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Thursday, May 29, 2014

Challenge 136 - OWH Cards! Week Two!

Hello Ai Fans!

Welcome back for week to of our challenge! We hope those of you in the U.S. had a wonderful Memorial Day weekend. We're still creating Operation Write Home (OWH) cards. OWH is a a non-profit organization in which volunteers create handmade cards that are gathered and sent overseas to troops, so they can then write home to their families.
How cool is that?!

We had a ton of fun joining the annual OWH Memorial Day Bloghop last Saturday. If you missed it, you can still hop through all the blogs by visiting the OWH blog here.

For our challenge, we would love to see you create OWH cards to send in! There are some guidelines for OWH (A2 cards with envelopes, no glitter, etc.) and to make sure your card is in tip-top shape for our troops, check out the guidelines here. As long as your card follows the guidelines, feel free to submit to our challenge! Also, don't forget to mail in your cards to OWH, check out the mailroom information here.

This week, we're also launching two NEW TryFolds! These fun new character TryFolds are so funny, just love them!

One great thing about TryFolds, their dimensions are perfect to adhere to an A2 cardstock, perfect for OWH cards! Also, after many requests, we now offer cardstock & envelope packs for our TryFolds! You can find them under TryFolds in white and cream on our site!

Check out these awesome cards by our design team!

Cheryl using Messy House TF (4452)

Karen using Messy House TF (4452)

Kerry using Floordrobe TF (4453)

Marie using Floordrobe TF (4453)

Sherry using Messy House TF (4452)

Aren't those SO fun! Fantastic job DT! Just love these fun sets and how you brought them to life!

Don't forget! Add your card to our challenge for the chance to win Ai product!

✻ 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, June 6 at 5:00 p.m. PST to enter your creations.
✻ Good luck and happy stamping!

An InLinkz Link-up

Thursday, May 15, 2014

Challenge 135 - "Cute as a Button" Week Two!

Hello Ai Fans!

Welcome back for the second week of our challenge! This week we're launching our new 2014 Ai People! We are so excited to share these with you and hope you enjoy some good laughs!

To join in the fun, we've put together a little blog hop so you can bounce around and view our new launch! You've started in the right place, so hop on to Cheryl and you know the drill!

Marie-Pierre Capistran

Reneé Matarese

Sherry Eckblad

Wanted to also show you this cute card from Karen Day that was featured on the Crafter's Home blog!

Our NEW 2014 catalog is now available! With the purchase of any catalog, you receive a $10 coupon off your next $30 purchase!

And of course we have to offer our fun challenge!

This week, we're layering on the cutest embellishments around … buttons! Add any button to your cute card and it's in to win! Submit to our challenge to be entered for some fabulous 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!
✻ 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, May 7 at 5:00 p.m. PST to enter your creations.
✻ Good luck and happy stamping!

An InLinkz Link-up

Thursday, May 1, 2014

Challenge 134 - "Anything Goes - Masculine" + Ai Heroes Launch

Hello Ai Fans!

Welcome back to week two of our challenge!

We're excited to launch another new line today, our Father's Day Heroes!

These guys are perfect for the man in your life, the guy always helping out and the one taking care of business!!! Our designer, Bonnie Krebs, created these fun guys for the perfect Father's Day, but to also perfect for all year round!

For our "Anything Goes - Masculine" challenge, our designers have featured these fun new sets! We hope you enjoy ALL the inspiration. They did a fabulous job!

Cheryl using Backyard Boss

Karen using Weekend Warrior

Kerry using Bug Buster

Kerry using Scrub Lord

Kerry using Backyard Boss

Kerry using Weekend Warrior

Marie using Grill Father

Reneé using Bug Buster

Reneé using Grill Father

Sherry using Grill Father

Judith using Scrub Lord

Aren't those cards so fun?! Way to go AiDT! Now it's your turn! We are loving the masculine cards we see so far and can't wait for you to submit more!

Thursday, April 17, 2014

Challenge 133 - "Best of Friends" Challenge + 2014 GIRLFRIENDS Launch! Week 2!

Hello Ai Fans!

Welcome back for week TWO of our fun "Best of Friends" challenge!

If you didn't get to check them out last week … our new 2014 Girlfriends are released!

We love sharing our brand new images and hope you love them as much as we do!

You can purchase ALL the new Girlfriends stamps at artimpressions.com!

We had a wonderful blog hop last week and we're bringing all the inspiration right here!

Marie-Pierre Capistran

Reneé Matarese

Sherry Eckblad

Judith Gowdy

Karen Day

Cheryl Valadez

Kerry Kung

How fun are the cards from our designers! We hope you enjoyed the blog hop as much as we did! It's so wonderful to see our designers bring our images to life! Great job AiDT! :)

Thank you to everyone who participated in our giveaway last week!
Drumroll please … :)
a Rafflecopter giveaway

Now it's your turn! We want to see your 'Best of Friends' cards or crafty projects! Only stipulation is that your stamped images have to have two or more people! We'll be back next week with all our designer's cards here!

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!
✻ 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, April 23 at 5:00 p.m. PST to enter your creations.
✻ Good luck and happy stamping!

An InLinkz Link-up

Saturday, April 12, 2014

Watercolor card - Thinking of you

Hello Ai Fans!

I'm so excited because I ordered so many watercolor stamps and I was looking forward to start creating with them!! I can tell you that for the next few Saturdays, you'll see some watercolor cards. ;)

Starting with this one:

I don't know if you saw these stamps already. You can find them here. But I just want to warn you, when you start looking, you'll want ALL of them!!!! I know because, it happened to me. lol

Once you chose your favorite stamps, you can find Bonnie's "how to" videos right here. These will give you ideas and will guide you to a wonderful result, step by step.

After you watched the videos, you'll want to practice. Because Bonnie is modest and keep saying it's very easy, but just between us, she's an artist, so for us normal people, it takes a bit of a learning curve. ;) I stamped about 6 pots and flowers before I got a result I was happy with. That means one evening fun practicing and watching videos, and than your cards will be just beautiful! :)

Along with the stamps, you will need watercolor paper and water base ink markers. Bonnie uses Marvy Le Plume, which you can find in the Art Impressions shop, but I also used my Stampin'UP! markers and some American Crafts markers that I had at home and it works fine too. You'll just have to experiment and find colors that you like. Here is the list of the markers/colors I used for this image.