Teachers Rule by Cheri Burry!

Hello Ai Fans!

Here in Ontario the Kids go back to School on Tuesday, so I thought it was the perfect time to use the Art Impressions "Teachers Rule" set! That sentiment just cracks me up! I give tremendous credit to all Teachers for the amazing job they do and the patience they have!

I thought the school themed papers from the Doodlebug "Back To School" 6x6 collection were perfect for my card design! I fussy cut my image using my Brother Cut N Scan and then popped her up with foam tape. I stamped the sentiment onto the front of her desk.

As you can see the "Teachers Rule" set has so many fun sentiments and images to create so many different card designs! What a great value this set is!

Copics Used:

Skin: Too, E21, E11, R20

Hair: C2, C3, C5

Dress: B24, B26, B28, C1, white gel pen polka dots

Desk: E51, E53, E55

R24, R27, YG23, YG25, Y35, Y38

Thanks for stopping by!

Happy Stamping!

Supplies:

NEW Watercolor Stamp Sets! PLUS Challenge 240 Bookmarks & Tags!

Hello, Ai Fans!

Hooray! Today is a special day because we are releasing new additions to our Watercolor Line! Check out our NINE new sets featuring wonderful images for year-round watercoloring! Our Little Girls and Little Boys sets, the first characters in the Ai Watercolor line, pair perfectly with our Sitting Places Set. We heard your requests for more masculine stamps, so we hope you enjoy stamping with our Boats and Harvest sets. Create magical scenes with our Fairy Doors featuring a large rustic tree! Let's not forget the holidays are right around the corner with our Churches and Snowman set! Additionally, mix your favorite flowers and foliage with our Serif Letters clear stamp set to make beautiful floral monograms and words! Get a closer look at these sets in our video from the Mixed Media Event! These sets are now available at artimpressions.com, so nab yours today!

 

To share some inspiration, we have our Watercolor Guest Design Team here with some fabulous projects!

Dot Freel - Instagram - Blog - Pinterest

Hello Watercolor Friends,

My tag for this launch was made using the tractor from the brand new 5059 - WC Harvest Set. My oldest son who lives on five acres in Colorado, actually has chickens and an old blue tractor. This would be the perfect tag to put on a present for him. I used the chicken from the 4207 - Feathers TF stamp set. The flowers are from 4868 - WC Flower Set 2.

The bookmark was created with my best friend in mind. Her name is Jamie and she goes by J. She loves to read and her daughter has blonde hair. I'm sure she will love it! I used the brand new 5053 - WC Little Girls Set. It's probably my favorite stamp set from this new release! The stool she is sitting on is from another one of the new sets 5055 - WC Sitting Places. The letter J is from another must have 5071 - WC Serif Letters Set. The flowers are from 5009 - WC Mini Flower Set.

Art Impressions Products: 5059 WC Harvest Set, 4207 Feathers TF, 5053 WC Little Girls Set, 5055 WC Sitting Places Set, 5009 WC Mini Flowers, 4868 WC Flowers Set 2, 5071 WC Serif Letters Set, 4774 Stamp Positioner, 4773 Acrylic Blocks, No. 4 Brush, WC Palette

Marvy LePlume II Markers: 45 Sepia, 15 Olive Green

72 Pine Green, 86 African Violet, NO. 17 Steel Blue, 89 Persimmon, 43 Brilliant Yellow, 8 Violet, 75 Sky Blue, 30 Rosewood

Other Supplies: Ranger Watercolor Paper

Tricia Kennedy - Instagram

The moment I saw the NEW Art Impressions Fairy Doors Set I envisioned my project PINK, PINK and more PINK with FAIRY DUST! Welcome to my “Land of Enchantment”.

Cut a piece of watercolor paper to approximately 6½ x 2 inches. Stamp the tree trunk in Sepia from the WC Fairy Doors Set using your Stamp Positioner. Stamp the fairy door in Sepia and the little cobble stones in a combination of Sepia and African Violet for a lovely grey color from the WC Fairy Doors Set using your stamp positioner. Watercolor the Art Impressions Way by pulling the color from the lines with your paint brush and water. To create an ombre look, I stamped thedarkest leaves toward the trunk, getting lighter further out (leaves from WC Foliage Set 2 inScarlet, Pink and Bubble Gum Pink). Add the tiny grass from WC Foliage Set 1 in Olive Green and the tiny flowers from WC Mini Flower Set in Scarlet. Scribble a little Bubble Gum Pink on your watercolor palette and brush onto the fairy door. Add detail to the fairy door using the fine tip of Bubble Gum Pink. Add Sepia to your palette to darken up the shadows on the tree trunk and use the fine tip to add detail to the fairy door. Brush on Salvia Blue for the sky and Olive Green for the grass. And finally, add FAIRY DUST to the leaves and door.

