Thursday, July 9, 2015

Art Impressions challenge - Create with Christmas


Hello AI Fans!!

It's week two of Art Impressions current challenge Create with Christmas! Have you joined in yet? If not, maybe we can give you a little inspiration to help you along. Now I must admit, when I saw this challenge, I got a little nervous. I had no idea which way I was going to go with this one. Use a Christmas image on a non Christmas card? hmmmm....so I fretted and I worried. :)  I knew I wanted to use Reindeer Games Set, but didn't know exactly how. And then one day as I was going through my stamps, I saw Doctor Bill and suddenly knew what I wanted to do. But I had to find the right guy.  And along comes Bud! I love how he's facing the doctor, but looking at her out of the corner of his eyes. He fit into the scene perfectly!  I hope you like what I came up with! The sentiment was done on my computer and the word bubble was cut using the Silhouette. Everything else is just stamps and Copic coloring.   




Please be sure and pop over to Art Impressions to check out all the fabulously creative projects the Design Team has to show you, and then we'd love it if you'd grab your Christmas images and play along! Thanks so much for stopping by to see me today and hope to see you back again soon! Hugs!

 Copic markers used: Multiliner to create baseboard,  E11, E00, E000, R20, B91, B93, B95, B00, B02, T1, T2, E33, E35, E37, E21, E23, E17, E97, E99, Y26, R22, R24, R27, G40, G43, G46, E70, E71, E51, E53, W3, BG10

Tuesday, July 7, 2015

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes!

Hey everyone! It's time for a new challenge over at Papertake Weekly, and since it's the first Tuesday of the month, it's Anything Goes! We're sponsored by the fabulous folks over at Lili of the Valley! Perfect timing to win a voucher as they've just had a big new release of amazing stamps!  The option for this anything goes challenge is to do Christmas in July!  Here's what I've come up with for you.

For my card, I used a set of cute Polar Pals from Art Impressions called Walking Polars (sku# M4079). I mounted them on a snowflake shaped card I created using a snowflake Silhouette file.



Please be sure and pop over to Papertake Weekly to check out all the gorgeous creations from the fabulous Design Team, and then we'd love it if you'd grab your paper and glue and play along with us! Thanks for stopping by to see me today and hope to see you back again soon! Hugs!

Saturday, July 4, 2015

Art Impressions - Eat the Frosting!

Hello Ai Fans and Happy 4th of July for those of you in the States!!
 
Hope you're having a wonderful Holiday weekend and are staying cool and getting some extra crafty time in!! Today I've got a card for you that features that adorable mouse Frosting Spinner and I also used the Frosting Spinner Dies from Art Impressions!
 
 
 
 



LOVE this cutie patootie!! :)  Enjoy your weekend and hope you get some time to be crafty!

Copics used: C1, C2, C3, RV32, RV34, BG13, BG18, BG70, BG72, BG75



Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Papertake Weekly - It's "take your pick" week!

Hello everyone! It's time for a new challenge at Papertake Weekly, and since it's the last Tuesday of the month, it's "take your pick" week.  Please pop over to Papertake Weekly for all the different choices you've got to enter the challenge! Our sponsor this week is the awesome Simon Says Stamp!

For my card today, I'm using an Art Impressions stamp set Dare to be Fabulous that is exclusive to Hobby Lobby! I can relate to that sentiment a little too much, I think! LOL! Papers are Prima.





Please be sure to pop over to Papertake Weekly to check out the gorgeous creations from my teamies, and then we'd really love it if you'd grab your paper and glue and play along with us! Thanks so much for stopping by to see me today and hope to see you back again soon! Hugs!

Saturday, June 27, 2015

Celebrate with Art Impressions!

Hello AI Fans!!

And happy weekend! WOW is it ever HOT! I think the entire west coast is under a giant heat wave. Hope you're staying cool and maybe getting some crafting in since it's too hot to be able to do much outdoors!  Today I'm showing you a card that features a new Art Impressions wood mounted stamp that is available at AC Moore! It's called Celebrate (PS0919).





Copic markers used: E04, E11, E00, E000, R20, G82, G94, G99, E50, E51, E21, E23, E25, C1, C2, C3, Y15, Y17, Y15, R27



Thanks so much for stopping by today and enjoy your weekend!

Friday, June 26, 2015

Art Impressions Hobby Lobby Blog Hop and a prize!!!


Hello AI Fans!!

We're so excited over at Art Impressions! We would like to welcome you to our very first Hobby Lobby Blog Hop!

 

You should have arrived here from my DT Sister, the extremely talented Renee! If you just stumbled upon this, please be sure and go back to the beginning at the Art Impressions Blog so you don't miss anything!   Here are the links to all the new stamps!



