New 2021 Holiday Releases + New Challenge "Love is in the Air"

Hello, Ai Fans!

You've been patiently waiting for our 2021 release, and our first release is ready!

For our 2021 Holiday Release, we have an Easter set and a Celebration set!

Celebrate with our Baby Critters Set!! This clear stamp & dies set includes 4 baby critters, a wagon full of gifts, and the sentiments "Happy Bird-Day", "Big Birthday Wishes", "age is irrelephant", "You rule", "Party Animal", "I'm wild about you", "Happy Birthday", "Hippo-Party-mus", "This is huge", and "I love you a ton!".The five critters are a bird, elephant, lion, giraffe and hippo. 

Hats off to this new Easter Chicks Set! This clear stamp & dies set includes 3 darling baby chicks, 3 interchangeable hats, and the sentiments "Happy Easter!", "To some of my favorite peeps!", "Easter Bonnet",  and "Easter Wishes". This set also includes small images of easter eggs, flowers, and a bow that can be used on any of these itty bitty chickens for a fun and festive set!

You can shop these new sets here!!

Welcome to our Challenge Feature for this Week!

Bri has a fun and creative celebration project for our new card-making challenge!

Hello Ai fans - Bri here! 

I am excited to introduce this new holiday collection to you! My creation features the new Easter Chicks stamp set. Although the stamp set is geared towards the Easter holiday, it was easy for me to make transform the characters into a Valentine's day theme to fit perfectly with the Love is in the Air challenge!! 

For more details on this creation keep reading below! This project is featured on my personal blog too, check it out here. Follow me on Instagram to see my most recent Ai creations here!

To color the chicks and their fabulous accessories I used my Copic alcohol markers. The colors I used are listed at the end of this blog post. I heat embossed the sentiment "Love is in the Air!" from the In The Air stamp set in gold embossing powder onto a Banner Double Stitched die cut. I attached the chicks and the banner sentiment to the card front with foam tape.

To create the background I used a heart silhouette stencil and Worn Lipstick Distress Oxide ink to create the big beautiful heart on the white card front. I used a water sprayer to create a splattered look on the heart. Next, I used Candied Apple Distress ink to ink splatter and to distress the edges of the heart and the card front. I love the textured look of the ink splatter effect! I matted the white card front onto a red A2 sized card base. Last, I added some gold sequins for extra embellishment!

Ai Products

Easter Chicks Stamp Set

In the Air Stamp Set

Banner Double Stitched Dies

Copic Markers Used

Fur: Y000, Y11, Y13, Y15, Y17

Feet: Y32, Y35, Y38

Pink: RV000, RV21, RV23, RV25, RV29

Green: G24

White Shadow: C2, C0

  

Inspired? Check out the challenge rules below, and enter your creation!

Before we get to this next challenge, we want to congratulate the winner of our 

BEST OF 2020 CHALLENGE!

Congratulations to Cynthia Olheiser who used our Love Birds Set for an anniversary card that we fell in love with!

Congratulations!

Email claire@artimpressions.com with your choice of 3 stamp sets for your prize.

For this challenge, we want to see your card that celebrates love! Whether you want to show your love for your best friends, for your special someone, for your spouse, or your pet, we want to see that creativity and love shine through your creation!

If you're looking for some starter ideas, check out our Valentine's Day, Twist Ties, Girlfriends, or Mini Tryfolds on our Pinterest Page. 

We can't wait to see you share the love!!! Though you can use any stamps you have, we'd love to see any Art Impressions products in your collection!

Hurry, challenge closes Wednesday, March 10th at 5PM PST!

Here are the Challenge Rules...

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

✻ 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 by clicking and commenting your fellow crafters.

✻ Make sure to get your link up by the deadline to enter your creations.

✻ Good luck and happy stamping!

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

NEW VIDEO!!!

Thank you to everyone who joined us yesterday for "Back to Basics" with Kendra! 

This new series will include a new video each Tuesday evening at 5 p.m. PST! For our new watercolor artists and continuing Ai Watercolor fans, these tutorials are a great chance to "brush" up on your skills!

"See" you next week for Wednesday Live with Bonnie on Facebook!

Happy Stamping

2020 Holiday Release + Handmade Holidays Challenge Week #2

Hello Ai Fans! 

Last week we premiered our 2020 Holiday Releases with our newest additions to our Halloween and Christmas themed stamp sets!

These new seasonal sets include stamp and die sets, as well as two new additions to our Twisters line!

Shop these sets at artimpressions.com!

Now, for this week's Challenge Inspiration!!!

Bri has us green with envy over her wickedly cute Witch Twister card!

Jil is dreaming of a white Christmas with her Chubby Snowmen Set creation!

Sharon's starburst card using the new Animal Nativity Set is precious perfection!

Lynn shaded a spooky but cute tag using our Halloween Critters Set!  

Crystal is helping us get in the holiday spirit with her Santa Twist Set card!

Renee use the new Large Snowflake Die and our Exclusive Poinsettia Set from 2019 for a perfect, pastel, wintery card!

Jessica made one wickedly cute card with Halloween Critters Set and Halloween Mini Dies!

Inspired? Make sure you submit your entry below!

This week for our new challenge, it's beginning to look like the holidays! Embrace your inner kid with a Halloween card, make table setting cards for Thanksgiving, a bookmark for Hannukah, A gift tag for Kwanzaa, stocking stuffers for Christmas, or an encouragement card for those New Years Resolutions--the season has no limit!

If you're looking for some starter ideas, check out our Christmas and Winter, Halloween, Thanksgiving, or Holiday Mansion categories on our Pinterest Page. 

We want to see what you create for the upcoming holiday season! Though you can use any stamps you have, we'd love to see any Art Impressions products in your collection!
Hurry, challenge closes September 30th at 5PM PT!

Here are the Challenge Rules...

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

✻ 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 by clicking and commenting your fellow crafters.

✻ Make sure to get your link up by the deadline to enter your creations.

✻ Good luck and happy stamping!

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

NEW VIDEO!!!

Welcome back Kendra as she brings us a festive Christmas watercolor project!

2020 Holiday Releases from Art Impressions + New Challenge Homemade Holidays!!!

Hello, Ai Fans!

Christmas and Halloween have arrived at Art Impressions!

We are so excited to have new holiday releases to share with you! This has been a crazy year, and we are all looking forward to the beauty of the fall, the warmth of Thanksgiving, and the peaceful joy of Christmas!

Our New Halloween Set is our Halloween Critters! This set comes with a fox, bunny, raccoon and owl dressed in cute costumes with plenty of candy and sentiment stamps to make a bowl full of treats! And, by popular demand, these clear stamps have matching dies!

Our New Christmas Sets include our Animal Nativity Set, Chubby Snowmen Set, 

and new Large Snowflake Dies!

 Our Animal Nativity features a baby cow, donkey, sheep, rabbit, camel, and Jesus, as well as perky birds and sweet sentiments. 

For those snow-lovers, we have our Chubby Snowmen set that showcases three bundled of snow-people and one rosy-cheeked rabbit, as well as fun sentiments to use to your delight! Just like our Halloween Critters, these sets now come with dies as well! Merry Christmas--less fussy cutting!!!

Last but not least, we have our Large Snowflake Dies with 18 different snowflakes--like our Small Snowflake Dies, but more of a blizzard than a flurry!

And finally, we have our newest Twisters Sets!

Our Witch Twist Set and Santa Twist Set work with our Twist Frame Die (sold separately) for a fun and festive addition to our new 2020 Twisters Line!

You can shop these sets here. Happy shopping!

For our new challenge this week, we have a double feature! 

Sharon and Lynn have some fun tutorials for us below!

 Hello AI Fans!!

