Art Impressions | Christmas Cards part II

Hey again everyone!

Here's another card I made with the beautiful stamp set from Art Impressions!!
I would like to enter it as well to the BE MERRY challenge. :)
And to the Anything Christmas challenge from Penny Black. :)

This time I used the three cute snowmen.

I cut out a round opening on the front of my card with my Spellbinders. I inked a circle shaped piece of cardstock that is slightly larger than my opening with some ink. I then used a stencil to add some molding paste and before the paste was dry, I sprinkled some sparkly powder over it. 

These little guys were colored using Prismacolor pencils and Gamsol and at the end I used some Wink of Stella in clear to add some serious shimmer that I LOVE!! That Wink of Stella makes all the difference on the card, I'm telling you!! Finally I stamped the sentiment "Warm Wishes" on a piece of cardstock and I drew a small sign around it. I colored the snow the same way i did my snowmen and I added Wink of Stella there too. The snowmen and the sign post were cutout and adhered with dimensional foam.

There you go! I hope you like it. I wish I had a better way of photographing my cards because in real life it's 100 times cuter than on these pictures. :( 

I asked a photo box for Christmas.... :)

Thanks for looking!

Marie

Art Impressions | Christmas cards

Hi everyone!!

This is my second post for today. I couldn't wait to show you the 2 Christmas cards I've been working on yesterday!! :) I made them using the stamp set I chose when I won an honorable mention with this card last week! And I'm entering both of them to this week's BE MERRY challenge over at Art Impressions, and to the Anything Christmas challenge from Penny Black. :) Hoping that I can win one more time and get myself another awesome stamp or two, just in time for the Holidays!!! (These stamps are addictive I'm telling you!)
Here's the stamp set that won my heart last week!!
(click on the image to get to the Art Impressions store)

And here is one card I made with it:

It is a shaker card. I cut out an opening in the front of my card. And right behind the window I adhered 2 acetate that I stitched together leaving an opening at the top. I filled my clear pocket with come sequins in a modern Christmas color scheme and with some stars that I punched in gold glitter carsick and that I adhered back to back, so that it wouldn't be white when we open the card and look at the pocket from the inside of the card. I stitched the pocket closed and rerun the card through my sewing machine to make a double border. 

I then stamped my little reindeer and colored him with Prismacolor pencil and Gambol. I cut him out leaving a white border and I adhered him in front of my card with some foam adhesive. 

I finally stamped my sentiment in the inside of the card so that we would see it through the window. :)

Voilà!!
I hope you like it!!
Did you start working on your Christmas cards yet?? And if so, are you doing many cards or do you stick to one model that you're going to repeat?

I'd love to see. :)

Marie

Art impressions - I have to share!!

Hi everyone!

I just saw something on Facebook and I had to share it with you!!
It got me so excited that I had to stop everything I was doing and go make a card!!
I mean really!

Ok, here it is:

It's a video tutorial that Bonnie (Art Impressions) made to teach a very simple way to use MY FAVORITE stamps!!!

So I watched the video, 3 times, (haha!) and I broke out my stamps and my Tombow markers and played a little.

Here's my finished card. :) I'm entering it to the Art Impressions Watercolor challenge that is ending today.

I always have trouble to know on what the image will look better. I chose gold glitter paper and gold stitching and a kraft card base.

Look at this cute squirrel!!! <3 nbsp="" p="">For the drops, I scribbled with my marker on an acrylic bloc and I added water that I let drip on the card. It didn't have time to dry before I shot the pictures. I had to hurry up because the rare light was running away!!

Here's a detailed shot of the flower arrangement. I'm not a florist. I did my best. ;)

Thanks Bonnie and the team for making this video. I think it's genius and I can't wait to watch the next ones!!

Marie

Art Impressions Blog Hop

Hi everyone!!
Salut tout le monde!!
I am very happy today to be part of the Art Impressions blog hop as a veteran! :)
Je suis vraiment contente aujourd'hui de faire partie du Blog Hop de Art Impressions en tant qu'ancienne membre de l'équipe de design. 

If you are following the Blog Hop, you are supposed to come from Maria McGuire's blog.
Si vous suivez le Blog Hop, vous devriez arriver du blog de Maria McGuire.

If you have never been to my blog before, WELCOME!! I hope you'll stay a little bit more and look at what I do. For the others who are used to come here, welcome too!! :) I'm grateful for each and everyone of you and maybe you'll get to know the Art Impressions stamps today. That's exciting!
Je vous souhaite la bienvenue sur mon blog! Que vous soyez une habituée ou ici pour la première fois, je suis contente de vous voir. :)

Art Impressions is having a blog hop for the release of their new "Spinner Stamps"!!
Art Impressions vient de sortir de toutes nouvelles étampes "spinner" qui sont conçues pour tourner quand on ouvre la carte.

Here are all the new stamps and their coordinating die sets:
Voici la liste de toutes les nouvelles étampes et leur dies:

4673 - Angel Spinner

4692 - Angel Spinner Dies

4674 - Mouse Spinner

4693 - Mouse Spinner Dies

4675 - Dog Spinner

4694 - Dog Spinner Dies

4676 - Pumpkin Spinner

4695 - Pumpkin Spinner Dies

4677 - Robe Spinner

4696 - Robe Spinner Dies

4678 - Santa Spinner

4697 - Santa Spinner Dies

4679 - Witch Spinner

4698 - Witch Spinner Dies

Here is my card:

Voici ma carte:

I used the 4678 - Santa Spinner and the 4697 - Santa Spinner Dies with some Pretty Little Studio papers and watercolor to color my little Santa. I added some Wink of Stella to add lots of sparkle! I stamped and embossed the sentiment in white. 

J'ai utilisé 4678 - Santa Spinner et 4697 - Santa Spinner Dies Les papiers sont de Pretty Little Studio et j'ai colorié mon Père-Noël avec de l'aquarelle. J'ai ajouté du Wink of Stella pour mettre de la brillance. C'est Noël après tout. ;) Le souhait a été embossé en blanc.

To have a chance to win one of the 7 prizes, one of each new stamps and set dies, visit this link:

Pour avoir la chance de gagner un des 7 prix, une des 7 nouveaux sets d'étampes + dies, visitez ce lien:

a Rafflecopter giveaway


Here's the full list of blogs:
If the chain is broken, please refer to this list.
Voici la liste complète du Blog hop:
Si la chaine de lien est brisée, vous pouvez toujours consulter cette liste.

Art Impressions Blog

Cheri Burry
Crystal Lopez
Dana Warren
Deloris Thiede
Diane Zechman
Isha Gupta
Jessica Griffin
Karen Day
Kerry Kung
Kirsi Kamppikoski
Maria McGuire
Marie-Pierre Capistran -> YOU ARE HERE!
Mary Witter
Piali Biswas
Reneé Matarese
Sharon Caudle
Soili-Maria Seppala
Tammie Koehnen
Tracy Gray
Tracy MacDonald
Trena Brannon
Zora Bergstrom

To continue the hop, head over to:
Pour continuer le Blog Hop, visitez le blog de:

MARY WITTER' s blog.

Thanks once more for visiting and I hope you'll consider becoming a member of my blog. That would make me very happy!! :)
Merci encore une fois d'être passé me voir et j,espère que vous penserez vous inscrire comme membre de mon blog. Ça me ferait grandement plaisir!! :)

Marie

Art Impression Challenge

Hi everyone!!

Hello Ai team and friends!! :)

As I saw the new Christmas stamps and all the card from my ex-team-colleges on the Art Impressions website, I couldn't resist but to participate in this months challenge!! I'd love to win some fun Christmas stamps!!!!!!!!!!! :)

So I opened my Christmas stamps box and was delighted to find a stamp I ordered in my last month of DT work for Art Impressions! Look at this large watercolor Christmas tree and these two little lambs!! 

At first I thought I couldn't add much color to it, but hey, I think it looks fabulous! :) I love that I could do the sky a dark blue and purple.

And for some extra sparkle I added some clear Wink of Stella on the branches covered with snow and on the star. It was hard to capture on the picture but in real life, it's truly stunning! :) I also added some snowflakes with a white Gelly Roll pen and they are kind of shimmery too so it's pretty awesome. :)

I know that Christmas feels like moons away, especially since I now love in the South and we still had 75 degrees today, but I think that we have a northern internal clock in us and Christmas music is in full swing again in my car since 2 weeks (kid's request) so, the card, the sparkle, the music, BRING IT!! :)

Thanks for looking!!

Marie

Art Impressions now available at Michaels

Hi everyone!

I am very excited to join the Art Impressions crew one more time today to help them announce a great news!!!

They have FIVE new stamps sets at Michaels Arts & Crafts stores! They are Art Impressions licensed designs that are manufactured and distributed by Hampton Art exclusively for Michaels stores. 

Here's the card I made with the "Retired" set that I love!!

This little camper is to die for!!!!

To see the whole 5 sets, join us in this blog hop. :) 

Here's the order of the hop.

Art Impressions

Piali Biswas

Cynthia Olheiser

Sharon Caudle

Tracy MacDonald

Karen Day

Angela Boutiller

Cheryl Valadez

Sandy Allnock

Kerry Kung

Melissa Oeters

Sherry Eckblad

Lezlye Lauterbach

Judith Gowdy

Summer Hills-Painter

Reneé Matarese

Crystal Lopez

Marie-Pierre Capistran --> YOU ARE HERE!

Linda Manto

If you have any questions, feel free to go the the Q&A page by clicking on the image below.

Thanks for celebrating with us!!!! 

Marie :)

Art Impressions | flowers and pail

Hi everyone!!

I have another watercolor series card to show you today!! :)

Here I used the pail and the same flowers as last week with the watering can. I also painted a blue wash in the background and that's changing the things up quite a bit. There aren't two cards that are the same. That's the very fun thing about these stamps! :)

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And you know, if you are now ready to take the plunge and get some stamps from this collection but don't know where to start because you want them all, I'd maybe start with the set of the project you like the most. You can see them all right here. Pick one and buy the sets that you need to complement the image you want to do. For example, maybe you'll need a tree or some flowers or foliage to complete the project. It's a nice way to start a good collection. 

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This is my last post as a Design Team member so I would like to take a moment to thank everybody at Art Impressions who have let me be part of this marvelous adventure! It was a great pleasure to work with your awesome products and a real HONNOR to get to meet you in Anaheim!! I sure hope I'll have the chance to meet you again in the future. And until then, you hold a special place in my heart. Love you guys!! Thanks again so so much. A special thanks to the very special to me "she does it all" Kate. Your are truly a gem!!

Take care my friends!! Your are great at what you are doing!

Sincerely,

Art Impressions | Try Fold stamps Launch

Hi everyone!

Today, Art Impressions is launching two new Try Fold stamps!!! Go check them out!! :)

Here's my card!

Thanks for stopping by!! :)

Marie

Art impressions | Watering can

Hellop Ai fans!

Today I played with my watering can. :) I love this image!!! I changed the colors bait in the two images and I tried to give it a different look by mating one of the images. I like the one layer card best. What do you think?

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And, have you been trying these watercolor stamps?? If so, I'd love to see your attempts. Link your cards up right in the comment section here. :)

Have a great week end, 

Art Impressions | Ai People launch Blog Hop

Hello everyone!!

Welcome to another launch from Art Impressions. The new Ai People!!!

Here's my card:

Don't you love this stamp??! I DO!!

You are invited to hop along with us to discover the whole Ai People Serie. You can go back to the Art Impressions blog to start from the beginning or you can just continue your way…. The next stop would be Renée Matarese

Here's the list of the hop.

Art Impressions

Cheryl Valadez

Karen Day

Kerry Kung

Marie-Pierre Capistran -> YOU ARE HERE

Reneé Matarese

Sherry Eckblad

Also, if you are interested, the new Ai Catalogs will be available on the website starting next Monday so grab one if you'd like to. :)

Talk to you again soon! 

Marie

Art Impressions | The milk can

Hi everyone!!

I have another watercolor card today for you:

One of my favorite set from the watercolor series is the container set because by simply changing one container, you can make a totally other card. I can,t tell you which container is my favorite because I truly love them all! :)

A simple scene here that you can achieve with just a little practice. I finished the card by adding some paint splatters. I didn't add any sentiment so I now have a card in my stash for any occasion. I love that!

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Thanks for stopping by!!