January 2018 - The House That Stamps Built

WHAT IF? Wednesday ~ Sketch Challenge J3118

Jan 312018

Happy Hump Day, crafty friends! I hope you are all having a great week. Holy moly, January went by so fast! It’s challenge day here again at The House and we’re wrapping up the month with one of my Sketch Challenges. So if you are planning to get inky sometime this week, then we’ve got just the thing to help get you started. Check out my sketch and all the spectacular inspiration cards created by the RI Rock Stars… then play along for your chance to win a Repeat Impressions‘ gift certificate!

Repeat Impressions Sketch J3118

“J3118 Sketch” creation by Shirley Hotop.
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“J3118 Sketch” creation by Joy Hadden.
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“J3118 Sketch” creation by Laurie Unger.
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“J3118 Sketch” creation by Esther Asbury.
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“J3118 Sketch” creation by Donna Thielker.
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“J3118 Sketch” creation by Heather Mills.
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“J3118 Sketch” creation by Cheri Weston.
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And now it’s your turn! The rules are really simple… Your card doesn’t even have to be made with Repeat Impressions stamps, but if you would like to include our designs we would really love to see them! 😀 Plus you will get an additional entry in our random.org drawing for using our stamps in your submissions! Simply create a card based on my sketch, upload your card to your blog or Splitcoast gallery, then link your card here to this post by clicking on the little blue button below.

We will be accepting submissions to this J3118 Sketch Challenge until 5pm EST on Tuesday, February 6th. All participants will be automatically entered into our random drawing. Then on Wednesday, February 7th we’ll be kicking off a new challenge and announce our winner for January. One lucky person will win a $25 Repeat Impressions Gift Certificate!

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! When you are ready to share your card, please add the direct link to your entry using the link button below. And please be sure to provide a link back here and reference Repeat Impressions J3118 in your blog or gallery posting.

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!

Thanks so much for spending time with us today. We hope you’ve found lots to inspire you and look forward to seeing your challenge creation linked here soon. And please be sure to drop by again on Monday when RI Rock Star, Donna Thielker will be sharing a creation and her Pick of the Week stamps will be available to you at 20% off.

And until the next time… happy stamping!

Wendy
Repeat Impressions

Pick of the Week ~ ATC Florals

Pick of the Week

Jan 292018

Hi everyone,

Cheri here with my Pick of the Week for you. I don’t know about you, but I’m getting tired of snow and cold, so I decided to pick some flowers and spray some vibrant colors around my snowy world to share with you. I love making ATC’s so I picked that as my way of showing off the flowers.

The stamps I used on my ATC’s are RI#4308-J “Lilly of the Valley”, RI#904-L “Daffodils”, RI#1320-M “Spring Blossoms”, RI#5125-C “Dragonfly Sil, Sm” and the sentiment is from the #9900 “Hello Series”, the word “love”.

Here are the supplies I used: Heavy gesso (but you can use any gesso), six ATC cards (2.5 x 3.5) cut from 140# watercolor paper, water in a spray bottle, various round, found objects, inks/paints (I used ColorBursts pigment powders), paint brush and Washi tape.

I first connected my ATC cards together with Washi Tap. This is not removed and becomes part of the background.

I then sprayed the whole area with water and sprinkled on the pigment powder. I choose three colors and let the pigments work with the water adding more water and powders where I thought they were needed, being careful not to add too much in order to avoid muddying the inks.

I then sopped up the excess with a paper towel. Such pretty results.

Keeping the panels together, I dried them completely with my heat gun (you could also let them air dry), but they have to be completely dry before starting the next step of applying Mod Podge (This should have been added to the supply photo).

Dry completely again and using the found, round objects I dipped them in Gesso and “stamped” circles around the panel. Once again, dry completely before moving to the next step of separating the ATCs. I used a ruler and my craft knife, but you can use whatever you have to separate them cleanly. There were a few pieces of Washi Tape that needed to be stuck down again and I used little bits of wet glue to do that. But the Mod Podge should have sealed them well.

The next step is to stamp on them. Because I used Mod Podge to seal the cards, I needed to stamp my images with an ink like StazOn that stamps on non-porous surfaces. If you don’t use Mod Podge any dye or pigment ink may work fine. I let the StazOn ink dry completely (I left them overnight).

Now I have six beautiful ATC’s. See how the Washi Tape gave an additional interest to the background? Love it!

