add ribbon option  4/24

Cutest Card Thursday #682: Ribbon/Twine 4/21

Through the Purple Haze #179: ATG-option ribbon/lace 5/1

Springtime flowers

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as I have read that this is going away, more details on my friend, Donna's blog.

 

Some anemone's from IO that I stamped and made cards with recently:

 

 

\My mom and I finally had a day out shopping at a local craft store and

she bought this stamp set and some other goodies as a belated  b-day

present for me, so this first card, colored with Copics was sent to her:

 

The second card I colored on the stamp with watercolor markers, misted the

stamp and stamped the image.  I like this card but the one above is my favorite.

Mom was very happy to receive it!

 Wishing you a crafty weekend and thanks for visiting!

A few fun challenges:

 

First card:

Addicted to CAS-Flower  4/20

 

Crafty Sentiments: ATG  4/19 

Crafty Calendar Challenge-Spring  4/29

Color Throwdown 638   4/20

 

Word Art Wednesday 487-488   4/27

We Love Chocolate Baroque  -April Springtime  4/29

Second card:

The Card Concept: 153-Loads of lavender  4/25

The House That Stamps Built: Signs of Spring

 Signs of spring are everywhere so that is our theme this week at The House!

 My card: 

To me the first signs of spring are tulips and daffodils, I wanted a nice

sunny looking card so I went with Repeat Impressions  Daffodils today! I stamped 

my image with my go to black VersaClaire  ink and embossed with clear embossing

powder, colored with Copics, cut a few layers using a Daily Bread die set.  The yellow 

needed somethingso I used white pigment ink and stenciled a lacey stencil on it,

 it is very faint but in real life it adds to the 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: rr10df.

For inspiration check out what my teammates have created:

 Heather  Joy   Laurie  Patti Shirley

 

A few fun challenges:

Addicted to CAS #195 Flowers  4/23

Crafty Calendar Challenge April Spring or Easter 4/28

We Love Chocolate Chocolate Baroque April Springtime 4/28

Use Your Stuff#420 Spring : Everything was in my stash  4/24

 

Lantern card

 

 

 

It has been a long time since I made a lantern card so when I saw this

as the challenge at Mrs. A's Butterfly challenge I had to play along. Her

directions are so easy to follow!  This will be one of my granddaughters

birthday cards.  I have a birthday sentiment on the lattice at the bottom, and 

birthday and other sendtiments stamped on other squares.  I also included 

flowers and of course butterflies.

 

A few fun challenges:

Butterfly Challenge 155:  Fold and all elements  4/14

 

Simon Says Stamp-Wednesday Challenge Happy Birthday  4/15 

Sisterhood of Crafters: Spring  4/12

Scor-Pal #80  5/10

Happy Anniversary at The House That Stamps Built

 Happy Anniversary to all who have April anniversaries, a popular month 

for wedding's.   A special anniversary today to Patti who choose our theme

this week of "create an anniversary card" for our weekly challenge at

The House That Stamps Built.

 

My card for my husband for our April anniversary:

I used several patterned paper from a paper pack I am

trying to finish up the last snippets, first stamping the heart and 

Happy Anniversaryand then doing my layering and making my flower layers. 

 I did some sponging on the heart, die cut flower petals and leaves 

to add interest.

Supplies:

Repeat Impression stamps:

Ruffled Heart Border

Anniversary

Other:

Backyard Table paper pad

Tim Holtz Small tattered florals dies

 

We would be happy if you 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:

Allsorts Challenge Week 617/8-ATG  4/9

Gem of a Challenge #7 ATG 4/10

Pixie's Snippets Playground #400  4/19

613 Avenue Create April ATG -Option-Create a card for Spring) 5/1

We Love Chocolate Baroque -April-Springtime  5/1