The House That Stamps Built: Anything Goes

 

Everyone's favorite this week at The House That Stamps Built, anything goes:  

 

 

Would you believe I was drawing a blank this week and waited until the last

day to make my card.  I browsed Pinterest  and went

to Sketch Saturday for inspiration and then my creativity

kicked in and I made several cards!

 

Todays card uses Repeat Impressions: 2902-P, Bass Harbor Light (lg)

and 8611-E Thinking

 

Ihope you will join in the challenge.  Remember, your creation doesn’t

 have to be made with Repeat Impressions stamps, but if it is, 

you will get an additional entry in the  drawing for a $25 Repeat

 Impressions Gift Certificate this month! Check out

my sidebar for a discount code.

 

For amazing inspiration check out  what the other Rock Stars have created:

Cheri  Esther Heather  Joy   Laurie  Shirley

 

A few fun challenges:

Cupcake Inspiration Challenge 450 8/2

Pixie's Crafty Workshop #331 8/5

Sketch Saturday #523

The House That Stamps Built: Pick of the Week

Donna here, with my turn for "POTW" which means Pick of the Week for

The House That Stamps Built, basically I can do a project, tutorial

or whatever strikes me.  MY POTW is inspired by my friend Barb

who had a card on her blog using the "q-tip technique" which I had
never heard of before so I had to try it.  So lets get started.

 

Gather your supplies:  Cardstock: white 4 1/4" by 5 1/2" -several sheets,
various dye inks, q-tips rubber banded together- I got the most control
 with 2-3 together, stamps  of your choice, I used Repeat Impressions:
 1614-J, Fall Tree, 1610-J, Spring Tree

and 9106-G, Sending Smiles.

 

Stamp your image, using a MISTI or stamp positioner if you have one. Dip your

q-tip bundle into your die inks and dab on image.  Continue dipping and

dabbing until you have colored and achieved the effect you want.  Restamp

your image to bring out your image.

Layer and embellish as desired, I have two examples for you:

 

I hope you will try and enjoy this technique, thanks for stopping by!

The House That Stamps Built: Inspiration Photo

 Time for some photo inspiration at The House: 

I went with the fun photo colors, and the photo, I felt the falling leaves

were a good take on the falling stones.  I used a stencil and  Distress

Inks making sure to overlap the colors when I switched for interest.  

I used Repeat Impressions  4025-F, Deepest Sympathy, a few brads,
and epoxy shapes for accents.

I hope you will join in the challenge.  Remember, your creation doesn’t have to be made

with Repeat Impressions stamps, but if it is, you will get an additional entry in the

drawing for a $25 Repeat Impressions Gift Certificate this month! Check out

my sidebar for a discount code.

For amazing inspiration check out  what the other Rock Stars have created:

Cheri  Esther Heather  Joy   Laurie  Shirley

 

A few fun challenges:

Crafty Creations #370 Anything Goes  7/23

Cropstop July Linky Party #41 8/12

Word Art Wednesday #344-345

Southern Girls Challenge Tic Tac Toe

Happy Birthday

I got this darling stamp and die set with a magazine at Barnes and

Noble, such a fun set!  I had to use it right away to make my

sister-in-laws birthday card.  It came with Stamps, a stencil and

die cuts, and the magazine for $14.95, can't beat that. 

 

A few fun challenges:

Crafty Friends #88: Food/Drink  7/26

Jo's Scrap Shack #242 Anything Goes 7/30

The Crafters Care #200 Lots of Layers  7/29

 

The House That Stamps Built: Tic-Tac-Toe

Time for another fun challenge at Repeat Impressions, choose your

row and join the fun:

 

  Fun folds is one of my favorite things to do so I knew I was starting with the

center square and I went diagonally up and down, primary color,

orange, green, yellow and blue, and a sponged background

using Distressed Oxides spritzed with Copper shimmer.

 

 My fold is a side Easel card using: Repeat Impressions: 904-L, Daffodils

9009-F, Butterfly (sm) and 6104-J, Birthday Vertical

 

 

 

 Closed card for mailing:

 

Close up of background: 

 

I hope you will join in the challenge.  Remember, your creation doesn’t have to be made with Repeat Impressions stamps, but if it is, you will get an additional entry in the drawing for a $25 Repeat Impressions Gift Certificate this month! Take part in one weekly challenge or in all. 

