Happy Spring Wheels by Bri Firth

Hello Ai Fans - Bri here! Today, I am sharing an interactive card design featuring the new Happy Spring Set. This Easter card is perfect for Ai's current challenge "Here Comes Peter Cottontail," as it features a cuddly rabbit in his carrot car. Keep reading below for details on how I made this creation.

When I saw the adorable Happy Spring Set, I knew I had to make a slider card! I used a Pull and Slide die set to build the interactive mechanism. The image is colored with Copic markers.

I used the WC Fence die and a grassy border die to construct the background meadow. I used Distress inks to shade the sky and grass panels. To finish the card, I used Vintage Photo Distress ink to distress the edges of the card layers to give it an earthy feel. 

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Ai Products Used
5504 – Happy Spring Set

4967 – WC Fence Dies

Birthday Pheasant by Bri Firth

Hello Ai Fans - Bri Firth here! Today, I am sharing an elegant card design featuring the Miss Set by Art Impressions. The Miss Set is part of Ai's Hats Off collection. Check out the all of the 2021 releases here. This card is featured on my personal blog today, check it out here! 

I decided for this wacky birthday card to pair the adorable woman with the pheasant hat and the coordinating sentiment. I colored the woman and her hat with my Copic markers. I used the Foliage Leaves stencil to coordinate with the bird theme and to make a feather-like background on the card front and stitched oval. I used Fired Brick and Peacock Feathers Distress Oxide inks to ink blend with the stencil. I used Vintage Photo Distress ink to stain the edges of the edge cuts. To finish the card I added coordinating enamel dots.

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Ai Products Used:

Miss Set

Oval Double Stitched Dies

Rectangle Double Stitched Dies

Beach Boardwalk Gulls by Bri Firth

Hello Ai Fans - Bri here! Today, I am sharing another set of cards perfect for the Barn Dance Challenge! For more details on this challenge, check out the details here. These projects feature the brand new Gull-Friends Set and a rustic boardwalk theme. These cards are also featured on my personal blog, check it out here! 

All of my projects feature the same scrapbook paper and background design theme. To create the textured background I used kraft cardstock, Vintage Photo distress ink, and the starfish stamp.

I used my Copic alcohol markers to color the seagulls. For my first project I used a tropical color theme (pink, bright green, blue, and yellow), and the other two projects I used more of a boardwalk color theme (red, aqua, and yellow). 

For my last project, I created a mini slimline card featuring the gang of seagulls. I just love how the individual personalities of these "beach chickens" shine through with this image.

Check back next week for more Ai inspiration made by me!

Ai Products Used:

Gull-Friends Set

Rectangle Double Stitched Dies

Rounded Rectangle Double Stitched Dies

Square Double Stitched Dies

Flag Double Stitched Dies

Tag Stitched Dies

Birthday Party Animals by Bri Firth

Hello Ai Fans - Bri here! This week I am featuring another new stamp set for 2021, the Baby Critters stamp set. This set is jam packed with adorable party animals and coordinating sentiments! This card is also featured on my personal blog, check it out here! 

I created two cards withi very similar birthday designs. I used Gina K. Designs Card Stock to create the solid color mats.  I used patterned paper to create the top panel of the card front with the multicolor birthday themed items (white paper). For the bottom panel, I used two cake images from the Birthday Cake stamp set and Festive Berries Distress ink to create a monotone background on pink cardstock.  I used the Rectangle Double Stitched Dies to die cut the rectangle stitched design. I also used the Circle Double Stitches Dies to die cute the bright blue matted circle and attached it behind the pink decorated circle paper. I used festive Berries Distress ink to distress the edge of the pink circle.

I used my Copic markers to color the animals. The colors I used are listed at the end of this blog post. To finish the cards I used foam tape to attach the sentiments and the animals onto the card fronts. I used white glitter enamel dots to add the finishing embellishment. 

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Ai Products

Baby Critters Stamp Set

Birthday Cake Stamp Set

Rectangle Double Stitched Dies

Circle Double Stitched Dies

Copic Markers Used

W: W00, W1, W3,W5

B: BG000, BG01, BG02

YG: YG000, YG11, YG13, YG17

RV: RV11, RV13, RV14, RV17

E: E41, E42, E43, E44, E47

YR: YR000, YR00, YR02

R: R32, R35, R37, R39

Y: 26

Embossed Pointsetta Christmas Cards | By Jessica Shier

 Hey Ai fans!

Happy Friday! We are getting close to Christmas Day and I'm always in need of some quick and easy cards to give out. I love the detail in the Poinsettia set, so I let it do all the work and heat embossed over some colorful ink blending. You can find this set from Art Impressions exclusively on the Scrapbook.com website. 

For the ink blending of the red and green cards I used the following Distresss Inks.

Red: Aged Mahogany, Fired Brick, Barn Door

Green: Forest Moss, Mowed Lawn, Twisted Citron

I also used Black Soot to really darken those edges. All ink blending is done on Bristol Smooth cardstock.

For the blue and Teal cards I used the following Distress inks.

