All the Fall Challenge ##390 Week #2

Hello Ai fans and welcome to week #2 of our All the Fall challenge.

We want to see your fall themed projects.

These can be Halloween, Thanksgiving or anything with a plain old fall theme like leaves, scarecrows, pumpkins etc.

Last week, Tasha was our Featured Designer and she created two adorable Halloween cards with a fabulous tutorial. You can see her post HERE.

Now we're sharing all of the other DT cards.

Tasha created another sweet fall card HERE.

Lynn showed us how to combine our Christmas stamps with Fall.

She has a video tutorial on her blog post.

Dori is welcoming Fall with open arms and a fist-full of leaves.

Sharon used 5507 Harvest Together Set

5596 Harvest Farm Truck Set

5952 Portfolio Template Die Set

A fabulous Fall fox card from Janet.

I used the 5953 – Woodland Critters Set, 5835 – Mini Journal Paper Pack and 5592 – Harvest Journal Die Set.

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

✻ 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.

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

✻ Good luck and happy stamping! 

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Hello Fall by Dori Mendiola

 Happy Thursday AI Friends!

My card today is inspired by the Challenge "All the Fall".  I should probably have made a Halloween card since today is Halloween, but oh well.  😏  Instead, I chose to welcome in the Fall season using the 5776 Front and Back Sitting Girl, the 5460 Halloween Slimline and the 5783 Fall Leaf Frame die.

I began by stamping the images using Memento black ink on copic friendly paper and colored with copic markers listed below.  For the wagon and the pumpkins, I did a partial stamp of the bottom portion of the 5460 Halloween Slimline set.  I used the die to cut it out and then cut off the owl and above leaving the pumpkins and the wagon.  The sitting girl fits perfectly on the pumpkins and I added a leaf to cover the missing portion of the pumpkin.  I cut her arm to place the leaves under so it looks like she is holding them.  

I cut two leaf frames from two different colors of cardstock and inlaid the opposite color die cut pieces into the corresponding spot on the other frame.  This will give you a two for one frame to use on another card.  I placed a piece of the falling leaf pattern paper from the 5838 Fall paper pack behind the frame for the background.  I then popped up the girl sitting on the pumpkins and adhered to the frame.  Since I didn't have the same color pop dots or nuvo drops, I made my own.  I placed a piece of packing tape over the rust colored cardstock and punched out several pieces using a hole punch.  The packing tape gives a glossy look, but you can also add glossy accents.  I recommend adding the glossy accents after adhering the dots to your card as they are tiny and hard to work with when loose.

Hope you enjoyed my card today!

Happy Halloween, Happy Fall and Happy Nevada day for those of us in Nevada.

Copics used:  E00, E01, E8, E11, E13, E15

E21, E23, E25, E42, E44, E47, E53

N0, N2, N4, N6

R20, RV52, RV55, RV66

YR14, YR16, YR18, YR21, YR68

Mixing Your Christmas, Fall & Halloween Stamp Sets by Lynn Dionne

 Happy Wednesday Ai Fans!!!

Watch video tutorial here!!!

Let's have some fun today and combine several of our Art Impressions stamp sets to create a cute Autumn card! We will combine the brand-new Ai Santa's Workshop Set (5930), Ai Woodland Tree Cubbies Set (5100), Ai Spooky Wagon Set (5456), and the Ai Foxes Set (5951). As you can see, we will be combining Christmas, Halloween and Fall sets together to create this special card!

It's fun to look through your sets and see what you can combine together for a unique look on your cards. You can be sure that no one else will create a card just like yours and it's a great way to get more out of the sets you may already have. Sometimes just adding one new set (like these cute little elves) to your collection can give you many more possibilities for your cards and projects.

We will be using the Christmas elves, the woodland tree cubbies, the pumpkins and leaves! To get started let's stamp, color and die cut all our images from the various sets. We will be coloring them using the Zig Clean Color Real Brush Pens in the following colors: Blender, Sugared Almond Pink, Dk Blossom Pink, Scarlet Red, Yellow, Flesh Colour, Mustard, Sand, Beige, May Green, Green, Olive Green, Persian Green, Smoky Teal, Dull Blue, Aquamarine Blue, Mid Brown, Dk Gray, Lt Gray, Red Grape, Deep Red Grape.

