Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Impression Obsession Day 2-Blog Hop






Welcome to day two of the IO Fall Die Release Blog Hop

When I saw the adorable Bowler Hat and Moustache in the 
all I could think of was the Burl Ives type snowman from Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. My God, the mind is a wonderful thing isn't it??

Soooo I punched out three circles 

11/4", 11/2" and 13/4" to create my sweet snowman
Funny, as I lay in bed this morning, I was thinking that I should have drawn curvy eyes and made some arms......ahhhh well, I was short on tree branches!!!!!

I also used this fun "Snowmen" Stamp to act as a base of snow!

Be sure to head on over to the


to get the complete list for the hop and the deets on how to win some great prizes


Happy Stamping!!

Monday, September 29, 2014

Impression Obsession Fall Designer Die Hop!



Welcome to the Impression Obsession Fall Designer Die Hop!
We have some beautiful new dies share AND Gift Certificates to give away!
 The hop will start each day with a list of participants on the Impression Obsession Blog at 6am EST. Each day pay us a visit here and then head over and see our fabulous IO Design Team’s projects with our new dies on their blogs (only one comment per blog per day please).
The more blogs you visit each day… the better chance you will have to win a $25 Impression Obsession Gift Certificate!!!
Every day (Monday, September 29th – Wednesday, October 1st) one of the blogs will be chosen randomly and a winner will be selected from comments on that blog at 10pm CT. The winner will be announced the following day along with the participating blogs for that day.
Two prizes will be awarded on the last day of the hop. One will be for Wednesday’s comments and another will be chosen from all the comments left throughout the week.
So….if you miss a day or time deadline your comments will still count for a chance to win a $25 Impression Obsession Gift Certificate!
Both Wednesday winners will be announced on the IO Blog on Friday.
If you have any questions please email Jeanne.
All of the new dies you'll be seeing on the hop are available NOW!


I have to apologize for the poor photo of this card. It is very white , however I just couldn't seem to capture that with my camera and of course being in a hurry to get it posted didn't help!

The Dies I used for the card are called Peace Dove

Today's Hop Links!


Good Luck!

Thursday, September 25, 2014

Thursday, September 18, 2014

It's hip to be square! Impression Obsession Thursday Challenge


Hello Peeps!!!

Hope all is well in your world......I've been working on getting stronger. Physically, Emotionally and Spiritually! So if i've been a little scarce, it's 'cause i've been busy! But it's paying off and I feel better now, than I have in several years!

Today's challenge is to create a square card.......perfect for my eerie Hallowe'en Scene!!!

I am SOOOOO Loving the IO winter release!

and Guess what? We'll be having a hop very soon to showcase the new shapes to DIE FOR!~~~~

For this card, I used the following Dies

Icicle Edger -Works well for creepy grass!
The sentiment is built from 


Designer Paper is from The Paper Loft-Gearhead collection

Be sure to hop on over to the IO Blog to get the links to the DT challenge cards and all the deets on the challenge!

Happy Stamping,


Vicki

Sunday, September 7, 2014

"Die"ing for Fall


As you know, I am soooo partial to Autumn! 

Last week was a bit of a bomb! I ended up in the Hospital AGAIN......grrrr!

Since I had my stents put in at the end of April, I had been back to the Hosptial twice with chest pains. I had similar symptoms to what I was experiencing when I had my heart attack. Sadly, my symptoms aren't typical in that my Blood Pressure is find, my heart function great and in all three visits over the past few months, even the bloodwork was good.

SO this is my testimony to you to PAY ATTENTION TO YOUR BODY!

I was having symptoms again all weekend. Finally on Tuesday, I asked my Mom to drop me at the Hospital. Again, there didn't appear to be anything showing as wrong. Fortunately, the Cardiologist that came down to see me, was AMAZING! He said that since I've been back three times, he wanted to repeat an Angiogram to ensure that nothing more was going on. Sure enough, there was an additional blockage that needed repair and so I have another little piece of metal in my Heart! 


I am hopeful that this in the onset to my recovery! 

Next week, I'm teaching this card in my all occasion Card Class!

I came home from the hospital to a lovely box of the fall winter dies and had to get right into them!

For this card, I used the following dies:


I created a background by sponging ink onto white cardstock

I also added some dimension to the leaves and basket with some sponging as well!

Keep your eyes peeled, I'll be back soon with some Die Shares!

Happy Stamping!

Vicki