DCC75 ~ Create A Scene

 Designer's Choice Challenge
Jul 052017
 

Whew… July already! Summer is really in full swing now. I hope all our U.S. followers had a wonderful holiday yesterday. Isn’t the July 4th celebration a great way to start a month?! Too bad every month doesn’t start with the same fun and fanfare. :)

Today here at “The House” we’re kicking off a new month of challenges with one of our wonderful Designer’s Choice Challenges. This time around RI Rock Star, Deonna Bemish is hosting and challenging you all to “create a scene”. So many fun possibilities… check it out!

Here is the great scenic card that Deonna created to get everyone started.


“DCC75” creation by Deonna Bemish.
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So a few days ago Deonna shared her creation with her fellow Rock Stars and asked them all to create a scenic card. Check out all the fabulous creations they came up with to inspire you this week! Always such a wonderful variety.


“DCC75” creation by Heather Mills.
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“DCC75” creation by Donna Thielker.
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“DCC75” creation by Shirley Hotop.
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“DCC75” creation by Joy Hadden.
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“DCC75” creation by Cheri Weston.
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“DCC75” creation by Laurie Unger.
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“DCC75” creation by Patti J. Gilliam.
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And now it’s your turn. Here are all the details…
1. Create a scenic card. And remember, your creation does not have to be made with Repeat Impressions stamps, but if you would like to include our designs we would reeeally 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!
2. Post your DCC creation on your blog or online gallery and be sure to reference Repeat Impressions DCC75 ~ Create A Scene. Then link it here with the inlinkz widget below. (Please provide a direct link to your post, not the entire blog.)
3. Submissions will be accepted until Tuesday, July 11th at 5PM EST.
4. On July 12th we will introduce a new challenge to play along with and after all our July challenges wrap up we’ll announce our winner for the month. One lucky person will win a $25 Repeat Impressions Gift Certificate!

Today we’re also announcing the winner of our June challenges. A big thank you to all of you who participated. We loved checking out all your creations and really appreciated all your kind comments too! As usual, we let random.org select the lucky recipient of our $25 Gift Certificate. So without further ado… this time that person is… Theresa Pollack. Congratulations, Theresa and happy shopping! Please leave a comment on this post and I will contact you with your certificate info.

Thanks so much for dropping by today. We hope you’ve found lots to inspire you and look forward to seeing your challenge card linked here very soon. And please be sure to stop by again on Monday when RI Rock Star, Heather Mills will be hosting and sharing her Project of the Week with you.

Until then… happy stamping!

Wendy
Repeat Impressions

Project of the Week ~ Distress Oxide Cling Wrap Background

 Project of the Week
Jul 032017
 

Donna here with the Project of the Week for Repeat Impressions. I choose Distress Oxide Cling Wrap Background and had a lot of fun with this. I hope you will enjoy my tutorial and give this technique a try. I will be posting more cards at a later date that I make with more of the fun backgrounds I created!

The supplies you will need are: cling wrap, Oxide Distress Inks, (you can substitute watercolor powders or watercolors), a spray bottle of water, watercolor paper (you can substitute a good quality glossy card stock).

I am going to explain two versions, both are fun and striking, the second version requires more time patience.

Version one:
1) Spread cling wrap on your work surface. Smoosh Distress Oxide inks on the cling wrap, on my second go round I did not overlap them as much and liked those results better.

2) Spritz liberally with water.

3) Set card stock (4 /1/4 by 5 1/2 “) on the ink. Press down and scrunch the cling wrap a bit.

4) Flip over and scrunch cling wrap up and add any more colors to achieve desired look and more of a scrunched look.

Second version:
After laying the cardstock down on the Distress Oxide Inks flip over and let dry completely, no heat tool, be patient.

Complete cards as desired:
Version 1 using Repeat Impressions 6113-W Life is not…

Version 2 using Repeat Impressions 9009-W Butterfly (sm) and 3404-C, Random Dots.

I hope you enjoyed this technique and will give it a try. I would enjoy seeing your creations!

~ Donna

Anything Goes Challenge ~ J2817

 Anything Goes Challenges
Jun 282017
 

Happy Wednesday everyone! Today here at “The House” it’s time to kick off a new challenge. We have one of our easy peasy Anything Goes Challenges to wrap up the month. So for this week’s challenge the sky is the limit. Feel free to submit any style of card or stamped creation that you wish.

Here are all the wonderful creations the RI Rock Stars came up with to inspire you and get us started.


“Anything Goes Challenge ~ J2817” creation by Patti J. Gilliam.
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“Anything Goes Challenge ~ J2817” creation by Cheri Weston.
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“Anything Goes Challenge ~ J2817” creation by Laurie Unger.
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“Anything Goes Challenge ~ J2817” creation by Joy Hadden.
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“Anything Goes Challenge ~ J2817” creation by Shirley Hotop.
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“Anything Goes Challenge ~ J2817” creation by Shirley Hotop.
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“Anything Goes Challenge ~ J2817” creation by Heather Mills.
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“Anything Goes Challenge ~ J2817” creation by Deonna Bemish.
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“Anything Goes Challenge ~ J2817” creation by Donna Thielker.
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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 ~ J2817 until 5pm EST on July 4th. All participants will be automatically entered into our random drawing. On July 5th we’ll kick off a new challenge and announce our June winner. 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 ~ J2817 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, Donna Thielker will be hosting and sharing her Project of the Week with us.

Until the next time… happy stamping everyone!

Wendy
Repeat Impressions

Project of the Week ~ Faux Airbrushed Background

 Project of the Week
Jun 262017
 

Hi everyone, Deonna here with a Project of the Week for Repeat Impressions. Today, I would like to share a simple background technique with all of you that I call a Faux Airbrushed Background.

Supplies needed to create:
Repeat Impressions stamps - 1711-K, Lupine and 9717-C, Happy Hello
Acrylic Block
White Copic friendly cardstock
Black ink pad - This is a Ranger Archival Black
Copic Markers
Washi tape
Rectangle Spellbinder die
Distress inks in Broken China and Forest Moss
Die Cut Machine - Mine is a Big Shot
Scrap paper
Stippling Brushes

1. Take your black ink pad, stamp, block, and white cardstock. Stamp the image onto the cardstock.

2. Color the image as desired. I used Copic markers to color mine.

3. Take your Spellbinders rectangle die and using your die cut machine, cut it out. After running it through the Big Shot, leave the cardstock in the die and flip to the backside. Put a piece of tape on the back of the die and image to keep it from moving. Flip over to the front again.

4. Grab your stippling brushes and distress ink. Take your Broken China Distress Ink and run the brush through the ink just getting a small amount on the tips of the bristles. Pounce the excess ink off onto a scrap piece of paper and then run the bristles back and forth over the image to cover. Continue until you get the desired color. Repeat the process using your Forest Moss Distress Ink.

5. Remove the tape from the die and look at the beautiful frame that you have left and the colors of the background. Now your ready to create your card.

Thank you everyone for stopping by today. I hope that you will give this technique a try.

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