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2014 Impression Obsession Fall/Winter Release Blog Hop Day 4!

Before we start today's hopping fun.... we have a Fall/Winter Release Blog Hop Day 2 WINNER!

Congratulations.....carmen g

Please email Jeanne to claim your Gift Certificate!

 

Welcome to the 2014 Impression Obsession Fall/Winter Release Blog Hop Day 4!

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

 The hop will start each day with a list of participants on the Impression Obsession Blog at 6am EST. Each day pay us a visit here and then head over and see our fabulous IO Design Team’s projects with our new stamps on their blogs (only one comment per blog per day please). Comment as you hop. Each comment that you leave gives you a chance to win!!!

The more blogs you visit each day… the better chance you will have to win a $25 Impression Obsession Gift Certificate!!!

Every day (Monday July 28^th – August 1st), one of the IO designer blogs will be chosen randomly and a winner will be selected from comments on that blog at 10pm CT. The winner will be announced the following day along with the participating blogs for that day.

Two prizes will be awarded on the last day of the hop. One will be for Friday’s comments and another will be chosen from all the comments left throughout the week.

So….if you miss a day or time deadline your comments will still count for a chance to win a $25 Impression Obsession Gift Certificate!

Both Friday winners will be announced on the IO Blog on Saturday, August 2nd.

If you have any questions please email Jeanne.

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

www.iostamps.com

*** Please note***

We are having issues with comments on the Impression Obsession blog so you are not required to post a comment here. Winners will be selected from a participating IO Design Team Member’s blog each day.

Today's hop list!

 Anna Wight

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

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In case you missed it (remember only one comment per day) here are links for previous days:

2014 Impression Obsession Fall/Winter Release Blog Hop Day 1

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

2014 Impression Obsession Fall/Winter Release Blog Hop Day 2

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

2014 Impression Obsession Fall/Winter Release Blog Hop Day 3

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

2014 Impression Obsession Fall/Winter Release Blog Hop Day 3!

Before we start today's hopping fun.... we have a Fall/Winter Release Blog Hop Day 2 WINNER!

Congratulations..... Paulette S

Please email Jeanne to claim your Gift Certificate!

Welcome to the 2014 Impression Obsession Fall/Winter Release Blog Hop Day 3!

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

 The hop will start each day with a list of participants on the Impression Obsession Blog at 6am EST. Each day pay us a visit here and then head over and see our fabulous IO Design Team’s projects with our new stamps on their blogs (only one comment per blog per day please). Comment as you hop. Each comment that you leave gives you a chance to win!!!

The more blogs you visit each day… the better chance you will have to win a $25 Impression Obsession Gift Certificate!!!

Every day (Monday July 28^th – August 1st), one of the IO designer blogs will be chosen randomly and a winner will be selected from comments on that blog at 10pm CT. The winner will be announced the following day along with the participating blogs for that day.

Two prizes will be awarded on the last day of the hop. One will be for Friday’s comments and another will be chosen from all the comments left throughout the week.

So….if you miss a day or time deadline your comments will still count for a chance to win a $25 Impression Obsession Gift Certificate!

Both Friday winners will be announced on the IO Blog on Saturday, August 2nd.

If you have any questions please email Jeanne.

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

www.iostamps.com

*** Please note***

We are having issues with comments on the Impression Obsession blog so you are not required to post a comment here. Winners will be selected from a participating IO Design Team Member’s blog each day.

Today's hop list!

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

*******************************************

In case you missed it (remember only one comment per day) here are links for previous days:

2014 Impression Obsession Fall/Winter Release Blog Hop Day 1

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

2014 Impression Obsession Fall/Winter Release Blog Hop Day 2

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

2014 Impression Obsession Fall/Winter Release Blog Hop Day 2!

Before we start today's hopping fun.... we have a Fall/Winter Release Blog Hop Day 1 WINNER!

Congratulations..... Diane Jaquay

Please email Jeanne to claim your Gift Certificate!

Welcome to the 2014 Impression Obsession Fall/Winter Release Blog Hop Day 2!

