Are you ready for some fun?
The Impression Obsession and Flower Soft Design Teams are playing together for this hop!

As you make your way through the hop make sure you comment on each and every post. There will be 4 prize winners chosen randomly among the blogs:
Two $25 gift certificates from Flower Soft and two $25 gift certificates from Impression Obsession!!!
The prize winners will be announced on the Flower Soft Blog and The Impression Obsession blog on Wednesday August 18th. Good luck!

If you didn’t start at the beginning of the hop please go to the beginning at the Flower Soft Blog.

I started my project thinking I wanted to make a gift card holder, but as I was looking around for a place to photograph my card, it suddenly became Christmas decor instead! Funny how things like that happen, right? For this framed card, I used IO's Noel Doll stamp, colored it with Copic markers, then used Flower Soft in Polar White for the furry parts of the Santa suit. It works perfectly!

Want even more inspiration? Do you like video tutorials? How about Challenges? Make sure and check out both Flower Soft TV and the Impression Obsession blog!


****Next on the hop is Gini Cagle

Happy Easter!

Isn't this the cutest peacock you've ever seen? He's all dressed for Easter! It's time for an Impression Obsession challenge...this time celebrating Easter and I'm all ready for it. Well, I'm ready for spring weather, anyway...LOL.

This is a newly released image by Leigh Hannan and I loved it from the first time I saw it, knew it must be purples and blues! Be sure to stop by the IO blog for info on how to join the challenge and have a chance to win a $25 IO gift certificate. And don't forget to check out the design team blogs for some beautiful and clever creations.

Background Bonanza!

I'm a little late for this IO challenge, but here it is! The Cover-a-Card background stamp is called Flower Doodles(or Doodle Flowers, can't ever remember which is right--LOL). I've never used lavender and peach together, but it's pretty! Love this background---so fun to color.

If you haven't already, go check out the design team blogs and see what they came up with!

Shaker cards!

Finally, I'm able to participate once again in an Impression Obsession challenge. It's been crazy busy at work(I work at IO) and I would literally fall asleep sitting up when I got home at night..lol. Anyway, it's getting back to normal and since I made a few shaker cards for a sample board for work, I thought I'd just show them all at once :)

IO has a new product called "Shake It" pouches designed to make shaker cards much simpler as it already has adhesive on it. Let me tell you, I made one and then couldn't stop.. They are addicting and so much fun!! There are 5 shapes (right now...sshhh, surprise coming soon!) and they work so well with the over 4,000 IO stamps available.

I took some individual pictures very quickly one day and just realized that they are all awful. So luckily, I'd taken this group shot and it was passable, so I'm just going to post it. Hope you enjoy all of the cards from the design team today...be sure to visit the other designers' blogs for some great work!

Ready for Fall?

I don't know about you, but it's mighty hot here in Virginia these days and I'm very ready for some cooler weather. In fact, while I was making this card, I turned down the thermostat and was downright chilly to get me in the mood for fall and winter card making!

This card was made using a brand new release from Impression Obsession called Halloween Window and one of the new giant backgrounds called Cover-A-Card Thin. I finally tried the Prismacolor pencils with baby oil technique and I must admit that I *love* it!! Very easy and lots of fun! It's hard to tell in this photo, but I also used yellow Stickles for the face of the jack-o-lantern.

Hope you'll visit the rest of the IO ladies to see what they've come up with for this fall challenge! And be sure to visit the IO blog and participate in this challenge by making your own fall card, sending it to our blog hostess, Shirley and be entered in a drawing for a gift certificate to the IO store!

Merry Christmas in July!

It's that time again! The Impression Obsession team is celebrating Christmas this time around and we're using *NEW* holiday images. Fun, right? When I first saw these adorable penguins, I knew I *had* to use them right away. And the background is a brand new huge stamp, too! Go check out the IO blog to see more info on all of the backgrounds and the new awesome Mega Mount.

We have a new guest designer, too! Her name is Kathy Menzies and we're so glad she's with us!! Don't forget to visit Kathy and all of the team members for some amazing Christmas inspiration.




Stamps: Impression Obsession CC014 Cover-a-Card Fluff, CL245 Penguin Party, B7278 Skating Penguin

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, VersaMagic Purple Hydrangea

Copic Markers and Prismacolor colored pencils

Gold wire ribbon

We're looking shimmery!

The Impression Obsession Design Team is teaming up with Shimmerz all this week. It's an official IO/Shimmerz DT swap! Check out the fun and see what kind of sparkle these teams create when Impression Obsession stamps collide with Shimmerz paints!

We've enjoyed a week full of shimmery impressions and here's what I came up with! This is a brand spanking new IO image by Gary Robertson --- is this a cute gingerbread house or what?? I colored it in with my Prismacolor pencils, then used Angel Wings Shimmerz on the snow(or maybe it's icing??) and Gold Glimmer on the tree cookie out in front. I cut out the image and attached it with some double sided foam tape and layered it on some card panels. Very "sweet" and simple, just my style..hehehe...

Be sure to go check out the Shimmerz and IO blogs to see all of the beautiful work from the entire week! What a fun swap this was--hope to do it again!!

A big thank you to Stacey at Shimmerz from all of us at Impression Obsession!!