Breakfast Anyone?

Did you know that breakfast food is all the rage in stamping land right now?  Really??  

I just didn't get it until I saw this little number from Great Impressions.  Found it at my local craft store and just had to have it!  I have the wood version, but you can also get it in the new Stickables.

Such a retro feel to it don't ya think?  

Perfect fit for October Afternoon's Modern Homemaker DSP.

To start, I stamped the toaster on some textured metallic card stock in Memento Black.  I Let the ink set awhile as it will want to smear on metallic papers (learned that the hard way!)  While this was drying,  I stamped the image again on heavy weight ivory card stock with Memento Rich Cocoa, colored the toast and drew grill marks.  Do this before you 

fussy cut out the toasts so you have a larger area to hold on to.

When the ink was set, I fussy cut the toaster.  I used some tiny silver brads for the knobs and glued on the googly eyes.   Again, because of the smear factor, I hand drew the smile on my ivory cardstock, colored it, then cut and glued it on the toaster. 

I choose a couple of red brads to highlight my sweet sentiment.  Then popped up 

both the toaster and sentiment for lotsa yummy dimension.   

You will find I rarely make a flat card (lol!)

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Thanks for letting me share a little bit of creativity!
Have a wonderful day stampers!

Hugs,

Jenny

Bookmark Us!

Good morning everyone. I hope everyone's having a great start for the new year. The first week is already over. Seeing all the post this last week was so much fun. I really hope you enjoyed seeing different creations daily. I am so excited to be working with a bunch of talented creators. I tell you this week we have some good stuff coming up so come back each day and check out some of our creations.

I decided to do something different this week and make a bookmark. I really need a bookmark for my notebook that keeps me organized with all my design teams and commissions. So I did something very clean and simple (CAS). 

I used an Ink Essentials Manilla tag and covered it with crumbled up tissue paper for texture. Once that dried a little I went ahead and used a Tim Holtz stamp and embossed it with Sparkle n Sprinkle's clear embossing powder. I then used distress inks tumbled glass and worn lipstick to get the colors I got. I really loved the Romantic Postage (F425) so I used this stamp with Sparkle n Sprinkle's gold detail powder (My favorite powder so far). I then stamped Je t'aime (A137) all over with Memento's tuxedo black ink and finished it off with some jute string at the top. It was so quick and easy to make. I think you might spend more time waiting for it to dry if you are an air dryer (I used my heat gun). I really love this stamp so you may see it on a few upcoming projects!

This was a real easy bookmark to make. we would love to see your creations using some Great Impression Stamps. The store will hopefully be opening up February 1st. They are working hard to get it all put together.  Also, the January stamp of the month program should be coming put to stores shortly! 

Make sure to come back tomorrow. Jenny has something yummy planned for you tomorrow.

Stop by my blog for any extra details I may have left out

and last but not least

make a GREAT IMPRESSION!!!

Formal DT Introduction!

What did you all think of our very first week of posts? These girls are really amazing and I'm so thankful they have joined Great Impressions to help me get this wonderful company known all over the web!

Unfortunately the web site is not up and running yet....Great Impressions is now shooting for Feb. 1 but until then...there are a few online stores and local craft stores that carry Great Impressions stamps so you can still get your hands on them!!!

Click on this link FIND A STORE and see if their are any retailer's in your area or an online store you like to shop at!

I wanted to formally introduce our Design team to you, so now not only will you know their name and blog's but you also get to see their beautiful faces and learn a bit more about them!

DELORIS

Deloris is showing off her beautiful puppy :-)

My hubby and I are retired and live in a small town in Ohio.   The puppy in my photo is a very spoiled miniature poodle that we rescued from a animal shelter last Christmas.  He is my crafting buddy.  He loves sit on my lap and watch what I am working on.  I enjoy all types of crafts like painting, sewing and crochet, but my favorite is creating projects with rubber stamps.

JENNY

Hi! My name is Jenny and I call a little town in Southeastern Wisconsin home. My life is blessed with 4 wonderfully busy children and a DH that is still in shock mode when it comes to my little stamping addiction. Did I say stamping addiction?....I meant paper....bling...alterables...I love it all! I'm known for hoarding my supplies too. (grin) When my crazy schedule allows, and I'm not in my crafty room, you can find me on a tennis court or working out. I'm super excited to be designing for Great Impressions Stamps! If my creativity inspires you in some way, than I am one happy gal!

THERESA

Hello my name is Theresa and I have been crafting for as long as I can remember. I had
the opportunity to manage a popular craft store for over 6 years and enjoyed inspiring
Other’s to create. I starting my blog The Scrapbooking Queen as an additional outlet for
my crafting and it interact with other like mind crafters. My blog has now grown to over
2500 followers and it has been a joy to share my love of crafting with others via the
internet. I have extensive experience in marketing and feel it is one my greatest
strengths. Currently my husband and I co-own a Notary service. I am the mother of two wonderful adult girls and a sweet grandson Jason , a have 4 fur~babies, Princess Penelope, Ringo, Chip and Annabella who you see also inspire some creative of the own

ANGI

Colorado-based crafter Angi Crandall has been making stuff most of her life. Fueled by her endless curiosity and embracing “it takes a village…” she has been learning from and being inspired by the artists around her and has journeyed into photography (can you say Mamarazzi?!), hybrid scrapbooking, stamping, painting, fiber arts and most recently mixed media art.

