Time to Trick or Treat! Card by Tasha

 Happy Friday Art Impressions friends!

Tasha here sharing a Halloween card created with the fun 5778-FB Frog Costume Set!

Now that we are in the month of October, I am having so much fun playing with my Fall and Halloween stamp sets! This little trick-or-treater is just too cute in his froggy costume with his pumpkin bucket, totally ready to collect some candy!

I started by stamping the image with black ink and coloring it with my Copic markers. I also created a fun background with purple ink blended clouds. I love how the different shades of purple turned out and thought they added a fun Halloween feel to the card.

To finish the design, I added some black spiderweb patterned paper and layered everything with green and pink cardstock. I just love these colors together! Lastly, I attached an embossed "Trick or Treat" greeting to complete my card.

I hope this little froggy brings a smile to your face and inspires you to pull out your Halloween stamps!

Bats in the Belfry Challenge #438 Week #1

 

Hello Ai fans!

Welcome to week #1 of our

Bats in the Belfry

Challenge.

We're looking for all of your Halloween creations!

Show us your cards, treat bags and boxes, Halloween decor...

Whatever makes your Halloween loving heart happy.

Bonus if it has bats on it!

Our Featured Artist is Tasha and she absolutely loves Halloween.

Check out her hotsy-totsy, hot pink Halloween Matchbook.

After checking out her tutorial, be sure to scroll down to see who won

our Spread Kindness challenge.

Bats in the Belfry Halloween Matchbook

Hi Art Impressions fans, Tasha here sharing a batty inspiration project created for the "Bats in the Belfry #438" challenge.

I had so much fun creating this Halloween Matchbook using the 5446-MB Halloween Set and 5317-MB Template Dies. I love making Halloween projects, and this little room was so much fun to put together!

I started with the purple bat pattern paper for the Matchbook and added the striped paper to the base. I love how all the bats fit perfectly with this week’s challenge!

Next, I colored all of the Halloween images with Copic Markers. Of course, I had to use lots of bright pink! I also added orange, purple, and touches of black and gray to give everything a fun Halloween look. The little ghosts, sleeping cat, pumpkin, clock, and all the tiny room details are so cute!

After the coloring was finished, I cut out the pieces and started building the room. I love how the chair, window, clock, cabinet, and bookshelf all come together to create a little Halloween scene. I also added the pumpkin and Happy Halloween greeting to the front.

One of my favorite things about the Matchbook cards is how much detail you can fit inside such a small project. It folds up, but when you open it, you get this whole little Halloween room filled with bats, ghosts, webs, and lots of color.

Thanks so much for stopping by! I hope you are inspired to create something batty for the Bats in the Belfry #438 Challenge!

Supplies Used:

• 5446-MB Halloween Set 
• 5317-MB Template Dies
• 6130-Halloween S3 Paper Pack
• 5603- Halloween Sentiments Set

This is just the CUTEST little matchbook card!

Thank you Tasha for the amazing inspiration.

Now, let's see who won our last challenge.

For our Top Spot we selected:

Consuelo G.

for her beautiful fall sunflowers.

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please contact Leah at Feedback@artimpressions.com

to claim your free stamp set.

Our Lucky Random Winner was #8 Barb E.

Grab your badge to share on your social media.

Please contact Leah at Feedback@artimpressions.com

to claim your free stamp set.

Congratulations to our winners!

Enjoy your new stamps.

Here are the rules...

✻ Please make a new card or handmade crafty creation using either stamps, dies and or designer paper from Art Impressions. You can make any item you wish; this is not limited to cards! (unless specified)

✻ Limit two submissions per person.

✻Top Spot Winner and Lucky Random Winner each receive a free 

stamp set from Art Impressions

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Ghoul Friends!

 

Hey there, everyone! I hope you are having a wonderful week! Are you all ready for Halloween?? Halloween is my favorite for decorating and the time of year, so I am thrilled right now. lol I am such a fall girl. My card today is using the 5038 Ghoul Friend Set from Art Impressions. I just love these two. To start, I stamped all of my stamps with black ink. Once dried, I ink blended some soft yellow ink over my lanterns to create a glowing effect. 

Next, I masked these two ladies off by just stamping the stamp onto another piece of paper, cutting it out and placing it on top of the original stamped image. Carefully holding the mask down, I uses a dark blue ink and ink blended over the image and around the lanterns. Once I got the desired look that I wanted, I started coloring with my Copic markers. I also used a ground stamp from the Ink Blot Shop. Once finished with coloring, I added some Glossy Accents to the wine glasses and the ladies eye glasses for some shine. I then stamped the images and sentiment inside the card, matted it on a cute patterned paper from Honeybee Stamps and glued that all together. I hope you have a wonderful rest of your day! 

