The House That Stamps Built: Anything Goes

 Final challenge of July at The House That Stamps Built, and that means:

Anything Goes!

I decided to wrap the month up with one more Christmas card

for my stash using the darling Repeat Impressions: Shepherd Boy.

 

 As the picture shows, I blended distress oxide broken china and

faded blue jeans, leaving it lighter in the middle and then

spritzed with water.  My image is colored with Copics and

then fussy cut.  The star is punched out of a scrap of silver.

Just a tip, I bought the highly talked about Bearly Art glue, be sure

if you have any on your fingers that you do not touch your distressed 

background as it will lift the distressed area right off the paper. That

is the one dark area in my otherwise light area in the center where I 

doctored it up.  It does glue well.

 

You can enter any card in our challenge this week for 

a chance to win the 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 (on break)  Laurie  Patti Shirley

 

A few fun challenges:

Lets Craft and Create #173- AG & Punch it   7/25

Cute Card Thursday #690 ATG 8/3

Crafty Gals Corner #221-Christmas in July 8/13

Creative Craft Cottage #142 - Christmas in July 8/4 

Word Art Wednesday #501-502 8/4

 

Butterfly card

 

 

 I had some free time today so made this fun butterfly card. I want a gatefold so started 

with that and some ancient paper that had an alcohol ink look to it.  I used some new 

Gina Marie dies and cut two each of the frame and butterfly and glued them

together. I brushed some Mermaid Lagoon distress oxide ink on the butterfly

for interest and added gems to the butterfly and card.

 

A few fun challenges:

Butterfly Challenge #159: 2-Theme:Quartz "Gems  Color: Quicksand (Yellow) & butterfly 8/4

Scor-pal Challenge 8/1

Cupcake Inspiration #523  7/23

The House That Stamps Built: Christmas in July

 Time for Christmas in July at The House That Stamps Built! Share a

Christmas card with us this week!

I made a quick and  easy monochromatic card using the 

following Repeat Impression stamps:

Skating Penguins

Snowflake Solid

 

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 (on break)   Laurie  Patti Shirley

 

A few fun challenges:

CHNC #551: Christmas: die cut or punch-I used both 7/23

Di's Digi Challenge-Christmas in July  7/23

2 Crafty Critters-ATG 7/25

Sparkles Christmas Challenge #126 8/1

Rudolf Days Challenge-July   8/1

 

 

 

 

 

 

The House That Stamps Built: Patterned Paper

 The theme this week is patterned paper at:  The House That Stamps Built:

 I have a favorite pad of Christmas paper with just scraps left so I pulled it out. 

I stamped Repeat Impressions Christmas Teddy and then paper pieced him with scraps.

The top patterned piece is 4 scraps glued to card stock and then die cut.  The blue

dotted piece was just big enough to die cut.  A bit of stenciling as the white was a

bit dull, another Tim Holtz stencil.

So dig out some of that patterned paper and 

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

 

The House That Stamps Built: Stencilling

 Time for some stenciling fun this week at The House That Stamps Built:

 

I decided on a theme of Christmas cards for the month of July for

  my Repeat Impressions posts to start my stash.  I inked this fun Tim Holtz stencil

up with deep red ink and then covered it with Dreamweaver Pearlescent embossing

 paste, I like the shimmery look it created.  I them stamped Repeat Impressions:

NOELand Tiny Pontsettia on shimmery card stock with a glittery red

embossing powder. 

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  (on sabatical)  Laurie  Patti Shirley

 

A few fun challenges:

Country View: Use a Stencil (or two)  8/1

Dare 2B Artzy: Christmas in July 8/1 

Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge #97: ATG 7/25

Through The Purple Haze #182 : Optional-Christmas in July 8/1

The Male Room# 152: Christmas in July  8/4

 

 

Pick of the Week for The House That Stamps Built

 My turn to share a project at The House That Stamps Built. I am sharing how to make

3 quick and easy cards.

You start out with 3 complimentary pieces of card stock. You can either die

cut these or cut them to size.  I went with rectangle die cuts, and I cut

one set to show you in case you do not have a die cut in the approximate 

size.  To cut by hand you will want to cut  to 1 5/8" by 3 5/8":

Glue on 3 cards varying the arrangement, layer if desired:

Stamp image of your choice and layer on card and embellish as desired:

This one was cut without a die:

Repeat Impression stamps used in order:

Shepherd Boy

Christmas...

 Silent Night

These three gifts

 

I hope you enjoyed my tutorial, these were fun, quick and easy to make!  

A few fun challenges:

Alphabet Challenge blog: G is for Gold 7/16 

Dare 2B Artzy Christmas in July  8/1

Jingle Belles: Stars & Stripes for Christmas 7/15

Pixies Snippet Playground #406   -used scraps for all of these !!7/11

Word Art Wednesday 7/7

Belated Fathers Day Post, Jack

 

This is a late post of my oldest son's Fathers Day card as it was a sad day,

their darling dog Jack,  was being put to sleep the next day, so we delayed 

celebrating for a week, we did visit and give our grand dog some loving, isn't he 

darling! He will be missed and remembered by many.

The background of the card is the artwork of their daughter, her first stamping

and then the addition of her coloring.  I added a die cut and Fathers Day 

sentiment.