Challenge 261 Animal Print!

Hello, Ai Fans!

We so appreciated all of you who celebrated our birthday with us this month! Your kind words, birthday sale orders, and challenge entries are all greatly appreciated! Ai Fans really are the best!

Let's start today's post with the winner's of last week's Birthday Cards Challenge!

Top Spot goes to...

Donna Whitten!

Congrats! Your use of the Old Goats simply adorable with your patterned paper and coordinated coloring! Email annelise@artimpressions.com with your address to claim your prize pack!

Honorable mentions go to...

Alli C - Creative Clark!

Andrea B!

Congrats, you two! Alli, your 80th Birthday card featuring our Birthday Laugh Lines is so energizing with your colorful sentiment background! And Andrea, your "short and to the point" birthday card with our Hedgehogs Set is darling! Email annelise@artimpressions.com to claim your prize pack!

It's time for a new challenge! This one is all about Animal Print, how fun is that?! Crystal has a tutorial to share for inspiration on our theme, let's take a look!

Hi Ai fans! 

I love using stamps in different ways for this challenge Animal Prints I thought I would do some paper piecing and include some cow hide pattern paper as my animal print. 

Since I was using cow hide animal print I used the Cowgirls Girlfriend set I though it would be a perfect match for cowhide. The Cowgirl set is one of my current favorite girlfriend stamp sets. 

To start I stamped the image with Momento Black ink and I only colored in the part of the image that was not going to be covered with pattern paper, which was just the skin, hair and two of the friends boots. 

I then stamped the image multiple times onto some different patterns of paper. I then fussy cut different pieces out. 

I found it easiest to apply glue directly to the stamped image then place the pattern paper onto the full image. By using glue I had a little wiggle room to move the small piece around if I needed too. Once everything was adhered in place with glue I fussy cut the whole image out.

I die cut some pattern paper out to use as the background for the cowgirls. I stamped the sentiment "Have a boot scootin' two steppin' toe tappin' wild west birthday" onto a die cut tag with a dark brown ink. I adhered a couple of the layers with foam tape to add a little dimension to the card.

Once I had all of the layers adhered together I adhered the whole panel to a top folding 5 1/2" X 4 1/4" card base. 

I look forward to seeing what every one else makes for this challenge. 

Spectrum Noir Markers: 

CR11, BT5, DG2, GT1, EB2, EB4, GY3, BO1, MB1, GB2, GB3, GB4, FS9

Happy Stamping!

We want you to join our challenge! It's so fun to look through your unique creations! We pick a "Top Spot" entry for a mystery prize pack, and two "Honorable Mentions" to receive an Ai stamp set of their choice! Not a bad deal, right?? But you can't win if you don't enter, so let's see your projects!! Play along with our "Animal Print" theme and follow our rules to enter.

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!

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✻ Make sure to get your link up by the deadline to enter your creations.

✻ Good luck and happy stamping!

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It's me or the house! | By Jessica Shier

Hello Ai Fans!

Happy Friday! This Housework set had me laughing after reading all the wonderful sentiments in it. I couldn't wait to color this glamorous lady! I love that she's wearing her pearls, heels and a fancy dress, which I had to paper piece with this shimmer textured cardstock. She had me laughing, but wait until you see the inside. lol!

I started this design out by stamping the lady from the Art Impressions Housework set, using Amalgam ink. All the images are colored with Copic Markers, except the dress portion which I stamped on to a piece of Tonic Luxury Embossed paper and fussy cut out. Then adhered over the stamped dress. It is very hard to see in the photo but it has a floral embossed pattern and is a shimmery aqua color. 

Since the challenge for this week is shape cards I wanted to play around with shapes. I cut the colored card panel using the largest Double Stitch Hexagon die and a rectangle stitch die, only cutting part of the hexagon. I layered a piece of pattern paper (Pink Fresh Indigo Hills) behind. This pattern cardstock already had a bit of texture and splatter to it but I added more by using a couple of Distress Oxide inks. I was going for a coffee splatter kind of look lol. Which seems to be the mess I clean up almost daily. 

I also stamped the sentiment using Versafine Clair Nocturne ink and clear embossing powder on to a piece of vellum. Then, I cut the stamped vellum with a Flag Stitch die. Vellum can be tricky to adhere but I find that you can't see the adhesive through the sentiment or with the splattered background, I just used my ATG to do that. 

I like to add just a bit of the front of the card to the inside of the card. For this one I used the hilarious cat riding the robot vacuum image, which is also included in the Housework set! All I had left was to stamp another great sentiment and add a strip of pattern paper to the bottom. 

That cats face Lol! 

