May 8, 2019 Tic Tac Toe

This week over at The House that Stamps Built our challenge is Tic-Tac-Toe which is one of my favorite challenge.  I choose to go with the right vertical using gems, stitching, and die cuts.  For my image I used 912-K Tulip Bouquet  

and for my sentiment I used a vertical sentiment 6104-J Birthday Vertical.  I used two die cuts for this card - the focal image is on a die cut and the frame I made using two stitched frames, I water colored the focal image and the background - I used several gems on my card just to add some sparkle, a couple of little butterflies in the corners.  I always have a need for Birthday Cards so this will go in my birthday box.

Now it is your turn to make a card or project using Tic Tac Toe.  So many possibilities on this challenge.  You have a full month to enter our challenge.  You do not have to use Repeat Impressions stamps you will have two chances to win a $25 gift certificate towards stamps. ow it is your turn to make a card using the challenge of  Use a Stencil  -  and  as you can see there are a lot of possibilities for this challenge.  You have a full month to enter our challenge to win.  You do not have to use Repeat Impressions stamps but if you do you will be entered twice for the drawing of a $25 gift certificate to Repeat Impressions. 

If you look on my right side bar I also have a discounted coupon for you to use when you go shopping at Repeat Impressions.
Now why not take a look at our DT Rock Stars for inspiration and to get you started. 

 Joy   Donna   Heather   Laurie  and  Esther 

    

May 1, 2019 DCC - One Layer

This is May 1, where is the year going - the designer choice was mine this month over at The House that Stamps Built and I choose to do a one layer card.  I usually tend to make 2-3 layers on my cards and in all reality you can make a beautiful card with just one layer.  

For my card I chose 9012-M Dandelion Breeze and 3101J Dream,Inspire, Hope   for my sentiment.  

I used distress oxide inks to make my background, adding some clouds in the sky, and then embossed my images in black embossing powder.  

Now it is your turn to make a card or project using One Layer Card  So many possibilities on this challenge.  You have a full month to enter our challenge.  You do not have to use Repeat Impressions stamps you will have two chances to win a $25 gift certificate towards stamps. ow it is your turn to make a card using the challenge of  Use a Stencil  -  and  as you can see there are a lot of possibilities for this challenge.  You have a full month to enter our challenge to win.  You do not have to use Repeat Impressions stamps but if you do you will be entered twice for the drawing of a $25 gift certificate to Repeat Impressions. 

If you look on my right side bar I also have a discounted coupon for you to use when you go shopping at Repeat Impressions.
Now why not take a look at our DT Rock Stars for inspiration and to get you started. 

 Joy   Donna   Heather   Laurie  and  Esther 

April 24, 2019 Anything Goes

This is the last Wednesday of April - over at The House that Stamps Built our challenge is Anything Goes.  I have had 4525-K SunBeams  for a while and I think I really just "forgot" I had it.  I thought it worked very well paired with  the 

818-I Praying for Ewe.  Being a chemo angel I send out a "lot" of inspirational and thinking of you type cards and I think this one will be an inspiration to my chemo buddy.  

Now it is your turn to make a card or project using Anything Goes.  So many possibilities on this challenge.  You have a full month to enter our challenge.  You do not have to use Repeat Impressions stamps you will have two chances to win a $25 gift certificate towards stamps. ow it is your turn to make a card using the challenge of  Use a Stencil  -  and  as you can see there are a lot of possibilities for this challenge.  You have a full month to enter our challenge to win.  You do not have to use Repeat Impressions stamps but if you do you will be entered twice for the drawing of a $25 gift certificate to Repeat Impressions. 

If you look on my right side bar I also have a discounted coupon for you to use when you go shopping at Repeat Impressions.
Now why not take a look at our DT Rock Stars for inspiration and to get you started. 

Cheri    Joy   Donna   Heather   Laurie  and  Esther 

April 17, 2019 Inspiration Challenge

This week at The House that Stamps Built our challenge was to use the inspiration photo.  With all the beautiful floral images we have available the only hard part of this challenge was for me to decide which one to use.  Ichoose to use 10201-W Flower Power Background   as I really felt in the mood to color.  Look at all those beautiful flowers - using my Misti I stamped one edge of my white cardstock then turned the cardstock 90 degrees and stamped the same image again.  I then used copic markers to color both side the same.  The space in the middle worked very nicely for my die cut hello.  Nice relaxing evening to color, added a few sequins and my card was complete. 

Now it is your turn to make a card or project using the inspiration photo above.  So many possibilities on this challenge.  You have a full month to enter our challenge.  You do not have to use Repeat Impressions stamps you will have two chances to win a $25 gift certificate towards stamps. ow it is your turn to make a card using the challenge of  Use a Stencil  -  and  as you can see there are a lot of possibilities for this challenge.  You have a full month to enter our challenge to win.  You do not have to use Repeat Impressions stamps but if you do you will be entered twice for the drawing of a $25 gift certificate to Repeat Impressions. 

If you look on my right side bar I also have a discounted coupon for you to use when you go shopping at Repeat Impressions.
Now why not take a look at our DT Rock Stars for inspiration and to get you started. 

Cheri    Joy   Donna   Heather   Laurie  and  Esther 

April 10, 2019 Tic Tac Toe

This week the challenge over at The House that Stamps Built one of my favorite challenge is up this week.  Tic-Tac-Toe - so many possibilities.  I chose to go with the top row across Easter, Washi Tape and Pastel colors. 

For this challenge I used 920-I Cross Window and 1304-J Beauty of Springtime .  I recently got the Cross Window - and I embossed it in black and then colored with copic markers and a gold gel pen on the cross.  I had some watercolor wash DP that I used on the outside of the card, using a die to cut a square in the middle to place my focal image.  I mounted it on black - making the focal image stand out.  The Beauty of Springtime has a sentiment as well as the Happy Easter - I only used the Happy Easter on my card.  My washi tape is the crosses on the bottom of the card.  I had gotten this to use on a scrapbook page of my baptism.  Worked perfectly. 

 Now it is your turn to make a card using the challenge of  Tic-Tac-Toe  -  and  as you can see there are a lot of possibilities for this challenge.  You have a full month to enter our challenge to win.  You do not have to use Repeat Impressions stamps but if you do you will be entered twice for the drawing of a $25 gift certificate to Repeat Impressions. 

If you look on my right side bar I also have a discounted coupon for you to use when you go shopping at Repeat Impressions.
Now why not take a look at our DT Rock Stars for inspiration and to get you started. 

Cheri    Joy   Donna   Heather   Laurie  and  Esther 

April 8, 2019 The House that Stamps Built POTW

This week I am the designer for our POTW (project of the week) over at The House that Stamps Built.  I choose to work with Postoids - well what are postoids - they are a faux stamp - little but fun to work with in several ways.

Cute yes - will it get my letter to Wendy NO - one of us is going to have to pay postage, and more than likely it will be returned to me.  I used the stamp postiod
4901-E Snail Mail Post

So lets gather some supplies - card stock stamps, ink, envelopes, a pair of postage style scissors (is you have them) and color medium of your choice.

My first example is a card using the same snail mail image I used above 

4901-E Snail Mail.  After stamping the image I used a stitched die cut to frame it out.  Colored with copic markers and used on my card with some flower paper, twine and a little pink heart.  If you look closely you can see the tiny elements I used on the snail "ears" or feelers.  which I think just adds the perfect amount of bling.  

For this example I used it on the back of my card as a "stamped by" and personalizing it with my hand written initials and the year.  

I used 4903-F Love Post .

Next up I used 7101-F Birthday Post on the outside of my envelope  to wish the recipient a Happy Birthday before the envelope is ever opened.  I put it in the left hand corner of my envelope and then colored it with colored pencils.

For my final project/card I used one of my favorite postoids - (I'm a dog lover)
8105-F Tail Mail and 8103-C Woof stamping three images, cutting around them with my postage scissors.  I colored each dog a different color using copic markers.  A bit of ribbon trim a sentiment and 2 little hearts and card complete.

Hope you have enjoyed my projects - I have several more postoids in my collection - and I bet you  have some or will put a few of these on your next order.

April 3, 2019 Use a Stencil

Can't believe it is April  already - and I feel spring - birds are singing in the morning, trees are budding, and temps are warmer.
This month, over at The House That Stamps Built  our Rock Star Laurie chose "use a stencil" as her designer choice challenge. I have "lots" of stencils and seldom use them - but I am pleased with the way this one turned out.  I had a butterfly stencil so I decided to sponge each butter a different "spring" color - this was my second attempt as I wasn't quite careful enough and sponged some of my color on the edge of the other butterflies, so second time is a charm.  I kept my card simple and only used a sentiment - which I embossed in black so it would stand out against the butterflies.  The sentiment I choose to use is:
6112-J What do we live  as I think we need more kindness in our life.  

 Now it is your turn to make a card using the challenge of  Use a Stencil  -  and  as you can see there are a lot of possibilities for this challenge.  You have a full month to enter our challenge to win.  You do not have to use Repeat Impressions stamps but if you do you will be entered twice for the drawing of a $25 gift certificate to Repeat Impressions. 

If you look on my right side bar I also have a discounted coupon for you to use when you go shopping at Repeat Impressions.
Now why not take a look at our DT Rock Stars for inspiration and to get you started. 

Cheri    Joy   Donna   Heather   Laurie  and  Esther