Pick of the Week ~ Frame and Sentiment Cards

 Pick of the Week
Jan 282019
 

Today Wendy, owner of Repeat Impressions is allowing me to pick a few stamps that I enjoy working with. I challenged myself to make a card with no images, just making a sentiment the focal point of the card. In order to really highlight the sentiment, I used some of Wendy’s frames - love, love, love these frames. Here is what I did.

I am just crazy about the 3114-I Just hand over the stamps sentiment. There is a huge category of stamping verses and sayings - check out Stamping Verses and Stampers Christmas Carols - really cute and some really funny! The frame for this one is called 1514-J Billboard Border.

This one uses the large “thanks” from the set of unmounted stamps called Thanks Plate 10000 and the frame is 10504-Q Wavy Oval Frame Lg from the Frames ~ Oval & Round set.

The last card uses the sentiment 4026-F, Today and Always. I used one of the smaller ovals, 10502-K Dotted Oval Frame Sm, from the Frames ~ Oval & Round set.

Thanks for looking at my cards. Check out the Frames ~ Oval & Round set and the Frames ~ Rectangle & Marquee set Wendy has created and get inspired!

~ Joy

For this week only (Jan. 28 - Feb. 3, 2019), get 20% Off the stamps used in Joy’s creations above when you use the coupon code POTW12819

Pick of the Week ~ Creating Small Travel Journals and Memory Books

 Pick of the Week
Dec 032018
 

Today Wendy, owner of Repeat Impressions is letting me pick a few stamps and show how I’ve used them.

Here is a small Travel Journal I’ve made. The big 12×12 photo albums have become too much for me to do and they take up so much room in my bookcase so I’ve started making these little albums. I print the pictures out on a home printer and cut them so they are about 3×2 inches. I use a Canon Selphy or an LG pocket printer. There are many, many models and some start at 72.99. This little book measures 3.5×5 and has 18 pages with lots of room for pics of my summer in Maine. Here are just a few of them.

The stamps I used are:
5419-P East Africa Map - I think it works well as just a map - not necessarily used for Africa
5807-F Travel Memories
1403-J Maine Lobster (I used the word Maine only)
2703-E Small Blueberry Cluster
1822-I Maine… the way life should be
9206-H Beautiful Days (love this script)
9509-F Cheers

I will be making another one of these for my Christmas pics. It’s so much fun to match up the pics with sentiments and little images. — And Repeat Impressions is chock full of great ones. Thanks for looking at my little album.

~ Joy

For this week only (Dec. 3-9, 2018), get 20% Off the stamps used in Joy’s creation above when you use the coupon code POTW12318

Pick of the Week ~ Christmas Tags

 Pick of the Week
Oct 082018
 

Good Morning! Today Wendy, owner of Repeat Impressions is allowing me to pick a few stamps to showcase. I’m taking the opportunity to make my Christmas tags. I always postpone wrapping my Christmas gifts and usually find myself wrapping late into the night. This year - at least I’m going to have my tags made.

Here are the stamps:
8804-G, All of Us
8814-I, Santa Hat Penguin (lg)
8813-J, Candy Cane Penguin
5501-G, Merry Christmas
5519-G, BELIEVE
1010-G, Do Not Open
803-F, Blue Spruce

Other supplies:
Red, Green, Black Ink
Stamping Platform - Misti
Tag Dies
Copics
Christmas Ribbon for ties
Star sequins
Wink of Stella pen

First I die cut 3 different tags, cutting them 8 different times - this took about 10 minutes.
Then using a stamping platform (Misti) I stamped all the tags. Next I quickly colored the few that needed it with Copics. Most I just stamped with colored ink. This took about 10 minutes also.

I used Christmas colored or gold cardstock - making sure the back side was white or cream (2 were red and 1 clear cardstock).

The last step was to tie ribbon on all tags, add little stars on top of the trees, and use Wink of Stella on a few to highlight.

In less than 30 minutes I had 24 tags made. I think having all the supplies out and organized made this go quickly. I felt like I had accomplished a lot making nice little stacks of tags.

Thanks for looking at my tags.

~ Joy

For this week only (October 8-14, 2018), get 20% Off the stamps used in Joy’s creations above when you use the coupon code POTW10818

Pick of the Week ~ Large Sentiments

 Pick of the Week
Aug 132018
 

Hi Stampers! Today it’s my turn to pick a few stamps and show you what I create with them. I wanted to make a few simple cards and I wanted to use Repeat Impressions large sentiments (which I love, love, love).

First I pulled some sentiments from the series called “Stamp Sets on Cling“. Be sure to check this section out - it has a WIDE variety of stamps and images.

Hello Cling Set

Thanks Cling Set

You Cling Set

Here are the cards I made — I got a little carried away - I enjoyed using these sets and I have a few more cards ready that I did not photograph.

First card just used a scrap of paper, stamped word and heat embossing on black cardstock. Second card used a stencil, stamped word and white heat embossed words on black cardstock. The third card was heat embossed black ink and rainbow colors of ink. The last card used another scrap of paper and some die cut arrows and the words were just inked. These cards took no time at all. The large sentiments packs a punch and it was fun adding a few extras.

Thanks for looking at my cards. Be sure to got to Repeat Impressions and look at those Sets on Cling.

~ Joy

For this week only (August 13-19, 2018), get 20% Off the stamps used in Joy’s creations above when you use the coupon code POTW81318

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