Pop-Up Gift Card Holder

Hi it's Maria.

 Keeping in the theme of our weekly challenge from yesterday I made another type of gift card to share with you. This one is called a pop-up gift card and I thought I'd give you a little tutorial incase you haven't made one before. Hoping you will try this and enter one into our challenge this week!

Outside of Card

(Standard A2 Card)

Unfortunately, it is hard to photograph projects sometimes and you can't see that the brown frosting is all sparkles on the cake.

Inside When Card is Open

 

Start with a 8.5" x 5.5" piece of cardstock and score at 4.75". 

This will be your card base--a regular A@ card.

 You will then need a 6" x 5.5" piece of cardstock that you will score at 1.5", 3", 3.75", 4.75", 4.75" and 5.5". IMPORTANT--make sure you are scoring on the 6" side of your carstock. It won't work the other way.

Fold your lines as follows:

 Add your adhesive as follows: you can see where my sticky tape is on the green paper.

Insert your pop up into your card!

Here's a sample I made in white to show you the finished inside. Card is flat when closed.

Enjoy your weekend!!!!

Stamps Used

Birthday Cake (Sku#K3126)

Eunice (Sku#K1619)

Your Day (Sku#F4147)

Colored With

Copics

Faber Castell Pitt Pens

Sakura Gelly Roll Pens

Challenge 69 - Gift Card Holder

Another week, another event. I'm booked through August, are you? Between graduations, weddings, baby showers and birthdays ... it's going to be one long summer! With all these parties, comes the need for many gifts! We thought it would be fun to get creative with gift card holders this week. Everyone likes getting cards, but they might be just a little sweeter with a little money inside! Check out our amazing DT as they pulled out all the stops again this week!

Trena

 Crystal

Kirsi

 Maria

 Renee

 Tracy

Thanks Design Team! So many different ideas! We're spoiled with great inspiration every week :]

Our winner from last week's "Make Us Laugh" challenge is:

JUDY ROZEMA

with her funny "Otter" card. Thanks for giving us a good laugh! Contact me at kate@artimpressions.com for your $10 coupon!

Here are the Ai weekly challenge guidelines:

1.  Please make a new card or creation for these challenges. You can make a 3D item if you wish, this is not limited to cards!

2. Limit two submissions per person. You will be entered twice if you use Art Impressions stamps!

3.  Please link directly to your creation so we can get a good look at your creativity!

4. You will have until Wednesday at 6 p.m. PST to enter your creations.

Make A Splash !!!!!

All week in Illinois it has been HOT !!! So to cool things down we should all Jump In and take a swim , these golden oldies are at it again , having a really fun time at the pool , where else would you want be when it's 100 degrees outside . I can not say it enough about the Art Impressions Golden Oldies line of stamps , they are so stinkin cute  ,they get my creative mojo going and put a smile on my face .I love the rubber ducky floatie and to make it pop I got out the glossy accents it make it look like plastic and makes the image come to life . I also stamped grandpa ,colored him  and cut him out to pop him up to look like he is jumping in front of granny .Today I  put my Cricut to use to make the backdrop for my stamped image , I made glitter splashes from the Everyday paper dolls , the word Splash is also from the same cartridge .When using the Cricut Use those Art Impression stamps, they have such a great line it's easy to create a card for that special friend that may need a laugh .
Card size 5 X 5
Stamps : Jumpin In SKU # T3468 Cricut cartridge : Everyday paper dolls
Copic Markers : RV10 ,RV32 , RV34 , E000 , E00 , YG03 , YG06 , BG0000 , YR65 , T1 , , Y15 , Y38
Accessories : Spica glitter markers red and pink , glossy accents , white Gelly roll pen
Cardstock: SU Baja breeze , blue glitter cardstock , black cardstock

Thanks for stoping by and I hope you make a Spash today ...
CRYSTAL

Coming In For a Landing

I just love this little neighborhood!  The houses are so cute and well kept - it's called WC Birdhouses.  WC Blue Bird Left is coming in for a landing.   

I stamped the images on Xpress card stock and colored with my Copic Markers. For the subtle sky background, I scribbled B34 onto a non-stick surface, spritzed with alcohol and picked up color with a paintbrush.  I used a short horizontal stroke back and forth on the card stock. I had to add alcohol often to get the flow I wanted.

The colors I used are:  0, B34, B91, B95, C1, C3, C5, E08, E09, E31, E35, E70, E71, G40, G43, Y11, Y13

Take care and STAY POSITIVE!

Trena

Friends Fur Ever!

Happy Monday Everyone!

My card today is using Friends Fur Ever . These little birdies look like they are really good friends with the kitty.

I colored them with copic markers and added some ribbon, rhinestones and flowers along with some papers I dug out of the ole paper stack. This little kitty must have a great life to have friends like these little guys!

Tracy

Christmas in...June?

I know traditionally you hear the term
"Christmas in July" but I was 

flipping through my Art Impressions
index binder and saw several

Christmas stamps that I ordered after
Christmas so I haven't used

 them yet.  This one was too
cute to wait any longer. 

