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From WHITE to BRIGHT! with Cathie Allan

August 2, 2022 2 Comments

Create your own embellishments and patterned paper Cathie Allan style! INSTRUCTIONS 1. Stamp the Impression Obsession background stamp using VersaFine black ink on a piece of Creative Scrapbooker Super Stock. This panel will be cut into design elements when assembling the layout at the end. Set panel aside. 2.Apply Split Pea VersaColor ink on a piece of recycled plastic. Mist with water.3. Place a second piece of recycled plastic on top and move the ink around with your finger.4. Pull the two pieces apart. We have just created TWO stamps.5. Gently stamp the green-coloured plastic on a piece of Super Stock. Clean the plastic pieces.6. Repeat Steps 2 to 5 using Orange, Opera Pink, and Cyan VersaColor ink.7. Use a ruler and marker to create a frame, and edge the piece of Super Stock. Set aside.8. Using an Impression Obsession die, die cut a variety of foliage from Super Stock.…

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Online Spring Extravaganza at Lavinia Stamps

March 4, 2022 No Comments

You DO NOT want to miss this fabulous event going on RIGHT NOW over at Lavinia Stamps!Lavinia Stamps has such a unique style and magical feel to them! If you haven’t met this company yet – YOU NEED TO!!!! I promise that you will love what you find! During the Spring Extravaganza they announced their their NEW RELEASES! Here are a few examples! Eleana Evans designed this absolutely beautiful card featuring Lavinia Stamps – Noof (that magnificent pussy cat) along with the adorable mouse stamps sets including – Minni and Moo Stamp Set and Basil and Bibi Stamps Sets. We all seriously need those happy little mice in our lives! Here is another beautiful example of the happy little creatures – a card designed by Karen Telfer. Amanda Branston designed this card featuring Lavinia Stamps – Witches Hat Stamp. Oh my goodness, how adorable. Grab a coffee and watch as…

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Did someone say they needed a butterfly stamp?

May 31, 2021 No Comments

STOP whatever you are doing! Seriously. If you love butterflies, RUN and grab the Floral Butterfly collection from Heartfelt Creations. This collection includes patterned paper, stamps and dies. BUT without a doubt my favourite element in this collection is this HUGE butterfly stamp and coordinating die! Check out this stunning card featuring this collection by Tracy McLennon. CLICK HERE to visit Tracy’s blog for all the details. Summer is just about here in Alberta…I CAN’T wait for the butterflies! Happy Monday Friends! PS – ONLY THREE MORE DAYS – then our EARLY BIRD RATES in the Village are gone forever!!!! Don’t miss out!

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Impression Obsession – Catch the Camping Spirit AND MORE!

May 17, 2021 No Comments

If you love camping, eating smores, roasting marshmallows, enjoying a campfire or just simply really love all those super cute trailers that are so trendy right now 🙂 – then the May 2021 Impression Obsession stamp release is for YOU! Here is just a tiny TASTE of some of the creations we found over on the Impression Obsession website featuring a few of our favourite designs. CLICK HERE to check out the entire NEW May 2021 Release. You will love it! Happy Monday Friends! JOIN THE VILLAGE of INSPIRED PEOPLE!

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Once Upon a Heart with Cathie Allan and Impression Obsession

March 9, 2021 No Comments

Did you ever get one of those timeless stamps that you know that you can use in a million projects? I may have just “a few”. Recently I took out this amazing heart stamp from Impression Obsession (Wavy Line Heart) and I have been creating and creating and creating with it AND guess what, it is still on my desk because this stamp is simply not done with me yet. So far I have created 4 projects with it, 2 cards, a scrapbook page, and an altered piece of cardstock that I have not used in an actual project yet because I love it so much. I just don’t want to cut it up or put anything on it, yet, lol. I simply love it just like it is. The “I LOVE US” card was my husband’s valentine’s card. Brian actually gets offended if I buy a commercially built card…

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NEW Impression Obsession Products!

