Challenge 88 - Photo Cards

Hello Ai Fans!

Thank you for joining us for another weekly challenge! As Christmas is only 46 days away, the biggest card season of the year is upon us! It's the time of year to send beautiful photos to all your friends and family!

Whatever the occasion may be, photos add interest, whether as focal points or backdrops. Check out these awesome cards from our design team!

Kerry

Reneé

Tammie

Trena

Crystal
Thank you design team! Always such fun inspiration!
The winner of last week's "On the Fringe" challenge is ...
RHONDA

with her Gossip Club card! Look at those adorable fringe flowers! Congratulations Rhonda! Email me at kate@artimpressions.com to receive your $10 coupon code!

Here are the guidelines for our weekly challenges:

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

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

3. Include a link back to the Ai Blog or grab our button on the top left of our sidebar!

4. Share the Ai love by clicking and commenting your fellow crafters.

5. Make sure to get your link up by Wednesday at 6 p.m. PST to enter your creations.

Good luck and happy stamping!

Challenge 85 - Cash Keepers

Hello Ai Fans!

Welcome to a new and wonderful challenge at Ai! We hope you had another great week! This time around, we want your card to include some ...

CASH!

Moolah

Dough

Clams

Paper

The GREEN stuff!

Who couldn't use a couple extra bucks these days? It is nice to give a friend the option of picking exactly what they want! Also, cash cards are GREAT for the last minute gift. Always nice to have a couple extra cards for the, "Oh no, I forgot!" moments. 

We want to see your creations with a couple bills on it. You can fold them into fancy shapes or just create a slot to slide the goods in. However you want to incorporate those bills is fine with us! Check out our always creative DT designs ...

Tammie

Trena

 Crystal

 Kerry

Reneé

Wow! So fun! These ALL can be used as gift card keepers as well! Thank you FABULOUS Ai DT :)

The winner of last week's "Child's Birthday" challenge is ...

Saumya Mohanty

Congratulations! Thanks for submitting this adorable card! Contact me at kate@artimpressions.com to receive your $10 coupon code to artimpressions.com!

Here are the guidelines for our weekly challenges:

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

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

3. Include a link back to the Ai Blog or grab our button on the top left of our sidebar!

4. Share the Ai love by clicking and commenting your fellow crafters.

5. Make sure to get your link up by Wednesday at 6 p.m. PST to enter your creations.

Good luck and happy stamping!

Welcome Baby Gift Card

Hi, it's Maria. 

Today I wanted to showcase one of the AI Card Keeper's called Elephant Keeper.I don't know about you, but I love to have cards like this on hand when I have to get a Gift Card at the last minute. It somehow makes it look like you put more thought into the gift if you have a special card to put it in. 

and just by changing the color of the paper, you can change the look of the card!

You can see and purchase all the AI Card Keepers HERE.

Have a great weekend!

The English Countryside

Hi Everyone
Well, it seems that I just posted and now it's Wednesday again. Where does the time go?? I decided to take a break from making holiday cards.So I got out my English Countryside stamps to do a little watercoloring.The main stamp I used is in set 3498. Don't know about you, but I think the watercolor series of stamps are really great!! I think this set is one of my favorites. I have series 8 that is sitting waiting for me to get started so I will probably work that up soon. In the meantime here is the card from series 6.

Supplies I used:

Set 3498

Bare Branch D3489

Marvy Markers:43, 55, 5, 45, 49, 79, 15, 9, 60, 28

Marvy ink pads: 18

Card stock/paper: Blue shimmer CS, Silver CS, Dark Blue CS, Lite Blue CS Watercolor paper

Watercolor brush

Tomorrow is the day the new weekly challenge will be posted, so don't forget to stop back for the new theme.

Mom to be - Gift card holder

I made this gift card holder with the new Elephant Card Keeper stamp set from Art Impressions. The Card Keeper stamp sets are brand new and only available at stamp stores. So head on over to your local store and check out all 9 card keeper stamp sets. They are adorable! (These will be added to the Art Impressions on line store, but are not available for purchase on line at this time.)

I thought this would be great to use for baby showers. (The maternity top card shape was cut using a svg pattern from svgcuts.com and my Cricut machine.) The gift card fits into the space where the purple paper is on my sample.

Here's a list of the supplies I used:
Art Impressions CKSET4073 Elephant Keeper
Memento Tuxedo Black Ink
Copic Markers: C1, C3, R81, R83
Stamp Positioner
Cricut or other electronic cutting machine
Lil Peeps II svg cutting pattern (Mom to be top) from Svgcuts.com
Best Occasions Scrap Pack Paper from Walmart
Ribbon and lace trim
Glue dots and adhesive