Just a note

Hello. I'm playing in the Freshly Made Sketch challenge today with this card.

The tag die is from Brass and Bliss which I used it to cut out a book page.  The stencil is from Tim Holtz, it's the mini one #THMS070.  I used it with texture paste on the card base and the tag, then also used it to emboss the horizontal panel behind the tag. The ribbon on the tag was colored using the BG7.3 marker from Olo, which matched fairly well.  The distress spray ink on the tag is stormy sky. 

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Thinking of you

Hello. I'm playing in the Freshly Made Sketch #717 today. I've had this panel sitting in my stash for a while and put it to use on this sketch.

I blended distress inks onto the panel using antique linen and speckled egg oxide inks. The background script stamp is from Amazon and I stamped it in hickory smoke archival ink.   Next I added the scroll stencil from TH onto the panel with embossing paste. 

Blended out another panel using speckled egg so that I could use it for the small right-hand strip. The sentiment is from My Favorite Things and I used the same hickory smoke ink on it. Cut it out with a die and popped it up with foam tape. I love how soft this turned out.

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Happy Birthday - TSOT#674

Hello. It's time for another sketch challenge over at Try a Sketch on Tuesday.

This was a fun background to make. A lot of smooching and layering going on! 

Inks are from Simon Says Stamp - their pawsitively saturated inks react with water brilliantly.  The  number stencil is from Tim Holtz, and I used some crackle embossing paste from Ranger.  The birthday sentiment die was cut from TH black alcohol ink cardstock. I also used a script stamp from Darkroom Door within the background. 

To create the circles, I used the top of an old Jello container, two different bottle caps I had laying around with the darkest blue ink, then spritzed with water.   

Below is the sketch and here is the link to play in the challenge. 

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Thanks - SSC336

Hello and welcome to another challenge over at Sunday Stamps.  Here is what I made using the sketch.

I used the new Tim Holtz stencil and sky, dusk, and night pawsitively saturated inks from Simon Says Stamp to make the main focus. Topped it off with a die cut thanks. The right-hand side is cloud dsp from Craft Consortium Bloom and wild paperpack.  Navy satin ribbon used per the sketch, but a little lower on the card panel. 

Link up here. Sunday Stamps

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Mixed media card

Hello. Playing in the sketch challenge over at The Paper Players today.

I've had this snippet in my stash from a mixed-media play session that I finally put to use on this card.

I used the cling wrap watercolor smooch technique with the blue. Then added a layer of embossing paste through a stencil. A script background stamp and splatter is added to the mix to finish off the card panel. The dragonfly is a die that I cut out - added some Nuvo silver gilding flakes to it and stuck it on its shadow. The shadow was done by adding some blue perfect pearl to it. It sparkles in real life. 

I really like how this turned out.  Thanks for stopping by.

Christmas gift tag

Hello. Ellen Hutson is having a 12 tags of Christmas challenge over on their blog and I decided to play along with the 12/6 tag challenge. They are all based off Christmas carol and today's is: Let it Snow.

I used uncharted mariner distress ink to create the background.  The snowflakes and sentiment are from Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous stamptember 2022 release. I also used the snowflake stencil and sterling foundry wax on this. 

Snowflakes are heat embossed with white detail embossing powder.  I also used the uncharted mariner embossing glaze on the sentiment.

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Never stop exploring

Hello - playing in the Simon Says Stamp mixed media challenge today.

I used the new Uncharted Mariner with squeezed lemonade for this one. I've had the butterfly stamped up and cut out and in my stash for years and finally put it to use on this one. Stencil from Tim Holtz and I used some of the uncharted mariner glaze on it. Newprint stamp is from fun stampers journey, corners are from Whimsy stamps. The circles are done with a arcrylic round container. Sentiment stamp is from Tim Holtz SA. 

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Masculine birthday

Hi everyone! Playing in the masculine challenge over at Simon Says Stamps and they are featuring Tim Holtz products - well it so happens that I had one already done! Bonus!

I bought this set at Joann's. I even used a TH stencil in the background on this. Did a bit of recycling on the corrugated cardboard piece that I saved from a piece of packaging. Destressed it a bit by tearing it and adding some distress ink.

