Friday, July 17, 2020

Impression Obsession Fall/Winter Release Day 3


Welcome to the Impression Obsession Fall/Winter Release Celebration!

Welcome to day three of the Impression Obsession Fall/Winter Celebration! Each day during the celebration (July 15th - July 17th ), you can find a list of participants on the Impression Obsession Blog at 6am. Every single blog will have a $25 gift certificate to give away for the event - so the more you comment through our Release Celebration the more chances to win! All comments for all of the event days will be open until Sunday July 19th at midnight CT. All winner will be announced on Tuesday July 21th.
All of the new stamps and dies are available now! You can find them all HERE


Greetings friends.  It is the last day of the fall/winter release celebration, but don't worry, the design team will be continuing to post samples of the latest release.  After posting one day of Halloween and one of Christmas, I am finishing with a couple of Hanukkah samples and one card for fall.

My llamakah card makes me laugh.  I have said it before, and I will say it again, but I sure do love a pun.  To make the card, I stamped the llama onto 140lb cold press watercolor paper with black Versafine ink and then colored him with Zig Clean Color real brush markers and a waterbrush.  I finished by adding the "punny" sentiment.

Impression Obsession Items Used:
Llamakah E12313
Happy Llamakah C12312


Next, I want to show you one of the new backgrounds.  It is called Slant Background, and it is just one stamp.  I used one color of ink on the stamp, but the various density of dots makes it appear as though I used multiple colors of ink.  It is simply Versafine Majestic Blue ink.  I even stamped the sentiment in the same blue ink.

To finish the card, I added a white frame die cut and a blue checkerboard frame die cut.

Impression Obsession Items Used:
Oy to the World C12315
Slant Background L13950
Large Frame DIE860-WW
Checked Frames DIE805-YY



Finally, I made a fall card simply because the sentiment made me laugh.  I'm waiting for (and fearful of) the day Alexa has these powers.

The background was created using the Boxwood Cover a Card background.  I added various dye-based inks to the stamp, spritzed it with water and stamped it onto watercolor paper.  Without reinking the stamp, I spritzed it onto another piece of watercolor paper.  Each time you do this, the colors get softer and the image gets less and less defined.  I chose the background that I thought worked best for the card and then popped up a sentiment and added my rake and leaf dies.  The rake and leaves actually come from the same set.

Impression Obsession Items Used:
Sentiment from a clear set called Rake the Leaves CL1039
Oak Leaves and Rake die set DIE201-K
Boxwood Cover a Card CC258
Cute Scalloped Rectangles DIE975-V

Thank you so much for visiting me the past three days.  I hope you found something that inspired you!

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Thursday, July 16, 2020

Impression Obsession Fall/Winter Release Day 2


Welcome to the Impression Obsession Fall/Winter Release Celebration!
Welcome to day two of the Impression Obsession Fall/Winter Celebration! Each day during the celebration (July 15th - July 17th ), you can find a list of participants on the Impression Obsession Blog at 6am. Every single blog will have a $25 gift certificate to give away for the event - so the more you comment through our Release Celebration the more chances to win! All comments for all of the event days will be open until Sunday July 19th at midnight CT. All winner will be announced on Tuesday July 21th.
All of the new stamps and dies are available now! You can find them all HERE


Greetings friends.  I shared Halloween cards yesterday, so today I want to focus on Christmas.  If you make Christmas cards, have you started yours yet?  For my first card, I am sharing something that came together really quickly.  I started with a 140lb piece of watercolor paper and dabbed it into a puddle of Colorburst powders (watercolor powders) that had been spritzed with water.  I set that aside and let it dry.  If you were making lots of cards, I would watercolor full sheets of watercolor paper and then cut them into pieces to make cards.

Next, I cut out the snowflake in white cardstock, added it on top of the white strip of paper and cut out two trees from two different colors of green cardstock.  I saved the inside branches of the tree when I cut out the die, colored them with Copic markers that coordinated and then glued them back into the trees.

As a finishing touch, I added a sentiment that comes from a large collection of Christmas words and then added a few rhinestones to the snowflake.

Impression Obsession Items Used:
Snowflake Frame DIE1033-O
Three Trees DIE1038-E
Sentiment from clear set called Christmas Words CL1044



I know Christmas is about more than cookies, but I must confess to being partial to the cookies!  I love the new baked cookies die.  How cute is it?!  I also really like the new sentiment that pairs well with it.

Tips for using the cookies die...  I cut out the cookies using kraft colored cardstock and then shaded the edges lightly with a brown colored pencil to give them a bit of dimension.  The die adds little dots to the cookies to look like chips, but I went ahead and dotted the cookies with a brown micron pen to make them show up really well.  I used the dots created by the die as a die and then added a dot of color to each one.

