Ballet Class

Hello Ai Fans !

Today's card was a collaboration with my 7 year old daughter, Zoe .

I showed Zoe the new Ai people Yolanda Yoga (new to release soon) stamp and then we brainstormed about what I should do to showcase the awesome stamp. I wanted her to have a tutu from tulle and then Zoe wanted her to have a mirror wall like in dance class and then we made a wood floor by cutting 1/4" strips and then embossing with wood grain folder and then stagger the strips and inked the raised grain. We also thought we should have a chandelier with a little shimmer using the clear star glitter pen. We just wanted to show you can change-up the look of your stamps. Yolanda also came with this cute sentiment " Stay balanced... Chocolate in each hand." This is so how my daughter thinks... lol!

I hope you love what we came up with today!  I love creating with Zoe, she may only be 7, but she has a very creative mind... my mini me : )

Supplies:  Ai People Yolanda Yoga (new release coming soon), Copic markers, wood grain folder, Martha Stewart hydrangea punches, fern punch, leaf punch,  tulle, mirror card stock, black, pink 2 shades,  kraft, clear star pen, SU Apothecary accents dies

Stamping Many Christmas Cards

Hello Ai Fans! This week I'm working on a quick, yet pretty Christmas card.

If you have a lot of relatives and friends to send cards too, you'll want a design that you can duplicate easily. I used this sweet Charity Angel (Sku#T4177) as my focal point.  First, I inked her up with metallic ink, stamped her onto white cardstock, sprinkled emboss powder and heat set.  I cut my card stock in half so it would fit through my Cuttlebug when I cut the shapes. I stamped three angel on each half sheet. Some of them will be circles and some will be rectangle. I'll use the same basic design, and mix it up a little.

I used a gold leafing pen to add edging around the circle. I thought that was faster than cutting several gold layers. :o) I stamped the sentiment Glory to God (Sku#G4174) on the inside with the gold ink pad.

Supplies Used:

InLinkz

Please come back tomorrow to see what Crystal has for you!

Thanks for visiting!

Take care and STAY POSITIVE!

You ROCK!

Hello, hello and happy Monday!  I hope you enjoyed your weekend.  I have a clean and simple card for you today using the Rockin' Ruby SKU#T4197 and the matching sentiment You Rock SKU#F4198.

On to the card, I did a little paper piecing action.  One with the original card stock then color the image with Copic Markers and I restamped the umbrella with the pattern paper, cut and adhere away, then Viola!  Hope you like it!

Goodies that I used:

Art Impression Rockin' Ruby and You Rock

Webster Pages triple collection pak 

Copic markers - BG70, BV23, BV25, BV29, E00, E01, E55, E57, E59, N0, N2, RV91, Y15, Y17, Y23

Happy Birthday You Old Buzzard

Hello Ai fans!!

 

Yesterday a good friend of mine turned 40.  We tourned the wineries in the Finger Lakes and then went to her country club for dinner.  There were 16 of us in all and it was so much fun!!  We didn't do gag gifts but I just had to include this "old buzzard" with my real gift.  She got quite a kick out it and was thrilled when she found her favorited Swedish Fish inside the jar.

 

 

I spray painted the jar and lid and once it dried I wrapped it in designer paper.

Next I added the buzzard and a tombstone from Sizzix.  Last, I added the black lace and fuzzy ribbon.  I thought the ribbon looked "feathery".

 

I posted her card a while back but here's a reminder of what I made.

 

 

Ai Supplies used...

Buzzard Set (sku#4194)

Gigi and Monique (sku#U2837)

Wonderful to be young (sku#G1446)





 

Dancers with Jessica Griffin

Hello dear AI fans! Today I want to share with you the Dancers Set.

I did a quick video on the technique I used to color these sweet ladies. This technique can be used with any brand of alcohol based marker. In the video I've used Letraset Flex and ProMarkers. 

I hope you enjoy the video! I had so much fun coloring this image. It certainly was a challenge coloring each of them with different color hair! 

