Spotlight Sponging Card + Tutorial

Hello, all!  We're getting closer to the holidays, and today I have a card with a fun technique that is sure to WOW--but still be easily mailed!  I've use products from the Great Impressions store and I've also made a video tutorial on how to create this technique that I'm calling SPOTLIGHT SPONGING.  Come take a peek at my card!

To create this card, I started by stamping D470 Bird Trio onto some white cardstock.  I then did a little magic with the SPOTLIGHT SPONGING technique (movie below) and added some glitter and alcohol coloring to finish this portion off.

The card needed a sentiment, so I grabbed C427 Seasons Greetings and heat embossed it onto some red cardstock.  I decided to punch it out like a banner and add a few rhinestones for a bit more shine.

Then all that needed to happen was to put it all together.  I used a few foam dimension pieces to pop portions of the card up and I love the effect!  What do you think of my card?  I'd love for you to leave me some comments below and let me know!  You can see more detailed shots on my personal blog HERE, too!

Thanks so much for stopping by to take a peek at my creation!  Hop over to come play along with our monthly challenge, too!  If you use stamps from Great Impressions, you'll be able to link up your creation in our Customer Gallery, too!  HUGS and happy stamping to you all!

Frame Technique

Happy Monday Great Impressions Stamp Friends!

Kendra from Luv 2 Scrap 'n Make Cards here today to share a technique with you!!

So along with loving stamps, we also all love dies!
I am so used to always using dies to cut out my images to use for my cards.

Why not use the negative area for a change?
Instead of always using the intended shape!

Frame It Technique

First, start by collecting your supplies:

Not many needed for this technique!

Stamped image on 4" by 5 1/4" piece of paper, another piece the same size, your die shape you want to work with and masking tape. 

Next, stamp your image on one of the pieces of paper (which I already did as seen above).

Color as desired.  I finished mine after I had this technique finished.

Put a piece of masking tape on the top and bottom of the die facing up, just like the cutting edge.

Move it around till you find how you would like it to look.

Place the other piece of cardstock lightly on top.

Run through your die cutting machine.

As seen now, you have created a frame for the stamped image!  As well as having an oval, which you can save to stamp an image on later.

Now you are ready to decorate your card!!

Here is my finished card:

I love how it turned out!

I used the adorable new J114 Magical Snowman!

For the upper left I used the J105 Snowflake Swirl Background and for the lower right I used the A71 Snowflake Cluster to add the perfect touch!!

I used the D397 Winter Wonderland for my sentiment. 

Try it for yourself!  Super fun and easy!

You can check out personal blog here.

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Thank you for stopping by to see my project today!

Be sure to stop back for more wonderful inspiration!

Join in our monthly challenge as well!  

We'd love to see what you create!

Check out the Great Impressions shop for more wonderful stamps!!

Have a sweet day!

GREAT IMPRESSIONS: FALL LEAVES QUILLING TUTORIAL

Hello to all of my Great Impressions friends! Ellen here with more inspiration from the Great Impressions store! I am going to share a tutorial with you today, and yes, this is my very FIRST video tutorial, so hopefully you will be able to see and understand what I am doing.

I have been sharing some quilling projects with you and someone asked me if I would explain how to quill, so my tutorial today is for people who are brand new to quilling. We will be making a card with fall leaves and a Great Impressions stamp. Here is the finished card:

(A2: Stamps: Great Impressions Stamps (Second Spring - E550)

These are the supplies you will need for the project:

• Slotted quilling tool
• Quilling guide board
• Quick drying craft glue
• Scissors
• Tweezers
• Ruler
• 1/8 inch wide quilling strips in the following lengths

3 – 6” variegated red (or your choice of color)

2 – 4” variegated red (or same choice as above)

3 – 6” solid red (or your choice of color)

2 – 4” solid red (or same choice as above)

And here is the video tutorial:

I hope you enjoyed my tutorial! PLEASE leave comments so that I can improve on any future ones!
Thanks so much for stopping by for a bit of inspiration from Great Impressions.

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Be sure to come check out our new challenge starting tomorrow!

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Happy crafting everyone!

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One Stamp Two Ways Tutorial

 One Stamp Two Ways

&

Post It Note Tutorial

1. Stamp image E838 Mouse with Flower with black ink unto white cardstock.

2. Color image with copics.

3. Or stamp E838 Mouse with Flower with black ink unto grey cardstock. Add a little pink glitter to flower and ears.

4. Cut a piece of heavyweight cardstock 3 1/2 X 7 3/4.

5. Score at 1 3/8, 1 7/8, 4 7/8, 5 2/8.

 

6. Attach a thin magnet or velcro closure to the top flap.

5. Add a stamped panel to the cover.

6. Then add a G483  Tags banner. Here I have one stamp two ways: one colored with copics, the other I just stamped on grey colored cardstock.