Being on the move as a mother of four and a military spouse has challenged her to ‘adapt and overcome’ and has encouraged her love of upcyling and recycling as evidenced by the found and vintage items in all areas of her art, including paper crafting.

Believing that the creative process should be “fun, empowering, renewing…whatever it is that we need in our lives to help us continue our journey and to leave a legacy of who we are with those we love…”she shares her passion to create through stamping and altered art workshops designed to encourage women to discover their own fabulous creative selves using an assortment of mediums, foundations and techniques.

With her fun lovin’ smile and her sunshine attitude Angi invites you to join her:“Life’s messy, so jump in and make a little creative mayhem – we’ll clean up later!”

SHANNA

Hi everyone my name is Shanna Shands. I am a SAHM to one crazy little girl and one little fur baby. I started out with cross stitching then worked my way to scrap-booking and then I found ... card making! I am addicted to copics. I have almost every single one. I really love to color. If I had to describe my style... I would say I am a work in progress. I have yet to define it as I see so many ideas out there but I will eventually settle down into my own I guess when I find it. I live by the philosophy of practice, practice, practice... and I can never stop learning and applying what I learn to daily things!

APRIL

(I hate doing this stuff)

Whelp....I'm April Lower and I have been stamping for over 10 years now. I got started by going to an SU! party (thinking at age 22...what  on earth do I want to "stamp" for), I came home with a catalog and the rest is history. I have come a long way since that first party and have branched out A LOT! Three years ago I got my first NON SU! stamp (Stamping Bella) and I realized there is this whole other world of stamping....I started a blog, got more and more stamps from different companies, even started getting digi's and then began trying out for DT teams!  And here I am today! I have two children a boy and a girl and they are the light of my life. I am currently a SAHM and devote my non family duties to crafting! I have been married to my husband for 15 years and we just separated from the Air Force this past year and are currently settled in North Carolina. Being that we have moved all around the past 15 years I'm not sure how long we will be in North Carolina but it's a good start to our new civilian life!

Teddy Wishes Kinda Day

Happy Saturday everyone and 

welcome to The Queen's 1st official post

for Great Impressions Stamp Company as one

of their new Design Team Members...

The Queen's is so excited to showcase this

adorable Old Fashion Teddy Stamp isn't just so cuddle.

The Queen used My Minds Eye Paper Stack

you can get MME Stacks from The Hen's Den

The Queen used her Spellbinder to 

create the perfect setting for the 

sentiment and inked it with 

Tim Holtz Distress Ink

Sentiment is Take it Easy #E671

The cute Old Fashion Teddy is #G66 and he

was colored using copic markers... 

Ribbon is a perfect touch with it's sweet bow...

Now make sure you check out the 

New Great Impression On-Line store and

wonderful blog... 

Fabulous Friday~When it Rains

Have you all enjoyed your week full of wonderful creations from the DT? We still have one more to go on Saturday so make sure you stop back by for Theresa's post and then Sunday I will have a post up to formally introduce the Design team to all of you!

I guess we have all been on the same path this week with our nice bright fun colored cards...it just seems that once you get through Christmas you don't want to look at another Christmas card or winter card let alone make them!

I decided for my very first post to use "When it Rains". It's such an adorable stamp with those cute rain boots and it kinda' fits me since I love cute shoes in general a great card to put a smile on a friends face.

I have been dying to make my first post because I wanted to tell you about the Great Impressions rubber. It's amazing!!! It is so deeply etched that you get the best stamped image every time. I promise you if you have never bought from Great Impressions before you will not be let down by the quality of these stamps.

I have used the following items on my card:

Great Impressions Image~When it Rains (F448)

Cardstock~SU!

Designer Paper~Prima Marketing

Rhinestones (I kinda lost the packaging)

Copic markers

SU! ribbon

Martha Stewart border punch 

Well, Hello There Cupcake!

Happy Thursday!

Angi here, aka Mistress of Mayhem, known to a precious few as MoM (4 in particular)...I'm sure more than a few of you can relate at this time of year as the holidays wind down and we get back to the (hopefully) less hectic pace of Life...lol

It's day 5 of 2012, my kiddos are back in school and I have a wonderful feeling it's going to be a GREAT year of crafting!

I don't know about you, but I can never have too many cards and Great Impressions' December Stamp of the Month stamps hit that sweet spot! When I first saw the images, I naturally thought 'birthday.' After playing with the stamps I realized these stamps aren't just for birthdays; there are so many adorable and usable images...cupcakes, cocoa/tea/coffee cups, candles, balloons, and more.


Lots of celebration inspiration!

With Valentine's Day on the way, you could easily whip up a few of these with a little prep work. The frame is heat embossed in white and the cupcakes are simply stamped and 'water' colored using ink and a water brush.

Want to add that special touch? Get out the liquid appliqué and your favorite glitter and frost those cupcakes! You won't believe the difference this little detail will make... If you'd like more detailed instructions and pictures of this and other Great Impressions projects I've made visit my blog here.

If you'd like to see the December's Stamp of the Month stamps visit this post. And I know after you do, you'll want to get your own, so visit HERE to find a store near you that participates in the program!

There's a new set of stamps Every. Single. Month. You won't be disappointed!

Thanks for stopping by and sharing a little of your day with us!

Inky hugs,
Angi


Supplies:
Stamps:   Great Impressions Stamps Cupcake Border (E743), Flourish Frame (K96)
Ink:   Memento Tuxedo Black; Tim Holtz Distress Ink Vintage Photo; Versamark Watermark
Patterned Paper:   Little Yellow Bicycle "Savor" Kitchen Medley
Tools:   Spellbinders Scalloped Oval Nestabilities, heat gun
Embellishments:   ribbon,
Other:   foam tape; white liquid appliqué; American Craft Zing Embossing Powder White; Tim Holtz Blending Tool; Glue Dots; Atyou Spica Lipstick; Bow Easy

Dropping in to wish you a very happy birthday!

I am so excited to be posting my first design team project. I have several birthdays coming up and thought I would make a fun easel style card with one of my favorite Great Impressions stamps. I love this little mouse. He always makes me smile.

Here's a list of the supplies I used for my easel card:

Great Impressions Stamps:
D423, B139
Memento Tuxedo Black Ink for image
Versafine Onyx Black Ink for saying
Prismacolor Pencils:
Peach
Light Peach
Light Umber
Marvy Le Plume II Marker #5 Yellow
DCWV Yellow Checks Paper
Cardstock: White, Yellow
Yellow ribbon
Pop dots, glue dots
Silhouette SC machine
Silhouette cutting file:
Scalloped Border Set C00318_31857
Spellbinders:
Nestabilities Labels Eight
Classic Scalloped Ovals Large
Classic Ovals Large

2z Days with Jenny

I'm so happy to be joining you each Tuesday here at the Great Impressions Blog!

Has everyone survived the holidays?

I'm getting back into the swing of things by jumping 

right to the next holiday (giggle!)

Yep, time to think about those Valentines Day projects.  My card showcases the 

"Heart Blossoming Tree".    Really a versatile stamp...you can dress it up with ornaments for Christmas or add Fall leaves.  I was a bit nervous lining up my stamp next to my computer generated sentiment.  But no worries...with the new Stickable Stamps the image is printed on the backside

 of the stamp which makes it super easy to line up.

I punched out some tiny hearts, glued them on and added a few falling just for fun.  The dainty flowers and leaves are colored in with my Copics and a tiny pearl added in the centers.  My tree is planted on a half circle cut with a Nestie, 

then covered with a shiny satin ribbon tied on with an embellie.  

For a close-up come visit my blog here.

Below you will find thumbnails of the supplies I used...click on any 

and it will take you to a website that offers the product.  

Gotta love that - it's like my own personal shopper!

Supplies

Similar flower embellie shown below

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I shall be back next week....hopefully I won't chatter away too much (grin!)

Can't wait to see what all of you create with Great Impressions stamps!   

Hugs,

Jenny

Happy New Year and a Hi

Happy New Year!!!! Can you believe it... it is already 2012. 

Well everyone my name is Shanna and I am soooooooo pleased to be making my first post as a design team member for Great Impressions. These stamps are amazing and when I saw how many there were I went crazy picking them out. 

Great Impressions has such a variety and stamps that can work with anyone's budget, and guess what..... they come with your choice of wood mounted or cling mounted (STICKABLES) for acrylic blocks. 

Who doesn't love more room for more stamps???

For my very first card, I thought I would make something bright and different. As we all have just finished up Christmas and Happy Holiday cards, I needed a drastic change . If you are anything like me I was done with Christmas the day after and got almost all the decorations put up last Monday. 

I am ready for BRIGHT, SPRINGY, and SUMMERY cards and that is what I brought to you all today!

I used A School of Fish (E649) and Just Floating (E648) to create my bright summery card. I used some plain white, light blue, and hot pink cardstock. I also used a sheet of paper from Fancy Pants: Beach Babe paper pad. I thought the paper complimented the stamps perfectly.

 I also used some lime green baker's twine and a dew drop to make it look like a hanging pitcure. I did my sentiment (Just Floating) in white embossing powder, added some glossy accents to the bubbles, used clear microbeads for inside the shaker, some saved acetate from packages, SP dies large scalloped circle and classic circle, foam tape, memento black ink for the fish, veramark watercolor ink for the and I colored my image with distress inks spiced marmalade and broken china. 

Stop by my blog for any extra details I may have left out

and last but not least

make a GREAT IMPRESSION!!!