Warm Winter Mittens

 Hello Everyone:  All of us at Creative Impressions trust that you had a lovely holiday with friends and family.  If it is as cold as it is here in Colorado, you are going to need those Winter mittens!

I used Creative Impressions stamp set TT216 Winter Sentiments to create this card.  I stamped the mittens in light blue, cut them out and placed a Sm. White Button 51000 on each of the mittens.  Then I set them aside.

I cut a piece of patterned pattern and adhered it to a dark red cardstock mat and then to a white card.  I cut a strip of coordinating patterned paper, backed it in dark red and adhered it to the card.  I cut a piece of the red cardstock and notched it to create a banner for the center of the card.  I stamped the sentiment on a piece of white cardstock scrap and notched the ends, finally adhering it to the card top using foam tape.

A lovely felt snowflake was then created using one of our Large Felt Winter Snowflakes in light blue (63021)  I added a Medium Winter White Felt Snowflake (63000) over the blue one and attached them together with a Lt Blue Large Round Paper Fastener (Winter 90904).  I adhered two short pieces of Magenta/White Baker's Twine (80707) to the back of the snowflake before adhering it to the dark red banner.

I took the previously created mittens and adhered them to the bottom of the Baker's Twine, then to the banner using foam tape.

That's it!  Not hard to make and sure to warm the hearts of all your friends and family this Winter!  Time to celebrate the beauty of Winter!

Susan

Merry Christmas from Creative Impressions

 Hello Everyone:  All of us here at Creative Impressions would like to wish all of you a very Merry Christmas and Happy Holiday Season!  We are grateful for each and every one of our customers and friends!  We can sum up our feelings in this tag we would like to share with you!

This tag was created using Creative Impressions Stamp Set number  4567 Holiday Squares.                          The three different designs were stamped on a white cardstock panel with the sentiments stamped in the middle.  The panel was adhered to a red cardstock panel and then to a tag covered in a patterned paper.  Several ribbons were used, including 80335 Happy Holidays, Glimmer Ribbon 70250 Red and Gingham Ribbon in Red/Green 80249.                       .

We look forward to the New Year and wish you all Stockings that are Full, that your Christmas Season is Evergreen and we would like to share Our Love with you this Holiday.

All of us at Creative Impressions

Retro Holiday Joy

Hello Everyone:  Hopefully you all saw the Retro Christmas Tree card I made earlier.  I had so much fun going back in time creating that card, I decided to try another!

Have you ever tried making your own background paper?  Here is a very easy method to do it using Creative Impressions stamp from Set Y552.  I used the same stamp in red, light green and dark green, overlapping in places until the background was filled in.  It took very little time!  Isn't it amazing what such a small stamp can do?

I stamped "Holiday Joy" No. L118 with green and red permanent inks, on a white cardstock panel, cut it out, edged it with green ink and then matted it with a piece of red cardstock.  This piece was adhered over the background piece that was also matted with a red cardstock mat.

Before adhering the entire panel to a white card, I wrapped the left side of the panel with a piece of Evergreen 3/4 " Crepe  Ribbon.  I also created a Poinsettia using Creative Impressions felt Blossoms and Leaves ( Heritage 62102) along  with a mini Round center paper fastener (90112) to hold it all together and adhered it to the lower right corner of the card.

Here are the stamps used:

 

That's all there is to it!  Easy to make for everyone on your Christmas list!

Susan

Happy Holidays

Hello Everyone!  Today I would like to share two different but similar cards with you.  These can easily be mass produced so that everyone on your Christmas list receives one! 

Both of these sentiments are from Creative Impressions Polymer Stamp Set Number  Y566 Holiday Titles.                                        

I stamped the sentiments on a white cardstock panel and then stamped the holly and berries underneath Happy Holidays in the case of the first card and above and below the "Season's Greetings" on the second card.  I added a second strip panel from white cardstock with little ornaments all across the strip stamped in red from Creative Impressions set Y586 Wishes .  I hand drew some little black bows on each of the ornaments.

