Happy St. Patrick's Day

This is my second post today.

 

Happy St. Patrick's Day to all that celebrate!  I don't have any Irish in my but my husband and boys have a bit of Irish in them and in the USA everyone celebrates. This Lucky Day Digi set was a freebie from Verve and you can grab it through today here.

A few fun challenges:
Crafty Gal's Corner: Use Buttons 3/20
Cut It Up Challenge #117: Thing Green  3/22
Paper Craft Crew PPC235
 
Shopping Our Stash #294: Use Green  3/20
Verve Stamps

Just for You

A card I sent to a dear friend about a week ago to let her know I was thinking of her to boost her spirits.  I had made a similar card awhile back and really liked the design and changed it up to use this friends favorite color and used sparkly red embossing powder.  The sentiment and flowers ( by Inspired by Stamping) are stamped on Vellum and layered over patterned paper and then cardstock. To me the best cards to make and send are ones to brightened another persons day.  Wishing all my blogland friends a special day today, I appreciate your visits and your comments, they brighten my day.

A few fun challenges:
Cards in Envy: Keep it Simple  3/18
Crafty Girls Creations #34 4/5
The Crafter's Café  #168 CAS  3/13
Word Art Wednesday #272-273

Love and Hugs

It's time for another Monthly Tic-Tac Toe Challenge at  The House that Stamps Built: 

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I used the Container Set from Repeat Impressions again, this time using the jar and candy hearts. I toped the jar with another jar embossed on vellum with silver.  A bit of ribbon, a red die cut and some background paper and I was done.  For the Tic-Tac-Toe I was doing the bottom row but looks like I did the left row too.

 

A close up of the jar:

 

Check out the other Rock Star creations:

Cheri  Deonna  Heather Joy  Laurie  Patti  Shirley

As always if you join the challenge at The House That Stamps Built, you have a chance to win a $25 gift certificate to Repeat Impressions, use a Repeat Impressions stamp and you get double chances to win. And I have a discount code on my side bar to shop at Repeat Impressions anytime you desire, as often as you wish.

Thanks for stopping by!

Winner at:

A few fun challenges:

Crafting From the Heart #145: Anything Goes  2/11

Cuttlebug Mania: Roses are Red

Cupcake Inspiration 393  2/11

HIMCR #267- Red, Pink &1 (Brown)  2/10/16

 

 

Anything but a card

This week our Challenge at  The House that Stamps Built is Anything but a Card chosen by Patti.  This was quite a challenge for me.  Luckily I had just ordered a pillow die cut so I knew I was going to go with that.  I dug into my endless stash of alcohol ink papers and found 2 similar ones and a purple one.  After die cutting my two pillow box shapes I stamped those and the third sheet with  Repeat Impressions:  10201-W Flower Power Background.  I cut out a couple flowers from the purple sheet.  I also cut a few leaves out of white card stock and colored them with distress inks.  Colored some tulle with distress ink and assembled adding a jewel to the flower center.  And of course it had to be filled with dark chocolate - my favorite!

I know you will enjoy seeing what the rest of the Design Team made:

Cheri  Deonna  Heather Joy  Laurie  Patti  Shirley

A few fun challenges:

Crafting From the Heart#145: Anything Goes 2/5

Die Cuttin Diva's Challenge #302: Anything Goes 2/5

Gumballs

 

 

 

Time for the weekly challenge at The House that Stamps Built.  Everyone's favorite "Anything Goes" is now a regular challenge every month, so link your current card up or make a card with Repeat Impression stamps  for an extra change for to win the monthly drawing for a $25 Repeat Impressions gift certificate (and remember I have a discount code on my sidebar!)

 

I used one of my favorite sets:  Contain Yourself Series  which covers every occasion, the pieces are also all sold separate.  I made this card for a male co-workers birthday.  I make all the group birthday cards and the men one's are the most challenging so this set was a great addition to my collection.

 

I used my Copic markers,  Glossy Accents, and some gumball looking paper that has been in my stash forever.

 

 

 

 

I hope you will visit my delightful teammates blogs to see what they have created:

Cheri  Deonna  Heather Joy  Laurie  Patti  Shirley

 

A few fun challenges:

Cupcake Inspiration CIC391:  1/27

Crafting From The Heart 144   1/28

Oh La La Creations: #220 For a Man or Boy   1/28

Word Art Wednesday #266-267  2/1

Fluttering by

 

 

It's time for a new challenge at The House that Stamps Built:

 

 

This week is a picture inspiration and I went with the colors for my inspiration and used Repeat Impressions Butterfly 9001-L and patterned paper by ki: Vintage Charm.  I did pull in a bit of aqua instead of the grey to get the look I wanted.

I hope you will join the challenge this week at The House that Stamps Built - you don't have to use Repeat Impression stamps but you will get an extra chance to win a $25 gift certificate if you do use Repeat Impression stamps.  On my sidebar is a discount coupon for anytime you order from Repeat Impressions.

 

Here is what the talented DT has created:

 

Cheri  Deonna  Heather Joy  Laurie Patti  Shirley

 

Thanks for stopping by!

 

A few fun challenges:

Crafting When We Can #135: Anything Goes  1/22

Cute Card Thursday 461: Cool colours/tones  1/25

Fashionable Stamping Challenge #119 Spring  2/1

Modsquad Challenge  1/19 

Pink & Main  #17 Anything Goes  1/19

House That Stamps Built Project of the Week

 

Project of the week: Easy Shaker Card

 

Welcome everyone.  It is my turn for the Project of the Week here at the House That Stamps Built.  I saw a video on Jennifer McGuires's blog awhile back on making shaker cards that is so easy that I now am hooked on shaker cards and wanted to share it with you. My tutorial is in my own words, and I did not refer back to Jennifer's blog so my instructions, number of layers, type of adhesives and my instruction may be quite different.

 

Gather supplies as indicated:

 

White A2 card, pattern paper of choice cut to 4" by 5 1/4 ":

 

Frame die, cut 6:

 

 

Sheet of acetate cut to fit your frame:

 

 

Glue 5 of the 6 frames together with a liquid glue, I

prefer a tacky glue which allows time to reposition and

dries fast:

 

 

Attach pattern paper to card front.  Color image of your

choice, I used Repeat Impressions Sunflower 4313-K,

cut to fit your frame and glue to pattern paper:

 

Attach frame with Tacky glue or adhesive and fill with

sequins, do not overfill:

 

 

Use double sided tape to attach acetate to the 6th frame and

on top of the acetate:

 

Attach acetate layer:

View from the side:

 

 

I hope this will inspire you to try shaker cards.  Thanks for stopping by.

A few fun challenges:
HIMCR #284: Super Scraps Saturday:  Used all my scrap pieces of white for the 5 frames 
Inky Chicks  #77: Anything Goes  1/27
One Crazy Stamper: January Anything Goes
Mod Squad Challenge:Sequins, Rhinestones and Glitter  1/17

 

Sweet Birthday Wishes

 

It's a fun new challenge at The House That Stamps Built for this week:

 

 

 

I went with the third column: Fun fold, Twine and Patterned paper and here is what I came up with using Repeat Impressions Cupcakes 9302-P, paper from Hootenany,  twine from my stash, Copic markers, glitter, Glossy Accents, die cuts, and a punch.

 

I hope you will join the challenge this week at The House that Stamps Built - you don't have to use Repeat Impression stamps but you will get an extra chance to win a $25 gift certificate if you do!  On my sidebar is a discount coupon for anytime you order from Repeat Impressions. Thanks for stopping by today.

 

Here is what the talented DT has created:

 

Cheri  Deonna  Heather Joy  Laurie Patti  Shirley

 

A few fun challenges:

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper January 2017 Challenge  2/1

Cupcake Inspiration  1/14

Die Cut Diva's: Sentiment Free  2/1

Fun-Day Friday Challenge #170  1/14

 

 

Happy New Year

 

Time for another fun challenge at House of Cards.

 

Add a Building and/or Colors: 

 

 

 

 

I am excited to be back for another term with House of Cards.  As you see from above I went with the colors using a digital set New Year Greeting by MHK Designs.  I used metallic paste on my designer paper, coated it with Distress clear rock candy crackle paint and then sprinkled some glitter on top. I did the same with some die cut stars.  Close up below.

 

 

 

You can check out the Design Teams fabulous designs each week on Monday at House of Cards or hop on over to each ones blogs today, the names with an * our the new members we are introducing today.

 

Chanya13* | Christi* | Cohenna | Donna | Em | Heather | Jane | Judy 

Karen | Katarina | Leslie | Maria* | Merethe

Michele | Mynn | Nancy* |  Paula | Rocky | Rosi 

Shawna | Shirley | Sue N. | Susan 

 

Check out the rules here  to join us!

 

A few fun challenges:

Cut It Up: Old Die Cuts, New Crackle Paint  1/11

HIMCR #281 - Any Holiday

MHKDesigns January Challenge

Sparkle N Sprinkle  2/1