Dina Kowal Creative

Monday, March 20, 2023

Impression Obsession DT Theme - In the Garden

The Impression Obsession team has some projects to share today featuring a garden theme - we'd love for you to play along with us!

I've got an older card, but I wanted to share it to remind you about some older products that are just gorgeous! If you love cling stamps and slimline cards, don't forget our gorgeous line of slimline stamps - there is a beautiful collection of large florals in there! These are so useful for other size cards too. Here is a mini slimline card, and I'm thinking this image could span 2 A2 panels for some mass production - my aunt who I haven't seen for at least 23 years called me last week and asked me to make some birthday cards for her senior friends - I think I'll use that technique for a stack!

This panel is watercolored and misted using a method you can learn HERE.

IO Products:

3258-LG Peonies

DIE965-Y Small Tags die sets

A13739 Sending Hugs (retired - but may still be found at online retailers)

Be sure to check out the other designers' blogs for inspiration - see the I.O. blog for all the details!

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Thursday, March 16, 2023

Impression Obsession - more March products

We've got more projects from the new release from Impression Obsession today! If you haven't seen the new release, you can find it all HERE - go check it out!

I love strawberries, so this new Berry and Blossoms set was an easy pick - the separate elements make it easy to create hundreds of different arrangements. I framed my sentiment in a die cut oval and added the die cuts from the set as an accent. The flower here is 4 pieces - 2 of the large flowers, a small one, and the center piece. I love that berry stem too - so cute! The pieces are colored with Copic markers and accented with acrylic paint pens.

IO Products:

DIE1234 Berry & Blossoms die set

DIE1221 Oval Labels die set

CL1183 Cottage Ivy Chair clear stamp set

PP025 Spring Plaids paper pack

March 15th and 16th the IO Team will be sharing projects with these and more new products! You can find a list of participants on the Impression Obsession Blog each day through the event. We will be giving away THREE Impression Obsession $25 gift certificates for the event so the more you comment through our Release Celebration the more chances you'll have to win! All comments for each of the event days will be open until Tuesday March 21st at 8pm CT and winners will be announced on Wednesday March 22nd on the Impression Obsession Blog.

Here are links to all the projects for today!

IO Stamps Blog

Anna Wight

Dina Kowal <<<<<<< that's me!

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Wednesday, March 15, 2023

Impression Obsession - new products for March!

It's time for a new monthly release from Impression Obsession! Haven't seen the new products? They're all HERE - go take a peek! I'll wait.

It's my turn to share the tutorial on Splitcoaststampers today, so these are my tutorial samples! It's not a new technique, but an easy way to make two coordinating spotlight cards at once. Easy and fun! Here's a link to the tutorial if you want to give it a try. There's a video and everything!

The sentiments I used are from one of my previous releases - it's a really versatile sentiment set and I love this vintage typewriter font. Coloring is done here with Karin markers and a wet brush.

IO Products:

CL1183 Cottage Ivy Chair clear stamp set

DIE1191 Stitched Slimline Layers die set

DIE1091 Slimline Sentiments Flag die set

WP1102 Typewriter Slimline Shorts clear set

Here are links to all the projects for today!

IO Stamps Blog

Anna Wight

Dina Kowal <<<<< you're here!

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Monday, March 06, 2023

Impression Obsession product focus: Stencils

The Impression Obsession team has some projects to share today featuring our stencils! It has been fun to see this product line grow, and to be a designer of stencils you can use on your own projects! I would love to know which are your favorites, and if you have requests please let me know!

I used 2 stencils to make this card - I brayered white acrylic paint onto my brayer, removed some of the paint lightly by pressing the floral stencil into the paint and lifting it away, and then masking the paint with the coffee pot stencil before taking my print. Once the paint was dry, I went in with a white colored pencil to define some of the edges and add highlights to the printed image.

I love this bigger-scale image - I have a habit of buying old wood items with the intention of painting on them, and I think these larger images will make a great beginning for a painted vignette - if I ever get around to actually doing the painting! The texture down the side of the stencil can be used as coffee grounds or as the texture on the old enameled tinware.

IO Products:

STEN014-A1 Coffee Pot Stencil

STEN011-A1 Four Petal Stencil

DIE1231 Block Alphabet die set

CL1202 Pooh Coffee clear stamp set

DIE1091 Slimline Sentiments Flag die set

Be sure to check out the other designers' blogs for inspiration - see the I.O. blog for all the details!

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Wednesday, March 01, 2023

Impression Obsession March Red Rubber Kit

The design team is sharing projects today using this month's stamp kit from Impression Obsession! This kit will be available through March - April, and features images of butterflies and beautifully detailed florals.

Flowers and butterflies are among my mom's favorite things, so I'll be honest - that "Just because" is on there temporarily, and I'm going to switch it out for a birthday sentiment for her 80th birthday next week! The image is watercolored with a few acrylic pen highlights. I backed it with a sheet from the Cool Reds Basics paper pack, and a gel print that happened to match it all perfectly!

