Bats in the Belfry: Haunted Mansion by Reneé Matarese

 Hello Ai fans!

Today I'm sharing a spooky little haunted house that I created for the

Bats in the Belfry

challenge.

I adapted the 6114 – Box Village Template Dies by taking the little roof line piece

and moving it up further on the box. This created a taller house. I then used one of

the shingle pieces to create an awning. The front door is from Halloween FB Fence Set
and I used a piece of screen to create a screen door that you can see through to the 

designer paper.

The stamps and dies used to embellish the box all around are from several different sets.

All sets are linked below. I think my favorite is the little skull tucked into the window box.

Live life in full bloom by Sharon Caudle

Hello AI Fans!

I've got a couple more pages from a booklet I made using Art Impressions #6114 Box Village Template Set along with the #6159 Floral Shop Die Set. These two pages were done using #6193 Petals and Blooms and #6198 Flower Signage stamp sets.  I also used various sentiments from several Art Impressions sets. I will admit I wasn't sure how these would turn out using Copic markers instead of watercoloring them, but I really do like the final product! It's just a totally different look, but I like it! 

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

Hello Friend Floral Shop and Craftiness is Happiness Cards by Diane Mason

Hello, and welcome back for Watercolor Weekend!

Hello, my Ai Watercolor friends and fans! I have two friend cards to share with you today – one with a 3D floral theme and the other perfect for a “Crafty” friend.

Hello Friend Floral Shop Card:

This fun 3D card features elements from the recently released 6159 – Floral Shop Die Set and 6114 – Box Village Template Dies. I also used an image from 5444 – Matchbook Garden Set for the interior of the shop window.

Colors and Supplies Used

Paper: Canson XL Watercolor Paper

Patterned Paper: 6205 – Floral Shop Paper Pack

Cardstock: Green, White

Brush: No. 4 round brush, No. 1 round brush

Ink: Versafine Onyx Black Ink

Stamps and Dies:

• 6159 – Floral Shop Die Set
• 6114 – Box Village Template Dies
• 5444 – Matchbook Garden Set
• 6062 – Hydrangea Floral Set

Tombow Dual Brush Pens:

• Hat: 992 and 856
• Gardening gloves: 856
• Watering can: 526, N52, 565
• All greenery: 177, 173
• Blue flower pot: 555 and 565
• Purple flower pot: 636, 565
• Shelf: 977
• Shelf paneling and white containers: 565 for shadows

Other: Foam squares, Post-It Tape, Dr. Ph. Martin’s Bleed Proof White

I folded an 8 ½ x11-inch piece of white cardstock in half and placed the page die from 6114 – Box Village Template Dies just outside the fold line of the die to cut the card base. All the decorative house elements are from 6159 – Floral Shop Die Set and die cut from 6205 – Floral Shop Paper Pack and white cardstock. I inked the image from 5444 – Matchbook Garden Set with Versafine Onyx Black ink and watercolored the image using the above Tombow colors. I die cut the image using the window die. Using the window pane die, I die cut it from white cardstock five times and glued all five together to create a 3D effect. Additional die cuts included the vine and bush cut from green cardstock and the flowers from watercolor paper. I painted the flowers pink (703) and the centers (025, 933). For the doorstep stairs, I die cut watercolor paper using the stairs die from 6114, and painted them gray (N79).

  

Once I had the card front mostly assembled, I popped up the flower boxes, window awning, dormer trim, door sign and stairs with foam squares.

  

For the inside of the door, I die cut another door front from white cardstock, and trimmed the hinge off with scissors. I stamped the Hello Friend sentiment from 5444 in 703 and glued the panel into the interior of the door for a fun surprise element.

Inside the card, I added decorative panels using dies from 6114. The friends sentiment is from 6062.

Craftiness is Happiness Card:

I have had this set in my stamp stash for such a long time and finally decided to give it some love! I think all of us artists and crafters can relate to this fabulous set. This is a perfect “just because” card for a crafty friend. 5563 – Queen of Craft set includes stamps and dies for the images, as well as a scripty “Crafty” die.

