Wild About You Challenge Week #2

 Hello Ai fans and welcome to week #2 of our

Wild About You challenge!

Our challenge is to use wild animals or animal prints on your projects. Our Design Team are

clearly animal lovers and they all went that route, but you are welcome to use animal prints as well.

They came up with some beautiful cards to help get you in the mood to play along. We love

seeing your artwork and can't wait to see what you create.

Last week our Featured Designer was Lynn and she created 3 fabulous bookmarks.

Dori spent some Koala-ty Time on her card.

Janet's fall card features a sweet little bird.

Janet

6017-Baby Panda Set
5064- Circle Double Stitched Dies

Gennette got a little foxy for her card.

I went deep under the sea for my card.

Sharon has 2 cute pelican cards.

Tasha has a fun Halloween card.

Lynn also created this adorable fall card.
Visit her post for the tutorial video.

Week after week our Design Team works hard to inspire you for our challenges

We hope that you love their work as much as we do and will play along with our challenges.

You might be the next lucky winner of a free stamp set.

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! 

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Halloween is HERE! by Reneé Matarese

Hello Ai fans!

I was so inspired by Watercolor Design Team member Karen Day's non-traditional

Halloween card last week that I had to try those colors myself. My card is very

different than hers but was definitely inspired by her. You can see her card HERE

or HERE or on her blog HERE. 

After all, Halloween is HERE! It's all over the web!

When I ordered my spiderweb dies I chose to leave them attached. This way I can

use them to create an easy background. If I only want a specific web, I just cut a

piece of paper big enough to cover that section and cut just that one web.

I think this little strand of spiders are some of the cutest spiders

Bonnie has done!

Trick or Treat Card by Tasha!

 Hi Art Impressions Fans!

Tasha here sharing a new Halloween card created with the fun new 5934 - Spooky Crew Set. This new set has four super cute characters and a cool haunted house stamp that is perfect for a not-so-spooky scene!

I started the card by stamping three characters, little pumpkin hats, and the haunted house image. I used the included dies to cut the images out and colored them all with Copic Markers. After coloring I attached the characters with liquid glue and added foam tape behind the mouse to raise him up. These friends look like they are totally ready for some Trick or Treating!

The background was created with two shades of purple Distress Oxide Ink and I splattered water on top; I love the water spots! For the ground I layered two pieces of die cut grass in a deep olive shade. I thought this shade of green looked nice with the purple sky and was dark enough to go with the Halloween scene.

The greeting "Trick or Treat!" was stamped with black ink on to white paper with a stenciled moon detail. I also attached the haunted house with liquid glue to the background and I tried to give the house a spooky look with cool gray colors. Also, I think the little pumpkin on the side is just too cute!

Lastly, I added silver glitter paper for sparkle, a spiderweb pattern paper, and a bright lime green paper to complete the card. This card was so much fun to make and I cannot wait to make more Halloween projects with the new set.

Have a wonderful day!

Trick or Treat Card by Tasha!

 Good morning and Happy Friday Ai Fans!

Tasha here sharing a Halloween card featuring the new 5778 - FB Frog Costume Stamp and 5769 - Halloween FB Fence Set. I love Halloween and this little trick or treater is just perfect for a not-so-spooky card or project!

The Trick or Treater was stamped with black ink and colored with Copic Markers before using the included die to cut the image out. I LOVE when stamp sets include the coordinating dies! I also used a white gel pen to add little white accents to the costume and pumpkin. I thought the white stitch lines made the costume look homemade. 

For the background, I used a night sky pattern paper from the new 5849 - Halloween S2 Paper Pack and glued on a little glitter moon and stars; I love glitter paper! I also attached the spooky fence from the 5769 - Halloween FB Fence Set to go with the Halloween scene. 

For the greeting, I embossed "Trick or Treat" from the 5603 - Halloween Sentiments Set. I think the Ai Sentiment stamp sets are awesome and are great to mix and match with all their cute characters!

Lastly, I attached lime green, purple, and black paper to bring in more color. I also added another piece of Ai Halloween paper to complete the design. 

I hope you enjoyed today's project and are inspired to create a fun Halloween card!

Frightfully Awesome Halloween Card by Tasha!

 Happy Friday Ai Fans!

Tasha here sharing a Halloween card inspired by the "Give Us a Fright!" Challenge. I LOVE Halloween, so I was super excited to make a not-so-scary Halloween card!

For this project I used the 5352 - Halloween Critter Set to make a little trick or treat scene. I stamped the images with black hybrid ink and colored them with Copic Markers before cutting the out with the includes coordinating This set has five characters (each one is so cute), but I decided to just use two on this design; the little pumpkin is my favorite!

Fr the background, I used Distress Oxide Ink to make a blue and purple sky. After ink blending, I stamped a bunch of pine trees (old wood stamp) and drew in little white stars with a white gel pen. I also attached a spooky fence to add to the Halloween vibe!

Lastly, I embossed "Have a Frightfully Awesome Halloween" on to black paper, attached ghost pattern paper, and added little paper stars to complete the look.

Thank you for checking out today's card and I hope you will join in the Ai "Give Us a Fright!" Challenge!

Spooky Halloween Journal by Reneé Matarese

Hello Ai fans!

If you've been following along over the last two months then you know that I've been working on a trio of Halloween Journals for my son, daughter and for Art Impressions.

This is my son's completed journal.  His birthday is October 2nd (this past Monday) so he has grown up LOVING Halloween!  Here's a page by page flip through.

I decided to decorate the inside of the plastic storage case.  This is the front side where I used the Block Letter Dies letter D, (for my son's name) the 23 from Journal letter dies (for the year) and I mounted them on Double Stitched and  Nested Ovals.  There will be links for everything at the bottom of my post.

On the inside of the case I decorated the other side of what you see on the front.  Then you also see the cover of the journal.

The cover is one of my favorite "pages" but I guess that makes sense since it's what you'll see most of the time.

Let's check out the inside now.  Here are pages 1 and 2.  Lots of little pockets to tuck stuff into.

The thin little tags pull out to spell out All Hallows Eve.

The back of the Fox tag has a little pocket that I showed on a previous post, that holds cash.

Pages 3 and 4 with a little Peek-a-boo window!

Pages 5, 6 and 7 which include a fun fold out page making a 3 part layout.

This spread also contains a hidden element.

Pages 8,9 and 10.  The pumpkin is a gift card holder.  This time I added some cash instead.  It works great for that too!

I apologize.  When I began my journal, the set with the mummy was still current.  It's since been retired but there are so many new sets with fun images that would work great here.

Too Cute To Spook Card By Tasha!

 Happy Friday Ai Friends!

Tasha here sharing a Halloween card featuring the 5506 - Peek-a-Boo Set. I LOVE creating Halloween cards and these sweet stamps are just too cute to spook!

The main characters and the happy pumpkin were all stamped with black ink and colored with Copic Markers. I used the included coordinating die set to cut them out and added little white accents with a gel pen. I love the pumpkin so much!

This stamp set includes several greetings, but I decided to use two from the 5037 - Halloween Magic Set. I embossed "Happy Halloween" and "Too Cute to Spook"on black paper. Ai has so many fun Halloween sets that you can mix and match to create your projects.

For the background, I added trees, a bright stenciled moon, and a pretty purple sky. I also added white dots to the sky to look like stars and adhered several glitter bat stickers to add extra sparkle. I also attached layers of green and purple card stock and a pretty silver glitter paper to complete the card. 

Thank you for checking out today's project and I hope you are inspired to create a fun Halloween card with the Peek-a-Book Set.

Have a wonderful day!