Easter is Coming!

Hello Everyone!  Are you all working on your Easter cards right now?  Well, I have a treat to share with you, a gorgeous Easter card from our own Chari Hogsett!

 I absolutely love this card! Chari used our Creative Impressions Stamp set Y562 to create this card.  She stamped the Cross using navy blue ink, cut it out and then backed it with a piece of green card stock.  This was then adhered to a navy blue card stock panel with a punched design in the corners.  She then set this panel aside.

"Easter Blessings" was stamped on a piece of scrap white card stock and mounted to a scrap piece of navy blue.  This was set aside.  Now she took the navy blue panel and adhered it towards the left side of a white card.  The Easter Blessings panel was also adhered at this time towards the center right of the card.  A piece of our Olive Green Crepe Ribbon (70138) was wrapped around the card with a bow tied in the center just underneath the navy panel.

Finally, Chari created a lovely white flower using our Medium Sheer Blossom in Pastel (60601) with two small Felt Leaves (Heritage 62002) and a White Mini Round 90111.  This flower was then adhered to the navy panel at the base of the cross.

You will see that there is a lovely embossed panel at the bottom of the card.  Chari's card came like this, however, it would be quite easy to made your own using an embossing folder.  She added some navy blue ink to the scallop pattern on the bottom of the front panel.  Super easy and gorgeous card!  

Hope you enjoyed this card.  More to come!

Susan

Is it Spring yet?

 Hello everyone!  One of the things I love about my dear friend and co-designer here at Creative Impressions is her annual countdown to Spring. Once Winter hits,  Cheryl is all about flip-flops and warm weather, but she lives in the mountains.  I think her last "Spring" post said there were 11 days til Spring.  Well, we have officially arrived!  This card is in honor of Cheryl!

I think we are all ready to see some lovely flowers, I  know I am!  I used Creative Impressions Polymer Stamp Set M111 to create this card.  I started by stamping "Scatter Joy" and "You are my Sunshine" on a green patterned paper panel adhered to a piece of black card stock.  I also stamped the flower design once on the green panel and another time on a piece of white scrap card stock using magenta ink.  I then cut out the flowers and "heart" shaped leaves and adhered them over the top of the original design on the green paper using foam tape.

To add a little fun to the panel, I added one of our white Heart Clips (Pink, Red and White Assort 85034) to the top of the green panel and placed a flower brad (White and Yellow Daisy 90662) inside the heart clip.  I attached another flower brad to the bottom of the panel as well and finished them with a Magenta Mini Round Brad from Tropical Mini Rounds 90194.  (I obviously cut off the prongs with clippers first).    A piece of 1/8" Magenta Grosgrain Ribbon (70508) was wrapped around the bottom of the panel.   I then set the panel aside.

I created another panel using Magenta patterned paper with another piece of black card stock behind it.  I set this aside so that I could first adhere a piece of Celery Leafy Vine (70220) to the top and bottom of a white card.  Then I was able to lay the two panels down to determine placement of three White Mini Rounds from our Primary Mini Round Assort 90190.  Once the mini rounds were in place, I adhered the two panels down on the card.

I hope you enjoyed this little Pop of Spring card and are looking forward to the Season as much as we are!

Susan

A Lovely Floral Sympathy Card

Hello Everyone:  Now that St. Patrick's Day is almost over,  I would like to change gears and share a lovely sympathy card with you.

This lovely Creative Impressions Stamp set is No. YCC203 Floral Sympathy Cards.  I absolutely love the sweet delicate flowers.  I stamped them on a scrap piece of card stock and then colored them with pencils.  I still wanted the flowers to be a white color, so I added a little shading with a very light blue pencil to highlight them.  The only other color I used was green for the leaves.  I also stamped "Thinking of You' up at the top right corner of the panel.

I cut the stamped panel down to size and blended some green dye ink around the edges.  I wrapped the bottom of the panel with a piece of White on White Dot Organdy 70372  and then adhered the white panel onto a green panel.  Finally, I added three Pewter Mini Rounds (95003) to the lower left hand corner.  Set this panel aside.

To a white card, I added a slightly smaller piece of patterned paper that was previously adhered to a partial green panel (You don't always need to add a full mat around a piece of patterned paper or stamped card stock).   I stamped "With Heartfelt Sympathy" directly onto the patterned paper piece towards the bottom of the piece.  I took the previously decorated panel and  adhered it to the card at the upper right.

I don't know about you, but when I make a card that I like, I always try to make more to have on hand.  This one was easy to make, so I made quite a few.  How about you?

Hope you like this wonderful set as well.

Susan

  

Happy St. Patty's Day!

Hello Everyone:

I would like to share two lovely St. Patty's Day cards from our very own Chari Hogsett today.  Hope you enjoy them.

I love how Chari used an embossing folder to frame the lovely sentiment.  She stamped the sentiment with green ink on a separate panel and matted it with a black panel.  She aded a Green Primary Spiral Clip (85006) to the bottom left edge of the panel and then an Antique Triangle (84452) attached with a Primary Green Round (90671) to the upper right side of the panel.  To finish she threaded a piece of Evergreen with Cream Single Stitch Gros Grain Ribbon 70922 through the Triangle and adhered it to the right side of the panel.

To finish, Three Pastel Circle Green Bling 50501 were added to the  card next to the left hand side of the panel.

And now for the second card:

To create this card, Chari used Creative Impressions polymer Stamp Set #Y547 Irish Blessings.  All of the images are from this same set.  She stamped the  main blessing with green ink on a white panel and then added the clover border on the right side and larger clover at the bottom.  She created another smaller white panel using "Happy St. Patrick's Day" along with a smaller clover.  

To finish the card, a patterned paper panel was added to a white card and a piece of Celery 3/4" Crepe Ribbon was wrapped around the panel on the right side.  The previously decorated white panels were then added to the card.  The final touch was a Pastel Bling added to the upper left side of both white panels.

Even though it is hard to see on the photo, Chari did add some shimmer ink to the larger clovers to make them stand out even more.

Happy St. Patrick's Day to all of our wonderful customers!

Susan

Have You Got Your "Green" Ready?

Hello Everyone:  Hope you are all thinking about St. Patty's Day cards!  St. Patty's Day is such a fun holiday!  Here is another card to inspire you!

 This fun card was created using Creative Impressions Polymer Stamp Set M125 St. Patty's Day.  All of the stamped images are from the same set.  I stamped the "leprechauns" hat and pipe first in the center of a white card stock panel and used markers to color in the image.  I then stamped the sentiments above and below the central image. Finally, I added some cute clovers randomly around the panel to finish and colored them in as well.

I went around the card stock panel with some green dye ink and adhered the panel to a green panel.  Set this aside.

To finish, I adhered a piece of patterned paper to a green panel and then to a white card.  I took the previously decorated panel and adhered it to the upper right corner of the card.  I framed the panel with some gorgeous Green Velvet Shimmer Ribbon( 70972).  The last step was to adhere three green Rounds from our Primary Rounds Assortment (90671) to the ends and intersection of the ribbon.  Couldn't be easier!

Hope you like this card.  Look forward to one more St. Patty's Day post next week!

Susan