Colors and Supplies Used

Tombow Dual Brush Pens:

• 555 – books, papers, painter’s tape, marker, paint brush jar and jar accessories
• 403 – books, papers, marker, and ribbon
• 173 – die cutting machine, book, and marker.
• 977 – shelf, chalkboard frame, ruler, wooden crate, and hair strands
• 850, 942 – face, hands, and feet
• 992 – rug
• 703 – ribbon, heat gun, and jar accessories
• 636 – wheeled craft tote
• 856, 837 – books, hearts, paint brush handle, coffee mug, earring, cheeks, lips, and craft tote bag
• 933, 856 – scissors and books
• N25 – chalkboard, craft tote bag, and wheels on wheeled craft tote
• 569 – pajamas
• 025, 026 – hair, crown, books, marker, ribbon
• N52, 565 – shadows, slippers, shelf, storage container, papers, jars and tables

Other Coloring Supplies:

• Versafine Vintage Sepia Ink (stamped image)
• Dr. Ph. Martin’s Bleed Proof White – jar highlights, polka dots, books and ribbons details, hair highlights, mug heart, and chalkboard lettering
• Winsor & Newton Gold Ink – crown details
• Tombow TwinTone Pens – gray and brown (for details)
• Black Micron pen

·       Brush: No. 4 round brush, No. 1 round brush

Paper & Dies:

• Canson XL Watercolor Paper
• Purple cardstock
• White embossed cardstock
• 5063 – Rectangle A2 Double Stitched Dies
• 5061 – Square Double Stitched Dies
• 5563 – Queen of Craft (Crafty die)

 

To finish the inside, I added a white panel and stamped the sentiment from the set in Versafine Onyx Black ink.

Thank you so much for joining me today! I had such a great time creating both of these friend cards. I hope they spark ideas for your own weekend crafting. Until next time, Happy Painting!

Love you bunches by Sharon Caudle

Hello AI Fans!

I hope you're having a wonderful start to the new week and that life is treating you well! Our current challenge right now is "Enjoy the Ride"! So you can enter by using anything at all that you can ride in or on. That includes cute wagons like this one! This is another page out of the Floral Shop book I made using the Holiday Lane collection from Art Impressions! I really do love this collection! I stamped the image from #6197 Flower Delivery onto a Copic friendly paper and then colored it with the markers. That watering can on the facing page is from #6177 Garden Friends in the Story Tiles Collection. The book itself along with the mats were die cut using #6114 Box Village Template Dies. You need this set to make the book as well as the box that holds the book. 

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

House of Blooms by Janet

Hi Ai Fans! It's Saturday, my favorite day of the week and today I'm celebrating the passing of spring into summer. I've created a super cute box which is designed to hold a journal. The box itself is made with the 6114 - Box Village Template Dies. This set gives you everything you need to make a charming house box that perfectly fits a journal with many embellishments. Both the box and the journal dies come in this set. 

Cleverly, another companion decorative set was recently released called 6159 - Floral Shop Die Set. This includes everything you need to decorate the original box with a floral theme! It's so fun that there's more than one way to decorate this charming box. I can't wait to see if we will get a fall set as well. A spooky haunted house would be so cool for this box design.

To start this project, I first used a brick stencil and a dark brown ink pad to create the brick background on a dark orange piece of cardstock. This became the front of my house. Then I used the die from the 6114 - Box Village Template Dies to cut it out. I cut a matching piece out of blue checked paper from 6206 - Floral Shop Cover PP. These two pieces glue together to form the box.

After cutting the first piece for the front, I went ahead and cut all the Floral Shop elements out of colored cardstocks. I then decorated the front of the box with all the house elements. It was a lot of fun to use different colors to create a colorful scene that is so cheerful and full of bright blooms.

Once decorated, I glued the two box pieces together to form the finished box. I would recommend you decorate your front piece first like I did because it makes it easier to decorate with all the flower shop embellishments. It really turned out adorable!