The deckled rectangle was done using a border die, then inked it up with espresso and black soot ink around the edges to appear like it had been burnt. Love this technique.  Birthday sentiment is from PTI and heat embossed with platinum embossing powder. 

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Under the sea slimline card

Hi everyone. It's time for another challenge over at The House That Stamps Built. This week our challenge is to make a slimline card.

Used distress oxide inks to color the fish and seahorse. I embossed the squares with Tim Holtz bubble stencil for added dimension. Love how it came out. Dies are from Rubbernecker and Pink Fresh Studio.  The multi faceted dew drops are from Honey Bee. 

 

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   Heather   Joy   Shirley   Patti

 

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Steampunk birthday tag

Hello. Playing in the Monday Simon Says Stamp challenge of steampunk today.

I created the background a while ago and it's been sitting in my stash waiting for me to do something with it. It's made up of antique linen and speckled egg oxide inks. I also added a bit of embossing using one of the Tim Holtz stencils. The fancy baroque one, and also heat embossed it using the speckled egg glaze. 

The steampunk corset is from Inkadinkado. Birthday sentiment is from Papertrey, Ink. Found some cool gears in my stash and adhered it with a brad. Since I had my hardware out, I found a eyelet that matched and used that at the top. Colored the seam binding with antique linen spray stain and tied a bow. Added the dragonfly brad (had to color it black) and then stamped a mini dragonfly on to balance things out. 

As you can see on the bottom photo, the sentiment is also heat embossed over the speckled egg glaze. It came out a bit splotchy, so lesson learned. 

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Masculine birthday

Hi all,

Playing in a few challenges today. I started with the color challenge over at Sunday Stamps (went with all but the gold) and made it a masculine card (the paper players) with the harlequin and leaf print.

You can just barely see the harlequin stencil bottom lower left - spritzed it with water after blending oxide inks in the following colors: Fired brick, antique linen and cracked pistachio.

Skeleton leaf stamps is from the stampin' place and the birthday sentiment is from Poppy stamps. Splattered some burnt umber copic marker using the Tim Holtz spritzer bulb thingy. I didn't like that, it was coming out too fine, so I switched up to watering down some vintage photo oxide ink and picking it up with a very small paint brush to splatter. Much better! 

I got lucky matching the light teal cardstock with the cracked pistachio that I lightly blended onto the bristol card stock.  

That's all for today - thanks for stopping in.

 

Spray resist cards

Hello. Here are two distress resist spray cards that I created after watch the live Facebook Demo that Tim Holtz did today.

I have to say that this was a very fun technique to try and replicate. However, I used very inexpensive glossy cardstock (had it in my stash for at least 15 years) and I put micro glaze on it after spraying the distress resist spray/stencil layer. Then I went back with some distress ink and darkened it up some more. It actually worked even through the micro glaze. Weird.

Distress Oxide inks were used first - spritzed with water and dipped (you get what you get) then heat dried in between layers.

For the first card:
spun sugar oxide
picked raspberry oxide
worn lipstick oxide
Candied apple distress ink over the top

Second card:
Shaded lilac oxide
blueprint sketch oxide
dusty concord oxide
wilted violet oxide
Blueprint sketch distress ink over the top

Sentiment stamps are from Poppy stamps.

Which one do you like the best?
Thanks for stopping by!
-Laurie

Instagram cards

Hi everyone. Hope this finds you all staying safe and healthy! I'm sharing a few instagram cards that I didn't share here first.

Channeling my inner Tim Holtz on this one. It went out to a husband and wife team that has really been knocking it out of the park lately. They are quietly kicking ass in their business and telling all around them that things will be OK.  I appreciate everything that they do!

This one is colored with markers and huffed on. I love the handwriting font on this stamp, unfortunately, I have no idea who makes it - I will need to dig through my ever growing stamp supply to figure it out.

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Metallic dragonfly

Hi there - playing in the Less is More lucky dip challenge of Metallic today.

Dragonfly stamp is from Repeat impressions and is stamped in versamark ink so that I could heat emboss it with Silver metallic embossing powder. The sentiment is from Poppy stamps and it is also heat embossed in silver. I also layered it with some silver cardstock.

Stencil is from Tim Holtz - used tumbled glass distress oxide ink to do a section of the stencil in the center of the card base.

That's it for today. thanks for stopping in.