Never Have I Ever Challenge #384 Week #2

 Hello Ai fans and welcome to week two
of our Never Have I Ever challenge.

We want you to use a stamp or die that you've never used before.

You know you have some. We all buy things because we "NEED" them,

only to find them sitting unused. Get them out and USE them!

Our Featured Artist was Tasha

and you can see her tutorial for her Step Fold card HERE.

Tasha also created a Halloween card and you can see it HERE.

You can see my Spooky Crew card HERE.

 

Janet used 5185-Baby Girl Set (her never used set)

Plus 5543-Journal Template Die Set

5562-Journal Letter Die Set

Sharon's card can be found HERE.

Lynn's card and VIDEO tutorial can be found HERE.
Follow her YouTube HERE.

 

Dori's Pop-Up Slider card uses  #4902 Par-Tee Golfer stamp,
Journal Rectangle Frames Die #5591,
#5063 Rectangle A2 Double Stitched Die
and the #5907 Golf Shop Matchbook

 

Karen's cards from her Watercolor Weekend "Never Have I Ever" 

can be found HERE.

 

It's hard to believe, with all the cards our fabulous Design Team 

creates that there are sets that they've never used. 

All of these are wonderful! Thank you for the inspiration.

✻ Please make a new card or handmade crafty creation. You can make any 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!

 ✻Please include your first name and last initial on your submission.

✻We love to comment on your entries, but keep in mind if you use a private group or a platform that you need to sign up for, we probably won't be able to.

✻ 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 if you can, by clicking and commenting on your fellow crafters.

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

✻ Good luck and happy stamping! 

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Midnight Snack Tag by Nina

 Hello Ai fans, Nina here and today I am sharing a new cute Ai tag for my Tag Journal of Art Impressions. Today I am making a picnic scene for last week's challenge "Midnight Snack" so I needed a picnic cooler bag and I improvised and turned the Crafter Bag from the set ___ to a picnic cooler bag. I am also using the Tag Stitched Dies Set.

I cut my Tag from White paper multiple times and attached them together to make them sturdy. I then used Broken China and Mermaid Lagoon Distress inks to create a background for my scene.

I stamped my images using Memento Tuxedo Black Ink that is Copic friendly and colored them with Copics.

For my snack & critter images, I used these sets:

Produce Stand MTF (Racoon)

Craft Bag Die Set (Bag)

Front Porch Harvest Set (Apple Bushel)

MB Coffee Shop (Cupcake, Cake & Cookies)

Road Trip Set (Hot Drink Cup)

I colored the cat from "Spooky Wagon Set" but I ended up not using it.

I colored all the images with these Copic shades:

Reds: R21 R27 R29 R32 R59

Orange: YR27

Yellow: Y02 Y06 Y08

Yellow Greens: YG01 YG23 YG25

Pinks: RV14

Blues: B05

Browns: E15 E17 E25 E99

Greys: C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 N4 N6

I then cut my images, backed them with foam tape. I die cut a grass border from green cardstock and glued it directly on my tag.

I inserted my snack image in the slits of the cooler bag and attached it on the grass border and attached the racoon next to it.

I also die cut the word PICNIC from alphabet dies and colored with the same Copic shades..

I added some enamel dots and hearts to decorate my scene.

I then opened the metal ring of my tag album and added my new tag to it.

Happy Retirement! by Reneé Matarese

 Hello Ai fans!

One of my friends is retiring at the end of this school year and I wanted to make her a fun card.  She loves to travel and has done so throughout her career.  I can only imagine where she'll go once she all the time in the world to do so.

For my card I used SO MANY Art Impressions sets.

You can find links to all of them at the end of my post.

My card was made for the current Inside Out challenge.

I wanted to incorporate all forms of travel because her 3 children are scattered throughout the world.  Sometimes she hops a plane,  sometimes it's a road trip.  I'm not sure if she's cruised yet but isn't that what retirement is for?

My images were all colored using Copic markers.  Some were cut with coordinating dies and some were but with my Brother Scan and Cut.  It's a lifesaver for older sets that don't have dies.

Some of those images are tiny so I whipped out my TwinTones for the fine details.

Best Day Ever interactive card by Sharon

 Hello AI Fans! 

Today's card features SC0795 Road Trip from Art Impressions and it goes right along with the current AI Challenge of Summer Fun!  Is there anything more fun than going on a road trip with your Besties? I wanted to make this card interactive, but I wanted it to look like the car was actually rolling down the road instead of you seeing the sliding mechanism.  So I did a little googling and I love how it turned out! What can I say, interactive cards are always my favorite. Hopefully this video works and I apologize for the background noise...I forgot I had my little desk fan on.

 

Here's a picture with the slide tab open on the bottom where the call is pulled over to the left. I stamped Best Day Ever on it so it's only visible once it is pulled out. 

Here you get a little peek at the inside which I decorated as well.  Can you see the cute little Art Impressions Freebie? :) 

 

I also used the Art Impressions Fence dies on the inside decoration. You can see a little peek of it below. 

Thanks so much for stopping by today and hope you have a great week! See you next time! 

Girls just wanna have fun! by Sharon Caudle

 Hello AI Fans!!

I'm SO HAPPY to be back and to be able to share my AI creations with you again!!  I'd like to wish all my fellow Americans a Happy 4th of July! And to our neighbors to the North, I hope you had an amazing Canada Day!!  So let's get to it, shall we??  I'm sharing a card today to celebrate my return to the AI Design Team on the 4th of July! Blanche is actually the first Art Impressions stamp I ever purchased years and years ago! LOL! I still love her just as much to this day. I just had to dress her for the holiday. :)  I also incorporated a couple of the adorable gulls from the Gull Friends Set and the sentiment is from Road Trip. 

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by for a visit!  Until next time, stay safe and stay crafty!!

Copic markers used:

E000, E00, E11, E30, E31, E33, E35, E41, E42, E43, E50, E51, E53, E55, E95, E97

Y26, Y32, Y35, Y38

B000, B00, B21, B23, B24, B37

R20, R22, R24, R27, R29

YR02, YR04, YR09

G43, G46

W0, W5

T1, T2

C6

Let's Enjoy a Road Trip by Nina

 Hello crafty friends, join me today as I share this fun project. My kids and I are planning a road trip right after school is over and I was so excited to create a card that reflects our fun plan.

I used the Holiday Mansion set as a hotel and used images from the Road Trip set to make my fun card.

I stamped the car, road & motel signs from Road Trip set, and the mansion from the mansion set using Memento Tuxedo Black ink and colored them with Copic markers.

I cut a panel for the background and sketched mountains, hillsides and a road with a pencil. I cut masks and covered the mountains and ink blended the sky to give a sunset effect. also blended the hillsides the same way after masking thier surroundings.

 I used the dies included with the Mansion set to create the windows and the door. I used foam tape to attach my images to the background and stamped Road Trip on a banner that I die cut using the Banner Doubled Stitched Die Set.