{ April Cherry Pie kit from Scraptastic Club – sketch }

Here is my first layout I created with Cherry Pie April kit and Add-on from Scraptastic Club using our monthly sketch challenge.

I used the embellishments in the kit to replicate the circles in the sketch. This kit is very fun with lots of bright colors.

Here is the sketch that Susan created. Make sure you join us at Scraptastic Club Subscribers Facebook page to share your creations.

Make sure you visit our blog for May 2016 kit sneaks. You can go and visit the website and make your kit choices now.

This is what I am getting.

Have a great Thursday!

{ Follow Your Dreams –Therm O Web }

I am sharing a card I created for Therm O Web using our Glitter Dust Frames.

I added Deco Foil Adhesive to the card edges and the butterfly and applied gold foil.

I have a step by step blog post on how I created this card on Therm O Web blog. Stop by and take a look.  “Follow your dreams” sentiment is from Technique Tuesday April Memory Keepers Studio stamp set – Way To Go.

Have a great Wednesday!

{ Impression Obsession DT challenge – Happy Hellos }

Hi and welcome to our  Impression Obsession challenge – Happy Hellos. For this card I used circles and triangles paired with butterflies.

The Really Useful Stamps – Circles comes with circles and triangles and plus signs. Didn’t add any plus signs this time, but the stamp set is awesome. I die cut “hello” from orange cardstock and added the sentiment with black ink under it.  The colors came from Color Throwdown #389. I stamped and fussy cut the butterflies and sprinkled some color shine and sequins. I adhered the butterflies and sequins with Zots adhesive dots from Therm O Web.

Impression Obsession Stamps and Dies:
Hello stamp
Hello die
Really Useful Stamps – Circles
Solid Butterfly 1
Solid Butterfly 2

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Why don’t you come along and play with us. To enter the challenge go to the Impression Obsession Blog (all the details are there!).  Create a new project using  Impression Obsession stamps and post it on Impression Obsession Blog between April 21 – May 4. A winner will be chosen randomly to win a$25 gift certificate to the Impression Obsession store.

Make sure you check out what the rest of our DT created.

I hope you play along.

Impression Obsession Blog
Anna Wight
Daniela Dobson ---- you are here
Dina Kowal
Jeanne Streiff
Jenny Gropp
Karen Amidon
Kittie Caracciolo
Laura Fulcher
Vicki Garrett

Have a great Thursday!

{ April 2016 Card Kit from Scraptastic Club }

Hello. Today I am sharing my first three cards with our April 2016 card kit. The exclusive stamp set that comes in this kit is super adorable. I stamped one of the tea cups on watercolor paper and colored it with watercolor. I cut it out and adhered it to the card using foam adhesive. How adorable are those Tea Tag die cuts? This one says “miss you”. I added white twine to it and it really looks like a tea bag.  I exclusive stickers in the corner, sequins and some more stamping on the card.

For my second card I used the heart stencil that came in the kit and used modeling paste to add hearts to the front of the card. I wrapped yellow twine several times around the front and tied it into a bow. I added a little tea tag die cut. Thank you sticker is adhered to the card with foam adhesive.

 
For my last card I really liked that plus sign patterned paper that is in the kit. I used that as my base. I added several strips of patterned paper to the top with a sentiment sticker under it. I wrapped the twine several times around the card front and tied it into a bow. I added a flower sticker and sequins to the top border. I colored in come of the plus signs with yellow watercolor to make them pop.

That is all from me today. Have a great Monday!

{ Impression Obsession and Chameleon Markers }

Each Friday this month the Impression Obsession team will be sharing projects using Chameleon pens and the Chameleon team will be sharing projects using Impression Obsession stamps.

Be sure to visit the Chameleon Blog to see their teams projects and enter for a chance to win a set of 5 Chameleon pens!

I don’t own any real markers like this and I don’t typically color with them so I was really excited to try them out. I figured a butterfly would be pretty neat to color. I used Watercolor Butterfly for this card. It’s pretty big and I heat embossed it on watercolor paper and colored it with Royal Blue from the 5 pen Primary Tones Set. 

The small butterflies are from Sm. Butterfly Trio and I colored them with Summer Sun. I heat embossed them and cut them out after I colored them. The background is stamped with Gentle Branch that I colored with Grass Green. I colored the stamp and then stamped that way, and filled in some of the leaves. I added some Whipped Spackle with a mask and some color shine. The sentiment is from Happy Day stamp set.

Makes sure you visit Impression Obsession blog and Chameleon pens blog for more ideas and a chance to win some markers.

Supplies:

Watercolor Butterfly
Sm. Butterfly Trio
Gentle Branch
Happy Day
Chameleon Deluxe Set
Chameleon Primary Tones Set Of 5 Pens
Therm O Web Adhesive

{ April 2016 Memory Keepers Studio by Technique Tuesday }

Our April release of Memory Keepers Studio – Way To Go and Fresh Cut Studio – Fancy Flourish  (shipping 4/15). Plus, check out all that is new and available for March. Here is what I created with the set. I made it using some brand new supplies I received from Emma’s Paperie.

I used the Way To Go stamp set and Fancy Flourish die set for this card.

 

Here are some other cards I created with some of the new releases from Technique Tuesday.

Have a Great Day features our Great Day Owl stamp set and Circles steel dies.

Hello features Home Town Lowercase - DIY Steel Dies, Number Tabs - DIY Steel Dies and Chicks Rule.

Proud of you features our brand new Proud Owl.

You can find all our new releases on our website Here or watch a video of the new products.

Hava  great Tuesday!

