New Impression Obsession Spring Stamps and a Gift Certificate Too!

Starting today, January 24, and through January 29, DT members will be previewing Impression Obsessions NEW IMAGES for Spring each day on their individual blogs.  IO is offering a $25 Gift Certificate to be won in a drawing on Sunday, January 30.  Now for the best part!!  The WINNER will be shopping with the NEW IMAGES in the Online Store!!  The new images are in the online store Here.

The rules on how to play for a chance to win the Gift Certificate are HERE.

Now for the card I created using all NEW Spring images.  The words are from Kalani Allred's Clear Stamp Set True Blue Friend.  It can also be purchased separately in Red Rubber as Best Things.  It was stamped with Brilliance Galaxy Gold and then put through my Cuttlebug with Spellbinders Beaded Ovals.  The beads on the edge were painted with Twinkling H2O's Autumn Skies.

The flowers are Alesa Baker's  Daffodil Bouquet. It was stamped with Brilliance Galaxy Gold and painted with Twinkling H2O's Buttercup, Lemon Drop, Orange Peel, Dreansicle, Olive Green, and Autumn Skies.  The centers were accented with Stickles Diamonds and 2mm white pearl stickers.  It was mounted on the die cut with pop dots.

The background was created using the Mega Mount^TM, Cover-A-Card^TM, Thick and Thin, and Memento Pear Tart on White cardstock.  Then I stamped over that using Cover-A-Card^TM Daffodils and Ancient Page Turquoise.  I am also finding that stamping with the Cover-A-Cards^TM on leftover designer papers is a great way to color coordinate and get rid of remnants at the same time.  Also, because of the left overs from the 5.75X5.75 pieces I have some to help with my envelope and inside of the card too!

As a finishing touch to the card, I added 3-7mm white pearls to the bottom right-hand side of the card.  I am going to add the daffodils (flowers only without the stems) to the inside left hand side of the card and the lower left-hand side of the envelope.

Now check out the DT members creations on their blogs below for today's part of the hop:

• Dina Kowal
• Jeanne Streiff
• Julie Koerber
• Laura Fulcher

The following days with links will be on the IO Blog.  Good luck in the drawing and I hope you enjoy the new designs.  Thanks for stopping by to say hi!  

 Shirley

Well, I'm Back And It's The Color Purple

First let me say all of the images I am using today will be released at CHA on January 29.  Also, when they are available in the on-line store it will be announced on the IO blog.

It's the Impression Obsession Color Purple Challenge!  I stamped the background using Cover-A-Card^TM  Heart Swirls  and Memento Grape Jelly ink.  I stamped Leigh Hannan's Cabbage Roses with Gold Galaxy ink and then heat embossed it so it could rise (See my tutorial for emboss without embossing powder in my left side bar).  The Roses were painted with Twinkling H20's Wild Plum and English Lavender. 

I did paper piecing by stamping the image again on white cardstock and went over it with the Heart Swirls.  Then I cut out the pieces and mounted them on the cup and saucer.  I shaded the background with Twinks Olive Green.

I placed one of the Spellbinders Curved Rectangles over the image and marked of what part of the roses I wanted to overlap as shown.  Then I trimmed the roses with scissors across the top, not going past the marked points.  I placed the die over the image making sure the roses were above the die, so they wouldn't be cut when I put it through.  I tuned the image over with the die in place and put it back through to emboss it. I took a piece of the purple cardstock and put it through to cut and then emboss with the same die.  I trimmed around the white die cut at the emboss edge and then mounted it on the purple die cut as shown.  The corner adornments are flattened gold bead caps with 2mm pearls mounted with Glossy accents.

The words are one of Alesa Baker's new stamps A Loving Note.  They were stamped using the Memento Grape Jelly and then mounted using one of the technique with one of the smaller dies from the same set.

The ribbon is May Arts and the pearl heart stick pin is from a Making Memories stash.  The flower finding is a left over from items I bought at a convention.

I mounted the main image using pop dots, followed by the ribbon underneath.  Then I did the Bow-Easy with the bow and mounted it, added the finding with the pearl heart stick pin, followed by the words.........and done with the card front.

I took the left over ends from the Heart Swirls background and lined the inside of the card and left lower hand corner of the envelope.  That's just one of the things I love about the Cover-A-Card^TM  background stamps.  Another is that, while using the Mega Mount with them, I have never had a bad impression.  This time I wanted a little aged look, so I took my Niji waterbrush and went over them here and there, blotting after with a Kleenex.

Supplies:

Image: Impression Obsession - Cover-A-Card^TM Heart Swirlsnd, Cabbage Roses, and A Loving Note.