The second card is made from only one white cardstock panel.  After stamping the holly I stamped only one set of ornaments in red below the lower holly strip.  To finish this panel, I added red Stickles to the holly berries, cut the panel down and matted it with a piece of dark green cardstock.

The decorated cardstock panels on the first card were adhered to a piece of matted patterned paper adhered to a green cardstock panel and two strips of  Glimmer Ribbon (70250 Red) were added onto either side of the panel.  Then the  whole thing was adhered to a white card.

The second card is even more simple.  Just adhere the white panel to a dark green panel, a patterned paper panel, green cardstock and finally a white card.

Here are the stamp sets I used:

Hope you have enjoyed these two wonderful greetings for the holidays!

Susan

Creative Ways with Jan Francis!

Hello Everyone:  I sure have a big treat for you today! Our very own Jan Francis' creative mind has been at work creating this very clever card!  I love it!

This is the stamp set she used.  Who knew it would make such a darling Holiday card!

Jan used stamp "Happy Holidays"  from set number Y494 Happy Holiday to create the background.  She stamped "Happy Holidays" multiple times in pink on a piece of white cardstock which she then adhered to a red mat and finally a white card.  Each of the "presents" were stamped in red and cut out.  A gift wrap bow was then added using Creative Impressions Organdy Bow Ribbon (70200).  So clever!

Happy Holidays  was stamped in darker red and cut out with a circle die.  For more interest, Jan clear embossed the circle and then adhered it to a slightly larger circle.  This was then added to the card and the "presents" were adhered around the sentiment and over the background using foam tape.

Jan also created another card using the same set.  I will be sharing that at the beginning of the year.  Too many Christmas samples to blog for the moment!  Stay tuned!

Thanks again, Jan, for sharing your creativity with us!

Susan

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving from Creative Impressions!  Today we have two Thanksgiving cards provided by Chari Hogsett, simple and sweet for last minute cards.

For the first card, Chari used Creative Impressions Wood Mounted stamp No.  N071 and stamped it on a piece of white cardstock.  She then cut it out using a scalloped die cut and placed an Oak Leaf brad from our Autumn Oak Leaf Assortment (90684) on the piece.  This was then mounted to a lovely mustard yellow panel placed on the diagonal, then to a patterned paper piece and a mustard card.

The second card features Creative Impressions "Thanksgiving Wishes to You' Wood Mounted stamp number J366. This was stamped onto a scrap of yellow cardstock.  The scrap was cut down and the corners punched.  A pretty Butterfly Brad from Creative Impressions Pearl Butterfly Assortment Brads was added to the piece.

A lovely piece of designer paper was adhered to a yellow mat and a strip of Creative Impressions 3/8" Double Grosgrain Ribbon (70957 Yellow with Black) was added towards the bottom of the card.  This matted piece was then adhered to a white card and the smaller yellow piece was finally adhered to the card on an angle.

We here at Creative Impressions give thanks to all our loyal customers and wish you all a very happy Thanksgiving!

Janet, Susan and the crew

The Elf in All of Us!

Hello Everyone:

One of my favorite Christmas movies is "Elf".  I just love that Will Ferrell is determined to teach this "uptight" Dad about the magic of the holidays and having fun in life.  If you love elves and their magic too, you will hopefully love this card:

 I had such a great time creating the card!  Creative Impressions' Polymer Stamp Set number Y554 Inner Elf had all the images I needed with the exception of the small holly from Set TT217 Holiday Sentiments.

I began by stamping the elf hat onto a white cardstock panel with dark green ink. I then stamped the circle with "spikes" below the hat.  I got the idea to create a collar for my elf, so I cut in half two small squares of patterned paper backed by dark green mats, arranging them on the card to look like a collar.  The holly was stamped twice under the collar and then the sentiment "Celebrate you inner elf" was stamped right below.  Note that the words happened to fit perfectly under the holly section.  Yay!  Finally, I stamped the word "elf" from the sentiment on the upper left side of the panel to balance out the composition.

