Happy Thanksgiving everyone!! I hope you all have a wonderful day planned with your friends and families. I host Thanksgiving at my house so I've been VERY busy the last few days preparing for today. We will be on break for the next week to give our Design Team a chance to spend time with the people they love, but we need to announce the winners of our Making Spirits Bright challenge. I hope our two well deserving winners will be patient because Art Impressions is offering an amazing Black Friday sale, so there may be a SMALL delay in answering your emails about claiming your prize. Fo ..read more

 Hello Ai fans, Nina here and I am so excited to share with you today's project. I made these adorable Christmas shaker tags that you can easily recreate and use for your Christmas gifts. I used our recently released Mini Christmas Set and the Journal Template Die Set. I started by Stamping all these cute images on a thick white paper using Memento Tuxedo Black Ink and my Mini Misti and colored them with Copic markers. I then cut all around the images leaving a white border all around which gives this chic finish to the images. To create the shaker part I basically die cut two frames ..read more

Hello and welcome, Watercolor Weekend Fans! Today, I'm switching things up by sharing both a project and a card! With the holidays just around the corner, I wanted to craft a Treat Box that could serve as both a place card on your holiday dinner table or a small gift for your guests. I mean, who wouldn't love a charming treat box filled with chocolate? To create these boxes, I used the 5723 - Journal Cover and Bookmarks Dies. While these dies weren’t intended for box-making, they happened to be on my craft desk from a recent journal project, prompting me to experiment with making a box us ..read more

  Happy Saturday Ai Fans. One of the newest sets at the store is a stamp and die set I'm featuring on today's card. It's called 5803 - Snowman Puppet Set. It comes with stamps and matching dies. You can use the dies and stamps separately or together. Either way, it's very easy to use some of the great paper packs for the holidays that are available to paper piece this jolly and chubby snowman. I used cheerful paper patterns from 5853 - Christmas Magic PP. The Joy sentiment is from 5566 - Christmas Sentiments Set. I enjoy paper piecing. In fact, it's what got me started in ..read more

 Happy Friday Ai Fans! Tasha here, thrilled to share my latest creation in the spirit of the season – a delightful holiday card inspired by the "Making Spirits Bright Challenge." Now that the Holiday Season is in full swing, my crafting hands are busy bringing Christmas cheer to life, and I couldn't be more excited about the charming 5802 - Joyful Snowman Set! Let's talk about the star of the show – the adorable snowman adorned with holiday lights. Honestly, all the snowman stamps are darling, but this one stole my heart. As I gazed upon it, I thought – what if a mischievous kitty joined ..read more

 Hello everyone and welcome to week two of our Making Spirits Bright challenge! As promised last week, we have Janet's feature tutorial for you.  Her card is so full of sparkle and cheer that it's sure to make everyone's spirits bright!  Let's see what Janet has prepared for you! Hello everyone! It's week 2 of our Making Spirits Bright challenge. To participate and possibly win free stamps from Ai, you just need to make an upload a holiday themed card to our challenge post. Today I'm showcasing the 5779 - FB Snowman stamp and die set. To begin this project, I stamped the ..read more

 Hey everyone! Last week I shared a cream and gold snowflake slimline card. This week I have two snowman ornaments for the Art Impressions Making Spirits Bright challenge. One is a Front and Back "see through" ornament and the other features the snowman front with a sentiment on the back. I used the new 5803 – Snowman Puppet Set. His clothes are cut from 5812 – Christmas S2 Paper Pack and I framed him using 5727 – Nested Oval Dies. I added some stitching where I pieced his coat together on his back. The little hanger hook was cut from 5718 – Mini Journal ..read more

Happy Wednesday Ai Fans!!! Watch video tutorial here!!! Today let's create a pretty and elegant Christmas card using the brand-new Ai WC Poinsettia Set (5828). We will be using the three sizes of the poinsettia images to create some very dimensional flowers. I also want to show you how you can easily use your dies to emboss your cards. This technique can be used with any of your dies! Let's begin by stamping the poinsettias onto some Strathmore Bristol Smooth Cardstock and then we can color them using the Zig Clean Color Real Brush Pens in the following colors: Blender, Sugared Almond Pink ..read more

 Hello Ai fans, Nina here and today I have a very adorable pinkish Christmas/Holidays tag using Ai Stitched Die Set and MB Christmas. I started by stamping images from the Matchbook die set using Memento Tuxedo Black Ink and Mini Misti and then colored them with my Copic Markers. I then cut the images and backed them with foam tape for extra dimension. I cut the tag using the biggest die from the die set from a pink pattern paper. I also die cut the ground from a matching pattern paper to be the ground where my images will sit on. I placed my cabinet images on the floor strip and plac ..read more

 Hello AI Fans!! There's a new challenge going on and it's Making Spirits Bright! So for that, I created a card featuring the brand new and absolutely ADORABLE #5802 Joyful Snowman Set! Oh my gosh, how cute are all of these snowmen! I can't get enough of them! I wanted to create a little wintry scene inside the beautiful #5782 Snowflake Frame Set, and then I added the Let it Snow sentiment from #5566 Christmas Sentiments. With the new release last week of all the oh so cute snowmen sets, I'm in heaven!! I stamped the image and colored it with Copic markers which are listed below. I poppe ..read more