Designer's Choice Challenge- Mask Something!

It’s another Designer’s Choice Challenge at The House that Stamps Built, Repeat Impression’s blog. It’s Christy’s turn and she is challenging us to make a card using a masking technique. You can then enter it for a chance to win some awesome Repeat Impressions rubber! Please visit the blog for all the details and to see the other Rock Star's cards for this DCC challenge. 

For my card I started by masking all but a two inch square on a white card. I sponged the opening with light green ink and stamped Repeat Impression’s Balsam Fir Silhouette stamp several times. After removing the masking, I stamped the Pine Branch and For the Beauty stamps in black for a CAS card. I was itching to add something or layer on another color, but left it with the white space because I love the cards like that I see in Pinterest and on other blogs. What do you think?

I am entering this card in the Anything Goes (with a sentiment) challenge at Sentimental Sundays.  

(Edited to add- I meant to schedule this to post Wednesday but hit the wrong date- the DCC challenge starts Wednesday October 10th. But if you are getting my blog posts by email, they are coming a day later with the new subscription service, so you should get this Wednesday anyway.. sorry for any confusion, and remember if you haven't signed up for the new subscription service and want to see my cards every day, enter your email in the box at the right.) 

Stamping smiles, Karen 

CAS Fridays and Dream Valley Challenges

I am back- had computer problems for a few days so have been unable to blog until now. But thanks to Jordan of Computer Tek I am back up and running! If you are local (Wausau WI area) and need computer help that is reliable and fast and reasonable, check out his website or give him a call.

The challenge this week at CAS Fridays is "For the Girls" and Pink is the color at Dream Valley Challenges- both in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness month. I love the Reinker Float technique that I learned about on this blogpost and used to make this beautiful rose. I made the card with the largest of my Grand Calibur Labels 4 dies folded with center opening. I held the card shut with a band made of a pretty embossed velum and added a leaf of gems to complete the feminine card.

If you are local to Wausau/Schofield and would like to learn how to make this card and others, I am starting to offer classes in my home teaching techniques and card making. Don't have the Grand Calibur and Grands dies or hundreds of embossing folders, dies, punches and stamps? Come use mine and learn how to make some of the cards I have designed and show here on my blog and have been published nationally with. Send me an email (khasheck at gmail dot com) if you are interested in the details.

Stamping smiles, Karen

Punches and/or Diecuts 4 Kids at SAS4Kids!

It's time for another new challenge here at Send a Smile 4 Kids and this time we are challenging you to make a kids card using punches and/or diecuts. As always we have some great sponsors and prizes you can win in our random drawings. Heather Ellis is giving their random winner 3 digis of their choice! Scrapping Memories' prize is 10 digis or cutting files! And The Paper Shelter's prize is a $20 gift certificate! Plus you could be picked for our Top Three and win a cool blog badge and an opportunity to join us as a guest dt member!

My first card above features a darling fall digital stamp from Scrapping Memories. Isn't she sweet? I used a border punch from Martha Stewart with gold paper under the holes and some leaf diecuts from Nestabilities that I cut and embossed in fall colors.

My second card uses another darling digital stamp this time from Heather Ellis. I paper pieced her dress and her letter and punched some lined colored paper with a Stampin' up border punch. I added a green punched butterfly (Martha Stewart) to complete the card. I would like to say the card was distressed but the truth is my husband dropped some water on it and I didn't notice it until I was editing the picture... But we will just call it distressed in some special way:)

We had such cool images given to the dt I just had to play with all of them:) This sweetie is from The Paper Shelter and I just printed her and cut her out with an oval die. I cut some leaves out of cardboard with my nesties dies and embossed them with my No More Shims thick embossing pad onto Core'dinations paper and then I sanded the leaves. I added a few other leaf punches to complete the fun fall card.

Stamping smiles 4 our kids, Karen

Lovely Lady Cards from Crackerbox Palace That You can WIN!

It's Crackerbox Palace Thursday and today I am sharing some lovely lady cards I made with stamps that are available from Crackerbox Palace. You can win your choice of the stamps featured on one of these cards by leaving a comment at either blog. The simple requirements for a chance at winning this week’s blog candy are below.

But first- the winner of last week’s blog candy of the stamps featured on one of the cards last Thursday is                            Joann Burton!  Here is her winning comment from my blog:  “Hi Karen, I love both of these cards. They are beautiful. joann sassy raggedy”

Joann, please send me or Crackerbox Palace your address and your choice of which stamps you want, so we can get you the stamps you have won.  And remember you can win another CBP stamp of your choice simply by posting a card you made with the stamps you won to your blog or Splitcoast Stampers gallery and sending us a link.

My cards today are made with some lovely lady stamps. The first one above is a beautiful Sea Breeze silhouette and I did something different with it. Instead of stamping or embossing in black like I normally would with a silhouette stamp, I embossed in a pink sparkly embossing powder on a white piece of cardstock that I attached in the center of the card. I created a window with a wonky rectangle nestie and embossed with a Sizzix embossing folder around the edge of the front.

My second card features the lovely Lady’s Back stamp and I used my oval diffuser from Tim Holtz to create an unembossed center to stamp her on. The Hexagon Illusion embossing folder is from Craft Concepts and is one of my favorites. I sponged in pink distress ink and layered on a teal card.

 So would you like to win the lovely lady stamps featured on one of today’s cards? Here is how to win our weekly blog candy:

 1.) We have decided that becoming a follower on both blogs is going to be something we would prefer you do but not a requirement.  My blog is here and the Crackerbox Palace blog is here.

 2.) Leave a comment on either my blog or the Crackerbox Palace blog on the Thursday blogpost featuring CBP stamps.  If you leave a comment on BOTH blogs, you will be entered twice in the drawing.   The deadline to leave a comment will be the following Wednesday at Noon CST. Mr. Random will pick a winner from the comments and he or she will win the featured stamp(s). You must send me (khasheck@gmail.com) or Crackerbox Palace (crackerbox@crackerboxstamps.com)  an email with your home address so the stamps can be mailed to you. If we do not hear from you within two weeks after we announce your win, and we can’t reach you through a blog, your prize will be forfeited.  And if you post a card to your blog or to Splitcoast Stampers with the stamps you won and send a link to Crackerbox Palace, you will win another Crackerbox Palace stamp of your choice!!

Crackerbox Palace smiles, Karen

What If? Wed. Sketch Challenge

It's time for another fun sketch challenge at The House that Stamps Built and we are challenging you to make a card using the sketch below and link it up for a chance at some great Repeat Impressions rubber! For all the details on what you can win and to see the other Rock Stars cards using this sketch, please visit our blog.

For my card, I stamped Repeat Impression’s Snow Skating snowman on a blue wavy circle cut with a nestie. I paper pieced the snowman and his hat and scarf. I used designer tape to create a fun background and attached the snowman piece with mounting tape to raise.

Here is the sketch for you to follow when you create a card for our challenge. You do not need to use Repeat Impressions stamps to enter our challenges, but you get an extra chance to win if you do!

I am entering this card in the challenge at Stamp and Create for Winter Wonderland.

Stamping smiles, Karen

Scrapping Memories Halloween Cards

It’s another Scrapping Memories Tuesday here and I am happy to share some fun cards featuring digital stamps from Scrapping Memories and to offer some more blog candy you can win! The simple rules for entering our blog candy contest are below.  But first I am announcing the winner of the blog candy drawing from the comments made on my last Scrapping Memories blog post.

The winner of 5 digital files (cutting or digital stamps) is …………………………Linda ! And her winning comment was: “Karen this is really adorable. I love the image!”

Linda- please contact me at khasheck at gmail dot com and I will put you in touch with Scrapping Memories to claim your prize!

My cards today feature Mr. and Mrs. Frankenstein. Aren’t they sweet? I created CAS Halloween cards for two of my kids simply by printing and cutting out these adorable digital images, and then layering them on some Halloween dp and orange baker’s twine.

If you like to color, these images come either uncolored or colored. And if you win you can pick out any 5 digital files you want, so if you are not into Halloween cards for kids, you can pick any other files you like!

I am entering these cards in the challenges at Catch the Bug  for Seasonal or Fall and Just Some Lines challenge to Celebrate Fall.

How can you win the Scrapping Memories blog candy? Every other Tuesday I will post a new card and contest. And each time I show you a project featuring some of their fun digital files, we are going to be offering you a chance to win some blog candy! Just leave a comment below sometime in the next two weeks and you will be entered for a chance to win 5 digital stamps or cutting files from Scrapping Memories!!  If your comment is the winning one picked by Mr. Random AND if you have the Scrapping Memories blog badge on your blog, you will win TWO MORE free digital stamps or cutting files!!  (It is not required to win the blog candy that you have the blog badge on your blog, but you can win more if you do.)

Here is the code for putting the Scrapping Memories’ blog badge on your blog:

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I will announce the winner of the blog candy the next time I post (trying for every other Tuesday) and you have two weeks to email me at khasheck at gmail dot com so I can put you in touch with Scrapping Memories to claim your prize.  I will try to contact you to let you know you have won, but if I am unable to reach you through a blog or email, and you do not contact me within the two weeks, your prize will be forfeited.  

Stamping smiles, Karen 

Repeat Impressions Stamp of the Week

The stamp of the week this week at Repeat Impressions is this fun Bear Banner stamp, and it is available this week only for 50% off with the discount code found at Repeat Impressions blog. What a deal! Please visit the blog for all the details and to see the other Rock Star's cards using this stamp.

For my card, I started with a pillow top background and dotted all the intersections with a gel pen. Here is a video if you want to learn how to make this fun background. I stamped the Bear Banner on white and paper pieced the bear. The perfect sentiment is of course also from Repeat Impressions and I added some gems after I attached with pop dots to raise it.

I am entering this card in the “Banners and Bunting” challenge at Art Impressions Stamp Challenge.

Stamping smiles, Karen