Thinking of you

Hello. Playing in a few challenges today with this fall card.

The leaf die is from Simon Says Stamp.  I used old book pages to cut out several leaves.  Then, I proceeded to distress them using Ranger Distress inks.  The sentiment is from The Ton, and I added some clear dew drops for added interest.

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Challenges:

Freshly Made Sketches

Just us girls

CAS on Friday

Paper craft crew

Hello - TSOT662

Hi everyone. It's Tuesday, which means there is a new sketch challenge up over at Try aSketch on Tuesday.

The delicate dahlia stamps, stencil, and die are from Gina K Designs. The hello sentiment is also in the set.  I used Simon Says Stamp saturated inks to color them.  The gingham designer paper is from A*Muse studio.  I added a few dew drops for some bling to the card. 

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you join our challenge. Link above. 

Thank you

Hello all. Here is your mid-way reminder to play in the "thanks" challenge over at The Flower Challenge.

This flower stamp is from Concord & 9th. I used simon says stamp saturated ink with the stencils to color it. I also used a black gel pen to highlight the stamins. The thank you sentiment is from My Favorite Things.

Link up here!

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Happy Holidays

Hello. Playing in the Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge of Happy Holidays today.  I used a bunch of die cuts from various companies to create this. 

The joyful pine branch is from Carta Bella, as is long leaf, which is called holiday branches. Small pine is from Memory Box. I cannot remember who the poinsettia die is from, I did a search and came up empty from all of the stores I usually purchase from. Which means that it's probably retired now. 

I cut it out of Neenah solar white 110 lb cardstock and used distress oxide picked raspberry with a blending brush to color the centers. I also spritzed it with shimmer spritz so it's sparkly all over. Added some dew drops for interest and called it good. 

Sentiment is from the tiny words Christmas set from Simon.

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Thinking of you - Fusion Card Challenge

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.

I used distress oxide inks on distress mixed media heavystock to create the background. Added some white gouache splatters and some dew drops for interest. Dragonfly's wings are highlighted with wink of stella. 

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

Betty J Jeanne Jachna  Jen Mitchell  Karren Johnson  Linda Callahan Lyndal Higgins   Michelle Leone  Michelle Lupton  Tristan Dawes  Wanda Cullen

 

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debossed happy birthday

Hello. Playing in this weeks Freshly Made Sketch.

I went with a different take on the sketch - instead of doing a splat of paint or ink, I opted to go with an impression instead. Added a pierced border using a die from Gina Marie Designs.  Birthday sentiment is from Poppy Stamps. Added a few sizes of dew drops to jazz it up a bit.

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Crocus - Thinking of you

Hi everyone. It's time for another challenge over at The House That Stamps Built. This week our challenge is the use the following graphic.

I went with dew drops, pastel colors and dimension.

Crocus are colored with Copic markers. I used a scalloped border die to cut them out and then popped them up on the pastel yellow cardstock using foam tape. Sentiment is also popped up. Sadly, my crocus are all done blooming now. They were so pretty, but never last long enough. 

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

http://www.thehousethatstampsbuilt.com/

http://www.repeatimpressions.com/

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ETA: also including this into the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge. It's a mood board that you can see below.

Happy Birthday

Hi everyone. It's time for another challenge over at The House That Stamps Built. This week is our designer choice challenge and it's Heather's turn. She wanted us to use something "wet" (technique, medium or image). Here is what I did.

I chose to create a watercolor background using distress oxide inks. I really like how the three colors blended together so well. Blue print sketch, tumbled glass and cracked pistachio. I just smooched them down on my glass mat and spritzed with water, then drug my watercolor paper through it.  I added more drops using water and a paint brush and splattering them on. After drying, I stamped the dragonfly in versafine and heat embossed it. The happy birthday die is from SSS and cut from shiny black cardstock. Threw in three dew drops and then added fun foam to the back before matting it with black. 

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

http://www.thehousethatstampsbuilt.com/

http://www.repeatimpressions.com/


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Pick of the week - just a note

Hello. It's my turn to over at The House That Stamps Built to do a pick of the week. Here is what I chose to do.

I stamped and heat embossed the family of dragonflies using versafine and clear embossing powder. The I added a geometric stencil that kind of reminded me of lattice and used tumbled glass distress oxide ink lightly over it.

Added some splatters, spritzed with sparkle shimmer spritz then added the dew drops to finish up the card.

5125-C, Dragonfly Sil. (sm)
5102-F, Dragonfly Sil. (lg)
4402-O, Damselfly
1112-E, Just A Note

It's always hard to capture the sparkle in photo's, but in real life this is really pretty. Thanks for stopping by.

Fall Thanks

Hello. Playing with the Freshly Made Sketch #200 for the 400 sketch celebration this month.

I seem to be in a fall state of mind. The leaves are already starting to change in my area (due to lack of water) and I can't wait for the cooler weather.

I used distress oxide inks and a stencil from a colorful life designs called leaf set 1. I cut it apart for the line break in the sketch and added a few dew drops to finish it off. Thanks sentiment is from Simon Says Stamp. Card base is a dark green from Bazzill.

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Just because

Hi everyone. It's time for another challenge over at The House That Stamps Built. This week our challenge is the use the following graphic.

I chose to use Vellum, do a fun fold and add dew drops. I never attempt a fun fold because I'm not too good at it. But I ended up being pretty happy with this one. 

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

http://www.thehousethatstampsbuilt.com/

http://www.repeatimpressions.com/

Thanks for stopping by!

POTW - kissing

Hi everyone - It's my turn to do the project of the week over at The House That Stamps
Built. I haven't done the kissing technique in a very long time and decided to put it to use this week.

I used my Misti to stamp the solid leaves using a green dye ink. Then I cleaned off my stamps really good so that I could kiss them with the background postcard stamp. Didn't it turn out great?  I added some dew drops and the "thanks" sentiment. I went with a green card base to go with the color of my leaves. I kept this clean and simple to show case the kissing technique.


Stamps used:
5015-W, Postcard
5127-K, Maple Leaf Sil.
5110-I, Oak Leaf Sil.
Thanks is from the Plate 8600 unmounted stamps

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You're one of a kind

Hello. It's raining outside, so perfect day to stay inside and make a few cards. Here is one I did for the sketch challenge over at Freshly Made Sketches.

Flower bud is from the Simon Says Stamp delicate flowers set. I water colored it using Arteza water color markers. The sentiment is also from Simon Says Stamp. It's from the tiny sentiment set.  The pink polka dots are from a background stamp that I purchased from Stamp Camp at a rubber stamp show eons ago. Dew drops added to balance out the card.

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Camellia on kraft

Good Morning. Playing in the Inspirational challenge of using kraft today.

I stamped the Camellia with Versamark then heat embossed with fine detail white embossing powder from Ranger. Then colored up this beauty with Prismacolor pencils. All stamps from Technique Tuesdays Greenhouse Society, but sadly it has been retired.

Have a wonderful day and thanks for dropping by.

Heartfelt Sympathy

Hello - Playing in the Freshly Made Sketch this week. I kind of waited till the last minute, but I'm very happy with what I ended up with.

The leaf is a stencil from A Colorful Life Designs and I used Fresh Ink (which is a pigment ink) in Limeade and Basil and a finger dauber to create the corners.

Sympathy sentiment is from Honey Bee and is stamped in Versafine Clair ink and then heat embossed in clear. I chose to heat emboss so that I could wipe away the ink left after stenciling.  Added three dew drops to add some interest, but kept it as CAS as I could.

ETA: Entering this into the CAS Stencil Challenge as well.

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