  

 

Materials Used

Stamps

• 5190 Fright Night Set
• 5601 Halloween Accessory Set
• 5028 Ghoul Friend Set
• Ink Blot Shop Ground

Paper

• Fall Pattern paper from Honeybee Stamps
• Neenah Classic Crest card stock for stamping on

Markers & Inks

• Momento Ink Pad
• Black thin Liner Pen
• Copic Markers Used: V93, V28, V25, V22, V95, E000, E00, E21, E13, R20, E37, T6, T9, E55, E59, 110, V99, C5, C6, YG23, YR16, YR15, YR18, YR09, Y28, YG95, YG93, R59, R29, C7, C2
• Pink Fresh Inks- Licorice, Lemon Whip, Stargazer

Just a Little Note pad by Dori Mendiola

 Happy Wednesday AI Friends!

Our current blog challenge is "Spread Kindness" so I created a covered notepad with the sweet little bird from the #6216 - His Mercy stamp set.  Have you ever looked at a set and thought, how precious and beautiful, but you were too afraid to paint/color it?  Well, I was intimidated to color this, but I'm really excited with how cute it turned out.  What was I afraid of?  Ding a Ling!! LOL!  In my head, I could hear Bonnie and Kim saying just color one piece at a time and enjoy the process.  

This stamp set has such beautiful bird images and this one is my absolute favorite.  So darn precious and sweet!

My notepad measures 4" x 6" and 3/8" thick.  

To cover this size notepad, cut a piece of cardstock at 6" by 11 1/2".  

Score at 3 5/8", flip and score at 4", flip back and score at 4 1/2", 5", 9 1/8", 9 1/2".  Burnish the second score line as opposite fold than the others.  Glue down the two 1/2" folds to each other.  See below.  This will create the section for the pen.  

Die cut a pocket for the inside (optional).  To cover the notepad top that has the company name, place a piece of pattern paper over the top of the notepad (approx. 4" x 2 1/2") and glue down to the front.  Roll the rest of the pattern paper over the top of the notepad and down the back.  Glue in place.  Place glue over the back of the notepad and glue into the cardstock base.  Push tightly to the left edge and wrap the right edge around to the front.  Create pattern paper panels for the front left and right edges. 

Die cut the bird image with the stitch circle die and mat with the blue cardstock and then the white scallop circle.  Glue the right side of the scallop circle to the front right panel.  Adhere a #5967 - Hook and Loop Fastener to the back side of the scallop circle and then shut over the front and adhere the other side of the fastener to the left panel.  Add a "Just a Little Note" sentiment strip and your covered notepad is ready to give as a gift.

This project brought back such fond memories of my husband's aunt.  She use to have a notepad hanging from her front door of her summer cabin and she always said "Leave a Note if you are passing through".  She loved seeing those that stopped by but she was sure sorry that she missed them.  She LOVED company!!  What a sweet woman she was!  Isn't is funny that such a little thing can bring back such wonderful memories?  

Happy memories to all of you!  

Copics used:  B0000, B000, B01, B32, B34

E95, E97,      Y21, Y23     BG70

YG21, YG23   YR12, YR20, YR21

Focus on Faith with Sara Furr: Sow Kindness

Blessings my dear friends, and welcome to the first edition of my "Focus on Faith" for the month of October. I can't believe it's October already, and at the same time I am also so excited and thankful that it is finally Autumn! I love Fall most of all! The beauty of the changing leaves here in my neck of the woods is so gorgeous. I knew that I wanted to do a fall themed project, and so I pulled out my fall stamps and I got to thinking about the sentiment in the Harvest Together stamp set that says, "Sow Kindness, Harvest Friendship", and that made me think about God's golden rule to "Love thy neighbor as thyself!" That we should treat everyone with respect and dignity, even those who are hard to love or who act as enemies. Showing kindness towards others, especially those we don't like or are our enemies, is one of the hardest things to do, but brings us the closest to God. So, I thought this sweet little scarecrow bringing her enemy, the crow, a basket full of apples was quite fitting. I paired it with the sentiment, "You are the APPLE of His eye," from the Frameworks Sentiments stamp set, because when we show kindness to our enemies, we become even more special in the eyes of our Lord. I thought this little fall scene was a cute way to show that. 

I stamped my images onto Canson XL Bristol Smooth cardstock with Versafine Onyx black ink and colored them up with Prismacolor colored pencils, and then I die cut them with the coordinating dies. 

My background pattern paper is actually a pretty fall napkin that I separated the plys and glued it to white cardstock with a glue stick. You can smooth it out or you can crinkle it up before adhering it, and it will give you a wonderful textured look.

These are the products I used:

#5507- Harvest Together stamp and die set

#5417- Frameworks Sentiments 

I wish you all God's blessings, and I thank you for joining me today. I hope I have inspired you to take a second look at your stamp sets and see more than just one way to use them. Happy Fall my friends! God bless you all!

Sara Furr- The Crafty Farm Chick

Fall-elujah! It's the Pumpkin Queens! (Take 2)

 Hello Ai fans!

Today I'm sharing the second card I made for the
Art Impressions/Simon Says Stamp 2026 collaboration.

This sweet set sold out in under two days but we know you'll
be looking for inspiration when your set arrives.