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you enjoyed my Pick of the Week!

For this week only (Jan. 29 - Feb. 4, 2018), get 20% Off the stamps used in Cheri’s project when you use the coupon code POTW12918

Anything Goes Challenge ~ J2418

Anything Goes Challenges

Jan 242018

Good morning, crafty friends! I hope you are all having a good week. I am still enjoying being here at home. For the first time ever, Repeat Impressions will not be making the long drive from Maine to Texas this week to do what would normally be our first stamp show of the year. We sure will miss seeing all our TX stamping friends, although the 3 day drive not so much. But don’t despair TX stampers, you can always shop with us online. AND I’ve included a special discount coupon code for you in the printed SSAT show program. So be sure to check it out if you will be attending the show this weekend and then visit us online and start saving.

But back to today… Do you have some free time to get creative? If so, come play along with our Anything Goes Challenge. It doesn’t get any easier than this… This week you may submit any kind of card or stamped creation that you wish.

Here are all the great creations the RI Rock Stars came up with to inspire you and get us started. What a wonderful variety of styles and images!

“Anything Goes Challenge ~ J2418” creation by Esther Asbury. (outside)
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“Anything Goes Challenge ~ J2418” creation by Esther Asbury. (inside)
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“Anything Goes Challenge ~ J2418” creation by Cheri Weston.
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“Anything Goes Challenge ~ J2418” creation by Shirley Hotop.
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“Anything Goes Challenge ~ J2418” creation by Heather Mills.
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“Anything Goes Challenge ~ J2418” creation by Donna Thielker.
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“Anything Goes Challenge ~ J2418” creation by Joy Hadden.
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“Anything Goes Challenge ~ J2418” creation by Laurie Unger.
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And now it’s your turn! The rules are really simple… Remember, your creation doesn’t have to be made with Repeat Impressions stamps, but if you would like to include our designs we would really love to see them! 😀 Plus you will get an additional entry in our random.org drawing for using our stamps in your submissions! Simply stamp up whatever you wish, upload your card to your blog or Splitcoast gallery, then link it here to this post by clicking on the little blue button below.

We will be accepting submissions to this Anything Goes Challenge ~ J2418 until 5pm EST on Tuesday, February 6th. All participants will be automatically entered into our random drawing. We’ll announce our January challenges winner here on the first Wednesday of next month. One lucky person will win a $25 Repeat Impressions Gift Certificate!

Thanks so much for dropping by today. We hope you’ve found lots to inspire you and look forward to seeing your challenge creation linked here soon. And please be sure to drop by again on Monday when Rock Star, Cheri Weston will be sharing some creations and her Pick of the Week stamps will be available to you at 20% off.

Until the next time… happy stamping!

Wendy
Repeat Impressions

Pick of the Week ~ Faux Scallops

Pick of the Week

Jan 222018

This week here at The House That Stamps Built it is my week to do the POTW (Pick of the Week) I usually wonder what complicated technique or fold I can show but this time I went with SIMPLE - (doesn’t get any simpler than this.) The supplies are something we all have on hand and I know a couple of our Rock Stars love to use their left over scraps so hope this will come in handy for them.

You will need your card base - I used Kraft, layering piece cut 4 inches x 5 1/4 4 scraps of DP or pattern card stock - 1″x 4″, distress ink (I used Old Paper, and a sponge dauber) Versa-Fine Vintage Sepia, scallop circle punch, 1″ circle punch, and adhesive.

I had a bunch of kitty/cat DP which I had used in scrapping several years ago so I picked out 4 that I thought would go together. Cut 4 strips of 1 inch by 4 inch DP and punch 4 - 1 inch circles from same DP. Lay out your design on your layering piece.

I then distressed the edges of the strips and circles with Old Paper distress ink. When you get them the way you think they are eye appealing glue down your inch strips on your 1″ x 4 1/4″ layer making sure you butt then right next to each other. Place the circles on the bottom and glue them in place with about 1/2 of the circle below the strip line.

After you have glued the strips and circles glue a 3/4 in. x 4 inch strip horizontally across the bottom of the strips and circles, making this look like a scallop. At this time I also stamped my sentiment 1807-F I’m so glad found here.

Stamp your focal image 2604-I Cat with Ribbon found here on a scallop circle. I colored the bow on kitty with an orange glitter pen. I then tied a ribbon around the 3/4 inch strip and then used pop dots to pop up my scallop circle.