Cracked Glass Tutorial

Hello Great Impressions fans! Leah with you today and I have a tutorial for you called Cracked Glass. You'll need some extra thick embossing powder (ETEP), Versa Mark ink, a heat gun, a stamped image, and access to a freezer. 

Here are my supplies and my stamped and colored imaged. I used the lovely Rose Bouquet (G416) and colored my image with Copics. I also added Distress ink around the edges of my die cut.

After your stamped image is done you will want to cover the entire panel with Versa Mark ink. I just pressed my die cut on the top of my ink pad and moved it around to cover the whole thing.

Then you cover the entire thing in your ETEP and heat. This part takes a bit of quick work, but while the powder is still hot sprinkle more on top and heat again. Repeat several times. For mine I did this 4 times.

 Your die cut will be very warm by this time. To get the cracked glass look you'll want to put your stamped panel into your freezer. Leave it in there for about 5 minutes. You paper will likely be curled a bit but that's okay. After you take it out of the freezer you gently bend the paper in all different directions and your thick coating on embossing powder will crack. Fun!

Now you are ready to make a project with it! For my card I used the Playful Thinking of You sentiment (B195) and added lots of layers and some hearts and tiny rhinestones. I hope you've enjoyed this tutorial and if you give it a try I'd love to come and see! 

Be sure to check out the Great Impressions store for many fabulous images and join us in this month's challenge and if you use a GI stamp be sure to link up in the customer gallery. 

Have a wonderful day!

Friday Fun

Hello Friends!

Katy here and there are so many exciting things going on today!  First let me wish all of our U.S. fans a Happy July 4th!

Second, we are changing how we do the tutorials.  There will be a new tutorial at the beginning of each month from a different Design Team Member.

So today it is my turn to show you a tutorial-how to make dryer sheet flowers.  First let me show you my card using Great Impressions Stamps:

I used the following stamps:  C270  Butterfly Trio, G483 Tags, H185 Simple Elegance, J106 The Rose.

The butterfly stamp that I used has three butterflies so I fussy cut the one I wanted and glued down his body.  This left the wings to kind of bend upwards to make him look like he's fluttering.

The sentiment is from the Tags stamp which I also cut out.  I used a tooth pick that I added some extra brown ink for the flag.

The Simple Elegance stamp is the red embossed swirls on the paper with the text.  This is one of my favorite stamps!

The Rose stamp is the text in the background.  I embossed the stamp image with clear embossing powder and heat set it.  Then I used distress inks to bring out the text.

Now it's time to make the flower!  

Supplies:  2 or more used dryer sheets

                Flower Die Cut (I don't know if the framelets will cut through the dryer sheet)

                Color mist-I used Dylusions and Heidi Swapp

                Brad 

                Button for middle

                Crop-a-dile

The flower is made out of a couple of used dryer sheets and this die cut.  Finally, laundry is fun!  OK maybe not! ;)  If you don't have a die cut machine you can cut and layer circles for a different looking flower.

After your flowers are cut, mist them.  I used a blue and a red.  Let the mist dry.  

I have a spray box that I use, but I always put tissue paper, cardstock, or wax paper underneath so it catches the overflow.  Then you have cool misted paper for another project.

Then I stack the flower on top of each other until I like my flower.  I used a Crop-a-dile to make the hole through all of the layers and put on the brad.  This way I could move my flower around to figure out where I like it.  Then I realized I didn't like the brad so I glued a button on top of the brad.  The brad can be optional.  

Here's a close up of my card.  

Thank you for stopping by!  And remember for more cool tutorials check us out on Pinterest and for more daily inspiration check out our Facebook Page!

Sponge & Spritz

Hi, friends!  It's Thursday and so I'm back today with a NEW card using stamps from the Great Impressions store!  This time I have a cool and crisp summer creation for your viewing pleasure.  Come and take a peek...

Here's the card~

More details on my personal blog HERE.

Products used: B233 For Friends, G342 Frolicking Trio

This card really didn't take too much time to make--but I LOVE the fabulous texture that happens when you use glimmer mists!  I didn't have time to make a video tutorial on how to create this effect, but it's totally simple.

What you'll need~

1. Blending tool
2. Glimmer Mist
3. Versamark ink pad
4. Black embossing powder
5. Silhouette stamp
6. Heat gun

Here's how~

1. Blend your neutral cardstock with ink.  I used green for "grass" and turquoise for "sky".  You can use any colors you want to!
2. Shake your glimmer mist and spray your panel.  I usually hold the spray bottle about 4-6 inches from the panel.
3. OPTIONAL: If you're like me, I can't wait.  SO, you can take your heat gun to dry the glimmer mist faster.  Make sure to heat the front AND back of the panel to keep your paper flat instead of warped.
4. Ink up your silhouette stamp with Versamark ink, stamp it onto your panel, and emboss it with your black embossing powder.  You don't have to use black, try other colors!
5. Use panel for your creation!

