Daisy Bouquet

Hello. Playing in The Paper Players tic-tac-toe challenge today.

Daisy bouquet stamp is from Rubbernecker stamps. Birthday sentiment is from Technique Tuesday. I did use a very fine multiliner pen from Copic to add some dots around the daisies. 

My Favorite Things dot rectangle die used to cut the panel out and I added that to a PTI bright buttercup cardstock to form the base of the card. 

Here is the tic-tac-toe grid from The Paper Players. I used the middle row across.

 

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Frosty sunrise

Hello. It's my turn to do a project of the week and I'm doing another throw back project. 

I love how this frosty sunrise turned out and thought it was good enough for a do over. I did spritz this with some Imagine sheer shimmer spray in sparkle, but of course it doesn't show up in the photo. In real life is sparkles really prettily.  The sunrise was created using distress oxide inks. I stamped the grass and tree in gray and white inks and highlighted it with white paint pen to give it that frosty look. I used a Copic multiliner pen to hand draw the birds in.

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Sending birthday wishes

Hello and Welcome to another Fusion Card Challenge, where you can use the sketch or the photo or both. Here is what I did with it.

Funny, each one of my Fusion designer cards this month has a birthday theme to them. 

Poppy stamp is from Technique Tuesday and colored with Copic's. I used a copic multiliner to extend the stems. Sentiment is from The Ton.

Please check out the Design Team’s creations for this challenge, once again, they have knocked it out of the park.

Betty J . Clarie Grantham . Jeanne Jachna . Jen Mitchell  . Karren Johnson . Linda Callahan . Lyndal Higgins  . Michelle Leone . Michelle Lupton . Tristan Dawes . Wanda Cullen .  Natalie Walsh

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hello

Hello - playing in the Freshly Made Sketch challenge today.

Rose bud stamp is from Simon Says Stamp. Colored with Copic's. The hello sentiment stamp is from The Paper Studio. I traced the frame using a square die and a multi liner fine black pen.

Kept it clean and simple so that the rose bud stood out. Thanks for stopping by.

Designers Choic Challenge - things beginning with a B

Hello! Today is our Designers Choice Challenge over at The House That Stamps Built, and Heather's choice is: Things beginning with a B.

I chose to stencil some Balloons. Then I had to embellish them so that they were a bit different than normal. Distress oxide inks used. I used a Copic multi liner to draw the strings using a ruler. This gave it a dotted line look and I went with it because it was different.

I stamped the Happy Birthday sentiment horizontally to fit with the card.

There's a new challenge every week over at  The House That Stamps Built, and you don't have to use Repeat Impressions stamps to link up or win. Also, for my blog readers: Enjoy the 10% discount code to the Repeat Impressions Store posted on the sidebar.

One lucky person will win a $25 Repeat Impressions Gift Certificate on the first Wednesday of every month – Good luck!

Also, check out our Rock Star blogs to see what they did with the challenge.

Donna

Esther
Heather
Joy
Shirley
Patti

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Red, white and blue birthday balloons

Hello and Happy Independence Day to all of us in the US.  Playing in two challenges today.  The theme over at The Paper Players in Celebration and Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge is Red, White and Blue.

Balloon stencil is from Neat and Tangled. I used Hero Arts ink to sponge in the colors using a finger dauber. The strips and star stamps are from PTI, and I heat embossed with white embossing powder. Outlined the balloons using a Copic multi-liner pen for them to stand out a bit more. Birthday sentiment is from Frantic Stamper.

Happy 4th!




 

Thank you

Hello. Playin gin the Just Us Girls color challenge today. Prominently purple....

Stamps are from Dee's artsy impressions. Used pigment inks to stamp the flower and leaves in. To create the wreath, I just drew a circle lightly in pencil using a circle die. The black dots are done using a multiliner black pen. Fabrika Decoru enamel dots in purples used for the flower centers.

Purple cardstock from PTI used as the cardbase.  Thanks for stopping in.

I've got your back!

Hi everyone. I got a few minutes to play around with the new challenge over at The Paper Players and here is what came about.

Stamps and dies are from Simon Says Stamp.

I stamped both animals in versafine and heat embossed with clear embossing powder so that I could color with Copic's.

To get the Giraffe print on the giraffe, I used a parts of a stencil and a fine multi-liner Copic pen.

