Personal Impressions

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Printing with Gelli Arts®: Gelli® Printed Winter Garland : Hello and welcome to the Gelli Arts® blog. It’s Birgit back with a fun wintery project using the new Gelli Arts® Round Mini Kit. ...

I love this cute angel stamp designed by Lindsay Mason for Personal Impression Sweet Dixie collection, and wanted to create a 3d card with it. I stamped the angel several times  then coloured and cut them out. I added Stickles for some extra sparkle. They are mounted onto strips of acetate so they ‘wobble’. I finished off with one of the sentiments from the Christmas Spent with Family set. Stamps Used: Sweet Dixie Christmas Characters Christmas Spent with Family Useful Links: Personal Impressions Website Lindsay Mason Designs Blog

Last Christmas I created projects very similar to these.  Using Sweet Dixie *Christmas spent with Family* stamp set Designed by Lindsay Mason from Personal Impressions, I have replicated previous makes. *Christmas Spent With Family* Using an MDF tag painted in Black Gesso and sanded back I stamped the sentiment using White VersaCraft and heat embossed with Sweet Dixie Glacier White Ultra Fine embossing powder. Trying to achieve the chalk board effect I did not use an anti static bag hoping the MDF would attract the odd speckle of embossing powder. From the picture below you can see that it does just that. The Holly leaves did not fit onto the tag without obscuring the wording. It is possible to get a negative print of an image if you stamp onto tissue paper.  As tissue paper is absorbent the ink sinks easily into it, making the reverse side  a negative image to the stamp.  Doing this allowed me to fit the Holly Leaves onto the Chalkboard tag pe

Today I share two cards created using Sweet Dixie stamps from Personal Impressions both stamp sets have been designed by Cathie Shuttleworth. Christmas Teddy The image has been stamped four times, heat embossed with clear embossing powder, and coloured using ProMarkers. Sections of the image have been cut and layered to add depth Mat and layered onto complimentary card and embellished with flat back gems this set consists of 3 stamps two Christmas Sentiments and the large Teddy image. Teddies Christmas Stocking This card has been created in exactly the same way as the first, stamped a number of times, heat embossed, coloured, cut out and layered. Kuretake Wink of Stella pens add a little sparkle The Teddies Christmas Stocking Stamp set has some very handy little stamps within the set. One is this lovely little Santa Teddy, perfect for using on envelopes. Also included within the collection are snowflakes and a star, rather modern in d