February 2018 - The House That Stamps Built

Anything Goes Challenge ~ F2818

Feb 282018

Hello, stamping friends! I hope you’re having a good week so far. We’re still hanging here at home in Maine and enjoying this crazy weather. I think we may have experienced all four seasons over the past week. Ordinarily we’d be on our way to Rockford, IL right now to do a stamp show. We’ll miss seeing all our IL and WI stamping friends, but don’t despair because you can always shop with us online. AND I’ve included a special Repeat Impressions 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 as for today, we are wrapping up our month of challenges with one of our fun Anything Goes Challenges. It doesn’t get any easier than this… This week you may submit any style of card or stamped creation that you wish. So make time to get creative and come play along!

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

“Anything Goes Challenge ~ F2818” creation by Donna Thielker.
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“Anything Goes Challenge ~ F2818” creation by Laurie Unger.
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“Anything Goes Challenge ~ F2818” creation by Esther Asbury.
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“Anything Goes Challenge ~ F2818” creation by Heather Mills.
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“Anything Goes Challenge ~ F2818” creation by Shirley Hotop.
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“Anything Goes Challenge ~ F2818” creation by Joy Hadden.
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“Anything Goes Challenge ~ F2818” creation by Cheri Weston.
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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 ~ F2818 until 5pm EST on Tuesday, March 6th. All participants will be automatically entered into our random drawing. We’ll announce our February challenges winner here on the first Wednesday of next month. 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 Anything Goes Challenge ~ F2818 in your blog or gallery posting.

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, Laurie Unger will be sharing a creation 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 ~ Dressing Up Your Envelopes

Pick of the Week

Feb 262018

Today, Wendy, owner of Repeat Impressions is letting me do the Pick of the Week - this one is not so much of a technique but a way to get more use of your favorite stamps.

Confession — a lot of my cards are made for my grandchildren — who can’t yet read. I use my stamps so that it is easy for them to identify a card for them in all the mail that comes to their house. The following is a long list (in order of use) - but it took me less than 10 minutes to stamp all these!

Stamps used:
904-L, Daffodils
5136-C, Small Cat Silhouette
6807-J, Cherub Flourish
4903-F, Love Post
1210-K, Tumbling Hearts
2620-K, Jester Banner
810-C, Heart, Moon & Stars
1222-G, Love Stencil
4317-E, Birdhouse
911-F, Balloon
2615-K, Cat Banner
10402-O, Rectangle Marquee Frame

First I’ll start with the fancy one - I used the Daffodils stamp and embossed it in gold. First one plain, second colored with copics. If you decide to use copics - be sure to insert a scratch piece of paper while coloring - copics will go thru the envelope.

This second group was fun to stamp - because they were so quick!

Be sure to check out all the Banners - there are a good many scattered throughout the Repeat Impressions online catalogue.

Here is a third group - some of these are copic colored.

Two last ones - one a banner the other a marquee.

Hope you start using your stamps on your envelopes and having as much fun as I did. Thanks for looking at my project.

~ Joy

For this week only (Feb. 26 - March 4, 2018), get 20% Off the stamps used in Joy’s project when you use the coupon code POTW22618

Inspiration Palette Challenge ~ F2118

Inspiration Palette Challenges

Feb 212018

Good morning, everyone and happy Wednesday! It’s turning out to be a crazy week weather wise here in Maine. It was a balmy 45 degrees one day and then we got 10″ of snow the next. And rumor has it that today it may get to almost 70 degrees here in southern Maine. Crazy! So we will enjoy it while we can, but we know that Mother Nature is just toying with us and that winter is far from over yet. I’m not dreaming of summer anyway, but a touch of spring is always welcome. Today’s challenge helps a bit with that too.

We have a great Inspiration Palette Challenge for you this week. This challenge is a fun cross between a photo challenge and a color challenge. Below I have posted a photograph with a corresponding color palette so that you can choose to find your inspiration in whichever suits you best… or both!

Check out all these wonderful interpretations created by our design team Rock Stars.

“Inspiration Palette Challenge ~ F2118” creation by Cheri Weston.
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“Inspiration Palette Challenge ~ F2118” creation by Esther Asbury.
Visit Esther’s blog

“Inspiration Palette Challenge ~ F2118” creation by Heather Mills.
Visit Heather’s blog

“Inspiration Palette Challenge ~ F2118” creation by Joy Hadden.
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“Inspiration Palette Challenge ~ F2118” creation by Shirley Hotop. (front)
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“Inspiration Palette Challenge ~ F2118” creation by Shirley Hotop. (inside)
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“Inspiration Palette Challenge ~ F2118” creation by Donna Thielker.
Visit Donna’s blog

“Inspiration Palette Challenge ~ F2118” creation by Laurie Unger.
Visit Laurie’s blog

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 create something using the palette above as your inspiration, 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 Inspiration Palette Challenge ~ F2118 until 5pm EST on Tuesday, March 6th. All participants will be automatically entered into our random drawing. Then on February 28th we’ll be kicking off the next challenge in our monthly rotation… a super fun Anything Goes Challenge! We’ll announce our February challenges winner here on the first Wednesday of next month. 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 Inspiration Palette Challenge ~ F2118 in your blog or gallery posting.

Remember… 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!

Thank you so much for visiting here 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, Joy Hadden will be sharing a creation 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 ~ Love Is In the Air

Pick of the Week

Feb 192018

Today is my day to share my Pick of the Week for Repeat Impressions. One of my favorite things to do with stamps is create my own backgrounds. Don’t get me wrong, I love patterned paper, but there is something about being able to make your own. You can match your colors perfectly and all you really need is a stamp and some ink. And as stampers, we all have those. The first background I have to share with you uses one stamp (1219-C Love Letter), one ink color and a random stamping pattern:

I finished this one off with a stitched rectangle die and some inking around the edges.
Random can be a little scary for me, so often, I will create something with a repeating pattern like this (using 1222-G Love Stencil):

You could use it just as it is, but I went ahead and dressed it up a little bit more with the 5015-P Postcard stamp. This is where it starts to look more like patterned paper.

I decided to use this background for the Valentine’s Day card for my husband. Since I really liked how it turned out, I decided to keep the rest of the card very simple:

The sentiment was created by 3 different stamps from 2 different cling sets that I mixed, match, masked, and stamped together. The “you” is from the “Hello Cling Set” and I stamped it just as it is. The “me” is from the “Happy Cling Set” and actually read “you make me so” but I masked off the beginning and end to leave just the me. And now we come to the part I am most proud of! You can look through all the cling sets and NOT find the “and”. But I was very committed to this sentiment and was going to make it happen. It turns out that “handsome” (which my husband is, of course!) from the “Hello Cling Set” contains “and” if you mask off the “h” and “some”. Tricky, but perfect!

Thanks for stopping by, I hope this inspires you to look at your stamps in new ways, both for creating backgrounds, and also for creating new sentiments.

~ Heather

For this week only (Feb. 19-25, 2018), get 20% Off the stamps used in Heather’s project when you use the coupon code POTW21918

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