Challenge #286 Rustic Roundup Week 2

Hello Ai Fans! 

Thank you to everyone who had fun with us during our Rustic/Americana Sale this last weekend! We hope that you all got some great new goodies to get creative with!

Make sure that you tune in this weekend for another virtual event where Bonnie will be LIVE at 11:10 a.m. PST demonstrating some watercolor, and showing off our newest circlets!

Wanna join? https://www.facebook.com/groups/StampAndScrapbookExpo/

Now, for this week's Challenge!!!

Jessica used our Barnyard Cubbies for this challenge's feature, and we love how she combined our watercolor stamps AND cute cubbies!

Jil used red, white, blue, and our Holiday Mansion for some homespun cuteness!

Renee found a fun fold for her Elk Circlet MTF. Don't you just love the embellishment?

Crystal used colored pencils and  Barnyard Cubbies shaker card!

Sharon celebrated 4th of July with her darling Clay Pot Set card!

This week for our new challenge, we are celebrating America's Independence Day!!! Let's see your best rustic or Americana themed card. Whether you are patriotic or not, feel free to play with red/white/blue, or something with a Southwest feel--wherever the road takes you!

If you're looking for some starter ideas, check out our July 4th Cards, Work and Play, Funny Farm, or Circlets MTF on our Pinterest Page. 

We want to see how you create your best humor-themed card or creation! Though you can use any stamps you have, we'd love to see any Art Impressions products in your collection!
Hurry, challenge closes July 15th at 5PM PT!

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 the deadline to enter your creations.

✻ Good luck and happy stamping!

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

NEW VIDEO!!!

Have you seen this video of our Hillside Cottages? We wanted to re-share this popular video with you for all of our new watercolor fans!

Happy Stamping!

Happy Independence Day + New Challenge #286 Rustic Roundup!!!

Hello, Ai Fans!

Can you believe we're already in July?!

You can shop this sale at HERE on artimpressions.com

This week, Jessica joins us with some Americana for this week's feature!

Hello Ai Fans! 

For the Rustic/ Americana challenge I first thought of the barn from the Barnyard Cubbie set. Reminds me of seeing all those large old barns while on a road trip! I paired my barn with the WC Mountain set too. These mountains make for a perfect background setting. I hope you enjoy the card video process below. 

I stamped the mountains that are the farthest away in a light gray ink and the ones closer in a medium gray ink. I also used some masking paper from Inkadinkado. You can find this masking paper in the Ai shop! After stamping the mountains on to the masking paper I used scissors to fussy cut out the images. Then I layered those over top of the stamped images on my card front. This made it much easier to ink blend with Distress Oxide inks. 

I wanted to keep the rest of the ground layer simple. Using two more Distress Oxide inks and a strip of masking tape, I created straight edges to ink blend Peeled paint and Frayed Burlap. Before blending the Peeled Paint ink I did use masking paper again. This time stamping and fussy cutting the fence image. Same kind of technique that I did for the mountains. 

I used the coordinating die for the barn and die cut it. Then placed it on my card front. This is a cubbie stamp and die set but I decided to keep all of the windows pieces and glue them back into their respectable places. So none of the doors or windows will open with this design. I like to mix it up and use these cubbie designs in different ways. 

I can't wait to see what you create for the Challenge Rustic/ Americana. Thank you so much for joining me today! Happy Stamping

 

Thank you Jessica!

Now, as we get ready for another new challenge, let's congratulate the winner of our 

You Make Me Laugh Challenge!!!

Thank you all for participating and bringing joy to each of our challenges!

This week, Top Spot goes to Hunky-Dory Cards who used our Golden Oldie,

Millie, for a card that made us all laugh out loud!!

Congrats!!

Contact Claire at feedback@artimpressions.com with your mailing address, and choice of 3 stamps. Well done!

This week for our new challenge, we are celebrating America's Independence Day!!! Let's see your best rustic or Americana themed card. Whether you are patriotic or not, feel free to play with red/white/blue, or something with a Southwest feel--wherever the road takes you!

If you're looking for some starter ideas, check out our July 4th Cards, Work and Play, Funny Farm, or Circlets MTF on our Pinterest Page. 

We want to see how you create your best humor-themed card or creation! Though you can use any stamps you have, we'd love to see any Art Impressions products in your collection!
Hurry, challenge closes July 15th at 5PM PT!

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 the deadline to enter your creations.

✻ Good luck and happy stamping!

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

A big thank you to everyone who joined us for Wednesday Live with Bonnie yesterday! Below we have provided the link to re-watch the video, as well as a comprehensive list of what Bonnie used for her beautiful project this week.

Watch Wednesday Live Replay HERE.

Supplies List : 

Happy Stamping!