Turning Leaves

Back again today with a card for the 

Ellen Hutson Mix it Up challenge with Impression Obsession..

I used the beautiful squiggly line from Ellen's Merry and Bright set, heat embossed in gold twice to make a little panel to stamp inside with the cluster of Impression Obsession leaves that I have had for quite a long time.  The sentiment is also IO and old.  I am thinking that I may have to revisit this challenge with some newer IO stamps, but I love the two used here today!

Thanks for peeking in!

Chriss

Funky and unconventional Christmas

 My uber talented friend and fellow WINO, Lydia, is our guest Muse this week at 
Muse: Christmas Visions
I got to see the card in person last night as the WINOS gathered for our monthly Happy Hour :)))
She made a video too!  If you have never heard Lydia's calm voice before, head on over!  You are in for a treat :)

Lydia really surprised me with her colour combo!  She LOVES blues, but made her card with new distress inks colours.  I used non traditional colours too, Abandoned Coral and Cracked Pistachio, a funky (Flinstones-like) circles stencil and an Impression Obsession Christmas tree sporting coral ornaments.  I also used a frame of sparkly silver paper around my funky tree image and my sentiment is a wonky looking traditional style from the SU Bells and Boughs set that I heat embossed with regular silver EP.

Thanks for taking a peek and I hope to see you over in the Muse: Christmas Visions gallery this week!
Chriss

Golden-Perfect Pearls

Homework for Day 2 of the class I am taking at OCC Stretch your stamps...yep, you knew this was coming right ;)

Remember Perfect Pearls?  I think I must have every colour produced and have not used these in years.  Probably close to 10, but I sure am glad that I still have them because one of the beautiful card samples in class yesterday was made with PP.  I made several card fronts in different metal shades and colours and I have two to show you today from the stack.
I just wish that I could have captured the elegant glow better than I was able too.  I used a background stamp from Impression Obsession that has been totally neglected from birth.  It's the Cover a Card "Fizz".   Pretty straight forward technique, but I learned some extra tips in class, Yay!
The first card is a Thank You and I got a little crafty with my Memory Box Lavalier circle die.  Inlaid and die cut MB sentiment on top and added some glitter leaves for embellishment.  The hearts on the next card are die die cut with some PTI dies onto a foil card stock and then layered onto larger red hearts.  Same background technique and I inlaid the Elizabeth Craft Congratulations die.  I am linking this to the Card Concept Challenge #16 to create a wedding card.  I think that this might qualify for an elegant card?
This last card was created for the Case Study challenge... that has expired...but I wanted to show it anyway.  A very simple card made with the Memory Box 
PoppyStamps Blooming Poinsettia dies.  This card may be my Christmas card that I mass produce this year.  I love how easy and simple this card is.
Well, onto today's lessons before I get too far behind!
Thanks for stopping in.  I appreciate the visits :)
Chriss

Impression Obsession - Masculine challenge

Happy Monday!
I made a masculine card for the current challenge going on at Impression Obsession stamps.
This beautiful seahorse  (IO D1325) was stamped in SU Calypso Coral onto kraft cs and I fussy cut.  I stamped the detailed fern image (D5011) twice onto kraft as well in PTI Aqua Mist and fusyy cut as well.  I made the background card base with these two colours of ink with just a back and forth motion of my sponge daubers. 
I think I would like to do the background over with a water colour technique...
Another simple card, just a little bit of time for the cutting :)))
That's it for now.  Thanks for taking a peek!

Chriss

Is it Spring yet?

This card is for the following three challenges
CR84FN12 color challenge
The Dirty Dozen Sketch DDSKETCH0111
The Impression Obsession Is it Spring Yet? 
I wanted to use this cute Spring Garden Boot  That I purchased just before Christmas and I actually pictured it in pinks and lavenders, so when this CR84FN challenge appeared yesterday, I gathered up my supplies and started on it this morning.  I am really enjoying embossing kraft card stock (this one is PaperTrey Ink) and love the deep impressions.  I also used PTI's Dotty Biscotti to match the solid PTI cs "Lavender Moon". I used the Dirty Dozen sketch of the month from SCS, just rotated it a quarter ;)

I coloured the boots and flowers with Copic markers and cut out, dimensional foam on the back and layered onto a kraft Spellbinder oval.  Another very easy card!

Thanks for taking a peek!

Chriss

The beautiful lavender lace...from Ros.  I loved everything that she sent to me in a swap last Fall and I am actually using instead of hoarding :)

Impression Obsession flowers for my friend

Hi everyone! Hope you are having a great Saturday! It has been a busy one today and I thought I had missed this deadline for the Impression Obsession blog to make a card for a friend and send it to her, but at the last minute, here I am.

I used this pretty floral vase for my focal point and used Cosmo Cricket papers and an eyelet and tulle border. I added some colour coordinated brads on either end of the eyelet length.

Very, very easy and quick! Love these colours!

Chriss

Up, up & Away in my Beautiful ...Pumpkin!

Hi there everyone! I was able to make a card this morning for the Impression Obsession challenge "Out of the Box"..to use a stamp for something other than it was designed for. I have had this beautiful pumpkin stamp since last Thanksgiving, and I did use it as an elegant pumpkin, but today it has been reinvented as a hot air balloon. How crazy is that!

I used Basic Grey's Archaic 6 X 6 paper pad and stamped directly onto and cut out. I coloured with a green Copic marker, grayish olive to fill in some of the open space.

