Challenge 190 Glitter & Shimmer WEEK 2!

Hello, Ai Fans!

Ready for the second week of our challenge? Last week Cheri shared a fabulous sparkly tutorial using Stickles on our Dancers Set! For the final week, the whole DT is here to show their glamorous creations! View their sparkles in more detail by checking out the designer's personal blog. Don't forget to leave some comment love!

Cheri with Dancers Set

Dana with Wildly Cute

Diane with Birthday Fairy Set 

Karen with Dancer Set

Kerry with Flaunt It

Renee with Messy House TF, Super Maude, Cathy Caffeine, Wine Divas (available at Michaels), Celeste, Hot Java Mama (available at Hobby Lobby)

 Sharon with Birthday Wishes (available at Hobby Lobby)

WOW! Love these cards and coasters, DT! Each one has a great sparkle to it! Alright, fans, what can you make for our challenge? We'd love to see what you can create with some glitter and shimmer!

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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, August 17th at 5:00 p.m. PST to enter your creations.

✻ Good luck and happy stamping!

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Messy House by Kerry

Hello Ai friends and happy Monday!

I'm sharing a mixed media project with you today using one of super cool Try Folds called 

Messy House (SKU# 4452) .

I started with a plain white canvas.  I colored it up some colorful gelato, then continue with adding more using some stencils with embossing paste and acrylic paint.  For the black and white dots are created by using a paint brush and splatter over.  And the big circles, I used the cap of the embossing paste.

To finish the canvas.  I colored the Messy House images with Tombow markers, then adhered to the canvas with matte medium, and then secured it with some washi paper tape.  To finish it, I added some bright gelato to match.  

Faber Castell Gelatos:  Coconut, licorice, watermelon, strawberry, elderberry, kiwi 

Tombow markers:  673, 062, 451, 491, 990, 942, 133, N45, N65, N89, N95

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Messy House by Karen Day

Hello Ai fans!

I am using one of the newly-launched Try-fold stamp sets in a different way today.  The Try-folds all come with three different images that fold over each other to make a truly unique card... but all of the images work perfectly well on their own, so here I've used the 'base' image from Messy House TF(Sku# 4452) along with the sentiment included in the set, to make a regular card:

Our current challenge is to make Operation Write Home cards, and you can link up your creation here.  We will have a brand new challenge for you starting on Thursday.

Copics used: Skin E11, E00, E000, R20

Hair and greys: W9, W7, W5, W3, W1

Greens: G43, G41, YG97, YG95, YG93, YG91

Reds: R59, R27, R24, R22, R20

Browns: E57, E55, E53, E51

Happy Stamping everyone!



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!

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

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