Friday, July 17, 2015

Impression Obsession Blog Hop- Day 3

Welcome to the 2015 Impression Obsession Fall/Winter Release Blog Hop!

We have some beautiful new stamps to share AND Gift Certificates to give away!

The hop will start each day with a list of participants on the Impression Obsession Blog at 6am EST. Each day pay us a visit here and then head over and see our fabulous IO Design Team’s projects with our new stamps on their blogs (only one comment per blog per day please). Comment as you hop. Each comment that you leave gives you a chance to win!!!

The more blogs you visit each day… the better chance you will have to win a $25 Impression Obsession Gift Certificate!!!

Every day (Monday July 15th – July 17th), one of the IO designer blogs will be chosen randomly and a winner will be selected from comments on that blog at 10pm CT. The winner will be announced the following day along with the participating blogs for that day.

Two prizes will be awarded on the last day of the hop. One will be for Friday’s comments and another will be chosen from all the comments left throughout the week. So….if you miss a day or time deadline your comments will still count for a chance to win a $25 Impression Obsession Gift Certificate! Both Friday winners will be announced on the IO Blog on Saturday, July 18th.

All of the new stamps you’ll be seeing on the hop are available NOW! at www.iostamps.com


One of the exciting things about the new Impression Obsession release is that they have a new stamp designer.  His name is Seth Apter, and Mixed Media artists are going to love him!

For my card, I combined three of his images- Asteroid Belt, Atmosphere, and Solar Eclipse.  Fun names, huh?  I stamped them all onto watercolor paper with black versafine ink and then colored the piece with Peerless watercolors.  To finish the card, I added my saying and layered the pieces.

Items Used:
Atmosphere E18012
Asteroid Belt H18004
Solar Eclipse D18015
Friends Are For B14497

Don't forget to visit the other designers for more inspiration!


 

Thursday, July 16, 2015

Impression Obsession Blog Hop Day 2

Welcome to the 2015 Impression Obsession Fall/Winter Release Blog Hop!

We have some beautiful new stamps to share AND Gift Certificates to give away!

The hop will start each day with a list of participants on the Impression Obsession Blog at 6am EST. Each day pay us a visit here and then head over and see our fabulous IO Design Team’s projects with our new stamps on their blogs (only one comment per blog per day please). Comment as you hop. Each comment that you leave gives you a chance to win!!!

The more blogs you visit each day… the better chance you will have to win a $25 Impression Obsession Gift Certificate!!!

Every day (Monday July 15th – July 17th), one of the IO designer blogs will be chosen randomly and a winner will be selected from comments on that blog at 10pm CT. The winner will be announced the following day along with the participating blogs for that day.

Two prizes will be awarded on the last day of the hop. One will be for Friday’s comments and another will be chosen from all the comments left throughout the week. So….if you miss a day or time deadline your comments will still count for a chance to win a $25 Impression Obsession Gift Certificate! Both Friday winners will be announced on the IO Blog on Saturday, July 18th.

All of the new stamps you’ll be seeing on the hop are available NOW! at www.iostamps.com


Today I thought I would share a holiday card using two new clear sets.  One is called Spread Christmas Cheer, and it contains the saying and the little jingle bells.  The other is called Snow Flourish and it contains the snowflake border background.

To make the cards, I stamped the snowflake border repeatedly onto white cardstock with a light blue ink.  I embossed the bells on metallic gold paper in gold embossing powder and then cut them out.  To finish the card, I rounded some corners, popped up the bells with some foam tape, and added my saying.

Items Used:

Don't forget to check out the other designers!



Wednesday, July 15, 2015

Impression Obsession Blog Hop Day 1

Welcome to the 2015 Impression Obsession Fall/Winter Release Blog Hop!

We have some beautiful new stamps to share AND Gift Certificates to give away!

The hop will start each day with a list of participants on the Impression Obsession Blog at 6am EST. Each day pay us a visit here and then head over and see our fabulous IO Design Team’s projects with our new stamps on their blogs (only one comment per blog per day please). Comment as you hop. Each comment that you leave gives you a chance to win!!!

The more blogs you visit each day… the better chance you will have to win a $25 Impression Obsession Gift Certificate!!!

Every day (Monday July 15th – July 17th), one of the IO designer blogs will be chosen randomly and a winner will be selected from comments on that blog at 10pm CT. The winner will be announced the following day along with the participating blogs for that day.

Two prizes will be awarded on the last day of the hop. One will be for Friday’s comments and another will be chosen from all the comments left throughout the week. So….if you miss a day or time deadline your comments will still count for a chance to win a $25 Impression Obsession Gift Certificate! Both Friday winners will be announced on the IO Blog on Saturday, July 18th.

All of the new stamps you’ll be seeing on the hop are available NOW! at www.iostamps.com


I hope you are in the mood for new products from Impression Obsession. There gorgeous new designs forFall and winter as well as great sayings and fun image to color (like the ones I used today).

I love the new birdie saying for a couple of reasons. First, it is much larger than others I have seen and therefore really stands out on the card. Second, it can be finished on the inside for a variety of occasions. A little birdie told me....it's your birthday, you're having a baby, you got a promotion, you needed a hug, etc...

For my card, I stamped the hexagons and bird onto watercolor paper and then colored them with Peerless watercolors. I then cut out the bird, popped it up on my card with foam tape and added the saying.

Items used:

Psst C17072

Bird D17072

Hexagon from a Balzar Designs cling set called Summer 3144-LG

Don't forget to visit the other designers and leave comments for chances to win!

 

Anna Wight
Daniela Dobson
Dina Kowal
Ellen Taylor
Jeanne Streiff
Karen Amidon
Kittie Caracciolo
Laura Fulcher
Vicki Garrett

 

 

 

Monday, July 13, 2015

Memory Box Blog Blitz

Hi guys.  Today is my day to post over on the Memory Box Outside the Box blog.  There is a brand new release of products for Fall and the holidays, so be sure to visit that blog for ideas and chances to win prizes all week! You can also find all the instructions to make this card.  :)

http://davebrethauer.typepad.com/outsidethebox/2015/07/more-halloween.html




Thursday, July 2, 2015

Christmas in July


Today I get to tease you a bit and share a card using an image that isn't available quite yet.  Impression Obsession will be having their Fall/Winter release soon, and this is one of the images.  It is called Tree Collage (L13383) and I will be using it in one of my upcoming Christmas classes. 


For the card, I let the image itself do most of the work.  It is highly detailed, so I used the Olympia Green Versafine to pick up of the elements of the image.  I colored the ornaments with colored pencils and then added a bunch of PanPastel chalk.  You can't see from the image, but I added some metallic gold chalk to the outside edges so that it would have a nice festive sheen.  The tree was very dark and uniform in color, so I went in with a really bright chatereuse green chalk and added it between the branches to give it more dimension and highlights.

Be on the lookout for new designs from Impression Obsession.  There will be a huge new release very, very soon! 

Don't forget to visit the other designers.  There might be another new release image (or two) to see: