Spring is Right Around the Corner!

Let's usher in the spring season by being creative!  Creative Impressions offers a great line of My Sentiments Exactly rubber and clear stamps sets.  This sweet bird is a lovely way to look forward to a new season!  Stamped here in Peacock Feathers Distress Ink, the turquoise color combines well with Creative Impressions baker's twine and gypsy ribbon.  There's some glitter ribbon peaking through the tan webbing.

More detail with felt flowers, silver dragonfly layered on a square metal tag and a ribbon loop.  The bottom felt flower is painted white for some delicious texture!

An alternate look is simply achieved by stamping the bird and sentiment with black ink.

You can get these images two different ways.  The cards shown here use a My Sentiments Exactly red rubber stamp or you can choose your sentiment and build the image with MSE clear stamp set.  

Happy Spring, everyone.  It won't be long now!!

 

Happy Valentine's Day from Creative Impressions

Hello Everyone:  Happy Valentine's Day a bit early!  We hope you have enjoyed our Valentine Posts and have your cards ready to send to the special people in your lives.  To celebrate the day, Susan has created a trio of Valentines using our new My Sentiments Exactly stamps.

I have always loved Owls and Roses and decided to feature roses on each of the cards.  Let's start with the Owl card.

I adhered two die cut hearts to the top card mat.   To the large red heart I used foam tape to adhere "You make me smile" to the lower portion of the heart.  Then I stamped this darling Owl twice and lightly colored both images.  I added some "feathers" to their wings and faces and cut them out, placing them side by side like they are sitting on the banner.  To the small die cut red heart I added Single Rose (K339) and once again adhered the rose to the heart with foam tape.  Finally I added one of our Red Heart Paper Fasteners  (90303)just above the large red heart.  That panel was adhered to a red panel and finally to a white card.

Now for the rose cards.  I added color directly to the rose stamp (YY237) and stamped the image onto a white card stock panel.  I then added a ribbon created with our Red 1/4" Organdy ribbon (70630) and finished it with a White Medium Heart Paper Fastener  (90314) in the center of the ribbon before adding the panel to a red panel.  I stamped the Love Stamp (O305) on a piece of white scrap and added this piece to another red panel.  To finish I added a small scrap of black card stock to the upper left corner of the rose panel and placed the "Love" panel to the right side of the rose image.  Note:  I used this Love stamp on both cards, used in different ways.  

As you can see from the stamp, there is writing on the left side which says "Sending all my love" multiple times.  For this card I just used the letters to spell L,O,V,E and covered up the sentiment.

Here is the final card:

Once again I stamped the red rose on a white panel.  I then added the Happy Valentine's Day sentiment (D175) and a Red Heart Paper Fastener to the lower right hand corner.  I stamped the Love stamp once again on another scrap and this time I used just the sentiment and not the letters that spelled love.  Such a versatile stamp!  One day when I was playing with ribbon, I had the idea to thread some of our Celery Leafy Vine (70220) through our  Red Double Organdy Cord (70215) .  I liked it so much that I decided to create a border with it on the left side and bottom of the card.

And there you have it!  Two completely different cards using the same stamp!  Hope you have enjoyed these cards!

Happy Valentine's Day from your friends at Creative Impressions!

Susan