Aug 24 2008
Company Spotlight - Impression Obsession
I’m going to start something new called Company Spotlight. Each week I will feature a company and tell you a little bit about them. There are so many great stamp companies!
This week I’ll be featuring Impression Obsession.
Impression Obsession sells clear stamps, unmounted rubber stamps (on cling or permanent foam cushion) and wood mounted. The quality is wonderful. They offer a huge variety of image styles, everything from cute to trendy.
Here is some info from the Impression Obsession’s website “About us” page:
Hi! I know people are curious sometimes about who the people are behind the anonymous-looking website. Impression Obsession was formed in March 1998 by Mitra Friant and Charmaine Jackson, two high school teachers who thought it would be fun to run a stamp business part-time after school. We published our first stamp catalog with 92 images in August, 1998 and we were off and running.
We had a lot of success with that first catalog and continued adding images (and customers) until the company became too busy to be a part-time job. In September, 1999, I (Mitra) quit teaching and started working at the stamp business full-time. Charmaine, meanwhile, had a baby and decided to continue teaching so she got out of the stamp business.
2008 will mark 10 years in business…I can’t believe it! IO has come a long way since then. We now have over 2000 images in production at any given time and have expanded into offering clear stamps and more recently cling stamps (stamps with gray cushion that temporarily sticks to acrylic blocks). We are proud to offer Alesa Baker Designs, Heart Art Studios and Melissa Gordon’s stamps and just this year have added Leigh Hannan’s distinctive designs to our line.
I make Christmas cards all year long so I’m not in such a crunch at the end of the year. I usually don’t make multiples of any card, though I do sometimes make similar cards. Here are two cards using images from Impression Obsession.
The first card was made using the clear set CL144 - Leigh Hannan Snowflakes. I used watercolor paper and stamped the snowflake background in Baja Breeze ink. I spritzed it with water after stamping and let the snowflakes bleed. After the background was dry I stamped more snowflakes. The ornament was stamped in Archival ink and watercolored with Baja Breeze, Bravo Burgandy, Old Olive and More Mustard ink. I added some Amuse Twinkle stickers. The circle and Scallop Circle were cut with Nestabilties dies from Spellbinders.
This card was made using the G2235 Poinsettia Swirl. This is a rubber stamp (I chose unmounted rubber on cling). I stamped the image in black ink on Buttercream (Prism Papers) cardstock. I outlined the swirls and colored the leaves & flowers with Copic markers. I stamped the flowers again on another piece of Buttercream paper, colored and then cut them out and layered them onto the flowers on the panel. I added small dots of gold Ranger Liquid Pearls (Gold on the flowers and White Opal on the swirls). Two half pearls were adhered to the larger dots above the flowers.
Please let me know what you think of this new feature!
Have a great day!!! 
