IO Fall Die Hop Day 2

The Impression Obsession Fall Die Release Celebration starts today! Each day (August 31st/September 1st ) 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 Thursday September 5th at midnight CT. All winners will be announced on Friday September 6th.

All of the new dies are available now! You can find them all HERE

SALE!

DON'T FORGET!!!  There is a sale going on at the IO site through Monday.  The 25% off even includes the new dies.  If there is something that interests you, I would suggest getting it this weekend to make use of the savings.

For today's cards, I decided to go a bit inspirational.  After all, who doesn't need a little pick me up from time to time?

For my first card, I wanted to use the new Monarch butterfly die.  I didn't want to paper-piece this die because let's face it, there are a lot of holes!  Instead, I took a scrap piece of watercolor paper that I had painted with blue, brown and green watercolor paints and glued it behind the black butterfly outline.  I then cut out my die again out of kraft cardstock and took the four pieces of kraft cardstock that went around the outside of the butterfly and glued them onto my decorative watercolor paper as well.  I guess I did do some paper-piecing, but it was just the four large pieces around the butterfly and not all the tiny holes inside the butterfly.  Does that make sense?

As a final step, I popped up my butterfly with foam tape and added my sentiment.

For my second card, I did do some paper-piecing, but it was okay since the pieces were large.  I cut my flower out of black cardstock and then glued it onto a square piece of kraft cardstock.  I then colored the center of the flower with a yellow Copic marker.  It showed up really well on the kraft cardstock.  

Next, I cut out my flower again using watercolor paper I had colored with Colorburst powders.  I then paper-pieced the petals into the black frame.  To finish the card, I popped up the flower with foam tape and added my sentiment.

Impression Obsession Items Used:

Butterfly card:

Monarch Frame DIE864-YY

What If D13445

Floral card:

Daisy Frame DIE854-Y

Wildflower D17156

Don't forget to visit the other designers participating in the new release hop.  There are tons of chances to win prizes!

Impression Obsession Blog 

Angela Bode 

Anna Wight 

Daniela Dobson

Dina Kowal 

Giovana Smith

Ilina Crouse

Jeanne Streiff

Laura Fulcher (you are here)

Laura Williams

Lynda Pleckan 

Susan Wymer

Vicki Garret