Swing Image

 Art Impressions is having a new challenge called "Don't Fence Me In".  This challenge only requires you to have a fence in your project.  So I decided to make an interactive birthday card for my bestest friend.  I used several Art Impressions stamp sets and dies for this card starting with the Fairy Spinner.  This lady cracks me up with her birthday hat and fairy wings.  I also used images from the Holiday Mansion Birthday set and the Birthday Buggy set along with the fence die set.  

I stamped all of the images on cryogen white cardstock and colored with my copic markers.  They all fit so well together to make an adorable scene.  The spinner lady comes with the die to cut her out as well as her backside (although I only used the front of her).  I placed her on a piece of acetate and cut a hole in the top of the acetate so she could swing on a foam dot.  To make her swing freely, I popped the big cloud on foam tape and cut a hole at the top.  I matched the hole in the acetate piece over the cloud hole and put the double stacked foam dot in the center of the hole.  Then, I placed foam tape on the back of the blue balloon piece (being careful not to block the swing mechanism) and placed it over the cloud.  The fairy swings from side to side.  

This style of card has been my go-to lately cuz it is so easy and makes such a cute interactive card.

Hope you enjoy!

April Showers

This week's challenge at Art Impressions is "April Showers" - anything rain, rainbows, clouds, etc. 

I used one of the elephants from the Elephant Twist Ties stamp set.   The set comes with a die to make two elephants hook together at the trunks.  For this card, I only utilized the left side elephant and fussy cut the part of him that was attached to the card so that he could stand on his own.  They are soooo darn cute!

I stamped the elephant on cryogen white cardstock and colored him with copic markers.  I made the background with tumbled glass distress oxide ink and a cloud stencil.  I then die cut the rainbow, clouds and the grass using my dies from my stash.

Easy peasy, but so cute!

Hope you enjoy my card!

Easter Wishes

 Happy Easter!!  

 The current challenge at Art Impressions is "Easter Wishes".  Easter is such a great time of year.  Spring weather (or at least if we are lucky).  Today is a gorgeous sunny day but we have had one heck of a snowy winter.  This challenge has gotten me ready to head into spring.  

My card for today is a fun interactive one featuring the Art Impressions Bunny Pop-Up (#5359) and Happy Spring Set (#5504) stamp sets as well as the Rounded Rectangle A2 double stitch (#5062) smallest die.

I stamped the images on cryogen white cardstock and colored with copic markers.  I used a fence die cut I had in my stash and made it a pocket to hide the pop up Bunny.  The interactive piece is fairly easy to create for any pop up image.  I cut a slit in my background piece to fit a small pop dot.  I adhered one side of the pop dot to the bottom of my Bunny and placed the pop dot through the slit to the backside of the background.  I then cut my pull tab and adhered the other side of the pop dot to the pull tab.  I used foam tape to stabilize the pull tab mechanism from sliding around by placing the tape on the back side of the background on both sides of the pull tab.  Before adhering the background to the card base, make sure to adhere foam tape all along the back side of the background piece other than where the pull tab moves.  Now we can decorate the front.  Use double stacked foam tape to adhere both sides and bottom of the 'pocket' but making sure it does not conflict with the moving image.  I had to hide the ear of the Bunny behind the tree so it didn't show while hiding. 😀  

I hope my directions help but if you want to see it in action, youtube "Pull tab card tutorial" and you can find step by step instructions in video form.

Hope you enjoyed my card for the challenge and have a very Happy Easter.

Inside Out

 Fun challenge at Art Impressions this week called "Inside Out".  I decided to make my card an interactive peek a boo card.   When you open the card, the inside has a little bunny that was hiding and the bunny from the front is now hiding.   I used an Art Impressions stamp set called Hoppy Easter.   This is an oldie but a goodie!!  Such cute little bunnies (and one chick) in the set.  

I stamped my images on cryogen white cardstock and colored with copic markers.  I used the Art Impressions stitched circle dies for the windows.  Both of the sentiments also come with the set along with a stack of little Easter eggs.  A very useful little stamp set! 

Hope you enjoy my Inside Out card for the day.

Green Galore

 St. Patty's Day is almost here and Art Impressions is celebrating with a "Green Galore" challenge.  Although it doesn't need to be St. Patrick theme, it is all about the green.  When I think green, I think of frogs, so I used the Frog freebie from Art Impressions.  He is just soooo darn cute!!

I stamped the cute little frog on cryogen white paper and colored him with copic markers.  I then fussy cut him out so I could pop him up and make my 3-D scene.  I used the Art Impressions stitched rectangle die for the yellow mat, then used several other die cuts from my stash.  The stitched window is from My Favorite Things and the little flowers are from a die that I bought from the Dollar Tree (I know, I can't believe it either.  I use that die ALL the time and it cuts great!)  I stamped "Hi" in the center of the sun and I'll add a sentiment of "thinking of you" or "Happy Spring" when I decide the recipient.  Topped off the card with green sequins for the finishing touch.

Hope you have a great week!

Bloom Where You're Planted

 Art Impressions is having a "Bloom Where You're Planted" challenge.  I chose to use the Art Impressions darling Baby Critter set (#5400) for this week's challenge.  I love this set with all the adorable little critters, the dies and the great sayings.  Soooo much included in this set!  What a deal!!

I stamped these images on cryogen white cardstock and colored them with copic markers.  I die cut each of the images so that I could plant (no pun intended 😁) them among the grass and the leaf background.  The leaf and grass die cuts are from my stash but the oval stitch die cuts and the "birthday" word are from Art Impressions.  The "birthday" word is part of the Twist Frame die set.  I just cut the "Happy" off of it.  The inside of the card pops up to make a window.  

This was such a fun card to make and it really turned out cute.  Hope you like it too.

You're My Everything

This week's challenge at Art Impression's is called "You're My Everything".  For this challenge, I used the Lovable Animals Set (#5219) from Art Impressions.  This adorable set consists of four darling animals, with dies included, and each die cuts the paws so that you can slip an item into them.  Items included in this stamp set are a present, flower, cupcake and a sheet of paper, with dies for each and also a heart die.  Great set for so many occasions.

I stamped the elephant on cryogen white paper and colored with my copic markers.  I die cut the elephant and placed the die cut heart into his paws.  I also made a shaker element to make the card interactive.  Love cards with some action.  😁  I stamped the saying (also included with this stamp set) onto a tag and popped it up on the card along with the elephant.  

Hope you enjoy my card.  

Happy Valentines Day to all!