Through the Woods (IO card challenge)

Second card... for the challenge
http://mitrafriant.typepad.com/impression_obsession_news/2015/09/new-challenge-happy-haunting.html 

Through the Woods
I used the IO Cover-a-Card "Branches" (CC031 C-A-C)
and my favorite little die cut town: IO "Haunted Hill" (Die 029P)
I had fun figuring out how to put the village behind the branches... and came up with die cutting the village in white and in gray. Then I used the relief or top white piece and the town or bottom gray piece. Then I sponged a moon with a circle die cut on a post-it note... and then stamped the black trees over it all. The trick was to add a branch in front of the bell tower- I stamped the branches again on gray paper and cut out the main two branches and glued them on (they are the ones on the left reaching to the moon and going over the bell tower.

Been a while... Batty Thoughts (IO Happy Haunting Challenge)

Can't say I am a talkative blogger for sure...been since last December?! I most post my new cards on my SplitCoastStampers Gallery... So... if you want to take a peek- go here:
http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/showgallery.php?cat=500&ppuser=91627

Anywayyy.... Impression Obsession (IO) has me at it again... and it's a challenge again: Happy Haunting! Rule was only IO products. And it had to be new (no back-dating) and a few other rules. Go check out the challenge here:
http://mitrafriant.typepad.com/impression_obsession_news/2015/09/new-challenge-happy-haunting.html What I discovered is that I still don't have enough IO goodies... (time to go shopping?) .... in spite of this, I think I did pretty well. Check out my two creations...

Batty Thoughts
I used the IO Cover-a-Card "Clouds" (CC091 C-A-C)
again my favorite little die cut town: IO "Haunted Hill" (Die 029P)
and IO Top Edger "Greetings" (Die 234-M)
For this one I stamped the clouds in gray. And then sponged a moon yellow and some rust (masking the cloud first) and some of the surrounding sky with a navy blue. (The photo makes it all look too blue). Then I made a gray shadow of the town by gluing a black die cut of the town over a gray die cut. And sadly, I found I had no Halloween greetings by IO in my stash... so I decided Thinking of you and some bats could work.  I like it... :)

Gonna post my second card in a second post...
happy haunting to all!
:) Makani

CAS (clean and simple) Impression Obsession Holiday Cards

Today I was inspired (again) by Kittie Caracciolo  and her lovely, simple, elegant cards... and decided to do a couple CAS Impression Obsession Holiday Cards. I will be entering them in the contest over at the Impression Obsession Blog. Fingers crossed! LOL

Holiday Bird Watching

This first card is some fun with die cuts and thinking like a cat... with birds on the sill.

I decided to go with a 5 1/2 x 5 1/2 inch size card with some nice merlot, celery and white for colors. 

The Dies used were all from Impression Obsession    (http://www.iostamps.com/)

Large Window with Window Box set: DIE103-ZZ 

"Thinking of You" is in the Greetings Top Edgers word set (3 words): DIE234-M

Cat set (6 kitties): DIE083-K

Small Birds Set (10 little birds) DIE154-A

Fancy Tree set (2 trees) DIE031-N

The trees were stamped green on light green with The Fluff Cover-A-Card stamp CC104

Snowy Night

My second card is a little darling  little 3 1/4 x 3 1/4 inch card. I got the idea of cutting off stuff from the Haunting Hill and using the church and house as something not Halloween from Cindy at the Impression Obsession booth at the Rubber Stamp Convention a few weeks ago. So many ideas have been flowing in since... 

The house and tree are parts of the bigger landscape die called Halloween Hill DIE029-P

The snow is just dots using my new Sharpie White Extra Fine Point Water-Based Pen- worked great!

The scallop square is from some old scrap Stampin' Up! Paper

I am sorry, I can't remember where I got the little words "Merry Christmas" from. 

The best thing is that all the IO dies cut sooooo well! I love how they are made and work so well. Thanks Impression Obsession!

Anyway... thanks for looking. Hope I've inspired you. 

Happy crafting,

Makani

PS Merry Christmas from our little neighbor dog, Creature. He's loving his new lumberjack tartan fleece winter coat from Auntie Makani. 

Love, Creature "woof" 

Wag, wag, wag, wag, wag...