March 5, 2021 No Comments

Oh my – oh my – oh my! Hold the phone! I am IN LOVE with SEVERAL (if not all – giggle giggle) of the new releases from Impression Obsession – CLICK HERE to see them all – I will give you a minute or two 🙂 So many different designs to play with. The question is where does one start?!?!? LOLOL Well they have the answer. A 2-DAY blog hop with their design team members creating and designing with their latest releases. The inspiration you will find here will KNOCK YOUR SOCKS OFF! It was super hard for me to pick a product and project to feature here in my blog post….. this post could be a mile long! Here is one of many cards, that stopped me in my tracks designed by Dina Kowal. STUNNING! Dina designed this card using the Impression Obsession Lotus Flower 3 stamp. Aswell…

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Thinking of You – One Layer Card

November 10, 2020 No Comments

Kim here for a quick share today! Are you ever in need of a “quick” one layer card to drop in the mail? I often need to make a card on the fly, here’s one way to do just that. Using three colours of Ranger Distress Oxide and Creative Scrapbooker’s Super Stock, I created a gradient of colour. I inked these colours over a circle mask, adhered with Scrapbook Adhesive by 3L reposition-able tape [ the GREEN one ]. Next, grab a stencil and use a baby wipe to “lift” off the Distress Oxide Ink, this adds a little extra visual texture to your card. I dug into my Magenta stash to find this leafy stem stamp. To give it a silhouette vibe, I stamped using Ranger’s Archival black ink. I like to work on a single piece of cardstock and then adhere to a card base with a permanent…

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Hydrangea Stamp by Heartfelt Creations and Cathie Allan

February 11, 2020 1 Comment

Hello everyone, Cathie Allan here today on the Creative Scrapbooker Magazine blog. I am so excited to share with you my blog post for February. It involves a gorgeous Hydrangea stamp along with a few other stamps and dies from the amazing Heartfelt Creations. This amazing company constantly creates stamps and dies to inspire. Of course, I broke out my pigment inks and I now have a totally awesome collection of Tsukineko’s, StazOn, Pigment ink. If you are like me … and love to incorporate window plastic or transparencies to your projects, this ink will blow your ‘”stamping on window plastic” mind :). I will also share with you a delightful little cleaner that will clean this “relatively, new ink” off of your rubber stamps and your clear stamps and “nourish your stamps” at the same time. Let’s check it out! Using the “StazOn ink” of your dreams, stamp the…

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Birthday Card Using Art Impression’s Cupcake BFFs stamp

September 22, 2019 2 Comments

Hello! Kim here, sharing a cute, birthday card I’ve recently made! As I rummaged through my stash of previously made cards, I realized I was getting low on birthday cards! This will be a quick card to make multiples of, to have on hand! For this card, I have used my Art Impression’s Cupcake BFFs stamp. I stamped it to the left side of a piece of Creative Scrapbooker Superstock. My sentiment was stamped separately and cut with a circle punch. I colored the image with my NEW Chameleon Fineliner Pens, I adore them! Like their big sisters, the Chameleon Pens, the Fineliners can provide tonal, colour transitions like magic! Think how beautiful your journals and planners can be! Here, however I have coloured my image using dots and lines – it is such a FUN way to colour smaller images! I’ve added a narrow strip of patterned paper to…

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Greeting Card featuring Clearsnap ColorBox and Cathie Allan

August 22, 2019 2 Comments

Wondering what the inside of the Fall 2019 issue of Creative Scrapbooker Magazine looks like? Here is a little peek of a gorgeous Greeting Card that Cathie Allan designed featuring Clearsnap ColorBox. Each and every issue is filled with gorgeous STEP BY STEP photos on how to create a variety of different projects! Here is the step by step that you will find in the Fall issue of Cathie’s Greeting Card. The Fall issue is now at your local scrapbooking stores and will hit newsstands Sept 01. Visit the Creative Scrapbooker Magazine STORE LOCATOR to find a store nearest you. We are EXCITED to announce that Clearsnap ColorBox will be sponsoring The Great Canadian Scrapbook Carnivals! Here are the carnival dates – MARK YOUR CALENDARS Edmonton – Sept 6-7 Calgary – Sept 20-21 There are still seats available in our crop area! HURRY!!!! We want you to come on down to…