To finish the panel, I colored in the words "elf" and the circles with red  marker and then put red Stickles over  the top and on the holly berries.   I used green Stickles to create the "undershirt" between the collar edges.  I adhered two small Creative Impressions red buttons (51002) on the collar outside edges and a bow created from our Thin Jute Twine (80615 Red) that I added to the center of the collar.

I also added a sentiment to the inside of the card:

This was created using a small elf hat from our wood mounted stamp E214 Retro Elf Hat with "Holiday Hugs" underneath and the same holly used underneath the word "hugs".  This could even be designed as the front of the card!

Here is the Creative Impressions stamp set that I used:

My mother was so excited about the card I had to make more for her to send to her friends!  How about that?

Hope you have enjoyed this card and will make some for yourselves?

Susan

Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree

Hello Everyone:

Have you been thinking about your Christmas card/s design this year?  Yes, it's that time of the year when the holidays sneak up on us and we have to think ahead.  I sat down and had some fun creating a variety of cards - some quirky and some religious - all fun to create!  I started off with a retro card which turned out to be the most fun!

Making this card had me singing "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" nonstop!  Sure got me in the spirit of the upcoming holiday!  I stamped the tree from Creative Impressions stamp set Y552 Rockin' Around  on a piece of scrap white cardstock with dark green permanent ink.   I colored the tree with green and red markers and then added some Stickles glitter glue to accent parts of the ornaments and the  tree top ornament.  Green dye ink was added around the edges of the piece and it was then matted with a scrap of red cardstock.  Set aside.

The sentiment "Rockin Around the Christmas Tree" was also stamped on a scrap of white cardstock, green ink was added around the edges and a red mat added.  Set this piece aside.

Now the tree top ornament was stamped with green permanent ink two more times and cut out.  Now it was time to put everything together!  I found some patterned paper that went with my design and mounted a piece onto a red mat.  I wrapped a piece of our fabulous Wired Organdy Bow Cord (70200 Red)  along the right side of this piece.  I adhered the sentiment to the center of the ribbon and the two tree toppers above and below the sentiment.  I had an extra red bow that I adhered to the base of my tree.

To finish, I placed the previously decorated retro Christmas tree piece to the left side of my patterned paper panel.  This panel was adhered to a white card and it was done.  Love it!

Hope you enjoy this card!  Have fun making some yourselves!

Susan

Happy Thanksgiving!

 Hello Everyone!  Now that Halloween is behind us, we know that Thanksgiving can't be far behind! I have a lovely Thanksgiving card I would like to share with you:

For this card I used Creative Impressions stamp #V163.  I love this stamp as it is a solid red rubber stamp that I could add ink directly to,  using a brush to dab ink onto the edges of the stamp, leaving a bit of white showing in the center.  This was stamped onto a scrap of white cardstock.  Once stamped, I used CI stamp "Happy Thanksgiving " from our set # Y222 Thanksgiving to stamp the sentiment directly onto the leaf.  I  cut out the leaf and set it  aside.

I created a background from a piece of patterned paper for the top of the card and a brown stippled piece on the bottom, all adhered to a brown cardstock panel.  I wrapped two ribbons along the crease where the papers met - brown with white Dot Organdy Ribbon (70363) and Single Stitch Grosgrain Burgundy with Black (70929).

Now it was time to place Creative Impressions Felt Autumn Leaves (63100) onto the decorated panel along with the previously stamped leaf.  These leaves are absolutely fabulous and add so much to your Fall/Thanksgiving cards!  I laid the stamped leaf down and placed the leaves around it until I was happy with the composition.  Then I adhered the leaves to the panel using matte medium and then attached the leaf over the top of the leaves using foam tape.