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

 The hop will start each day with a list of participants on the Impression Obsession Blog at 6am EST. Each day pay us a visit here and then head over and see our fabulous IO Design Team’s projects with our new stamps on their blogs (only one comment per blog per day please). Comment as you hop. Each comment that you leave gives you a chance to win!!!

The more blogs you visit each day… the better chance you will have to win a $25 Impression Obsession Gift Certificate!!!

Every day (Monday July 28^th – August 1st), one of the IO designer blogs will be chosen randomly and a winner will be selected from comments on that blog at 10pm CT. The winner will be announced the following day along with the participating blogs for that day.

Two prizes will be awarded on the last day of the hop. One will be for Friday’s comments and another will be chosen from all the comments left throughout the week.

So….if you miss a day or time deadline your comments will still count for a chance to win a $25 Impression Obsession Gift Certificate!

Both Friday winners will be announced on the IO Blog on Saturday, August 2nd.

If you have any questions please email Jeanne.

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

www.iostamps.com

*** Please note***

We are having issues with comments on the Impression Obsession blog so you are not required to post a comment here. Winners will be selected from a participating IO Design Team Member’s blog each day.

Today's hop list!

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

*******************************************

In case you missed it (remember only one comment per day) here are links for previous days:

2014 Impression Obsession Fall/Winter Release Blog Hop Day 1

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

 

 

2014 Impression Obsession Fall/Winter Release Blog Hop!

Welcome to the 2014 Impression Obsession Fall/Winter Release Blog Hop!

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

 The hop will start each day with a list of participants on the Impression Obsession Blog at 6am EST. Each day pay us a visit here and then head over and see our fabulous IO Design Team’s projects with our new stamps on their blogs (only one comment per blog per day please). Comment as you hop. Each comment that you leave gives you a chance to win!!!

The more blogs you visit each day… the better chance you will have to win a $25 Impression Obsession Gift Certificate!!!

Every day (Monday July 28^th – August 1st), one of the IO designer blogs will be chosen randomly and a winner will be selected from comments on that blog at 10pm CT. The winner will be announced the following day along with the participating blogs for that day.

Two prizes will be awarded on the last day of the hop. One will be for Friday’s comments and another will be chosen from all the comments left throughout the week.

So….if you miss a day or time deadline your comments will still count for a chance to win a $25 Impression Obsession Gift Certificate!

Both Friday winners will be announced on the IO Blog on Saturday, August 2nd.

If you have any questions please email Jeanne.

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

www.iostamps.com

*** Please note***

We are having issues with comments on the Impression Obsession blog so you are not required to post a comment here. Winners will be selected from a participating IO Design Team Member’s blog each day.

Today's hop list!

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

 

Special Friend by Jeanne Streiff

Lovely fresh colors in this card from Jeanne Streiff usings: D16022 Flower Basket, C9490 Special Friend, F6548 Small Gingham & CC119 Cover-a-Card Daisies

Have a great day!

Bloom by Jeanne Streiff

Fresh flowers from Jeanne Streiff!

Jeanne's card uses card uses: F9353 Rose Tin, A9322 Dainty Bloom, E13253 Steam Flourish, CC177 Wooden Plank

Patchwork Roses by Dina Kowal

Love this card from Dina Kowal using Smile, Dainty Rose 1 and Dainty Rose 5.

For my own amusement, I'll let you know that this card started off as an accident. I stamped and colored a full panel background on label paper, die cut it into squares using the 7/8" Sizzix Grid Works die, and... then realized that I had done all my work on the liner instead of the adhesive-backed side. However... it turned out that I was able to use the liner squares, and the bonus was that I still had 9 lovely die cut squares to work with.  Boom!

I used another liner paper to line up the squares side-by-side, then did my coloring, using watercolor and distress markers. I used 3 new I.O. stamps: Smile, Dainty Rose 1 and Dainty Rose 5. I stamped the roses randomly across the grid and colored using Distress Markers,blending lightly with water.

The squares are adhered to Ivory Inchie Art Squares from Inchie Arts. I love the sweet, perfect matboard border that shows around each sticker.

I used Old Silver Inka Gold by Viva to add some shine to the squares, scored and assembled panels, and - done! This is a great quick card that could be done with any type of background, or even a large scenic image.

