Balloons, balloons, balloons

 Happy Monday!  Hope all the mom's out there had a wonderful Mother's Day!

This week's challenge at Art Impressions is "Up Up and Away" and I used my most favorite stamp set of Art Impressions.  It's called "Lifetime set - 4728".  I have used this stamp set for every man in my life at one time or another.  I just think he is hilarious and spunky.

I colored this image with copic markers and made the balloons with balloon dies I had on hand.  Attached twine to each of the balloons and tied them in a bow.  I then glued the bow into his hand to look like he was holding them.  The sentiment came from the Art Impressions stamp set "Birthday Hat" which has been discontinued.

Hope you enjoy my card.

Fun with Flowers

 Good Morning all!  Today I'm sharing my card for the Art Impression's challenge of the week - Fun with Flowers.  I used the Art Impression's "Got Style" stamp set.  I just LOVE the ladies in this image!  Who am I kidding?  I LOVE all the ladies in the AI stamp sets.  They just depict so much of myself and my girlfriends.  Crazy and fun!!

There are great sentiments from this set as well.  Two of which I utilized for this card.

Hope you enjoy!

Girlfriends

 This week's challenge at Art Impressions is asking to feature women.  How easy is that with all of the fantastic Girlfriends stamp sets by Art Impressions.  I used the "Comfy on the Couch" set which actually has 4 girlfriends sitting on the couch.  I eliminated one (by cutting her out and splicing the image together) so that it would reflect my friendship with two of my best buddies.  This actually went together pretty easily.  This was so perfect for us.  The saying is from the "Dance it out Laugh Lines" set.  Great saying!

I paper pieced the couch and colored the girlfriends with copic markers.  Created the rug by cutting the patterned paper with the edge die and rounding it off to look like a rug.  Always trying to be creative but not really sure how well it turns out.  😁  Guess it doesn't really matter as long as I have fun doing it.

Hope you enjoy my card and it gives you a little inspiration to try something different with your stamps and dies.

Have a great weekend.

Christmas 2021

 The challenge at Art Impressions this week is Happy Happy Holidays.  This is always my favorite time of year.  I LOVE to create Christmas cards and I usually make about 75 to send out.  So, I started this card back in May but, of course, I am still working on getting them done.  Why is that?  Seems the time just gets away from me (or maybe a little procrastination - cuz there wasn't a hurry back then)!  Even though it has taken me a long time to finish these, it was worth it because this is probably my favorite one of all!

 I used the Reindeer Flutter set from Art Impressions.  This is an interactive card - pull the tab down and the penguin's feet flutter up and down.  Sooooo darn cute!!  I stamped the image on copic friendly cardstock and colored with my copic markers.  I used stickles on the jingle bells around the reindeer's neck and glossy accents on the reindeer's nose to give them a little shine.  I inked the background with tumbled glass distress oxide ink and cut it out with the Art Impressions stitched rectangle die.  I also cut the Art Impressions little snowflake dies out of white glitter cardstock for accents.  I die cut the hilltop and the snowy hill from white glitter cardstock from dies I had in my stash and inked the hilltops using mowed lawn and pine needles oxide ink for the trees and tumbled glass for the snow banks.  Lastly, I used white glitter cardstock on a black cardstock base to frame the scene.  The sentiment is included in the Reindeer Flutter set.

Hope you enjoy my card!  

Happy Happy Holidays!

 

Enjoy the Ride

 Art Impression's is celebrating their "Rides" new release with a challenge called "Planes, Trains and automobiles".  Actually, the challenge is anything that you ride on.  There are so many Art Impression's stamp sets to choose from for this challenge but I just LOVE the gal on the skateboard in their "Got Style" stamp set.  This is my kind of gal - on a mission with shopping bags in hand (headed to the next store) 😀.

I stamped the image on cryogen white paper and colored her with copic markers.  I fussy cut her out and placed her on a stitched circle die cut.  The framed circle was also cut out with the stitched circle dies.  The sentiment came from the "Got Style" set as well.

Hope you have a great day and Enjoy the Ride!

Halloween Slimline

 This week's Art Impression's challenge is a "Slimline" card.  This was another fun challenge since I have never made a slimline card.  It has been in my projects list to attempt but just haven't gotten around to it so this challenge made me do it.  I'm so use to making A2 or 6x6 cards so to create a 9x4 was unusual but I really enjoyed it.  

  I thought I would make a Halloween slimline card since we are nearing that holiday next and who doesn't like Halloween.  I utilized several Art Impression's stamp and die sets.  The main one being the Haunted Mansion Popcard.  Unfortunately, this one has been discontinued but it's very similar to the Holiday mansion that is still in their store.  This Haunted Mansion set was intended to be an inside Popup card but I just took each piece and used foam tape to create the dimension.  I also utilized the Art Impression's fence dies, Quivery Mini Shaker spider and bat dies, and The Old Bat set saying and cluster of bats in the top corner.  I colored the images with copic markers and used Distress Oxide inks to create the background.  The pumpkins, witch, ghosts, and mansion dies are part of the Haunted Mansion Popcard set.  

  Hope you have a wonderful and fun Halloween.

Going Batty

 This two week challenge at Art Impressions is "Going Batty" so I used the Bat Flutter stamp set from Art Impressions.  This makes the cutest Halloween card.  It is interactive - when you pull the tab, the wings on the bat flutter.   Soooo cute!!  I also used the Art Impressions double stitched rounded rectangle die, the bat dies from the AI Quivery Mini Shaker set and the sentiment from AI The Old Bat set.  

The background was made utilizing distress oxide inks and a splatter of water.  Soooo easy to make any background using these inks.  So, if you don't have the perfect match patterned paper, no worries, ink up your background and you're good to go.  

This was a fun card to make and so cute to play with.  Hope you enjoy this card and try out the Art Impressions flutter stamp sets.