Designers Choice at The House that Stamps Built - Spring Flowers

Hi there, crafty friends!

It's time for another Repeat Impressions Stamps challenge at The House that Stamps Built, and we have a new Designer’s Choice Challenge for you. Joy is our hostess for the month, and has challenged us all to use our RI stamps to create something using the theme: "Spring Flowers".  

Here's what I made using these Repeat Impressions Stamps:

1317 L Vase of Tulips

1808 E Just Because

As you can see, the flowers were stamped again, colored, fussy cut, and popped up with dimensional foam for some pretty depth.  The vase was stamped and cut out of both a blue patterned paper, and the navy used in the die cut background.

This was a fun challenge - thanks Joy!

 And now it’s your turn!

We hope you will create a card that has a focus on today’s DCC theme, and enter it in our challenge at The House that Stamps Built!  Remember, your creation does not have to be made with Repeat Impressions stamps, but if you would like to include our designs we would love to see them!  Plus, there’s an added bonus… you will get an additional entry in our random.org drawing for using our stamps in your submissions!

One lucky person this month will win a $25 Repeat Impressions Gift Certificate!

Check out my sidebar - grab the code to save money on your RI orders!

Now, it's time to see what my DT friends have created!

Joy     Laurie     Heather   Shirley     Donna     Esther

I'll be entering this card into the following challenges:

Use Your Stuff - Flowers and/or Butterflies
Little Red Wagon - Challenge #548 Flowers
Krafty Chicks Challenge - #505 Anything Goes
Stamplorations - Spring Fling
CAS on Friday - #179 Use your favorite flower stamp
Jan's Digi Stamps Challenge - Anything Goes

Happy Hopping!

Hope you link up a card this week!

Thanks for stopping by,

Patti J.

Toilet Paper Cards

Howdy friends!

I was in need of a fun card idea to send out to some friends and family members, when I saw a video by Melanie Muenchinger. This was exactly what I wanted to do, so, I sat right down and figured it out, thanks to Melanie's great video!

Here's what I made - Be sure to click them larger to get a look at the fun embossing!

The stamps are from Pink and Main's 'Hugs Needed' set:

Here's the card inside, and the envelope fronts and backs - the card front has a cute toilet paper roll from the Repeat Impressions set 'Holy Crap'. The sentiment on the back was Stampabilities 'Have Faith' off the sale rack at Hobby Lobby last year, as was the Cross and sentiment on the card inside. The masked emoticon and matted sentiment was computer generated.

So, if you are looking for something to bring a smile to someone's day, this might be it! Go check out Melanie's video - she makes it SO easy! No dies involved, just a pencil, scissors, and an embossing folder!

Let me know if you decide to give it a try - I'd love to pop in and see what you've created!

I also needed a belated birthday card, and used some stamps from Repeat Impressions' 'Holy Crap' set.  Here's how it turned out:

Card front:

Card inside:

This sentiment was perfect, as I was late last year, too!!!

Thanks for stopping by! Have a wonderful evening!

Patti J.

Pick of the Week at The House that Stamps Built

Hi everyone!

It's my turn to share a Pick of the Week at The House that Stamps Built. The Repeat Impressions Stamps that I picked to showcase are:

3405 C Random Hearts

2628 H Comfy Chair 

410 H Simple Pleasures

Hope you are all doing okay with the virus situation. We are good so far, but wow...the days seem to just all run together! As I saw on social media a while back, "it's this day, that day, the other day"!

Have you ever stamped an image and wondered what to do with it? Does it look like it's just sitting there, looking goofy with white space all around it?  Here are a few ways to 'ground' your image!

Let's get started!

First I stamped 3 identical panels:

One idea is just to lightly draw in a 'hardwood floor', using a light and dark brown coloring medium:

Here's what it looks like after coloring:

(VERY fast, rough floor!!!)

Another way to ground an image would be to create a 'rug'. I did this using a few small oval dies, and penciling around them. Here is what the penciled image looks like:

I scribbled a quick pattern into my rug with a darker marker in each of the two color families.

Here's what the finished 'rug' looks like:

Last, is just a quick, easy shadow.  You don't need to pencil this on first, but I did, just for the purpose of this tutorial.  Here's how I chose to shadow: 

Here are the three completed cards, so you can see how same but different they look: 

And here are some close up photos:

For this week only (May 4-May 10, 2020), get 20% off the three stamps used in my creation above when you use the coupon code POTW5420.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Hugs and blessings,

Patti J.

Technique Junkies May 2020 Blog Hop

Hello!

I have two posts today, so if you are looking the post for 2 Crafty Critter Crazies, scroll around until you find it!

Happy May release day!

We have some great new stamps in the Technique Junkies line, and we are eager to share them with you today!

Be sure to check out the hop list below for some sweet inspiration from our Design Team...

