Hearts for you! by Sharon Caudle

 Hello AI Fans!

Have you finished all your Valentine cards yet? How about making some tags for a treat bag or two? That's what I've got to show you today. I love making cute tags and I had a lot of fun with this one. It could be for Valentines Day, could be for Easter, it could be for any occasion! I just love how they dress up a package!! I used a lot of sets for this one, and they are all linked below if you are interested in looking at them. I started out by stamping all the images onto a Copic friendly paper and coloring them with Copic markers that are listed below. 

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

Copic markers used:

R01, 02, 11, 20, 22, 24 and 27

YG13 and 17

Y00, 32, 35, and 38

E51, 53, and 55

R81, 83, and 85

B00

C5 and 6

 

Brand new Hot Air Balloon Set from Art Impressions

 Hello AI Fans!!

Have you seen the new Hot Air Balloons Set that was released last week? How fun!! If you've ever seen a hot air balloon race, you'll understand how wonderful it is to look up to a sky filled with these coloreful balloons! I've never been lucky enough to be able to ride in one, but I sure do enjoy them from the ground!! We have on in Reno every September, and the sight is truly wonderful! All images were stamped onto Cryogen white paper with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and colored with Copic markers. 

Thanks so much for stopping by for a visit today, and until next time - stay crafty!

Sitting Amongst the Flowers by Reneé Matarese

Are you feeling blue?

Everyone at Art Impressions is.

But...in a good way!

The latest challenge on the blog is Feeling Blue.

We've been challenged to use lots of blue on our projects. On my two cards I used blue paper, paper with blue flowers, I colored some of my flowers blue and I have a blue flower pot.

For my first card, I took the shutters from 5770 – FB Farm Fence Die Set, cut them in half and turned them sideways because they made me think of a flower box planter.  I then filled them with flowers from the new 5794 – Whimsical Flowers.

On my first card, the 5776 – FB Sitting Girl is sitting on the fence.  On my next card I perched her on the window sill. I know that may seem a little far fetched but we'll call it artistic license.  Actually, when I was in Austria this spring our hotel room had a ledge outside the window that would have been wide enough to sit on.  I wouldn't recommend it though since we were on the second floor...lol!  We used it as a fridge since we didn't have one in our room.

Inside the house there's a flower pot and watering can from 5792 – WC Mini Journal Containers.

The little tufts of grass are not from Art Impressions but I wanted to give a little shout out.  I recently took a trip to Buffalo and was lucky enough to visit Buffalo Stamps Store.  One of the things I purchased was Scene Building: Grass Tufts Dies.  This store is INCREDIBLE!!  There are so few Brick and Morter stores left and it was so fun to wander (in awe) at all of the product sitting right in front of you.  If you're ever remotely close to that area I highly recommend you pay them a visit.  They carry Art Impressions stamps.  I didn't buy any of those because I already owned them all but some were retired so that's a huge bonus for a fan!  I wasn't able to link below from the Buffalo Stamps Store but I did link from Picket Fences.

In case you were wondering, I did not fussy cut all of these little flowers.  I have a Brother Scan and Cut which is great for the WC sets that don't come with dies.

Where I live, it's Fall now.  The last of my flowers are waning.  We'll have a few mums and asters for a bit longer but I'll have to live vicariously through the flowers on my cards until next April.

Fall Glory by Janet

 I started my cardmaking with die cuts and just a few sentiment stamps so I was thrilled to make this card using only cardstock and dies. This features Ai's 5783 Fall Leaf Frame Die set. It includes a plate that cuts out a beautiful decorative frame and also small fall ephemera dies you can use to enhance it. I thought it would be fun to create a dimensional frame from the dies included in the set. Some of the elements are glued down and others are raised up with foam tape. 

I die cut the frame from white glimmer cardstock and placed a light yellow cardstock underneath. Then I cut and layered the fall ephemera pieces included in the die set. With many leaf styles, mushrooms and even acorns, the layering was super easy. I die cut the word Fall from the new 5770 FB Farm Fence Die Set. It fit absolutely perfectly in the middle of the frame. To finish it, I cut a 4" x 5 1/4" piece from copper metallic cardstock and embossed it before layering all the pieces on a dark chocolate A2 card base.

I really enjoyed breaking out some fall colors with these two wonderful new dies from Art Impression. Thanks for joining me. I hope you stop by the store soon to check out all the newest releases at the Art Impression store.

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