Pinterest 20K Giveaway + Celebrate with Ai Challenge Week 2

Hello Ai Fans!

Happy Thursday, and welcome to the Art Impressions Blog!

While we are doing the finishing touches on our new release for 2021, we want to celebrate some of the amazing things that have been happening here at Ai...and do a GIVEAWAY!

Welcome to our [ALMOST] 20K GIVEAWAY!

We are ecstatic to be *almost* at 20,000 followers on our Pinterest!

Reneé from our Design Team has managed our Pinterest beautifully over the years, with oodles of inspiration and beautiful creations to share.

Help us get to 20K, and be entered to win one of Reneé's top 5 sets of 2020!!

[seen below]

Halloween Critters Set

Celeste Set

Doggy Kisses Set

Lighthouse Circlet MTF

Barnyard Animal Cubbies

WAYS TO ENTER:

1. FOLLOW Art Impressions Rubber Stamps on Pinterest

AND

2. COMMENT on our blog post here with your favorite set of 2021!!

International contestants welcome! Winners will be selected at random and announced Thursday, February 4th. Good luck and thank you to all our loyal fans! 

 

Now, we have some creative "challenge" inspiration for you from our Design Team!

Crystal and our Girlfriends are ready for a party with this Practically Perfect Set card!

Renee is going for the gold with this sparkly, metallic, and fabulous Birthday Cake Set card!

Bri used layers in her card to match the cake layers on her Birthday Circlet MTF image!

Lynn made our Feline Set bright and bold, and ready to "Pawty" with her card!

Jil 's card is perfect whether you're resolving to take up yoga, OR eat more cake. 

Don't you love how she used our Yoga Set set?!

Inspired? Check out the challenge rules below, and enter your creation!

For this challenge, we are celebrating our 300th CHALLENGE!!! Show us how you celebrate with your own card, bookmark, journaling page, or innovative stamping creation!

If you're looking for some starter ideas, check out our Laughlines, Basics, Girlfriends, or Flip Cards on our Pinterest Page. 

We want to see how you create a celebration in a card! Though you can use any stamps you have, we'd love to see any Art Impressions products in your collection!

Hurry, challenge closes Wednesday, February 3rd at 5PM PT!

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!

✻ Include a link back to the Ai Blog or grab our button on the top right of our sidebar!

✻ Share the Ai love by clicking and commenting 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

NEW VIDEO!!!

Join Bonnie on YouTube to see how she created this colorful, spring-themed mushroom cottage!

Happy Stamping!

NEW VIDEOS with Scrapbook.com! PLUS, Challenge 223 Anything Goes!

Happy New Year, Ai Fans!

We are kicking off January by revealing SIX NEW videos with our friends at Scrapbook.com! If you have been missing Watercolor Wednesday during the break, be inspired by Bonnie's Watercolor video! You will also enjoy her Window card with simple watercoloring of our Windows to the World images and Window Die. Join Kate with four different interactive cards featuring new products! If you have not tried our Mini TryFolds yet, this video is a great tutorial for stamping and die cutting featuring our Paws to Love MTF set. Learn even more tips and tricks for our PopCards in our Tea Party PopCard video! Mixing and matching accessories for our Mouthfuls is super fun and easy, and our Dog Mouthful video is a great example. If you are looking to make a card that is literally jumping for joy, be sure to check out our Wiggle Wobble tutorial!

You can find all the products used in these videos at Scrapbook.com, a great one-stop shop for all your crafting needs! They also carry a section of our most popular products and offer plenty of inspiration in their card gallery!

We are also excited to announce the first challenge of the year! This challenge theme is "Anything Goes" and it's the perfect chance to do that special technique or use that new stamp set from Christmas! Join in the fun, and show us your creation!

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!

✻ Include a link back to the Ai Blog or grab our button on the top right of our sidebar!

✻ Share the Ai love by clicking and commenting your fellow crafters.

✻ Make sure to get your link up by Wednesday, January 18 at 5:00 p.m. PST to enter your creations.

✻ Good luck and happy stamping!

An InLinkz Link-up

Happy Stamping!

NEW VIDEO - Hamster Mouthful Quick Tip Video

Hi Ai Fans!

Welcome to another Quick Tip video, featuring our NEW Mouthfuls! Kate shows you how fun it is to change out all the different images included in our Hamster Mouthful set to customize your image for any occasion! All of our FIVE new Mouthful sets work the same way, having the mouth die cut for adding accessories, but some have their hands, arms or even a kangaroo pouch to add to!

This short three-minute video is just an intro, but we can't wait to see what you create with these inventive sets! Happy Stamping!

View on YouTube: https://youtu.be/88t8gGg2JZ4

NEW VIDEO - Flamingo Wiggle Wobble Quick Tips

Hello Ai Fans!

With the launch of our new Wiggle Wobble sets, we wanted to share a quick tip video on how to put these sets together! Kate will show you a special trick on how to leave a gap in your brads, so there is more motion in your characters. Once you have all the brads attached, you can stick the image on an Action Wobble to create a fun, interactive card!

View on YouTube: https://youtu.be/PLBJSbFPkpc

Harvest Try Fold

Hello AI fans!! I hope you'll like the card I have for you today. I've used one of the new Try Fold stamp sets. However, I didn't use it the way it's intended. 

Instead of stamping each image on a separate fold, I stamped them all onto one layer. The overall card size is 5"X5". I did a video to show you the correct way to use the Try Folds, with another stamp set.

To see all the colors I used, and the process I used to color, check out my blog at canyoupixelthis.com