Dance Like No One is Watching! By Andrea Pierron

 Good morning, Ai friends!! Andrea here, and I am so excited to be a part of this team and to get to know you all! I have been a fan of Art Impressions products for over 20 years! They have been one of my favorite stamping companies since I started card making. I absolutely love how unique their products are and I love seeing all of the gorgeous products you all create with Ai stamps. So today, I am sharing a card that I made using these two adorable seniors! I have wanted to put something together with these two for quite a while. 

First, I stamped the 2 seniors onto my card stock using Momento ink. I made a mask by stamping the images again on regular printer paper (to lay over the original images) and I cut the masks out. I then carefully lined up the masks on top of the original stamped images and stamped a background stamp from Purple Onion Designs over the images. Then, I removed the masks and voila! You have the couple dancing inside a cute little room! I wanted to have some pattern on their clothing, so I chose the paper I liked for it and stamped the images a 3rd time on the patterned paper and cut out the man's pants and woman's apron. Then, I then got to work on all of my coloring. Once finished, I added some cute little flowers to the windows and stamped a sentiment and added it to my card front. I glued on the apron piece and the pants. The card front panel was then glued to the card base. That is it and I hope you like it! 

Materials Used

Stamps

• 5279 Be Happy Laugh Lines
• 5278 Dance It Out Set
• 4868 Watercolor Flower Set 2

Paper

• Distinguished Gents by Unity Stamps
• 6205 Floral Shop by Art Impressions
• Neenah Classic Crest card stock for stamping on

Markers & Inks

• Momento Ink Pad
• Black thin Liner Pen
• Copic Markers Used: E93, E00, E13, E21, E000, Y35, N3, N2, N5, G40, B0000, B00, G43, G46, E49, E47, E57, E41, B32, B37, B34, 110, E42, E43

Get your happy on by Sharon Caudle

 Hello AI Fans!

Hope you had a wonderful and safe 4th of July weekend if you're in the states and celebrated! I've got a fun card to show you today! Have you ever jumped on a trampoline? Well this lady is out having the time of her life helping someone celebrate their birthday! Watch a clip of the video below to see her in action! It's so much fun watching her jump around! I started by stamping #5279 Be Happy Laugh Lines onto a Copic friendly paper and fussy cutting her out after coloring her. I found this video on how to make the mechanism to make her jump. It's really pretty easy and you don't need any special dies to make it! 

The sentiment get your happy on is also from the same stamp set #5279 Be Happy Laugh Lines. The bird is from #5346 Birdhouse Cubbies Set, the flowers from #5925 Honey Bee Set, and the fence from #5807 Journal Fence Dies. I just clipped off one fence post from the die as it was just a little too wide for what I needed. The other pieces just came from my stash. 

For the inside sentiments I used #5278 Dance it out Set and #5115 Birthday Laugh Lines for the two different sentiments. 

So that's it for me today! Thanks so much for stopping by for a visit and until next time - stay crafty!!

Sending you a smile by Sharon Caudle

 Hello AI Fans!

I have a fun card to show you today that I hope makes you smile! I truly love mixing and matching Art Impressions stamp sets, so our current challenge was a breeze for me! It's a rare occasion that I only use one set!!  So many of their sets have awesome accessory stamps that can be combined with others!! I used four different sets to create this card. I stamped out several of the cute Fairytale Houses from #5935 and colored them with Copic markers and then I positioned a few of the trees and bushes from #5890 Village Accessories in between them to make it look like a cute little neighborhood. After creating a sidewalk in front of them by coloring a strip of gray, I stamped, colored, and die cut one of the cute gnomes from #5785. I just think he emits so much joy and was perfect to send a hello greeting to a friend.

I added a few die cut clouds and a sentiment from #5279 and it was all done! 

So that's it for me today! Thanks so much for stopping by for a visit and I hope you're entering our Mix and Match challenge for a chance to win a free set!! Until next time - stay crafty!!

Copic markers used for coloring:

E000, 00, 11, 31, 33, 35, 41, and 43

V20, 22, and 25

BG10, 11, 70, 72, and 75

Y00, 02, 21, and 23

G20, 43, and 46

YG13, 17, and 21

RV91, 93, and 95

BV000, 01, and 02

T1 and 2

C1 and 2

N2 and 4