My last Wednesday with Great Impressions Stamps

It's officially summer.  

That often mean vacation visits from friends and relatives.

This would be a lovely way to thank someone for their visit .

 

 I've used the Daisy Flourish Stamp (E702)

and the  So Wonderful Sentiment Stamp (E805).

It's been so much fun being on the Design Team for Great Impressions Stamps Challenge. 

I hope you've enjoyed the cards I've made using Great Impressions Stamps as much as I've enjoyed making them.

There's still time to enter the June Challenge.

for a chance to win this prize.

 

Have a great day!

Great Impressions Stamps Wednesday Hello

Here's a super simple card I made using Great Impressions Stamps Handy Mouse(320S) and Happy Dad's Day(D389). 

First, I stamped the sentiment on the white card base.  That way I could change up the layout if I messed it up.

Next I stamped the image with black momento ink.

Sometimes it's nice to work with images that don't require a lot of work when it comes to coloring.  This is one of those images.  A few quick marker strokes, using the colors from the papers I had chosen, and I was finished.  Matching patterned papers always make life easier.  These were from a DCWV Basics Stack.  Again picking up the colors in the paper, I cut mats and a die cut frame and glued everything on place.  

The only thing remaining, is entering this card in a few challenge, which you'll find at the bottom of this post.

Last week I posted a card for Great Impressions Stamps.  It, actually, wasn't quite finished yet.  I was waiting for a stamp to arrive.  Yesterday it did.  Now I can show you the inside of the card.

(using Great Impressions Stamps Thoughtful Cow E727 and Udderly C469)

 

 

 

  And, in case you missed it, here is the card front.

(using Great Impressions Stamps Farm Tractor F497 and Happy Dad's Day D389)

Challenges:
Always Fun Challenge #10 - For a Male or Boy 
Cards in Envy Challenge - You're the Man
Crafty Cardmakers Challenge #190 - For a Special Man or Boy/Father's Day
Cutie Pie Challenge #112 - All Creatures Great or Small
Pattie's Creations Challenge #135 - For the Boys
Scrapbook Stamp Society Challenge #118 - Anything Goes option Father's Day
QKR Stampede Challenge #247 - For the Guys
2 Crafty Critter Crazies Challenge #3 - Anything with a Critter Goes
Connie Can Crop Challenge #59 - It's a Guy Thing
Delicious Doodles Challenge - All Creatures Great or Small
Craft Rocket Challenge #38 - For the Men/Boys 
Star Stampz Challenge - Make It for a Man

Thanks for looking.

Hope your day is udderly moovelous, too!

Wednesday Inspiration with Great Impressions Stamps

Father's Day is less than two weeks away.  

Do you have your cards ready?  

If not, when you have one finished, we'd love to see it in this month's Masculine challenge at Great Impressions Stamps.  This happy Farm Tractor (F497) stamp is perfect for a guy card.   Pair it with the Happy Dad's Day(D389) sentiment stamp and you're in business.

 

After coloring the image with markers and watercolor pencils, I used hexagon dies to cut it and a matching frame.  The framed image is popped onto the embossed card base.  Fussy cutting around the sentiment gives it bit of extra interest.  Three strands of knotted baker's twine and a few metal embellishments finish off this card.  

Challenges:
Scrapbook Stamp Society Challenge #118 - Anything Goes option Father's Day
Simon Says Monday Challenge - Masculine
Cards in Envy Challenge - You're the Man
Unicorn Challenge #22 - For the Guys
Shopping Our Stash Challenge #306 - Dude
Cuttlebug Mania Challenge - Frame It  (I used my cuttlebug to cut the hexagons using Die-namics dies from MFT.)
Crafty Cardmakers Challenge #190 - For a Special Man/Boy or Father's Day

It was nice of you to stop by today.

See you soon!

Great Impressions Stamps June Challenge

It's time for you to link up all those masculine cards and projects at the June Great Impressions Stamp Challenge.

This Dog Wearing Sunglasses stamp (E896) 

is perfect for a guy card. 

