Reneé's top 5 for 2015!

Hello Ai fans!

Due to the busy time of year our bosses at Art Impressions have given us a little time off.  Our assignment this week was to choose our 5 favorite cards from the year.  Not an easy task.  I wanted to choose at least one from every line. I narrowed it down to 10 and then had my husband and two kids vote.  Most of these they chose unanimously.

So those were the 5 they chose.  I was really sad that not one of them picked this next card though.  I know the instructions were to pick 5 but I just had to include this one.  I love the Polar Pals and can see them being used in so many more ways than just for Christmas!

I hope you all have a wonderful holiday season and wish you the best in the new year!  See you in 2016!!

Here's the link to my faves from last year...

Top cards of 2014.

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Top 3 for 2014!

Happy New Year!

The Design Team were asked to post their top 3 Designs that we created for 2014. This was easy for me as I have only been here since October LOL. I can't imagine having to choose from a whole year of designs. How does one pick when every stamp is awesome? I love all the stamps I have used so far, but here is my choice in no particular order.

My Top 3:

Christmas to All Set (sku#4517)

Polar pals Sitting Bears (sku#4081)

Happy Fall Set (sku#4525)

I hope you enjoyed the Holiday Season with your Family and Friends and found some time to relax! I wish everyone a very Happy New Year and for a 2015 that brings you wonderful things and great health!

Chat soon!

Cheri

Polar Pals!

Hi Ai Fans!

Oh my goodness, I don't think it gets any cuter than this! I have totally fallen in love with these adorable Polar Pals! Today my cards feature the super cute Polar Phil (sku# 4077) and the adorable Sitting Polars (sku# 4081)!

Everytime I look at their smiling faces I can't help but grin! They definitely "warm my heart"!

On the inside of the candy box as well as the cards, I used the Bright with Joy sentiment (sku # 4078). 

Copics Used: (R000, R00, R24, R27, R29, T1, BG10, BG23, BG 34, G17, G19 W0, W1)

I'm sneaking in one more card! See I told you I fell in love with these super cute Polar Pals.

 Head on over to the Art Impression online store to see more of these Polar Pal images and many more cute and funny stamps! While you're there check out the Ai Blog and play along with us for Challenge # Feeling Frosty!

Happy Stamping!

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Caroling Polars and Scrapbook Adhesives by Reneé Matarese

Hello Ai fans!

Today I'm sharing a winter themed card with you.  This week at Art Impressions we were lucky enough to participate in a product swap with Scrapbook Adhesives.  I used three different types of their adhesives on my card which I'll share with you later in the post.

My card features the adorable Caroling Polars (Sku#U4080).

I trimmed off the bear furthest to the right and added him to the outside of the frame.

Now I'll show you how I used the wonderful adhesives from Scrapbook Adhesives.

First up I made my glittered letters and snowflakes.

I used the adhesive sheets to make my letters and flakes sticky so that the glitter would stick to them.  I simply added the adhesive sheet to some white cardstock, ran it through my Cuttlebug and then peeled away the protective layer to expose the adhesive.

 The photos below shows the letters stuck to my image and ready to be glittered.

Next I added the glitter.  Pretty (and easy) isn't it!

Besides using the adhesive sheets on the snowflakes I also used the 3D foam squares to pop them up and give them dimension.

I used the foam dots on the back of the main panel and the frame as well.

The last adhesive I used was the E-Z Squares.

I used these to adhere the image to the main panel.

The little rocks that you see around their feet are called Tiny Stones (Sku#AA1038)

I used two other Art Impressions stamps on the inside.

Merry Christmas (Sku#D558)

and

Polar Birds (Sku#F4082)

Copics used:

Y0000, C00, C0, C3, B34, B60, R00, E33, E40, E43, E93

TriArt:

B11, W4, W5, Y7, Y9, Y12

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