Monday, May 15, 2017

IMPRESSION OBSESSION SPRING/SUMMER RELEASE HOP!


NEW
INKS, STAMPS and DIES
OH MY!
Welcome to the Impression Obsession 2017 Spring/Summer Release Hop! We have some beautiful new stamps and dies to share AND Gift Certificates to give away!
The Blog Hop will be posted on the Impression Obsession Blog at 6am EST May 15th - May 17th. Visit the fabulous IO Design Team’s blogs (only one comment per blog please) for a chance to win one of FOUR $25 Gift Certificates!

The more blogs you visit … the better chance you will have to win!!!
Comment entries will be open until 9pm CT on Sunday May 21st and all winners will be announced May 22nd.
Good luck!

HOP LIST:


Dina Kowal has created several designs using succulents. I love the arrangement of these plants in the worn boot! The background layer was made using her Cover-a-Card Succulent stamp and Distress Oxides.



Card Inside:


The Succulents Cover-a-Card BG was also used on this card.


See you back tomorrow for day 2!



50 comments:

  1. Karen, thank you for featuring my stamps - I love the look with the Oxide inks! Perfect palette. xo

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  2. Beautiful! Love all the succulents!

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  3. What a nice selection of cards!!

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  4. Will have to add these stamps to my wish list since I also grow these actual plants in my garden.

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  5. These succulent cards are simply beautiful!

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  6. Great cards and love the inks and designs.

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  7. Living in the desert, I love the succulents! Great card.

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  8. These are all beautiful cards, love the succulents. Thanks for sharing your talents!

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  9. WOW What a fabulous new image!

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  10. All so different, all so nice. I really like the shoe card.

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  11. Need to do this...plant and old shoe. LOL

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  12. Love these cards, but the flowers in the shoe card is just gorgeous:)

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  13. Like the Succulents too. You made lovely cards with them.

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  14. Pretty coloring on these lovely cards!

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  15. Great cards Karen, love the succulents growing out of the old boot!

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  16. Beautiful cards! I love the succulents in the old boot.
    (And I just bought the "Thanks So Much" die you used ...
    can't wait to use it).

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  17. Very nice cards, I really like the colors you used with the succulents, love those distress oxides.

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  18. OH MY GOODNESS! You have gotten the very colors of the succulents PERFECT! I LOOOOVE what you have done with these! I LOOOOVE the colors & the way you did them, they have that translucent look to them too! ;)

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  19. Beautiful--love the soft colors.

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  20. Great cards! Love the "Bloom with Grace" sentiment!

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  21. Lovely cards. I really like Succulents Cover a Card background. Super coloring job.

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  22. Range of techniques that are
    all great. Love the book with
    the succulents in it.
    thanks for sharing some
    wonderful cards.

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  23. Fabulous card. I love this image and your soft coloring. TFS

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  24. Love the sentiment and all your cards - beautifully crafted!

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  25. Great cards. Love the boot filled with flowers and your muted coloring.

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  26. Love the soft muted colors you chose for your cards!

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  27. Beautiful & peaceful card. Love how you used the Oxide inks. Thanks for sharing your cards.

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  28. Awesome card!! I love the soft colors & the old boot for a vase.

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  29. You used such a delicate hand in your coloring -- everything is so soft! The cards you did are beautiful!

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  30. Love both cards, especially the sentiment on the inside of the first one. Thanks.

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  31. Those succulents are awesome ... gorgeous soft hues

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  32. What a great sentiment!!! I really like the CAC background too! Seems like all you'd have to do is a little ink blending or watercolor wash, a sentiment, and boom... done! My kind of card!!!

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  33. Succulents are all the rage. Love the "Bloom with Grace" sentiment. It's going on my wish list for sure. Great color background, too.

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  34. Lovely - what a great serene look on each of your cards.

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  35. These are just awesome! Love all of them! Wow!

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  36. Wow! These are all awesome - great job!

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  37. I love the succulents in the boot, also.

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  38. Really love the color palette. Beautiful cards.

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  39. The saying on the inside of the card fits so perfectly with the picture of the outside. Cute.

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  40. You have done an awesome job with this stamp. I love the coloring and the sentiment inside is perfect.

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  41. Amazing cards, I always enjoy seeing what you have in store for us from IO. I love the angle and background stamp and colors on the third card. Awesome ideas. :) Thanks for sharing.

    Katie B.

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  42. Wow, wonderful cards! I love your soft coloring of the boot image and the color combos of you backgrounds with the cac succulents!

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  43. WOWOWOWOWOWOW!! AWESOME Cards!! I LOVE LOVE The Image on the First One and the BEAUTIFUL Design of the Last one!! THANKS for sharing and have a FABULOUS WEEK!! =)

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