Wonderful Wednesday with Joni

Happy New Year!

I have one more holiday card to share: G477 Winter Truck. 

I colored the truck red. 

I added some glossy accents for the headlights. 

I added the   C427Season's Greetings sentiment.

Winter Scene

Have you gotten much snow where you live? We haven't gotten much at all though my kids are so hoping for some this winter :) I wanted to create a watercolored background and use the beautiful F459 Dotted Winter Tree from Great Impressions to make a winter scene.

I started by watercoloring my background using my Tombow markers. I like to lay down my color from my pen onto my craft mat and then pick up the color with a wet brush. I layered on the colors until I was happy with it and then finished it by getting my brush wet with clean water and tapping to create the water droplets. This gives such a pretty splattered look and in this case represents snow. I then heat set my paper and stamped my trees in Versafine Onyx Black ink. 

Be sure to join us in this month's challenge (click!) and if you use any GI stamps be sure to link up to the customer gallery (click!). Be sure to stop by the Great Impressions store (click!) and maybe treat yourself to a few new images...did you know shipping is free over $25?! 

Have a wonderful day!

Kendra's Favorites 2

Happy Monday Great Impressions Stamp Friends!

Kendra from Luv 2 Scrap 'n Make Cards here, today I am sharing some more favorite cards I created this year using some of GI's lovely stamps!!

This time I am focusing on months July - December!  I picked 3 projects again!!

First up...
A card using the adorable Birdie Swinging (F584)!!


I just love this adorable stamp, along with the fun layout!!
I also used the My Friend (B181) sentiment and the Flitting Butterflies (A32)!!


I also really like this gift packaging I created for our team-up with Die Versions:

I used the adorable Snowman Fun (H188) stamp for my main image!  As well as the Snowflake Swirl Background (J105)!!



I used both the Have Yourself (E512) and Snowflake Cluster (A71) for the inside!
I was so proud to give a gift in this box!!

And lastly I have a favorite tag I created:


I just think this tag is so beautiful!  One of my favorites I have ever created!!
I used E659 Saint Nicholas Sketch and C409 Merry Christmas sentiment!

Have a Happy New Year!!!
I will be back again next year with GI, which I am super excited about!!
But this time on each Thursday!!

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Be sure to stop back for more wonderful inspiration!

Join in our monthly challenge as well!  

We'd love to see what you create!

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Have a sweet day!

Inspiration Saturday with Ellen

Hello to all of my Great Impressions friends and Merry Christmas! I hope you had an amazing time with family and friends! Welcome back for more inspiration from the Great Impressions store!

Today is the fourth, and last Saturday of December! Our Great Impressions December Challenge is ANYTHING WITH A GREAT IMPRESSIONS IMAGE GOES!

 (A2: Stamps: Great Impressions Stamps (Dancing Penguin  - F592 and Happy Dance - D488); Ribbon: Really Reasonable Ribbon)

Please stop by my blog to get all of the details on this card!

Thanks so much for stopping by for a bit of inspiration from Great Impressions. I truly have enjoyed your comments this year and look forward to sharing inspiration with you next year.

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Be sure to come check out our current challenge! 

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One last thing, be sure to “Like” Great Impressions on FACEBOOK and I’ll see you again next YEAR!

Happy crafting everyone!
My blog: In a World of Craft

Friday Fun with Katy

Hello!

Katy here today.  I hope that you had a wonderful Holiday!  It is always strange to think there are only a few more days of 2014.

I'm not quite ready to set goals (there's still Christmas leftovers in the fridge) but I am enjoying on reflecting back on my projects with Great Impressions.  And I decided that I should share my favorite project and card with all of you.  :) (Which was not easy task to choose my friends!)

My favorite project is the vintage Christmas ornament.  I love this this stamp G512 Winter Snowflake.  It works so nicely here with the gold embossing powder.

For my favorite card I chose the pop up card from Halloween.  I love Great Impressions Halloween stamps.  This was a lot of fun to make!

For this pop up card I used Great Impressions Stamps:

A134 Halloween Greetings

F561 Haunted House

C406 Little Ghost

G379 Spider Web

Thank you for taking this walk down memory lane with me! :)  This is my last post for Great Impressions.  I have been blessed to work with this wonderful company and the wonderful ladies who make Great Impressions so special.  And thank you for stopping by!  Lots of hugs and love! :)

For more inspiration join us on Facebook and Pinterest! :)  And be sure to submit your projects to our current challenge here--this month's theme is to use a Great Impressions Stamp!

Merry Christmas!

MERRY CHRISTMAS, friends!  On behalf of all of us at Great Impressions, we hope your day is amazing and filled with lots of fun, joy, and love!  I'm here to share a card I made using some beautiful products from Great Impressions. Take a peek...

More details and a Christmas slideshow on my personal blog HERE.

I started this card by stamping G22 Pine Cone Bough twice onto some white card stock.  I stamped them opposite ways to create a semi frame.  I then decided to do just some selective coloring and color the berries with a red glitter pen.  It looked elegant and so I stopped there! ;)

I then stamped E250 Warmth & Love onto another piece of white card stock and cut it to fit onto a red scalloped card stock mat.  Some black liquid pearls added a bit of shine and elegance and I used dimensional foam to add this portion to the card.

That was it!  A super quick and easy card, but I think it turned out very elegantly and can be mailed easily.  It actually already was! ;) 

Thanks so much for stopping by to take a peek at my creation!  Hop over to come play along with our monthly challenge, too!  If you use stamps from Great Impressions, you'll be able to link up your creation in our Customer Gallery, too!  HUGS and MERRY Christmas, and MERRY stamping to you all!  See you again soon!

Wonderful Christmas Eve with Joni

Love this adorable stamp: E624 Santa's Little Helper from Great Impressions. 

I'm giving this card to Baxter and Cooper's Dog Groomers. They will love it.

 I embossed the stamp with kraft embossing ink and clear powder. 

Then I colored the image with Distress Markers.

I added some twine and a button.

The sentiment A117 Merry Hello tops off the card.

Victorian Lady

Hello stamping friends. Today I have a very feminine card for you using a beautiful image from Great Impressions called (H195) Victorian Lady.

I stamped the image on watercolor paper and used my Tombow markers to watercolor her. I love how many layers of colors you can get using watercolors and the softness it gives the image. I then added some dry embossing and a few layers of paper, some Distress inking and stitching. 

Be sure to join us in this month's challenge (click!) and if you use any GI stamps be sure to link up to the customer gallery (click!). Be sure to stop by the Great Impressions store (click!) and maybe treat yourself to a few new images...did you know shipping is free over $25?! 

Have a wonderful day!

Kendra's Favorites

Happy Monday Great Impressions Stamp Friends!

Kendra from Luv 2 Scrap 'n Make Cards here, today I am very thankful for being on the GT team for the last year!!

I just LOVE GI's adorable stamps!!

With the crazy Holiday season some of us will be sharing a look back at this last year, sharing some of our favorite projects we created!

So I picked out (VERY hard!!) 3 projects to share with you that I created earlier this year...January to June.

First up...
A card using H10 Lily's Garden!!

I just LOVE this beautiful image!  Besides creating crafty projects, I love working in my flower beds!  So this image fits me very well!!

I also used the A109 For Someone Special sentiment!


I also really like this card I created:

With this card I shared a tutorial: Painter's Tape Technique!
Such a fun technique!

I used the pretty G298 Seeded Dandelions image and a sentiment from the G483 Tags Rubber Stamp set.

And lastly one of my favorite projects I have created with GI stamps!!

I just love this nail polish gift box!!
I used the C464 Color Me Happy sentiment, along with the J110 Flower Bouquet image to add the perfect touch to the bottle!

Have a wonderful holiday season!!

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Join in our monthly challenge as well!  

We'd love to see what you create!

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Have a sweet day!

Inspiration Saturday with Ellen

Hello to all of my Great Impressions friends and Merry Christmas! Welcome back for more inspiration from the Great Impressions store!

Today is the third Saturday of December! Santa will be here next week! YIKES!  Our Great Impressions December Challenge is underway. Our theme is ANYTHING WITH A GREAT IMPRESSIONS IMAGE GOES!

(A2: Stamps: Great Impressions Stamps (Peace, Love & Joy Rubber Stamp – E364 and Prancing Deer - E854); Ribbon: Really Reasonable Ribbon)

I don’t do many silhouette stamps, but this deer looked so majestic, I just had to get it. I stamped him in front of the “moon” on a starry, snowy night and added the sentiment using foam tape. 

Thanks so much for stopping by for a bit of inspiration from Great Impressions.

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Happy crafting everyone!

Friday Fun with a Christmas Side-Step Card

Hello Everybody!

Are you done with you shopping?  Are you ready for the big day?  Are all of your cards mailed out?  Whew that's a lot of questions!  No, no, and yes!  LOL!  So I made one more Christmas card-because you always need a back up right?  (Or a start on next year!)

I made a side step card.  These are fun to make.  I also wanted to see how many Great Impressions Stamps I could use!  :)

Here are the stamps that I used:

F461 Christmas Angel

G512 Winter Snowflake

E774 Snow Adorable

E576 April Showers Bring May Flowers

G509 Patterned Trees

D454 Christmas Penguin

C427 Seasons Greetings

All of these cute stamps came from the Great Impressions Online Store.  For more details on this card visit me at my blog.  

Thank you for stopping by today!  For more inspiration join us on Facebook and Pinterest! :)  And be sure to submit your projects to our current challenge here--this month's theme is to use a Great Impressions Stamp!  

Have a Merry Christmas! :)

Tag Into Card + Guess the Carol Winners!

Hi, all!  Before we get started, I need to share with you the results of our "GUESS THE CAROL" week!  Nobody got all of the carols--Ellen stumped you all!  Her carol was "White Christmas" and nobody got that. :)  Nobody got 5/6 either.  There were, however, 5 people who got 4 carols correct and so I put their names in a list and numbered them and then used Random.org to choose a winner.

Here was that list~

#1 Sunshine Honeybee

#2 sammi

#3 snazzyjj

#4 ionabunny

#5 KT Fit Kitty

Random.org chose...

#2 sammi!!!!!

Congratulations, sammi!  Email me at onastampageATyahooDOTcom

and I will get you your voucher for winning our game!

Well, the holidays are a super busy time for me and you, as well, I'm sure, so I decided to be a bit lazy with this week's project and show you how I made THIS TAG into a card!  I don't really do tags very much, that may change in the future, and I didn't wan this one to go to waste, so I decided I'd turn it into a card so I could share it with someone this holiday season!  It uses some beautiful stamps from the Great Impressions store, so it deserves a second wind, I think!  Come and take a peek!

More on my personal blog HERE.

I love the way this image, H190 Vintage Holly Branches, looks embossed in gold and water colored.  I added some glossy accents to the berries to give them a little more shine, too.  A few rhinestones, a button, and some twine, add more holiday colors to the card.

The sentiment, C427 Seasons Greetings, was also heat embossed in gold, but this time onto some red cardstock.  I decided to cut it as a strip to "anchor" the tag a bit.

The tag was then added to a piece of white cardstock with a dry embossed frame and then added to a card.  The white on white is perfect for highlighting this beautifully colored image, don't you think?

Thanks so much for stopping by to take a peek at my creation!  Hop over to come play along with our monthly challenge, too!  If you use stamps from Great Impressions, you'll be able to link up your creation in our Customer Gallery, too!  HUGS and happy stamping to you all!

Wonderful Wednesday with Joni

Today I have a gorgeous H262 Winter Wreath stamp by Great Impressions. 

I stamped it with Versamark onto a dark green cardstock. Then I gold embossed it. 

I added red sequins. 

It actually dangles on the card.

I stamped the sentiment F852 Happy Holidays also embossed in gold.

Snowflake

Hello! Today I have a card to share with you that uses a beautiful image from the Great Impressions shop called (G512) Winter Snowflake. 

I first embossed the snowflake in white onto kraft paper and selectively inked the "peace" from the (D489) Love and Joy sentiment. For my background I used the same snowflake stamping it first in the aqua ink in each corner and then in the dark red ink to fill the gaps. 

Be sure to join us in this month's challenge (click!) and if you use any GI stamps be sure to link up to the customer gallery (click!). Be sure to stop by the Great Impressions store (click!) and maybe treat yourself to a few new images...did you know shipping is free over $25?! 

Have a wonderful day!

Lovely Vintage Ornaments

Happy Monday Great Impressions Stamp Friends!

Kendra from Luv 2 Scrap 'n Make Cards here today to share a beautiful Holiday card!!

I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the new F594 Vintage Bulbs!!

Aren't the bulbs beautiful?!

Love them!!
I decided to make them fun colors!
But they sure would be beautiful in traditional colors as well!!

