Impression Obsession AKA IO Stamps sadly closed their doors last year. Their warehouse was about a 3 hour drive for us so my PIC (stamping Partner In Crime) and I would shop their yearly warehouse sales and usually their dies at the sale were half price or close out prices.... so I have a lot of their dies and I was happy to come across the video on YouTube made by "KellyinID" for her IO Stamps Snowman card.....Esp since she used this Impression Obsession "Gingerbread with Heart" die set by Anna Wight.....
I rummaged through my die sets and found almost all she had used for her card to use on my card - here is my version of Kelly's Snowman card she had made for #satmornmakes on YouTube:
For my card my card base is red card stock cut and scored at the top. For the plaid card front I used a new to me plaid background stamp I picked up in the fall from a used stamp sale. This is a wood mounted background stamp;
I laid that on the craft table stamp side up and I inked that with red ink and laid a piece of white card stock onto the stamp. Used my hands to press the card stock onto the stamp to transfer the inked pattern to the card stock. Trimmed this piece to the size I wanted for my card front. Kelly had layered backgrounds on her cards and tags but I wanted to use a red frame for my card front. I used two rectangle dies from a Spellbinders rectangle die set and cut out a red card stock frame for my card front. I set this aside.
For my gingerbread snowman - I used white card stock and cut him out. Sponged the edges of him using light blue ink. Used a circle punch for his orange nose and his three black buttons. For the pink on his cheeks - when this die cuts out your piece it embosses the cheek circles and mouth on your piece. To add ink to his cheeks I measured the embossed circle and then used a punch to punch out a circle that size from scrap white card stock and I laid that card stock piece over my cheek circles and added pink ink to those. They are smaller than the dauber so I wanted to be sure to just get the pink ink in the cheek circles:
As Kelly shows in her video I also trimmed off the curved pieces on the front of the hat brim for the snowman. I cut the hat out of black mirrored card stock with a piece of red mirrored card stock for the red band on his hat. For the greenery I used the same IO Stamps die set Kelly had used "Winter Foliage" and I put them on his hat and by his candy cane.
After I had seen Kelly's video on her snowman project I came across "jannastamps" on YouTube and she was also inspired by Kelly's video to make a snowman using these IO Stamp die sets. Janna had added her own touches and die cut pieces to her snowman version and it is equally as clever. On her ribbon for her snowman she used a button die and card stock to keep her card flatter for mailing rather than use a plastic/wooden button. For my snowman I also used a button die from the stash for my button and I die cut my button out of recycled cardboard:
I also did not have the candy cane die set that Kelly had used for the candy cane for her snowman to hold so I used the "Mini Candy Die Set" from Creek Bank Creations" for my candy cane:
This candy cane was the perfect size to go with the holly piece for the snowman to hold. With all my snowman pieces ready I put ribbon from the stash around the snowman and I put the die cut button I had put thin twine in on the ribbon using hot glue. Added the holly/candy cane to the snowman arm using liquid glue. Added red mirror card stock dots the holly die set cuts out for the berries. Put those on the holly on the hat piece as well. With the snowman completed I set him aside.
Used liquid glue and put the red frame piece on the card stock front. Like Kelly I die cut a large snowflake out of white glittered card stock and put that large snowflake at the top right corner of the red framed piece. Added foam to the back of the snowman for dimension and put him in the frame on the card front. Used small snowflake dies from the stash and die cut a couple of the small snowflakes to put by the snowman.
For the sentiment "Warm Winter Wishes" I used a hot foil sentiment set and hot foiled sentiments in different colour foils onto different coloured card stocks. I went through the hot foiled sentiments in the stash and pulled out a silver foiled sentiment on red card stock for the card front. I put this piece onto the frame piece below the snowman using liquid glue:
Whenever I hot foil sentiments I hot foil them in different colours of foil onto different colours of card stock and these are sorted by foil colours for later use:
Having these hot foiled sentiment strips already foiled and die cut makes picking out a sentiment for a card quick as there are many sentiments, foil colours and fonts in each box.
Thanks to KellyinID for sharing her clever snowman tags and cards using the Impression Obsession Gingerbread with Heart die set and using many other of her stash dies for her projects. Fun snowman to put together and another thanks to Janna from jannastamps on her YouTube video sharing her ideas for Kelly's inspiration on her snowman cards using the same Impression Obsession die sets. Still sad IO Stamps is closed but happy to find new inspiration to use their products in my stash!
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