The image is called Shepard and Sheep (sku J745)

and the verse is Tots Blessed Christmas (sku G3597)

Well, I guess it's official.  I started Christmas even before the 

stores this year!  Actually, I do make Christmas cards all

year round.  If I didn't, I would never be prepared in time.

Plus, I just think they're a beautiful style of card to make.

Look how sweet this little guy is...

 Supplies:

Spellbinders dies

Copic markers

EK Success border punch

Star punch

 

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Have a great Saturday!!

Hi all!! Here is another owl-card I have made with Beanie Whoot Set.

Hugs,
Soili-Maria

Welcome Baby Gift Card

Hi, it's Maria. 

Today I wanted to showcase one of the AI Card Keeper's called Elephant Keeper.I don't know about you, but I love to have cards like this on hand when I have to get a Gift Card at the last minute. It somehow makes it look like you put more thought into the gift if you have a special card to put it in. 

and just by changing the color of the paper, you can change the look of the card!

You can see and purchase all the AI Card Keepers HERE.

Have a great weekend!

Challenge 68 - Make Us Laugh!

Got a case of the giggles? We want you to pass them on! We love funny stamps and strive to always make you smile with every new stamp we release. So come on, send us a funny and share in the laughter this week! Here are the cards from our DT this week ...

Tracy

Trena

Crystal 

 

 Renee

How fun are those cards? And lots of Bird Brains, one of our most popular lines! 

I hope all the husbands and fathers enjoyed their cards last week. Thank you for sharing them with us and we enjoyed viewing every one! Our winner from last week's challenge is ...

PENNY

She used FOUR of our stamps for this awesome Father's Day card. Great job Penny! Contact me at kate@artimpressions.com to receive your $10 coupon code!

Here are the Ai weekly challenge guidelines:

1.  Please make a new card or creation for these challenges. You can make a 3D item if you wish, this is not limited to cards!

2. Limit two submissions per person. You will be entered twice if you use Art Impressions stamps!

3.  Please link directly to your creation so we can get a good look at your creativity!

4. You will have until Wednesday at 6 p.m. PST to enter your creations.

Bikers out for a ride

Today I wanted to make another card using this fun stamp of the Bikers , how much fun do they look like they are having , you truly need to have trust and faith to ride on the handle bars of a bike , let's see.. when was the last time I did that ??? Oh yeah , like when I was 9 ...lol .. I give props to this couple they have it going on . I this is what Ai stamps do they make you think what the back story could be , the Golden Oldies line of stamps are so much fun , I hope my Golden years are filled with half the fun this line displays .Thanks Ai for bringing us stampers such an awesome line of stamps to get inky with . Today I chose to use my colored pencils again , I know not everyone has made the investments into the copic markers and I wanted to show that even your kids colored pencils can make these stamps pop off a card .Thanks so much for stopping by and be sure to come back tomorrow for the Ai Thursday challenge , the Ai design team has some gret cards to share .
Colored using Crayola twistables colored pencils

Crystal Lopez

Watercolor through a Window

I had so much fun water coloring Monique last week, I decided to continue with watercolor this week!  This card features window back and garden window.  The card measures 4.25" square. The design papers are from BasicGrey. I used a Cuttlebug folder to get those dots on the front of the card, and added a little bling with a Sakura glitter pen.


I stamped each image with a VersaFine onyx black ink pad onto 140lb hot press watercolor paper, sprinkled with black detail emboss powder and heat set.

As with Monique, I used a combination of direct and in-direct methods of adding coloring with Tombow Dual Brush Pens.  In-direct = scribble color on pallet, pick up color with water brush and spread. Direct = color directly onto paper and then spread with water brush.  TIP: If you are ever at a loss for what colors to use on your image, go to Art Impressions and bring up the image. Almost all the images have color  at the site.  There are also many, many, many....many cards and projects using Art Impressions images at Pinterst. A great source for inspiration!

 

Another TIP:  When I cut out images, I use a black marker to darker the edges. I just run the marker along the inside and of where I cut.  I stamped a partial image on the inside and colored with markers.  I used my computer to print out the sentiment.

Hope you are making today an awesome day!!

Thanks for visiting!  Please stop by tomorrow and see Crystal - she always has great ideas!  Also, this week's challenge is going to be a good one!!

 

Take care and STAY POSITIVE!

Trena

Asleep On The Job

This is me at work! LOL! I love these stamps with the great sentiments about "Naps". This one is great!
I colored her with copic markers. I used the sketch from Sweet Sketch Wednesda . I really like how it turned out. I love these papers I found at Craft Warehouse when I was up there a few weeks ago.
The stamps are from Asleep On The Job . You can hope on over there and check them all out!
Happy Stamping!
Tracy

Happy Graduation

Next week is graduation day at our local high school.
In honor of all the graduates I thought I'd share
a graduation card today. 

I've used one of the new Whoots stamps

and masked off his birthday hat. I then just 

cut a grad cap out of some black scrap paper.

The tassel is a piece of yarn.

He's called Birthday Whoot sku#M4120

and inside I used a verse from Five Whoots Set sku#4128.

 

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