December 2, 2020 Designer Choice - Pets

 Can't believe that is is December - and this month always flies by so quickly - especially with the holidays - but our designer Joy over at The House that Stamps Built choose PETS to be our challenge theme.  

I choose 6216-N Nip Bliss as he really reminded me so much of our first cat Thomas Cat.  He was born into a family of 6 on a farm - but we decided to make him an uptown cat - and brought him home in my coat pocket.  This guy brought us so many laughs, warm laps, companionship, comfort, and joy.  He moved from the city with us to our lake house, then we moved to a smaller house in the woods, and he was with us for 18+ years.  In addition to Thomas we acquired Nikki, and Callie and they all three thrived until their later years.  Nikki passed 6 years ago and we still have Callie - our diabetic girl - and she is 17.  

Anyway some simple copic coloring - fussy cut and mounted on a velveteen mat fit for a king.  I decided to cut his name out of red velveteen and used no sentiment.  This guy will always hold a special place as our first.  My hubby says no more cats when Callie passes but...we have had a cat all our married life. Our household would just not be complete without another cat to warm our laps.   

   Now it is your turn to make a card or project using the challenge of use a PET. 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.

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

 Joy   Donna   Heather   Laurie and Pat 

 

House that Stamps Built Anything Goes

 This week is the last week of November - tomorrow Thanksgiving - and Anything Goes over at The House that Stamps Built.  

I choose to go with a couple of stamps that have not seen ink in quite a while plus I got a new cloud edger stencil that I absolutely love.  

The stamps I used are:

     9116-N Hot Air Balloon Cluster and  6524-C Just Imagine 

I used my cloud stencil and various shades of oxide distress inks applied with my brushes.  I then stamped each balloon in black ink and applied a small bling on top of the hot air balloon, for my sentiment I thought Just Imagine was very appropriate for this card.  

I have a "bucket list" which includes a ride in a hot air balloon.  Yes I have already jumped from a perfectly good airplane 2 years ago.  We have gone to hot air balloon glows and races and I have always wanted to go up.  The fall would be a beautiful time to go up to see all of Mother Natures finest art work.  

Now it is your turn to make a card or project using the challenge of 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 but if you do  you will have two chances to win a $25 gift certificate towards stamps. using the challenge of  Anything 

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   Lauri  and Patti.

     

Technique Junkie Pine Bough, Laughter and Coffee

I have a couple more cards to share with you from Technique Junkie November release.  What a fun month this has been to work with some awesome stamps as "guest designer".  The first card is :

I used Coffee Stain Background and Love, Laughter, andCoffee for this gift/card combination.  I had some pretty little decorated bags left from last year so I decided to make a gift.  There is a cute little coffee shop we love to visit and they sell small bags of flavored coffees so I always have a couple flavors on hand.  I stamped the Coffee Stain Background on a piece of ecru cardstock.  I stamped the Love, Laughter, and Coffee on the same color cardstock and fussy cut it out.  I stamped "But you can buy Coffee" a second time, cut it out and popped it up over the original saying.  Mounted on a darker brown cardstock , applied to the bag with some "coffee" colored ribbon and I am taking this to a friend this week as she has been slightly under the weather. 

 For my second card I went with the beautiful Pine Bough embossed in gold, mounted on a die cut gold/silver cardstock and then mounted again on gold for my card base.  This makes such a pretty Christmas card so I went with the Merry Christmas from The Gifts of Christmas  the font is so pretty and fitting for this beautiful pine bough.  

You can use my discount code below to save $$$ to purchase any of the new November release stamps.  

POTW - Embossing with Mother Nature

 It is my week to do a Project of the week - and I hope you not only enjoy this but will try doing it with your own art of Mother Nature.  

First gather supplies

which include leaves from trees or plants in your yard on on your walks, Versa-Mark ink, embossing buddy, and your favorite embossing powder.  

After dusting your solid cardstock lay your leaf out on a piece of used copy paper, and generously apply your versa-mark ink pad over the entire leaf including stem.  

