Happy Wednesday Ai Fans!!! Watch video tutorial here!!! Today we are going to play with a wonderful brand-new stamp and die set from Art Impressions! This is the Ai Christmas Train Set (5929) which has a complete set of train cars, the engine, lots of little penguins, candy canes, holly, and two sentiments! We are going to create a slimline card which will give us plenty of room to layout our adorable train! Let's begin by stamping, coloring and die cutting all of our images. For the coloring we will be using the Zig Clean Color Real Brush Pens in the following colors: Blender, Sugared Alm ..read more

Hello Ai fans! The current challenge at Art Impressions is Masculine Masterpieces. I needed a retirement card for a female coworker which is how this card began. Once I made hers I thought that it would be really nice for a man as well. The colors worked well for men or women so I created this version for the challenge. This guy is READY for retirement! 5406 – Mr. Set I tried to convince him not to pack his black socks but he insisted. At least he's not wearing them with sandals. I hope you guys aren't getting sick of my shaker dome cards. I just can't get enough of them! I love inter ..read more

 Hello AI Fans and happy December!  I don't know about you, but I love the Holidays! The movies, the music, the feeling of joy in the air all around me. I guess I'm just a kid at heart. So making holiday cards are one of my favorites! When I saw this cute little mouse sipping his hot cocoa in 5564 Mousey Christmas Set, I saw something else in my mind.  So I set out to create it. I used a little piece of Post It tape from the Art Impressions Shop and masked out the straw coming out of this cuties mouth. Then I just took my Copic pen and drew in the lines of his mouth that were mi ..read more

  Hello and Welcome to Watercolor Weekend! My card started out with inspiration from some of the other Design Team members who have a love for wax seals. The first thing that came to mind was my envelope edge dies and creating a paper “seal” to go with it.  I was already playing with the new 5953 Woodland Critters Set and I thought the little mouse would be perfect, but what to do with the rest of the card?? I wanted a tree scene to go in the background and remembered Kendra’s Country Hello tutorial she did back in April of 2022. So I modeled the background scene after her tutorial ..read more

  Hello Ai fans! Welcome to our Monthly Challenge. This month's theme is Christmas Wishes! We want to see all of your handmade holiday projects. Cards, journals, ornaments, gift boxes and bags, GC Holders... You name it! We're thrilled to have Dot Freel as our final Monthly Guest Designer. This is our last monthly challenge but be sure to check out our Bi-Weekly challenges for lots of fun and the chance to win free stamps! Before we see what Dot created, let's see who won our Frame It challenge! We selected #5 Francesca for her adorable framed snowman. She used 5802 – Joyful ..read more

 Hello Ai Watercolour fans! Time for one last Christmas card on my 2024 Watercolour Weekends... and I am using the 5857 - Baby Mini Foundation Set that was released last year.  This image was part of the Nativity Journal Bundle, but works great all on it's own as a card. Before stamping, I determined that I was going to use the 5065 - Oval Double Stitched Dies to cut out my image, so I traced the outline on my Canson XL Watercolour paper to give myself a painting guideline.  I stamped my image using #N65, as I wanted a soft outline to paint with.  I used four of the bra ..read more

 Hello Ai fans and welcome to week #2 of our Masculine Masterpieces challenge! We want to see your cards and crafty projects fit for a guy or boy! They can be holiday themed but they certainly don't have to. Last week, our Featured Designer was Sharon. She created an adorable interactive train card.  Visit her post for her tutorial. Now let's see what the rest of the Design Team made. I made a retirement card. Tasha made a beautiful winter scene. Dori has a humorous card for you. 5421 - Sit Back Laugh Lines 5323 - MB Wall Accessories 5724 - Nested Rectangle dies 5062 ..read more

 Happy Friday! Tasha here sharing a Christmas card featuring the 5802 - Joyful Snowman Set. This set has the cutest little snowmen stamps and several greetings for holiday cards and projects. I think this snowman would also look great on gift tags. To begin, I stamped the snowman and used the included dies to cut the image out. For the coloring, I used  teal, purple, and blue Copic Markers and added a light pink for his cheeks. I also used a white gel pen to create a design on the hat and scarf, I love coloring clothing! To make the background, I added a pattern paper for the sky ..read more

Happy Thursday AI Friends! Today I have a fun fold A2 card for you that provides a great way to display your Fall Blessings, when expanded.   Have you checked out the latest fall paper pack (5973 - Fall S2 PP) from Art Impressions?  OMgosh, this is such a beautiful paper pack!  All of their papers are fantastic but this one has such great fall colors and patterns.  To show them off, I used the stamp sets #5492 Front Porch Harvest and #5598 Harvest Set along with the sentiments from the #5600 Harvest sentiments set.    I stamped all of the images onto co ..read more

 Hello Everyone and welcome to Watercolor Weekend! I’m excited to cover for Jami Steiger as your guest designer for November! This month, I crafted a cozy winter scene featuring adorable critters from the Woodland Critter Set and the Snow Globe Set. Materials Used: Stamp Sets: 5953 Woodland Critter Set, 5791 Snow Globe Set (small tree) Dies: Star Cutting Dies (3 1/8" x 2 1/2"), Dimensional Stars SF243 Tombow Watercolor Markers: 177, 526, 856, 947, N65 Inks: Memento Toffee Crunch, VersaFine Clear Nocturne, Distress Oxides (Chipped Sapphire, Dusty Concord, Salvaged Patina, Peacock Feat ..read more