Ready to PARTY?!

Hello Ai friends and happy New Year Eve to you!  I hope you are ready to PARTY?!   These girlfriends sure are!  These ladies are cruising with their beautiful sparkling outfits, off to party the night away!  

For this super fun card, I used the Girlfriend Shoppers set of 3 (SKU# 3569).  I colored the ladies with copic markers and their sparkling outfits are covered with glitter.  For the background, I also used the Map of Europe (SKU# Y2506) and a tag from the SMASH pad.  And here is the finished card!

I hope you like it.  Have a fabulous New Year and happy 2013!

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Happy New Year!

Hello Ai Fans!

Today I'm sharing with you a card that I made to send to my aunt.  I'm just too busy at Christmas to send out cards to everyone.  Close friends and family who are local get them but most people don't.  I miss my aunt very much though and now that Christmas is over I had time to make a New Years card that I plan to send a new family photo in.

This beautiful verse is called Season's Greetings (sku#J1674) .

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Happy New Whoots Year!

To all of you  AI Fans!

A Happy New Year!!My Dt card this week is ...

This cute owl named Birthday Whoots, It fist just perfect as a New Year's greeting.
 Whoots is coloured with Distress Markers, a smal star stamp as a firework around the whoots with some stickles.  Some of the bubbles on the paper has recived lots of  Glossy accent.

SUPPLIES :

Paper from Magnolia,

White tags from Panduro.

Distrerss Markers se photo for colors

Glossy accent 

Stickles

Cardstock White and lilac                          See you again in 2013

Jump In!

Hello Ai friends, and Happy Friday! I was thinking about warmer places I wish I could be right now, other than my cold and snowy state of Minnesota! So since I couldn't go there, I made a card scene of "fun in the sun" instead. I love this funny Ai Golden Oldies image called "Jump In", Sku# T3468. They look like they are having a blast! This image is so fun to color too.

The kraft card base is 5-1/2" x 5-1/2". I chose some cute designer paper from Basic Grey called Marrakech (an older 6" x 6" paper pad from my stash). Love the bright colors and designs in the papers. I matched my copic marker colors with the paper, and colored the stamped image in. I used Spellbinder dies to layer my colored image on. For some fun texture I ran some light blue designer paper through a Provo Craft Cuttlebug embossing folder. (They made me think of water bubbles.) I added some Hero Arts clear crystals, and sewed around the edges.

Here is a close-up of the colored image. (Just click on the picture for an enlarged picture).  I added two color coordinated buttons tied with natural twine.

For the inside I stamped the Ai sentiment "Goofy Things", SKU# F2637. I added a strip of matching designer paper to the bottom, and distressed the edges with tea dye ink. I hope you enjoyed my little creation today. Please stop by tomorrow to see what Zora has made for you. Thanks for stopping by the Ai blog.

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Happy Holidays!

Hello Ai Fans!

We're on holiday break this week. Our next challenge will be January 3 with our "Let it Snow" challenge. 

The winner of our "Thinkin' Thumbprints" challenge is ...

MONICA

With her "In The Tub" image and thumbprint floor. Congratulations Monica! Contact me at kate@artimpressions.com for your $10 coupon code!

We hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas and you enjoy your New Years. We thought we'd share our favorite nativity scene ... look familiar? :)

Happy Holidays!

Up and Away Christmas

Hello Ai Fans !!!
I hope you all had an amazing family filled Christmas as I did . Today I chose to used the limited edition Girlfriends  Up and Away sku # UMY4231  stamp , all proceeds are donated to  Open Arms  International  , this stamp is only available for a short time so be sure to scoop this one up for your collection and support a great cause . 

I wanted to give a little Christmas dash to this stamp ,so I paper pieced red plaid paper to the balloon ,created a cloud background using pan pastels and a cloud line stencil ,I then die cut two clouds and popped them up on glue dots , I fussy cut the balloon stamp and popped it up on glue dots too.I added the Happy Holidays sentiment from Penguin Holiday set sku # CS3217. I used Copic markers to color my image .
Inside the card I used the sentiment from Ai doorways Dec/Jan set SKU # CS3371 and added the paper that I used on the balloon , and the snow flakes are from the Penguin Holiday set I stamped into MS glue pad and then added  diamond glitter .
this poinsettia was cut with Spellbinders Layered Poinsettia die  , i curl the petals down on one layer and curl them up on the next , this gives a life like feel to the flowers instead of a flat lifeless look , inked the edges and added a pearl to the center  , I used glue dots to layer together.
Supplies :Up and Away Sku # UMY4231 , AI doorways Dec / Jan sku #CS3371 ,  Penguin holiday sku #CS3217 , Lil Inker rectangle stitched die , MS holly punch , Spellbinders Layered Poinsettia dies , SU designer paper , SU cardstock , sizzix small cloud die , pan pastel chalk Phthalo  blue tint, TH frayed burlap  ink , Copic markers