NEW VIDEO - Holiday Mansion Quick Tips

Hello Ai Fans!

With the release of our new Holiday Mansion line, we thought we would do a product closeup so you can see how fun it can be to create with our two new sets!

Our Holiday Mansion stamp and die sets allows you to customize your house with shutters, and a door that swings open and close! Pair it with our HM Accessories stamp and die set to decorate your house for Halloween or Christmas, with items such as ghosts, pumpkins, wreaths and Santa!

The images are so fun to color too! Just the perfect size to slip behind the windows or doors. We hope you enjoy this video!

Copic Markers used: Y13, Y18, Y21, Y23, Y26, YR20, YR23, G24, G28, E34, E37, R22, R24, R29

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NEW Interactive Halloween Sets! Plus, Challenge 216 Off Kilter Week 2!

As summer winds down, we are gearing up for fall with a second round of Halloween releases! Announcing THREE new stamp and die sets for creating interactive Halloween cards! 

Our Halloween Treats MiniTryfold is both sweet and spooky, featuring a door that swings open to reveal ornate jars of candy and a napping kitty! Popping onto the scene is our Haunted Mansion PopCard! Fill your haunted house with accessories included in this stamp and die set, such as a waving witch and roving ghost, who can fit perfectly inside open doors and windows! If you do not already have a PopCard Template die, you will want to grab one to create this 3-dimensional project! Last but not least, we are launching a new line called "Wiggle Wobbles!" With the Skeleton Wiggle Wobble Set you can create a dapper skeleton with limbs that hinge and jiggle! The provided dies cut small holes that allow you to easily assemble with brads! For even more wiggling, place your skeleton on a Mini Action Wobble! Each Wiggle Wobble Set includes a clear stamp set, matching dies, 10 brads and one Mini Action Wobble to get you started! We also have NEW Brad 50 Packs and Mini Action Wobble packs available for your next projects! Find these new products and last week's release in our Halloween/Thanksgiving category at artimpressions.com!

 

   

 

Check out our new video tutorial walking through our NEW Holiday Mansion and HM Accessories sets! With these sets you can create for fall and winter holidays with adorable images and matching dies! For more information, including a list of supplies, you can visit our blog post HERE.



This week we have the design team here to show off their fall creations! Remember, you can always visit the designer's personal blog for more info when you click on their name! Find the stamps they use at artimpressions.com!

Cheri with Holiday Mansion & HM Accessories

 Dana with Happy Haunting

Diane with Spooktacular

 Jil with Holiday Mansion & HM Accessories

 Karen with Happy Haunting

 Renee with Spooktacular

Sharon with Spooktacular

WOW, designers! What beautiful and inventive Halloween cards! This gives so many great ideas for our "Off Kilter" challenge!

We want to see how you can mix things up by making cards that are a little off kilter, such as tilting your panels, creating new angles or curves! Halloween images are not required, but we would love to see you show off your favorite Art Impressions stamps!

Here are the Challenge Rules:
✻ Please make a new card or creation. You can make any crafty item you wish; this is not limited to cards!
✻ Limit two submissions per person. You will receive extra votes if you use Art Impressions stamps!
✻ The Ai Challenge is open to everyone, international submissions are welcome!
✻ Include a link back to the Ai Blog or grab our button on the top right of our sidebar!
✻ Share the Ai love by clicking and commenting your fellow crafters.
✻ Make sure to get your link up by Wednesday, September 13 at 5:00 p.m. PST to enter your creations.
✻ Good luck and happy stamping!

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Happy Birthday Jon!

Hello Ai fans!

This week the Art Impressions Design team is doing a product swap with Marvy!  We got the chance to try out several great products.  I'm showing you many of them today.  I'm sure you'll see a few other's on my blog here and there.  Like the Snow Writer. I didn't use it today, but I'll be using it for some future Christmas projects.  

Today's project is a birthday card for my brother Jon.  Every birthday he seems to end up wearing a crazy hat.  I used the Lifetime Set (SKU# 4728). I knew this was the perfect image for his card!