All of the May 2020 New Release stamps are 15% off through May 8th! We can all use a little bargain, right? No codes needed, just put them in your shopping cart and the discount will be applied at checkout.

You can also use my discount code on any purchase from Technique Junkies, anytime. You can even use it along with the discount above!

Today, I am showcasing the new stamps, 'Life is Short', and 'Old Man'.  I also used 'A Colorful Life' 6 x 9 Stencil, 'Messy Diamond Grid', and 'A Colorful Life' 6 x 6 Stencil, 'Heart Fade Stencil'.

It will have to be just the right person, but someone sometime will get tickled when they find one of these in their mailboxes!

For this first card, I just stamped then colored the image.  Once done, I grabbed the stencil, and stenciled around the image.  Quick, easy, fun card!

Here's a view of the card inside. I did a bit of stenciling here too.

For this card, I just stamped, colored and cut the image slightly outside the box. Had a little fun with some die cuts for framing, and did a bit of sponge distressing with some antique linen  ink. Once finished, it was all mounted onto some designer paper from my stash.

Last, but not least, is this cute feller.  Again, I stamped, colored, stenciled, and mounted on a base. I used just a small scrap of black to make the focal panel pop a bit against the blue.

And here's a shot of the card inside. Another black scrap, some stenciling, and done!

Hope this handsome dude brought you a smile...Now, let's Hop!!!

Technique Junkies

Pat Huntoon

Beth Norman-Roberts

Ceal Pritchett

Giovana Smith

Holly Brown

Jeanne Streiff

Judy Jackson

Ro Donner

Lynda Pleckan

Patti Gilliam-You're Here!

Thanks for stopping by, Patti J.

2 Crafty Critter Crazies and Fabrika Fantasy!

Good morning everyone!

I have two posts today, so if you are looking for the Technique Junkies blog hop, scroll around until you find it!

Today, I am sharing another fun creation for 2 Crafty Critter Crazies!  

As you know, each creation must include a critter, and you all know how much I love critters!

Since it's the first of the month, there is a brand new challenge at the 2 Crafty Critter Crazies Challenge Blog!  We are excited to be sponsored this month by Fabrika Fantasy.

This image is so sweet!  I chose to work with Happy Raccoon, because it made me think of a stuffed raccoon (Rocky) that my husband brought home to our daughter many years ago. Now, HER daughter sleeps with Rocky the Raccoon! 

The darling image was pre-colored!  I stenciled some butterflies over the image with a stencil I found at Dollar Tree, and added a die cut Hello.  This will be mailed to VA to our girls!!!

Here's my card:

Isn't this critter adorable??? 

Hope you like it!

Please check out the 2 Crafty Critter Crazies blog to see some great inspiration that our design team is sharing with you. We hope that you will all play along this month - can't wait to see your critter creations!

Thanks for stopping by today!

Hugs and blessings,
Patti J.

Stairway to the Stars

Hi everyone!

It's my day to post on the Technique Junkies Design blog, and I wanted to share two cards using 'Stairway to the Stars', and the 'Messy Diamond Grid' Stencil.

For this first card, the girl, stars and sentiments were masked off, and the stenciling was done with Distress Oxide Inks. I then removed the masks, and stamped the girl again. I liked how it sorta gave her a shadow...

For this card, I simply misted the above stencil with water, and flipped it over onto a white panel. After the ink dried, I stamped everything in a bright blue ink. Next time, I will mask the girl off, so the stencil doesn't show through!

Hope you love this stamp as much as I do!!!

Don't forget!!! You can save 10% on any order by entering TJ10Patti at checkout.

This was so easy to create! Hope you will give it a try!

Now, be sure to head over to the Technique Junkies store and check out the incredible new stamps this month! 

Thanks for stopping by,

Patti J.

Sketch Challenge - The House that Stamps Built

Hi everyone - Happy Wednesday!

It's time for a new Tic-Tac-Toe challenge for Repeat Impressions.

Here is the inspiration board that Wendy gave us to work with:

And here is the card I made using these Today, I used these Repeat Impressions Stamps:

8019 I Housework
623 D Sunday Morning

Isn't this a hoot? There are four of these fun faces that you can choose from!
I flipped the sketch (of course). When I started to cut my circle, I realized my white panel wasn't big enough, so I added some designer paper, and voila!  The die behind the circle is a fun Altenew die that I got at a stamp store in the city. 

Now it’s your turn! Create something using the sketch above, and link it up at The House that Stamps Built. Remember, your creation does not have to be made with Repeat Impressions stamps, but if you would like to include our designs we would love to see them! Plus, there’s an added bonus… you will get an additional entry in our random.org drawing for using our stamps in your submissions!

Check out my sidebar to see how you can save money on your RI orders!

Now, it's time to see what my fellow Rock Stars have created!

Joy     Laurie     Heather   Shirley     Donna     Esther

Happy Hopping!

Hope you link up a card this week!

Patti J.