Tasha here with a fun new Halloween card to share. Fall is right around the corner, and I’m so excited to dive into festive Halloween designs! For today’s project, I used the 5769-Halloween FB Fence Set and the 5456-Spooky Wagon Set to create a playful, not-so-spooky scene.
I started by layering the fence frame over a piece of Art Impressions star pattern paper; one of my favorites for Halloween! The purple sky sets the perfect backdrop. From there, I added two little ghosts and two bats (with their eyes drawn in using a white gel pen for extra detail).
In front of the fence, I tucked in autumn leaves, a tiny pumpkin, and the cutest kitty wearing a witch hat; I just love cat stamps! Of course, I couldn’t resist adding a spider crawling on the pumpkin for a little Halloween charm.
To finish it off, I layered golden yellow, white, and black metallic paper, and a piece of candy corn pattern paper for that extra festive touch. This card was so much fun to make, and I can’t wait to create even more Halloween designs this season!
Hello Ai fans and welcome to our Wild About You challenge.
We want to see your creations using a wild animal stamp or die, animal prints, embossing folders, embellishments and more.
Our Featured Designer for this challenge is Lynn and you're going to LOVE what she made because they're perfect for a man, woman or book-loving child.
Who doesn't love a big, beautiful bear?
Once you've checked out Lynn's beautiful bookmarks and her fabulous YouTube tutorial, be sure to scroll down and see who won our When One Door Closes challenge.
So happy to kick off the brand-new Ai "Wild About You" Blog Challenge! For this challenge we will be asked to create a card or project using a wild animal or animal print. As soon as I saw this challenge I immediately thought of the wonderful new Ai WC Bear Set (6064). This beautiful set includes 6 bears and several coordinating sentiments.
Watch video tutorial here!!!
We can stamp and color three of the bears using the Zig Clean Color Real Brush Pens in the following colors: Blender, Sugared Almond Pink, Beige, Mid Brown. Once the coloring is done, we will fussy cut the bears using our detail scissors.
Now let's create some nature inspired bookmarks using the Ai Corner Bookmark Dies (6042) Set. This set includes the corner bookmark die and two layering dies for your bookmark, as well as a few flowers and petal die! For paper we will use the wonderful Ai Father's Day Paper Pack (6072). This double-sided paper pack has several nature and outdoor papers that will be perfect for these bookmarks!
Once the bookmarks are die-cut, we will simply fold on the score lines and add some double-sided tape to the little tab and that gives us the base of the bookmarks. Now we can die-cut the scalloped corner die and add this to the bookmark.
Next, we will stamp a sentiment on the back of each of the bookmarks from that same stamp set. These include " Protector, Provider, Leader", Fierce and Fearless", and "Quiet Strength...Fierce Heart".
Finally, let's glue on the bears! These bookmarks make a great gift when paired with a good book...and they are so easy and fun to make!
Please join us in this fun new challenge...we would love to see what you create!
Thank you so much for joining me today! Have a fun and crafty day!
Thank you for that wonderful tutorial and inspiration Lynn!
Now let's see who won the previous challenge.
For our Top Spot we selected Diana S. for her beautiful house scene.
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Our Lucky Random Winner was Julie W. Look at how fun and spooky her old wooden door is!
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Congratulations to our winners!
We hope you had fun with that last challenge and that you enjoy this one. We always LOVE seeing what you create and treating a couple of people to a shiny new stamp set!
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Today I have an interactive get well card using the #AICS38 - Doggy Kisses set. When you open the card, the image flips to the inside.
I started by stamping the images with Memento black ink onto copic friendly paper and colored with my copic markers listed below. I die cut the images using the #5065 Oval Double Stitch and the #5135 Hexagon Double Stitch dies. I fussy cut and popped up the kleenex and tea cup using foam tape. I die cut an oval into the front of the card panel and used the blue inner panel for the flip base.
For the mechanism - cut a piece of cardstock 2 3/4" x 3" and score at 3/4, 1 1/2 and 2 1/4 along the 3" side. Fold and crease the score lines to create a tube. Place glue on the underside of the first fold area only. Glue down to the inside fold of the card. Fold the tube in half and place glue on the upper fold area only. Bring the top half of the card over and shut on top of the tube piece. The tube will show through the top of the card, but the image panel will cover when closed.