Lift your leaf up from the copy paper and turn it over so versamark side is face down on your colored card stock.  Again place a piece of copy paper over the leaf and gently press the versa-marked image on the card stock as shown below.    

 Gently lift the leaf off the colored cardstock and this is what you should see:

Generously sprinkle embossing powder of your choice, (I found that cooper, gold, medieval metals, really work the best). Heat set with your heat gun making sure all of your veins etc. are beautifully embossed.   

Stamp and emboss your sentiment I used 3214-G Thanksgiving Blessings on this card- and I choose to use a bit of bling.  

On the card below I used 1105-E Thinking of You and used a sheer gold ribbon on the bottom.  

Hope you try this - any pretty leaf from outside or even a pretty houseplant will work well.  

November 18, 2020 Inspiration Challenge

 This week over at The House that Stamps Built our challenge is photo inspiration:

and here is my "creation" for this inspiration.

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Simple card - and I tried a new technique that I saw by Gina K - in which she embossed a leaf from nature.  I found a nice oak leaf from our yard (we have a LOT of oak trees) and using versamark on the leaf and then embossing in cooper I think it turned out pretty nice.  For my sentiment I used 415-H It is not how much 

 Now it is your turn to make a card or project using the challenge of Photo Inspiration So many possibilities on this challenge.  You have a full month to enter our challenge.  You do not have to use Repeat Impressions stamps  but if you do will have two chances to win a $25 gift certificate towards stamps.  

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

 Joy   Donna   Heather   Laurie  and Pat 

The House that Stamps Built Tic-Tac-Toe challenge

 This week over at The House that Stamps Built our challenge is one of my favorites:

And here is my card - I went with leaves, autumn colors and sponging

For me this is a CAS (clean and simple) I used a sizzix labl die and cut the large label using a fall plaid paper, then an orange layer and finally my sentiment layer.  I sponged around the sentiment layer and the top layer of my card.  For my sentiment I used 3214-G Thanksgiving Blessings  and in the top left corner I used

306-I Falling Leaves I fussy cut a small leaf out and put it on my sentiment layer and used a purple twine bow for accent. I enjoy sending out Thanksgiving cards to friends and family so this will be out in the mail in a week or two.  

Now it is your turn to make a card or project using the challenge of 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 but you  do you will have two chances to win a $25 gift certificate towards stamps  

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

 Joy   Donna   Heather   Laurie and Pat  

Technique Junkie November Release Cards

 Today is my day to post over on the Technique Junkie blog and I am going to show you a couple of cards I designed for the November release as guest designer.  

This was such a fun card to make - I used 3D-Stempel-Farbe Stamp-Paint in Rose Metallic which I picked up at Stamp Show in Collinsville, IL. about 2 years ago.  Well this was the first time I used it and won't be the last.  Using Technique Junkie Butterfly Flight Stencil I applied the paste with a crafting palette knife.  It dried pretty quickly  - then I went around the edges with some distress oxide ink.  For my focal image I used  Acceptance-Respect-Peace which is a set of 5 stamps. Using an ink that very closely matched the butterflies.  I die cut out the image . Applied a few sequins mounted the image on a layering polka dot print and then on a lavender card stock.   

I loved this image from the new November Technique Junkie release , has so many possibilities.  Woodland Wonders is a full A-2 size - I stamped it twice - and it stamps so nicely.  I colored and fussy cut a few of the animals and using pop dot mounted them on the original image.  I used Santa Mail which is a set of 2 stamps.  Stamped in red, mounted on a black circle finished the card.  

For my final card I used Coffee Stain. I then used First Coffee  to make an A2 card.   Stamped and then colored with copic markers the cat with her first cup of coffee..this is me in the morning, don't talk to me until I have had my coffee.. I die cut the image and mounted it on the left side of my gatefold card.  

Hope you have enjoyed these three cards - they were so much fun to create with - go check them out here.