Welcome Guest Designer Carrie Triner!

 Hello everyone!

Since we've shifted our Watercolor Weekend to Sundays and have 4 designers something rare popped up.  October has a 5th Sunday!

What should we do? No one wants a blank day on the blog.

We reached out to Art Impressions SUPER FAN Carrie Triner and she agreed to make us some cards.

If you're not familiar with her work, you're going to love it! 

She created two Christmas cards, one with carolers and one with Santa and his crew.

Let's hear from Carrie herself.

Hello, my name is Carrie Triner. I would say that I am probably one of your biggest fans.

After loosing my mom I had difficulty letting her go and trying to move on.

I remembered my moms love for coloring and decided I would color to keep her memory alive. 

It has been a journey that has allowed me to heal, while keeping her memory alive. I color nightly and call it my nighttime wind down. Up until til this year I colored every single night. Recently I’ve allowed myself a little grace and by not having to color every single night. 

The first card  I’ve created comes from a memory of my children being young and 

Anxiously  awaiting  the arrival of Santa and hoping to get a glimpse of him. One of my daughters swears she say him out from and climbing of chimney. For this card I used Sleigh Bells.

Cardmaking two takes me back to the first Christmas of my marriage and new home. Neighbors all got together to welcome us to the neighborhood by ringing our door and caroling in front of our home. It’s a memory I’ll always cherish. For this card I used Christmas Wonder.

I’ve been a huge fan of Art Impressions stamps for over 9 years. I believe my first stamps were 29 again and Hog wild. 

As far as my favorite series, I absolutely loved them all. To pick one collection would be leaving out all the other ones I love. Your company makes it tough to choose a favorite. I’d have to say all of them. Recently I’ve been researching all your collections and stamps and got to see and know all the many collections you have made over the years. 

So back to trying to choose a favorite, I’d say between Golden Oldies and Girlfriends.

Her first card uses 4936 – Christmas Wonder Set.

She created a gorgeous "window" card so that you can see through to the inside.

Her coloring is always so fabulous.  (I've followed her for a long time)

She usually creates fun Reels on her Instagram account. If you're looking for ways to index all of your Ai stamps, she's spent the last 5 weeks organizing hers and has shared on IG.

Her second card uses 5040 – Sleigh Bells Set.

It's also a window card but this one is different.
Don't the little elves look so happy and proud as Santa is
setting out for his midnight ride with all of the toys that they've made?

Her deep, rich colors are wonderful.  Creating such depth is something that alludes so many artists.

Don't you love how she added the gold cord as reins?

We'll see you soon Santa and hopefully we'll be seeing lots more from Carrie very soon too.

Copics used:

Skintones-

1- E04-21-01-00

2- E04-25-13

3- E04-11-21-02-00

Cheeks

R22-11

R21-11

Hair

E44-47-49-100

E19-18-17

YR23- E35-Y23

Brown E49-47

Red- R89-37-27

Green- YG67-63-17-61

Brown- E59-57-55

Gold- Y21-26-28

White- W1-2-0

Tan- E57-E35

Brown E35-37-39

Blue - B39-99-95

Orange- YR14-18

YR27-14-24

Green- G85-29-YG67-YG63

Santa Skin- E25-23-13-04-11

Cheeks- R35-27-05

Book- E43-42-41-0

Thank you so much for helping us out Carrie.

We're sure the entire Ai community and beyond will be inspired by your beautiful cards.