Blue: Blueprint Sketch, Salty Ocean, Weathered Wood

Teal: Pine Needles, Evergreen Bough, Tumbled Glass

A fine embossing powder is ideal to really showoff all the beautiful detail of the Poinsettia set. I also used Versafine Clair Nocturne ink to stamp the sentiments and added some bling with coordinating sequin colors.

Quivery Mini Shaker Card by Jil Lebel

 

Hello Ai fans!

I used the Quivery Mini Shaker stamp set. It comes with the stamps and dies to make a fun interactive card where the pig and chicken images are on mini action wobbles.  The shake and look scared when the card is moved.

I started by stamping the images onto Spectrum Noir Ultra Smooth card stock with Gina K Black Amalgam ink and colored them with Copic markers.  The colors I used will be listed at the end of this post.  I then cut out the pig and chicken images with the matching dies that come in the set.  The entire trio was stamped onto a full piece of paper.

CI created a mask to cover the entire stamped image so I could ink blend around it.  I used the mini ink dabbers from Ranger along with Distress ink.  The ground is Lucky Clover.  The sky is Peacock Feathers, Blueprint Sketch and Black Soot.  I splattered the entire background with Perfect Pearl color Perfect Pearls mixed with water.  When it was dry, I attached the pig and chicken over the main image with mini action wobbles. I added a few bat die cuts from the stamp set.  The large bat is from the Halloween Mini Dies.

Copic Colors Used:

Elephant - C5, C3, C1

Pig - E04, E11, R11

Chicken - C3, C1, C0, Y17, YR02

Purple - V04, V06, V09

Green - YG01, YG61, YG63

Orange - Y17, YR02, YR07

Pink - RV00, V04

Thanks for stopping by and Have a Great Day!

Slim Line Flip Card & Mini Dies | By Jessica Shier

 

Hello Ai fans!

Another Friday has started! I'm sharing a card that is a little different, a slimline flip card! This is also using a couple of the new Mini Dies sets. The cute Cat and Halloween sets, and also the Mice Flip card for all the stamping.

I'll start off with the dimensions.

The card is a slimline card 8.5in by 3.5in

After cutting a piece of Neenah Solar White 110lb card stock down to 8.5in x 5in, I made a pencil mark using a T-square and drew a light line where the 2.5in mark is going down the whole length 8.5in card stock.. This is where I lined up the score edges of the Flip Card die. The fun things is, you can position the Flip Card die on the left side like I have done or on the right side. You could also position it in the middle. The top rectangle part of the die is the flip. This will die cut though the card stock.

One you have erased the pencil marks, line up the score edges and score down to create your fold. Make sure to skip the die cut area and only score to the left or right of the die cut score marks.

I created a border with masking tape on the slim line card base and ink blended a Distress Ink sky and ground. The colors I used are listed below in the product list. The moon is a die cut circle. I used the largest Circle Double Stitch die to die cut a piece of Ranger Water color card stock. The colors of Distress Ink I used on the moon are Hickory Smoke, Mustard Seed, squeezed lemonade and Scattered Straw. 

I stamped the sentiments from Pumpkin Mice Flip stamp set, each on 1 half of the moon and stamped the Mice (both sides) with Gina K. Amalgam Ink. Copic Colors listed below. After coloring I die cut all the extras from the WC fence dies and the Cat and Halloween Mini Die sets.

I adhered the moons in place for the front and inside. Then added the mice, fence, cats and bats to create a scene. I tried to mimic what the back of the mice would look like on the other side of the fence for the inside. Don't mind my mistake on the fence, I was so excited on how it was coming together I didn't notice until it was all adhered together. 

Copic Markers Used:

Orange Pumpkin - R89, R37, R05, Y38, Y18

Teal Pumpkin - BG09, BG78, BG75, BG15, BG13, BG11

Yellow Pumpkin - E35, E34, YR27, Y26, Y23, Y21

Pink Pumpkin - RV89, R37, RV09, RV55, RV52

Mice - E57, W4, W1, C1

Witch Hats - V06, BV11, Y18

Thank you so much for joining me today. Happy Stamping!

Cruisin By to Say Hi | By Jessica Shier

Hello Ai Fans!

It's Jessica. This week I'm dreaming of spring! This cute little bicycle reminds me of warmer weather and I thought it would be fun to create a one layer scene using it.  

I'm using the Art impressions stamp sets Enjoy the Ride stamp set and the WC Mountain set. To start I stamped the bicycle on to a piece of Neenah Solar White 80lb cardstock. I used a Rectangle Double Stitch die  and a pencil to trace a rectangle frame for a window. Then used post it notes to easily mask off the frame and stamp the two mountains from the WC Mountain set. First stamping the pair of mountains on the right then masking with another post it note and stamping the other two mountains. I used Copic frindly ink for all my black ink stamping. 