Over the years I have used many great Marvy products, so I was happy to be able to try out more Marvy products.  We received an assortment offlesh tone Le Plume Permanent Alcohol markers from Marvy.  I used OR820, Or821, OR823 and R813 on my old guys face, hands and legs. The rest of my image was colored with my Spectrum Noir Alcohol Markers.  I highlighted the balloon hat with the white Bistro Chalk Marker.  It has a nice Fine tip.  I also used it on the bow tie to go over some of the dots that had been colored over with red. Lastly I used the Deco Just Glitter Premium Markers for edging. I edged my card with the blue marker and the black layer with the purple marker. I was just careful to go slow while using the glitter markers for edging.  

Here is a closer view of my image.  I wish you could tell from this photo, but it's on a Mini Action Wobble spring. When you touch the image it springs to life.

As I mentioned above, the face is colored with the Marvy Le Plume Alcohol markers, I used the Spectrum Noir Alcohol Markers for the rest of the image.

Hair - RB2

Green - AG2, AG4

Yellow - CT2, CT4

Reds - DR4, DR7

Here are a few photo's of my brother.  The Iron Crab is my all time favorite!

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We've Got the Moooves by Dana Warren

Hello AI fans!!

This week we are doing a product swap with Marvy and I have not one, but two cards to share with you today!! I paired a bunch of Marvy products with AI's Udderly Fantastic stamp set.

I started by using the Easy Chalkboard Marker on heavy cardstock and on a think chipboard like material. This pen is amazing, basically, make a chalkboard out of anything!! I just used it on paper but I can imagine it would be awesome on other materials, too!! I did two layers on the heavy card stock and chipboard and both held up wonderfully!

When it was all dry, I die cut the chalkboard paper with a stitched rectangle, then placed a Heidi Swapp stencil over the panel. With Bistro Chisel Chalk Marker set I basically used the stencil as a guide to make my circles. I set the panel aside to dry.

Next, I stamped the jumping cow twice, since I am making two cards. To color the cow I used Marvy's Le Pluma markers, they are permanent alchohol based ink and I was impressed on how well these colors blended! I used OR823, OR821, OR822, OR820, R810, 812. For the spots, I used my Spectrum Noir markers, GY2, GY5 and for the skirt, I used IG5, IG6, IG8. I also used the chalk markers on the ballons, hat and skirt trim to help tie it in with the background. 

For this card, I used the Bistro Chalk Marker Broad Tip markers. I actually made this background first. I found that I used to much chalk ink and it would leak under the stencil. I still liked to look, less perfect can be nice too! I used the Minz Pointz Circles from The Crafter's Workshop.

For both cards, I die cut a whtie circle and added it to each panel. I also die cut two banners and stamped the sentiments. I added the banners and the images with foam tape. 

Since my backgrounds are made with chalk markers and can be easily scraped off I would suggest using a clear scealer like modge podge or similar. I don't have any at hand so I can't give it try, but I would think that would keep the chalk in place!

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NEW VIDEO - Evening Scene Watercolor

Hello Ai Fans!

Welcome to a new Watercolor Wednesday video! This week, Bonnie changes things up with her first nighttime scene, perfect for an eerie Halloween or Autumn card. Bonnie starts by drawing a circle for the moon using the inside of her washi tape roll and surrounding with color, using a mix of African Violet and Violet from her WC Palette with a WC Brush #6. Next, Bonnie stamped the Large Vine from our WC Series 9 Set 2 and uses the Stamp Positioner to place the kitty from our WC Cats Set, without the tail to be drawn in later. Bonnie adds foliage to the tree and ground with our WC Foliage Set, Clay Pot Set and Garden Wagon Set. To finish the image, she draws in the tail and fills the cat with color.

We hope you enjoy this week's new idea! If you liked this new concept, please give us a thumbs up. Don't forget to subscribe to our YouTube, so you see our newest videos first!

Happy Watercolor Wednesday!

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