{ Exclusive April 2016 kit from Elle’s Studio }

Exclusive April kit is ready for purchase now.
Check out our NEW Design team gallery. You can bookmark your favorites, leave comments and see close ups of our design team’s projects in our gallery.

Here are my April 2016 creations.

For a list of supplies used on all my projects, please visit my gallery.

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*It is available today, on the 10th, for $9.99 and then the price goes to $11.99 at midnight PST.*
*The kit is exclusive to Elle’s Studio and a limited edition – once the kit is sold out it is gone for ever!*
*Our add-ons are also limited and while supplies last, and are made to coordinate with the kit.*

All new products will be located here
April kit
Perfect Weekend Stamp
Today Acrylic
True Story Acrylic
Days of the Week Acrylic
Wood Veneer Labels 
Good Stuff Puffy Stickers
Yes Printables
April cut files

{ March 2016 Card Kit from Scraptastic Club–part 2 }

Hi! I have two more cards I created with the March card kit while I am waiting for the new one to arrive any day now. I have been using stencils on my cards quite often and I have recently moved them really close to my work area so that I can just open a drawer and they are all there. No more searching around for them. In addition, I keep my Whipped Spackle (my favorite modeling paste) near by, as well.

For this card I applied Liquitex Clear Gesso to the background. This provides the perfect "tooth" to the area, in this case, patterned paper. Once you add other mediums, like watercolor, it will not absorb into the paper. It stays on top and keeps it bright. Plus, it doesn’t soak through the paper. What I have at home is Liquitex Clear Gesso that I got at my local craft store. I applied Whipped Spackle using the triangle stencil that came in my March Drops Of Jupiter Kit.

For the second card I just layered the bits and pieces on top of patterned paper and added some stamped stripes from the stamp set. I sprinkled some color shine from my stash.

Here is what our April 2016 card kit looks like. Fun!!

Have a great Friday!!!

{ Impression Obsession DT challenge – Birthday Wishes }

Hi and welcome to our  Impression Obsession challenge – Birthday Wishes. For this card I used all my new stamps and dies.

I found the colors in the Color Throwdown Challenge #387: aqua, yellow, orange and red. Fun mix, right. I started my card with a Graph Paper background stamp. I added tow pieces of washi to the top, orange and aqua. Under that I stamped Chalk Dot Border with Aqua ink. I have been using my diamond stencil from the StencilGirl Products a bunch lately so here I go again with Whipped Spackle.

I added some circles that were laying around from my Sihouette cuts. “Wishes” was die cut from red cardstock and then I added a cabochon flower. I wanted a little sparkle on the card so I added some dots of Deco Foil Liquid Adhesive and Gold Deco Foil.

Impression Obsession Stamps and Dies:
Wishes stamp
Wishes die
Graph Paper
Chalk Dot Border

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Why don’t you come along and play with us. To enter the challenge go to the Impression Obsession Blog (all the details are there!).  Create a new project using  Impression Obsession stamps and post it on Impression Obsession Blog between April 7 – April 20. A winner will be chosen randomly to win a $25 gift certificate to the Impression Obsession store.

Make sure you check out what the rest of our DT created.

I hope you play along.

Impression Obsession Blog
Anna Wight
Daniela Dobson ---- you are here
Dina Kowal
Jeanne Streiff
Jenny Gropp
Karen Amidon
Laura Fulcher

Have a great Thursday!

{ Mother’s Day Deco Foil Gift Idea And Tag }

Hi. I have a brand new project on Therm O Web blog today with step by step instructions that I would like you to check out. It’s a great gift idea for Mother’s Day or any occasion.

I used Deco Foil for this printed quote and made a little tag to go with the gift. Step by step instructions with photos  and Therm O Web supplies are on the blog.

{ Perfect Paper Crafting and Impression Obsession }

We are teaming up with Perfect Paper Crafting today and I am sharing a card I created with my Perfect Paper Crafting Mini Layers Tool and Perfect Cuttiting Mat. Link to all the product I used at the end of the blog post.

I started my card with a piece of patterned paper that I covered with Gesso. I love using gesso, especially to tone or mute the background.

After gesso dried I stamped Vintage Briar Rose Background. I ised my heat tool to speed up the process.

My favorite border size is 1/16 and 1/8. I adhered my patterned paper to cardstock and line up the Perfect Layers Mini tool up along the edge. Perfect Layers is designed with a patented “catch lip” that simply "bumps" up along the paper.  My favorite part is that it has a stainless-steel edging for durability and smoothness of cutting. No more cutting into my ruler with an exacto knife. I used The Perfect Little Cutting Mat for all my cutting. It’s 8x10, double sided - Metric (cm) on one side and Imperial (inches) on the other and printed grid lines - includes card template size.

My pink cardstock is 1/16” border and the gold stripe paper is 1/8” border. After those two, I added another 1/16” border with black cardstock.

Befor I could leave my base alone I had to add some whipped spackle with my new Striped Circles Stencil from StencilGirl Products.

The last step is die cutting all the bits and pieces and adhering them to the card. Special attention was given to my daisy flower. I used Spiral Daisy Die. Once the flower was formed I added Deco Foil Adhesive and once it dried for a bit I added Gold Deco Foil. For the Large Solid Leaf Stem I used leftover gold foil and die cut the leaves from that.

Stop by our Impression Obsession blog and Perfect Paper Crafting blog to see what other Design Team members created and to win some awesome goodies. ($25 gift certificate and
mini ruler set with mat).

Impression Obsession dies
Spiral Daisy
Large Solid Leaf Stem
Feather Set
All-in-One Frames – Circles
Miss You

Perfect Paper Crafting Mini Layers Tool
 Perfect Cuttiting Mat

Gold Deco Foil
Deco Foil Adhesive
Therm O Web Adhesive