Just Thinking of You...

Happy Saturday Everyone 

Today is The Scrapbooking Queen's Post Day 

for the Great Impression Stamp Company

their store is up and running now and it looks awesome

Here The Queen used 2 of there adorable stamps on a sweet card...

Now who wouldn't want to see this sweet mouse in 

the house... or in your mail box...

He has a flower for someone special 

The Queen colored this with Copic Markers

and highlighted with her Royal White Gel Pen 

This sweet image was placed on My Minds Eye

designer paper... 

Just Thinking of You Sentiment is just 

one of the wonderful stamps to express your thoughts

You can get your own stamp at 

The Great Impression Stamp Company

Don't forget to visit The Scrapbooking Queen

Fabulous Friday~Frolicking Trio

Good morning!! Happy Friday to all of you!!! Have you seen the other posts from this week? If not then you are in for a treat today! We are soooo very excited to announce that the online store for Great Impressions is now OPEN!!! It has been a lot of hard work for the GI team but all that work has now paid off and it's up and running! You really need to take some time to go by and browse the site as there is a LOT of really great stuff to look at (besides all the fabulous stamps)
GREAT IMPRESSIONS
And because we want you all to do some shopping with us and we appreciate each and every one of our followers we are giving you 10% off of your entire order this month (Feb.) your code is GIB212

Today I worked with Frolicking Trio...this is one of the first stamps I got because I loved the image but I don't work very much with silhouette's so I was a bit out of my comfort zone. Then I remembered I had perfect pearls and decided to see what I could do with them!

I inked up my image first with my versamark pad and then got out my perfect pearls and paint brush and went to town using 3 different colors. For my first try at this I think it came out pretty well although you can see a bit of a shadow around some of the girls and it wasn't suppose to look like that but if your not a stamper...you might think I was "trying" to make a shadow...lol!
Also the flower in the corner I made and then added perfect pearls to it as well. See....I find a way to add sparkle to everything!!! :-)

Products Used:
Image~Great Impressions Frolicking Trio G342
CS~SU!
DP~We R Memory Keepers
Perfect Pearls
Gem~SU!
Rhinestones~KaiserScrapbook

Bathing with Friends

Okay...just in case you haven't been by our blog this week...the Great Impressions Online Store is officially OPEN! (Just click HERE to order your favorite Great Impressions Stamps!)

Want to receive a 10% discount on your entire order? Use Promotion Code: GIB212 (This Promotion is only good through February - so don't wait...finish reading this post then head on over to the online store with your list!)

Simple. Unadorned. No frills. No matter my intentions, I have a difficult time creating simple cards. Today's card is no exception!

Now that Valentine's Day is over I can start thinking ahead to more Spring themed cards...lucky me that February's Stamp of the Month stamps made this an easy shift! The two stamps I used on this project are Spring Bird Bath (F519) and Friends (E748).

I wanted this bird bath to be a little vintage, a little worn and well loved, so out came the Copics and the Distress Crackle Paint in Rock Candy (again, yes, I know - I love this stuff!)

Here's a close up of the bird bath...

Basically, I stamped the image 4 times (once on scraps for the birds), cut parts out of 3 and layered them to give the image more depth. These birds are so darn cute! Frolicking comes to mind...don't you think?

Okay...don't want to keep you too long today...get comfortable, click on over and take a look around...you won't be disappointed - there's even a wish list feature you can use once you sign up!

Thanks for stopping by today...

Inky hugs,
Angi

Stamps: Great Impressions Spring Bird Bath (F519), Friends (E748)
Inks: Versamark Watermark; Archival Ink Jet Black; Tim Holtz Distress Ink Vintage Photo, Tim Holtz Adirondack Color Wash Wild Plum
Paper: Pink Paislee Butterfly Gardens - Dew Drops
Tools: heat gun; Tim Holtz Blending Tool, Distress; detail scissors; sewing machine
Other: Copics; Distress Crackle Paint Rock Candy; Glossy Accents; Wild Orchid Crafts (roses)

Hello there

Bought a fun new K & Co paper pack at the craft store and decided to use it with this adorable little girl from Great Impressions.

Supplies used:

Great Impressions Stamp #G149
(Click white link to find this adorable stamp in the new Great Impressions store.)

Memento Tuxedo Black Ink

Copic Markers: E000, E00, E31, E33, E35, E37, R05, B000, B00, B01, B02

Prismacolor Marker: Goldenrod

Makeup & Q-tip to apply to cheeks

Nestabilities Scalloped Ovals Lg, Classic Ovals Lg.

