Showing posts with label Piali. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Piali. Show all posts

Thursday, November 20, 2014

Guest Designer - Piali Biswas

Hello Ai Fans!!!

We're heading into the U.S. holidays and we're taking a challenge break to give our designers some special time to enjoy Thanksgiving! It's just a week away now!

Starting tomorrow, we have a fun product swap with Scrapbook Adhesives! This next week until the 26th, we'll be featuring their fun products right along with your daily dose of Ai inspiration! 

We're kicking off a day early with our guest designer, Piali Biswas! Piali is always such an inspiration and our team gets so excited when her fun cards land on our doorstep! 

Hello Ai Fans! It's me, Piali here. I'm super excited to be back on Ai Blog as a guest designer!!!

Today, I have used some of the fantastic Scrapbook Adhesive products and fabulous Ai New Release holiday stamps for two fun projects.

First one is a Shaker card.


Cute... isn't it??
Here is the inside...


Now here are the step-by-step instructions for this card...
I love making shaker cards but at times creating circle shaker window is a bit tdious job.
I have a special trick for this one...

Here are the supplies I used...


Step 1.
I used craft foam. Cut the craft foam slightly smaller than the cardfront.
Apply Scrapbook Adhesive sheets on both the sides. Keep the liner on.
It would look like this.


Step-2:
Use any circle die to diecut a window on the foam with adhesive.
SAVE the circle diecut for a fun project (I will show it next).


Step-3:
Cut the cardfront panel and diecut a window with the circle die.
Do the same with the cardbase... so now we have three pieces.
1. Cardfront with a window, 2. foam panel with window , 3. a cardbase with a window.
All the windows are cut using the same die.

Step-4:
Stamp a sentiment below the window on the cardfront.
I used the sentiment from Ai-Christmas to All Set (Sku#4517).
Now cut a narrow strip of the adhesive sheet and adhere below the sentiment, apply glitter on it as shown in the photo...


This will create a beautiful glitter border.

Step-5:
The fun one...yay!!!
Apply the Scrapbook Adhesive tape runner and adhere two piece of acetate.
One to back of the cardfront and other to the front of the cardbase.
Then adhere the Foam window panel of Step 2 to the cardbase.
Add sequins and glitter shaker card filler.
Then adhere the cardfront panel on to it.

Your Shaker card is READY!!!!
No spilling of the shaker filler, the Scrapbook Adhesive sheets make it super easy!!!

Now, stamp the Santa image from Ai-Santa & Mrs. Set (Sku#4506), color it . I used Copics.
Then diecut the images with Ai-Santa & Mrs. Mini Dies (Sku#4541).
Adhere the images on the shaker window with Scrapbook Adhesive foam squares.


I also stamped the fun Snowflake background using small dots from Ai-Christmas to All Set (Sku#4517) and snowflake image from Ai-Warm Your Heart Set (Sku#4519)


Now my next project is with the leftover foam circle diecut which already have the adhesive sheet on it.
I used it to make a fun ornament...which can be used as a tag too.


Its super easy to make.
Peel off the adhesive lining paper and apply glitter all over it.
I used a snowflake diecut.
Then I colored and trimmed the Super cute Penguin image from Ai-Warm Your Heart Set (Sku#4519) and adhered it to the ornament base using Scrapbook Adhesive Foam squares.
Just a tie some twine and you have a super sparkly ornament tag!!!


Hope you liked these projects.
Thank you Scrapbook Adhesive for sharing the products with Ai DT & GDT!!!

Thanks Kate for having a Guest Designer..its always a pleasure to create with Ai stamps & dies!!!

Happy Crafting!
Piali.

WOW! How awesome were these projects from Piali! So simple and easy to create a shaker card this way. Thank you Piali for sharing with us!!!

We also need to announce the winners from last week's "Zoo or Animal" challenge.
Top Spot goes to ...
Congratulations Diane! We loved your super cute Hog Wild card! Contact kate@artimpressions with your address to claim your prize pack!

Honorable Mentions go to ...


Congratulations Bisse & Sandra! We loved your inventive ideas to add some Ai animals to your projects! Contact kate@artimpressions.com with your mailing address and a prize set of your choice!

Thank you to everyone for stopping by today! We're excited to kick off our product swap for this next week and then we'll be on break until December 4. 

Have a wonderful day!

Wednesday, January 1, 2014

Top 13 of 2013 from the AiDT!


Happy New Year! Happy 2014!

Today, we're taking a quick moment to recap our most inspiring or favorite cards from 2013 by joining Operation Write Home in a fun bloghop! 
If you're just joining the fun, make sure to start at their Stars and Stamps blog!

We took some time this last week to review a very fun 2013 on our blog! We had posts (almost) everyday so there is a plethora of inspiration and different Ai cards! We're thankful for our current and previous designers for always pouring their hearts into some great cards for our blog!

Without further ado, here are the top cards as decided by our design team! 
Note: They are in no particular order as we love ALL our designers! :)

 Little Princess card by Cheryl Valadez

Sleepy Santa TryFold card by Karen Day 

Birthday Whoot card by Piali Biswas

Pedal Pushers card by Kirsi Kamppikoski

Lazy Boy and I'm Retired card by Reneé Matarese

Lounging Penguins card by Tammie Koehnen 

Birdie and Eggnus card by Karen Day 

Air Hag card by Kerry Kung

Comfy on Couch card by Piali Biswas

 Celeste card by Judith Gowdy

Burnadette card by Crystal Lopez

 Judy and Curtain Window card by Karen Day

 Asleep on the Job card by Kerry Kung

 To the End card by Reneé Matarese

We hope you enjoyed our Top 13 cards! We are SO excited for the upcoming plans for 2014, especially our new releases for CHA next week! Make sure to follow our blog and sign up for our newsletter to hear of our new releases (sneak peeks to come next week)!

Happy New Year to all!
And as always ...
Happy Stamping!

Thursday, December 12, 2013

Challenge 124 - "Merry and Bright" Challenge, Week Two

Hello Ai Fans!

Welcome back for week two of our challenge! We've had so much fun browsing your posts and we hope you enjoyed hopping through all our designers ... especially our newest members! If you didn't get a chance to view them last week, we've posted all the fun projects below!

Along with our fun hop was our Ai Little People launch!


And still running this week!
Make sure to comment on all the blogs in the hop … one lucky person will win the ENTIRE Ai Little People collection! Good luck!



Add you challenge cards! This week, we just want to see you Making Spirits Bright! Really we're looking for some cheer being spread, whether it's for Christmas or for another special occasion (like a new little one or one on the way!) … share it here for a chance to win!

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, December 17 at 5:00 p.m. PST to enter your creations.
✻ Good luck and happy stamping!




Thursday, December 5, 2013

Challenge 124 - "Merry and Bright" + NEW Ai Babies Launch

Hello Ai Fans!

Welcome to a brand new challenge at Art Impressions! Our LAST challenge of 2013 … can you believe it? Feels like this year has flown by!

Before we get started on our new challenge and some NEW stamps, we need to announce our last challenge winner!

Our Top Spot goes to …
Congratulations Karen! Contact kate@artimpressions.com for your prize pack!

Now on to the new! Today we're hosting a blog hop for our NEW Ai Little People!


Today, Piali is sharing her sweet little ones on our blog!

Our designers have created some amazing and inspirational cards just for you!
Make sure to comment on all the blogs in the hop … one lucky person will win the ENTIRE Ai Little People collection! Good luck!



Now it's time to add your challenge cards! This week, we just want to see you Making Spirits Bright! Really we're looking for some cheer being spread, whether it's for Christmas or for another special occasion (like a new little one or one on the way!) … share it here for a chance to win!

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, December 17 at 5:00 p.m. PST to enter your creations.
✻ Good luck and happy stamping!