Now cut a piece of cardstock 3/4" x 2 1/4". Score in thirds along the long edge (3/4" each piece). Glue one 3/4" tab to the top of the tube piece in the center. Fold the other end upwards and lay the tube down flat so that the card is shut. Place glue on the upwards tab only. Place the blue image panel into the front oval cutout area and adhere it onto the tab with the glue. The image panel will pop up thru the oval cutout on the front of the card when shut and it will pop thru to the inside of the card when opened.
Decorate your card with sentiments, ribbon, etc.
Thank you for joining me today! Hope you have a wonderful day!
I thought it would be fun to create a Six Panel Accordion Fold Card with some crows, hay bales, scarecrows, pumpkins and apples. This can be given as a card or gift! I'm going to place mine on a shelf alongside some of my ceramic pumpkin collection for a festive fall look!
We will be mixing several stamp sets today including the Ai Harvest Together Set (5507), Ai Harvest Sentiments Set (5600), Ai Harvest Pumpkin Set (5595), and the Ai Harvest Set (5598).
So, let's first stamp, color, fussy cut and die cut all of our images. I did all of the coloring off camera for this project because I wanted to focus on the creation and assembly of the accordion fold design. However, I have listed all of the colors that I used for your reference as follows: Blender, Flesh Colour, Pale Orange, Pink Haze, Orange, Scarlett Red, Red, Deep Red, Yellow, Lt Green, Deep Green, Beige, Ochre, Brown, Mid Brown, Brick Beige, Lt Gray, Gray, Smoky Teal.
Next, let's die cut these wonderful, large letters from the brand-new Ai Large Letter Dies (5910). There is also a coordinating Ai Numbers Dies (5911) available, and I will link that below for you as well. We will die cut the letters twice and stack a few together for a bit of substance. Now we can ink the edges of our letters and spatter them with some brown ink.
Now we can create the accordion fold card base, and we will be using the brand-new Ai Mini Rectangle Frame Die Set (5901). This was designed to create a cute frame, but we are going to use the large frame die to create three panels for our card. This will die cut the panels with a tab and score lines. So now we can cut away one of the tabs on the third panel and then assemble these three panels together. Which we will then fold in a back-and-forth pattern or fan fold design. This makes it so easy!!!
Next, we can stamp some cute little sprigs on both sides and spatter with brown ink and for some shine we will also spatter on the new Tim Holtz Sprits in Fossilized Amber. We will also ink up the edges of the accordion card base on both sides.
For our next step, let's grab some woodgrain paper from the Ai Christmas S2 Paper Pack and die cut three rectangles using that same Mini Rectangle Frame Set. We can attach these 6 panels to each section of the card.
Now for the fun...assembling all of these letters and cute little elements onto our card. Just keep in mind that you may only want to pop up items on the front and back of the card so that it doesn't get too bulky when you close the card.
Finally, let's wrap a bit of twine around this project and tie a pretty bow and also add a few sparkly gems!
Thank you so much for joining me today! Have a fun and crafty day!
I love mushrooms and instantly thought of the Mushroom Cubbies set for the Art Impressions "When One Door Closes" challenge.
I grabbed mushrooms and other elements from a few different Ai sets to complete both the front and inside of my card.
I know most people think of brown when they think of mushrooms but they come in MANY different colors and I love trying out different combinations. In my woods we have orange, white, black, red, yellow, and purple. Probably more if I looked hard enough. We've picked and eaten the Chanterelles and Black Trumpet mushrooms.
I wanted to make this card extra special so I decorated the inside of the card pretty elaborately too.
I'm kind of wishing now that I had a little fairy tucked in there somewhere too. Next time, I guess...
I've got a retirement card to show you today that features the fun stamp set #4932 Pack Your Bags. I stamped this overloaded retiree with a Memento Tuxedo Black Ink onto some Copic friendly paper and then colored him up using the markers I listed below. I then cut him out using #5724 Nested Rectangle Die Set. Then sentiment came from #5187 Happy Trails Set.
I love the paper in 6072 Father's Day PP so much! The colors and designs of this paper are truly gorgeous! I used two different pieces for this card. The backpack print as the main piece, and then I used the second piece to cut out a scalloped mat behind the main image, just to add a little something extra.
So that's it for me today! Thanks so much for stopping by for a visit today and I hope I was able to inspire you to create! Don't forget to grab your paper and glue and join in our current challenge! You still have a couple of days! Until next time - stay crafty!!
Some of you have said that you're unsure of how to upload your cards or projects for the Art Impressions challenges. I've created a picture tutorial with instructions that will hopefully help you.
These photos were taken on my laptop but I've gone through the process on my phone and it was exactly the same.
Step 1.
Find the challenge you would like to enter. There are tabs at the top of the page marked Bi-Weekly Challenge and Monthly Challenge. You are welcome to enter both with the same projects, or with different ones.
Step 2.
Scroll to the bottom of the challenge post and find the blue button marked +Add Link and click on it.
Step 3. If you have a blog or a public IG or FB page you want to share from, paste the link where it says "Link."
If you DON'T have a link or public page, click "Enter without link."
Step 4.
Everyone should enter your First Name & Last Initial.
Step 5.
Upload your photo.
Click on "Drop your image or click here" and your photos should open.
Step 6.
Click on the photo that you want to upload. Once it's highlighted, click "Open."
Step 7.
Click SAVE
Step 8.
Click DONE
The upload should complete and you will see your photo added to the Inlinkz.
I hope this helps you.
We'd love to see your artwork and wish you the best of luck!
Painting fall scenes are among my favourite things to paint! Another thing I love to do is to use multiple stamp sets to create my scene, which is what happened with my first card:
This was the first time I've used the Canson XL Mixed Media paper that is available in the shop, and it wasn't bad to paint on! It's very lightweight, and fairly smooth, but took the colour well. I started by stamping the large birdhouse from 5925 - Honey Bee Set in N45, leaving off the lower right corner as I knew that I was going to stamp the single pumpkin from 5595 - Harvest Pumpkin Set beside it. After masking the birdhouse, I stamped the two pumpkins from 5059 - WC Harvest Set in N55, and put the mouse from 5599 - Mini Mice & Squirrel Set in front. I really love the line of leaves from 5598 - Harvest Set, and stamped it in front of the pumpkin, as well as just small parts of it on either side of my scene.
With all the elements in place, I started painting in #993 and #312 on the house, and to get the colour of blue that I was looking for, I used Stormy Sky Distress ink for the roof and wooden base. On the two lighter pumpkins, I used #312/N45/565, and for the orange one I used #993/933/947/899. The mouse was painted with layers of #899, and my black Twintone marker filled in his eye and feet. The leaves were done in a multi-coloured fashion, using #126/933/993/899. The sky was added using a wash of #565, and a wash of #126 was painted in as the ground. I used my #565 to add shadows under the house and objects, and darkened up different areas with my grey Twintone - or redrew lines that had disappeared.
The greeting from 5600 - Harvest Sentiments Set was stamped in Versafine Onyx Black, and the scene was matted with a blue decorative rectangle die, and mounted on paper from the 5606 - Harvest Journal PP.
My second project was started with the intention of it being a wreath, but as I got painting, I stopped at a half-wreath since I liked the way it looked.
I started with the veggies from 5426 - WC Veggies, stamping them in N55, masking where needed (can you tell that's some broccoli peeking out??). Then I began building my design with the ferns from 5830 - WC Mini Wreath Set, done two-toned in 126/993 and 126/158. The vines from 5007 - WC Foliage Set were coloured in #565/177, stamping one in each direction, on each side. This is the point where I decided that I didn't want to do an entire wreath, so I added the leafy branch from 5126 - WC Foliage Set 4 in 933/993 on either side to finish it off. I decided that my wreath needed a little something beside the veggies, so I used the small sprig from 5830 - WC Mini Wreath Set in a bit of a rainbow fashion using #565/685/933/993. After painting in the veggies with (orange) 933/947/969 (brown) 899/947 (yellow) 993/899/933 and (green) 249/177/126, I touched everything with a damp brush, and pulled out a bit of the colour.
After looking for a sentiment to add, I found the Hello Fall die in the 5592 - Harvest Journal Die Set. I first painted it in an ombre style on watercolour paper, but it looked a little bold. Knowing that I intended to add a metallic gold mat under my square, I tried adding a gold diecut layered over the painted one, and loved the look! A few dots with my gold pen added a little more sparkle. The square was cut using the 5061 - Square Double Stitched Dies, and was mounted onto paper from the 5838 - Fall PP with 3D foam adhesive.