This finished panel was adhered to a white card and it was done!  So easy to make using our felt leaves and stamped leaf.

Hope you will make this card yourself.  You will find it to be another easy and fun card!

Enjoy!

Susan

If the Broom Fits

Hello Everyone:

Today we have one last easy Halloween card featured contributed by Chari Hogsett.  

Chari began by dry embossing a piece of orange cardstock and layering a die cut piece of black cardstock over the top.  She used Creative Impressions stamp #                              .  For the cute sentiment and finished if off by using a stamped broom with cut pieces of Natural Thin Twine (80604) over the top.  A cute little jack-o-lantern embellishment completes the broom.

Need a last minute card to send for Halloween?  This is it!  Thanks for the contribution, Chari!

Susan

 

Sunflower Photo Layout

Hello Everyone!  One of the things I love most about paper crafting are the variety of things that one can create with the same materials!  Here is an example of a beautiful sunflower layout!

 I wish I could give credit to the person who created this lovely page, however, it was discovered in our sample box with no name!  If it's you, please let me know!  

Now it's time to take those wonderful Fall photos and put them in a scrapbook!  A lovely plaid background paper was used for the background and a pretty sunflower paper was cut diagonally and adhered to two corners of the page.  A photo mat was created from a coordinating paper.  I thought is was a great idea to adhere a strip of the sunflower paper to the bottom portion of the photo mat and then wrap a piece of Creative Impressions  1/4" Mini Check Gingham Ribbon (80184 Red & Black) around the paper!

Here is a close up of some of the page detail.

The page designer cleverly created a square design using the same paper as the photo mat as a base over two colors of cardstock.  A circle was cut from the same plaid background paper along with two leaves that were die cut.  A clever sunflower was created by using a felt MediumFelt Blossom and Leaf (62102 Heritage) with a  Large Burgundy Round (80702) in the center.   Photo corners were added to the edges of the square and finally a  Burgundy Heritage Spiral Clip (85055) was added to the side of the square.  Such a great idea!  

The greeting "Celebrate" was stamped in the right lower corner and "friend" was stamped with an alphabet set.

To finish, the same gingham ribbon wrapped around the base of the photo mat was threaded through the top portion of the sunflower mat after two holes were punched.  The ribbon was knotted and a darling hanger was created.

Hope you enjoy this scrapbook page and will create one of your own!

Susan

Happy Halloween from Creative Impressions!

 Hello Everyone!  Hope you are having a lovely Fall season and enjoying the cooler weather.  I have one last Halloween card to share with you that is super easy!

I don't like the real scary images that seem to pop up now on Halloween.  I love the fun and innocence of years past.  I think this card shows that.  This card features our Halloween Felt Shapes (63110) along with the sentiment from Creative Impressions stamp Q230.  This card would make a super easy last minute card for someone special or for kids to make!  Wouldn't this be a fun project for them?

Once I placed a patterned paper panel onto a black card, I started placing my felt shapes onto the panel.  I began by punching out a circle from a scrap of patterned paper to represent a dark moon.  I adhered it to the top left of the panel and placed two felt bats flying in the moonlight.  Then I adhered the word "Boo" and a ghost to the lower part of the card.  I would recommend using just a dab of Matte Medium as this doesn't tend to seep through the felt unless you use too much.

To finish the card I placed the sentiment at the bottom using foam tape and wrapped a piece of Single Stitch Grosgrain Ribbon in Orange with Black (70900) around the left side.  This panel was then adhered to a white card.  Easy and fun.

Happy Halloween from all of us at Creative Impressions!

Susan

Flying Monkeys - Oh My!

