Warmest Greetings

Hello friends!! I hope you all had a great Christmas time and have the best plans for the coming year! First, I want to say thank you to "Great Impressions" for the chance they give to be a Guest Designer and then part of the Design Team, it has been a fantastic time.
Second, this is my last post as a Design Team Member, sure I will miss you all,  as I say before I have some other plans hopefully everything will be as I am planning it would be ;)

So, now with my last project, I used Warmest Greetings Stamp, stamped it on a piece of Ivory Cardstock in Versamark Watermark ink, then added Gold Embossing powder and heat set it. Then I die-cut, embossed and stenciled it with Nestabilities Labels Fourteen. The background piece was made with Gold Majesty Circles Dies, I used Gold Cardstock, added the sentiment in there and add clear rhinestones.
Finally I added a couple of strips of patterned paper.

Hope you like it!
Once again, thanks so much for having me here and wishing you the best in the New Year 2014!
Hugs!!

Giovana

Sharing few of my favorites (Part II)

Hello friends! It's me again, sharing few of my favorites projects for Great Impressions! Let's see Autumn and Christmas cards today :)

Love this wagon image!! Perfect image for Fall/Thanksgiving. You can see the original post HERE

This CAS card is one of my favorites! You can see the original post HERE

This image is cute and prefect for Christmas time. You can see the original post HERE

Last but not least, what about cute little tags! You can see the original post HERE

Hope you like them!!
Have a beautiful day!

Sharing few of my favorites (Part 1)

Hello friends!! Hope you are having a great Monday! Today I want to share with you few of my favorite projects I have created for Great Impressions, showcasing Baby/kids projects. December is my last month as a Design Team member, sad to go, but new things are coming and I am very excited for that too!!

I have to confess I "LOVE" to make baby cards!  For whatever reason, making them makes me very happy!!

Celebrate!! For this card I used  Baby Emma Bear Stamp and  "Celebrate" part from Time to Celebrate Stamp. You can see the original post HERE

 

 

This girl card is so pretty! A lot of 3D elements, I used  Baby Girl Shoes image and  Princess sentiment. You can see the original post HERE.

 Another Princess card for your favorite girl!! Here  I used Princess Castle and Princess Sentiment, You can see the original post HERE

 

 

 

Finally, another baby card!! The stamps I used here are: Baby Button Clothesline and New Little Baby. You can see the original post HERE

 

 

Thanks so much for visiting!

Have a fantastic day!



Winter Teddy Tags

Hello friends! This week we are starting our week of Christmas tags! Today I make these cute 3 little tags, perfect for your Christmas presents.

I started die-cutting the tags and banners, then I stamped the cute Teddy image in Memento Tuxedo Black, colored them with Spectrum Noir Markers, then I stamped the jingle bells from Christmas Bell Swag in Golden Glitz Delicata Ink.
The to/from was stamped in Jet Black Archival ink. After stamping the banners I added them to the tags with dimensionals. I added Stickles to the Christmas hats.


Great Impressions Stamps used:

• E814 - Winter Teddy
• B171 - To & From
• G348 - Christmas Bell Swag

Hope you like them.
Have a great day!

Giovana

Peace

Hello friends! Giovana here today, and this time I have for you a new Christmas card. For this project I used Dove of Peace image, I really like this stamp!

The image was stamped in golden glitz ink, added patterned paper from Graphic 45 and stitches, then a little bow and few gold sequins!!

Here is a picture of the card:

Hope you like it
Have a great day!
Giovana

Jingle all the way

Hello friends! Giovana here with a new project, this time I made a Christmas card, very "Clean and Simple", no stitches, pretty flat, perfect for mailing :)

For this project I used "Christmas Bell Swag" image, the sentiment is part of Jingle image.
The main image was stamped in Memento Tuxedo Black on White Cardstock, colored it with Copic Markers, then I die-cut, embossed and stenciled with Labels Fourteen Nestabilities Dies. Then, I added StarDust Stickles to the ribbon and the bells. I added the image to my card base with Dimensionals.
For the sentiment, I covered the little jingle with a piece of Washi Tape and stamped only the sentiment in Love Letter Ink.
Finally I added pieces of Patterned Paper to the left side of the card, this paper is from "Twelve Days of Christmas" by Graphic 45.

Hope you like it!!
Have a fantastic day!

Happy Moments

Hello friends!! Hope you are starting a great week! What a fun week we have had with "Guess the Christmas Carol" contest, scroll down to check out the list of winners, maybe you are one of them!!

So today, I have a winter card for you. This card remind me my friend's house, she lives in a beautiful cabin in the mountains of WA State, I used to live close to her until I moved to another mountain location LOL, and during Winter time, it looks just like this image, isn't it pretty?

Card details: I stamped the image on White Cardstock in Memento Tuxedo Black and colored it with Copic and Spectrum Noir Markers. I added White Opal Liquid Pearls to the trees and crushed glass to the ground to create a snow area.
The sentiment was stamped in Jet Black Archival, I added this pretty May Art ribbon and tinsel, few stitches around the panel. This card is pretty flat, mail friendly :)

Great Impressions stamps used:

• Sweet Happy Moments
• Winter Cabin

Hope you like it!
Have a fantastic day!
Giovana

Guess the Christmas Carol!! and your chance to win.

