IO Product Focus- Dies

 

Greetings friends. Today the IO design team are sharing ideas for things to do with dies You can see what all the designers have created with these links:

Laura Williams
Angela Bode
Anna Wight
Dina Kowal
Giovana Smith
Jeanne Streiff

For my card today, I had to make a Christmas card using the Labrador die since I have a very special older tripod Labrador in my life named Midnight, and he needed to be represented.  Here is the man himself:

To make the card, I started with dark grey cardstock and then edged it with darker grey ink. If I had started with black cardstock, you wouldn't have been able to see any of the details. I also had to sponge some white ink on the muzzle because Midnight has become quite grey around the mouth as he has aged, and that had to be represented as well.

To finish the card, I had to add some accessories from the Labrador die set as well as a Santa hat for the season.

I would like to wish everyone the very merriest of holidays from myself and Midnight!

Impression Obsession Items Used:

Labrador DIE1021T

Santa DIE898Z

Winter Fun Paper Pack PP008

Wonderful Christmas clear set (sentiment) MC1164

Pinked Stitched Sentiment Banner DIE814U

Wacky Stitched Circles DIE837YY

Impression Obsession Fall/Winter Die Release- Day 2

Greetings friends.  Today is day two of showing you a project using some of the new release of dies from Impression Obsession, which you can view here-  IO New Release

For today's card, I used then new Santa on Roof die as well as a sentiment from the Christmas Stitched Words die set.  The great thing about a solid silhouette die is that it is really easy to cut out and glue to a card.  I wanted a quick and easy card that could be replicated in mass quantities, so I glued my black silhouette to a blue watercolor background.  As a finishing touch, I popped up the die cut sentiment with some foam tape.

Impression Obsession Items Used:
Santa on Roof DIE736-V
Christmas Stitched Words DIE 764-YY

And now for the fun stuff!  I have a $10 Impression Obsession gift certificate to give away on my blog.  I will select a random winner from the comments left on today or yesterday's posts to win the gift certificate.  The comments will be left open till Saturday, September 29th at 12pm EST to give people a chance to enter and I will post the winner on my blog on Monday, October 1st.  Good luck!

Hint...there are other IO designers sharing ideas on Monday and Tuesday with a chance to win a $10 gift certificate.  To see a list of designers posting today, please visit the Impression Obsession blog.  Good luck!

Llama Llove

Hi guys.  It was my turn on the Outside the Box blog today, so I shared one of their clear set images that includes several llamas with coordinating sayings.

 
I added just a hint of color around the clouds and the ground using my Zig Clean Color Brush markers and a waterbrush.  Sometimes I find that you don't need to color the entire sky or ground to give the impression that they are there.  Plus, it is much faster if you don't color the whole piece of paper!


If you want to see the full post, you can find it here.


I also released I forgot to share my last post from the Outside the Box blog on my personal blog.  For this card, I used the new penguin die as well as some of the new Valentine's Day dies:

If you want to find the entire post for that card, you can find it here.

IO Blog Hop- Day 3

Welcome to the Impression Obsession Fall/Winter Die Blog Hop!

We have some beautiful new dies to share AND a Gift Certificates to give away!

The hop will run for 3 days (10/24/16 - 10/26/16) with a list of participants on the Impression Obsession Blog each day at 6am EST. Visit our fabulous IO Design Team’s blogs (only one comment per blog per day please) for a chance to win one of THREE $25 Gift Certificates!

The more designer blogs you visit and leave a comment on the better chance you will have to win!!!

Comment entries will be open until 9pm CT on Sunday October 30th and all winners will be announced Monday October 31st. Good luck!

All of the new dies you'll be seeing on the hop are available NOW!

Greetings friends.  Today is the last day of the Impression Obsession Blog Hop with the new dies.  I have shared Christmas and Halloween cards, so now it is time to focus on Thanksgiving.

To make this card,  I used the new Patchwork Leaves DIE491-U and colored them with an assortment of PanPastels.  For the background, I placed the new Geometric Lines Background DIE449-YY over some like brown patterned paper.  Finally, I added the Thankful D19244 sentiment and colored the letters with an orange Prismacolor pencil.  

Thanks so much for stopping by this week!  I hope the blog hop helped inspire you!

Don't forget to "hop" to the other designers:

Anna Wight
Dina Kowal
Jeanne Streiff
Jenny Gropp
Karen Amidon
Kittie Caracciolo
Laura Fulcher
Vicki Garrett

IO Blog Hop- Day 2 Halloween/Fall

Welcome to the Impression Obsession Fall/Winter Die Blog Hop!

We have some beautiful new dies to share AND a Gift Certificates to give away!

The hop will run for 3 days (10/24/16 - 10/26/16) with a list of participants on the Impression Obsession Blog each day at 6am EST. Visit our fabulous IO Design Team’s blogs (only one comment per blog per day please) for a chance to win one of THREE $25 Gift Certificates!

The more designer blogs you visit and leave a comment on the better chance you will have to win!!!

Comment entries will be open until 9pm CT on Sunday October 30th and all winners will be announced Monday October 31st. Good luck!

All of the new dies you'll be seeing on the hop are available NOW!

 

 

Greetings friends.  Today is all about Halloween/Fall dies.  I really enjoy making Halloween cards, so today I chose to focus exclusively on Halloween and will show you Fall tomorrow.  

 

For my first card,  I used a Candy Corn monster along with one of the new background dies.  Every year I can't resist making a candy corn inspired card despite the fact that I don't actually eat candy corn.  The monster's name is Cornelia D19290 and she was colored with Copic markers.  The new dotted background is called Circle Background DIE 456-YY and was colored with the same colors as the monster.  If Halloween isn't your thing, you could put any image you like in the center and add colored dots in the background.  I have a feeling that the dotted background could be used for pretty much any occasion.

Copic Markers- Y15 Cadmium Yellow, YR16 Apricot, Y38 Honey, C1 Cool Grey 1

My second card is probably the creepiest Halloween card I have ever made.  I have several friends who love the "Walking Dead" that I had in mind when I designed it.  It uses the new Zombie Edger DIE453-U die as well as the Drip Edger DIE451-I die.  I made the drip into blood, but it could just as easily be used to make paint drips or melting ice.  To finish the card I used the Turn Back B14481 sentiment.  

Don't forget to follow the others on the hop!

Anna Wight
Daniela Dobson
Dina Kowal
Jeanne Streiff
Jenny Gropp
Karen Amidon
Kittie Caracciolo
Laura Fulcher
Vicki Garrett