 Hello Everyone:  Today I would like to share with you a super simple card using a Creative Impressions Sentiment stamp and a Graphic 45 image:

Isn't this a fun card?  I stamped Creative Impressions stamp Q230 onto a piece of white scrap cardstock and separated the top and bottom sentiments, backing them with brown mats.  I then set them aside.  I took two pieces of Double Stitch Grosgrain Ribbon in Black with Orange stitching (70956) and adhered them  to either long side of a patterned paper panel adhered to a brown mat.  All that was left was to position a Graphic 45 Flying Monkey panel (from their Magic of Oz collection) on an angle and then adhere the sentiments at the top and bottom of the panel.  What could be easier?

Susan

New Artist Alert! Fall Gift Ideas

 Hello everyone:  Today I would like to introduce a new artist who will be contributing to our blog from time to time.  Her name is Lynnelle Clark with sassyclassycrafty.  Today we are featuring a pair of projects Lynnelle did for the Fall:

The first project is a lovely Fall card using a pumpkin cut from a free SVG file with her Cricut and our wonderful Autumn Leaves Felt Shapes (63100). 

The second is a fabulous wine bottle decoration perfect for gifting for a Fall or Thanksgiving party.    Lynnelle first made a wine holder out of paper and heavy cardstock and then created the wonderful tag to go with it.  Again she used Creative Impressions fabulous Autumn Felt Leaves on the main part of the tag.  She added a strip from CI 's Autumn Splendor Printed Twill (80461) along the bottom of the tag.  The top of the tag features a bow created with our Autumn Leaves Printed Ribbon (80118) and another using our Satin Shimmer Ribbon in Golden Brown (71005). 

Hope you have enjoyed Lynnelle's contribution to our blog!  We sure have!

Susan

Witches and Black Cats!

 Hello Everyone!  Ready for another Halloween card?  I have created a fun card using Creative Impressions  felt shapes and stamps:

For this card I used a pice of blue patterned paper for my background.  I punched out a large circle out of scrap white cardstock and added yellow and dark gray ink to it to look like the moon.  Then I punched out a witch from black cardstock and placed her riding in front of the moon.

I used a picked fence die and cut it out of scrap white cardstock, adding some dark gray ink to make it look aged.  Before adding to my panel I stamped some trees with black ink from Creative Impressions stamp set Y594 Nurture You.  I used foam tape to add to the back of the fence pickets and slipped a Black Felt Cat from our Cat Set #63151.  I didn't adhere the tail down until I placed the sentiment with its black mat and orange patterned paper onto the background.  Then I added a bit of Matte Medium to adhere the tail to the sentiment.

Before the panel with the patterned paper and black mat was adhered to the orange panel, I wrapped a piece of Creative Impressions Double Stitch Grosgrain Ribbon Black with Orange (70960) along with a piece of Bakers Twine in Orange/White (80701) along the bottom of the fence.  

To finish the card, I adhered this panel to an orange panel and finally to a white card.

Hope you have enjoyed this card.  Try our felt shapes on your cards.  They are already die cut for you and ready to use!

Enjoy!

Susan

Love is Like a Butterfly

 Hello Everyone:  Today I would like to share with you one of my favorite Jan Francis cards!  Jan loves to use Vellum in her work, something I used to do, but haven't in a long time.

The top layer of the card front is a vellum with words on it.  Jan embossed "Love is Like a Butterfly" (H183, also set Y491) with black ink towards the top directly onto the Vellum.  She then used another piece of vellum to white emboss two small butterflies from set Y491 and a large printed butterfly from (Y492 Fluttering By) She cut the butterflies out and adhered them to the patterned Vellum in the center of the images.  Creative Impressions Chocolate and Taupe Pearls (50514) added to the body of the large butterfly really made it stand out.  Here are some close-ups:

The Vellum layer was adhered to a piece of polka dot pink paper and finally to a folded card.  This is such a clever design and quite easy!  Try it yourself!

Susan

More Sunflower Cards!

 Hello Everyone!  Today I am featuring the second post featuring Sunflower cards and Creative Impressions embellishments.