{ Exclusive April 2016 kit from Elle’s Studio }

Exclusive April kit is ready for purchase now.
Check out our NEW Design team gallery. You can bookmark your favorites, leave comments and see close ups of our design team’s projects in our gallery.

Here are my April 2016 creations.

For a list of supplies used on all my projects, please visit my gallery.

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*It is available today, on the 10th, for $9.99 and then the price goes to $11.99 at midnight PST.*
*The kit is exclusive to Elle’s Studio and a limited edition – once the kit is sold out it is gone for ever!*
*Our add-ons are also limited and while supplies last, and are made to coordinate with the kit.*

All new products will be located here
April kit
Perfect Weekend Stamp
Today Acrylic
True Story Acrylic
Days of the Week Acrylic
Wood Veneer Labels 
Good Stuff Puffy Stickers
Yes Printables
April cut files

{ March 2016 Card Kit from Scraptastic Club–part 2 }

Hi! I have two more cards I created with the March card kit while I am waiting for the new one to arrive any day now. I have been using stencils on my cards quite often and I have recently moved them really close to my work area so that I can just open a drawer and they are all there. No more searching around for them. In addition, I keep my Whipped Spackle (my favorite modeling paste) near by, as well.

For this card I applied Liquitex Clear Gesso to the background. This provides the perfect "tooth" to the area, in this case, patterned paper. Once you add other mediums, like watercolor, it will not absorb into the paper. It stays on top and keeps it bright. Plus, it doesn’t soak through the paper. What I have at home is Liquitex Clear Gesso that I got at my local craft store. I applied Whipped Spackle using the triangle stencil that came in my March Drops Of Jupiter Kit.

For the second card I just layered the bits and pieces on top of patterned paper and added some stamped stripes from the stamp set. I sprinkled some color shine from my stash.

Here is what our April 2016 card kit looks like. Fun!!

Have a great Friday!!!

{ Impression Obsession DT challenge – Birthday Wishes }

Hi and welcome to our  Impression Obsession challenge – Birthday Wishes. For this card I used all my new stamps and dies.

I found the colors in the Color Throwdown Challenge #387: aqua, yellow, orange and red. Fun mix, right. I started my card with a Graph Paper background stamp. I added tow pieces of washi to the top, orange and aqua. Under that I stamped Chalk Dot Border with Aqua ink. I have been using my diamond stencil from the StencilGirl Products a bunch lately so here I go again with Whipped Spackle.

I added some circles that were laying around from my Sihouette cuts. “Wishes” was die cut from red cardstock and then I added a cabochon flower. I wanted a little sparkle on the card so I added some dots of Deco Foil Liquid Adhesive and Gold Deco Foil.

Impression Obsession Stamps and Dies:
Wishes stamp
Wishes die
Graph Paper
Chalk Dot Border

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Why don’t you come along and play with us. To enter the challenge go to the Impression Obsession Blog (all the details are there!).  Create a new project using  Impression Obsession stamps and post it on Impression Obsession Blog between April 7 – April 20. A winner will be chosen randomly to win a $25 gift certificate to the Impression Obsession store.

Make sure you check out what the rest of our DT created.

I hope you play along.

Impression Obsession Blog
Anna Wight
Daniela Dobson ---- you are here
Dina Kowal
Jeanne Streiff
Jenny Gropp
Karen Amidon
Laura Fulcher

Have a great Thursday!

{ Mother’s Day Deco Foil Gift Idea And Tag }

Hi. I have a brand new project on Therm O Web blog today with step by step instructions that I would like you to check out. It’s a great gift idea for Mother’s Day or any occasion.

I used Deco Foil for this printed quote and made a little tag to go with the gift. Step by step instructions with photos  and Therm O Web supplies are on the blog.

{ Perfect Paper Crafting and Impression Obsession }

We are teaming up with Perfect Paper Crafting today and I am sharing a card I created with my Perfect Paper Crafting Mini Layers Tool and Perfect Cuttiting Mat. Link to all the product I used at the end of the blog post.

I started my card with a piece of patterned paper that I covered with Gesso. I love using gesso, especially to tone or mute the background.

After gesso dried I stamped Vintage Briar Rose Background. I ised my heat tool to speed up the process.

My favorite border size is 1/16 and 1/8. I adhered my patterned paper to cardstock and line up the Perfect Layers Mini tool up along the edge. Perfect Layers is designed with a patented “catch lip” that simply "bumps" up along the paper.  My favorite part is that it has a stainless-steel edging for durability and smoothness of cutting. No more cutting into my ruler with an exacto knife. I used The Perfect Little Cutting Mat for all my cutting. It’s 8x10, double sided - Metric (cm) on one side and Imperial (inches) on the other and printed grid lines - includes card template size.

My pink cardstock is 1/16” border and the gold stripe paper is 1/8” border. After those two, I added another 1/16” border with black cardstock.

Befor I could leave my base alone I had to add some whipped spackle with my new Striped Circles Stencil from StencilGirl Products.

The last step is die cutting all the bits and pieces and adhering them to the card. Special attention was given to my daisy flower. I used Spiral Daisy Die. Once the flower was formed I added Deco Foil Adhesive and once it dried for a bit I added Gold Deco Foil. For the Large Solid Leaf Stem I used leftover gold foil and die cut the leaves from that.

Stop by our Impression Obsession blog and Perfect Paper Crafting blog to see what other Design Team members created and to win some awesome goodies. ($25 gift certificate and
mini ruler set with mat).

Impression Obsession dies
Spiral Daisy
Large Solid Leaf Stem
Feather Set
All-in-One Frames – Circles
Miss You

Perfect Paper Crafting Mini Layers Tool
 Perfect Cuttiting Mat

Gold Deco Foil
Deco Foil Adhesive
Therm O Web Adhesive