Perfect Plaid

 This week's challenge at Art Impressions is "Perfect Plaid" - any plaid will do.  I went with a masculine card with a plaid background.  I created a card for my husband with the Art impression's Bummer stamp set.  Thought he'd get a kick out of the bottom half.  😁Check out the second picture below.  Who doesn't love an interactive card and a wobble bottom?  I also utilized the double stitch circle dies from Art Impressions.

I stamped the images and colored with copic markers.  I fussy cut his bottom half and placed it on an action wobble.   The card is a simple z fold card with partial die cutting of the circle.  You can watch a you tube video that shows how to do this.  I often watch Jennifer McQuire, Sam Calcott or Lynn Dionne (Pink Whispers Designs), who is a designer for Art Impressions.  They all have great inspirational videos.

Hope you enjoy my card for this challenge.  Make sure to check out the Art Impressions blog to see all of the entries and the design team creations.

Elephants are great

 This week's challenge at Art Impressions is "Zoo Crew" - any project with animals.  I can never have enough images of elephants.  Don't know why I'm drawn to them, but I just love them.  So, for this challenge I used the Art Impressions Elephant Twist Tie (#4985) stamp set.  This set is sooo versatile and comes with a die to partial cut the elephants to form the twist of the trunks.  By using the die, you can then fussy cut the remaining part of the elephants and use each of them individually.  Also, soooo easy to color.  I have used this stamp set for soooo many occasions!

I made this card for a friend's new baby girl.  This set is sooo cute for either a boy or a girl, just change the color theme from pink to blue (or any color of choice).  The twist tie cards create a trifold card with a heart shape window.  The twist of the trunks hold the card closed.  Such a cute creative card!  

Enjoy and Happy 4th!

Giggle

 Art Impressions is having a challenge this week called  "Tickle Our Funny Bone".  I love funny cards and sentiments so this will be fun to see the entries!  Art Impressions has great images that make you giggle just looking at their expressions. You can find such great sentiments to go with their expressions that will just bring a smile to your face.  

I made this card for a girlfriend of mine.  Four of us were on a trip and we had to call the paramedics.  Well, we sure enjoyed the view when they showed up and almost forgot what we called them for.  Haha!  We all joke about it now but we won't forget how cute they were.

I used a retired Art Impressions image that I purchased at their warehouse sale a couple of years ago.  I can't remember the name of this golden oldie, but loved her expression and thought it went great with this saying.

Hope this card makes you giggle!

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!