IO Products:

March 2023 IO Red Rubber Kit

PP013 Basics 5 - Cool Reds paper pack

March 1st and 2nd the IO Team will be sharing new projects with the March Limited Edition red rubber stamp set. We will be giving away TWO Impression Obsession Grab Bags for the event, so the more you comment through our blog hop the more chances you'll have to win! All comments for each of the event days will be open until Tuesday March 7th at 8pm CT and winners will be announced on Wednesday March 8th on the Impression Obsession Blog. Good luck!

You can find a list of participants on the Impression Obsession Blog each day through the event. Here are the links for today!

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Monday, February 27, 2023

Impression Obsession - February Team Favorites

The IO Team is back today to share a favorite card from this month's release, so here's mine! Head over to the Impression Obsession Blog for all the links so you don't miss anything.

I combined several new products to create this card! I hope you're enjoying the different coffee designs that came out this month. You can never have too many! The panel across the top is from the Vintage Coffee paper pack and I added a little stenciling to one end, along with the stenciled words.

On the background panel I traced the outline of the takeout cup with a brown colored pencil and stenciled the coffee beans and grounds around it. The cup was colored with more colored pencils, using white to highlight from the upper right. So fun!

IO Products:

PP029 Vintage Coffee Paper Pack

STEN012 Coffee Cup stencil

STEN013 Bean and Grounds stencil

Be sure to check out the other designers' blogs for more inspiration from our February releases - see the I.O. blog for all the details!

Thanks for stopping by!

Monday, February 20, 2023

Impression Obsession DT Theme - Easter

The Impression Obsession team has some projects to share today featuring an Easter theme - we'd love for you to play along with us!

I was going to share a few different ways to use the new Layered Easter Egg stencils, but I am actually missing a whole layer - I'm not sure if it's hidden itself in my office or if it never made it to me, so I'll have to sort that out first! Sigh......

I did have this card made using the smaller egg stencil in that set - there are 2 different egg sizes, and the decorations will fit across the larger egg this way, or in the other orientation on the smaller egg. For this card I blended ink in the open egg, and then used a palette knife to spread a mix of modeling paste and Distress Oxide ink for the dots. If you've never mixed those mediums together, it's a great way to get a custom texture paste in any color. You can use dye or alcohol inks, paints, sprays, mica or pigment powders, and more. (Here's a tutorial.)

IO Products:

STEN015 Layered Easter Egg stencil set

DIE038-J Grass die

DIE1221-ZZ Oval Labels die set

CS1203 Pooh Easter Joy clear stamp set

PP015 Basics 7 - Purples paper pack

Be sure to check out the other designers' blogs for inspiration - see the I.O. blog for all the details!

Thanks for stopping by!

Thursday, February 16, 2023

Impression Obsession - more February products

We've got more projects from the new release from Impression Obsession today! If you haven't seen the new release, you can find it all HERE - go check it out!

There are several Easter products that coordinate - here I've used 3 of them, but one is hard to see. I love this Pooh image with the Easter basket, and I think it will be fun to work into a scene as well. For other occasions you could fill the basket with diecut flowers or cut across the top of the basket to tuck in other fussy cut or die cut shapes. Not sure why I used the fluorescent Copic marker on the grass - some of the other fluorescent colors fade back when they dry (the pink especially), but this one just did not.

I used one of the egg stencils to create the background behind Pooh here, and I need to do a video to show all this set can do! It is a fun one for layering. The 3rd product I used is another stencil - it is pressed into the solid background panel to add a little texture.

This is what the stencil looks like - it was a lot of fun to design!

IO Products:

CS1203 Pooh Easter Joy clear stamp set

STEN015 Layered Easter Egg stencil set of 4

STEN017 Pysanky Eggs stencil

PP009 Basics 1 - Yellows paper pack

February 15th and 16th the IO Team will be sharing projects with these and more new products! You can find a list of participants on the Impression Obsession Blog each day through the event. We will be giving away THREE Impression Obsession $25 gift certificates for the event so the more you comment through our Release Celebration the more chances you'll have to win! All comments for each of the event days will be open until Tuesday Feb. 21st at 8pm CT and winners will be announced on Wednesday Feb. 22nd on the Impression Obsession Blog.

Here is the hop list for today:

Thank you for visiting and commenting! I'd love to know what your favorite new release is!

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Wednesday, February 15, 2023

Impression Obsession - new products for February!

It's time for a new monthly release from Impression Obsession, and I'm excited to have quite a few items in this batch! Haven't seen the new products? They're all HERE - go take a peek! I'll wait.

This month's release is full of Easter designs (stencils and stamps, with papers coming soon!), and there are Pooh sets too! Some of you have already found the Pooh COFFEE set - I see the first run is already sold out! This was such a fun little set to design. If you've followed me for a while, you might recognize the coffee cup art from silhouette stamps and dies that came out with a collection in 2014! I love handmade mugs and glaze effects, so I tried to recreate that look here in watercolor.

For this second card I wanted to show off a couple of the papers in the Vintage Coffee pack - there's one of the OG dies too - they are still available! This was the card I sneak peeked last week.

The oval die is new - this set is cool because the stitch lines cut on the inside and outside of of the cut line. It's great for focals like this or for window openings. Nice touch.