K & Co Designer Paper - Bailey

Prima Flowers, Pearl, Ribbon & Lace

Adhesive & Glue Dots

****NEWS FLASH**** The Great Impressions Stamps Store is OPEN!!

YOU HEARD RIGHT!!

We are Open for Business!!

To celebrate this momentous occasion Great Impressions Stamps

is having a grand opening sale!!

Just use Promotion Code:  GIB212

to save 10% off your entire order!

This promotion is good through the end of February.

I am super excited to share this news with you.

Want to thank you all for your patience...

But so worth the wait!

Grab a cuppa and settle down for a treat!

Check it out HERE!!

AND...

I don't want to forget to wish everyone a

Happy Valentines Day!

Are you doing anything special today?

So much nicer when the holiday falls on the weekend.

A weekday night out just isn't the same to me.

Oh the gorgeous detail on this chandelier!

I heat embossed it in gold and it sparkles like crazy!

The brown panel, the sentiment and my main image are all sanded on the edges and then sponged around with distress ink.  The DP is just sponged.  I was going for a bit of a shabby grungier look.

Supplies

Stamps shown below are now

linked to our new store...

You are a click away from shopping! (grin!)

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Wishing you a day filled with sunshine, love and 
a fun shopping experience at our brand spankin' new store!

Hugs,

Jenny

It is a brand new Monday!

Good Morning everyone it is Shanna here on another Monday to help you get your week started with some Great Impressions inspiration. 

The store is officially open
and to celebrate get 10% using GIB212 on your order!

First off February is almost over...seriously tomorrow is Valentines Day and then next thing you know snow will be melting, flowers will be blooming, birds will be chirping.... Okay maybe not on this planet. I think when it moved on the axis that seasons somehow changed.... you think they would change the dates considering zodiacs changed do to our planets shift. 

Anyways we are not here for science lessons we are here for some good ol' crafting fun!

I thought I would use a stamp from the Stamp Of the Month.  Easter Lily's G452 is the stamp. I really love this stamp a lot!

I really love flowers. I am starting to enjoy coloring flowers more than little people... okay maybe not too much but it is a challenge I take as I am ready for some flowers now on my kitchen mantle brightening up my gloomy home thanks to gloomy weather. I had someone come to give me an estimate on painting the inside of our home and doing our floors lol we have a fireplace that is suppose to be connected to a switch..... the switch is no where to be found.... the builder went bankrupt before finishing the house..... We had our home inspected before buying it.... so what to do! I don't want a fireplace so I think they should take it out put up a wall and give the fireplace to someone else!

Anyway back to stamps lol. 

On this care I used the largest classic oval (Large) Spellbinder die, some crackle paint, distress inks, Wild Orchid flowers, gold micro beads, the papers I wish I could tell you but I have no clue, and some ribbon and lace from Really Reasonable Ribbon.

Also check back tomorrow to see what is in store for you!

Make a Wish!

Today is another Saturday and The Scrapbooking Queen's
post for Great Impression Stamp Company

Today card is a CAS card that you can create with  

 a very simple repeat stamping of your image technique

The Scrapbooking Queen use  C359 Wish Big & Stamp E524 

 Cupcake Stamp to create this card by repeated and 

stamping  image 3 times in a row ...

The Scrapbooking Queen colored with her 

copic markers and inked around the edges with 

Chalk Inks to soften edges 

The Queen used her EK Success Punch on the MAKE A WISH sentiment

inked and doodled around the edges with 

The Queen's Royal White Gel Pen

Hope you have a wonderful Day.. and don't forget to shop

the new and improved Great Impression Rubber Stamp Shop

Fabulous Friday~Nicest Perks

Good morning everyone! As you are reading this I am actually in the car traveling up to Pa. to visit family and to go to my cousin-in-law/BFF's baby shower. It's a lovely 10+ hour drive from here in NC. that I do not look forward to EVER!!! I do love seeing my family and of course sharing this wonderful moment in time with my best friend (pregnancy was a real struggle for her) but man....being in that car that long....ugh! We will be home for 5 days....not long enough!!! :-(

This week our team was challenged to do something embossed. It could be any form of embossing you wanted to do so I did heat embossing again! I embossed the sentiment and I embossed around the distressed edges.
I used two images for this card...I used "Nicest Perks" and "Coffee Cup Border".
Again this is a fairly simple card...it wasn't meant to be but once I got the image on the card base I realized just how big it was and I wasn't sure what to fit around it so it became a CAS card!
I had to take this picture at night so one is with the flash and one is without...I really need to set up a little photo area for my stuff and actually learn how to take good pictures!!!
I hope you all have a wonderful weekend and I'll be back next Friday!