This will be my last post on the AI blog, I'd love it if you followed me on my personal blog, or FaceBook even. I've really enjoyed using Art Impression's images, and the ladies are so much fun to work with! Thank you all for a really great few months! xo

Harvest Friendship

Hello and happy Friday! This is my very first Ai "Try" Fold card. I LOVE trying new things! These are really FUN. All the Ai Try Fold stamps come with easy to understand instructions. I LOVE that! It makes it a breeze to cut the correct size cardstock, and how to score it once you have your cardstock cut to size. Then you hand cut the two front folds per the instructions. Very neat look! The Ai Try Fold stamp set I used is the Harvest TF, SKU# 4205. Such a pretty harvest scene, perfect since I live in farming country.
The first thing I colored in was the sky behind the barn and trees. I used my Prisma Color pencils and gamsol for the sky. Then I decided to use my copic markers to color the rest of the images. I am new to coloring with copic's/alcohol markers, and it was fun to use them because you get a "watercolor" look with them. The above image shows the card's front with the two folds closed.

Here is a picture with the first fold opened and you can see the cute pumpkin cart.

Here is the inside of the card with both folds opened. I stamped the inside with the beautiful sentiment "Sow kindness harvest friendship" that comes with the Harvest TF stamp set SKU# 4205 . Since I colored my images with copic markers, it's normal for the ink to bleed through the white cardstock. I didn't want that to show through, so I mounted the base of my card onto a two pieces of layered cardstock, cut slightly larger, and rounded the top corners. For the two hand-cut folds, I just traced around each panel on white cardstock; cut those out slightly smaller and glued them down so it covered the color bleed.  It makes it look a bit cleaner, and I wanted to give it a try. I hope you enjoyed this little creation today. Thanks for stopping by the Ai blog! Hope you have a great weekend!

Challenge 86 - SCARY Texture!

Hello Ai Fans!

Halloween is right around the corner, less than a week away! We're looking forward to some cute costumes at the door and lots of candy!

This week, we want to see some SCARY texture. Halloween cards are great to try new techniques or get a little interesting with your products. It can be tattered, torn, dies, tulle, lace, etc., it just has to look scary! Check out some fantastic ideas from our DT!

Trena

 Crystal

 Kerry

 Reneé

 Tammie

Wow! Awesome work by our DT! Love all those spiders and webs! Click on our DT names to see how they created the card on their personal blogs!

The winner from last week's "Cash Keepers" challenge is ...

LYNN HAYES

with this adorable reindeer card! Love the sentiment and that adorable little guy! Congratulations Lynn! Contact me at kate@artimpressions.com to receive your $10 code for artimpressions.com!

Here are the guidelines for our weekly challenges:

1. Please make a new card or creation. You can make any crafty item you wish; this is not limited to cards!

2. Limit two submissions per person. You will receive extra votes if you use Art Impressions stamps!

3. Include a link back to the Ai Blog or grab our button on the top left of our sidebar!

4. Share the Ai love by clicking and commenting your fellow crafters.

5. Make sure to get your link up by Wednesday at 6 p.m. PST to enter your creations.

Good luck and happy stamping!

It's an Ai Halloween

Hello AI Fans!!
Halloween is fast approaching us , this is one of my families favorite times of the year , we all dress up ( even our two wiener dogs )  , last year I made us Angry Birds and my dogs were the green pigs  , everyone loved us .We are from a small town so when we go out trick or treating its big social event,I wear myself out from all the smiling and laughing.. family fun we love it : )
The stamps I chose to use today are the 4 pc Halloween Set3206   , these were so stinkin cute and so much fun to color .
inside the card I used Trembley , Shakey sku # I1787 
this set had four and I only used three on the front so I put one on the back as a seal
Supplies : Halloween Set 3206 , Trembley Shakey I1787 , SU spider web embossing folder , MS spider edge punch , EK big spider punch , background distressed dots stamp , black glitter embossing powder ,white sharpie ,stamp punch , purple hemp twine,SU card stock , vellum,copic markers
Thanks for stopping by and come back tomorrow and see what the AI design team has for your challenge this week.