See!  TOTALLY easy!  Don't have glimmer mist?  You could use plain old water, OR you could make your own glimmer mist!  See my personal blog HERE for a tutorial on how to do that!

Thanks so much for stopping by to take a peek at this card!  Hop over to  play along with our monthly challenge, too!  If you use stamps from Great Impressions, you'll be able to link up your creation in our Customer Gallery, too!  HUGS and happy stamping to you all!

Painter's Tape Technique

Happy Monday Great Impressions Stamp Friends!

Kendra from Luv 2 Scrap 'n Make Cards here today to share a fun technique with you!!
I am so excited!!

Have you tried the Painter's Tape Technique?
I think it is so fun and has a nice finished result!

Start by gathering your supplies:

Painter's Tape

Inks

Card Base Layer (Mine is 5 1/4" x 4")

Stamp (I am using Seeded Dandelions (G298))

Rip off a few pieces of painter's tape to the length you would like.

For my card today, each piece was around the same size.

Next place the painter's tape on the ink pad you are going to use first, sticky side on ink pad.
Press your fingers across tape gently to ink it up!

The tape will look something like this:

Now you are ready to press the piece of tape onto your cardstock piece:

A look at the first "stamped" tape:

And a look at all the stamped "tape" before I stamped my image:

Now you can stamp your image! 

I used black so that it would really pop off the colored stamped tape!

(Sorry I forgot to take a pic of this step!)

My finished card:

What a fun technique!!

The "Enjoy the Day" tag is part of the Tags Rubber Stamp (G483) set!

More details on my personal blog here.

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Thank you for stopping by to see my project today!

Be sure to stop back for more wonderful inspiration!

Join in our monthly challenge as well!  

We'd love to see what you create!

Check out the Great Impressions shop for more wonderful stamps!!

Have a wonderful week!

Sew Sweet

Hi, friends!  It's Mynn here again and today I've got a fun and simple card using a beautiful new image and sentiment combo from the Great Impressions store PLUS a video tutorial on how to create a shaped easel card!  Come and take a peek!

Here's the card~

More details on my personal blog HERE.

Supplies Needed:

• C465 You're Sew Special
• E835 Spool Trio
• Nesting dies
• Washi tape (optional--but helps!)
• Strong adhesive
• Paper, etc., to finish your creation

How to video~

I think easel cards are super fun, but shaped easel cards are even MORE FUN!  I also adore a good pun--and this one is SEW fabulous! ;)

Thanks so much for stopping by to take a peek at this card!  Hop over to  play along with our monthly challenge, too!  If you use stamps from Great Impressions, you'll be able to link up your creation in our Customer Gallery, too!  HUGS and happy stamping to you all!

Tutorial Saturday With Ellen

Hi my sweet Great Impressions friends and welcome to my first EVER tutorial. I love using dies and stamps, but sometimes either the die doesn’t fit exactly right or I want to highlight an area of the stamp. How do I do it? I use the Out Of The Box technique and this is how it is done.
Supplies you will need:

• Die cutting machine
• Die
• Card stock
• Adhesive
• Stamp
• Ink
• Pencil with eraser
• Copics (or other markers for coloring)
• Scissors/craft knife
• Anything else you would like to use to finish your card

Once you have chosen your stamp and die, decide which part of your stamp will be "outside the box" and line it up.  In my case, I have part of the flower and the leaf on the outside (I have marked the area outside the box in red).




Using a pencil make small, light pencil marks on the INSIDE of the die where the image and die meet.




You should have two marks for each part that will be outside of the die. Hopefully you can see mine in this picture.




Using your scissors or a craft knife, cut from the edge of the paper to where the mark touched the die being careful to cut just along the edge of the image. Then cut around the outer edge of the image, or you can leave the final trimming to do after the next step.  In this picture you can see I have already cut around the flower, but have not cut around the leaf yet. Carefully slip this portion of the image inside the die and over the edge so it won't be cut when run through your die cutter. Slip the die into place over your image.




Run the die and image through your die cutting machine. It will look like this when you remove it.  Remove the die and finish cutting around the edge if you did not already do this. Erase pencil marks.




Now you are ready to color with your favorite markers.




Once your image is colored, use any materials you wish to complete your card.



(A2: Stamps: Great Impressions Stamps (Sweet Chick - G499 and Hello Friend - B152); Dies: Spellbinders; DP: Wild Rose Studio (Annabelle’s Garden); EF: Darice – Chevron)

Well, that is it. What do you think? Thank you so much for visiting and trying my tutorial!

Thanks so much for stopping by for a bit of inspiration from Great Impressions. Be sure to check out the current monthly challenge and don’t forget to link your GI creations at our CUSTOMER GALLERY!

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Hugs!

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