Walking into the Impression Obsession booth is a card maker’s dream. Well, it’s also a stamper’s dream…and even die cutting heaven. There are cards on display showcasing all the stamps and dies! The displays are divided into sections according to designer. Here is Dina Kowal: Here is Yvonne Blaire: There’s Alesa Baker: Lindsay Ostrom stamps are so cute! Joanne Fink’s Zenspirations are lovely! Seth Apter has some edgy, masculine designs. Kalani Allred stamps are always wonderful: Tara Caldwell stamps are inspired by nature and realism. Gail Green’s stamp designs are just gorgeous. This series of ‘chalk’ image stamps is so cool! The Cover A Card stamps are perfect for stamping an entire background with a single stamp. And then there’s all the dies! The cards on display are simply amazing! To see more and learn about Impression Obsession products, please click HERE and visit their blog and website! …
Faux Watercolour Loveliness and Pigment Ink Oh, the wonders, versatility and unending twisted ways I can play with pigment ink. I am sharing with you an altered page that is a “jump off” from a class that I taught at CHA in Anaheim in the Clearsnap booth. The class was presented as a shape card but of course what was most important was “not the project” but the ideas and the techniques we used to take white cardstock and turn it into something “marvelous”. Yes, this was white cardstock when I began and those lovely, wispy, very watercolor looking branches in the background have been stamped with ColorBox, pigment ink by Clearsnap. Yes, I am combining my pigment ink with “Top Boss” clear embossing ink so the stamped images have that “watercolor feel”. At times as I am creating this look it is almost like I am erasing the image…
Oh we sooooooooooo love visiting the Heartfelt Creations booth at CHA. It is sooooooooooooooooooo full of amazing projects and designs!!!!! Check out this card we found on the Heartfelt Creations blog featuring their new line called Sugar Hallow CLICK HERE to visit their blog to see and hear all about this gorgeous new release as well as all the others! Get Inspired!
Oh my goodness – I WANT this collection from Simple Stories!!!!!!! The Carpe Diem scrapbook collection fits together perfectly with the Carpe Diem A5 planners and planner accessories. There is so much love in this collection -from patterned paper, to stickers, to die cuts, to metal tags, to Snap packs, to bradz to……..on and on!!!!! Visit their blog – CLICK HERE – to see it all! I can’t wait to see it at CHA this weeked in LA!!!!! I will keep you posted on other finds on the Creative Scrapbooker Magazine facebook page! Get Inspired!
Check out these cards design team member Nicole Wright designed featuring Sizzix and Ranger Ink! Visit Nicole’s Blog for all the details! LOVE IT! Merry Christmas
WINNER UPDATE – congrats to Ardel Doll – this weeks lucky winner!!! Heartfelt Creations is one of our all time favourite companies!!!! We love giving their stuff away!!!! Someone is going to win this fabulous collection of Heartfelt Creations products from their latest collection December Coffee Talk! Okay its no secret that all of us here at Canadian Scrapbooker Magazine are addicted to pretty much anything coffee! So of course we LOVE this collection. Someone is going to WIN!!!! We want it to be YOU! To enter to win this contest 1. Visit Heartfelt Creations on facebook – CLICK HERE – Say hello from Canadian Scrapbooker Magazine! 2. Leave a comment right here under this blog post! You have until Friday Nov 27th at midnight to enter! Good luck everyone!
In light of all the world events that are happening – I have been truly enjoying our Thankful theme of cards over the past few months. We all have so much to be thankful for. Todays card, Designed by Kerry Engel, features products from the inkiest of companies – Clearsnap SUPPLIES: Canadian Scrapbooker Super Stock, Clearsnap ColorBox Fluid Chalk ink, pigment ink and re-inkers, Quietfire Design and Magenta stamps, May Arts ribbon, Tombow pen and adhesives. Take a moment today – give someone a hug – tell someone thank you – send a smile to a stranger. Love and gratefulness is powerful. Happy Thursday!
Hostess gifts, thank yous, wine…. it’s all good! Hello everyone – Karen Ellis Here! I’ve been busy wrapping up a big fundraiser for our local sea cadet corp – a wine taste & buy! Yummy, right? All the wine is ready to be delivered and I am just getting my bottle tags ready to identify their new owners. wink I love how these turned out and wanted to share them with you! I thought they’d be FABULOUS for those of you who take a bottle of wine as hostess gifts during the holiday season. I made my Bottle Tags a wine theme but they could just as easily be created with a Christmas or Hanukkah theme as well! The bottle tags were made using my Brother ScanNCut machine. I found a template online and created a cut file for them in Brother ScanNCut Canvas (scanncutcanvas.brother.com – feel free to email…
Kim Gowdy was playing with the Momenta Art-C Groove Tool in our latest web show! Here are some of her creations SUPPLIES: Core’dinations ColorCore Cardstock Canadian Scrapbooker Super Stock Sizzix dies, embossing folder, Sizzix die cutting machine Impression Obsession stamps Art-C Groove tool distributed by Momenta Tombow Xtreme and Mono Adhesive Clearsnap pigment ink, ColorBox Fluid Chalk ink and Smooch ink Clearsnap stencils Aladine Izinks ink distributed by Clearsnap May Arts Ribbon Gesso Watch this show to see how this awesome tool works! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WN3iJ41JfY Get your groove on!
The thank you cards are keepin on – keepin on! This Monday morning we are thanking Stampendous and Spellbinders! Two wonderful companies who both stir our creative souls! Cathie Allan designed this card featuring both Stampendous and Spellbinders Here are the main products that she used. Thank you once again to these two companies for sponsoring our Great Canadian Scrapbook Carnivals – we truly appreciate it! Want to take a Cathie Allan class? Cathie is coming to Winnipeg Nov 6-7th! Don’t miss out! CLICK HERE to REGISTER TODAY