Paper: Neenah Classic Crest Solar White Super Smooth cardstock, Purple Cardstock

Inks: Memento Grape Jelly, Brilliance Galaxy Gold, Twinkling H2O's Olive Green, Wild Plum, and English Lavender

Accessories: Niji Waterbrush, Glossy Accents, Spellbinders Mega Curved Rectanglels, 2MM from Hong Kong and 1 5mm pearl sticker, 4 Gold Bead Caps flattened, 1gold random flower finding, May Arts Ribbon, Bow-Easy, Making Memories pearl heart stick pin.

Next you can have some more fun by checking out the IO Blog to see what other stampers are doing to join the challenge and why.  Anyone who emails me a card using at least one IO stamp will have it posted on the IO blog and will also have a chance to win $25 worth of free stamps.   

• Daniela Dobson
• Deborah March
• Dina Kowal
• Jeanne Streiff
• Jenny Gropp
• Julie Koerber
• Kathy Menzies
• Kelli Richardson
• Laura Fulcher

Don't forget, if you have any questions, you can email me by going to near the top of the left-hand side bar.  I hope you enjoy the cards you find and I hope your week is turning out great.  Thanks for stopping by to look and share everybody!!

 

 Shirley

 

A Very Importatnt Message

First, I must tell you all thank you for your comments on my last post.  I do have 2 more cards on the way, but in the mean time I came across a more pressing need. 

I was blog surfing and came across someone who needs our help.  I was at JAK Heath's Creating Beautiful Things blog.  She is hosting a drive for funds to help Katie Emmerson Renz (a fellow stamper) of Bellingham, Washington.  Katie has been diagnosed with stage 4 Stomach Cancer and is currently undergoing her only option which is Chemotherapy. 

In addition to the drive for donating, JAK is offering a free digital download and online stores are providing prizes for a drawing.  Anyone who donates will also have their name put into the drawing once for each donation.  Each donation (£15) through the PayPal link on JAK's site is worth a little less than $25 US dollars.  If you are not into the digital or the drawing you can simply click on the PayPal link below.  You will probably still get an email from JAK for the digital and I would almost bet your name goes into the drawing too.

PayPal

Katie's blog is My Paper Haven.  Katie is married to Kevin with 3 beautiful boys.  The twins, age 5, are Nate and Will and Hunter is 10 years old.
 
I visited Katie's blog and was very impressed with how she is documenting her journey and how very courageous she is about sharing it.  My heart and soul goes out to her for her strength and to her family and their needs too during this difficult time.
 
I will be back soon.  Hope your weekend was great and that you have a super week to come.  We are having a "Color Purple Challenge" on the IO blog this next Thursday and you will definitely see me by then if not before.  Thanks for stopping by to look and share.

 Shirley

I'm Back....At Least For Today And It's An IO Challenge

I know I haven't posted in like forever!! I apologize to anyone I have worried. I have been busy with personal things and still am, but when I saw the new IO images, I knew I wanted to do at least this challenge. I have really missed posting and stamping, but most of all blog hopping to enjoy the view. LOLOL

IO is going to be releasing their new Spring stamps at CHA the end of this month. You may want to get in touch with your local store or stay tuned for them in the online store HERE. There are tons of new images and Cover-A-Card stamps, not to mention the really wonderful new individual and sets of phrases and words. Enough already, here is my card. :-)


The image I used is not available yet. It is Leigh Hannan's Heat Hive. I fell in love with the bees and the hearts behind it too. You can't tell by looking, but I cut the heart out and then also cut out the flower with the leaves and curlicues. They are mounted with pop dots.

Behind that is a Spellbinders die. I used the die and while it was still on the white cardstock I stamped it with Cover-A-Card^TM Swirls. The background is DP from eons ago mounted on white cardstock. I used the smaller die for the bottom tag and hand wrote the word.I painted the image with Twinkling H2O's. People may think they are not available anymore, but they can be purchased through Creative Imaginations HERE. I used 2, 3, and 5mm pearl stickers to adorn the image and the edges. The ribbon is from Michaels.  Don't take my word for it, but check out the IO Design Teams blogs for more new images!!!

• Daniela Dobson
• Deborah March
• Dina Kowal
• Jeanne Streiff
• Jenny Gropp
• Julie Koerber
• Kathy Menzies
• Kelli Richardson
• Laura Fulcher
• Shirley Ross

And that's not all. If you send a card to me for the current challenge you could win a $25 gift certificate to use in the online store. We have a drawing at the end of the challenge Friday night at 9 p.m. Random.org chooses the winner.

I almost forgot to tell you this post almost didn't happen. When I checked in to post around 10 p.m. last night it wouldn't let me even start a post. I had to go to the "Help" forum and 3 other people were having the same problem. Luckily a person there knew how to get around it and here I am. Pheewwwwww!~!

So, that's about it. I want to wish you all a late Merry Christmas and a very Happy Healthy New Year. I keep hoping I'll have more time to stamp and maybe I will. Hope your week is turning out great and thanks for stopping by to look and share.

 Shirley