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Good morning!

Happy Tuesday to you all.

I'm pleased to be sharing a new creation for Crafter's Companion today!

I was a bit more at ease with my watercolors this time - the Spectrum Aqua Markers make it pretty easy!  I hope the next time to be able to color without heat embossing. I love the softer look, and am excited to give it a try.

Today, I've used these Crafter's Companion products:

The Ultimate Tool

Shimmering Cardstock - Forest Green

Angelica & Adam Collection - EZ Mount Stamp Set 'Ryan'

Crafter's Companion Watercolour Cardstock - Pkg. of 8 sheets

Spectrum Aqua Markers - Skin: Peach, Spice, Scarlet

Shirt: Moss

Hair: Burgandy, Tan

Overalls and Glove: Navy

Skateboard: Chocolate, Charcoal

Cat: Slate, Spice

Gift & Ribbon: Gold, Yellow

Shoes: Charcoal

Tombow Mono Multi Glue

I've fallen in love with Crafter's Companion stamps! There is such a huge variety - cute stamps, floral stamps, architectural, scenic....you name it!  Hope you'll pop over and do some on-line

shopping.

I've made a cute slider card, and have included a series of photos that show

the slider in action.

As I said last week, this Shimmering Cardstock cuts and scores like butter. Look

at all of the fun scored lines on my card panel, made with The Ultimate Tool, of course!  

Easy peasy to do, too!  And just look at the pretty shimmer on this cardstock!

Coloring the image was fun. I stamped the image and heat embossed it, to help me keep my coloring in the lines. Then I just scribbled on an acrylic block, and picked up color with a water brush.

Hope that you like this fun card!

I'll be back next week with another fun creation for Crafter's Companion.

I'll be sharing one of their gorgeous dies with you!

Thanks for stopping by!

Patti J.

Little Fish...Big Wish!

Hello!

Happy Monday!

Patti J. here with my first Repeat Impressions Project of the Week!

My project this week is a fun little slider card!

So...grab that cup of coffee or tea, and join me for a fun tutorial!

Warning: Photo heavy :)

The stamps I'm using for this project are all Repeat Impressions Stamps:

9718-G, Plant

9713-E, Bubbles

9716-H, Fish Face

9720-C, Big Wish

Cut a piece of cardstock that measures 4.25" x 11".  Score in half at 5.5".  Set aside.

Cut another piece of cardstock to 4" x 5.25".  Find two graduated circle dies, and line them up together as shown.

This is what you will have after die cutting your circles.

Using inks and stamps of your choice, decorate the outside piece as desired.

Flip over, and add dimensional foam.  I use lots - many folks use much less! Your choice :)

Again, using stamps and inks of your choice, decorate the smaller circle. Flip it over and add foam pieces, as shown in the next photo.

Remove the paper from foam pieces, and adhere larger piece to card front. Be sure to place on card front in the right position, and no...don't ask me how I know that!  lol...

Stamp image of choice, color, and fussy cut, as shown below...

Take a button, penny, dime, whatever works best, and add a couple of foam pieces to one side only.

Lay your button or coin with the sticky side up, inside the large circle, toward the left edge.  Adhere the smaller circle in the center of the larger circle.  Place your 'spinning' image on top of the dimensional foam pieces. 

Voila!  You have a fish that will spin all the way around your circle.  Mine will even swim upside down!

 I know that you all have lots of great ideas for this technique!

When it's my turn again, we may do a side to side slider!

I hope that you'll give this technique a try, and if you do...

be sure to come back to the Repeat Impressions Blog, and 

leave your blog link in a comment!

That way, we can all check out your fun creations!

Happy Stamping,

Patti J.