Love is in the Air

 Art Impressions current challenge is "Love is in the Air" so what better stamp set to use than Art Impressions "In the Air" set.  These little guys are sooooo stickin' 😉cute.  I used this set to make valentine cards for my family this year.  This is the one I made for my mom.    She loves receiving my cards and it's always great to show your love on the best day of the year!  She's the best Mom ever and I'm so lucky to have her!  Love you ALWAYS Mom!!

This stamp set is so easy to color and makes for such cute cards.  I used the largest double stitched heart die from my stash and cut it in the center of the pattern paper to get the outline stitch.  I then cut a red heart and a black heart and used them to outline the image since I didn't have a larger double stitch heart for the frame.  Sometimes you need to improvise.  No one is the wiser unless you tell them.  😁  

Best of 2020

 Art Impressions challenge this week is  "Best of 2020".  The stamp set that I used for several birthday cards this past year was Sally swimmer.  Unfortunately, she is retired, but I just love this image.  The duck inner tube is classic and I love the look on his face.  I had fun using some of my dies in my stash as well as the sun stencil.  I love it when I can create and use more of my products.  I have sooooo many so I better use them.  😂

Hope you like this card from 2020.  Looking forward to creating many more in 2021 using Art Impressions stamps.

Celebration

 Art Impressions is celebrating their 300th challenge.  Wow, that's a lot of challenges!  Congrats to AI!!

For this challenge, I wanted to utilize a stamp set with the biggest cake and the most candles, however, not quite 300 ( I'd still be coloring if that was the case). 😄  This stamp set is called Giant Cake Set and it's perfect for any celebration.  This is a great stamp set and so easy and fun to color.  Such great happy expressions on their faces!

Congratulations AI!!  I've been enjoying participating in your challenges.  Love seeing all of the projects that are entered.  Very inspiring!

Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!!

Resolution

 Happy New Year!  Hope you had a wonderful Holiday season!  Although quiet, it was nice!

You guessed it - the challenge at Art Impression's this week is "New Year's Resolution".  In soooo many years past, I have always made the typical new years resolution of losing weight.  Well, after last years pandemic and quiet life, I decided that my new year's resolution for 2021 is to celebrate and party like no one is watching.  If we are still stuck in COVID, no one will be watching. 😂  My hope is that everyone will get to join me in party mode and soon!!

 I used the retired "Party Group" stamp set from Art Impressions which is actually a stamp with a group of 5 people.  I LOVE this image but thought I would change it up and only stamped and colored the two people on the left.  This totally depicts my husband and I.  I'm the loud crazy one and he's the more quiet type.  😄  

I hope you enjoy my card and that 2021 is a year of celebration with family and friends!! 

Stay safe and healthy until we can party together again!

Christmas

 A Christmas card is the theme for this week's Art Impressions "Reason for the Season" challenge.  Art Impressions has sooooo many adorable snowmen stamp sets to pick from, but I chose the Jolly Snowmen set for this challenge.   I love the grin and happy feeling this little snowman expresses.  He just makes me smile!

I hope you enjoy my card.

Stay well and Happy Holidays!

Love of a Pet

 Art Impressions is having a "Pet" challenge this week.  Since my family tends to be dog lovers, I made a dog flip card for my son's birthday using the Dog Twist set.  The dog in this set has such a cute, fun look on his face that he reminded me of my son's cute spunky dog.  These twister sets are so easy to put together for a fun interactive card.  I also used a cupcake from another set, fussy cut it and popped it up as an embellishment in the corner.  

 Hope you enjoy my card for today!  

Stay safe and healthy!

Border flare

Good Morning!  It's almost Turkey Day!  I hope all of you are planning a nice quiet family time.  

The Art Impressions challenge this week is all about Borders.  I created my card today using the AI Full of Thanks set and the Flag Double Stitched dies.  I stamped the plump cute turkey on a card size piece of cryogen white paper.  I colored him with copic markers and stamped his shirt on patterned paper and cut it out freehand.  I love this look, it just adds personality to the image.  The border is designed using the flag double stitched die with the flag on both sides.  Then I cut each piece in half and placed off the card in various lengths.  After I was satisfied with how they fell to highlight the turkey, I glued them down and cut off the card sides to the dimension of the finished card that I wanted.

Hope you have a Happy Thanksgiving!  Stay safe and healthy!