It's Christmas Carol week here at Great Impressions Stamps!

Read all about the details here.

Did I mention that prizes will be involved?!

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Giovana here with my holiday card inspired by a Christmas Carol.

Don't let the Merry Christmas sentiment fool you, I really hope you can guess this one. It is not too difficult to figure it out, but I won't say more :)

You can add your guess on my blog as well. I would love to see you there too.

 I hope you find time to participate this week!!! We have so many fun creations for you. 

So for my carol card I decided to use the stamps 

Elegant Merry Christmas

Christmas Bell Swag

Hope you like it!

Don't forget to leave your guess for today in the comment section and on my blog as well.

Have a great day!

Giovana

CAS Autumn

Hello friends! Today I have an Autumn/Fall card for you. This one is super Clean and Simple. I started stamping the image and sentiment onto my card front in Jet Black Archival Ink, then I stamped another pumpkin image in memento tuxedo black, colored it with Copic markers and cut it out. Added it on top of stamped image with Dimensionals. Then I color the leaves from the sentiment and added StartDust  Stickles.
Finally, I added a little strip of Patterned Paper at the bottom of the card.

These are the stamps I used:

• Autumn Sentiment
• Too Cute Pumpkins

Hope you like it.
Have a fantastic day!
Giovana

Little new baby

Hello friends! Today I want to show you a baby card I made for a friend from church who is having a baby girl any minute. I think this card is super cute!  First, I stamped the image on Ivory cardstock in Memento Tuxedo black, then I paper pieced the little baby clothes, colored the clothesline with a Prismacolor pencil and added little dots with Ruby Red Liquid Pearls. I matted the panels and added stitches. Added a big satin bow and a paper flower.

These are the images I used:

• Baby Button Clothesline 
• New Little Baby

Hope you like it!
Happy Monday and Happy Crafting!
Giovana

Happy Birthday

Hello friends!! Giovana here with a new post. Today I am bringing you a Fall Birthday card. I really like how it turned out. For my project I used Fall Garden image and the sentiment is from Sweet Sentiments.

I stamped the image on White Cardstock in Memento Tuxedo Black Ink, colored the image with Copic Markers, then added some shades with Prismacolor Pencils. I added a strip of Yellow cardstock and matted it with Patterned Paper and added stitches. Then stamped the sentiment in Coffee Archival Ink.
Added gold sequins and Start Dust Stickles and White Opal Liquid Pearls to the flowers.

Super easy to make and to mail too!!

Hope you like it!
Have a fantastic day.
Giovana

Sending you a line

Hello friends! Hope you all are having a great day, I am a day behind posting here, I have been (still am) a bit sick, hopefully this cold will go away soon!!

I have a  really cute card for you today. I inked a couple of stamps I ordered and never used before.
For this card, I stamped the cloth line image on a piece of White Cardstock in Memento Tuxedo Black, colored the image with Copic markers. The sentiment "Sending you a line" was stamped in Olive Archival Ink. The green dot patterned paper is from Carta Bella "True Friends" and the red dots is from Echo Park paper "Sweet Girl"

Great Impressions Stamps and Products:

• Clothes on line Stamp
• Sending you a line stamp
• Sweet Girl Patterned Paper

Hope you like it!!
Have a great day!

It's time to Celebrate!!

Hello friends! Have you seen the new look of our blog? Isn't it fantastic! I love it!   Have you seen our big BlOG CANDY post?  Check it out right here for your chance to win!  So, in honor of our new blog look, I decided to make a happy card to celebrate!

This card is super cute and very easy to make. For this project I used the "Time to Celebrate" sentiment.

Instructions:

• Make card base from White cardstock, A2 size.
• Cut a panel from Yellow Cardstock (5" x 3.75"). Adhere a couple of strips of Patterned Paper to top and bottom (1" x 5').
• Die-cut ric-rac border from cardstock and adhere it to panel.
• Stamp sentiment in Olive Archival Ink.
• Die-cut balloon and bow, glue them together and adhere them to card adding twine. Add crystal lacquer and glitter.
• Finally add faux stitches using a black liner pen.

Hope you like it!!
Have a fantastic day!
Giovana

How beautiful

Hello friends! Giovana here bringing you a very CAS card with a great message. I think these Floral Frame and How Beautiful sentiment work together perfectly. Recently, I purchased the True Friends Paper from Carta Bella and this paper is the fantastic!

For my card I cut the patterned paper 3.75" x 5", added Banana and Acqua Dolce Gelatos to the edges, blended them using my fingers. I stamped the frame in Jet Black Archival and the sentiment in Olive Archival, colored the little flowers with Prisma color pencils and added White Liquid Pearl to all the center. Finally I added 3 red pearls to bottom corner.
The card base is white, A2 size.

Hope you like it!!
Have a fantastic day!

Happy Fall

Hello friends!! Giovana here with another Fall project. For today's project I used this cute image "Pumpkin Patch Patty" , isn't she cute?!


Here are the details:

• Stamp image on White Cardstock in Memento Luxe Tuxedo Black, add clear embossing powder and heat set.
• Color image with Markers (Here Copic markers used)
• Die-cut and emboss image with Circle Nestabilities.
• Die-cut a swirl top.
• Make card base from Tomato Soup Cardstock (5" square)
• Cut a panel from White Textured Cardstock. (4.75" square), adhere a piece of Patterned paper, add lines around the edges with a fine black marker, add swirl top and image with dimensionals.
• Create a double bow with bow-easy and adhere it to card.
• Create sentiment with Alphabet stickers.

Remember we have our monthly challenge going on, the theme is "Colors of Fall" and you can find all the information HERE

Hope you like my project.
Have a fantastic day!

Giovana

Fall Thinking of you

Hello ladies and gents! I am sorry for posting this a little later, I have had a very hard week, actually the last 2 weeks have been really difficult, but here I am with a cute Fall card.

For my card I used Fall Garden image. I stamped it on White cardstock in Memento Luxe Tuxedo Black and added clear embossing powder and heat set. Then, I colored it with Copic Markers. The image was die-cut, embossed and stenciled with Square Nestabilities. The sentiment is from Sweet Sentiments, I just used the "Thinking of you" one. The BG paper is from BoBunny. I added pearls and Gold Gala Glitz to the sunflowers.

Hope you like it!!
Have a fantastic day!
Giovana

Thinking of you

Hello friends!! Happy Labor Day to all my USA friends! My family and I are taking it easy today, yay for rest days!!
Today I have for you a Clean and Simple card, I made this card for a dear fiend who has been through a lot lately, her 2 youngest kids has been very sick, in fact one of them is still in the hospital. Sending her this card to letting her know I am thinking of her, her family and praying for her too.

I started my project cutting a piece of White Cardstock (3.75" x 5"), stamped the Large Stitched flower and Flower Bud in Versamark Ink and added White Embossing powder and heat set. Then I sponge all around the images with Spun Sugar and Barn Door Distress Ink. I stamped the sentiment on a piece of White cardstock in Jet Black Archival, cut piece as a banner and create faux stitches with a think outliner. Added a button with twine. Finally I added little drops of Ruby Liquid Pearls to the flowers.

Here are the Great Impressions products I used for this card:

• Large Stitched flower
• Flower Bud
• Sweet Sentiments

Hope you like it!
Have a fantastic day!

You are One in a Million

Hello friends!! Giovana here today with a very pink-y card. For my card I used "One in a Million" sentiment and Large Stitched Flower image.
First I started stamping the large flower on a scrap piece of paper and cutting it out to use it for masking my images. I stamped one flower first, then covered it with my masking piece and repeated it 3 more times. Then I colored them with Spectrum Noir Pink Markers, then added a gray around the flowers. I covered only 1 flower with Crystal Lacquer, then added glitter and set to dry, for at least 1 hour (better if you let it dry for 2 or more hours)
Added stitches and twine, then added it to my white card base.
Finally, stamped the saying on White cardstock in Memento Luxe Love Letter, added clear embossing powder and heat set, cut it out and added to card with Dimensionals.

Hope you like it!
Have a great day!
Giovana

Happy Moments

Hello friends! Giovana here with a very sweet card for you today. I used this cute "Giraffes" image, I think this can be used for Mother's Day, Baby Announcements, etc.

I stamped the image in Memento Rich Cocoa and colored it with Copic Markers, then die-cut, embossed and stenciled the image with Circle Nestabilities, the ink I used for the sponging is Antique Linen Distress. I matted the image in a Scallop circle from Light Brown Cardstock.
I matted a piece of Brown Cardstock and patterned paper (Wanted from Cosmo Cricket), added stitches and added to the card front. Added the image and buttons.
Finally I die-cut a banner, stamped "Happy Moments" in Coffee Archival  from Sweet Happy Moments stamp and added to card with Dimensionals.

Super easy and cute!!

Hope you like it!
Have a great day!

Harvest Wagon

Hello friends! After all the Christmas in July, I think now it would be fun to show some Fall cards and projects, Thanksgiving is going to be here in no time, so I closed my eyes and thought about the beautiful month of November (my birthday too, LOL).

I think this "Harvest Wagon" image is very pretty!! It can be used in lots of different ways :) My card is very simple. I stamped the image on White cardstock in Memento Tuxedo  black and colored it with Markers (Copics and Spectrum Noir)/ Then I die-cut, emboss and stencil it with Label 8 Nestabilities, sponged around with Distress inks. I created my card base with 2 pieces of Orange Cardstock die-cut and emboss with Decorative Labels 8 Nestabilities. Finally I added a piece of ribbon and a button.

Hope you like it!!
Have a fantastic day!!

Giovana