Challenge 238 Card & Envelope WEEK 2!

Hello, Ai Fans! We are back with the second week of our Card & Envelope Challenge! To celebrate our two new additions to our Hobby Lobby lineup, our design team is featuring our popular Reel Great Guys and Spring Chicken clear stamp sets! Click the designer's name for more info and photos of their card and envelope!

Carol with Reel Great Guys

Cheri with Spring Chicken

Crystal with Spring Chicken


Dana with Reel Great Guys

Jil with Reel Great Guys

Renee with Reel Great Guys

Sharon with Spring Chicken

Thank you for your inspiration, designers! Since these clear sets are packed with images and sentiments, they are wonderful for creating card and envelope sets like this! You can find these sets hitting the shelves at your local Hobby Lobby!

Join our challenge, you just might win some Ai stamps! This challenge we want to see matching cards & envelopes! We cannot wait to see what you come up with!

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 15 at 5:00 p.m. PST to enter your creations.

✻ Good luck and happy stamping!

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TWO Clear Sets at a Hobby Lobby Near You! PLUS Challenge 238 Card & Envelope!

Spotted! We have NEW additions to our Hobby Lobby lineup! Our popular Reel Great Guys and Spring Chicken clear stamp sets are hitting the shelves! Grab your favorite Ai Stamps at your local store and share a photo with us on Facebook and Instagram with #AiAtHobbyLobby!

Here's Crystal to inspire your creations with an adorable tutorial!

Hello AI Fans! 

I had so much fun playing with the Spring Chicken Set- AiCS40 for the new challenge this week: Card and Envelope! 

I started with decorating my envelope first. I know it seems backwards I think most people think to make their card and then decorate the envelope as a second thought. I thought the chicken on springs is so cute so I stamped him in the corner of the envelope and stamped the sentiment- "Oh What A Bird-Brain I Forgot Your Birthday!!!" next to the chicken. I made a mask using an all over sticky post-it note. When I masked I cut the springs off of my mask that was to much of a pain to fussy cut and just went over it with the ink.

With a blending tool I added blue ink from the corner of the envelope blending out to the middle so the other half of the envelop was white. I used a textured envelope which had the same feel and look as water color paper so I knew I would want to paint my chicken on my envelope with water color since I planned on making my card with watercolor cardstock.  I was not sure how the envelope would take color so I was very careful to not add to much water. 

To watercolor I just take an acrylic block and scribble some color on from a Spectrum Noir Aqua marker. I paint with a water brush so I don't need a cup of water on my desk and I don't need to worry about spilling it.

I ended up not painting the springs with the blue ink over them I didn't feel it needed to be painted. 

After my envelope was done I stamped the image with the three chickens onto a piece of watercolor cardstock cut to 5 1/4"X 4" with Versafine black onyx pigment ink . Then I stamped the sentiment- "Aging Is Not For Chickens!" below the image. I also stamped the three chickens again on a piece of full stick Stick-it notes. 

  

After I fussy cut my mask I put it over the stamped image. Some of the small pieces I just cut off because the are so small and they can just be painted over and know one will know. After I added the blue ink to the top and brown ink to the bottom I grabbed  a piece of scrap paper and covered the top and misted the bottom with a spray bottle and blotted the water away with a paper towel. I misted the bottom to add some texture to make it look like the chickens are standing on some dirt.  

I pulled my mask off and water colored the chickens. I matted the water colorpaper with some pattern paper attached it to a card base and added a few sequins.  

Thanks for stopping by today I can't wait to see what you come up with for this challenge! 

Thanks, Crystal!

It's time for a new challenge! Whoo! This time it's all about matching cards & envelopes! We cannot wait to see what you come up with!

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Before we go, let's recognize the winners of last week's Summer Vibes challenge!

Top Spot goes to...

Lorraine!

Congrats, Lorraine! We felt your Girlfriends card really encapsulated the fun of summer! Email annelise@artimpressions.com with your address so we can send you a prize pack!

Honorable Mentions to go...

Katrin!

Charne!

 Congrats, you two! We love Katrin's watercolor scene featuring our retired Ez Project B lighthouse set. The silhouetted people and flying birds are a great touch! And Charne, how adorable is your sliding dog from our Reel Great Guys set! Please email annelise@artimpressions.com with your address and select a stamp set of your choice for a prize!

Thanks for joining our challenge, we'll see you next week! Happy Stamping!

Shake- n- Bake Birthday !!

Hello Ai fans !!
It's Crystal and today I am making a card to send to a cute shop I found in Jasper ,IN ( The Doodlebug ,INC.). I was out site seeing and went into this shop to check out what they had and much to my surprise I ran across one of my cards I had created sitting with all the Art Impressions stamps they carried , I chatted with the store owner and some of the ladies in the store we took pictures and it was such a fun time. I bought several things and on my way home I thought I should make them a card to display with the others they had , they had this cute Birdie and Scratch#1852  stamp and this stamp is near and dear to me so this is the card and envelope I created using supplies I bought from there store , this should help them sell Ai and their supplies , I hope they like it ,I had so much fun creating it.

the envelope I made with the new envelope maker , the mail man needs eye candy too
inside the card

Birdie and Scratch # 1831 shake n bake # 1852 happy Birthday # 1859 Darice Basket weave folder Prima Engraver #563943 viva pearl pen Graphic 45 ABC Primer Jumping Joan Simple Stories Documented 6*6 memento tux black Twine Die-namics Leafy flourish Die-namics Prima Donna Petals SU labels framelet die TH frayed burlap distress ink Copic markers clear star shimmer pen Stamping Up Color spritzer tool We - r - memory keepers envelope maker

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  Thanks so much for stopping by, please come back tomorrow for Ai Challenge # 111