Reindeer Games by Cheri Burry!

Hello Ai Fans!

Today I am sharing with you the "Reindeer Games" set. This set always cracks me up! This Gal just has so much sass!

This Holiday Season I love using non-tractional colours! It's a fun change from the red and green combo's.

I stamped and coloured my image with my Copic markers. I had these fun fun papers from the Sunny Studios "Holiday Cheer" 6x6 collection.  I added some Crystal Stickles to the ornaments and a twine bow finishes everything off.

This "Reindeer Games" set was one that Ai did with Hampton Arts so it has the tree and 2 sentiments.  If you can't find it in your local Michaels you can still get the image and one of the sentiments over at Art Impressions.

Copics Used:

Skin Hair: E00, E11, E21, R20

Hair: C5, C7, C8

Pinks: RV04, RV06, RV09

Blue green: BG02, BG05, BG07

Green: YG17, TG23, YG25

E21, E23, E25, Y35, Y38

Happy Stamping!

Supplies:

GO WILD! NEW Funny Farm and Work & Play Clear Stamp! PLUS Challenge 246 Anything Goes!

Hello, Ai Fans! We are back from our Thanksgiving break and are SUPER excited for today's post!

We are wrapping up our last release of 2018 with NEW Funny Farm and Work & Play clear sets! Go "hog wild" with our Ham It Up Set, and "let the party begin" with our Meerkat Set! Both are fun for birthdays, just because, and more! Our new Work & Play additions are perfect for your masculine cards with our Born to Ride biker and mower, as well as our Ole Buck hunters set! Take a closer look at these stamps in our videos below!

Jil is here with a great tutorial for a fun card! Let's take a look!

Hello Ai fans!

I just can't stress enough how much I enjoy interactive cards!  If you've been following me here on the Ai blog for any time this news won't shock you.  When I saw the Meerkat Set in this new release I knew I had to make them pop up in some way. I went through my old favorite cards and came up with the surprise pop up card that I had made based on a tutorial from SplitCoastStampers. It's quite easy to make with a few simple folds.

This is a photo of the card front while it is closed.

This is what the card front looks like when you pull the ribbon to reveal the hidden message.  You could also add a gift card.

The image was stamped onto Spetrum Noir Ultra Smooth paper with My Favorite Things Extreme Black Ink and colored with Copic markers.  It was then gone over with a very light layer of Prismacolor colored pencilsThe colors used are listed at the end of this post. It was fussy cut with EK Success Cutter Bee scissors.

Paper from the Echo Park Party Time by Dani Mogstad 6 x 6 paper collection was added to a 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" piece of paper. It was then cut with the A2 Rectangle Double Stitched Dies. The top of the die wasn't cut.  This is easy to do, just send the die through the die cut machine with the plates together just up to the point that your don't want to cut link in the photo.

The paper was scored on the interior portion of the cuts from the bottom up at 1", 2 7/8" and 4 3/4".

The middle fold is a mountain fold, which just means it will fold up from the back.  The other two folds are valley folds, they fold down.

A half circle was added to the top of the panel using the Circle Double Stitched Dies.

Another greeting and image were stamped with the same ink and Colored the same as before.  They were stamped inside the card top to be sure the image could be seen when the card was opened.

This is a back view of the front card panel. Strong tape was adhered to the bottom inner piece. It will be attached to the tag. The tag is 2 7/8" x 4 3/4". It is a piece of card stock with a piece of the pattern paper over it.  The We R Memory Keepers Deco/Stub Corner Chomper was used on the top edges.

This is the back view of the front card panel. The tag was flipped over and lined up with the bottom of the front panel and attached to the adhesive strip.  This will form the pull tab for this card.

A eyelet and ribbon were added to the center of the top of the tag. A thin layer of foam tape was added around the back and added to a top folding A2 card base.

Copic Colors Used:

Meerkats - E40, E42, E33, E25, E29

Teal - BG10, BG11, BG13

Pink - R81, R83, R85

Prismacolor Colored Pencil Used:

Sandbar Brown 1094, Dark Brown 946

Thanks for stopping by and Have a Great Day!

Thanks, Jil! Such a sweet card! Love how you took one of our clear sets and made an interactive card!

Well, it's challenge time! This is the last challenge of the year, so be sure to join in! The theme is "Anything Goes" so you can create anything, the sky is the limit! Our judges love seeing how you use our stamps and dies with stunning coloring and creative cards! Now is your time to shine, so let's see those entries!

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, December 12 at 5:00 p.m. PST to enter your creations.

✻ Good luck and happy stamping!

An InLinkz Link-up

Happy Stamping!

There's Snow Friend Like You! By Crystal Schneider

Hi AI Fans! 

We don't have any snow here but it's feeling like we should with the colder temperatures.  Snow men images are so much fun to color and add to cards for the colder months. This week I played with the Sparkle Cheer set 4935. 

Stamping the image in with black Memento ink so I could color the image in with Alcohol ink markers. 

I die cut a rectangle out of pattern paper with the largest and second largest die from the Rectangle Double Stitched dies 5063. I inked the edges of the paper. I die cut an oval out of pattern paper with the Oval Double Stitched dies 5065 and inked the edge just like I did with the rectangles.  

