Summerween Challenge #432 week#1

 Hello Ai fans and welcome to our new challenge,

SUMMERWEEN!!

This was a new expression for me that Tasha brought to light.

Just like there's Christmas in July, a lot of people like to have a mini

celebration of Halloween in the summer. (It's usually in June but I couldn't

fit it in.)

So, that being said, let's celebrate a little bit of fall fun now!

I know not all of you participate in Halloween so any fall themed

project using products from Art Impressions will be accepted.

Fittingly, Tasha is our Featured Artist this time and she created

the absolute cutest Story Tile card to inspire you.

After checking out her card, be sure to scroll down to view the winners

of our Christmas in July challenge.

It's that time of year when the second set of Freebies become available.

Check out the cuteness overload on these bears!

My personal favorite is the Study Bear.

You can select one of these free stamps when you spend $30 or more on the

Art Impressions website.

Hi everyone! Tasha here sharing a card inspired by the Art Impressions Summerween Challenge.

I love both Christmas and Halloween crafting, so this challenge is right up my alley! It’s also the perfect excuse to get an early start on my fall and Halloween cards and projects.

For this card, I used the 6158-Story Tile Template Die along with stamps from several Halloween sets. One of my favorite things about the Art Impressions Halloween collections is how easy it is to mix and match the cute characters to create fun little scenes.

I started by cutting two Tile frames from orange and white cardstock. I used the orange frame for the front and colored each tile to create its own little nighttime scene.

Next, I added the characters. Some were stamped directly onto the tiles, while the ghost cat and pumpkin mouse were stamped separately and cut out with the coordinating dies before being popped onto the card.

To add more color and bring the scenes together, I cut grass from green cardstock and used Distress Oxide Ink to blend the top of the grass; love this look. I finished the sky with a white gel pen to add tiny stars. I really like how the purple sky makes the white stars stand out.

For a few extra details, I drew a moon behind the bat and added little spider webs to several of the tiles. Those simple touches help give the card even more Halloween charm.

To finish everything off, I layered the design onto green and black cardstock and added ghost-patterned paper to tie in the cute, not-too-spooky Halloween theme.

Thanks so much for stopping by today! I hope this card inspires you to join the Summerween Challenge and start creating your own Halloween projects.

Tasha LOVES Halloween, and it shows how much, in her fun card!

Now, let's see who won our Christmas in July challenge.

For our Top Spot we selected #16 Ellen M.
for her adorable Gingerbread Cubbie house.
Just look at all of those smiling faces!

Please contact Leah at Feedback@artimpressions.com

to claim your free stamp set.

Our Lucky Random Winner was #11 April J.

Please contact Leah at Feedback@artimpressions.com

to claim your free stamp set.

Congratulations to our winners!

Enjoy your new stamps.

Now, onto the details of our new challenge.

Please make a new project featuring any Halloween or Fall themed
stamps, dies or paper from Art Impressions.
This is going to be a fun one! I can't wait to see what you create.

Here's the rules...

✻ Please make a new card or handmade crafty creation using either stamps, dies and or designer paper from Art Impressions. You can make any item you wish; this is not limited to cards! (unless specified)

✻ Limit two submissions per person.

✻Top Spot Winner and Lucky Random Winner each receive a free 

stamp set from Art Impressions

 ✻Please include your first name and last initial on your submission. You may include your entire last name, but it's not necessary.

✻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! 

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

One more Halloween card by Sharon Caudle

 Hello AI Fans!

I know Halloween is over, but I have just one more card I want to show you that goes along with our current challenge "Along Came a Spider". You still have a couple of days to enter! I used a fun fold for this one and had it where the right side overlaps the middle panel. I started out with #6112 Pumpkin Parade and colored up the adorable mouse pushing his cart full of candy down the street. To create this very easy scene, I grabbed a piece of paper from #6130 Halloween S3 PP and then used a piece of gray cardstock and drew in sidewalk lines. Couldn't get any easier. Of course I added a little spider hanging from his web up in the corner. Just a little note that I used a set of magnets from Amazon to hold the top down. It's just enough pull to keep it closed until you want to open it up. I simply glued one under the paper of the top flap, and the other one under the paper of the middle flap. It works like a charm!! 

When you open the front flap, it unveils a couple more spiderwebs and a spider with googly eyes. LOL! I just love those little ghosts from #5604 Halloween Journal Die Set. There are so many fun dies in that!! 

Once you open up the final flap, you get to see the cute girl ghost in all her glory telling you how Spook-tacular you are!! She is from #6111 Spooktacular Set, and I got the idea for the bow on her hear from my Bestie Dori! She has so many fangtastic ideas!! Since I wasn't going to use the ghost as a pop up, I just fussy cut it out so it wouldn't have the score lines for the pop up. It was super simple to cut it out. 

So that's it for me today! I hope you grab your paper and glue and play along with our challenge. You just might win a free set of your choice from Art Impressions!! Thanks so much for stopping by for a visit and until next time - stay crafty!!

Trick or Treat by Sharon Caudle

 Hello AI Fans!! 

BOO!! Did I scare you? LOL! Halloween is such a fun time of year! I watch spooky tv shows all month long! I've got a fun card to show you today that features the new #6112 Pumpkin Parade and a couple older sets as well. That cute house is from #5934 Spooky Crew Set and the fun ghosts and bat are from #5604 Halloween Journal Die Set. I stamped the images onto a Copic friendly cardstock and then colored them up. I truly do love having the dies to cut the pieces out so it makes it so easy to create a scene like this! The fence in front of the house is also from the Halloween Journal Die Set. For the sidewalk, I just took a scrap piece of gray cardstock and drew in some lines. SUPER easy and grounds our little Trick or Treating fox as he makes his way down the street. For the moon, I simple cut out a piece of cardstock using #5726 Nested Circle Dies. 

