Girlfriends make the best Accessories! by Sharon Caudle

Hello AI Fans!

For my card today, I wanted to feature one of the amazing sets from the Art Impressions Girlfriends Line of stamps. This is #4129 Uptown Girls Set! LOVE them all!! They were so much fun to color and they look like they are having such fun together!! Don't ya think??  I stamped them on some Cryogen white paper and colored them with Copic markers. 

Girlfriends do indeed make the best accessories!  Thanks so much for stopping in for a visit today and hope you're enjoying your weekend! Until next time - stay crafty!!

Copics used: E000, E00, E11, E17, E33, E97, E99
R20, R35, R37, R39
RV32, RV34
BV000, BV11, BV13, BV17
V05, V12, V15, V17
Y15, Y17
T1, T2, T3, T4, T5, T6
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Challenge 166: Anything Goes!

Hello, Ai Fans!

Are you ready for a new challenge? It's one where "anything goes!" The sky is the limit!

Before we get started on this new challenge, lets wrap up the last one! Lets take a look at the winners from last week's "Create a Card Set" challenge!

Our Top Spot is awarded to...

Karen Amidon!

Congrats, Karen! We adore how you unified three different stamps into this beautiful card set! From sassy Celeste to girlfriend Wine Tasters to our Tuscan Trifold. Great job! Email annelise@artimpressions with your address to claim your prize pack!

Honorable mentions are...

Angela!

Elina!

Congrats to both of you! Angela, we love how His & Hers Camper are all ready for summer! And Elina, now you have us looking forward to fall with In The Tub, Under My Umbrella, Uptown Girls and Girlfriends Blend! Be sure to email annelise@artimpressions with you address and a set of your choice!

For our next challenge, we're want to see how creative you can get with "anything goes!" That means you can choose anything for your card. We want to see loads of creativity! Our card designer, Kerry, is here to show you what she's come up with.

Hello Ai friends!  Kerry here, since this challenge is Everything goes!

I thought it would be cool to try something a little different.  I always love those four colors pop arts.  So, I wanted to try with a few of my Ai stamps 

(Love Spinner, Goldie Golfer, & AC Moore still have teeth).

Here is how I create my Ai pop art card.  I used watercolor paper and cut them for four squares, their measurements are 2.5 inches by 2.5 inches.  I used distress stains to add the color.

(No distress stains?  no fear, you can also use the ink pads, too.  Just flip the ink pad upside down and slide it across the paper, you can create the same effects too.)

Then I stamped each image with Versamark stamp pad and heat set it with black embossing powder for a little bit of dimension.

I had so much fun making the first one and I can help it to make a few.  :)

Pop Art 1 with Love Spinner set

Pop Art 2 with AC Moore you still have teeth

Pop Art 3 with Goldie Golfer 

Hope you like them and can't wait to see your creations!

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Thanks, Kerry! Loving the pop-art aspect of your cards! Okay fans, now it's up to you! We want to see what you can make! Join the fun and add a photo to our InLinkz below!

Here are the challenge rules …

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

✻ Limit two submissions per person. You will receive extra votes if you use Art Impressions stamps!

✻ 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 by clicking and commenting your fellow crafters.

✻ Make sure to get your link up by Wednesday, August 26 at 5:00 p.m. PST to enter your creations.

✻ Good luck and happy stamping!

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The Best Accessories! by Dana Warren

Hello Ai fans!!! Dana here!! 

Have you done your taxes?!?! If not better get on that!!! :D

Today i'm sharing a card that was started several weeks ago, but was just finished this past weekend! 

My mom needed a card for a friend, there was a time crunch so i had to make a quick one. Well i had two of these ladies colored  from the Uptown Girls Set (quick coloring with one color!) when my mom checked on my progress. That's when she mentioned that her group of girl friends was only three not four.... so i had to start over and go in another direction with only three of these ladies. Meanwhile this panel was hanging around waiting to be finished!!

I finished coloring up these fashionista's with my Copic markers, reapplying the same color for the darker areas. The whole panel was cut with a dotted rectangle die.  Next i stamped the 'girlfriends are the best accessories' sentiment above the ladies.

I matted the panel on some dark pink card stock. Last i added some black enamel dots because i thought the card needed a little something more!

Copic colors: Hair - E35, E57,E44. Red - R30, R22, R24. Purple - BV11, BV000, V01. Blue - B02, B04. Green - G40, G43. For the glasses i used a black Distress Marker.

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I hope everyone one has a great day! Happy Stamping!!

At the Movies by Sharon Caudle

Hello AI Fans!!

Hope you're having a wonderful start to your weekend! I wanted to show you a fun card I made featuring the awesome At the Movies Stamp Set (sku# 4237) ! This was truly a fun card to make! I got this awesome idea from my amazingly talented DT sister, Renee! Once I saw her card, I knew I had to have a go at making one. You can see Renee's original card HERE. Thanks so much for the inspiration, Renee!!  For the film strip, I used Uptown Girls Set (sku# 4129)

Now I'm terribly sorry, but I have a really long list of copic markers....

First up:  the movie watchers:

Skin: E04, 11, 00, 000, R20  lips: R27

3d glasses: C1, C3, C5, B02, R24, R27

Popcorn boxes: R24, R27

Long hair: E29, E25, E21  Long hair jeans: B91, B93, B95

Popcorn: YR21, E50, touch of E35

Left girlfriend hair: E17, E99, E97

blonde hair: Y23, Y21, E33

Long hair shirt: E35, YR23, YR21

seats: N3, N5, N7

reds: R22, 24, 27, 29

purple hat:  V12, V15

blonde shirt:  B91, B93

shoes: E21, E23

Straw: E41

Candy: E33, R20, R22, B01, B02, YR21

Film strip:

From left to right:

1)  E04, E11, E00, E000, R20

R22, R24, R27, R29

C1, C3, C5

E97, E99, E17 

2)  E11, E00, E000, R20

glasses: B41

B01, B02

hair: E31, Y35, Y32

earrings: Y38 

3)  E04, E11, E00, E000, Rf20

BG13, BG18

T1, T2, Blender

C1, C3

hair: E27, E23, E21 

4)  E04, E11, E00, E000, R20

R81, R83, R85

B41

C1, C3, C5

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Thanks so much for stopping by to visit today and hope you have some time this weekend to get crafty!

Uptown Girlfriends

Hello Ai friends and happy Friday!

I have been thinking of inking up this wonderful Ai Uptown Girlfriends stamp Sku# 4129, for some time now, and I finally got my chance! It's quite a large stamp and so fun to color with copic markers. I even did a little paper piecing to the lady on the far left, her dress, along with her handbag. I used a beautiful little 6" x 6" designer paper pad from Carta Bella (Traditions). Pretty designs and colors.

The base card size is 6" x 5-1/2". I stitched around the edges with my sewing machine and added some matching blue ribbon behind the stamped image. I die cut a pretty little flourish die from My Favorite Things and added it to the bottom of my card. I didn't want to cover up the pretty designer paper too much.

For the inside I stamped one of my favorite girlfriend sentiments, "Thick and Thin" Sku# F4043. I added a pretty strip of matching designer paper, and distressed the edges with Tea Dye distress ink.

I hope you enjoyed my little paper creation. Thanks for stopping by the Ai blog today.

Happy stamping and have a great weekend!

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