See discount code for Repeat Impressions on my sidebar.

Check out  what the other Rock Stars have created:

Cheri  Esther Heather  Joy   Laurie  Shirley

A few fun challenges:

Crafting by designs: July

Cute Card Thursday #537 7/11

Word art Wednesday #342-343 7/17

Homework completed

Day 3: Repetition

Mrs. A's Butterfly Challenge #103: Wheat and Butterfly

Day 4: Complementary Colors

Day 5: Repetition

I finished watching the My Favorite Things Summer School video's

and completed my homework by making a card with each of

the 5 techniques.  If you have not watched the video's I

highly recommend them even if you do not have time to

play along, very well made and filled with useful

information.  Wishing you a joyful weekend!

My Favorite Things Summer School Day 1 and 2

 

 

 

Day 1: MFT White Space

Mrs. A's Butterfly Challenge #103: Wisteria and Buterfly

 

 

 

Day 2: Primary Colors

The yearly My Favorite Things Summer School started July 1 and I just got started

yesterday watching the video's and playing along.  The video's are

amazing and so informative. I have got to shop and add more of

there images to my stash!

 

The House That Stamps Built: Designers Choice Challenge

 

Yes, it is DCC- designers choice week at Repeat Impressions and Heather

has chosen the fun theme of "The Great Outdoors"

 

I went with 2713-O, Rocky Shore Vista creating a scene with Distress Oxide

Inks and since today is the 4th of July of course there had to be fireworks,

these lovely fireworks are 9014-M, Fireworks.

I hope you will join in the challenge.  Remember, your creation doesn’t have to be made with Repeat Impressions stamps, but if it is, you will get an additional entry in the drawing for a $25 Repeat Impressions Gift Certificate this month! Take part in one weekly challenge or in all. 

See discount code for Repeat Impressions on my sidebar.

 

Hope you have a wonderful holiday and thanks for stopping by.

Check out  what the other Rock Stars have created:

Cheri  Esther Heather  Joy   Laurie  Shirley

 

A few fun challenges:

HIMCR #358: Any Holiday

 StarStampz Challenge: Celebrations 7/5 

 

 

Repeat Impressions - Pick of the Week

Hi, Donna here with my POW-Pick of the Week for Repeat Impression.  I've been  

wanting to try the hot new technique I've seen video after video on

all over you tube, so here is a tutorial on my first attempt of

string art.

 

First gather your minimal supplies that should be in your craft room

already, reinker, string, about 9-12", a container to ink your string

in, 2 pieces of 4 1/4 x 5 1/2" cardstock, saying of your choice.  Rubber

gloves as I learned by experience:

Ink up your string leaving about 2-3" on each end uninked, do not be fooled into

thinking this will keep you uninked:

Lay your string in a circular design with one end at the top of your cardstock,

see positioning in the next picture:

Place the other piece of cardstock on top, (note
positioning of the string in  this photo)  press the top
 sheet of cardstock down and quickly pull the bottom
 string out:

You will get two mirror image designs looking similar or not to this, depending

on your curls:

Embellish as desired, some people add leaves to make the image look more

like a flower. I used Repeat Impressions: 8611-E, Thinking and 9717-C, Happy Hello

 

Hope you enjoyed this tutorial and will give it a try.

Sweet Teddy

July 2018

Popsicle/Food image and/or Colors

 

 

Time for another fun challenge at The House of Cards! This month is

Popsicle/Food and or colors.  I thought ice cream was cool and

refreshing like popsicles so I pulled out an uninked stamp  by Darcie's

 heart & home that I had been wanting to use:

 

 

I colored this sweet image with Copics and the background is distress Oxides.

 

 

For more information to join the current challenge.

 

A few fun challenges:

Crafty Creations #369: Anything Goes 7/10

Card Mania Challenge #106 Anything Goes 8/1

Jo's Scrap Shack #240: Anything Goes 7/6