Monday, April 1, 2019

Die Blog Hop- Day 1

Welcome to the Impression Obsession Spring Die Release Celebration!
The Impression Obsession Spring Die Release Celebration starts today! Each day (April 1st - 3rd ) 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 7th at noon CT. All winners will be announced on Monday April 8th.  Good luck, and I hope you are inspired!
All of the new dies are available now! You can find them all HERE 

Greetings friends.  Today I wanted to share a couple of Western-themed cards that I made using the new release of Impression Obsession dies.  The first one is probably my favorite.  Of course, I am a sucker for landscape stamps and dies.  It is called  Desert Scene, and it comes with three dies to create a layered desert landscape.  All you have to do is change the colors of each layer to achieve vastly different looks.  I layered all of my desert dies onto a background that I created with watercolor paper, some Color Burst powders and a bunch of water.

To finish the card, I stamped my thank you kindly onto another one of the new dies that comes from a set called Pinked Stitched Sentiment Banner.  That die set comes with three different banners of various sizes that are perfect for framing whatever sentiment you want to add to the card.


When I showed my second card to my mom, she said it was a good card for a man.  It is, but I also wanted to have a card for anyone who needed to "cowboy up."  This is the sentiment I used for the inside of the card:



To make the background for the card, I used glossy inkjet paper and then sponged it with a coffee filter layered with Color Burst powders as well as a bunch of water.  The coffee filter diffuses the ink so that you don't get splotches of paint on your paper when the powders react to the water.

I could have layered my decorative background behind the cut out cowboy, but I decided to cut it out with the die and paper piece the whole scene together instead.  Paper piecing with the glossy paper gave the finished card an embedded enamel look that I didn't get when just layering the paper behind the black silhouette.

I hope you were inspired today and will look forward to the other die cut release days!

Card 1 Supplies:
DIE782-YY Desert Scene

Card 2 Supplies:
DIE780-YY Sunset on Horse
D13150 Courage Is

24 comments:

TLady said...

WOW, Laura! BEAUTIFUL SKY for the South Western scene you've created! JUST LOVELY with the cactus & the mountains! AND your second card is FABULOUS AS WELL with the sky you created for your cowboy! SPECTACULAR JOB & I LOVE the inside sentiment also! ;) John Wayne WORKS SO WELL with this! LOL ;) A SUPER JOB!!!!!!!!!!

Carol Dee said...

Oooo I love the southwest. Your cards with those super cool dies make me yearn to visit again. Great job.

Jeanne Beam said...

Such awesome cards! Love the western theme and great colors.
Thanks for sharing...

Colorado Crafter said...

A great sentiment for all to remember! Always love seeing southwestern themed craft items as long as they are true depictions of the beautiful area!

Verna Angerhofer said...

What great dies these are for making scenes. I just love the way you used them on these gorgeous scenes you did.

Becca Yahrling said...

Your backgrounds showcase these new dies brilliantly.

Denise Bryant said...

Gorgeous Desert Scene cards! Awesome colors and details!

Leanne said...

Fab masculine cards.

sharon g said...

Your cowboy scene with his horse is great. I like how you made the silhouette.

Kelly Kuharik said...

Wow these are stunning!

Lori Kobular said...

OMG!! Your cards are stunning! I absolutely adore the one with the cowboy on the horse, the background you created looks amazing with the black die! The sky you created on the desert scene card is so beautiful!!

Dee Earnshaw said...

stunning cards - LOVE the background on the first card - the scene is delightful:)

MadeByMeghanK said...

Stunning scenes! I love the colors and the silhouette

Barb P. said...

Nice background coloring!!

Meg McAlister said...

I love this - I don't have any western themed items in my collection of supplies, I might have to change that now. I especially love the sky effect on your top card.

Mary Holshouser said...

Spectacular card.
Bold colors and strong
die cuts. thanks
for sharing.
txmlhl(at)yahoo(dot)com

DJ said...

Your backgrounds are so perfect for the silhouettes. I especially love the Desert scene card. The sky is so dramatic.

Jean said...

Such lovely cards!

Shari Czerwinski said...

Love these silhouettes! Especially the cowboy and sentiment.

kReN said...

Love these "wide open spaces" and "western themed" cards. The colors are wonderful and the projects are amazing.

Sue D said...

Love both of these scenes you created.

Kirsty Vittetoe said...

I’m blown away!! They are super cool!

Kelly Kennedy said...

Wow, these are such striking cards!

Kelsey Thomas said...

Love these masculine cards. :)