I stamped an old basket stamp that I had in my stash and cut off the handle and straight cut the sides to resemble the carrying basket and then I attached some black wire to the basket and added a narrow strip of the Archaic stripe to the basket and secured the basket and ballon together with a thin black wire.

The plastic letters are from an unused box of Spare Parts letters that I have had for a couple of years.

I had fun making this "balloon" card and wanted to thank the folks over at Impression Obsession for this challenge that really made me think...out of the box!

Thanks for taking a peek,

Chriss

Happy Birthday Martini Drink

There is another challenge going on over at Impression Obsession to make a card any shape, other than a rectangle, using I.O. stamps. I needed a birthday card for a friend and thought this Birthday Martini drink stamp was a perfect fit for her! After deciding on the stamp, I selected some fun papers to work with from the DCWV Citrus mat stack. I stamped the image in SU basic gray ink and coloured with my Copic markers. The shape I decided to make my card is the largest Octagon from the Spellbinders large octagon nestabilities set. I placed it over the folded white card stock base with one edge of the octagon die not touching the card stock fold. I layered and adhered a floral pattern strip and another green pindot strip(I used a MS border punch on the green)over a larger piece of the green and cut out the same size octagon from the green paper with tiny white pindots on it for the card front. I then embellished the border punched flower centers with these orange rhinestones from Kaiser. They add a nice sparkle and pick up the orange in the floral pattern paper. I cut another smaller octagon for placement under the top of the glass and then attached a new silk 1/4" ribbon from PaperTrey Ink across the front of the card. The whole panel was attached to the card base and I finally added the martini to the card with dimensional foam for some added dimension. This was a really fun card for me to work on! Thanks for looking~cheers!~chriss

Just sittin'

The year's end is fast approaching...time to renew

Moxie Fab World's Tuesday Trigger has a calming effect on me. Take a look at this room from Coastal Living. Serene. Love the colours.

The colour combo was most inspirational to me.

I decided to use this chair image from Impression Obsession and coloured it in a light warm gray with my Copic markers. I think the gray gives the chair that worn, has a history look to it. Maybe many stories were read/told from that chair...

The cushions on the chair took their colour combo from this pattern paper from DCWV "Berry Street" from the Farmer's Market pack. I love the textures and quality of this company.

Here is a close up of the chair. I cut out all of the spaces on the chair back with an Exacto knife. I have to tell you that this took more than the 5 minutes in my head that I thought it would! I do like the outcome however :) I also decided that the seat cushion should be puffy, so I stamped out another and coloured, backed it with dimensional foam and voila', a puffy seat cushion.

The punches I used are MS and the sentiment is also Impression Obsession.

Thanks for peeking in again,

cheers, chriss

Falling Leaves

World Card Making day will be celebrated tomorrow, and what a busy day it will be!  So many events that are available to participate in!  I have made today's card for two challenges that are not directly associated with WCMD but wanted to try at the challenges.  Moxie Fab World has issued a challenge to make a "gradient" card and the Impression Obsession blog has issued a challenge to make a grateful/thankful card using I.O. stamps.  I have a good assortment of I.O. stamps, but only one leaf image, and I really wanted to use a falling leaf theme.  Here it is.  I was inspired by the Basic Grey Indian Summer 6 X 6 paper pack.  I stamped directly onto the papers and cut out the leaves.  I arranged them on a yellow panel and added a MS border punched from a different colour and layered it onto the same yellow so that it would be visible.  I like the way the card turned out, rich colours and I think that I managed to create some movement so that the leaves kinda look like they are falling.  Thanks for taking a peek, I am always thankful that you stop by and leave a little comment ;)

Cheers, Chriss

Not so scary...

I love Halloween...I love the colours.  When I saw these stamp images from Impression Obsession, I knew I really wanted them and ordered them right away.  The first is a card I made with the candy corn skewered Halloweeni Martini.  I chose to create a really basic and plain layout, but I like how it works with the papers.  The papers (striped and spider webs) were purchased last year from Making Memories, after Halloween and on sale at Target.  I also bought some brads at the same time that are the same line, see the little bat brad at the bottom of the martini glass?  I stamped the image on an ivory cs in craft ink and clear embossed.  I then coloured with Copic markers and covered the whole image with a crystal effects type product and let dry overnight.  I used a scalloped rectangular Nestability to cut the image out and sponged the edges with TT ink.  The orange spotted dp is from PaperTrey Ink from the Hocus Pocus pack (love it!) The image is from the SU set Eat, Drink & be Merry.

The next photos show a little chocolate book that I will be making quite a few of in different variations.  I love making these for Halloween and Christmas and literally make 100's of them.  People really seem to like receiving them, after all, who doesn't like a little chocolate now and then!  The cupcake image is also an Impression Obsession image and I coloured with Copics and cut out the "muffin top" part.  The cupcake liner was stamped directly on the PTI dp and cut out.


Hope you like them and have a great Thursday!  Thanks for stopping by,

Cheers!

Baby Boy Blessing

This is a sweet card to celebrate a new baby boy.  I don't have a need for it right now, but I would really love to build up my card reserve for all of the special occasions in life, so this one will be in the reserves...I paper pieced the little sailboat and knee patches.

I made it for CPS sketch challenge 108.  I thought it would be the perfect layout.

Thanks for taking a peek!

ch{{rs, chriss

~recipe~

stamps Impression Obsession sentiment & overalls, SU duck from By Ones & by Twos

paper Prima textured yellow, SU confetti beige, Chloe's Closet gingham

ink Mem. Tux. blk

access. Copic markers, dimensionals