I am so excited to be able to show you this brand new Nativity Set by Art Impressions! It truly touches my heart. It was so fun to color all these adorable animals worshiping Jesus on the morning of his birth! Here is the finished product, and yes, I had to use every single stamp that is in the set!  You could still make an adorable card using just a couple of the animals, but I wanted to squeeze every single one into this A2 card!  :)  It's so wonderful that AI includes all the dies for everything in this set!! 

First thing is to stamp all the images  out on your paper and color them up.  I used Copic markers which are listed below.  Look at all the wonderful images and sentiments that are included in this amazing set!! 

There's something about cows, I have to put spots on them. I have no idea what it is, but I've done it for forever! I just use a Copic Multiliner pen and draw them in, then color away! 

I wanted to make a shining star, so used a sun stencil I had along with some Distress inks to create it. I just didn't sponge ink into the sun area. I left it alone and popped up the star that is in the set.  

I created a little hill and distressed the edges to ground the scene. Though I'm not sure why since I used all the animals around the baby Jesus, you can't really see it. 

And then I used Scotch Mounting tape to pop up all the animals around baby Jesus.  I added a little twine bow and my favorite sentiment. 

                                            

Thanks so much for taking the time to visit! Until next time - stay crafty!!!

hugs

Copics used:

E000, E00, E11, E31, E33, E35, E41, E51, E53, E71, E74, E95

Y32, Y35, Y38

C1, C2, C3, C4, C5

W1, W2, W3, W4, W5, W7

BG70, BG72, BG75

R11, R12, R32, R35

Hello Ai Fans!!!

I’m really excited to be doing a feature card and video for the brand new Ai Halloween Critters Set! These are the most adorable Halloween images and sentiments! My favorite sentiment, which we will be using today, says “Here for the Candy”. That really is what it is all about! 

In todays video we will be creating a fun tag card and I will show you how easy this is to do with a little bit of partial die cutting! To set the scene...we will also create a spooky sky for our little tag using the Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Inks.
 

Watch video tutorial below!

Thank you so much for joining me today! Have a great day!

Zig Clean Color Real Brush Pens used:

Blender, Yellow, Orange, Mustard, Beige, Mid Gray, Mid Brown, Lt Gray, Black, Purple

NEW RELEASE!! Ai Halloween Critters Set (5352)

Scroll below to see the full challenge, and enter to win 3 stamp sets!!!

Now, as we get ready for another new challenge, let's congratulate the winner of our 

To Die For!!!

Thank you all for participating and bringing joy to each of our challenges!

This week, Top Spot goes to Shanti Nathan who used our 

Coffee Gift Card Holder for the festive and simple gift card holders! 

She also used two different techniques--well done!

Congrats Shanti!!

Contact Claire at feedback@artimpressions.com with your mailing address, and choice of 3 stamps. Well done!

This week for our new challenge, it's beginning to look like the holidays! Embrace your inner kid with a Halloween card, make table setting cards for Thanksgiving, a bookmark for Hannukah, A gift tag for Kwanzaa, stocking stuffers for Christmas, or an encouragement card for those New Years Resolutions--the season has no limit!

If you're looking for some starter ideas, check out our Christmas and Winter, Halloween, Thanksgiving, or Holiday Mansion categories on our Pinterest Page. 

We want to see what you create for the upcoming holiday season! Though you can use any stamps you have, we'd love to see any Art Impressions products in your collection!
Hurry, challenge closes September 30th at 5PM PT!

Here are the Challenge Rules...

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

✻ 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 by clicking and commenting your fellow crafters.

✻ Make sure to get your link up by the deadline to enter your creations.

✻ Good luck and happy stamping!

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

NEW VIDEO!  Thank you to everyone who joined us yesterday on Wednesday Live with Bonnie! The list of supplies and Inspiration Page for Bonnie's Project Today will be posted on our website in time for "Part Two" next week! Don't forget, you can always watch the videos after they air here :  https://www.facebook.com/ArtImpressionsRubberStamps/