So that's it for me today! Thanks so much for stopping by for a visit and I hope to see you again soon! Until next time - stay crafty!!

Full of Surprises Halloween Card by Dori Mendiola

 Happy Thursday AI Friends!

I had soooo much fun creating this card today!  Cute little interactive surprises using the stamp sets #6111 - Spooktacular and #6112 - Pumpkin Parade sets. 

Before I get started, I want to thank design team member, Sharon Caudle, for her great sidewalk idea.    She used this on one of her cards, of late, and I loved it.  What a cute and easy ground panel!  Simple, but effective!  Thanks, Sharon! 

Okay, back to my card.  I created a corner fun fold card.  You can find this fold design on Pinterest but it's pretty simple.  Start with a 5 3/4" x 7" piece of pattern paper.  Front of card design face up, score at 2" along the left edge of the 7" side.  Turn paper to the left and score along the 5 3/4" side at 2".  This will create a square in the bottom left corner.  Turn the paper over, fold and burnish the score lines towards you so that the front side is coming forward.  Make a small mark at 2" from each of the folds of the square.  Score diagonally from mark to mark.  Fold and burnish this score line in opposite direction of the others.  Unfold all and with inside paper face up, bring in the diagonal folds and let the square come up over the top creating a square in the top left corner.  See Pic 3 showing the fold opening.

Pic 1:

Top Panel - create how you choose (mine is 3" x 3 3/4").  Adhere to top square only.  Do not place glue on the full panel as this is how it opens.  See video below.

Pic 2

The peek a boo ghost is from the #6111 - Spooktacular set.  The die cut will score and cut the ghost so it folds as intended.  The arms fold in similar to the card.  Stamp your sentiment onto the moon.  Adhere the bottom of the ghost to the fold of the moon.  Place glue on the top half of the ghost and shut the moon down to adhere.  Do NOT glue the arms of the ghost.  When you lift the moon, the arms will fold outward.  I placed a magnet under the "lift" cloud and the other one under the inside cloud.  

Pic 3

The inside panel has a sentiment and another cute surprise image with treats.

Thanks for joining me today!  I hope you enjoyed my card!

Have a wonderful day and keep creating!

Copics used:  T0, T2, T4, R20

Y13, Y15, Y17

YR12, YR14, YR16, YR18

V12, V15, V17

BG32, BG45

Something Sweet for you by Sharon Caudle

 Hello AI Fans!

I just love the Halloween season! It's just so fun! I am always sad to see the wonderful days of summer leave, but Halloween sure helps with the transition! I've always loved spooky ghost stories and the idea of ghosts and such! I've got a cute little "too cute to spook" tag to show you today. I just love the new Halloween sets from Art Impressions! All of the critters are so adorable! Today I chose to use #6112 Pumpkin Parade Set and that adorable ghost kitty!! I started out by grabbing #5132 Tag Stitched Dies and cut out my base, then #5062 Rounded Rectangle A2 Die Set to make couple of mats. I cut a second tag out using #5849 Halloween S2 PP, and then trimmed off the top using one of the dies from #5723 Journal Cover and Bookmark Die Set to add to the top of the gray base tag. I stamped the kitty and candy onto Copic friendly cardstock and colored them with Copic markers. When done with that, I used the included dies from the set to cut them out. I LOVE having matching dies to stamp sets!! It's really nice not to have to fussy cut the images out! I added a heart that was die cut with #5721 Nested Heart Dies and stamped the sentiment onto a circle die cut using #5064 Double Stitched Circle Dies. 

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

Boo Crew! Card by Tasha

 Happy Friday Art Impressions Friends!

Tasha here sharing a fun Fall card featuring the new 6112-Pumpkin Parade Set.

I always enjoy making Halloween cards, and Art Impressions has the cutest characters for creating little Fall and Halloween scenes. For my project, I used the not-so-scary cat dressed in her ghost costume along with the adorable owl image; because I absolutely love owls!

To set the scene, I added a tree filled with colorful leaves, a rake, and two pumpkins. A piece of patterned paper worked perfectly for the ground to tie everything together.

For the greeting, I heat embossed “Boo Crew!” on black cardstock and attached it with foam tape for some extra dimension. Finally, I layered plaid patterned paper with brown, white, and orange cardstock to complete the design.

This cheerful little Fall card just makes me smile. I hope it inspires you to create something festive for the season! 🎃

Keep it Contained Challenge Week #2

 Hello Ai fans and welcome to week #2 of
our Keep it Contained challenge.

We want to see your handmade projects featuring a container.

These can be (but are not limited to) 

Stamped or die cut containers like vases, pots, crates, barrels etc., repurposed containers, handmade gift boxes, bags, treat holders or gift card holders. Anything that can "contain" something.

Last week, Tasha was our Featured Artist and she shared this adorable
Halloween Gift Card Holder.

Now, as we begin our second week of the challenge, we can share
the other wonderful projects from the rest of our Design Team members.

First up we have Dori.

Janet created this beautiful box using:

5791-WC Snow Globe Set
5805 - Mini Journal Box Set
5964 - Winter Woodland Cover Paper Pack
5808- 5 pack Snow Globe Shaker Dome

Lynn has a fun treat bag.

I created a repurposed vase.

Sharon made this treat box and wobble card.

Our Design Teams work so hard to bring you amazing inspiration week after week.

We hope that you'll join them in creating something for our challenge.

You might be the one to win a free stamp set!

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Be sure to enter your creation for the chance to win a free stamp set from Art Impressions. 

We award one Top Spot and one Lucky Random Winner, and each will win a free stamp set from Art Impressions.

✻ 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.

 ✻Please include your first name and last initial on your submission. You may include your entire last name, but it's not necessary.

✻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! 

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter