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Design Team Feature Thursday - Karen Amidon

August 28, 2014

Our Featured Design Team member today is... Karen Amidon!

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

Here's a peek:

Have a great day!

Posted at 07:00 AM in Design Team, Techniques & Product Tutorials | Permalink | Comments (0)

Happy Holidays!

August 27, 2014

Holiday sweetness from Dina Kowal using Olivia and Life Stuff Sentiments.

Here's a closer look at the focal panel of the card - it's colored using Touch Twin Markers.

Have a great day!

Posted at 07:00 AM in Claudia Tenorio-Pearl, Design Team, dkdesigns | Permalink | Comments (0)

Birthday Cupcake Card Tutorial by Jeanne Streiff

August 26, 2014

Jeanne Streiff shares a cheery birthday card today using CL462 Sweet Treats CLEAR Set and the matching DIE113-Q Cupcake Die Set.

I started out by painting some simple stripes onto white cardstock with Shinhan Poster Colors.

Next I created a wash with the paints by adding water for my cupcake parts (this creates a matching but lighter more transparent color).

Assemble cupcake and stamp sentiment. Attach panel to white card with foam tape. Add a twine bow to top of card and a rhinstone to the center of the flower.

Posted at 07:00 AM in Alesa Baker, Design Team, Dies, Techniques & Product Tutorials | Permalink | Comments (0)

Impression Obsession Challenge - The Gift of Friendship!

August 21, 2014

Welcome to our new challenge - The Gift of Friendship!

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, September 2nd at 7 p.m. Central Time. Winner announced September 3rd. Winner must respond within one week of the day the challenge ends to collect prize.

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Drumroll Please.... We Have a Winner!

August 20, 2014

We have a winner!

Thanks to all the players of the "Clean & Simple" Challenge!

Such beautiful projects! We have the BEST challenge players!

Our winner is... Kecia W.

Please email Jeanne for your Gift Certificate info.

Here is Kecia's fun card using the Goldfish stamp.

Have a great day!

Posted at 07:00 AM in Leigh Hannan | Permalink | Comments (1)

Beach in a Box Tutorial by Karen Amidon

August 19, 2014

Wowzers! What a fun project from Karen Amidon!

Karen uses the following IO products: A5364 Sunny Smiles, DIE109-C Single Brach Chair, DIE186-G Plane with Banner, DIE177-K Beach Chairs, Die176-E Mini Shells, DIE182-K Mini Beach Fun Set, DIE101-D Ocean Border, DIE068-A Cloud Die Cut Trio, DIE191-E Palm Trees

There is so much going on inside this small pop-up box card! The Plane that's flying through the Cloud Trio actually comes with a banner that is trailing behind it. I thought about adding, "Eat at Joe's Crab Shack" but I wanted the card when fold to fit into an A2 envelope!

This is the view of the front when the box is closing flat.

For the beach scene the Palm Trees were placed in the back along with some waves created with the Ocean Border Die.

You can see the different layers here with the side view. The sand castles have a light cover of sand on them. I have used a waxed rope for the handle on the pail. These dies and the shovel all come in the Mini Beach Fun Set. I also tucked a few Mini Shells in the pail.

The Beach Chair that I used inside the box comes as a set of two. Soon I will be sharing a really fun card I made with those! The Single Beach Chair on the flap comes as shown with the pair of flip flops...loving these!

Here's the back of the box with its flaps down. This shows that darling Mini Shell Set. I used four out of the 7 shells that come in the full set. This sentiment seem to fit perfectly..."Sending Sunny Summer Smiles"!

Folding flat, ready to mail, and I'm dreaming of a beach trip!

Have a great day!

Posted at 07:00 AM in Design Team, Dies, Summer, Techniques & Product Tutorials | Permalink | Comments (6)

Beachy Birthday by Vicki Garrett

August 18, 2014

Vicki Garrett shares a groovy birthday card today using Greeting Set,Woody with Surfboard, Palm Trees, Sun and Moon, and Grass Border.

Have a great day!

Posted at 07:00 AM in Design Team, Dies | Permalink | Comments (2)

Perfect Pear by Karen Amidon

August 14, 2014

Karen Amidon uses Print Pear D9418, French ScriptH9396, Canvas CC073.

Have a great day!

Posted at 07:00 AM in Alesa Baker, Cover-a-Card, Design Team | Permalink | Comments (2)

Impression Obsession Challenge Clean & Simple

August 07, 2014

Welcome to our new challenge - Clean & Simple!

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, August 19th at 7 p.m. Central Time. Winner announced August 20th. Winner must respond within one week of the day the challenge ends to collect prize.

Posted at 07:00 AM | Permalink | Comments (2)

Winner!

August 07, 2014

We have a winner!

Thanks to all the players of the "Beach/Nautical" Challenge!

Such beautiful projects! We have the BEST challenge players!

Our winner is... Carmen G

Please email Jeanne for your Gift Certificate info.

Carmen used Impression Obsession Cattail Die, Sea Birds Die and Grass Border Die for her stunning card!

Have a great day!

Posted at 06:55 AM in Dies | Permalink | Comments (1)

Beach Window by Anna Wight

August 06, 2014

Gorgeous card from Anna Wight using the following Impression Obsession dies:

Dies: Clouds, Sea Birds, Square Shaker Frame, Border Duo 2, and Small Grass Border

Have a great day!

Posted at 07:00 AM in Design Team, Dies | Permalink | Comments (1)

Sweet Autumn by Jenny Gropp

August 05, 2014

Jenny Gropp shares a gorgeous project today!

Jenny used Spooky Trees #H7759, Square Shaker Frame Die #DIE002-Z, Border Duo 1 #DIE017-V, Circle Cut Out Border #DIE171-K, All Seasons #C3534 for her project.

When I saw the new Spooky Trees image I knew I'd be airbrushing! Love doing silhouette scenes like this! I used the Border Duo 1 Die to cut the edges of the card base to make it a little more interesting than a plain square card.

I used a circle punch to make a mask for the moon. An unusual color combo for sure!

I used a square nestie to cut out the scene and added the piercing around the inside edge of the die. I added the Square Shaker Frame die as an additional layer.

On the inside, I added a the Autumn Quote and the Circle Cut Out Border on the ivory liner.

other supplies:

Ink: Versafine Vintage Sepia
Paper: Neenah Classic Crest Natural White, Pink
Other: Seam Binding Ribbon, Spellbinder's Square Nesties, Bow Easy, Enamel Adhesive Embellsihments, Foam Tape, Sizzix Embossing Folder, Piercing Tool, Perfect Layer Rulers

Posted at 07:00 AM in Design Team, Dies, Fall, Gail Green, Kalani Allred | Permalink | Comments (1)

Fall/Winter Release Winners!

August 02, 2014

First of all I would like to thank each and every one of you for participating in our Fall/Winter Release hop! I hope you enjoyed it as much as we did!

Our Day 5 winner is ...Chrissie Harter

Our "extra" winner is ...Larissa Heskett

Here are all our winners!

Day 1 winner- Diane Jaquay

Day 2 winner - Paulette S

Day 3 winner - carmen g

Day 4 winner - Iris Soscia

Day 5 winner – Chrissie Harter

Extra winner – Larissa Heskett

Please email Jeanne within 1 week to claim your Gift Certificate!

Have a great day!

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2014 Impression Obsession Fall/Winter Release Blog Hop Day 5!

August 01, 2014

Before we start today's hopping fun.... we have a Fall/Winter Release Blog Hop Day 4 WINNER!

Congratulations.....Iris Soscia

Please email Jeanne to claim your Gift Certificate!

Welcome to the 2014 Impression Obsession Fall/Winter Release Blog Hop Day 5!

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