HUGE Ai Birthday Sale! 32% OFF July 11 ONLY! PLUS, Challenge 260 Birthday Cards!

Our BIG news is here! To celebrate our 32nd birthday, we are gifting YOU a HUGE sale! Enjoy 32% off your entire purchase today (July 11) only with coupon code BDAY32! Shop everything on your wishlist, as this is our biggest sale ever!

COUPON CODE: BDAY32

Please note: Must enter coupon code at checkout, valid July 11, 2019 only and expires at 11:59 PM PT. Not valid on gift certificates. Valid on retail orders only (not valid on wholesale orders). 

We are so blessed to be in business for 32 amazing years. The best part is our amazing fans and customers! We are convinced that Ai fans are the most enthusiastic, kindhearted and hilarious stampers out there! 

You can also join the celebration by entering our card challenge! The design team is here to share some fabulous inspiration featuring birthday cards, let's take a look! Remember you can visit the designer's blog by clicking their name, and find the stamp sets they used at artimpressions.com!

Carol with Lifetime Set


Crystal with Hamster Wheel Cubbies


Jessica with Succulents Set and Gotta Garden Set


Jil with Office Party Set



Niccole with Never Too Old Set

Renee with Holy Moley Set

Sharon with Never Too Old Set

Aren't birthday cards so fun to make? They're even more fun to receive! Make a special birthday card for someone in your life - or just to have on-hand for when a birthday sneaks up on you! Join our challenge, you have until July 17 to enter!

✻ 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!

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Happy Stamping!

Birthday fun by Sharon Caudle

Hello AI Fans!

Anyone else here that loves to have fun and act like a nut?  Surely I can't be the only ones raising my hand, right?? :)  I think this guy is amazing and would be so much fun to hang with!! He's my kinda person!  This is 4728 Lifetime Set from Art Impressions. To go along with his fun personality, I made a pinwheel with my Silhouette. I just attached it to a straw and it actually spins on the card. 

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

Copics used:

E000, E00, E11, E21, E23

R20, R24, R27, R29

B41, B45, B63, B66

YG13, YG17

Y35, Y38

T1, T3

Challenge 236 Masculine Cards WEEK 2!

Hello, Ai Fans!

We're back with the second week of our Masculine Card's Challenge! Last week, Dana shared a wonderful tutorial for a classic, clean and simple card that still has a lot of interest! Be sure to check it out if you missed it. The rest of our Design Team is here to share their take on the challenge! Visit the designer's personal blog by clicking their name, so you can view more info about their creation!

Carol with Lifetime Set

Cheri with Cowboy Wiggle Wobble

Crystal with Raccoon Mini Spinner

Dana with Reel Great Guys

Jil with Cabin Circlet MTF

 Renee with Weekend Warrior

Sharon with Sports Fan Shaker 

Thanks, team! These cards are perfect for that special guy!

Hey, join in the fun! Show us your favorite masculine images, colors, techniques and more for those manly cards. You won't want to miss out on this challenge for a chance to win some Ai stamps!

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 Wednesday, July 18 at 5:00 p.m. PST to enter your creations.

✻ Good luck and happy stamping!

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NEW releases are coming soon! Next week, Art Impressions will be exhibiting at the AFCI Mixed Media Event, debuting our Summer 2018 releases to store owners! You can see sneak peeks of brand new stamps and dies by watching our Facebook Live video! Mark your calendar for July 18, at 10 AM MT and hop over to our Facebook Page to view the live video. New products will be arriving in your independent local stamp stores in August!

A Facebook account is not necessary to view our Facebook Live video - simply visit our page here and if a pop-up to join Facebook appears, you can click "Not Now" at the bottom of the dialog box.

Happy Birthday Jon!

Hello Ai fans!

This week the Art Impressions Design team is doing a product swap with Marvy!  We got the chance to try out several great products.  I'm showing you many of them today.  I'm sure you'll see a few other's on my blog here and there.  Like the Snow Writer. I didn't use it today, but I'll be using it for some future Christmas projects.  

Today's project is a birthday card for my brother Jon.  Every birthday he seems to end up wearing a crazy hat.  I used the Lifetime Set (SKU# 4728). I knew this was the perfect image for his card!

Over the years I have used many great Marvy products, so I was happy to be able to try out more Marvy products.  We received an assortment offlesh tone Le Plume Permanent Alcohol markers from Marvy.  I used OR820, Or821, OR823 and R813 on my old guys face, hands and legs. The rest of my image was colored with my Spectrum Noir Alcohol Markers.  I highlighted the balloon hat with the white Bistro Chalk Marker.  It has a nice Fine tip.  I also used it on the bow tie to go over some of the dots that had been colored over with red. Lastly I used the Deco Just Glitter Premium Markers for edging. I edged my card with the blue marker and the black layer with the purple marker. I was just careful to go slow while using the glitter markers for edging.  

Here is a closer view of my image.  I wish you could tell from this photo, but it's on a Mini Action Wobble spring. When you touch the image it springs to life.

As I mentioned above, the face is colored with the Marvy Le Plume Alcohol markers, I used the Spectrum Noir Alcohol Markers for the rest of the image.

Hair - RB2

Green - AG2, AG4

Yellow - CT2, CT4

Reds - DR4, DR7

Here are a few photo's of my brother.  The Iron Crab is my all time favorite!

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Thanks for stopping by and Have a Great Day!

What's this? by Kerry

Hello Ai friends and happy Monday!

Hope you have a great weekend and I'm sharing two super fun cards using the new Ai People.

Not sure about you... I'm not a fan of the vacuum cleaner, it's my least favorite chores.  And the awesome diva from the In the Bag set is totally my hero.

I colored her with Copic markers.  But for the background, I wanted to create a watercolor effect using some Marvy LePlume markers (teal, prussian blue, and rose pink) and the watercolor palette.  To start, I use the LePlume markers and randomly scribble on to palette, then I sprayed some water (see below).  Then I placed the watercolor paper upside down and lifted the watercolor palette (or until your desired effect), then dry.       

Here is the finished card. 

Here is another card using the Lifetime set.  

For the watercolor background, I used Marvy LePlume markers (manganese blue, brilliant yellow, and pale blue) and Tombow markers.

Copic markers used:

Card #1:  C0, C1, C3, C5, C7, BG09, BG10, BG13, BG18, BV08, E31, E33, RV04, RV06, R83, V09, V12, V15, V0000

Card #2:  C0, C1, BG0000, B18, B24, E00, E21, E95, R14, R20, Y02, Y04, Y17, YG05, YG07, FYG2

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Only Young Once!

Hello Ai Fans!

Who wants to act their age? Not me LOL! This fun stamp set is called "Lifetime" set! It's so fun and true for a lot of us. Your only young once so have a blast!

I decided to use papers from the Echo Park Sweet Summertime 6x6 collection. The fun bright colors just lent themselves to this funny image! I always associate this type of balloon with Birthday parties so I think this could be a cute Birthday card as well.

Copics Used:

Skin: E00, E11, R20

Top & Bow tie: R21, R22, R24, R27

Pants: E43, E44, E47

Shoes: C3, C5, C7

Balloons: YG01. YG03 / BG01, BG02 / R81, R83 / YR12, YR14 / Y02, Y06

Happy Stamping!

Supplies:

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