I also used the F48 Elegant Merry Christmas sentiment!

You can check out my project on my personal blog here.

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Thank you for stopping by to see my project today!

Be sure to stop back for more wonderful inspiration!

Join in our monthly challenge as well!  

We'd love to see what you create!

Check out the Great Impressions shop for more wonderful stamps!!

Have a sweet day!

Inspiration Saturday with Ellen

Hello to all of my Great Impressions friends! Welcome back for more inspiration from the Great Impressions store!

Today is the second Saturday of December! Santa will be here before we know it! Our Great Impressions December Challenge is underway. Our theme is ANYTHING WITH A GREAT IMPRESSIONS IMAGE GOES!

(A2: Stamps: Great Impressions Stamps (Holly Winter Scene  - G352);  Cut files: Silhouette Studio)

My GI image is Holly Winter Scene – G352. I just love coloring this one! After the ink was dry, I covered the circle with Crystal Effects to give it the appearance of a little snow globe. I matted the image with a cut file from Silhouette Studio. It has Merry Christmas at the top and a loopy little border at the bottom.

Thanks so much for stopping by for a bit of inspiration from Great Impressions. Please stop by my blog to leave a little love!

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Be sure to come check out our current challenge! 

ARE YOU PLAYING?

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If you use a Great Impressions on your project, please link it in our CUSTOMER GALLERY!

One last thing, be sure to “Like” Great Impressions on FACEBOOK and I’ll see you again next Saturday!

Happy crafting everyone!
My blog: In a World of Craft

Friday Fun with Blue and Silver

Hello!

Katy here and today I am loving blue and silver and Christmas.  The more sparkle the better.  :)  And I love the newest K100 Christmas Gracie stamp!  I hope you will too!

The sentiment is C427 Season's Greetings.  I used embossing powder for the sentiment and then dabbed ink over it to create a resist.  Gracie's dress was done by using a water color technique with a marker.  And there must be glitter and shimmer! :)

Make sure you stop by the Great Impressions Store for you holiday shopping!  Orders in the U.S. over $25 ship free!

For more inspiration join us on Facebook and Pinterest! :)  And be sure to submit your projects to our current challenge here--this month's theme is to use a Great Impressions Stamp!  

Spotlight Sponging Card + Tutorial

Hello, all!  We're getting closer to the holidays, and today I have a card with a fun technique that is sure to WOW--but still be easily mailed!  I've use products from the Great Impressions store and I've also made a video tutorial on how to create this technique that I'm calling SPOTLIGHT SPONGING.  Come take a peek at my card!

To create this card, I started by stamping D470 Bird Trio onto some white cardstock.  I then did a little magic with the SPOTLIGHT SPONGING technique (movie below) and added some glitter and alcohol coloring to finish this portion off.

The card needed a sentiment, so I grabbed C427 Seasons Greetings and heat embossed it onto some red cardstock.  I decided to punch it out like a banner and add a few rhinestones for a bit more shine.

Then all that needed to happen was to put it all together.  I used a few foam dimension pieces to pop portions of the card up and I love the effect!  What do you think of my card?  I'd love for you to leave me some comments below and let me know!  You can see more detailed shots on my personal blog HERE, too!

Thanks so much for stopping by to take a peek at my creation!  Hop over to come play along with our monthly challenge, too!  If you use stamps from Great Impressions, you'll be able to link up your creation in our Customer Gallery, too!  HUGS and happy stamping to you all!

Wonderful Wednesday with Joni

I love this J108 Winter Barn from Great Impressions. 

I actually colored it with Distress markers and went over it with Wink of Stella clear glitter pen.  

I added the C427 Season's Greetings sentiment.

Check out our Use a Great Impressions stamp challenge!

New items are awesome!

Watercolored Christmas

Hello stamping friends! Today I have a Christmas card to share with you that uses heat embossing and watercolor. I used the gorgeous Great Impressions image (G408) December Holly and Narcissus. 

  

I started by heat embossing my image in white and then watercoloring it using Tombow markers. For my sentiment I heat embossed it in gold using (E739) Old World Merry Christmas. 

Be sure to join us in this month's challenge (click!) and if you use any GI stamps be sure to link up to the customer gallery (click!). Be sure to stop by the Great Impressions store (click!) and maybe treat yourself to a few new images...did you know shipping is free over $25?! 

Have a wonderful day!