For my card today, I am showing you one of the fabulous images and sentiments from AiCS05 Dare to be Fabulous Clear Stamps!





Copics used:
E11, E00, E000, R20, R27, YR20, YR21, BG70, BG72, BG75, B000, E21, E23, E33, E35, Y23, Y26, T1, T2, T3, W1, W3, W5, YG17
 
Paper is Fancy Pants Parkbench (that was a total coincidence LOL)
 
Don't forget to enter our raffle! Sign in using Facebook or email and follow us on social media for chances to win a prize pack of our 5 new stamps!


a Rafflecopter giveaway

I'm the last stop on the hop! Thanks so much for hopping with us today and I sure hope you've been inspired to create with your own Art Impressions stamps!!


Thursday, June 25, 2015

Art Impressions Challenge - Red, White, and Blue!

Hello AI Fans!!

So have you seen the new challenge going on right now over at Art Impressions Blog? It's getting very close to Independence Day, and the challenge is to use Red, White, and Blue for your project! For my card today, I'm featuring a new Art Impressions /Hampton Arts set that is exclusive to Michael's. The set comes with two different images and six different sentiments!!!  (this is soooo me and my friends!!!) :)


I stamped the image onto Cryogen White paper with Memento Tuxedo Black ink, then colored it with Copic markers. I then cut out the image with Spellbinders dies.


The papers are digital from Nitwit Collections and I added a punched border that was created with a Martha Stewart punch. Finally, I stamped the sentiment and used more Spellbinder dies to cut it out. Both the image and the sentiment are raised off the card base with foam tape.


Please be sure to pop over to the Art Impressions Blog to check out all the amazing creations by the design team. Then we'd love it if you'd show us your version of Red, White, and Blue! Thanks for stopping by to see me today and hope to see you back again soon! Hugs!
 

Tuesday, June 23, 2015

Papertake Weekly - Trio-Tastic!!

Hey everyone!! It's time for a new challenge at Papertake Weekly and this week, Dawny's challenge is Trio-Tastic!! So use three different things on your project. Could be three different shapes, three different flowers, three different papers, three anything.  We are sponsored this week by Paper Nest Dolls.

For my card today, I am featuring a Little Darlings Rubber Stamp from the Saturated Canary line! I don't see her available now, so I'm not sure if she's been discontinued.







Please be sure and pop over to Papertake Weekly to check out all the gorgeous creations by my teamies, and then we'd love it if you'd grab your paper and glue and play along with us! Thanks so much for stopping by to see me today and hope to see you back again soon! Hugs!



image from Little Darlings Rubber Stamps colored with Copic markers
heart flourish, banner, and image frame cut with Silhouette
Doily and butterflies from Cheery Lynn Designs dies
lace flower from Prima
Viva Decor Pearl Pen in ice white
Diamond Stickles

Saturday, June 20, 2015

Art Impressions blog hop with Chameleon Pens and Perfect Paper Crafting!

Hello AI Fans!!
 
Welcome to day 6 of our blog hop with Chameleon Pens and Perfect Paper Crafting! We hope you're enjoying this week long adventure and are getting lots of inspiration from all the amazing creations!  You should have arrived here from the Perfect Paper Crafting Bog!


 
 
Today I'm showing you a new Art Impressions Stamp Set that is exclusive to Hobby Lobby called Live Laugh Love. It comes with 7 stamps!
 
 
So have you tried the Chameleon pens yet? It's amazing that you can get so many different shades of color out of one pen! From highlights all the way down to deep shadows!  I used the Primary Color Set for my card today, using YL2, GR3, RD4, and BL6.
 
Many years ago, I purchased a Perfect Layers set, but for this card I used the Perfect Layers Mini Border Tool Set which is perfect for making cards or matting photographs! What I really love about it is that with a paper trimmer, you have to have at least one straight edge in order to easily trim your paper straight.  With the Perfect Layers tools, you can use any piece of scrap paper that is large enough for what you want! It doesn't matter how crooked the edges are! I adhered my image to a piece of black scrap paper and trimmed it perfectly all the way around!
 
 
Then I adhered it to a scrap piece of the yellow polka dot papers and trimmed that with a nice wide border, then again with the black mat! Easy peasy!!
 
 
Simply added my sentiments, a flower with a silk bow, and some Viva décor pearls!
 
 
 
Your next stop in the hop to CHAMELEON PENS BLOG!  Thanks so much for hopping along with us and hope you have some time this weekend to get crafty!!  And don't forget to enter to win!!
 
 
 
 


Copic markers used:  E11, E00, E000, R20, E97, E99, E21, E23
Chameleon pens used: YL2, GR3, RD4, BL6