Repeat Impressions - WHAT IF? Wednesday

It's Wednesday, and therefore we have a new challenge for you at Repeat Impressions!  Today is WHAT IF? Wednesday - a sketch challenge from Wendy, owner and artist of Repeat Impressions.  Here is today's sketch:

Please visit the RI blog, The House That Stamps Built, for all the details and to see the other wonderful creations.  But in a nutshell, here is what you need to do:  Create a card using this sketch, upload your card to your blog or on-line gallery, and link it to the RI blog.  One random winner for the month will win a $25 gift certificate to Repeat Impressions.  Definitely worth playing for:)  Here are links to the other Rock Stars' blogs:

Darsie ~ Dawn ~ Harriet ~Joy ~ Karen ~ Maki ~ Michele ~ Miriam ~ Robin

I decided to make my first Christmas card for the year.  A bit of a late start for me!  I stamped the 2002-J, Holiday Lamp Post, found on this page, with Memento black ink and colored with Copics.  I added Star Dust Stickles to the snow.  I stamped the sentiment, also from Repeat Impressions, on to vellum and put it over my patterned paper.  My matting is Real Red from Stampin' Up!  The snowflake is a felt one, also from SU!  We'd love to have you join us!!!

I had stamped two lamp posts, just in case I messed up the first one.  Since they were both usable, I made another card with the materials I had out.  Here is my second one.  Similar, but different:)


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How About a Card That is SO Not Me!

I'm trying to make use of some items I was sent for my CMIT Design Team work.  I was sent some beautiful Kanban stamps, and this is one of them.  It's the first time I've really tried coloring a person with my Copic markers.

The stamp is from the Kanban set called Moulin Divas - Tres Chic.  (It's available in the Creating Everlasting Memories eBay store here.)  I stamped it with Memento black ink on white Papertrey cardstock.  Like I said, I colored it with Copic markers.  I added sparkle with Star Dust Stickles.  I punched the corners with a Stampin' Up! Ticket Corner punch and matted with black.  I added a small pearl to each corner.  The sentiment (from the same set) is stamped with black ink on vellum and embossed with clear embossing powder.  I adhered it with glue dots and added pearls to these corners, too.


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Repeat Impressions Stamp of the Week - Arbor Fence

Today starts another Repeat Impressions Stamp of the Week.  The stamp for this week is Arbor Fence.  You can find it on this page.  Please visit the Repeat Impressions blog, The House That Stamps Built, for all the details you need to purchase this stamp through next Sunday, May 22, for 50% off!  While you're there, please check out the other Rock Stars' wonderful creations.  Or follow these links to their blogs: 

Harriet ~Karen ~ Maki ~ Miriam ~ Robin

For my card, I went with my favorite style - Clean and Simple with lots of embossed white.  I saw this card on my blogging friend Bonnie's blog, and knew I wanted to case it.  i used the same folders as Bonnie - Swiss Dots and Textile.  I sponged Certainly Celery ink on the edges.  The Certainly Celery cardstock matting was punched with a Martha Stewart Lattice Arch (or Arch Lattice!) border punch.  The image panel was also matted with Certainly Celery and mounted on Dimensionals.  The sentiment is from Repeat Impressions and is part of a stamp that says "Welcome Little One"  I added some Certainly Celery ribbon, also.  I used this stamp a while back, so here is another example, if you are interested.

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Phi Beta Kappa Congrats

A quick post for today.  I made this card a few weeks ago.  I was sent a Greek alphabet die cut set, and I really didn't know what to do with it!  I figured a good thing to use it for was for a Phi Beta Kappa inductee.  Anyone know one? :)


The Greek letters were cut with the Lifestyles Crafts alphabet (formerly Quickutz).  The frame was cut with a Lifestyles die, also.  (You can find them both in the Creating Everlasting Memories eBay store.)  The printed paper on the bottom is from Die Cuts With a View.  I added the grosgrain ribbon with white stitching across the bottom, too.  A rather simple but elegant card, I think.


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Awesome Blog Candy

The Creating Memories in Time blog (associated with the Creating Everlasting Memories eBay store) is giving away all these items! 

‏K & CO (150) sheets of designer paper 
Martha Stewart Punch: Tulip 
EK Success Edger Punch 
EK Success (3) Art Blanche Stationery Tins 
EK Success Image Tree: Pep Rally Stamp Set 
EK Success Cutterbee Cutterfly 
EK Success (2) Sticko 1000 Tab Herma Adhesive 
EK Success Cutterbee Piercing Bugs 
EK Success (2) Permanent Mini Adhesive 
EK Success Black Fastenater Mini Stapler 
EK Success Miscellaneous Fastenaters

All you have to do is to create a Mother's Day card (yep, it's past Mother's Day, but just think - you'll be ahead for next year!!) and upload it to your blog or on-line gallery, and link to the CMIT blog!  One lucky person will win everything in the picture.  What an awesome prize!!  Last time I checked, there was only one entry, so your chances are VERY good!  The contest goes through the end of May.  Good luck!  I'd love to have a visitor to my blog be the winner - again!  You can find the details on the CMIT blog.

I hope to get some card-making done this weekend.  We have Owen (our grandson) here overnight and tomorrow my niece is coming over to work on her wedding invitations.  Then it's the Survivor finale tomorrow night, and we have a tradition of watching it with some friends.  (Any Survivor fans out there???) Wish me luck in getting anything else done:)

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LOVE - always and forever

I took a little time and just made a card.  I always like doing that - it feels good. :)

I started by stamping the "lace and ribbon" using my Repeat Impressions 1502-L, Lace Ribbon Border, found on this page.  I colored the ribbon with a Melon Mambo Stampin' Up! marker.  I trimmed down the paper so the ribbon went to the edges, and then I matted it with Melon Mambo cardstock.  I stamped the LOVE with my 1207-J, Floral LOVE, (also from RI) found on this page.  I colored the flowers and leaves with Melon Mambo, Old Olive, and Summer Sun.  The sentiment is from Inkadinkado and I used my black marker to only ink up the words, and not the border part of the stamp.

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Repeat Impressions - Designer's Choice Challenge

Time for another Repeat Impressions Designer's Choice Challenge (DCC.)  Harriet is the chooser of the challenge this time, and her choice is to use paper-piecing.  Very fun!  Won't you join us?  Just make a card using paper piecing, upload to your blog or on-line gallery, and link up to the Repeat Impressions blog.  You have nearly two weeks to get your creation uploaded and linked - through Tuesday, May 24 at 5:00 p.m. EDT.  Please visit the Repeat Impressions blog, The House That Stamps Built, for all the details and to see what the other Rock Stars have come up with.  Or visit their blogs using these links:

Darsie ~ Dawn ~ Harriet ~Joy ~ Karen ~ Maki ~ Michele ~ Miriam ~ Robin

I love paper-piecing, but I didn't make very good choices this time!  I stamped the Daffodils onto the blue patterned paper, then stamped the Grass.  I colored the leaves and the grass with a marker.  I stamped the daffodils onto two different patterns of yellow paper.  They were both subtle patterns, but I didn't realize just HOW subtle they were until I cut them all out.  Oh well, they look nice, just not very patterned.  The flower centers are popped up with foam squares.  Here is a close-up picture for both dimension and so you can kind of see the patterns in the papers.  The sentiment is also from Repeat Impressions.  I matted the blue papers with Certainly Celery from Stampin' Up!  I also added another matted layer of textured white and celery.  We'd love to have you play along.  One random winner for the month will win a full sheet of unmounted rubber.

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Repeat Impressions Stamp of the Week - Bottoms Up!

 As always, Monday is Stamp of the Week day at Repeat Impressions.  Every week, Wendy chooses a stamp to be showcased and makes it available for 50% off through the following Sunday evening.  This week's stamps is called "Bottoms Up!"  You can find it on this page.  Check out the Repeat Impressions blog, The House That Stamps Built, for all the necessary details and to see some examples of what you can do with this stamp.  Or, follow these links to the other Rock Stars' blogs:

Darsie ~ Dawn ~ Joy ~ Karen ~ Michele

I stamped my Bottoms Up image on patterned paper and added the Mountain Vista stamp.  I colored the sun, just for fun:)  I matted with a dark gray cardstock, after punching the bottom edge with a Martha Stewart punch.  The sentiment was printed on my computer.

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Happy Mother's Day! And Another Embossed Frame

My last card (for now!) using my newest Sizzix embossing folders.

For this one, I used Frame, Ornate #2 - from the Ornate Frames Set.  I embossed on white then matted with red.  I added the red and black ribbon.  The image is a dollar stamp from Michael's.  I stamped with black, then added a touch of color with markers.  I matted with black and mounted on Dimensionals.  The sentiment is from Inkadinkado.

Happy Mother's Day to all the mothers out there!  We've made our rounds to our moms', and will spend the day with our son, daughter-in-law and youngest grandchild.

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Garden Flowers Embossing #2

Here is card #3 using my Sizzix embossing folders.

This one uses Garden's Edge, from the Garden Flowers set.  I embossed it and matted it with turquoise.  I punched tiny holes to thread the ribbon through, and then tied a bow.  The sentiment is from Hero Arts.  I added a little bit of Stickles to the heart.  It's matted with the same turquoise and mounted on Dimensionals.  Tomorrow I'll be back with my last "new" card with this folders.:)

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Celebrate!

Card number two with my new folders:)  This one uses the Sizzix Corner Flowers folder from the Garden Flowers set.

I embossed on a separate piece of cardstock, then brayered over it with blue ink and sponged the edges.  I punched the butterflies with a Martha Stewart punch and added blue pearls for the bodies.  I rounded the corners and called it done!

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Pink Embossed Wedding Card

I actually made up four cards on Monday night and Tuesday morning - it felt so good!  I'll share them with you one at a time, though:)  All four of them use new (to me) Sizzix embossing frame folders. 

For this first one, I used the Heart and Vines Frame from the Ornate Frames Set.  I embossed a piece of pink textured cardstock that has a white core.  After embossing, I sanded it down so the white showed through.  All of the embossing was done with the same folder.  I cut the hearts with Lifestyle Crafts (formerly Quickutz) dies.  The scalloped heart was cut from the same pink cardstock and I sanded it down, too.  I stamped the image and the sentiment (from Inkadinkado) with London Fog Memento ink.  The hearts are mounted on Dimensionals.  A simple but effective card, I think.  (You can find the Sizzix folders and the Lifestyle dies in the CEM eBay store.)

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Repeat Impressions WHAT IF? Wednesday

Today brings another Repeat Impressions WHAT IF? Wednesday Sketch Challenge - where the Rock Stars are given a sketch by Wendy and asked to come up with a card.  AND we ask you to join us!  One random winner for the month will win a $25 gift certificate to Repeat Impressions!  Just create your card, upload it to your blog or an on-line gallery, and link it up to the RI blog, The House That Stamps Built.  Visit the blog for the sketch and all the details, and pictures of the Design Team's creations.  Or follow these links:

Darsie ~ Dawn ~ Harriet ~Joy ~ Karen ~ Maki ~ Michele ~ Miriam ~ Robin

For my card, I started by stamping Tulip Bouquet with Stazon ink, and coloring with Prismacolor pencils and Goo-Gone.  I cut it, and the matting, with Oval Nestabilities.  I matted the pink layer with shimmery gold and added the beautiful ribbon and gold "net-tish" ribbon.  I omitted the bow on the left, since my ribbon was so wide.

Won't you join us?  Also, you have almost another week to participate in Robin's Designer's Choice Challenge to use robin's egg blue, rust and kraft.  One random winner can choose a full sheet of unmounted rubber!  See the details here.

And one more thing - I hope you are still with me!  The stamp of the week is Where We Love.  Just scroll down a bit.  You can find the details on how to get this stamp for 50% off on this blog post - through Sunday only!

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Elegant Birthday

Just a quick post of an (for me!) elegant card!  It's still very simple, but the gold adds the elegance, I guess:)

The stamps I used are from Kanban called Cavendish Ladies - Day at the Races - and are available in the Creating Everlasting Memories store here.  I stamped them with Versamark and embossed them with gold.  I matted with shimmery gold paper.  The background paper is also from Kanban.  The strip across the bottom is punched with a Martha Stewart punch called Double Link Trim.  There are lots of Kanban and Martha Stewart products available from CEM, also.  I wish you could see the shiny gold on this card, but alas, it doesn't photograph well.

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Happy May! - May Calendar Page

Well, it's May already, even though it doesn't feel like it!  And a new month brings a new calendar page.  If you are interested in printing out your own (blank) calendar pages, I have shared my file with you.  You can click on the link in the header of my blog (just above the newest post) and that will take you to my Excel files for both 2011 and the recently added 2012 file.  There is also a link to cutting instructions, assuming your printer prints them the same as mine!

I am SO glad I was smart enough when I made my calendars last fall to make a list of everything I used to make the pages.  It makes it SO much easier when the First rolls around and I share the materials with you!  For this page, I stamped the image with a stamp from Image Tree's Daisy Delights and colored with Stampin' Up! markers YoYo Yellow and Gable Green.  I punched the bird border with a Martha Stewart Bird on a Wire punch and some older cardstock from Micheal's.

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SplitCoastStampers Challenges Card - Lots of Layers for a Boy

I started this card Thursday morning when Owen (my grandson) was napping, but he woke up when all I had done was stamp the robot and cut him out.  So, yesterday morning while he was napping, I finished the card.

When I started it, it was for Thursday's SplitCoastStampers Ways to Use it challenge - to make a card for a boy.  Friday's Free4All challenge was to use lots of layers.  So, I made a boy's card with lots of layers and got them both in:)  The robot is from a Recollections set. I stamped him on silver mirror paper twice and on white once. I cut the entire image out of the silver, the head out of silver, and his "control panel" out of white. I glued on the white piece and used foam squares to add the popped up head. I also added "googlie" eyes. The papers are from an old Sizzix pad. I embossed the black with a Cuttlebug D'Vine Swirls folder and sanded it down. I cut the circles with Nestabilities. The circle layer is mounted on foam squares, also. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink's Birthday Basics set.

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Stamped Floral - Part Two

The stamped floral part of this card was left over from the card on yesterday's blog post.

I cut the stamped flowers (done with Cameo Coral and Old Olive) and cut them in a square and matted with Old Olive cardstock.  I added Taylored Expressions Tiny Twinkles to the flower centers.  The bottom layer is Cameo Coral, which I stamped with another stamp from the same Fiskars set and embossed with my Swiss Dots folder.  The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink's Round and Round and is stamped with Old Olive.  The ribbon is Old Olive, also.  The flower square is mounted on foam squares for more dimension.

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Floral Birthday Wishes

I had a little time yesterday to just make a card with no special "ingredients."  It felt good:)

I started with a new Fiskars stamp I bought at JoAnn's last week - with a 50% off coupon, of course!  I inked it up with Cameo Coral ink (from Stampin' Up!) and then used an Old Olive marker to color over the leaves and stems.  I stamped it several times to make my own patterned paper.  I matted with Old Olive cardstock.  I punched the little butterfly with a Martha Stewart punch out of Cameo Coral.  I colored the centers of the larger flowers with a Summer Sun marker, added Star Dust Stickles to the centers of the larger flowers, tiny brown pearls to the centers of the smaller flowers, and a tiny white pearl to the butterfly.  The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink's Round and Round set and is stamped in Old Olive ink.

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Designer's Choice Challenge - Robin's Turn!

Time for our third Repeat Impressions Designer's Choice Challenge - the fun challenge where an RI Design Team member comes up with a challenge for the other Rock Stars - and for YOU!  Today it's Robin's turn, and she has chosen a color challenge.  The colors she picked are Kraft, Robin's Egg Blue,and Rust.  You can also use a neutral.  All the specific details are on the Repeat Impressions blog, The House That Stamps Built.  You will also see the others' creations.  Or check them out here: 

Darsie ~ Dawn ~ Harriet ~Joy ~ Karen ~ Maki ~ Michele ~ Miriam ~ Robin

One lucky winner for the month will win a full sheet of unmounted rubber.  That's a whole lot of stamps!  What are you waiting for?? LOL!

I chose to use the Jester stamp, available on this page.  I stamped him three times in different orientations.  I colored him with Copic markers, using the closest colors I had to robin's egg blue and rust.  I hand-doodled a border around the image.  The corrugated strip across the middle was a piece of packing for a candle set I had - it worked well!  The sentiment can be found on the same page as the jester.

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Birthday Greetings

I was making some new samples for the Creating Everlasting Memories eBay store last night, so I thought I'd share one of them with you.

The die I used is called "Sign."  I cut it out of both black and white cardstock and stamped flowers on the white oval.  The stamp is from a Fiskars set, and I colored it with markers before stamping.  I added tiny pearls to the flower centers.  The sentiment is from Impression Obsession.  I punched the bottom with an EK Success punch and added lines with my Scor-Pal.  If you are interested in the Lifestyle Craft dies (formerly Quicktuz) you can find a link to the CEM store in my blog header.  (A separate page of my blog.)

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