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April 2018

Mega Sponsor Blog Hop!

April 23, 2018

 

Hop day

Hi there!

Today is the big day! We are excited to be part of this exciting event.

We have partnered with 17 other stamp and papercraft companies to do a special blog hop and will be giving away 18 prizes to 18 lucky winners!

 

Blog hop begins today, April 23 12 noon EST

Ends Friday, May 4 12 midnight EST

Winners announced: Friday May 11, 12 noon EST

 

Here's how you enter:

 

1) Follow this blog and each participating sponsor in the hop

2) Comment at each blog stop

 

2018 Mega Sponsor Blog Hop

 DeNami Design

 Flora and Fauna

 Lawn Fawn

 Pretty Pink Posh

 Mama Elephant

 Concord and 9th

Art Impressions

Our Daily Bread Designs

Doodlebugs WA

Taylored Expressions

 Reverse Confetti

 Winnie and Walter

 Impression Obsession Stamps - You are here!

 Avery Elle

 Technique Tuesday

Pink and Main

Impress

 Ellen Hutson LLC

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Graduation is just around the corner and we have some wonderful new dies for cards for your favorite grads! This card from Jeanne Streiff uses our new DIE682-P Congratulations and DIE673-L Grad Group Border dies on a colorful Color Burst background.

Congrats Jeanne_Streiff

Have a great day!

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New Impression Obsession Challenge - All That Glitters!

April 19, 2018

Challenge button

Welcome to our new challenge -  All That Glitters

  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 using Impression Obsession products at the bottom of this post!

If you have any problems linking or questions please contact Jeanne.

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!

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  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 company 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 in a separate post.

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

  This Challenge will be open until Tuesday, May 8th at 7 p.m.Central Time.

Winner will be announced May 9th.

Have fun and I hope you enjoy playing with us!

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 Hop list:

Anna Wight

Dina Kowal

Daniela Dobson

Giovana Smith

Ilina Crouse

Jeanne Streiff

Jenny Gropp

Karen Amidon

Laura Fulcher

Vicki Garrett

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Meet The Impression Obsession Artist! Dina Kowal!

April 16, 2018

Hi everyone! I'm so excited to be kicking off a series of Meet the Artist posts  to help you get to know the illustrators that create your favorite stamps!

I'm Dina Kowal, and you'll find my stamp art HERE - if you like thoughtful and inspirational quotes, quirky cute animals, sentimental silhouettes, floral and natural elements. layered sets and vintage collage, you're sure to find something you like in my collection!

 

 


I'm a wife and mom of 4 (ages 12-17), a proud introvert, insatiable creative, and happy homebody. I've been a designer for I.O. since 2008, and moved my stamp line to I.O. in 2012 - I love being a part of my favorite company, and I love enabling and inspiring YOU to create and encourage others in turn! I'm a deep old soul with a stubbornly young heart, and I think that comes across in my art, especially in sweet and playful silhouettes like this one...

Puppy Love Silhouette


I find beauty and humor in ironic and unexpected places, and I've found myself in unexpected places many times in my life - that theme comes out quite often in images like this one, which is part of a series of image I drew after our family had to move back to the States abruptly after 9 years overseas:

Hyacinth
 
 


I love animals - in fact, when I'm not stamping or creating stamp art, you'll find me working on commissioned pet portraits. For stamps, though, I love quirky animals that make me laugh - this booby is definitely one of my favorites!

Blue Footed
 

Speaking of quirks, a few of mine... 

  • I have a gift for spotting irony, randomness, and amusing typos.
  • I always wear fun socks - in fact, I pick them out in the dark so they're sure to never match my outfit!
  • I love words. And charts, especially color charts.
  • Whatever the coloring medium is, I need the big set.
  • I adore Winnie the Pooh (as A.A.Milne conceived him) and have always related to him most, though I always come out Owl on those silly quizzes. 
  • I love all kinds of music, especially crooners and WW2 era songs. 

Thanks for visiting today - you can find me stamping at Dina Kowal Creative or at Splitcoaststampers!


Thanks for stopping by!

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New Impression Obsession Challenge - Pink & Green

April 05, 2018

 

Challenge button

Welcome to our new challenge -  Color Challenge - Pink & Green

  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 using Impression Obsession products at the bottom of this post!

If you have any problems linking or questions please contact Jeanne.

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 company 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 in a separate post.

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

  This Challenge will be open until Tuesday, April 17th at 7 p.m.Central Time.

Winner will be announced April 18th.

Have fun and I hope you enjoy playing with us!

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 Hop list:

Anna Wight

Daniela Dobson

Dina Kowal

Giovana Smith

Ilina Crouse

Jeanne Streiff

Jenny Gropp

Kittie Caracciolo 

Laura Fulcher

 

Have a great day!

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