EASTER KIT FROM LASTING IMPRESSIONS

OMG ... have you seen the adorable Easter Kit that Kaye created at Lasting Impressions?  I love the blue and yellow of the chick card and the Carrot Treat Holders are so cute!  And we all need a little "faith" in our lives.  Take a look:

Visit Lasting Impressions today and purchase your kit.  If you live in Utah, you might want to sign up for Kaye's classes.  They are fabulous.  Embossing joys, :-) Donna

STAMPENDOUS BUTTERFLY CHALLENGE

Flutterbye

is one of the new releases from Stampendous

by designer Laurel Burch. 

My friend Julie from The Stencil Specialist 

is hosting another Aussie Blog Hop in Australia

this week featuring this beautiful stamp.  You must live
in Australia in order to win the challenge, but if you live in

the good old USA like I do (or elsewhere!), I would
still love to hear from you!  So please leave
your comments below.

Here is how the challenge works
for those in Australia:

Leave a comment on this blog and the town you

live in to be in the draw to win this stamp.  An extra entry
is given for each of the designer's blogs that you leave
a comment on (listed below).

My blog = 1 entry

4 blogs = 4 entries

You have until the 31st of March to enter this hop.
Here are the links to the Design Team and
below are the additional ways in which I used
this beautiful stamp.

Julie

Robyn

Dot

Before I actually mounted my Butterfly, I tried using it several ways and the last card, I actually photographed the card in black and white.  I am in love with this stamp and I think you will be too.

Fluttering with stamping joys, Donna

A GARDEN HOME

One of my very closest friends just moved from Albuquerque, New Mexico to Scottsdale, Arizona and I thought I would send her a card wishing her good health and happiness in her new home.  I found this adorable Stampendous Stamp, Garden Home, #CRW164, in my ever-growing-stamp-collection, and figured it just might do the trick!

The stamp is 3 1/4" tall and 4" wide so my card base is a 5" square card.  I stamped the image on White Linen Cardstock and used a Cross-Stitched Frame Die Set from Lawn Fawn to cut it out. Next I colored the image with my Copic Sketch Markers, did some faux "stitching" with a black pen, and added White 3-D Scribbles Paint Dots to complete the card.  Then, while on a roll, I made up kits for my next card classes using the Stampendous Stamp Happy Birds, #SSC1255:

  

This card measures 5 1/4" tall x 12" long and folds flat.  I love birds so I just couldn't resist creating this card with little "wing ribbons" stapled at the top of each section.  I'm happy with the way it turned out.  I hope my classmates enjoy putting it together.  Stamping joys, :-)  Donna

EASTER PARADE!

Good morning!  The Easter Parade is well on it's way over at Lasting Impressions.  If you have not had an opportunity to go look and buy some fun oldies but goodies restocked templates, do so while you can because I hear they are going fast.  Here's a look at the latest card samples I just posted on the L.I. Blog from Design Team Member Barbara!  They are an Easter Parade of their own!
Embossing joys, :-)  Donna

HOPPING ALONG

Easter will be here next month and I’ve started my cards … have you?  I have to admit, there are times when I forget how much fun it is to emboss!  Then I pick up a stylus, grab a template, and some of the new Lasting Impressions’ paper, and before ya know it, I am in love with embossing all over agaiin!.  Here are some cards I made this morning.

Donna’s Egg Bunny, L.I. Template #L9186.

Donna’s Carrot Catch, L.I. Template #L9747

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Donna’s Crackin Eggs, L.I. Template #L9744.

  

Donna’s Peek-a-Boo Slider, L.I. Template #L9275, from the front and the inside of card.

Be sure and check out the new cardstock and fun templates at Lasting Impressions.  Embossing joys, :-)  Donna

IT'S A WHOPPER!

Our weather here in San Diego has been so crazy ... crazy enough to turn a simple cold into a whopper ... and I do mean a HUGE WHOPPER.  As I am healing from this miserable cold (and now my hubby has it), here's a quick look at one of my very favorite templates from Lasting Impressions.  I can't begin to tell you how many cards I have made using M19, Sketch Frames.  First I use the Colored Impressions' Software to print the basic layout on white cardstock and then I add an embossed image. Here are two examples of this very easy, and very quick, idea:

  

Let your imagination run wild and see how many L.I. embossed images you can mount on this layout ... and make a few whoppers of your own!

Embossing joys, :-)  Donna
L.I. Templates M19 and L9188

SPRING IS HERE!

I love birds and when I saw this adorable Stampendous Stamp Set entitled Happy Birds, I just knew I had to own it!  Photo 1 below is the card closed and Photo 2 is the card opened:

  

I started out by designing a 4-panel card measuring 12" x 5 1/4" and scored at 3, 6, and 9 inches.. The white panels are 2 1/2" x 4".  I colored the images with Copic Markers; mounted them on the panels with mounting tape; and, added my faux stitching to each panel.

I also love to combine my stamping with my love of embossing and if you have time to travel through my older blog posts, you'll see I have done a lot of embossing with brass templates, all from Lasting Impressions.  You can see more of my embossing by visiting Lasting Impresisons' Blog on their web site linked under "My Favorite Sites."

Here is another example where I combined some of Lasting Impresisons' beautiful cardstock with a really cute image from Stamping Bella: