Ai Challenge 106 - Pin It!

Hello friends! It's Challenge 106 over at the Art Impressions Blog today, and the challenge is to use "Pins" in your card or project. I love using fancy stick or hat pins on my cards, so this was a fabulous and fun challenge for me, since I have quite a supply of stick pins. I chose to use one of my favorite Ai stamps Jumbo Dancer, SKU# 4191, a cute elephant stamp set that is from the Art Impressions Zoo Crew line of stamps.
My kraft base cardstock size is 5-1/2" x 5-1/2" square. I used a cute designer paper 6" x 6" pad from Cosmo Cricket called Baby Jane. I paper pieced the cute elephant's dress with coordinating designer paper from the pad. I Love the bright colors and pretty patterns. I used two different stick pins to mix it up a bit, the yellow leaf pin is made by Little Yellow Bicycle, and the little white flower pin is made by Maya Road. The buttons are from My Favorite Things Stamps, and the cream twine is from Paper Trey Ink.
I hope you enjoyed my creation today. Please stop by the Art Impressions Blog to see what the other Ai Design Team members have made for this fun challenge. Won't you play along with us? You could win $10.00 in Ai stamps! Thanks for stopping by!

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Make a "Wobble" card...

Hello and Happy Thursday! It's Challenge 102 over at the Ai Blog today, and the challenge is to make a "Wobble" card. I had to look this one up, as I wasn't entirely sure what a wobble card was. I found a great u-tube video that showed what they are, and how to make your own. It is a card that has a small spring behind the image, and when you tap it, the image wobbles slightly. I made mine with a piece of metal wire. It was fun to try this technique!

My card size is a regular A2 size card (4-1/4" x 5-1/2"). I used my all time favorite Art Impressions stamp, Birthday Whoot stamp set, SKU# 4125. I stamped him with Memento black ink and colored him in with Prisma Color pencils and Gamsol and paper stumps for blending.

For the inside I stamped a sentiment from the Birthday Whoots stamp set. Makes a great birthday card for anyone! Thank you for stopping by, please stop by the Art Impressions blog to see what the other design team members came up with. Won't you play along with us? You could win a $10.00 certificate for stamps at the Ai store.

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Masculine Birthday card

Happy Friday! I've been busy working on "Masculine" cards this week, and have a birthday card to share with you today. I really LOVE this Ai Bear image, SKU# P3245. I think it's perfect for a masculine birthday card. I like how this card turned out. The card size is a regular A2 card size (4-1/4" x 5-1/2")

For the inside of my card, I stamped a simple Happy Birthday script sentiment, SKU# G963. 
Thanks for visiting, and I hope you have a wonderful weekend!

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RED Hot Romance!

Hello and Happy Thursday! It's Challenge 99 over at the Art Impressions Blog today, and the challenge is "Red Hot Romance", use Red in your Project. I chose this super sweet Ai stamp called "Fur-Ever Set", SKU# 4220. My card is a regular size A card (4-1/4" x 5-1/2"). I based the background of my card from a beautiful card by Karen Barber at Splitcoast Stampers. I embossed the red cardstock with a Stampin Up! embossing folder (Fan), and then used another Stampin Up! embossing folder on the kraft panel (weave). I used a pretty border die cut (MFT) on the edges.

Here is a close up of the front. I colored in my sweet image with Copic markers, die cut out the image with a Spellbinders circle die, and distressed the edge lightly with tea dye distress ink. I layered the colored image onto a black circle die cut. I love the look of white, red, black and kraft together. I added two black crystals and a small heart that I punched out of red cardstock.  I also added some black grosgrain ribbon to tie in more black to my card.

 

On the inside I stamped the cute and simple sentiment "Hi Valentine", SKU# G4007. I punched out a heart in red cardstock and added it above the sentiment. I think I'm going to make a batch of these cute valentine's for my family, since we are all animal lovers! 

 Please stop by the Art Impressions Blog to see what the other Design Team members made for this fun challenge. Won't you play along with us? You could win a certificate for $10.00 in the Ai online store. Thanks for stopping by!

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