For the background, I used the Damask Cover a card stamp.  It had leftover die-based ink on it, so I spritzed it with water to reactivate the ink and then stamped it on the paper.  Because I used just a little bit of watered-down ink, the background has a softer look than full-strength ink.  You could also use a patterned paper for the background.

Impression Obsession Items Used:
Baked Cookies DIE1004-S
Sentiment from clear set called Sweater Weather CL1037
Damask Cover a Card CC081



Speaking of cookies...how about Mrs Claus with a cookie?  I often see good Santa stamps, but not as many with Mrs Claus.  She was a lot of fun to color.  I stamped her onto 140lb watercolor cardstock with Versafine ink and then colored her with Zig Clean Color markers and a waterbrush.  I also stamped my plaid background the same way and then colored it with coordinating markers.  It would be a lot faster to use patterned paper, but I didn't have anything that matched, and one of the nice things about making your own backgrounds is that you can customize them any way that you want.

Impression Obsession Items Used:
Mrs. Santa E12300
Dotted Argyle Cover a Card CC175

Thanks for stopping by to see my Christmas cards. I hope to see you tomorrow!

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Wednesday, July 15, 2020

Impression Obsession Fall/Winter Release Day 1

Welcome to the Impression Obsession Fall/Winter Release Celebration!
The Impression Obsession Fall/Winter Celebration starts today! Each day (July 15th - July 17th ) you can find a list of participants on the Impression Obsession Blog at 6am. Every single blog will have a $25 gift certificate to give away for the event - so the more you comment through our Release Celebration the more chances to win! All comments for all of the event days will be open until Sunday July 19th at midnight CT. All winner will be announced on Tuesday July 21th.
All of the new stamps and dies are available now! You can find them all HERE

Greetings friends!  Today I wanted to show you three different Halloween cards using the new Fall/Winter stamps and dies.  I absolutely love making Halloween cards!

I don't think my first card is what Jeanne had in mind when she designed the sentiment, but I knew instantly that I wanted to do a play on words with the "boos." I combined the new  Boos sentiment with the new Two Ghosts die.  For the background, I used a Cover a Card background in purple Versafine ink onto a purple notecard.  For the layers, I diecut dark purple and lime green cardstock with the Cute Scalloped Rectangles die set.  Finally, all of the coctails and cocktail embellishments come from the Mixed Drinks die set.  It is hard to tell from the photo, but I added some clear glaze pen to the cocktails to make them look like glass.

Items Used:
Boos A5709
Two Ghosts die DIE1040-G
Mixed Drinks Set DIE 185-H (currently on sale)
Cover a Card Fusion 1 CC109        


I fell in love with this Linday Ostrom image of Trick or Treaters.  They are just so much fun to color!  I decided to go with Copic markers to get a variety of costume color and skintones.  Once again, it is hard to tell from the picture, but I added clear gel pen to two sets of wings and sparkly glitter glue to two sets of wings.  It's for Halloween.....there has to be some bling!

Items Used:
Trick or Treat 2 (sentiment) C21353
 


For my final card, I colored several skulls using Zig Clean Color pens and a waterbrush.  I also created a background using two different Cover a Card patterns.  I started with a grey notecard and stamped the Small Quatrefoil on top with grey ink before adding the Grid pattern using black ink.  Does anyone else enjoy building their own backgrounds out of various patterns?

Impression Obsession Items Used:
Skull 1 C12257
Skull 2 C12258
Small Quatrefoil Cover a Card CC125


Thank you so much for stopping by today.  I hope to see you again tomorrow! 

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Thursday, July 2, 2020

IO Challenge- Summer Flowers


Greetings friends.  It is time for another challenge.  This one is all about summer flowers.  Want to join in the fun?  Check out the post on the Impression Obsession blog.  You even have a chance to win a gift certificate!

Today I wanted to share a card I made using the Large Solid Circle as a background.  I find it to be a nice backdrop for any stamping you want to add.  Remember when shadow stamping was a big thing?  This is my tribute to that era.

To add the flowers and leaves, I stamped some directly onto my card and some onto white cardstock and then colored them with a combination of Copic markers and Prismacolor pencils.  I chose colors that were nice and bright for summer.  The flowers and leaves are a combination of images from two clear stamp sets by Lindsay Ostrom.  Her images are always so much fun to color. Next, I cut out some of the flowers and popped them up with foam tape and then added my sentiment and some crystal jewels.  Simple!  What is your favorite summer flower?

Impression Obsession Items Used:
Large Solid Circle F6940
Flora and Fauna CL1025
Flower Bits CL1024
Living the Life (set of 3 cling sentiments) 3217-MD  Sentiments in the set- Living the Art Life
Living a Creative Life, Living the Pink Life