Pick of the Week

Today is my day to share my Pick of the Week on The House That Stamps Built blog.  It is the second installment of my "Pinterest Inspired" series where I take a card I have found on Pinterest and recreate it using Repeat Impressions stamps.  Here is the card I was inspired by:

As soon as I saw this card, I thought how perfect it would be for using some of Repeat Impressions flip sets.  These were designed in series to be used to make flip or waterfall cards.  And while those are really fun, this idea gives you a way to stretch your stamps and use them in a different way.  Here is my first card, which, you can see if very closely inspired by the inspiration card:

 There are four images plus a sentiment in each Flip set, but for my cards, I only used 3 of the images as four would not have fit on the card front this way.  I used the I used the smallest square from the Flip Fancy Die Set to cut out three squares from the card front.  The dies are sized perfectly to just fit the images from the flip set, so I used the die cut card front as a template to lay out where to stamp on a strip of white card stock.  Then I stamped the images from "Hugs Flip Set", colored them, and adhered the entire strip to the back of the front panel.  I stamped the sentiment, tied some twine with a cute little heart die cut and was finished!
Since I'm not finished with Christmas cards yet, I made a second card in exactly the same way:

For this card, I used "Shepherd Flip Set", again, using only three of the images.  Because I was using a darker patterned paper for this one, I heat embossed the sentiment with Gold Tinsel embossing powder.  Instead of the heart I added a little tag to the bow and finished it off with "Holly Sprig" to add a festive little touch.  I hope this inspires you to look at your stamps in a different light, and see if you can use them in ways other than how they were intended.

Supplies:

Stamps: Repeat Impressions "Hugs Flip Set", "Shepherd Flip Set" and "Holly Sprig"

Dies: Repeat Impressions "Flip Fancy Die Set"

Challenges:

Card #1:

Craft Dee Bow-Z--anything goes with a handmade bow

Cutie Pie #141--add an animal

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper--anything goes with patterned paper

Love To Craft Challenge Blog #40--anything goes

Crafty Calendar--cute and girly

Stinkin' Inkers--die-licious and punchy

2 Crafty Critter Crazies--anything goes

Crafting By Designs--anything goes

Cardz TV #102--anything goes

Penny's Challenge # 456--anything goes

Card #2:

Unicorn Challenge #49--Christmas/winter

Christmas at Sweet Stampin--anything goes with the optional twist: trees

Cards Galore #69--anything goes

Pattie's Creations #164--anything goes

Creative Sketchy Girls #41--Christmas

Sheepski Designs--Christmas is coming

Brown Sugar #295--anything goes

Penny Black--Christmas

Merry Little Christmas #16--anything goes

Winter Wonderland--holly and/or ivy

The Paper Shelter--Christmas spirit

As You Like It--Favorite: cute or traditional Christmas (I prefer traditional Christmas, specially if it shows the true meaning of Christmas like this little manger scene.  But if it can be cute AND traditional, all the better!)

Creative Fingers #174--anything goes

Sweet Stampers #38--Christmas

Make My Monday #109--red, green, white

Cute Card Thursday #608--festive