The side panel is a piece of mulberry paper that was colored with distress inks to go with the wild animal theme. Doodlebug designs candy dots along the bottom balance out the card.

That's it for today. Thanks for stopping by.

Seaside

Hello. I hope this finds everyone doing well and getting inky or crafty. Here is something that I created a while ago but never got around to posting. Why, I don't know, because I'm pretty proud of it.

This is done on a 5 x 7 canvas using Faber Castell Gelatos.

I applied the gelatos direct to the canvas and then used a paint brush and lots of water to blend the colors around.

To get the sea foam, I used a stylus and Copic Opaque white to build it up. Sea gull is hand drawn in using a Copic Multi liner pen.

I plan to one day get this framed so that I can hang it in my office. That way when I get stressed about work I can look at the picture and image myself at the seaside! 

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Sunshine

Hi everyone! It's been a busy week and we're heading out for one last camping trip this weekend. So, thought I better get busy and post a card for you to see.

This is kind of a weird layout but it ended up working

with the sentiment that I really wanted to use.

Poppy's are from Papertrey, Ink. I added some highlights with a Copic marker so that they stood out a bit. Using my perfect layers 1/16 edge I added a black and tangerine layer.

I used the mat stack #3 die from PTI to cut the white and the black layer for the sentiment. Stamped the sentiment (which is also from PTI) and then added the black and white gingham ribbon.

Its kind of hard to tell in the picture, but I added a white layer onto the card base and popped it up using foam tape before adding the other elements.

That's it for now! Thanks for stopping by!

Take care of yourself

Hi everyone! I just got some new stamps from MFT and was inking them up when I saw the Sweet Sunday Sketch and just had to play along!

The poppy is from the pretty poppies set from My Favorite Things. I used their colorbox wild cherry ink to stamp it and limeade fresh ink for the stem. I did use a Multiliner Copic small brush marker in black to color in the center. 

Sentiment is from Kaisercraft and stamped onto a scrap piece of green cardstock that matched the ink. It's rather bright and stands out a bit, huh? However, I kind of like the pop of color.  Red button is from American Crafts and the bow is made from black scrappers floss.

Red gingham designer paper is from A*Muse and the dies used to cut out the scalloped border and the fishtail banners are all from MFT.

Pure Poppy, white and black cardstock is from Papertrey, Ink.

Here is the sketch.

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Delphiniums

Hi everyone! Real quick post today to show you a card I did using a Memory Box stencil.

This stencil is called delphiniums and comes in two parts. The flower heads and the stems.

The used colorbox inks in lavender and thistle to create the flowers using daubers. The stems are done in Fresh ink Limeade. Thanks sentiment is from Verve.

I did take a Copic Multi-liner black pen and very carefully outlined the flowers to give them a bit more depth. I just thought they needed to stand out a bit more.

Spellbinders label die used to cut out the flower panel. The purple layer in back was done using a white piece of designer paper from DCWV woven paper pack. The thistle ink was just sponged on and then layered in black using my mini perfect layers tool. MFT fishtail banner die used on the purple cardstock in back.

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LIM #154 OLC Hearts - just for you

Hi everyone! I'm in my craft room today because it is nasty outside and decided to see if I could come up with something for the one layer card challenge over at Less is more. It also has to have hearts on it. Here's what I came up with.

There's a lot of white space on this one! Stamps are from Papertrey, Ink called Around & About sentiments.

I used wild cherry colorbox ink from MFT and versafine black ink. I added the dots in between the hearts using a .3 multi-liner pen.

That's it - very clean and simple! What do you think?

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Halloween Card #4

NO stamping on this one! Inspiration for this came from a small bean bag toy I say at M's at the end of September. I took a picture of the bean bag on my camera phone, which turned out blurry, but at least it gave me some ideas on how to recreate it!

Card base is 5 x 5 square. The polka dot orange paper is from BoBunny and the lime green card stock is from DCWV. Black card stock is cut willy nilly for Frank's hair and other facial features.

Here are the tools I used to make Frank - the circle punch was used for his eyes, a regular hole punch for his nose and the flower punch for his ears. The stitch template was used with a copic multiliner pen to make his mouth. I added some red self adhesive rhinestones from Kaiser Craft and added it to his eyes.

Frank turned out pretty cute for a card with no stamping on it at all! Thanks for stopping by!