Copic Markers Used:
C5, C3, C1
E51, E35, E31
Y26, Y21, Y13
R85, R81, BV00
BG18, BG15, BG13, BG11, BG10
Colorless Blender

Thank you guys so much for joining me today. Happy Stamping! 

It's Your Day, Celebrate! by Dana Warren

Hello AI fans!!

Today, I have a fun and clean card for you! It's not really simple because it's a lot of paper piecing but definitely a fun card!!

I started by stamping the Party Girls Set on a white panel. Then I stamped the image many more times on different pattern paper from Me and My Minds Eye Hooray paper pad. 

With sharp scissors, I fussy cut the ladies tops, bottoms and balloons. Then with a black marker, I colored the edges of all the fussy cutting.

With my Spectrum Noir markers, I colored the ladies skin, shoes, and hair, oh and the confetti! I just matched the colors to the pattern paper. I used CR8, DR4, DR7, EB5, EB6, FS3, FS4, FS6, GY1, IG10, JG5, PP2, TN7, TN8.

After coloring, I used a liquid adhesive to adhere the paper pieced clothing and balloons. Liquid because I can move the paper around to line everything up correctly. Last I stamped the sentiment below the ladies and adhered the panel to a white card base. If you do this directly on a card base the coloring will show on the reverse side, to hide this I do all my stamping and coloring on a panel that gets's adhered to the card base!!

Thanks so much for stopping by! Happy stamping and paper piecing!!

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#BestDadEver by Dana Warren

Hello AI Fans!!

Father's day is right around the corner and today's card is perfect if you need a quick card at the last minute. I used FDMD Set, Gordon Golf Set with a little paper piecing.

I stamped Gordon on a white card base and on a piece of white cardstock. Then I stamped it a third time on some different pattern paper from some DoodleBug Designs pattern papers. I fussy cut out his shirt and pants. 

With my Spectrum Noir markers, I colored everything else. I used BT5, BT6, EB5, EB6, FS2, FS6, FS9, IG2, IG4, IG6. Then I fussy cut out Gordon. 

I added him to the card with foam tape and with a gray marker I added a little bit of ground for Gordon to stand on. Last I stamped the #bestdadever sentiment.

Thanks for stopping by! Happy Stamping!!

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Is your house child-proofed?

Hello AI fans!!

So how about a funny card today that you could use for any occasion?  I love the Golden Oldies at Art Impressions!  This one is Lovelle on Couch, and she could be saying anything! I've always loved this sentiment G2621 Childproofed.  I think it's so funny!!  I paper pieced the couch and pillow. 

Thanks so much for stopping by today and hope to see you back again soon! Until then, stay crafty!!

Copics:  E000, E00. E11. R20, E21, E23. C2, C3, C4. RV14, RV17, R35, R27, R39, Y26, BG32, BG34, BG57

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Hole In One by Dana Warren

Hello AI Fans!!

Today I have a cute little card for that special golfer in your life, Gordon Golfer!! Sometimes they did a little pick me up or just a hello! I did some simple paper piecing today, the best way to do paper piecing, pick pattern paper from the same paper pad!! Super easy, no matching necessary!

Whenever I do paper piecing I always start with the paper! Since this is a card for a guy I used Fancy Pants Swagger pad. I think golf pants always call for plaid!! A little stamping and fussy cutting and I have a pant and a hat for my golfer!

Since I went with the gray striped background I kept his shirt basic white and added just a touch of color to his outfit by coloring his socks!! To color everything but his hat and pants I used my Spectrum Noir Markers: BG5, BG6, EB5, EB6, FS4, FS6, FS9, IG1, IG2, JG6.

I kept the panel I stamped and colored the golfer on simple and square! So I did the same for the sentiment, though made it into a rectangle. I added the square and rectangle to the card with foam tape and lastly added a few matching enamel dots!

Thanks so much for stopping by! Happy Stamping!

Birthday Wishes by Karen Day

Hello Ai fans!

I have found myself in need of a handful of masculine cards recently!  I pulled out one of the Ai clear stamp sets called Birthday Wishes (Sku #AICS36) who has this cute fella as one of the images, and made three similar cards:

 The houndstooth print was perfect for paper piecing, so I tried it out for both his top and shorts:

 I popped up a couple of the images & sentiments with pop dots, and left one flat for easier mailing.  I added some blue epoxy bubbles and some zigzag stitching with my sewing machine, and that was it!

 Copics used: E13, E11, E00, E000, R30, W3, W1, W00, B26, B24, B23, B21, Y26, Y21, E50, R22, YG95, YG93, YG91.  Happy stamping!

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