Countdown To Christmas Sale-A-Bration!

 Misc.
Dec 042017
 

Hello, crafty peeps!

Just popping in with a quick post to let you know that we’re getting in the holiday spirit at Repeat Impressions. We’re kicking off our Countdown To Christmas Sale-A-Bration starting December 5th! I’ll be posting a new item and coupon code on our Facebook page every day through Christmas Eve. So click on over to our Facebook page and Follow us if you don’t already. Then be sure to check our page each day so you don’t miss our daily deals! Or you can Like or Share some of our posts so that hopefully we’ll show up in your feed.

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Happy stamping and Happy Holidays!

Wendy
Repeat Impressions

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Project of the Week ~ CASE’d Cards

 Project of the Week
Dec 042017
 

Hey there, House friends!

Cheri here with a new Project of the Week for you!

If you’re a card maker, you have probably had moments when you can’t find your mojo and a card creation is nearly impossible to create. I’ve had a few of those moments myself (okay…more than “a few”). When I can’t find my mojo, I use someone else’s and look through online card postings until I find something I find inspiring and use that as my “jumping off point”. In other words, I “Copy And Share with Everyone”…CASE…someone else’s card.

In the card making world, it’s a compliment to have your creation CASE’d, and it’s customary (and appreciated) to give credit to the original card if you post yours online.

I find tons of inspiration right here each and every week when I see what the Rock Stars have created for each of the many challenges we have during the month. That said, my POTW for you this week is to show you cards I’ve CASE’d from three of these talented ladies.

First up is one I CASE’d from Patti’s October TicTacToe challenge. Isn’t that the cutest card?

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I took Patti’s card and created this one. The CASE part here is I used the same stamps and while my card is a bit different from Patti’s I used hers for the inspiration for mine. (My regret is I didn’t put googly eyes in the background. I loved that touch she gave her card). Stamps used are RI#2307-E “Trick or Treat Ghost” and RI#2316-G “Boo”. The ghostly circles/orbs in the bg of my card were made by dipping a pen cap into white pigment ink.

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Most of us don’t copy the original card to the very detail, we often change it up, but use the original as a starting point.

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This is a card Shirley made for an inspiration challenge back in January. I needed a birthday card for my brother, and thought this would be a fun card to CASE and make for him. Stamps used on both Shirley’s card and mine are from the Holy Crap stamp collection. On my card I also used RI#2710-D “Sm. Pine Tree” and RI#2709-I “Large Pine Forest”. I also added some borders around the bottom layer.

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The last CASE example I have for you today is this card made by Heather.

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I kept pretty closely to Heather’s great card but thought it would make a fun Christmas card by just changing up the colors and a few details. We both used RI#5116-I “Cat Sitting Sil” I changed the sentiment using RI#8909-G “Magical Christmas”, and added a die cut snowflake in place of her floral.

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There you have it for my POTW for you. I hope you’ve found some inspiration and will be encouraged to CASE cards of others when you’re at a loss for inspiration…just give them credit if you post them online.

Thanks for stopping by!

WHAT IF? Wednesday ~ Sketch Challenge N2917

 Sketch Challenges
Nov 292017
 

Happy Hump Day, crafty friends! I hope you are all having a great week. 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 fabulous inspiration cards created by the RI Rock Stars… then play along for your chance to win a Repeat Impressions‘ gift certificate!

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Repeat Impressions Sketch N2917

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“N2917 Sketch” creation by Laurie Unger.
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“N2917 Sketch” creation by Donna Thielker.
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“N2917 Sketch” creation by Shirley Hotop.
Visit Shirley’s blog

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“N2917 Sketch” creation by Joy Hadden.
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“N2917 Sketch” creation by Deonna Bemish.
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“N2917 Sketch” creation by Heather Mills.
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“N2917 Sketch” creation by Cheri Weston.
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“N2917 Sketch” creation by Patti J. Gilliam.
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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 N2917 Sketch Challenge until 5pm EST on Tuesday, December 5th. All participants will be automatically entered into our random drawing. Then on Wednesday, December 6th we’ll be kicking off a new challenge and announce our winner for November. 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 N2917 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!

We have one more bit of news to share with you. Today we are bidding a fond farewell to RI Rock Star, Patti J. Gilliam. Patti J. has been on our design team for several years… not once, but twice! How fortunate are we?! So with a little luck, maybe she’ll decide to come back and join us again someday in the future. We sure are going to miss this super sweet lady and her wonderful RI creations! Wishing you all the best, Patti!!

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 stop by again on Monday when RI Rock Star, Cheri Weston will be sharing her Project of the Week with us.

And until the next time… happy stamping!

Wendy
Repeat Impressions

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Project of the Week ~ Using Your Dies

 Project of the Week
Nov 272017
 

This week it is my turn here at The House That Stamps Built to do the Project of the Week. Since I am in the swing of Christmas I decided to go with a Christmas card and a technique I choose to call “Use Your Dies”. Below you will see a picture of my supplies.

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I went through my Christmas dies (the only ones I really have any organizational skills at all), and chose an ornament die from a set of 4 unbranded dies. I went with the one that would fit my image.

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I place the die where I wanted my focal image to go and used some washi tape to secure it.

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I kept both the negative and positive images as you will see in a bit what I did with the other image.

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Using my sponge daubers I started with my darkest shade of blue ink, just going around the outer edge of the die cut, I then used the medium shade of blue and sponged in a bit farther and finally the lightest shade of blue went as far into the center as I wanted to shade.

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Using the Angel 905-L and Heaven & Earth 6523-D, I stamped the focal image inside the shaded ornament in my dark blue ink as well as the sentiment Heaven & Earth partial in/partial out the shaded ornament.

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I colored the trim on her dress in blue spectrum glittermarker, and her wings in a clear Wink of Stella. I added some sequin trim and a twine bow at the top.

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I used the positive image of the ornament for the inside of my card - shading it again with the three shades of blue and stamping the sentiment Let Heaven 413-H inside. I really like the way this turned out - clean and simple one layer card. I am going to go through my dies and see what else I can use with this same technique. Give it a try.

~ Shirley

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