Anything goes challenge

Hi everyone. It's time for another challenge over at The House That Stamps Built. This time it's anything goes. Here is what I came up with.

I was playing around with some water colors and ended up using the background papers I created for the butterflies.  I fussy cut them both out and ended up using some foam tape on the top one to make it jump off of the card.

I used some distress inks to create the "sky" background and then stamped the sentiment and dragonfly. I also stamped a few dragonflies inside the card to finish it off.

So what are you waiting for?!

Why not play along with us and start stamping up a card now. We can’t wait to see your creations!
Don’t forget… Take part in one weekly challenge or all of them. The more you play along, the more chances you have to win! Each submission enters you in the drawing for our gift certificate. And you don’t always have to use our stamps in your creations, but we will reward you if you do. Each submission using a Repeat Impressions stamp will earn you an additional entry in the drawing!

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

Heather

Patti

Joy

Cheri

Donna

Shirley

Deonna

http://www.thehousethatstampsbuilt.com/

http://www.repeatimpressions.com/

See you soon!

Pink flower on kraft

Hi everyone! Here's my take on Darnell's NBUS challenge to use colored pencils on kraft. I really struggled with finding something that I liked using colored pencils, and finally ditched them and grabbed my Zig water color markers.  Darnell, I hope you don't mind. ;-)

Flower is from Hot Off The Press, and heat embossed using white detail embossing powder. If you enlarge the photo you will see a bit of sparkle that is added using the Spectrum sparkle pens. I used the clear one on both the pink and green.

The thank you is from Simon Says Stamp that I just got in the mail. Added some white enamel drops from Fabrika Decoru to give it more dimension. 

I'm also going to add this into The Paper Players clean and simple Flowers challenge.

Thanks for stopping in, see you soon.

Kindness

Hello. Here is my take on this weeks Freshly Made Sketch.

Stamps are from Purple Onion Designs and I used Memento markers to color directly on them, then activated the ink by huffing on it.

Added a bit of definition to the layers by using a stitched line die. Sentiment is from Hero Arts.

That's it for today - clean and simple, short and sweet.

 See you soon!

Photo Inspiration

Hi everyone. It's time for another challenge over at the The House That Stamps built. This time the challenge is this beautiful photo/color palette.

  

           


I just love this Moose! He looks so "happy" to me. Stamped him in Versafine ink and heat embossed in clear embossing powder so that I could color him with Copics.

The lighter gray cardstock in the background is embossed with the bare tree like sticks folder for the cuttlebug that came out a long time ago. I also used a burlap embossing folder on the burgandy cardstock to continue with the texture on this.

The Happy sentiment is stamped on the darker gray and I added the "Be" die cut to go along.

So what are you waiting for?!

Why not play along with us and start stamping up a card now. We can’t wait to see your creations!
Don’t forget… Take part in one weekly challenge or all of them. The more you play along, the more chances you have to win! Each submission enters you in the drawing for our gift certificate. And you don’t always have to use our stamps in your creations, but we will reward you if you do. Each submission using a Repeat Impressions stamp will earn you an additional entry in the drawing!

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

Heather

Patti

Joy

Cheri

Donna

Shirley

Deonna

http://www.thehousethatstampsbuilt.com/

http://www.repeatimpressions.com/

See you soon!

The world is but a canvas

Hi there. Here is my take on the sketch over at Sunday Stamps.

I started off playing around with some water colors. I wasn't liking what I was getting with them and switched to Gelatos. They gave me more control and the colors were more muted and soft. I scribbled them onto an acrylic block, spritzed then with water then painted on.

Small butterfly die is from Memory Box and the dragonfly is from Clearly Besotted.

Quote sentiment stamp is from Technique Tuesday.









 Thanks for stopping by, see you soon.

I don't do mornings

Hi there. Here is my card for the one layer, favorite drink or beverage challenge over at Less Is More.

Stamp is from Whipper Snapper. Stamped it in Versafine, heat embossed with clear embossing powder and then colored with Copic's.

Got out the air compressor and air brushed the yellow morning sunshine around her to give this a bit more color depth.

Sentiment is from Paper Company.


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Daisy thank you

Hi everyone!  Here is my take on this weeks Freshly Made Sketch.

Daisies are from Raisin Boat and are colored with Copic's.

Thank you sentiment is from Simon Says Stamp and the bitty dot designer paper is from A*Muse. Neenah solar white and the black is from PTI.

Kept this clean and simple to go into my card stash. Seems I don't have a lot of thank you cards left.










See you soon.