Although, with pink sunglasses frames, earrings, and maybe a bow,
this cute pooch could also be used for a dudette.
I like stamps that can be used either way.

Here is the prize the winner of the June Challenge will receive:

We're hoping you will join us for this "Masculine" challenge.

I am submitting this card to the following Challenges:

Addicted to Stamps Challenge #149 - Animals 

Through the Purple Haze Challenge #126 - Animal 

Craft Rocket Challenge #38 - For the Men/Boys 

Love to Scrap Challenge #98 - Boyz Rule 

Connie Can Crop Challenge #59 - It's a Guy Thing

2 Crafty Critter Crazies Challenge #3 - Anything featuring a Critter Goes

Sweet Stampin Challenge - For Dads or Special Men 

Crafty Calendar Challenge - Boys will be Boys 

Crazy 4 Challenges #388 - Repeat something 3 times (3 pair of glasses across the top) 

Send a Smile 4 Kids Challenge - Anything Goes 4 Kids

Great Impressions Stamps Wednesday Inspiration

The other day my DH said he needed a card for a friend who had just been moved to a facility for rehab after an unfortunate accident caused him to have a stroke.  I told him about the new Great Impression Stamps I had, Beary Wet (F608) and  Spin Cycle (E867) , but questioned if they would be suitable for a man.  My DH said he had no doubt that I could make a "guy card" with the stamps.  Of course, I had to give it a try.  

How'd I do? 

Then, just for fun, I made a locking joy fold feminine version, too.
Instead of red and brown, I switched to bright pink and brown.

See how the bottom corner of the image locks the card shut when tucked under the flower?

You still have a week to enter the

Great Impressions Stamps May Challenge 

with your Feminine cards.

I am going to enter the following challenges: 
Crafting with Dragonfies Challenge #81 - Animals
Through the Craft Room Door Week of 5/23 - Always Anything Goes
Lemon Shortbread Challenge #42 - Anything Goes
Crafty Sentiments Designs Challenge - Anything Goes
The House That Stamps Built Challenge M2417 - Anything Goes
Crafty Creations Challenge #342 - Anything Goes

Great Impressions Stamps May Challenge Card

If you'd like to find out how I made my card for the

Great Impressions May Challenge

I posted the directions on the Great Impressions Stamps blog today.

If you follow my blog, you've already seen the card above.  So I decided to use Great Impressions stamp Springy Molly (F121) to make another card.  It is one of a group of cards I am making for my neighbor to give to children who are being adopted.

Inside the card reads:  

You've been adopted!  

I'm smiling so big my face hurts!

The "Congratulations" sentiment is from Great Impressions stamp C379S Graduate.  (I cut off the diploma and graduate part after I stamped it on white cs.) 

Challenges:

Crafting from the Heart Challenge #159 - Always Anything Goes
A Bit More Time to Craft Challenge #44 - Anything Goes 
Naughty or Nice Challenge #39 - Share a Smile
QKR Stampede Challenge #243 - Graduation or Anything Goes
Polkadoodles Challenge Week 18 - Anything Goes

Great Impressions Stamps Card Set

Once the flowers start blooming, it isn't long before you start to see butterflies.  I thought I'd share a set of cards I've made using the Great Impressions Stamps Butterfly Frame H226S.
 I find a simple set of cards tied with a pretty ribbon makes a useful and lovely hostess gift.

I wrote the sentiments on the computer, aligning them with the right margin and spacing them far enough apart to accommodate the frame.  After printing them, it was easy to stamp the frame around the sentiment, color it with markers and pencils and then fussy cut.

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The Great Impression Stamps  May Challenge has just begun.
Check it out here.  

Great Impressions Stamps May Challenge

It's time for a new challenge at Great Impressions Stamps. 

This month we're excited to see your feminine cards and projects.

I've used Great Impressions Stamps Springy Molly (F121S) and A Special Mom (C346S) to make this Mother's Day Card.  Both stamps can be found in the Great Impressions Stamps Store.

card front

inside

 The lucky winner of the May Challenge will be receiving this Great Impressions Stamp....

The challenge lasts for the month of May, which gives you plenty of time to make something for a girl.  

We love visiting all of you and seeing your creations!

Thanks for stopping by.

Have a lovely day! 

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Challenges I am entering:

The House That Stamps Built DCC53 - For a Special Lady 

Southern Girls Retro Challenge #159 - Use an actual punch (I used an actual corner punch.)

DL.Art Thankf ul Thursday Challenge #203 - Mother's Day

Aud Sentiments Challenge #179 - Flowers + a sentiment

QKR Stampede Challenge #242 - Feminine 

Polkadoodles Challenge Week #18 - Anything Goes 

Kitty Bee Designs Aloha Friday Challenge #94 - Anything Goes, twist: for Mom 

 

Great Impressions Friendship Card

Good morning all you crafty people!

If you caught my Great Impressions Stamps post two weeks ago, you might remember that tea cups and tea pots are two of my favorite stamp images.  My eye was particularly drawn to this Great Impressions Spring Teapot Rubber Stamp (E667)

  featuring tulips, pansies and hyacinths. 

It made a perfect focal point for the belly band of the gate fold card I am sharing with you today. 

The inside of the card features Great Impressions A Good Friend Rubber Stamp (E830) .

 

Sentiments don't have to be stamped on solid cardstock.  I love to stamp them directly on a piece of designer paper, so the inside is as pretty as the outside, especially, when the sentiment is as lovely and true as this one.

I am entering this gatefold card in the following challenges:
Fussy & Fancy Challenge # 185 - Fancy Fold or Shaped Card 
A Gem of a Challenge #192 - Ribbon or Lace 
Make My Monday Challenge #44 - Embossing Heat or Dry  (After a coating odf clear Wink of Stella, I clear embossed the tea pot 2 times to give it a shiny china look.)
Through the Craft Room Door Week of April 18th - Anything  Goes 
Fairytale Challenge #166 - More than one fold 
Cuttlebug Mania Challenge - A Nice Cuppa (I used my cuttlebug for all the die cuts.)

And don't forget to enter the

at Great Impressions Stamps Blog.

Singing in the Rain

We had a little bit of rain early this morning 

and the birds are loving it.

I do have errands to run today

 (I'm really not running yet, but my sprained foot is healing nicely.),

 but thought I'd share this card with you first.

I saw this weaving technique somewhere and just had to give it a try. 

It would have been so much easier if I had a chevron die.   

But, I'm fairly good at improvising and found a cut on one of the CTMH cricut cartridges that produced chevron pieces.  The weaving was fun (not!).  

Once the background was completed, it needed something that wouldn't detract from or obscure the weaving.  I don't usually work backward like this.  Luckily, this cute image (Great Impressions Stamp Springtime Birdie E906S), the sentiment (Great Impressions Stamp April Showers D387S) and the circle frame (CTMH Art Philosophy Cricut Cartridge) were in the "pile" on my craft table waiting for a home. The corners are just a punched scalloped square cut in quarters. And the puffy flowers are CTMH embellishments.  

I am entering this card in the following challenges: 

Card Mania Challenge #91 - April Showers Bring May Flowers 

Let's Craft and Create Challenge #124 - Easter/April Showers

Make My Monday Challenge #43 - April Showers

Crafty Cardmakers Challenge #186 - Things with Wings

Scribbles Design Challenge #51 - Birds of a Feather

My Time to Craft Challenge #343 - No Designer Paper

Crafty Gals Corner Challenge #118 - Pastel Colors

Frilly and Funky Challenge - April Showers

Check out my umbrella giveaway here!

Now, I'd best get on with my day.

Have a good one!

Great Impressions Stamps April Challenge Card

Today I thought I'd share a little bit 
about how I made my card for the

 April Showers Bring May Flowers  
Great Impressions April Challenge?

Here's the card I made using the Great Impressions 

Daisy Border Rubber Stamp (G403)

and 

April Showers Rubber Stamp (D387).

 

Just because a stamp is a border stamp, doesn't mean you can't use it for other purposes.  Here I used the stamp as the flower border at the bottom of the card  (heat embossed in gold, watercolored and fussy cut) and also as the umbrella pattern (stamped twice, watercolored, and heat embossed with clear ep to give it a shiny vinyl look).