I adhered everything onto a A2 card base. Stamped the sentiment with Versafine ink directly onto the oval pattern paper. After stamping the sentiment I adhered the cute little snow man with his friends which I fussy cut out to the bottom of the oval die cut pattern paper. 

The card was missing something so I looked through my snow flake dies and die cut some different snow flakes out of white glitter cardstock. As a last touch I used some clear Nuvo drops onto the center of the snowflakes and randomly on the pattern paper.  

Spectrum Noir Markers: 

Dr6, DR7, IG5, IG6, IG10, BT4, BT5, IG2, IG3, IG5, GG1, GG2, GG3, AG1, AG3, AG5, BT3, BT4, BT5 

Happy Stamping! 

NEW VIDEO! Fox on a Snowy Bench Watercolor

Hello Ai Fans!

It's Watercolor Wednesday time! We are continuing with our winter series and loving all the snowy scenes! This week, Bonnie creates a sleepy little fox resting on a snow-covered bench, surrounded by a pine tree and holly branches. We love this sweet scene, great for any recipient!

We know you have holiday cards on your mind, so we've made creating unique watercolor cards even easier with our Winter Watercolor Playlist! With almost 20 videos, you can create special designs to send warm greetings to your friends and family! Make sure to leave a comment on your favorite video of the bunch!

Happy Watercolor Wednesday!

View on YouTube: https://youtu.be/fIQm_4lg51w

SALE! Black Friday to Cyber Monday, 15% Off Your Order! PLUS Sale Items!

Hello, Ai Fans! Are you ready for our HUGE Black Friday to Cyber Monday Sale?! We are offering 15% off site-wide with our coupon code! Additionally, visit our Sale Category for retiring stamps and dies priced 50% off, and apply our coupon code for that extra 15% off! Items in the Sale Category are retiring, and will disappear after Cyber Monday, so grab them while you can!

COUPON CODE: SAVE15

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Coupon code runs from 11/23/17 - 11/26/17. Cannot be combined with other coupon codes or offers, one coupon code per order. Coupon code is for retail orders only, not valid on wholesale orders. Not valid on previous orders. Please allow 5-7 business days for order processing before shipment.

With such great savings, now is a great time to share your wishlist with your friends and family! Drop a hint about what you hope Santa might bring you! And if you are shopping for your crafty friends, be sure to check out our first-ever Holiday Gift Guide! These guides are here to show you a selection of our most popular stamps, from characters to animals to our famous watercolor collection! Click the image, or visit artimpressions.com and find these guides on the left sidebar for easy access!

Do you shop local for Small Business Saturday? Be sure to visit our Dealer Locator to find craft stores near you! We love our independent retailers! If you are lucky enough to have a local store near you, please stop by and say hi for us!

Happy Stamping!

Happy Thanksgiving! PLUS, Challenge 245 Washi Tape Winners Announced!

Happy Thanksgiving, Ai Fans!

Our blog is closing for one week to give our fantastic designers a break to spend time with their family and friends. However, we didn't want to leave any unfinished business before we go! We are here to announce the winners of our Washi Tape Challenge!

Top Spot goes to...

Cynthia Olheiser!

Congrats, Cynthia! We think your stripes of washi tape highlight our Doggy Kisses set so well! It adds a playful element balanced with the poor puppy! Email annelise@artimpressions.com with your address to claim your prize pack!

Honorable Mentions go to....

Irene Rhodes!

Susan!

Congrats, you two! Irene, your color-coordinated washi tape banners match the way you colored our Cupcake BFF perfectly! And Susan, we're amazed by your creative art journal featuring handmade washi tape with our WC Harvest pumpkins! Too cute! Email annelise@artimpressions.com with your address and choose a stamp set of your choice as a prize!

All of us from Art Impressions wish you a wonderful weekend! May it be filled with bounty! If you miss our daily blog inspiration during our break, be sure to visit our guest designers' blogs for card ideas! The Cornucopia card above is from Tracy's blog, so visit her there, as well as Diane and Karen's blogs! Leave some comment love while you're at it!

Diane Zechman

Karen Day

Tracy MacDonald

Happy Thanksgiving, and see you again on November 29th for a NEW Challenge and our LAST new release of 2018!

Happy Stamping!

Sparkle and Cheer By Crystal Schneider

Hi AI fans! 

Happy Thanksgiving! Now its time to get moving on Christmas and Winter cards. I'm not a huge fan of snow I do think it is so pretty from inside by a cozy fire. This week I played with this adorable snow man from this Sparkle Cheer set 4935. 

I used two different sizes of the Rectangle Double Stitched dies to layer on my card base. I stamped my sentiment onto white cardstock and used a banner die to cut it out. 

I stamped this cute waving snow man with Memento ink so I could color him in with alcohol markers. After I colored him in I fussy cut him out. 

I used a 3D snow flake embossing folder for the background for the snowman. I added blue in to the embossed paper to help the snow flakes pop of the page. I added some white glitter paper to look like snow and help ground the snowman. 

Spectrum Noir Markers:

DR6, DR7, GY2, GY3, GY5, IG5, IG6, IG10, AG1, AG3, AG5, GG1, AP1, TN2, TN3 

Happy Stamping!