My daughter and I think this set looks a lot like us and at some point, 

we want to try to recreate this. I'll share photos if we do!

I'm rootin' for ya! by Sharon Caudle

 Hello Ai Fans!

Wow...it's October! Such a beautiful time of year with so many trees changing colors and a little bit of a chill in the air. It's fun to bring out the pumpkin spice coffee syrups and and scented candles! Before you know it we will be prepping for our Thanksgiving meals! Whoa...slow it down a little, Sharon!! LOL! I've got a card to show you today that fits our current blog challenge Spread Kindness. So we are looking for anything that would bring a smile or brighten someone's day. I must say that it was amazing how quickly this card came together. After coloring the image, it only took me about five minutes to assemble it. Honestly! I started by stamping #6076 Gardner Gail onto a Copic friendly paper and then colored her. I love that she comes with a die to cut her out so I could just pop her up onto a piece of #6099 Garden PP!! I just think she looks amazing with that paper and there wasn't a single thing I had to do other than cut it down to fit the A2 size card with mats. I stamped the sentiment with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and then cut it out using #5727 Nested Oval Dies. Added a small little twine bow and attached a fun spade charm, and it was done! I'm completely serious when I said this took me five minutes to put it together outside of stamping and coloring Gardener Gail. 

So that's it for me today! Thanks so much for stopping by for a visit and I sure hope you join in on our Spread Kindness challenge for a chance to win a free set from Art Impressions! Who doesn't like FREE??!! Hope to see you again soon and until next time - stay crafty!!

Copic markers used:

E000, 00, 11, 31, 33, 35, and 37

YR61, 65, and 68

G82 and 85

Y13, 15, and 18

T1, 2, and 3

B000

R20

Pumpkins and Sunflowers by Simone Carr

 

Hello AI Friends!

Welcome back for another Watercolor Weekend!

Autumn is officially here, and that means it is time to bring out the cozy colors and playful designs!

Grab your favorite cozy drink, your favorite paper supplies, and let’s dive into creating this whimsical fall scene.

I placed a piece of Canson Watercolor Paper in my stamping platform. I started with the 5426 set. I used 565 + 969 on the stamp, leaving out the container, bird, and the top of the pumpkin. I stamped it off once. I then stamped the image onto masking paper and cut it out to cover my stamped image.

I placed the stack of pumpkins from 5595 on top of the previous stamped image to see what would work best. I left the bottom two pumpkins out, so I only inked the top four pumpkins using 565 + 969, stamped off once.

I then used my stamp positioner to place the hay bale, sleeping gnome, container, and gnome on the ladder. I removed the masking sheet once I had stamped everything and began coloring.

I placed a piece of masking tape over the container and stamped in the flowers and grass. Afterwards, I added the sky blue background.

Once all the coloring was finished, I added a few touches of Bleed Proof White to bring out some extra details and finished the card with a paper from the Fall S2 PP. I love how all the little fall elements came together to create this playful autumn scene.

Materials Used

Stamps & Dies

• 5598 Harvest Set
• 5426 WC Veggies
• 5595 Harvest Pumpkin Set
• 5059 Harvest Set
• 4868 Flower Set 2
• 4051 Foliage Set 1
• 5785 Gnomes Set
• 4964 Branches Set
• 5061 Square Double Stitched Die

Paper

• 5973 Fall S2 PP
• Canson Watercolor Paper
• Masking Paper

Inks & Mediums

• Bleed Proof White
• TwinTone Brown

Tombow Markers

• 565 + 969 – Stamped Image
• 312 – Pumpkin
• 837 – Gnomes Hat + Flowers
• 117, 133 – Pumpkin
• 947 – Ladder
• N49, 992, 027 – Container
• 985, 026 – Hay
• 528 – Gnome Pants
• 933, 946, 925, 055 – Pumpkin
• 912 – Gnome’s Nose and Hand
• 098 – Grass, Ground
• 526 – Sky
  

For my bonus card, I wanted to create a simple scene using the Sunflower Border and the Bird Flock. I stamped the sunflower border onto Strathmore Bristol Smooth Paper using Distress Ink Lost Shadow. I then added a light wash of 526 for the sky before stamping a few birds from the Bird Flock. I only used a portion of the Bird Flock stamp to add the birds to the scene. Once everything was stamped, I colored the images using the Tombow markers listed below.

Once everything was colored and dry, I added my sentiment and layered the panel onto paper from the Gnome PP collection. I used foam tape to add some dimension before adhering it to the card base.

I love how the sunflowers and birds came together to add a little extra interest to the card.

Materials Used

Stamps & Dies

• 6255 Sunflower Border

• WC0125 Bird Flock (2025 Exclusive)

• Alternative for Bird Flock: 5473 Seagull Set

• 5136 WC Sentiment Set 2

Paper

• 5832 Gnome PP

• Strathmore Bristol Smooth

Inks & Mediums

• Foam Tape

• Distress Ink Lost Shadow

Tombow Markers

• 993

• 985

• 055

• 905

• 947

• 526