Art Impressions Products: WC Fairy Doors Set,WC Foliage Set 1, WC Foliage Set 2, WC Mini Flower Set, Acrylic Block 5 Pack, 3” Square Block,Stamp Positioner, Watercolor Palette, Watercolor Brush No. 4, Canson XL WC Paper Pad

Marvy Le Plume II Markers: 9 Pink, 15 Olive Green, 45 Sepia, 60 Salvia Blue, 67 Bubble Gum Pink, 86 African Violet, 94 Scarlet

Other Products: Post-It Notes, FAIRY DUST (Ultra Fine and Jumbo Iridescent Glitter), Zig Two Way Glue Pen, Corner Rounder, Hole Punch, Ribbon

Tricia O'Bin - Blog - Instagram - YouTube - Pinterest - Facebook

I am so excited about this most recent release from Art Impressions! I used the Little Girls and Sitting Places sets for this scene. I planned this out by making masks for the little girl and the bench. This way I could move it around until I was happy with it. I really wanted her to look like she was looking out towards the water.

I removed the little girl mask and using the positioner lined up the little girl. I removed the bench mask, re-inked the little girl and stamped her. I replaced the mask, stamped the bench onto the positioner and stamped it below the little girl. I pulled the color out of the lines of the little girl and the bench. I added additional color from the watercolor palette. I added Sepia to the bench along with some African Violet below the girl. I added Pale Pink to her legs, arms and face. I added Sepia to her Hair and Blue and Iris Purple to her clothes.

I brushed in some African Violet for the water. 

I added grass below the bench and trees in the background using the small foliage in the original foliage set. I softened and washed out the trees in the background and added some additional shadows below the bench. To finish up I added some blue to the sky. 

Art Impressions Products: 5053 WC Little Girls Set, 5055 WC Sitting Places Set, 4051 WC Foliage Set 1, Acrylic Block 5 Pack (Variety), Canson XL WC Paper Pad, 4774 Stamp Positioner, Watercolor Palette, WC Brush NO. 6

Marvy Le Plume II Markers: 86 African Violet, 45 Sepia, 15 Olive Green, 3 Blue, 55 Iris Purple, 47 Pale Pink

Other Supplies: Sizzix Tim Holtz Tag Collection Framelit Dies, Heavy Base Weight Card Stock- In the Navy

Thanks, team! We always look forward to seeing what you create!

With a new release, we have a new challenge! Let's switch it up from our usual card-making challenge to something a little different - bookmarks and tags! We'd like to see you create either one of those in this challenge. It does not need to be a watercolor project, you certainly can use any of your favorite stamps! With back to school happening now, bookmarks would be perfect for students, teachers, or your favorite bookworm friend!

Here are the Challenge Rules

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

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

✻ The Ai Challenge is open to everyone, international submissions are welcome!

✻ Include a link back to the Ai Blog or grab our button on the top right of our sidebar!

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

✻ Make sure to get your link up by Wednesday, September 12 at 5:00 p.m. PST to enter your creations.

✻ Good luck and happy stamping!

An InLinkz Link-up

Before we go, let's celebrate the winners of last week's Treat Bag challenge!

Top Spot goes to...

Milene!

A post shared by Milene Tiberius (@milenetiberius) on Aug 27, 2018 at 12:36pm PDT

Congrats, Milene! We couldn't resist your stitched treat box with our Southwest Christmas cactus! Email annelise@artimpressions.com with your address to claim your prize pack!

Honorable Mentions go to...

Inez!

A post shared by Inez Gregg (@igregg) on Aug 28, 2018 at 1:21pm PDT

Lisa!

Congrats, you two! Inez, we love your box featuring a lovely embossed and watercolored Meow-lloween image! And Lisa, your use of our Fairy Spinner for a Halloween treat bag is too cute! Email annelise@artimpression.com with your address and a stamp set of your choice for a prize!

Thanks for joining our challenge! Come back again for our new Bookmarks & Tags challenge!

Happy Stamping!

We Choose Fabulous By Crystal Schneider

Hi AI Fans! 

This week I played with the Loungers set 4473. 

I started with stamping the image onto the middle of a 5 1/2"X 5 1/2" square piece of cardstock with Memento black ink. I then stamped the image onto a full sticky post-it note and cut it out for a mask. 