Next, we will create a simple, yet gorgeous sky using some Strathmore Bristol Smooth Cardstock and the Tim Holtz Distress Mini Ink Pads in Tumbled Glass and Peacock Feathers, and the grass using Twisted Citron and Mowed Lawn. We will do an ink "smooshing" technique which is where you apply the ink to your glass media mat and then you will "smoosh" the colors onto the mat and spritzing them with a bit of water and then lay your paper over top of this ink. The results are amazing, and it really is quite easy. It will give us the perfect cloudy sky and green grass. I'll show you this in today's video!

Our square card will measure 5 1/2" x 5 1/2" and will be made from some heavy weight kraft cardstock. Next, let's attach our 5 1/4" x 5 1/4" sky and grass to the card.

Finally, we can go ahead and assemble the card by adding the leaves to the tree, the little elves in the doors and windows, and the little pumpkins. For the sign post we will mask off the word "Boooo!" and add the word "Autumn" instead. I'll show you how to do this in the video as well.

I hope this card has inspired you to dig through your stash and build a fun seasonal scene using some stamps and dies that you may already have!

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

Ai Santa's Workshop Set (5930)

Ai Woodland Tree Cubbies Set (5100)

Ai Spooky Wagon Set (5456)

Ai Foxes Set (5951)

Steel Die Cutters (5765)

Wink of Stella Glitter Pen - Clear

Post-it Labeling and Cover-up Tape

Santa Puppet New Release! by Reneé Matarese

 Have you seen the new 5931 – Santa Puppet Dies from Art Impressions?

He's the newest release in the Puppet Series and I LOVE him!

I love the sample on the front with the plaid paper. So cute!

Though it's not necessary, I used a scrap piece of paper on the back to adhere the pieces to. I just liked making it a little more substantial. 

This little guy can be personalized in so many ways. Though I went the very traditional route, he can be done with patterned paper, pastels, with or without his spectacles, etc. Just wait until you see what the other DT members have created!

The only Copic I used was a warm gray but I'm not sure which number. Probably W2 or W3.

Art Impressions Santa's Workshop interactive card by Sharon Caudle

 Hello AI fans!!

I hope you're having a good start to your week and that you enjoyed the weekend. I can't believe it's the last week in October and that Thanksgiving is right around the corner. Goodness, the year is just flying by! Art Impressions has had a few new releases recently, and last week they showed some beautiful new Christmas stamp sets! One of them, #5930 Santa's Workshop Set, is featured on my card today. I really wanted to make this be an interactive card and have Santa pop up from behind a snow bank to surprise all the busy elves! It took a little bit of work, but I was able to pull it off using the Lawn Fawn Let's Toast Pull Tab Add on.  I stamped all the images onto a Copic friendly paper and then die cut them with the included dies in the set. That little sign hanging on the lamp post came from 5488 Front Porch Easter Set! So don't forget to look through all your sets to find something fun to use. 

When you pull up on the tab, Santa pops out from behind the snow bank to say a big hello!! 

This was such a fun card to make. It did take a lot of hours to contruct it, but I thought the end result was definitely worth it. Thank you so much for stopping by for a visit today, and until next time - stay crafty!! 

Copic markers used:

B000, 00, 01, 41, and 45

G82 and 85

Y23, 26, 35, and 38

YG61, 63, and 67

R20, 22, 24, and 27

E000, 00, 11, 41, 42, 44, 50, 51, 53, 55, 57, 97, and 99

C2, 3, 4, 5, and 6

W0 and 1

Watercolor Weekend with Ruthan and Simone!

Hello Ai fans!

Welcome to Watercolor Weekend.

This weekend we have something a little different for you.

Jami needed to take some personal time off so we are sharing two cards from some special guest designers.

First up, we have Ruthan Plant who has been an Art Impressions fan for several years and co-founded the Facebook fan group The Art Impressions Way along with Kathy Acres.