 

Have a great day!

Ahoy by Vicki Garrett

We have a pretty card today from Vicki Garrett using the new H1960 Roped Ship stamp.

 

Have a great day!

New Impression Obsession Challenge - Nautical/Beach!

Welcome to our new challenge -  Nautical/Beach!

  Get inspired by the wonderful Impression Obsession  Team (listed below). 

  When you've finished checking out our DT creations, please join us by posting your own challenge project at the bottom of this post!

  IO Blog – You are Here

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

Follow the guidelines below to enter challenge and have a chance to win a $25 Gift Certificate for use in our online store. Good luck!

  Challenge Guidelines

 Use all IO dies/stamps (please list stamp names and/or item numbers on your blog or gallery entry with a  link to Impression Obsession). Other nesting dies may be used for card shapes & mats.

  Your entries have to be new (no back dating older projects). 

  You may use this entry with multiple challenges (no more than 5) but this challenge must be listed first and it cannot be combined with other projects in the same post - unless those projects also follow the rest of our challenge guidelines.

  You may enter more than once but each entry needs to be be in a separate post.

  Use a direct link to your project (no general links ) to enter at the bottom of this post.

  Challenge will be open until Tuesday, 5th at 7 p.m. Central Time. Winner announced August 6th. Winner must respond within one week of the day the challenge ends to collect prize.

 

Winner!

We have a winner! 

Thanks to all the players of the "Colors of Summer" Challenge!

Such beautiful projects! We have the BEST challenge players!

Our winner is... Cheryl Lea

Please email Jeanne for your Gift Certificate info.

Here is Cheyl's pretty card using F1805 Gardening Tools.

Have a great day!

Old Friend by Laura Fulcher

Beautiful colors in this card by Laura Fulcher using Tree F7715 and the sayingOld Friend B5400.

Have a great day!

Design Team Feature Thursday - Dina Kowal!

Our Featured Design Team member today is...Dina Kowal!

 To see Dina's full project and how she made it, click HERE

Here's a peek... now doesn't that look interesting?

Have a great day!

 

 

Beach Day by Karen Amidon

We have a beautiful beach card to share today from our newest Impression Obsession Designer Karen Amidon using the Shell Die Set, Pail die and the Grass Die.

Have a great day!

Happy 4th of July!

Happy 4th of July!

Have a safe (and fun!) holiday!

We have a fun set from Daniela Dobson today using K2198 Stars.

Have a great day!

Impression Obsession Challenge - Colors of Summer!

Before I get to our latest challenge I wanted to let you know that we have a new IO Designer.

Please welcome Karen Amidon!

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Welcome to our new challenge -  Colors of Summer!

  Get inspired by the wonderful Impression Obsession  Team (listed below). 

  When you've finished checking out our DT creations, please join us by posting your own challenge project at the bottom of this post!

  IO Blog – You are Here

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

  Follow the guidelines below to enter challenge and have a chance to win a $25 Gift Certificate for use in our online store. Good luck!

  Challenge Guidelines

 Use all IO dies/stamps (please list stamp names and/or item numbers on your blog or gallery entry with a  link to Impression Obsession). Other nesting dies may be used for card shapes & mats.

  Your entries have to be new (no back dating older projects). 

  You may use this entry with multiple challenges (no more than 5) but this challenge must be listed first and it cannot be combined with other projects in the same post - unless those projects also follow the rest of our challenge guidelines.

  You may enter more than once but each entry needs to be be in a separate post.

  Use a direct link to your project (no general links ) to enter at the bottom of this post.

  Challenge will be open until Tuesday, July 15th at 7 p.m. CT. Winner announced July 16th. Winner must respond within one week of the day the challenge ends to collect prize.

 

We Have A Winner!!!

We have a winner! 

Thanks to all the players of the "Are We There Yet" Challenge!

Such beautiful projects! We have the BEST challenge players!

Our winner is... lisa808

Please email Jeanne for your Gift Certificate info.

Here is Lisa's clever project:

Have a great day!

Be Happy by Vicki Garrett

Vicki Garrett share an pretty card using DIE059-N Fancy Butterfly.

Have a great day!