Impression Obsession Challenge "Have a Heart"

Hello crafty friends,

Created this floral heart card for the current Impression Obsession "Have a Heart" challenge.

I used a heart die to create a faint outline of a heart, so i have a shape to follow when stamping the flower clusters from the Sweet Bunny stamp set.  I watercolored all the flowers and the inside of the heart.

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Scrapy Land - Challenge 130

Hello crafty friends,

I used the Lawn Fawn Mini Picture Frames to create the two cards I'm featuring in this post.

My blue card is a slim one 8x4 with a distress inked background and a combination of negative and positive die cut snowflakes from the Elizabeth Craft Designs Winter Sweater die set.   The cute animals stamped onto the centers of the picture frames are from Purple Onion Designs by Stacey Yacula.  I kept both the frame and the center of the frames together with a little tape on the back, but colored the centers with the same distress ink.  I love purple, so added a pop of it to each stamped cutie.  A few purple nuvo drops finished this card.

My purple card is slightly bigger than an A2 card.  I once again distressed inked the background and the centers of the die cut frames.  This time I used all four of the mini picture frame die cuts and I pop up the outer frames with foam tape.  The stamped cuties on this card are from the Hello Bluebird Snowball Flight stamp set.

Both card backgrounds were sprayed with Tattered Angels Pearl Glimmer Mist after distress inked.

As always, thanks for stopping bye.... I hope you'll join us for this challenge.  One winner... selected randomly will receive a $15 gift code to Scrapy Land.  Top three and honorable mentions will be selected by the Designers.  Until next time... take care

Impression Obsession - Love is in the Air Challenge

Hello crafty friends,

I'm obsessed with the Garden Birdhouse and haven't put it away since it arrived in the mail.  When I realized that I could make the current IO challenge theme (love is in the air) work with this stamp, I got busy making this card.

I started with a tiny heart stencil which i used to get soft pink inked hearts followed by a pale blue in the background of my card.  Next I stamped the awesome branch twice to make a tall tree.  This branch stamp goes perfect with the bird house, which I stamped on a separate piece of mixed media paper, because i want it as a dimensional element on the card.   I wish I had the small bird die set, because they would have been a great addition to this card.

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Scrapy Land - Challenge 129

HAPPY New Year crafty friends!

I created a Happy New Year shaker card for our first challenge of the year.  I used the Alarm Clock die and the Merry Christmas (DIE330-R) die sets by Impression Obsession.  Unfortunately, the set w/the Happy New Year die is not currently available... If you are interested I recommend waiting for it to come back in stock, because I love that this die set also contains a Merry Christmas die.   But if you are looking for just a Happy New Year die, this one by Paper Rose is available,   

So happy to be home relaxing today!  Of course, card making is on the agenda.  Other than when you sit down to make a card for someone or something specific, how do you make cards?  Do you sit down and stamp a lot of images for later coloring?  Do you stamp and color one image at a time?  Would love to hear how to tackle card making.  I do a mixture of the two... if I have a card design in mind, I will sit down and work on making it.  It can involve stamping and coloring or die cutting.  I almost always die cut or color more than I need, so I'm left with random pieces... NEED to find a way to organize these pieces in 2020!  Also, challenging myself to actually mail the cards I make.  As I type this post, I STILL haven't mailed out the Christmas cards I made this year!

Thanks for stopping bye.... I hope you'll join us for this challenge.  One winner... selected randomly will receive a $15 gift code to Scrapy Land.  Top three and honorable mentions will be selected by the Designers.  Until next time... take care.