Challenge 121 - "Perfect Papers" Challenge! Week Two + A GIVEAWAY!

Welcome to week two of our challenge and product swap with Ruby Rock-It!

We hope you've enjoyed the inspiration along the way and more to come!

If you didn't get a chance to blog hop through our designers, you can head back to last week's post for all the blog links! We've also posted all the designs from our DT below for your inspirational browsing!

Kate

 Crystal

 Karen

Kerry

 Piali

 Reneé

Rhonda

We also have an awesome GIVEAWAY!

Enter to win one of TWO fabulous prize packs from Art Impressions or Ruby Rock-It! Contest ends 10/30/13 at 5:00 p.m. PST. Winners will be announced on 10/31/13. Good luck and thank you for entering!

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And now to our challenge! 
This week, we're wanting to see your Perfect Papers!
Use 3 different patterns/textures to enter this challenge.

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, October 30 at 5:00 p.m. PST to enter your creations.

✻ Good luck and happy stamping!

OWH World Card Making Day Blog Hop

Hello and welcome to Art Impressions!

Happy World Card Making Day!

We're excited you're hopping along with Operation Write Home! We LOVE the OWH team and we have such a fun time partnering with them! To head back to the beginning, go to the OWH Stars and Stamps blog.

One of our cards today will feature an Art Impressions OWH benefit set. We have two benefit sets with 25% of proceeds going to OWH. If you haven't gotten your hands on them yet, you can find them at the links below! We also have a free stamp with any $30, check yesterday's post for details.

Every Hat Set (left)

Sending Love Set (right)

Today, I've (Kate - DT Coordinator) created a card to share with you! I normally leave all the beautiful designing to my DT, but I had the chance so you're stuck with me today! 

I have a huge disclaimer though. This amazing image was colored by none other than Sandy Allnock herself! She colored almost 50 of these beautiful images for our Make and Give at the Summer CHA trade show and I was lucky enough to head home with a couple of them! 

The sketch used for this card is a slightly modified #29. The image and sentiment are from the Ai Every Hat Set. For the sentiment, I masked the "I love you" section and then stamped twice to get the text in a line. I created a cut file for the "Thanks" to have it fit the blog hop theme.

Here's a better image of the "Thanks." And as a THANKS to all of you hopping with OWH, we're giving this cut file to you for free! You can email kate@artimpressions to have the SVG file sent to you (on Monday) or you can outline the PNG below on your Silhouette Studio software so you can create this card too!

Supplies Used

Every Hat Set (Sku#4342)	Bazzill Typhoon	Bazzill Pomegranate	Gina K Pure Luxury pure white paper	Bella BLVD Snapshots	Copic markers
SU real red ink	*Silhouette CAMEO Digital Cutting Machine

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We also have a card from our DT member, Piali Biswas!

Piali used Sketch #90 with the Ai Out to Lunch Set. Thanks Piali!

Now for the

GIVEAWAY!

We will be giving away THREE prize packs!
Each will have our two Operation Write Home benefit sets!
But we really want to hear from you so ...

Leave a comment of what your favorite cut files
(or die cuts if you don't have an electric die cutting machine)
or what your dream cuts would be!

They can be ...
Stamped Image Outlines
Text Cuts
Backgrounds
Print & Cut (Silhouette Files)

Just write your thoughts below and enter to win! Thanks for coming by!

Art Impressions & OWH Bloghop - New Stamp Release

Welcome to Art Impressions! We are excited to reveal our two new Operation Write Home (OWH) stamp sets and we're kicking off the launch with an amazing bloghop!

For the last couple months, we have been working closely with Sandy Allnock (president and founder of OWH) to bring this dream to a reality. Operation Write Home is a non-profit organization that (with the help of many volunteer cardmakers) creates blank, handmade cards to send overseas to troops, giving them an opportunity to send something special home to their loved ones. We truly believe in the Operation Write Home cause, as many Ai employees currently have family and friends serving overseas. We are beyond thrilled to bring you these two new sets, designed to create cards for OWH, but also to benefit them with 25% of the proceeds from artimpressions.com donated to their cause!

Time for the big reveal! 

Drumroll please ...

OWH Every Hat set (UM4343)
When creating for OWH, we wanted heartfelt sets that reflected the day-to-day. Our Every Hat set was for the women taking care of it all, a heartfelt thank you for doing the job of two. We love our lady wearing all the hats!

OWH Sending Love set (UM4343)

With our Sending Love set, we thought of how wonderful it is for families and friends to hear from one another, and even more than ever before with the use of technology. Whether it is by letter, email, phone or possibly a video chat, love knows no distance! We hope so much love is sent home with this stamp set!

We hope you've enjoyed our big reveal! You can purchase these stamps online here and they will be available soon at local retailers near you!

Here's how it works:

• Visit each blog by clicking through the designers and organizations listed below. Each blog will also have a link to the next for easy hopping!
• Comment on each blog you visit to show some love to those participating! We will also be giving away a $50 prize pack of Art Impressions products. To enter, comment on every blog listed, the more you post, the more chances to win! The winner will be announced on Monday at 3:00 p.m. PST

1. Art Impressions
2. Crafter's Home
3. Crystal Lopez 
4. Dixie Cochran
5. Paula Spagnuolo 
6. Karen Day 
7. Kathryn Belmonte
8. Lee Mae Elkins
9. Kerry Kung
10. Nancy Keller
11. Piali Biswas
12. Kristie Marcotte
13. Reneé Matarese
14. Ronni Unger
15. Rhonda Harre
16. Sandy Allnock
17. Operation Write Home Stars and Stamps

To start off the hop, we have a card set designed by one of our own DTs, Piali Biswas. She used the OWH Every Hat set. We love the clean and simple look with these amazing vibrant colors!

Thanks again to the designers participating in the hop. We would also like to thank Crafter's Home for helping get the sets into the independent retail stores near you! Make sure to check out the list of stores soon to be carrying the OWH sets on their blog!

Happy Hopping!