Isn't it amazing what a difference a flash can make (above) without flash (below).

Products Used:
Images~Great Impressions Nicest Perks F189  Coffee Cup Border G449
CS~SU!
Ribbon~SU!
Button~SU!
Twine~SU!
I have no idea who makes the beautiful glittery brown paper but I bought it at Michaels...I love it!!! Then again I love anything that glitters!!!

Blowin' Bubbles - Z Fold Card

Happy Thursday! Today's card showcases a stamp I've been just itching to get some ink on...Say hello to Mouse with Bubble Hearts (G46)! Do you ever pick up a stamp, knowing how you'll use it, but it's not the right time? I knew when I saw this adorable stamp what type of card I was going to make. February seemed like such a long ways off...and here we are!

This card is known as a Z fold. (I've sometimes come across it called an "S Fold".) A Z fold card is a great way to create a scene or panels that go together. I love how parts of the card are peeking!

This week the Design Team is using embossing techniques on their projects. Did you know that you can take clear embossing powder and mix in a little glitter to customize your own glitter embossing powder? I know you really can't tell in these pictures, but that's just what I've done to the hearts. The sentiment is embossed, too.

A little bit of masking, punching, tape, some inking and coloring with Copics and we're done!

I can't say enough about the stamps I used on this project...the mouse could be used for 'sending love or a little TLC'...how about some cheer?!

The sentiment is gorgeous (Valentine E330)! It was hard to decide what I wanted to put with it on the card. I was thinking 'hello', 'love you', 'thinking of you'...lots of choices when you've got a Versamark pen! Yep, a pen, so you can design or fill in any image (or even part of an image) to emboss.

And the border stamp (Meadow Border F496) has been used with many of the stamps in my stash - Love it!

Thanks, again, for stopping by today! Hope you've got time today to create something great!

Inky hugs,
Angi

Stamps: Great Impressions Mouse with Bubble Hearts (G46), Valentine (E330), Meadow Border (F496)
Inks: Memento Tuxedo Black, Versamark Watermark, Tim Holtz Distress Ink Tumbled Glass
Tools: heat gun, Martha Stewart Doily Lace Punch, Scor-Pal
Other: Smash tape, Copics, clear embossing powder, glitter, chalks, American Craft Zing Wave

Queen Ann's Lace

I used dry embossing on the background layers and soft chalk inks on this lovely floral stamp.

Supplies:

Great Impressions Stamp #H186 Queen Ann's Lace

Speckled Ivory, Tan, Rust, Olive Green Cardstock

Background script is computer printed with brown ink

Colorbox Cat's Eye's Chalk Ink:

Bisque, Amber, Clay, Deep Moss

Nestabilities Petite Ovals Small

Cuttlebug Textile Embossing Folder

Sewing Machine - ivory thread

Adhesive, Double Stick Tape & Glue Dots

Lace & Jute

Elegant Flourish

Good Morning!

Gotta a new technique for you today!  At least it is new to me (grin!)

If you haven't picked up the latest edition of Paper Crafts titled "Cool Tools" you really should run out and get it.  My head is swimming with fun ideas using tools 

many of us already have in our craft room.

My flourish frame and initial is, of course, by Great Impressions Stamps.  Have to say these are some sturdy and deeply etched stamps.  I put them through quite a bit and they came out looking good as new with just a simple soap and water wash.

Here are the steps:

1.  Cover card-stock large enough to fit your image with watermark ink and embossing powder.  

Heat powder.  Really ink up your card-stock and pour on the powder.

2.  Repeat entire process for a total of seven times.  Your card-stock will get thick and goopy.

3.  While warm and pliable stamp your image.  Do not remove stamp until cool.  (about 5 min.)

  Don't worry about any imperfections.  They only add to the beauty of the finished product. 

Once cooled, I stamped my initial in the center and let it set. 

I then traced over with a permanent black marker.

Supplies

Not Shown:  Great Impressions Stamps Flourish Frame F442

Michael's Ribbon

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A set of these, with her new last name initial, would make a perfect gift for the bride. 

 For a nice touch use the wedding colors in the card.

See you next week!

Hugs,

Jenny