Say Cheese by Sharon Caudle

 Hello AI Fans!

I sure hope you enjoyed your weekend and that the weather is cooperating with you wherever you are! I had to break down this weekend and turn on the air conditioning for a bit! My favorite times are when it's in the 70's and there's a nice breeze and I can open up the windows and doors! 

My card for today features another one of the fabulous sets from the Girlfriends line! This is #4130 Picture Perfect Set. I started by stamping the image onto a Copic friendly paper and then coloring it with Copic markers. I cut them out using 5725 Nested Square Dies and then backed it with 6047 Scalloped Square Dies. I used a "say cheese" die from my stash and cut it out four times to make home made chipboard sentiment. I love doing that! It creates wonderful dimension on  your card! 

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

 

Group Selfie by Dori Mendiola

 Happy Thursday AI Friends!

Doesn't this image just scream girlfriend fun?  Haven't we all tried reaching our arm out as far as possible to get the perfect group selfie only to see that half of our face is missing?  LOL!  

I used the #4130 Picture Perfect stamp set for a friend's birthday card.  I know she'll get a kick out of it cuz it will bring back fun times.

I stamped the image onto copic friendly paper with Memento black ink and colored with my copic markers, listed below.   I used the middle flag die from the #5133 Flag Double Stitched die set to cut the three colorful flags peering out the side of the image.  I mounted the image on a piece of black cardstock and backed with a larger white piece to imitate a polaroid picture.  I die cut the word "Smile" and the banner die from dies I had in my stash.

That's it for me today.  Hope you enjoyed my card and thanks for joining me.

Have a great day and keep creating!

Copics used:  E000, E00, E01, E11

E30, E31, E33, E35, E50, E51, E53

N0, N1, N2, N4

B000, B41, B45

Y13, Y15, Y17, R20, R22

V12, V15

YR12, YR14, YR16, YR21, YR24

Say Cheesecake!! by Sharon Caudle

Hello AI Fans!

Today I've got one of my favorite Girlfriend stamps to show you!  It's the Picture Perfect Set #4130.  I really love the sentiments that come with this set! I stamped it onto Cryogen White paper and colored them up with Copic markers which are listed below.  I have had this stamp set for forever and NEVER grow tired of it!! 

Thanks so much for stopping by for a visit today and hope you have an amazing weekend! Until next time - stay crafty!!

Copics used:

E000, E00, E07, E09, E11, E17, E21, E23, E33, E53, E57, E59, E71, E74, E77, E97, E99

YR12, YR14, YR16

G40, G43, G46

YG11

BG72, BG75

R20, R35

C4, C5, C6, C7

Y32, Y35, Y38

We're still hot!!

Hello AI Fans!!

Have you been watching Bonnie's fabulous watercoloring videos that are posted on the blog every Wednesday? I have been eating them up like chocolate!! So today I'm going to bravely show you a card I watercolored using one of the Girlfriends sets Picture Perfect #U4134, and I wanted it to stay monotone. So I only used three colors. Please go easy on me!! :)  

colors used: skin #30 Rosewood, lips and cheeks ##28 English Red, Clothing and hair #45 Sepia

That's it for me today! Have you checked out the new AI website yet??!!!! It's AMAZING!!!! They have worked really hard to get it up and running and it looks awesome! Can't wait to hear what you think!! Thanks so much for stopping by for a visit today and hope you have some time this weekend to get crafty!!

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NEW VIDEO! Watercolor Wednesday Series - Easy Skin Tones & Coloring

Hello Ai Fans!

We're back with a new Watercolor Wednesday video! Today's video is all about easy coloring tips for your favorite people stamps! Our owner and designer, Bonnie Krebs, will take you step-by-step through coloring skin tones, clothes and patterns to add dimension, all in less than 10 minutes! You'll see how easy it is to apply color and depth with just 5 watercolor pens, a brush and water!

We hope you enjoy this video! Happy Watercolor Wednesday!

Watercolor Tablet	Watercolor Brush NO. 4	Watercolor Palette	Acrylic Blocks	Picture Perfect	StazOn Black Ink
English Red	Rosewood	SEPIA	African Violet	Tropical

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Say... Cheesecake! by Kerry

Hello Ai friends and happy Monday!

The beautiful weather is finally here in New England, time for some fun and have an awesome time with your best buds!  This Picture Perfect ladies are doing just that.  Don't you just love these girlfriends?  They totally remind me of my crafty friends and I.   Four of us get together at least once a month, we go shopping, laugh, and craft the day away.  

I had a blast coloring the girlfriends.  I had so much fun, I even colored the background with different shade of blue.  I used copics BG52, BG13, BG11, BG10, BG000, BG0000. 

I also added a picture frame, a camera brad, washi tape, and a fun sentiment called Say Cheese!

Well, that's from me today, thanks so much for stopping by. 

Until next time, Say...  Cheescake!  LOL!

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A Fun Technique....

Hello Ai Fans!!

Its me Piali here!! Hope all enjoyed the Ai-OWH blohop!

Sometimes I see comments like" I Wish could color the image well" or " I'm not a one who enjoys coloring" or " wow! Coloring is amazing but Its not my thing".

I just wanted to tell you all...these Awesome Ai stamps are just not ONLY great for coloring, its also perfect for other fun techniques...

For example...paper piecing, embossing and more..

Today I have a fun technique to share with you all.

I don't have special name for it.

Its super simple to do....just ink up your Ai stamps with few different colored inks and stamp it!!

A fresh new look for your project with the hassles of coloring and on the top its not boring Black & White.

Like this card...the focal image is very colorful yet super easy to do.

You can use stamp markers for this technique too.

Hope you liked it!

If you try this technique make sure to share with us ....just leave a comment with link to your project, I would   love to see it !

Don't forget to play along with our current Ai Challenge.... the theme is "Masculine Cards".

Thanks for stopping by..

Have a great weekend!!