Fun With Flowers Challenge #325 plus, our latest challenge winners!

 Hello Ai fans! We have a new challenge today and our first ever feature from MERCY! She's our newest Design Team member and we hope you love her as much as we do! Her challenge was Fun with Flowers!

We thought this would be fitting with Mother's Day rapidly approaching.

Before we get into our new challenge,  let's announce the winners of our last challenge.  Here are the Top Spot and our Lucky Random winner from our Here Comes Peter Cottontail.

Our Top Spot goes to: De Furey

Please contact Leah at Feedback@artimpressions.com
to claim a free stamp set of your choice!
Also, be sure to grab your badge to display on your blog, Facebook or Instagram!

Our lucky, random winner for our Here Comes Peter Cottontail challenge is:
Meghan Kennihan 

Please contact Leah at Feedback@artimpressions.com
to claim a free stamp set of your choice!


Now that we've wrapped up our previous challenge, let's announce our new challenge!

Mercy created a STUNNING and bold floral card

using Joel's 5102 – Succulents Set.

Welcome Mercy, and take it away!

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Hello Ai Crafters, Mercy here.... With a New Challenge 

Flower, Flowers and more flowers! 

 

I must admit I usually do not explore the endless possibilities when it comes to flower scenes, so this challenge is perfect for me 

The https://www.artimpressions.com/shop/succulents-set-5102/ is a great set which includes the dies. However, I didn’t want any white outlines in my flowers.

I fussy cut the flowers, yes it takes time! but trust me, it was so worth it.  The flowers look great against the embossed background.

I stamped the inside of the card and the envelope, making the whole thing become one.  

If you are like me and tend to stay away from this style of cards, give it a try. I fully enjoyed the process of creating this card and will continue to explore this genre. 

Hope you join our challenge and looking forward to see what you create. 

Thank you for your beautiful inspiration Mercy. 
We look forward to seeing more of your work.

We have some other exiting news today.  It's another release day!

Art Impressions just released the adorable #5502 Craft Bag and #5503 Tool Bag.

These new sets are so much fun and have so many possibilities. 
Stay tuned for a cute card from Mercy combining the new Tool Bag and the Hats Off Mr. Set.

You won't want to miss it!

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!

 ✻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

You Brighten My Day! Card by Tasha

 Happy Friday!

Tasha here sharing a new card created with the M5048 – Succulents Window Stamp Set!

This window stamp is one of my favorites! The pretty succulents and fun Hello banner makes the perfect card to send any time of year. I'm always looking for cards to send to my friends and this stamp makes it so easy to create a quick and pretty design. 

The sentiment "Your friendship brightens my day and adds color to my life" frames the image nicely and the little sun detail allows for another pop of color! This greeting would surely brighten someone's day!

For the layers, I selected bright green, purple, and a deep golden color to coordinate with the colors used on the image. I also added some foam tape to attach the top two layers before adhering it to an A2 sized card base. This card has so much detail and I can not wait to send it out!

Thank you for visiting and I hope you enjoyed today's project!

Have a wonderful day!

Watercolor Succulents by Carol Hintermeier

Happy Monday Ai fans!

My card today features a watercolored card using the beautiful Succulents Set.  I just used four of the stamps for my card, but there are several more stamps in this awesome set!

I used Canson Watercolor paper and my MISTI to stamp a few of the succulents from the set into a background pattern.  These were stamped with Versamark and heat embossed in white.  A couple weekends ago I was so happy to be at an event and took a class where I learned to used Ken Oliver's Color Bursts to watercolor.  I used four colors to watercolor the succulents.  I did the background first though, so I could see the images better.  I used a Tombow marker in Willow Green for that.  In order to see the large succulent's petals better, I did a light wash of green over the entire plant (2nd photo below).  Here are a couple of my "in progress" photos.

   

I've listed the colors I used below, but really, after doing a web search for succulents, you can use just about any nature-y color you want!  I tapped out a bit of the powder onto my Watercolor Palette and added just a drop or two of water.  This is key as you don't want to over dilute the color.  These are highly pigmented and I would pick up a dab of color with my brush and dilute it as needed off to the side.  Once everything was dry, I used a stitched square die to cut the panel out and used double-sided tape to adhere it to a 5-3/4" x 5-3/4" card base.  I used 110# Neenah Solar White for the card base since the watercolor panel is heavier too.

I stamped the sentiment from the WC Sentiments Set with Versafine Onyx Black and die cut it with a die from Flag Double Stitched Dies.  I used some foam squares to pop it up and scattered a few clear dewdrops from my stash across the card.

Thank you so much for stopping by today!  Have a wonderful, crafty week!

Ken Oliver Color Burst colors:  Sap Green, Fuchsia, Prussian Blue

My Favorite Things/Ken Oliver Color Burst colors:  Jellybean Green, Tropical Teal

Tombow watercolor marker:  #173-Willow Green