Ruthan created this darling Christmas card.

I think we all can agree. There are few things cuter than a puppy in a Santa hat.

She painted the inside of her card as well, which is such a professional touch.

Ruthan was kind enough to show exactly which images from the sets she used helped create her adorable card.

 

 

Our next special Guest Designer is Simone Carr.

Simone has been very busy for us behind the scenes lately.  She will be our featured Monthly Guest Designer for November because she won our September, We Don't Use Enough Purple Challenge. Stay tuned to see what her challenge will be. Her card today gives you a little hint.

She will also be our November Watercolor Weekend artist for Jami next month as well. 

You're going to be so excited when you see all of the special cards she has created and I hear there may be more to come! Yippee!

Her little Christmas critter card is just TOO CUTE!

I just love the sparkle, the paper, the frame and the beautifully painted animals.

May I just ask...What on earth did we do before Dr. Ph Martin's Bleed Proof white paint???

Thank you to both Ruthan and Simone for their beautiful inspiration for this Watercolor Weekend.

We hope you all had a wonderful weekend.

Be sure to check out all of the newest releases at Art Impressions.

We have a fabulous new line of Christmas and Fall, paper, stamps and dies as well as several new online classes to choose from. Keep in mind that all of the sets in the bundles (which save you money if you want them all) can be purchased individually.

c5965 – Winter Woodland Bundle

5973 – Fall Series 2 Paper Pack

c5975 – 5pc Christmas Train Bundle

c5976 – Christmas Train Journal – Online Class with Bonnie

Online Woodland Christmas Portfolio Class with Kim

All Aboard! by Janet

 Hello all! I'm here today with a card that I had so much fun making. These adorable penguins and train car are from a new set called 5929 - Christmas Train Set. It comes with the penguins and train cars. It has matching dies for all the pieces including a holly spray and candy canes. 

To make this card, I started by stamping the train car that's full of gifts, the three penguins, two train wheels, two sprays, and three candy canes. After I colored them, I used the dies to cut the pieces out. I added jewel brads to the wheels and  attached them in the right place with foam dots. I tucked one of the penguins into the gifts and glued candy canes to each of the penguin's hands. I used two small snowflake dies to cut three out from 5782 - Snowflake Frame Set and glued them to the side of the car.

Next, I made the background using blue, green, and pink alcohol inks dropped on to a gel plate and thinned and mixed the inks with plain alcohol. I added a few drops of silver metallic ink to the plate and then dipped yupo paper into the inked surface. The resulting panels look marbled and soft. I dipped several panels and set them all aside to dry.

I chose my favorite panel to use as the background for the card and trimmed it so that I could add the green mat before adding it to an A2 card in blue. The last step was to foil and cut out a sentiment label with my Silhouette Cameo machine. Once that was done, I stamped it with a sentiment in the set. I glued it to the front and added the holly spray and a snowflake sticker with a gem in the center. 

I really like the fanciful background that sets the stage for these magical and whimsical penguins. If you enjoy penguins and Christmas trains, this is a must have set for your collection!

Thanks so much for joining me to see what I created for you today. Please visit the Ai store for the sets I used and all the things you need for your card, journal, and tag making projects. Happy creating!

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Halloween Slimline Card by Tasha!

 Happy Friday Friends!

Tasha here sharing a Halloween slimline card inspired by the current "All the Fall" Challenge. My project features the fun 5460-Halloween Slimline Set and I just LOVE these cute little critters!

I started by stamping the main image and leaves with black ink and used the included coordinating dies to cut them out. It can be a challenge at times to create with large stamps, but I think having a little outdoor scene with a bright moon was a great way to highlight the furry friends and their pumpkins.

The sentiment I selected is from the 5037-Halloween Magic Set; another one of my favorite sets. I embossed the greeting on to black paper and think the bright white goes great with moon and sky background. 

Lastly, I attached gold glitter paper, deep teal and black card stock, and a layer of pretty leaf print pattern paper. I also added a little Distress Oxide Ink to the moon to complete the card.

Thank you for checking out today's project and I hope you will participate in the "All the Fall" Challenge!

Have a great day!