I posted a tutorial on how I made these cards last week.  I continued to make these cards in the same way, using up the patterned paper scraps I had and adding the fussy cut sunflowers and CI embellishments.

As you can see I pieced more of the paper together:

To the above panel I added a piece of our Brown Web #70188 along with a few fussy cut images.  I still had the hole to cover which wasn't difficult as I still had lot of fussy cut sunflowers:

By adding the birthday wishes sentiment (           ) along with a large sunflower and leaves, no one is the wiser that there was a huge gap in the paper.  To finish I made a bow out of Brown Thin Twine (80603) and adhered it to the side of the sunflower.

You might be wondering where the holes are in this background.  If you look closely, you will see aseveral punched circles in the paper.  These needed to be covered up.

For this card I again used Web Ribbon, this time in Moss (70198), along with a piece of Double Stitch Grosgrain Ribbon  in Brown and an 1/8th inch Grosgrain Ribbon in Mustard (70518) adhering it to the panel before placing a strip of the first patterned paper along the top of the panel.  

All these Ribbons certainly added to the interest of the card.

Last, but not least, the final card shows how much of the background paper that can be covered up without losing its important to the background.  One large sunflower was placed in the center of the card along with several half sunflowers on the top and bottom.  I used Creative Impressions Jumbo Cotton Rick Rack in Yellow (70837) along with Bakers Twine in Black/White (80713) along the left edge of the panel to finish.

I hope  you  have enjoyed these cards along with my tutorial on how they were made.  Take out those scraps and make your own masterpieces!

Enjoy

Susan

Sunflowers and Fall

 Hello Everyone!  We have some wonderful Sunflower Fall cards to share with you over the next two weeks!  They feature Creative Impressions stamps and embellishments which take scraps of Graphic 45 paper to new heights:

In the following photos I will share my technique as to how I created these cards using scraps of one paper collection and then using fussy cut sunflowers from G45 Let it Bee Collection over the top.  Here goes:

As you can see I started off using a white or brown panel and began laying the scraps of patterned paper down.  It doesn't matter if there is hole left as it will be covered with our fussy cut images later. 

As you can see, a perfectly placed sunflower covers our center hole beautifully and no one will know that the paper was previously pieced!  Even if there is a hole in the top or bottom of the card, just take a strip of our first paper pattern and add it to the top of the card panel.

Here are two of the finished cards showing how perfectly placed images can cover the pieced paper.  For this card I used a leftover panel from the first collection and fussy cut sunflowers from Let It Bee.  To add that "Wow" factor, I adhered some of Creative Impressions Dark Umber Brown Buttons #51007 to the centers of some of the sunflowers.  I threaded some Mustard Thin Twine #80611 through the holes in the buttons and tied them off in the back, then adhered the buttons to the centers.  To finish, I wrapped a piece of Brown/White Baker's Twine #80714 around the right side of the card panela and tied a bow.  This panel was then adhered to a white panel.

I created this card in the same way, strategically covering gaps in the base patterned paper.  Before I placed the central fussy cut sunflower, I wrapped a piece of Mustard Grosgrain Ribbon (70553) with a piece of Aqua/White Bakers Twine (80705) over the top around the panel.  Birthday Wishes from                   

was stamped onto a scrap light yellow piece of cardstock, cut out and adhered to a larger aqua mat.  The sentiment was placed among the sunflowers.

Here is the last completed card:

I wrapped a piece of our Brown Grid Ribbon (70283) around the panel before adding the strip of patterned paper at the top.  Thinking of you from                 was stamped on a white scrap and then adhered to a patterned paper panel.

I hope you have enjoyed this mini tutorial of  how these three cards came together,  Stay tuned next week for another three Sunflower cards!

Susan

Forever Friends

 Hello Everyone:  Today I am sharing a card I created using Creative Impressions Nurture You polymer stamp set #Y594.  If you have been following my blog posts (I so hope you are!), you might have noticed that I used this same tree as a halloween tree in my post of August 16th.  I love how versatile this set is!

