Art Impressions Blog: Feeling Blue Challenge

Showing posts with label Feeling Blue Challenge. Show all posts

Sunday, September 10, 2023

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.

Thursday, September 7, 2023

Feeling Blue Week #2 and the 2023 Simon Says Stamp Exclusive STAMPtember® set!

Hello everyone and welcome to Week 2 of our Feeling Blue challenge.

Did you see the big announcement earlier today?

It's here! The 2023 Simon Says Stamp exclusive set from Art Impressions!

SSE23A Apple Cider Set

Get yours NOW because these will sell out fast and once they're gone, they're gone forever.
Scroll back earlier today to see all of the fabulous Design Team inspiration. Both our Daily and our Watercolor Team participated so you'll see marker and WC cards and tags.

Last week, Nina was our Featured Artist for our Feeling Blue challenge. She came up with two beautiful blue cards!

To hear all about how Nina created her cards and what sets she used, visit our Week 1 Challenge post HERE.

Now for the rest of the DT. This week our WC Team played along with the challenge as well.

Tasha used: 5506 – Peek-a-Boo Set

Sharon used: 5521 WC Animal Planters, 5794 Whimsical Flowers, 5543 Journal Template die set and 5064 Circle Double Stitched Dies.

Lynn used: Whimsical Flowers Set (5794), Little Things Sentiment Set (5797) and
Journal Cover & Bookmark Dies (5723)

Mercy used 5353 – Large Snowflake Dies.

Reneé used: 5776 – FB Sitting Girl, 5770 – FB Farm Fence Die Set, 5792 – WC Mini Journal Containers and 5794 – Whimsical Flowers.

Janet used: 5783-Fall Leaf Frame Die Set; 5785-Gnomes Set; 5794-Whimsical Flowers Set; 5797-Little Things Sentiment Set; 5835-Mini PP

To hear what sets Diane, Karen and Tricia used and to find directions how to make these cards, visit our Watercolor Weekend post HERE.

Link up your blue project below for the chance to win a free stamp set of your choice.

Good luck! We can't wait to see what you make.

✻ Please make a new card or handmade crafty creation. You can make any 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!

✻Please include your first name and last initial on your submission.

✻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!

Join our challenge by linking up below.

Thursday, August 31, 2023

Feeling Blue Challenge Week #1

Welcome to week one of our newest challenge,

Feeling Blue.

Don't worry. We're not sad. We just want to see all of the blues for the next two weeks!

Maybe you prefer powder blue, maybe midnight blue...maybe all of them?

We just want you to use lots of blue on your project.
Blue paper, blue ink, blue paint, blue embellishments...

whatever you like!

Our Featured Designer for this challenge is Nina and she has two FABLULOUS cards for you.

Before we see what she's made, we need to announce the winners of our All Wrapped Up challenge.

For our Top Spot, we selected De F.

She made the cutest birthday card using 5455 – Birthday Buggy Set!

Please contact Leah at Feedback@artimpressions.com

to claim a free stamp set of your choice!

Also, be sure to grab our badge to display on your blog, Facebook or Instagram!

Now for our Lucky Random Winner.

#7 Kathy A.

Please contact Leah at Feedback@artimpressions.com

to claim a free stamp set of your choice!

Also, be sure to grab our badge to display on your blog, Facebook or Instagram!

Now for the MAIN FEAUTURE!

Nina often uses blue and does it very well, so we knew this challenge would be perfect for her!
She did NOT disappoint! Let's see what she made...

Hello Ai fans, Nina here with fun projects for our new challenge "Feeling Blue". It is such an inspiring challenge. I had so many sets that would fit perfectly for it. I choose two main sets to create two projects and then decorated them with more sets.

I started with this Miss You Card where I used the Boy Front and Back set from the new release and stamped the front image of the boy with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and my Mini Misti.

I colored the image with Copic Markers using these shades:

Yellows: Y06 Y08

Oranges: YR68 Y17

Jeans: B45 B21

Boots: E99 YR24

Bench: E27 E29

Red: R27 R29

Blue Green: BG13 BG15

To create the sky background I used a scrap of paper and blended Mermaid Lagoon and Speckled Egg Distress inks using my ink blender. For visual texture I then sprayed it with water to make some spots of ink to react with water.

I die cut the leaves frame from the Leaves Die set from white paper and glued it to my sky background.

I also die cut the leaves and mushrooms that came with the same set and colored then with same Copic shades I used for the boy image and glued them here and there around the frame.

Our boy needed a bench to sit on so I used the wooden plank die from the mini Fence Set to die cut it from white paper and I colored it with E27 and E29 Copics.

I attached the boy to the bench with foam tape to give dimension behind the boy and attached it to the sky background.

I then used enamel dots to decorate here and there. I then attached it the little card to a blue card base and added alphabet stickers to write "Miss You" t the bottom.

I also creatd another project for this fun challenge using Birdhouse Neighborhood set to create a new page for my Friendship Polaroids Art Journal.

I stamped the lovely image of the birdhouses and colored them with these Copic shades:

Yellows: Y06 Y08

Oranges: YR68 Y17

House 1: B45 B21

House 2: BG10 BG13 BG15

House 3: B06 B04

House 4: B04 B02

House 5: B28 B24

Brown: E99 YR24

Greens: YG17 YG23 YG68

Greys for the fence: C1 C3 C4

Sky Blue: B01

I cut all around my image and placed it on a bigger white scrap of paper to make it like a polaroid picture and attached it with foam tape on a background that I cut using the Double stitched round rectangle die set.

To decorate all around my polaroid photo I cut and colored flowers, tabs and banners using journal dies, Journal rectangle frames dies and journal oval frames from white, teal and blue colors.

With this cute bird waiting on the roof of his little birdhouse I thought of a fun sentiment that says: I'd climb rooftops for you :) I printed it from my label maker and attached it to a white paper which I colored its edges with E99 to match with the image and attached on the tag.

After Nina's inspiration, we hope you're feeling blue, in a GOOD way!
Link up your blue project below for the chance to win a free stamp set of your choice.