Thursday, March 31, 2016

IO and Distress Crayons


Greetings everyone.  I have been playing with Distress Crayons and my Impression Obsession stamps, so I thought I would share some of the results.

The first card used white ink from Hero Arts.  I liked how the crayons showed up on the black cardstock.



Impression Obsession Flourish 2 H5575
Impression Obsession Watercolor Butterfly F9768
Distress Crayon colors- Picked Raspberry, Mustard Seed


The second card involves a stencil, a round blender tool, and a Distress Crayon.

Impression Obsession Silhouette 11 G5561
Saying from Impression Obsession clear set CL599 My Friend
Distress Crayon- Peacock Feathers


I hope everyone has a great day!


Friday, March 25, 2016

Impression Obsession Die Blog Hop Day 2




  Welcome to the Impression Obsession Spring Die Blog Hop!
 
We have some beautiful projects to share AND PRIZES to give away! The hop will run for 2 days (3/24/16 – 3/25/16) with a list of participants on the Impression Obsession Blogs each day. Visit the fabulous Design Team Blogs on the list below (only one comment per blog per day please) for a chance to a Impression Obsession Gift Certificate!
 
The more blogs you visit … the better chance you will have to win!!!
Impression Obsession will be giving away a $25 Gift Certificates to two lucky winners!
Comment entries will be open until 9pm EST on Sunday March 27th and all winners will be announced Monday March 28th on the Impression Obsession Blogs
Good luck!
 
 
Yesterday was all about carrots.  Today it is all about strawberries.  I used a new Strawberry Basket die set (DIE 397-L) that includes the basket, six berry dies, and six berry top dies.  I cut out a ton of strawberries since anyone who is "berry berry special" would need a lot of berries.  
 
Here is a close up of my stash of berries:


And a close up of the basket detail and stamped background....


For the background, I used the Gingham Cover a Card Background (CC006) and stamped it in Colorbox Chalk Creamy Brown ink onto kraft cardstock.  I want to thank fellow designer Daniela for the inspiration because she recently mentioned that particular background to the rest of us, and the pattern was fresh in my mind when I made this card.  I use the gingham background for baby cards, Christmas, Halloween, and just about any occasion.  I thought it would be good for the country look of this card.  

Finally, I added a stitched green frame cut from the All in One Rectangles Frames Die 2 die and a saying from the Farm Fresh Clear set (CL655).   

Be sure to check out the other designers to see what they are doing with the new dies!
Today’s Hop List:

Thursday, March 24, 2016

Impression Obsession Die Hop Day 1




Welcome to the Impression Obsession Spring Die Blog Hop!

We have some beautiful projects to share AND PRIZES to give away! The hop will run for 2 days (3/24/16 – 3/25/16) with a list of participants on the Impression Obsession Blogs each day. Visit the fabulous Design Team Blogs on the list below (only one comment per blog per day please) for a chance to a Impression Obsession Gift Certificate!

The more blogs you visit … the better chance you will have to win!!!
Impression Obsession will be giving away a $25 Gift Certificates to two lucky winners!
Comment entries will be open until 9pm EST on Sunday March 27th and all winners will be announced Monday March 28th on the Impression Obsession Blogs
Good luck!





Greetings everyone!  I was definitely in a carrot kind of mood for day 1 of the hop.  I got into a die cutting groove and cut tons and tons of carrots.  I must have cut 40 carrots total even though I was only making one card. I went ahead and glued all of the tops and bottoms together so that when I want a carrot embellishment on future cards, I will have them ready to go. I have tried to get better about cutting extra of dies when I get out my machine, but 40 might have been a bit excessive.  The good news is that the carrot die (Carrot Set DIE403K) cuts 5 carrots and tops at once, so it really wasn't that much work. 

Since I planted some of the carrots in the dirt on the card, I left a few in front of the card so that you could see the entire die.  Here is a close up of the bunny (Catie O'Carrots Bunbun) and the die cut so that you can see the detail of the carrots better.  When you die cut them, it adds the little horizontal grooves to the carrot to make it look more like the real thing.


Finally, I added the Cover a Card Sky to the background with Hero Arts Soft Pool ink and added my saying (Easter Greetings) in black Versafine ink.

Be sure to check out the other designers to see what they are doing with the new dies!

Today’s Hop List: