NEW Fall Clear Sets NOW Available! PLUS Challenge 262 Gotta Gingham!

Pumpkin spice season is on the way! To prepare, we are releasing TWO new fall clear sets today! Send sweet, spooky greetings with Fright Night, featuring cheerful ghosts and pets flying a broom! Mixing and matching images and sentiments is so fun with our Feast Mode Set, with our favorite critters dressed for autumn!

You can preview the new designs in our release video below and purchase them today at artimpressions.com! Plus, there is still time to join our Gotta Gingham challenge for a chance to win Ai stamps!

 

Last week, Sharon gave a super sweet Flip Card tutorial, so hop on over if you missed it. Today, our design team is here to share adorable holiday inspiration! Let's take a look! Remember to click the designer's name for more information on their project!

Carol with Pumpkin Mice Flip Card & Flip Card Die Crystal with Christmas Kitty Flip Card & Flip Card Die Jessica with Fright Night Set Jil with Feast Mode Set Niccole with Feast Mode Set Renee with Fright Night Set Sharon with Christmas Kitty Flip Card & Flip Card Die There is still time to enter our challenge! Create a card or craft featuring gingham! It is such a versatile pattern, perfect for any season or occasion, and link it to our Inlinkz below. Be sure to share your project for a chance to win Art Impressions stamps! 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 We hope you'll join in our new challenge, it's gonna be good!   We have another special release today with our friends from The Stamping Village! A combined 12 companies have contributed designs to the NEW Holiday Seals stamp set, now available at artimpressions.com! The Stamping Village truly believes in community over competition, as we combined forces to create a shared space at Creativation 2019, and will expand to include new friends in 2020! The special thing about this set, and our previously released Mail Delivery set, is that The Stamping Village believes in giving back. 100% of the net profits from this collaboration stamp set will benefit The Dreaming Zebra Foundation, who firmly believe that all children, regardless their financial circumstances, should have access to art education. They provide art and music materials free of charge to many schools and community organizations across the country. Make sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel for a special Video Hop on September 10! Happy Stamping!

Watercolor Weekend Roundup - Holiday Inspiration

Have you started your holiday cards? Our Watercolor Guest Design Team sure has! Glean some new ideas for your projects here on Watercolor Weekend! Take a look and leave a little comment love about how the team has inspired you today!

Dot Freel - Instagram - Blog - Pinterest

I made a shaker card for the Watercolor Weekend Round-up on the Art Impressions blog this weekend. I used the - Wooden Door stamps for this one. I love purple and green together so I made the door purple. I knew I wanted to add multi-colored lights on the house, wreath and fir trees which I made using the new 4960 - WC Fir Trees Set. I used a Sakura Gelly Roll pen to add that little bit of sparkle to the lights and the snow.  I just used the fine tip of the Marvy LePlume II pens to draw the multi-colored lights.

Art Impressions Products: 4702 Wooden Door , 4960 WC Fir Trees, Canson XL WC Paper Pad, 4773 Acrylic Block Variety Pack, NO. 4 Brush, Signo White Pigment Ink Gel Pen

Marvy Le Plume II Markers: 13 Ochre, 45 Sepia, 46 Crimson Lake, 48 Leaf Green, 72 Pine Green 75 Sky Blue, 79 Grape, 86 African Violet

Tricia Kennedy - Instagram

I’m excited to share this fun and festive last minute Thanksgiving project for today’s Art Impressions Watercolor Weekend – Personalized Turkey Place Cards. 

Using a 3”x4” piece of watercolor paper, trace around a 7/8” button, set the button aside. Take the large straight pine bough from the WC Fir Trees Set and stamp one on each side of the circle (slightly overlapping the pencil line) in 82 Mustard, 13 Ochre, 88 Terra Cotta, 27 Olive Brownand 45 Sepia to create the turkey feathers. The final center feather is stamped once in 18 Dark Brown. Erase the pencil line. Pull the color with your watercolor brush and water. You can either hand write, stamp or print the name on the place card. I opted to print it. Measure down 1½” and score a line lengthwise across avoiding the stamped image. Use an xacto knife to cut out the top few feathers so they pop up once folded. On a small scrap piece of watercolor paper, stamp the large straight pine bough from the WC Fir Trees Set in 13 Ochre then cut into a tiny triangle for the beak. Next stamp the large branches vine WC Foliage Set 1 in 28 English Red then cut out one teeny tiny leaf for the snood (yes, I looked that up, it’s the red dangly thing on the beak). To assemble the turkey body, place two self adhesive pearls onto the button as eyes, use a small glue dot or glue to add the beak and snood. And finally, attach the body onto the feathers with a glue dot and your turkey is complete. Happy Thanksgiving!

Art Impressions Products: WC Fir Trees Set, WC Foliage Set 1, Acrylic Block 5 Pack, Acrylic 3” Square Block, Watercolor Brush No. 6, Canson XL WC Paper Pad

Marvy Le Plume II Markers: 82 Mustard, 13 Ochre, 88 Terra Cotta, 27 Olive Brown, 45 Sepia, 18 Dark Brown, 28 English Red

Other Supplies: Want 2 Scrap Self Adhesive Pearl Bling, 7/8” Black Buttons, Glue Dots, Xacto Knife, Stylus, T-Square Ruler, Printer, Blossoms Script Font

Tricia O'Bin - Blog - Instagram - YouTube - Pinterest - Facebook

I used the pumpkin stamp as a container for the fall flowers. I first inked half of the pumpkin stamp with African Violet and Sepia. I wanted my pumpkins to be white, leaving off the top of the pumpkin to allow for the flowers to spill out the front and sides.

I added the leaves in Brilliant Yellow, Orange and English Red. I softened each layer after I stamped it so that I could layer each color easily. I stamped the wheat (I think that i what it is LOL) in Brilliant Yellow. I softened it and then inked the Lily stamp up with Terra Cotta and Olive Green. I then added the branch with the red berries inked with Sepia and English Red.

I cut these out using a square stitched die. I cut a piece of Sweet Mango cardstock to back the middle image.

I created the background by using alcohol inks on photo paper. I cut the shadow of the Thankful die out of this layer. I backed it on a piece of Cranberry Tart cardstock. I cut the word thankful from Sweet Mango cardstock. 

Art Impressions Stamps: 4052 – WC Flower Set 1, 4056 – WC Series 3 Set 1, 4867 – WC Foliage Set 2 New, 4052 – WC Flower Set 1, 4701 – Clay Pot, 4763 – Southwest, 4773 – Acrylic Block 5 Pack (Variety), Canson XL WC Paper Pad

Marvy Markers: 86 African Violet, 45 Sepia, 15 Olive Green, 43 Brilliant Yellow, 28 English Red, 7 Orange, 88 Terra Cotta

Other Supplies: Silver Brush 3000S-4 Black Velvet, Gina K Designs Heavy Base Weight Card Stock- Cranberry Tart, Gina K Designs Stitched Leaves Mini Kit, Gina K Designs Heavy Base Weight Card Stock- Sweet Mango, Gina K Designs "Thankful" Die, Simon Says Stamp STITCHED SQUARES Wafer Dies

Love these festive projects! What do you think? Let us know in the comments below, and share your own projects with us with #AiWatercolor on Instagram, or posting pictures on our Facebook Page! If you are looking for even more inspiration, be sure to visit the designer's other social media pages below:

Dot Freel - Instagram - Blog - Pinterest

Tricia Kennedy - Instagram

Tricia O'Bin - Blog - Instagram - YouTube - Pinterest - Facebook

Happy Watercolor Weekend!

goofy things by Diane Zechman

Hello Ai friends and happy Monday!

 

Today I am sharing a card using a few "oldies but goodies" Ai stamps... 1933- Lillie, 1266- Falling Leaves, and 2637- Goofy Things. I've had this card in mind for a while and wanted to create it last fall but time slipped away so I was sure to make it this year!

 

Who can resist jumping in a pile of leaves?

 

 

To make it even more fun, I adhered Lillie with a Mini Action Wobble!  Her skirt was paper pieced with a scrap from Echo Park's - The Story of Fall pad.

 

The spring brings Lillie to life!

 

Have a great Monday and… happy stamping!

 

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autumn anniversary by Diane Zechman

Hello Ai friends and happy Monday!

 

Today I am sharing a card using two Ai stamps from Hobby Lobby... 4920- Filled with Thanks (a new wood block) and a sentiment from AiCS27- Love Birds (clear set).

 

This fall image is part of the Windows to the World Collection and actually has some lovely words written around it.  I wanted to use it for an anniversary card, though, rather than a Thanksgiving one so I trimmed the words off.  This was colored with Copic markers and a few simple buttons finished it off.

 

Have a great Monday and… happy stamping!

 

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