Thanks for stopping by today. Please visit the Ai store to pick up your own Floral Shop Dies. While you're there, you'll be sure to find your new favorite stamps, dies, papers, and accessories.

Happy Crafting!

Love Blooms Here by Reneé Matarese

 Hello Ai fans!

The current challenge is YELLOW and I couldn't be happier about that.

Yellow isn't my favorite color, however, I do feel it's the most CHEERFUL color there is.

Today I'm sharing a card with a cat sunning himself amongst some beautiful flowers.
This is a new release, 6195 – Love Blooms, and part of the Holiday Lane series.
These little scenes make putting a card together so easy. No figuring out placement or perspective. The work is done for you. You just fill in the blanks and personalize it.

Be sure to enter your project using yellow and you just might win a free stamp set. Click the photo below to be taken to the challenge.

Arteza Real Brush Pens:

Ice Blue

Bubble Gum Pink

Chocolate

Pea Green

Arctic Blue

Spearmint Blue

Sunset Yellow Honey

Pale Skin

Acid Yellow

The rarest of blessings by Sharon Caudle

 Hello AI Fans!

Happy Memorial Day! I would like to take this time to express my heartfelt gratitude to all the families that paid the ultimate price to protect our freedoms. May God grant you peace and comfort on this important day of honor. 

Today I am showing you another page of the Floral Shop Journal I created using #6196 Fresh Flowers, #6159 Floral Shop Die Set, and #6114 Box Village Template Dies. I stamped the beautiful image onto a Copic friendly cardstock and then used my Copic markers to color them.  

That cute watering can used on the sentiment panel was created using #5336 Garden Mini Dies. I just cut it out twice and pieced it together. So that's it for me today! Thanks so much for stopping by for a visit today and until next time - stay crafty!!

 

Love Blooms from Holiday Lane Floral Shop by Sharon Caudle

 Hello AI Fans!

Today I have a page in the book I created using the Holiday Lane Series Floral Shop! These stamps and dies are so beautiful and I just LOVE how they turned out, even if I don't watercolor! I stamped out the images and just used my Copic markers to create it. I hope you get inspired to give it a shot yourself if you don't watercolor either! Here is one of the pages in the book using #6195 Love Blooms along with #6114 Box Village Template Dies. The butterflies are from #5981 My Joy Set and the sentiment is from #5734 Friend Sentiment Set. 

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

Sweet Girls Playing by Dori Mendiola

Happy Thursday AI Friends!

This card came together perfectly for the Mix & Match challenge, which calls for using two or more stamp or die sets.  I ended up pulling from several favorites to build a three‑dimensional scene that feels fun and playful.  I created a 3D effect by layering several die‑cut fences together, scoring them to pop forward. 

 

I began by die cutting the base from heavy cardstock using the #6114 - Box Village Template die.  I embossed this panel using a brick embossing folder that I had in my stash.  I then die cut the roof and window pieces from pattern paper using the #6159 - Flower Shop die set.  I die cut several fence pieces from heavy cardstock and layered together to double up and also to extend the fence.  I wrapped it around the base card on one end and over the front to the other side.  This fence stands out about 1/2" from the base panel.  

Using the #5578 - Little Angels set, I stamped two of the angels with Memento black ink and colored with copic markers listed below.  I fussy cut them out, cutting off the wings.  I die cut some balloons using the #5722 = Birthday Journal set and tied some string to the ends.  I placed some acetate behind them and attached to the back of one of the angel's hands. 

  To make the card base, take a standard A2 card base and place the Box Village Template die shape slightly over the card fold so that it will cut all sides but the folded edge.  Adhere the base panel to the card base.  Decorate as desired.

I hope you enjoyed my card today and thank you for joining me.  I hope you play along with our blog challenge.  We love to see your creations!

Have a great day and keep creating!

Copics used:  E000, E01, E11    R20

YR00, YR02, YR04

V12, V15      Y15, Y17