Someone Like You

Hi All!  Robin here with my first DT post.  I am so happy to be joining the Great Impressions Design Team!  I have some new inspiration for you.  

I am using Someone Like You (H257) and Elegant Cupcake (D413).  I think these two stamps pair really well together.  There is a birthday girl out there that really loves pink and black so those are the colors I picked.  I hope she loves this card.  I embossed the sentiment and colored the cupcakes with my Copic markers.

The January Great Impressions Challenge just began this week.  I hope you will pop over and check out the details.  If you're using a Great Impressions Stamp don't forget to let us know and add it to the Customer Gallery.

Have a great week!

Robin

Someone Like You ...

Good morning! Ruza here to share a Birthday card that feature the H257 Someone Like You Sentiment, available at the Great Impressions Stamps.

Leaving the Someone Like You Sentiment as my focal point for today's card, I pulled out some Coral, Smoked Sea Salt and Spearmint cardstock to create my background. 

Of course once I was done, I thought maybe I should have embossed the base panel. I love the clean and simple design which is perfect for putting in the mail. Loving this design I think I'm going to make a set of cards in different colors, and add that embossing that I left out (wink).

That is all for me today. I will be back next week with another project featuring some amazing stamps from Great Impressions! I hope you will check out and play along with this months Great Impressions Challenge. Remember, if you use some Great Impressions stamps make sure you link them up in our Customer Gallery!

Great Impressions is Sponsoring this week's C.R.A.F.T. Challenge, so make sure you hop on over for all of the details, and play along for another chance at winning some Great Impression Stamps of your own.

Until next week ... Enjoy!

Great Impressions + Paper Sweeties + Many More!

Hello, friends!  We are SO excited to share with you that the Great Impressions online store is joining in a multi-company blog hop with Paper Sweeties and many others to celebrate Paper Sweeties turning THREE!!!  There is some SCRUMPTIOUSLY SWEET inspiration for this hop/challenge, along with many chances to win, so hop over to the Paper Sweeties blog to play along!

            

 

We've got some beautiful work from our design team to get you inspired and showcase some of the stamps that you could win from the Great Impressions online store.  Take a peek...

Mynn

Using E846 Flag Banner and H257 Someone Like You.

Patti

Using  H257 Someone Like You.

Donna

Using E790 Cupcake Trio and E791 Sweet Sentiments.

Emily

Using E773 Whimsical Wish.

Ruza

Using K98 Decorative Frames, C340 Happy Birthday,
and J119 Elegant Butterflies.

Toni

Using E842 Happy Day.

Make sure to hop over to these gals' blogs to leave them some comment love, then join the fun on the Paper Sweeties blog!  If so, here's one of the prizes you could win...

We will be back with more inspiration using Great Impressions stamps tomorrow with our monthly challenge--and don't forget to link up all of your Great Impressions creations in our Customer Gallery, too, for a chance to win stamps later this year!  Until tomorrow, HUGS and happy stamping to you all!

Project supplies:

E842 Happy Day | Great Impressions	C340 Happy Birthday | Great Impressions	K98 Decorative Frames | Great Impressions	E773 Whimsical Wish | Great Impressions	E791 Sweet Sentiments | Great Impressions
E790 Cupcake Trio | Great Impressions	E846 Flag Banner | Great Impressions	H257 Someone Like You | Great Impressions

 

Fanciful Friday

Hello to all of my Great Impressions friends! Happy Friday! Let’s start the day with a card using a fun, new stamp from Great Impressions!

(A2: Stamps: Great Impressions Stamps (H257 -Someone Like You)

I decided to do a chalkboard technique card with this stamp. I know that technique has been around a while, but I still love to use it once in a while. Why not hop over to my blog to check out all the details?

Thank you so much for stopping by! I hope you enjoyed my card!

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Be sure to come check out our current challenge! 

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

One last thing! We have a new social media outlet on Flickr.com. You can find us by clicking here, so please join us on Flickr and share your Great Impressions projects!

Happy crafting everyone!

Wonderful Wednesday with Joni

 Today I have a fancy fold card: Double Dutch Card.

 I wanted to use some springtime colors. 

The base of this card is a bublegum pink. Patterned papers are from Doodlebug. 

I stamped H257 Someone Like You from Great Impressions with black pigment ink and did some fine black detail embossing.

This is what the card looks like open:

Guest Designer: Patti Gilliam

Hi, friends!  It is my pleasure to tell you that we have a post today from our guest designer, Patti Gilliam!  Take a look at her beautiful work--she's made more than one card for us!  Take it away, Patti!

Hello - Happy Sunday!

It' my day to post here on the Great Impressions Blog!

It is so much fun guest designing with such a great, friendly, and talented group of ladies!

Today, I'm going to share a stamp that I will forever keep in my 'go-to' stash. 

It is just so incredibly versatile - and I'm eager to show you just HOW versatile!

The stamp I used, 'Someone Like You' can be purchased HERE!

For this first card, I used a piece of pretty patterned paper, and stamped directly onto the paper. I then added half of a small doily, three pearls, and a twine bow.  7 minute card, start to finish!  Love it, right?  Well scroll down to the next card!

The chalkboard technique is so popular right now, that I couldn't pass up a chance to use it with this stamp.

I had seen these easel type cards all over, and decided to try my own.   (The woodgrain makes my sides look uneven, but I've measured, and they really are identical)  The black card stock was stamped with white pigment ink.  My personal fave is still to come!

Last, but not least, I had some fun, vibrant cardstock, and matching ink that I used here.

The sentiment was stamped with black ink, then shadow stamped again with this pretty colored ink.

LOVE this one!  It's really my fave of the three.

Thanks for stopping by, and for being patient with so many photos!

Hope you will hurry right over to the Great Impressions Website and order this stamp - it's great

for any age, any gender, and can be dressed up or down!  It stamps beautifully, too!

Hugs and smiles,

Patti J.

Other supplies used:

Our Daily Bread Designs 6 x 6 Patterned Paper Pack 'Blushing Rose' Collection

Black Cardstock (Hobby Lobby)

White Hammermill 110# Cardstock

Echo Park Cardstock (This & That by Lori Whitlock 'Ornaments' Collection)

A Muse Cardstock and Ink (orange card)

Black ribbon from my stash

Perfect Paper Crafting - Mini Rulers (See my sidebar for details!)

Tombow Adhesive Runner

Thank you, Patti, for showing us how versatile one stamp can be!  A fabulous showcase of how Great Impressions stamps can be used in different ways!  Come back next week for more of Patti's fabulous work!  HUGS and happy stamping to you all!

Inspiration Saturday with Ellen

Hello to all of my Great Impressions friends! Welcome back for more inspiration from the Great Impressions store! It is the second Saturday, and our challenge started this week! This month we are having a BIRTHDAY BASH challenge so I made another birthday card. Hopefully it will inspire you to enter your own creation in our challenge!

(A2: Stamps: Great Impressions Stamps (Someone Like You - H257); DSP: SN@P)

I love birthday parties, so I’m sticking with the challenge theme and making another birthday card! This stamp is from the August release and I just LOVE it! Please do stop by my blog to see all of the details!

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

Here is the link to the current monthly challenge: Birthday Bash!

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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!

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Friday Birthday Fun!

Hello Everybody!

Katy here today to show you a birthday card I made using the Stamp of the Month!

The Stamp of the Month is H257 Someone Like You.  I used black embossing powder for it.  Also, I used E492 Twirly Background in the background.  

Be sure to check out the Great Impressions Online Store.  If you are in the U.S. and spend $25 or more your shipping is free!  Our Monthly Challenge is all about Birthdays-so stop by there as well!

Also, there is lots and lots of inspiration on our Pinterest Boards and Facebook Pages.  :)