Easter Bonnet and Tea Cup Impression Obsession style!

Here are a couple of cards that I made for the I.O. challenge, to make and Easter card using Impression Obsession stamps.

Although I have been collecting these stamps for a little while now, I didn't have anything that was "true Easter", but I thought, an Easter Tea and stamped the pretty teacup and coloured in Spring colours and put the card together. The white lacey border is a paper doily that I cut the edge off (and it also qualifies for a challenge to use doilies over on the MFB) and I layered it onto a border that I made from a PTI tiny dots paper in Aqua Mist cut with a SU border punch. The white background was created with a Quickutz embossing folder and I added a teeny pearl to the luscious chocolate.

Then I remembered, I have a bonnet. Easter bonnet! This is called the scalloped bucket hat, but as I was looking through the I.O. stamps online, I saw that they have quite a few pretty hat stamps. The flower is also an I.O. hydrangea sprig and the bonnet hat card uses a sketch for the SFYTT that Jen put up today. I had a lot of fun colouring these hydrangea sprigs and blending the purples.

Well, off to clean my mess on the desk now before I can go onto the next challenge!

Thanks for taking a peek,

Chriss

Sparkly and glittery

Hi everyone!  I have a few more cards to share with you from the week-end's WCMD celebration.  This one was a challenge from Julia Stainton over on Ellen Hutson's The ClassRoom, challenge 4.  We were to "glitz" up our trees, paper, holiday images.  I do not use glitter very much, but I sure had fun creating this card and I am glittering right now.  The papers from the Cosmo Cricket "Jolly by Golly" 6 X 6 pack inspired the colour combo that I chose to create with.  I stamped my trees from Impression Obbsession in basic gray ink and coloured, added rhinestones and glitter to a few of them (after cutting them out) and just went to town but in a tasteful way I hope!  I liked how this turned out and had it not been for this challenge issued by Julia S., I probably would not have created anything this fun with glitter.  Hope you like it and thanks for stopping by!

Chriss

Elegant pumpkin

Here is my interpretation of the sketch from Card Positioning Systems.  I have had this elegant pumpkin image from Impression Obsession for over a month now and have just got around to inking up and posting.  A very simple card, both in design and putting together.  I first stamped the pumkin onto ivory cs in a craft brown and clear embossed.  Colouring in was very simple with the Copic markers and I cut the image out.  The background and card cover was embossed with the Pumpkin Swirls CB folder on a pumkiny colour cs and I used the corner rounder on the edges.  The pumpkin was placed on another (textile) embossed piece of River Rock and cut with the Labels 3 Spellbinder.  I sponged the edges with pumpkin pie.  The buttons were tied with a pumpkin embroidery floss that I had and I punched out some leaves with a MS frond punch in the same textile embossed River Rock cs for a tone on tone effect.  That's it, I told you it was a simple one!

Cheers!

Chriss

Sparkly Mojo Cupcake

I finally got some time to play this morning!  There are so many challenges that I have not been able to kepp up with because of my work schedule, I will try to do some catching up over the next couple of days.  This first one is for the Mojo 105 challenge.  I have so many ideas to use this one with...!  I love the idea of using punches, I think they add a lot with little effort, so this was quite easy.  I punched out all of my circles using the 1 1/4 and 1 3/8 SU punches and some PTI designer papers.  I backed these onto some pumpkin pie cs.  The card base is also pumpkin pie and i covered the top and bottom parts with some MM dp that I purchased last year at Target.  I layed the circles on this and cut off the edges of the two circles that were hanging off of the card edges.  Next, I layered a spider web border that I made with a MS punch and glued a narrow pumpkin pie ribbon down the middle and added the cute MM bat brads.  The image was stamped with Mem. Tux. ink onto a cream cs and coloured with Copic markers.  The paper cupcake base was stamped directly onto the dp, cut out, and placed on top of the cut out cupcake.  I then some dimensionals onto the cupcake back and placed onto a layered Labels 3 Spellbinder shape.  I also placed some glue onto the black confetti on the cupcake top and I used some black MS glitter.  It doesn't show up very well in the photo, but it is quite sparkly in real life!  The sentiment was stamped in black craft ink and clear embossed.  Thanks for taking a peek,

Cheers!

Chriss ~recipe~

stamps Impression Obsession cupcake, SU sentiment

ink Memento Tuxedo black, SU pumpkin pie to sponge some edges

paper PTI Hocus Pocus paper pack, MM 6 X 6 pack from last year

access MS spider web border punch, glitter, MM brads, SU ribbon

Mojo79 Baby Girl

Monday challenge.  Here is mine.  I am really enjoying this baby girl and baby boy dress ans overalls set from Impression Obsession.  I am paper piecing the outfits with all kinds of fun dp with tiny prints.  Thanks for taking a peek at my cards.

Ch{{rs, chriss

                 ~recipe~

stamps            Impression Obsession

ink                 Mem. Tux. blk

paper              DCWV Nursery baby girl stack, SU In Color pink

access             ribbon laced trim, border punch from EK, CB swiss dots folder