Is It Spring Yet!

Hello Monday!
We had a beautiful weekend here! It was great! In the 70's I think yesterday. I even dabbled a little pulling weeds to feel the sun and then it was back to the stamp room before Easter dinner!

For my card this week, I used the birdhouse and bird from the WaterColor Series 5 set. It comes with the birdhouse, bird, a flower basket and stand for the basket. I stamped the images with black ink and then colored them with copic markers. Added some glitter, flowers and rhinestones. The ribbon is holding the card closed.
TheWatercolor sets are really fun to work with. You can do lots of things with them. Just stamp and color this image like I did. Or the flowers, plants and things you color right on the stamps with markers and stamp all kinds of fun things.

My papers are digi papers and Lucky Limeade cardstock. I used the fun square die from Spellbinders.

Happy Spring and Stamping!
Stamper Gyrl!

Congratulations on your retirement!

There are 2 women that I work closely with that

are retiring at the end of this school year.  This

is a card that I plan to take to school for our "lunchtime crew"

to sign.  There are several of us that have had lunch together

almost every day for the past 4 years and we want to 

do something special for our friends leaving us.

This is for one of the women who loves gardening

and flowers.

The stamp I used is called Country To.

It's from the Envelope Art line at Art Impressions.

The cool thing about this stamp is that it's meant to go 

on the front of your envelope.  It's just too pretty to only 

go on the envelope though.  I thought it deserved its own 

card.  I took a photo split and cut it in half.  I placed the 

sticky side on to the "to" to block it out.  Then I inked up my

stamp,  pulled of the sticker and stamped the image. This way

I get the beautiful mailbox without the "to" on it.

I used Spellbinders dies for the ovals and the larger

part of the flower.  The smaller flower was made with

a punch.

I've also used a verse from AI on the front.

It's called Block Congratulations.

Here's a photo of the inside where

I used a Martha Stewart punch to make a picket fence.

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Say... CHEESEkake!

Here in Finland we have wonderful weather.. sun is shining, although it's not so warm in the outside yet.
So it´s better stay inside and make some cards:)
I soooo like these Girlfriends -stamps!! Here is one of the new-ones: "Picture Perfect Set" (includes 3 different text too):

AND don´t forget our blog-challenge !! Theme: Operation Write Home: "Thinking of you/ Make´em laugh, there is huge prizes!! Scroll down and read more!!

Happy Easter!

With this card I like to wish you all Happy Easter!! Hope you all have peaceful and wonderful Easter-time! 

I have used "Joyful Kate"-stamp in this card. I didn´t used any text this time. I just like to keep this card simple. I usually color images with promarkers, but this time I used only color pencil ( Caran D´ache).
Tomorrow I´ll post card with new girlfriends-stamp:)

OWH Blog Hop! April 14-15!

Exciting news! We will be extending our Challenge 58 until Sunday, April 15 to participate in the Operation Write Home blog hop! Their challenge theme is "Make 'em Laugh" so we will be accepting both styles for our competition. 

We will now be offering first, second and third place prizes.

1st Place - $30 Ai Gift Card!!!

2nd Place - Free Card Keeper Set! (your choice)

3rd Place - One of our new 2012 Girlfriends images! (your choice)

The former post is now updated to reflect the new blog criteria. All submission information is the same, but now bigger prizes and extended time! We're excited to see what you create!

Happy Stamping!

Kate Swanson

Challenge 57 Winner

Because we are doing a special blog tomorrow with quite a bit of information, we are announcing our winner for the "Spring has Sprung" challenge today. Our winner is ...

MANSI

Congratulations! Contact me at kate@artimpressions.com to receive your $10 coupon code!

Happy Stamping!

Kate

Warm and Fuzzy Easter

Welcome to Wednesday!!

Since Easter is Sunday, I thought I'd inspire you with one more Easter card.

Here is Anthonie. Isn't he a darling bunny!!??!! I used my own glitter eggs. Easy to make and you can make them using any color of card stock. I colored Anthonie and his basket with colored pencils and shaded with gamsol.

Supplies used:
Anthonie Set UM4119 
Prismacolor Pencils - Copenhagen Blue, Pale Vermilion, Grass Green, Lilac, Carmine Red, Sunburst Yellow, Orange, Magenta, Apple Green, Aquamarine
Ink Pads - Distress Inks Gathered Twigs, Chipped Sapphire
Card stock - White, designer CS, Blue CS
Glitter
Ribbon
Dimensional Foam

Have a great day and stop in tomorrow for the next weekly Art Impressions Challenge.

Barbara

JUST A NOTE !!

Good morning ladies, it is Tuesday again, I hope everyone is haviag a grrreat day! Today I have used L1603 Turtle, I think he is so cute!  You can find him and other cute critters at Art Impressions HERE!

I have used my copics to color Mr. Turtle, looked through my stash and found green papers that went perfect with him.  I had a lot of fun doing this card and I hope you enjoy it.

Huggz Anne
http://annescards4u.blogspot.com

Monday Greetings!

Here is my card forArt Impressions for this week. My last Easter card. I went with the sketch fromClean & Simple friday sketch challenge. You can tell by the name what it is all about. So I used my martha stewart punch and some paper scraps. My cute little bunny can be found here. He is called Bunny Basket. I also used the greetings here. It was really hard for me to go so simple on this card but once it was done I really liked how it turned out.

Happy Stamping!

Stamper Gyrl!

Still sizzlin' BBQ couple

I'm late, I'm late for a very important date!
I'm so sorry.  I'm supposed to post on Sundays
but I'm a little late today.  "Technically" it's Monday
in my time zone.
Anyways,  I'm hoping you'll like this adorable
couple and forgive me!  They can be found
at Art Impressions.

This cute couple is called BBQ
They're part of a great clear set that AI offers.
In my part of the U.S. we're anxiously awaiting
spring so we can get outdoors and start BBQing again!

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