I stamped the "Friendship Oval" onto a white cardstock panel first and added the Helen Keller quote in the center. I then stamped some of the blossoms from the set towards the bottom of the oval.

I decided to add some color to the inside of the sentiment oval, so I used a blue colored pencil to lightly scribble some color inside.

I stamped the bare tree with dark brown ink, placing some of it inside my sentiment oval.  I  used the smallest leaf stamp to add leaves to the ends of my tree branches and then colored them in with a green colored pencil.

I have a wonderful grass punch that I used to create grass on the bottom.  I punched that out and added it to the bottom of the panel.  There are tons of dies out there that would produce the same effect.

Finally, I adhered the panel to a violet purple patterned paper.  I wrapped Creative Impressions Forever Friends Printed Ribbon #80388 around the right side of the panel and then adhered all to a white card.

I hope you have enjoyed this card and will think outside the box when it comes to using your stamps in different ways.  We appreciate all our friends at Creative Impressions!

Susan

Card Collage by Jan Francis

 Hello Everyone!  I have a treat for you today - a gorgeous Collage Card by Jan Francis:  Check it out!

Isn't this a fun card?  I love all the wonderful textures!  Here we have a combination of doilies, scrap patterned paper, Washi tape, ribbon and embellishments arranged in a fun pattern!  Jan laid everything out, starting with the doily portion, then a punched border,  Washi tape and finally a distressed piece of patterned paper.  Jan also added a stitch line with a black pen.  A heart was cut from patterned paper and adhered to this last piece along with two "postage stamps".  A Pearl Spiral Clip (85013) was added to the heart along with a small jewelry tag stamped wit alphabet stamps to spell the word "hugs".  A piece of Creative Impressions Baker's Twine in Yellow/White (80702) was attached to the Clip.

Jan added a black button (51001)  threaded with another piece of Yellow/White Baker's Twine towards the bottom of the patterned paper piece.  A couple of extra pieces of Washi Tape were added along the right side and a small piece of Black Grosgrain Ribbon (70544)was folded and tucked underneath the piece.  Here are a few close ups of the  embellishments.

Hope  you have enjoyed this card as much as we have!

Susan

Our "Best Witches"

 Hello Everyone and "Best Witches"!  When I saw all the latest Halloween releases, it was hard for me to imagine that Fall is on its way soon and the seasons will be changing!  Once it sunk in, I got right to work to create a fun card using Creative Impressions wonderful stamps:

I started off by die cutting a circle from a "dark sky" pattern from my paper stash.  I then adhered it to a piece of white cardstock which I had previously marked lightly with a pencil to indicate where I would add the yellow and black ink.  I used a blending tool to add the color.  Finally, I added a punched out witch  flying in front of the moon.

I got the idea to use the bare tree from Creative Impressions set Y594 Nurture You.  The set includes leaves, hearts and other small images to fill the tree in, however, I thought out of the box and decided that the tree would make a lovely Halloween tree.  I then stamped the tree in black, varying the height as I went along.  Great Halloween tree!

I wrapped a piece of my favorite Creative Impressions Grid Ribbon #70276 in black around the right side of the card, placing an Orange Bright Glimmer Round #90903 in the center of the knot.  Notice that the ends of the ribbon automatically curl, my favorite part of this ribbon.

Creative Impressions Stamp #Q231 was stamped with black ink on a scrap of white cardstock.  I cut apart the two "Innies and Outies" sentiments, went around the edges of each piece with black ink and then adhered them to a dark orange panel.  The top sentiment was placed at the top right corner of the card panel and the bottom one was adhered to the lower right side of the panel.  The final touch was to adhere the entire panel to a white card.  Easy!

Ready to get those Halloween cards ready?  Now is your opportunity using Creative Impressions stamps and embellishments!

Susan