Tuesday, April 2, 2019

Die blog Hop- Day 2


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 
 
 
Today I went with an animal theme.  There are so many cute new animal dies, and I have enjoyed seeing what the other designers do with them.
 
For my first card, I used the new Llama die paired with the new Stitched Tag die.  The Stitched tag comes with the tag die as well as the banner die to go on it.  I cut out the scarf of the llama using felt to give it a bit of fuzziness and added a sentiment from the Llama Love clear stamp set.
 
For my background, I created it using the Wooden Plank Cover a Card in Baby Blue ink and added the Watercolor Dots stamp in Sky Blue and Navy ink (I rotated the stamp so that the dots wouldn't overlap each other).  Those three Impression Obsession inks are a light, medium and dark color that are meant to coordinate with each other.  I really like making my own backgrounds using the various ink trios.

As a finishing touch, I added some navy twine and my sentiment.


For my second card, I just had to use this really cute frog die.  I absolutely love him.  He just so happy.  It amused me so much that the die even comes with the speckles/warts to use for decorating him.  I also used the new Whimsical Scalloped Tag die as well as one of the banners from the Pinked Stitched Banner set.  

The background was created by using two vastly different Cover a Card patterns.  One was the Grid Cover a Card and one was the Rose Leaves Cover a Card.  Sometimes I love to grab two patterns that are really different from each other and see what happens when they are combined.

Items Used in the Cards
Card 1:
Llama DIE790-Q 
Stitched Tag DIE798-Y
Llama Love MC715
Wooden Plank CC177
 
Card 2:
Frog DIE788-V

 

28 comments:

Anonymous said...

Love these cards! Thanks for reminding me that tags make good layers!

Helen said...

These critters are so cute! Like what you did with them singly on these cards. tfs

TLady said...

SO CUTE!!!! LOVE the "LLove Ya" sentiment, on your lama card! ;) SO CUTE on BOTH of your cards! AND YES, the layers are GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!! ;)A SUPER JOB!!!!!!!!! ;)

sharon g said...

Your happy frog is precious!!!! I like the shades of green you chose.

Ellie said...

Wow!! So cute. Your background on the second card is delightful. I had to look up the grid background stamp. Unique combo!

Carol Dee said...

Sweet cards, especially liking the Llama! (He/she is adorable and the color is perfect.)

Kelly Kuharik said...

I love frogs so much and that little guy is so cute!!

Denise Bryant said...

These cards are just adorable! Darling llama with the felt scarf, and the cutest frog! These dies are so fun!

Colorado Crafter said...

Cute animals always make cute cards!! This is such a fun new release!!

Dee Earnshaw said...

such cute cards - thanks for sharing:)

Lori Kobular said...

Two adorable and fun cards! I am in love with the llama and that frog makes me giggle!

Talitha said...

These cards are so much fun. The llama is my favorite.

Kathy Krug said...

Cute animals and cards.

Verna Angerhofer said...

What great dies and I love the way you used them to make those darling cards. I think they are so fun!

MadeByMeghanK said...

I love these critter dies! The frog is soooo cute! GREAT JOB

Becca Yahrling said...

These are both so very cool and I love the felt scarf on the handsome llama.

Barb P. said...

Nice cards!! Love the layering and colors.

Meg McAlister said...

These are both cute. I love the combination of papers you chose to go with each design.

Cinnamon Hawks said...

Oh my goodness these are adorable! Super cute cards! Love the colors!

Mary Holshouser said...

A happy hello to you, too.
Cute cards. Love the
bundled up llama.
thanks for sharing
txmlhl(at)yahoo(dot)com

Jeanne Beam said...

Adorable cards! Love how you put the critters on the tags.
Thanks for sharing...

DJ said...

I’m my gosh I just love that frog card. What an adorable critter.

Shari Czerwinski said...

Llove the Llama! :) Cute frog too!

kReN said...

So love these cards! Clean and simple and cool.

Kirsty Vittetoe said...

Your cards are just so fun.

Sue D said...

Cute critters. Love the felt scarf on the llama.

Kelsey Thomas said...

These are adorable!

Jean said...

OMG _ love these!!