Masculine Masterpieces Challenge #392 Week #2

 Hello Ai fans and welcome to week #2 of our Masculine Masterpieces challenge!

We want to see your cards and crafty projects fit for a guy or boy!

They can be holiday themed but they certainly don't have to.

Last week, our Featured Designer was Sharon. She created an adorable interactive train card.  Visit her post for her tutorial.

Now let's see what the rest of the Design Team made.

I made a retirement card.

Tasha made a beautiful winter scene.

Dori has a humorous card for you.

5421 - Sit Back Laugh Lines

5323 - MB Wall Accessories

5724 - Nested Rectangle dies

5062 - Rounded Rectangle A2 Double Stitched die

5606 - Harvest Journal PP

5838 - Fall PP

Lynn also has a fun train card!
Visit her blog or YouTube channel for her tutorial.

Christmas Train Set (5929)

Christmas Train Bundle Set (5975)

Slimline Die Set (5463)

Christmas Magic Paper Pack (5853)

Janet has a beautiful, blustery gingerbread house scene.

5977 – Mini Christmas Village Set

5890 – Village Accessories

5135 – Hexagon Double Stitched Dies

5566 – Christmas Sentiments

5353 – Large Snowflake Dies

Thank you to all of our wonderful designers for their amazing inspiration.

They work so hard to bring you exciting new designs each week.

✻ Please make a new card or handmade crafty creation. You can make any item you wish; this is not limited to cards! (unless specified)

✻ 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! 

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Masculine Masterpieces #392 Week #1

Week #2 coming tomorrow with all the other Design Team cards.

I host Thanksgiving and time got away from me. 

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

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 Hello Ai fans and welcome to our latest challenge!

Masculine Masterpieces!

Over the next two weeks we want to see your cards and crafty projects fit for a guy or boy!
They can be holiday themed but they certainly don't have to.

Before we see our Featured Designer Sharon's adorable card, let's see who won our Under the Dome challenge.

For our Top Spot we chose Irene Rhodes
for her adorable penguin cheer shaker card.

Please contact Leah at Feedback@artimpressions.com

to claim a free stamp set of your choice!! ***Leah is out of the office until further notice***

There is someone covering for her but I don't have details yet. Please send an email to this address and someone will help you. Be aware that there may be a slight delay.

Also, be sure to grab our badge to display on your blog, Facebook or Instagram!

Our Lucky Random Winner was #8 C. Dunn.

Please contact Leah at Feedback@artimpressions.com

to claim a free stamp set of your choice!! ***Leah is out of the office until further notice***

There is someone covering for her but I don't have details yet. Please send an email to this address and someone will help you. Be aware that there may be a slight delay.

Also, be sure to grab our badge to display on your blog, Facebook or Instagram!

Congratulations to our winners.

Now let's all enjoy Sharon's darling, interactive, slimline Christmas card!

Be sure to check out her video clip of the train moving.  SO CUTE!!

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Hello AI Fans!    

I'm so excited to show you a card I made for the Masculine Masterpieces challenge. I have a nephew that absolutely LOVES trains, so this was made in honor of him! I love this new set #5929 Christmas Train Set from Art Impressions, and it's just so festive!! Ever since I saw it, I knew I wanted to make it into a slider card so I got to work! I actually used a die set from My Favorite Things called Movin & Groovin Slimline Set. You want to hold on cause it's going to be a bumpy ride! LOL! I thought it would be the perfect slider set to use with a train! So instead of moving across the card smoothly, it looks like it's going clickety clack! I started by stamping all the pieces onto a Copic friendly paper with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and then coloring them with Copic markers which are listed below. One of the issues I have with slimline cards is that you can't use 6" papers. But guess what!!!  The new Art Impressions Cover papers are PERFECT for slimline cards!!  So I grabbed #5964 Winter Woodland Cover Paper Pack for the background. I created a couple snowy ground coverings by tearing my white paper. I glued one piece to the pattern paper background and then cut the slider channel out of it. The top piece was popped up and is used to cover the slider channel.

The Movin & Groovin slide channel

In order to move through the bumpy slide channel, the image has to be attached to a certain piece on the pull tab. Therefore, I could only attach the engine to the pull tab, not both cars. I had to connect the second train car to the engine so it would move as well, so I grabbed some acetate to connect the two cars. 

A Christmas train just isn't a Christmas train without glitter. Would you agree?? Here are all those adorable penguins all colored up as well! So adorable!!

 

And  a picture of the final card. I added some trees from a die in my stash and added some Stickles to them as well. 

Here's a little video that shows you how it works. I love how it turned out! 

Thank you so much for stopping by for a visit today, and I can't wait to see what you create for the new Masculine Masterpieces challenge!  Until next time - stay crafty!!

Copics used:

R12, 22, 24, 27, and 29

G43, 46, 82, and 85

Y35 and 38

E33, 95, 97, and 99

YG03, and 05

T1

C3, 4, and 5

✻ Please make a new card or handmade crafty creation. You can make any item you wish; this is not limited to cards! (unless specified)

✻ 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! 

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Thankful for You Slimline Card -by Crystal

Hi Ai fans! We are one week away from Thanksgiving! Who is ready? I have not made to many Thanksgiving cards this year I think I skipped over Thanksgiving and started making Christmas cards, but this week I took a little break to make a Thanksgiving card to share with you all. I played with my favorite Ai Thanksgiving set-Feast Mode. 

I added strips of pattern paper to a piece of scrap paper in bright colors. I then die cut it out with the second largest slimline die. I used the double stitched circle die to cut circles out for all of the characters I wanted to add to the card but instead of removing the circles I kept them in place.  

I added the characters from the stamp set with foam tape and adhered them to the middle of all of the circles. I stamped the sentiment onto a double stitched rectangle and adhered it between the third and last circle on the card. 

I matted the panel onto shimmer cardstock die cut out with the largest slimline die. I then adhered the whole panel to a 3 1/2" X 8" card base. 

Happy Stamping!

 

Having a Birthday? No Prob-Llama! by Janet

Ll'amazing things are happening at Art Impressions right now! Not least of which is the super fun new Llama set that was released this week. This set includes several llamas and accessories that can be used together or alone. There are many fun sentiments in this set too. They are hilarious in fact!

Watch video below to see the wonderful details of this set and how I used it to make this card.

Today's card shows of the pair of llamas with the stack of presents and cake as well as the basket of flowers. These are only a few of the accessories that are designed to be used separately as I did. Optionally the accessories are designed to fit perfectly on the back of a single llama also in the set! There's a lot of flexibility in this one and soooo many great images and sentiments.

This set also includes matching dies so you can quickly cut out the images for your cards. I sure do appreciate that! I'm not a fussy cutting fan though I know many say they find it relaxing. On this card I colored up the llamas with copic markers and added a little texture into their fur. I also added designs to the presents to make them my own also.  

On the other side of this slimline, I used a semi-circle cut with the double stitched circle set for the sentiment from the set and enhanced it with the basket of flowers. All the accessories are nicely sized and could easily be used as a single image on a clean and simple card. I love that about this set!

Thanks for stopping by today. Please check out this set and all the others released this week. You're going to love them!

Happy Creating!

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