I started coloring with Copic markers. I'll have the list below of all the colors I used. I wanted a teal, gray, brown, and coral color combination for this card, with lots of white space. For the frame, I erased the pencil lines until they were almost to light to see and started sketching the frame in with a E35 Copic Marker. I started with the light tone so that I cold touch up any mistakes or unevenness with the the darkest tone marker. This took a bit of time but was easy enough. I did it this way because I didn't want to fussy cut the bicycle. 😊

For the Background I used a older brick stencil and Fired Brick distress ink. I didn't mask off anything at this point. Instead I used one of the smaller makeup blending brushes and took my time blending the ink around the frame and bicycle. Just be careful around your coloring, but I think this makes for a really cool fade look. 

Then I added in the ground layer and shadows around and underneath the bicycle. Before I stamped the sentiment I did run this panel through my die cutting machine with the largest Rounded Rectangle double stitch die. 

I stamped the sentiment with a pigment black ink and added a layer of gray cardstock to a A2 card base. Then popped up the colored panel with foam dimensional tape before layering that over the top. 

Thank you so for joining me today! Happy Stamping.

Blessed & Grateful by Niccole

Hello Ai fans!!

I am stopping by today to share a card I made using the Birdhouse Neighborhood, the WC Sentiment Set 2, and the Circle Double Stitch Dies. 

I started by stamping my Birdhouse Neighborhood stamp set on the middle of my kraft card base. I colored my image with my Polychromos colored pencils. I moved on to my watercolor piece. I started by blending my ink onto the watercolor paper.  I only used two colors and blended them to make the middle color. I cut a circle with my Circle Double Stitched Dies and glued it so it was centered onto my card base with my Birdhouse Neighborhood image showing.    

 I added Wink of Stella to the whole colored area.  I wanted to make the image pop and I figured what better way than to add Wink of Stella to it ... I mean who doesn't love a little sparkle?

As you can see in the picture above I stamped my Blessed & Grateful sentiment to my one inch banner strip I made using the WC Sentiment Set 2 . I glued down the left side of my sentiment strip and I raised the banner side up with one layer of foam tape.  I absolutely love when I can do this to an image or sentiment.  It give so much dept to the card and to my sentiment strip with hardly any effort. What do you think?  Like it? 

I finished my card off with some Crystal Nuvo Drops.  This has been my go-to embellishment lately.   I added the same three colors as my card front, I just varied the color so red wasnt on red and so forth.

Here is one more look at the full card.  I love this card can be almost anything from a miss you card, a thank you card, a friendship card, or even a new home card. 

Thank you so much for spending part of your Wednesday with me.  Please come back again soon and see what we are up to here at Art Impressions.

Faber Castell Polychromos used:

All of these are the 9201 series
Red - 121, 217
Orange - 109, 111, 115
Yellow - 107, 184
Green - 165, 168, 171, 
Blue - 140
Gray - 233, 274
Brown - 176, 177, 180, 283

Until next time ... Hugs & inky fingers!

Hope Your Day is PAND-tastic! By Crystal

Hi Ai fans! 

I loved playing with the Panda-tastic set so much last week I'm back with another card using the same set. 

I think this set of three panda bears are so cute on their own that they make making a card really fast. 

I stamped the three pandas in the center of a Double stitched rectangle then I masked them off with a full stick post-it note. I used a polka dot stencil and Tim Holtz Distress ink for the background. I blended some of the colors to get more then four different color polka dots on my background.

I used a polka dot embossing folder to add a little bit of dimension to the cardstock that I matted my panda bears on. I adhered my whole panel to a 5 1/2" x 4 1/2" card base. 

Spectrum Noir Markers:

Blender, CC1, IG9, IG6, IG4 , PP1, DR3

Happy Stamping! 

Ride the Wave | By Jessica Shier

Hello Ai Fans!

This week I'm playing with the NEW Loads of Fun set. I had to make this granny live her dream of surfing! There is a lot of crazy texture on this card and I'm loving the mix so much.

I first stamped and fussy cut the lady, trimming of her ironing board legs to make it a surf board. I used a lot of gray tones on her since she is facing away from the sun. Which, I think, threw my white balance on my camera off, into the cool tones. lol! One of my favorite ways to die cut waves is using a cloud border die but using the negative side, the side with the more pointy ridges. I used a cloud border die on some Tonic Luxury Embossed paper to get that effect.

The ink blending is made using masking tape to block off the middle section of a piece of Neenah solar white 110lb cardstock. I used my blending brushes for this, and also a wave stencil for the bottom area. This was trimmed down with a rectangle stitch die. For the slate cardstock, I used a larger rectangle stitch die to die cut first, then layered some Deco Foil Mettalix gel over it using the same wave stencil.

The sentiment is stamped and heat embossed using white embossing powder to the upper portion of the ink blending cardstock. Can you believe that I don't have a ampersand in any of my die sets! I was suprised!! Luckily, I have hung on to some Thickers, from years ago, and had a perfect one to use, made from white foam. 

Copic Markers Used:
W6, W3, W1, W0
E81, E34, E31
BV11, BV04, BV02, BV01, BV00
Y38, R83

Alright guys, that is it from me! Thank you for joining me today. Happy Stamping!