Happy New Year

It's the 5th Wednesday of the month, you know what that means at

The House That Stamps Built

Anything Goes!

I thought this was a good time to wish everyone a Happy and Blessed New Year!

My card is made with a Recessed Panel technique and was quite fun to do and adaptable to any occasion!  The stamps I used were Repeat Impressions:  3804-I, Happy New Year and 3808-I, Celebration Burst. 

This is the last week to join in for a chance to win a $25 gift certificate to Repeat Impressions! Details found here.

Check out the amazing creations of  the design team:

Cheri 

Deonna 
Esther

Heather

Joy 

Laurie 

Shirley


A few fun challenges:
Crafty Creations: # 357 Anything Goes 1/11
Crafty Gals Corner #155 and 3rd Blogiversary  Anything Goes 1/2
Cute Card Thursday #509 Anything Goes   12/27
Inspiration Destination  #140 Anything Goes  1/4

Merry Christmas

Time for a photo inspiration at The House That Stamps Built.

My take focused on the Christmas tree.  I created a night sky with Distress Oxide inks and splattered some thinned white paint on it to look like snow, then dry embossed a white layer with a snow embossing folder and die cut a circle for the sky.  I then stamped Repeat Impressions 2719-K, Lg Pine Tree in green and then with Versa Mark and embossed it with clear embossing powder and added it to my card.  I then added Repeat Impressions 2202-G, May the miracle...  which is my Christmas wish to all my dear followers this year.  Thank you for your support, visits and comments this year! 

We always enjoy seeing your creations and you get an extra chance to win if you use a Repeat Impressions stamp.  See my side bar for a code for a 10% discount. Details at The House That Stamps Built.

For inspiration by my fabulous design team buddies:

Cheri 

Deonna 
Esther

Heather

Joy 

Laurie 

Shirley

 

A few fun challenges: 

Cuttlebug Mania: Anything Christmas  12/25 

Cupcake Inspiration CIC435  12/23 

Die Cuttin' Diva's #348-Holiday  12/25

Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge #21  1/7

Mod Squad Challenge: Winter Holiday Card 12/26

Word Art Wednesday #314-315  1/3 

Joy, Peace, Love

Tic-Tac-Toe time at The House That Stamps Built this week! Lots of fun choices to choose from, I went with Gems, Christmas and Silver. I stamped this wonderful saying (Repeat Impressions 2103-M, These three gifts) on vellum, embossed in silver and added a ribbon and that is all it needed.  

We always enjoy seeing your creations and you get an extra chance to win if you use a Repeat Impressions stamp.  See my side bar for a code for a 10% discount. Details at The House That Stamps Built.

For inspiration by my fabulous design team buddies:

Cheri 

Deonna 
Esther

Heather

Joy 

Laurie 

Shirley

Beary Merry Christmas

The House That Stamps Built

The Joy's Designer Choice Challenge: Glitter

This week was Joy's choice and she choose glitter.  I will let you in on a little secret,  I am not a glitter gal, it  stays on me and I find it all over my house forever.  But I decided to get messy and use real glitter for Joy's challenge.  Okay you are asking where is it.  I stamped up this darling Repeat Impressions 2007-I, Christmas Teddy and glittered up his hat and scarf and went to paper piece him and it just did not look right, so tossed those pieces. Okay glitter, hmm.  Got out some paper, stamped and cut out another hat and scarf and glittered it up with stickles, nope, it the trash also.  Hmm.  Okay worked on my design and then thought, okay glitter ribbon here we go!  Also used my red glitter pen on the holly berries.  I did have fun playing with the glitter.

We always enjoy seeing your creations and you get an extra chance to win if you use a Repeat Impressions stamp.  See my side bar for a code for a 10% discount. Details at The House That Stamps Built.

 

For inspiration by my fabulous design team buddies, and  a big welcome to

our new design team member Esther!

Cheri 

Deonna 
Esther

Heather

Joy 

Laurie 

Shirley

House of Cards December Blog Hop

 

Photo Inspiration: 

I used two digital's from one of our sponsors:

The first is Snowman with tree hat , I thought this darling image and words

would make an adorable card:

Close up with glitter:

And second I used Joy Bird, I thought this was perfect for the work group cards for

the bosses at work:

A big thank you to our sponsors:

MHKDesigns 

Digistamps4Joy

Imagine That Digistamp

Beccy's Place

Make sure you leave a comment at each person's blog along the way because the prizes are hidden and we'll be doing random drawings from the blogs where they are hiding! :)  After you're done, make a creation to share with us here, too, for another chance to win!

Here is our Hop Order:

House of Cards Challenge Blog

Mynn | Judy |  Chanya13 | Cohenna 
Donna -you are here-| Em | Heather | Jane

Karen | Katarina | Merethe

Michele | Paula | Rocky | Rosi 

Shawna | Shirley | Sue N. | Susan 

Thank you for stopping by today!

Teddy Bear Christmas

It's sketch time at The House That Stamps Built, and this was our sketch from Wendy this week!

This one was a bit of a challenge for me, took a bit of thinking before I began on it, but I was happy with the final result.  You can't tell from the picture but I misted the entire card with Imagine Sheer Shimmer spray so it is glittered up beautifully.

Supplies:  Repeat Impressions: 2007-I, Christmas Teddy

Join us in our challenge!  You can use any stamps but if you use Repeat Impressions Stamps you have double chances to win.  Check out my sidebar for a discount on any Repeat Impressions order.

 

Check out the amazing creations of the Design Team: 

Cheri  Deonna  Heather Joy  Laurie  Patti  Shirley

 

A few fun challenges:

The Merry Christmas Challenge #45  12/5

Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge #20 12/10

Make My Monday #60 Happy Christmas

  12/10

Let's Go Blues

Anything Goes this week at The House That Stamps Built! 

The layers on my card really are navy blue, it just does not photograph that way even with numerous attempts.  This was such a fun card to make for my youngest sons birthday.  He is a big hockey (and baseball) fan.  I used embossing paste just on the diagonal and after it dried used Distress Oxides in our local hockey teams colors.  After stamping Repeat Impressions 6104-J, Birthday Vertical I printed St. Louis Blues images from Pinterest and cut them out on  my Scan and Cut. I think he will be pleased.

Join us in our challenge!  You can use any stamps but if you use Repeat Impressions Stamps you have double chances to win.  Check out my sidebar for a discount on any Repeat Impressions order.

Check out the amazing creations of the Design Team: 

Cheri  Deonna  Heather Joy  Laurie  Patti  Shirley

A few fun challenges:

Aud Sentiments #193: Anything Goes & A Sentiment 11/27

Creative Artists #32: Mixed Media  11/25

Jo's Scrap Shack  FFC #215 Anything Goes 11/24

We 2 Create: Challenge 2- Anything Mixed Media/Creative Goes  11/30- 12/27