Favorite Travel Partner Card by Tasha!

 Happy Friday Ai Fans!

Tasha here sharing a travel themed card created with the 4932-Pack Your Bags Set and 5186-Enjoy the Ride Set. I love the Ai people stamps and this traveling duo is so much fun to color!

For this project, I started by stamping the couple with black ink and colored them with Copic Markers. I used masking paper to mask off the lady before stamping the man to have the couple stand closer together.  Masking paper is a great way to get a layered look without cutting the images out. 

For the background, I drew in panels to look like large windows and stenciled fluffy blue clouds. I also stamped several airplanes to make it look like an airport scene. This couple is totally what my husband and I look like when traveling, but I do pull my own rolling luggage. 

Lastly, I added layers of red, gold glitter, and blue paper to coordinate with the airplanes. I also stamped "Life with you is wonderful" with black ink to look like it's connected to one of the planes. The greeting and images are from different sets, but work together perfectly to complete the design!

I hope you enjoyed today's project and are having a great day!

Easter Wishes Challenge #348

 Hello Ai fans!

Our new challenge here on the blog is
EASTER WISHES!

Show us your finest Easter creation.

It doesn't need to be a card.  Maybe you've created a fun little paper basket or an Easter goody bag?

Share it below for your chance to win a free stamp set from Art Impressions.

Before we show you what our featured designer created, let's share the winners from our last challenge.

For our Top Spot in the INSIDE OUT challenge, we chose Dori M.!

She used 4754 - Hoppy Easter Set and 5064 - Circle Double Stitched Dies:
 

Please contact Leah at Feedback@artimpressions.com

to claim a free stamp set of your choice!

Also, be sure to grab our badge to display on your blog, Facebook or Instagram!

Now for our Lucky Random Winner!

 

The random selector chose Meghan K.!

Congratulations!

 

Please contact Leah at Feedback@artimpressions.com

to claim a free stamp set of your choice!

Now to introduce Reneé's challenge feature. 

She created a sweet, slider pop-up card!

Tell us about your card Reneé.

Hello Ai fans!

It's my turn to do the feature for our challenge and I created a fun, slider pop-up card.
I've always been a huge fan of Art Impressions Front & Back stamp series and was sad when they were discontinued.  Now Bonnie has begun to bring them back with sweet, new images like 5716 – Little Boy Front & Back. I didn't use the back this time but I usually do.

I accessorized my card with lots of little add on stamps.  The bird, basket of eggs and tulips are from 5488 – Front Porch Easter Set.  With this type of card,  you pull the tab and it reveals a hidden panel inside.

The sentiments on the front and inside are from 5733 – Easter Sentiments Set.
They're stamped on 5727 – Nested Oval Dies and 5725 – Nested Square Dies

The little butterfly is from the beyond adorable new 5728 – Mushroom Cubbies set.
Last is the bunnies...oh those bunnies!  These are just the CUTEST!!

I used two of them from the new 5737 – Bunny & Chicks Set.

I hope you liked my card and that you'll join this challenge.  Happy Easter everyone!

Thank you Reneé for your cute card!

Now for the rules...

If you'd like to join in our challenge be sure to link your project below...

✻ Please make a new card or handmade crafty creation. You can make any 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!

 ✻Please include your first name and last initial on your submission.

✻We love to comment on your entries, but keep in mind if you use a private group or a platform that you need to sign up for, we probably won't be able to.

✻ 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 if you can, by clicking and commenting on your fellow crafters.

✻ Make sure to get your link up by the deadline to enter your creations.

✻ Good luck and happy stamping!

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Click here to enter

Easter Wishes Challenge by Mercy Sauer

Welcome to a brand new challenge, Easter Wishes. 

This is Mercy, grateful to see you back.    I created a fun interactive card, let's take a look!

I used the same technique as in a previous blog entry,  Modified Reveal Wheel Design.   The background is a simple scene: cloud stencils and a ground stamp.  I created the garden using Copic markers in the greens, yellows and pinks.   I added a few butterflies and used Glossy Accent on the eggs in the cart.    

Easter is up there with one of my favorite card seasons, nothing but warmth and cuteness.   Hope you consider joining our challenge since I so much enjoy your creations and get lots of inspiration from your postings.    Thanks again for stopping by and I will see you all soon.

Your're Invited by Mercy Sauer

 Wow, March was a full month with three challenges and five weeks of new inspiration.   My last card for the month is a simple one using a brand new set to me.   I've been admiring this set for a while and finally got it; and boy, it's even better than I thought.  I was inspired to create this card by one of the Green Galore challenge entries, let's take a look,

I used a circle die to create the round shaped card and green front panel.   On a separate white cardstock, I stamped and gold heat embossed the three elements and sentiment from the set I chose to use.  I fuzzy cut around the wreath and used foam tape to pop up the wreath assembly on the card.   You can definite create many of these cards for a party or event very easily.   There are other elements in the set I will feature in April since I loved it so much.

Thank you for your company during this month, and I can't wait to see you again in April!