I inked the top for the sky with Harmony inkpad in " Oasis" and the sand in "Sandstone". With a piece of scrap paper I covered the top of my paper and misted the bottom with water and blotted it with a clean paper towel.  I only misted the bottom because I wanted to add some texture to help it look more like sand. 

I pulled my mask off and colored my the beach ladies in with alcohol markers. 

I also added some shadows under their chairs and the little table so they didn't look like they are floating over the sand. 

I rounded the corners of my image and matted it twice with patterned cardstock. 

Spectrum Noir Markers:

Blender, GY1, BG4, CT3, CT4, IG2, GB5, GB7, FS9, DR1, DR2, DR7, CR11, OR1, OR2, OR3, PL3, PL4, EB2, BGR2, BT1, AB1, AB2

Have a great Thursday! Happy Stamping! 

NEW VIDEO! Night Sky Watercolor by Kendra Krebs

Hello Ai Fans!

This week, we have our last video for August mini series with guest designer, Kendra Krebs. Kendra wows us again with this stunning start sky using a Molotow Masking pen to create this nighttime scene. She simply put some of the Molotow liquid on a piece of acrylic and splattered the sky with the masking fluid to create a sparkly galaxy look. Watch the full tutorial below and hope over to YouTube to leave some comment love all the wonderful projects Kendra brought us this month!

Happy Watercolor Wednesday!

View on YouTube: https://youtu.be/IKV_og1W-nw

Wanna Play by Dana Warren

Hello AI fans!!

Today I have a card featuring the Par-Tee Golfers stamp set! Its a great set for the golf lovers in the family!! 

I started by stamping and color the lady golfer, gold ball, and flag. I used my Spectrum Noir Markers to color them! I used: AB1, AB2, AB3, BG2, BG4, BG7, BO2, BO4, GY1. Then I fussy cut each image out.

From my stash of leftovers I found this strip of green splattered paper. I figured it would work for my 'grass' and at the same time use up something left on my desk! I have lots of leftovers that don't get used as often as they should!! 

I added the strip to a gray card base and then stamped the Wanna Play Around? sentiment to the bottom right corner. Last I added the images with foam tape.

Thanks for stopping by!! Happy Stamping!!!

Cornucopia Card by Jil lebel

Hello Ai fans!

I love fall colors, so as soon as the new release came out I couldn't wait to get my hands on the Grateful Hearts Set. I really wanted to color the large cornucopia image.  I chose to paint it this time, but I'm sure I'll color it many different ways in the future because it might just be my favorite image from this new release.  I'm sure I'll feel that way about every image from this release.  I was also really happy to get a chance to use one of the five new die cut sets that were just released.

The large image from Grateful Hearts Set was stamped onto Canson XL watercolor paper with Coffee Archival Ink and painted with Daniel Smith Extra Fine Watercolors using a #1 brush.  The colors are listed at the end of this post. The image was then cut out with The New Rounded Rectangle A2 Double Stitched Dies.  It is mounted onto copper glitter paper and mounted again onto paper from the American Crafts Cedar Lane 6x6 paper collection. 

Daniel Smith Watercolor Color's used:
Cornucopia - Burnt Umber, Raw Umber
Grapes - Quinacridone Violet
Large Pumpkin - Transparent Pyrrol Orange
Tomato/ Orange - Quinacridone Red, Raw Umber, Sap Green
Gourds - Naples Yellow, Permanent Yellow Deep
Pepper - Quinacridone Gold
Eggplant - Cobalt Violet Deep, Sap Green
Acorns - Quinacridone Gold, Burnt Umber, Raw Umber
Corn - Cadmium Yellow Medium Hue, Burnt Umber, Napthamide Maroon, Hansa Yellow Medium

Thanks for stopping by and Have a Great Day!

Hot Java by Carol Hintermeier

Hello Ai Friends!

How's your Monday going?  Do you need some caffeine to get going?  I do enjoy a bit of coffee first thing in the morning!  As does Cathy Caffeine, taking a big sip of her coffee!

I stamped her in some brown ink and watercolored her in Distress Inks and a couple of Marvy LePlume II markers.  You'll find all the colors I used in the list below.  I'm really getting ready for fall, although we have at least another month of hot weather where I live!

Here are a couple of my "in progress" photos.  When I'm watercoloring the background like this, I think it's a good idea to tape down the paper to reduce any warping from the water.  If you've ever wondered how to watercolor Ai's people, Bonnie has a very good video HERE with some great tips to get you started!

   

I layered and popped up the die cut panel onto some pretty patterned paper.

Thank you for stopping by and have a wonderful, crafty week!