I started out making a yellow umbrella and then wasn't happy with it.  So then I made 3 more, pink umbrella, a pale blue umbrella, and finally decided on the blue umbrella above.  
What do you think?  Did I choose correctly? Would anyone like a leftover umbrella?

Here's a tip to prevent your adhesive from showing when working with velum.  First, attach any items that will be on top of the velum.  

Turn it over and place your adhesive on the velum behind those items.  When you glue the velum down whatever adhesive you used will be hidden.

 Thank you so much for visiting my blog today.

I look forward to seeing your projects for the

April Great Impressions Stamps Blog Challenge

and visiting some of your blogs.

Don't forget you could be the winner of this cute stamp:

"Bear"ly Getting Started on the Great Impressions Stamps Design Team

Do you have a favorite type of stamp you like to collect and use?

Tea cups and pots, hummingbirds, owls, and bear stamps always catch my eye, especially when they are as sweet as this little guy....

For this card Great Impressions Stamp Teddy with Flowers (F554) was stamped twice, once on plain kraft paper and once on pale yellow cardstock.  The full kraft image was fussy cut.  The yellow fussy cut flowers, with a bit of extra color and glitter added, were then glued and/or popped on top.  I thought Teddy would look cute peeking over the A Flower (G455) sentiment, also a Great Impressions Stamp.

Speaking of flowers...
 have you linked up a card or project for the
 Great Impressions April Theme Challenge?

I am so happy you visited today, but I totally understand if you want to hop over to the Great Impressions Blog to check out the challenge details.

While you do that, I am going to enter a few challenges:

A Gem of a Challenge #191 - Furry Friends

Petal Lu Challenge #35 - Yellow Flowers

2 Crafty Critter Crazies Challenge #1 - Anything Goes with a creature

Scrapbook Stamp Society Challenge #113 - Anything Goes, option: use kraft paper

Crafting from the Heart Challenge #153 - Anything Goes

Fairy Tale Challenge #165 - Cards with Animals

Crafty Sentiments Challenge - Anything Goes 

Crafty Gals Corner Challenge #117 - 3 or more layers

Crafting by Design Challenge - Anything Goes April Edition

Great Impressions Stamps April Challenge

Hello friends and fellow crafters!

 I am so thrilled to be joining the 

Great Impressions Stamps Design Team.  

They have such a fun line of stamps.

 April Showers Bring May Flowers is the theme

for the Great Impressions April Challenge, which begins today.

 The lucky winner will be receiving this adorable stamp:

Here's a card I made using the Great Impressions 

Daisy Border Rubber Stamp (G403)

and

April Showers Rubber Stamp (D387).

 

 Thank you so much for visiting my blog today.

I look forward to seeing your projects for the 

April Great Impressions Stamps Blog Challenge.

Challenges:

Crafty Friends Challenge #54 - B is for "bumbershoot" and blue 

Crafty Calendar Challenge - April Showers/Spring 

Glitter n Sparkle Challenge #233 - Use Pastels 

 

No Foolin'

Today, I am happy to add a new badge to the right side bar of my blog, as I am officially a member of the 
Great Impressions Stamps Design Team.  
Yipppee!

To celebrate the occasion I've made a card 
using the very first
 Great Impressions Stamp 
I ever bought,

When It Rains (F448) .

Tomorrow starts a new challenge on the 
Great Impressions Stamps Blog.
I hope you'll join in the fun.

Challenges I am entering:

Crafting with Friends Challenge #40 - Anything Goes

Polkadoodles Challenge Week #12 - Anything Goes

Aud Sentiments Challenge #176 - Any Sentiment Except Birthday 

Crafty Girls Challenge #35 - Anything Goes 

Through the Craft Room Door Challenge Week of March 28th - Anything Goes

A Bit More Time to Craft Challenge #41 - Anything Goes 

Crafty Hazelnut's April Patterned Paper Challenge - Anything Goes

 

 Thanks for stopping in.