TUNNEL CARD - Birdhouse Village Card by Lynn Dionne

Happy Wednesday Ai Fans!!!

 

Watch video tutorial here!!!

 

Today we will be creating a super fun tunnel style card! This card design will allow us to use layers of ovals to look inside the card to see our pretty birdhouses!

Let's grab our focal image from the brand new Ai Birdhouse Village Set (5739). This set is part of the Ai Watercolor Journal Series and includes this set of birdhouses and also includes some pretty little flowers which we will be using today.

Now we can stamp and color in our images. You will want to stamp several sets of the flowers! All of the coloring today will be done using the Zig Clean Color Real Brush Pens in the following colors: Blender, Sugared Almond Pink, Pale Rose, Lilac, Violet, Persian Green, Beige, Mid Brown, Lt Gray, Gray Brown.

Next we can die cut all of the oval openings in our patterned papers using the Ai Nested Oval Dies (5727). I'll be showing you some tips and tricks for die cutting the ovals in order to create this tunnel style card!

For patterned papers we will be using the brand new Ai Easter Journal Paper Pack (5742). We will grab the pretty pink striped paper and the lilac and pink polka dots!

For a bit of detail we will add a nice stitched border around our focal image which will show through to the front of the card!

To create the scalloped edge along the front of the card we will use the Ai Journal Template Die Set (5543)...this set has lots of borders and fun dies for adding cute elements to your cards and journals!

Let's assemble the card and add a special sentiment to the inside and the outside of the card using a pretty blush pink embossing powder. These sentiments will come from the new sentiments sets called Ai Friend Set (5734) and the Ai Birthday Set (5735).

Thank you so much for joining me today!  Have a fun and crafty day!!!

Birdhouse Village Set (5739)

Friend Sentiments Set (5734)

Birthday Sentiments Set (5735)

Nested Oval Dies (5727)

Tag Stitched Dies (5132)

Journal Template Die Set (5543)

Easter Journal Paper Pack (5742)

Post-it Labeling and Cover-up Tape

Signo White Gel Pen

 

Girl Window Tag by Nina

Hello Ai fans, Nina here coming today with a new tag in my recent series Ai Tag Journal. For today's tag page I used the Little Girl Front & Back set.

For the base of the tag, I die cut a tag from white Bristol Smooth paper with the large tag die from the Tag Stitched Dies twice then used the window die from Window Die Set to create the window in the middle of both the tags and glued them both together.

For the tag background I cut a pattern paper from my stash and also die cut the window in the middle, I then attached these die cut backgrounds to the front and back of the white base tag..

I then die cut the window frame from white paper three times to make my window dimensional and attached them to each other then glued it on the front of my tag.

I stamped the cute Girl images (front and back) from the Little Girl Front & Back set using my Memento Tuxedo Black ink and my Mini Misti then colored them with Copic Markers.

I then glued the girl's front and back together and attached it to the tag behind the window.

I cut a strip of paper and colored it with blue Copic shade and glued her as her ground.

I then decorated the tag with alphabet stickers to write "Hello" on the front and added some enamel dots and then added it to my Tag Journal.

Happy Easter b y Sharon Caudle

 Hello AI Fans!

I've got a card to show you today that features the adorable #5504 Happy Spring Set. This is the absolute cutest stamp set! I know, I say that all the time. But it's true!! LOL! I stamped these cuties onto Cryogen white paper and then colored them with Copic markers.  The dies to this set are amazing! I love it when they cut close and don't have a big white border around them. I also used #5728 Mushroom Cubbies for that adorable caterpillar, and #5486 Front Porch Garden Set for that cute pot of flowers. I love mixing and matching all my sets to create a card! The sun and cloud die are just from my stash.  My card fits the Inside Out challenge over on the blog. Hope you're entering so you have a chance to win an awesome prize! 

Thanks so much for stopping by for a visit and until next time - stay crafty! 

Copic colors used:

R11, R12, R20, R81, R83, R85

YR15, YR18, YR61, YR65, YR68

E01, E11, E23, E33

Y11, Y15, Y18

YG01, YG03, Yg07

V04, V06, V12, V15, V17

B000, B41, B45

Happy Retirement! by Reneé Matarese

 Hello Ai fans!

One of my friends is retiring at the end of this school year and I wanted to make her a fun card.  She loves to travel and has done so throughout her career.  I can only imagine where she'll go once she all the time in the world to do so.

For my card I used SO MANY Art Impressions sets.

You can find links to all of them at the end of my post.

My card was made for the current Inside Out challenge.

I wanted to incorporate all forms of travel because her 3 children are scattered throughout the world.  Sometimes she hops a plane,  sometimes it's a road trip.  I'm not sure if she's cruised yet but isn't that what retirement is for?

My images were all colored using Copic markers.  Some were cut with coordinating dies and some were but with my Brother Scan and Cut.  It's a lifesaver for older sets that don't have dies.

Some of those images are tiny so I whipped out my TwinTones for the fine details.