Category Archives: Impression Obsession

Happy Birthday Card

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Hello stampers! I’m popping in today to show you a card I made for my husbands birthday. He likes the color blue so I made sure to use that color. I did not want it to be to over the top, but wanted some hearts on it so I used some die cut hearts for embellishments.

The embossing folder is an old one from Cuttlebug – probably one of the first I bought way back when! I cut out the square from the front panel using a die. Made the frame by using two square dies, one smaller than the other and cutting it out – see below.

The heart dies are from Impression Obsession and I think are called Heart Stems. The sentiment is from an old Papertrey stamp set.

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Candy Jars

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Hello stampers!  Here along the northern gulf coast the Mardi Gras festivities are finally over and we are now into the Easter season.  I’m sure you will be seeing tons of cards and paper projects with cute bunnies, eggs and tons of flowers.  An occasional 4 leaf clover will pop up as well!

My card today is a group of candy jars filled with sweet treats in pastel colors.  Perfect for spring.

The candy jar image is from Impression Obsession, the sentiment is from an old stamp set that I had in the “sell” pile, but I am reconsidering that!  The jars were colored with copics and I am still trying to learn how to color glass objects.  I tried this image with light blue tones for the jars but the blues just overwhelmed everything else, so I stuck with shades of grey.

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getting ready for warm weather

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I have not blogged for awhile – just busy with life, that’s all!!    We’ve been doing some traveling and keeping busy with other things and my crafting has taken a bit of a vacation.

So…now is the time to get back into the swing of things.  I’m teaching a copic class this Saturday at the Gulf Coast Crop-n-Shop weekend at the Emerald  Coast Convention Center in Fort Walton Beach and I thought I would show one of the cards we are making:

The sandcastle image is from Impression Obsession and the sentiment from Papertrey.  This was a relatively easy image to color.  I used copics E30, E21 and E26 for the main image, along with G82, G85 Y11 and R27 for the fence, grass, sun and sand pail.  The sky was sponged using Memento Summer sky ink.  This could easily become a holiday card – I love to use beachy type images for my holiday cards that I send to my family up north.

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fly away

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Hello friends!  I hope your week is starting off well. Summer is in full swing here..we have family coming in this weekend to spend a week with us and next week will be filled with lots of beach time.

This card was created for Impression Obsession’s Fly Away challenge – details shown HERE.

This clean and simple card uses three images from IO’s clear set #CL112 called Flowers.  It has several wonderful floral and leaf images.  I used one to make the butterfly!

First I stamped the two flower images on white cardstock and lightly colored with copic markers.  To make the butterfly, I stamped the image on a scrap piece of paper, colored it in and then cut it out.  By turning the image on its side I created a side view of the butterfly wings.   Here’s a look.

All I had to do was draw the body in with a black pen and I was good to go!  The sentiment was handwritten on a scrap of Basic Grey paper.  I think it’s nice to handwrite sometimes instead of using a stamped sentiment.

The base card was embossed with a cuttlebug embossing folder.

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sentiment stamps

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Today’s card uses a sentiment stamp as the focal point.

 

I made the front cover using patterned paper from the K & Company Tim Coffey Travel line.    This pack has some great travel, beachy, map type paper and living in Florida I know I will make great use of it!

Once I made the front I cut a circle off center using nestabilities dies and stamped the sentiment – from Impression Obsession.   A few small shells were glued onto the lower right corner.

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using graphic images for backgrounds

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Today I am using a graphic image strip to create a background.  Here’s the card:

The background panel with the white design uses an image from  Papertrey’s Background Builders – Retro set.  I stamped the image 7 times on a piece of transparency using Staz-on white opaque ink.   Lining each row up was a breeze with the Fiskars Stamp Press – if you don’t have one of these get one!!  It is perfect for doing this type of pattern.

The sentiment, from Impression Obsession, was stamped with SU Teal ink  The patterned paper is from American Crafts Shoreline series, the cardstock from Mark’s Finest Papers.  The little starfish sticker is from K and Company and was the perfect match in color to the cardstock.

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tgif!

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TGIF!!  Here is a quick and easy card you can make using some of those scraps you have lying around.

 

 

The images were stamped with Memento Rich Cocoa (the blossom colored with a copic marker).  Basic Grey Infuse paper was used for the cut shapes.  I used a cheery lynn die to create them.

 

Have a wonderful weekend!

red, white and blue

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It’s not the Fourth of July yet, but I am starting a bit early with these traditional patriotic colors.   The card was made for the Impression Obsession Red, White and Blue challenge – details HERE.

 

I stamped the image using Memento Tuxedo black in and colored with prisma pencils.  The red background cardstock is also stamped with a canvas cover-a-card stamp.  I added a die cut banner, some pearls (that were colored with copics to make them brown) and paper pierced along the right.

The images I used are:  Three Decoys (H1040) and Canvas Cover-a-Card (CC073)

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Sunset Scene

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I’m playing along today with Impression Obsession’s  “Oldie’s But Goodies” challenge – details found HERE.

I started by stamping the main image on neenah white cardstock with Memento Tuxedo Black in and colored with prisma pencils.  Then I sponged the sunset with Memento Dandelion and Cantaloupe and the water with Summer Sky inks.  It was mounted on blue cardstock from SU.  The base card is SU cardstock as well and the small dragonfly image (also from IO) was stamped in the background with versamark ink.

Impression Obsession images used:  #3014-LG Change The World Set

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southwest style

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When we lived in California we took many vacations in the southwestern US.  Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Utah all have incredible natural landscapes and historical treasures.    I loved our visits there – they were filled with the most wonderful food, and scenery as well as great shopping for silver jewelry and native american crafts.    This card celebrates those wonderful vacations.

The main image is from Digi Design House, the digi side of TAC.  If you are in the market for a great western set, this image is from their Western set and it has several great images.  It was printed out on copic paper  – thought I was going to  color it with copics but at the last minute decided to use my Prisma pencils.  Surprisingly, copic paper works fabulous with pencils!   No solvent like OMS or baby oil was used – just the pencils.  It gave me an opportunity to try my skills at shadows and highlights.  I like how the shadows in the folds of the blanket and on the ground came out.  The sky was sponged with memento summer sky ink.

The base card  was stamped with Impression Obsession’s Screen cover-a-card stamp.  The woodgrain panel is stamped with a Papertrey image. 

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