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 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 | 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 | Heroes Launch

Hi everyone!

Today for the Heroes stamps launch over at Art Impressions and for the  "Anything Goes Masculine" challenge, I made a beautiful card that is suitable for an awesome dad.

Join in the fun and create a masculine card. It was really a challenge for me. I never do that!!!! And my husband told be: that's the most beautiful card you ever made. It made me think that I was up to the challenge. ;) Try it!! Maybe you'll win a prize!

Have fun creating!
And thanks for stopping here. :)

Marie

Art Impressions challenge: Krafty

Hi everyone! 

A new challenge at Art impressions: get krafty! Do a card or project with something "kraft". I loved making my card for this challenge!

I embossed this woodgrain background with some "white-gold"embossing powder that I found in a Christmas marker in Switzerland, years ago!! I love the result!!

Voilà, thank you and come play with us. :)

Marie

Art Impressions - Pop it up Challenge

This is one of two posts I posted today so make sure you scroll down to see the other blog post. :)

Hi everyone!
It seems like I messed up the dates for the pop it up/decoupage/layer challenge at Art Impressions….
It's starting today, Thursday the 6th and it goes for 2 weeks so you have plenty of time to play along. :)

Since I messed up, I decided to make another pop-up card for you guys!
And this time I used the pop-ups kits. It's a sheet of pre printed and colored images that you just pop out and mount on a card. You can than embellish as much or as little as you want.
With one sheet, I made 2 cards tonight. I still have 3 more sheets in my package. Not bad eh?!

Here are my two cards with some step by step of what I did.

Here I just stitched around the base square. I added the "best" banner with foam adhesive and stitched along the edge of the banner. Then I just layered all the layers with foam adhesive and I added red glitter to the red light.

Here's a side view to show you the dimension.

On my second card, I played with the outside/inside of the card to make something a little unexpected.

First I stamped the background with a basic Happy Birthday stamp (from Heidi Swapp, Hello today) in two colors of ink. I then stitched around the with card stock and adhered it to my card base. After that I just added the ladies and the handbag with foam adhesive.

Here the view from the side to show the dimension:

And finally, inside, I added my little man with foam adhesive too and stitched the sentiment down.

It was fun, quick and easy to work with the pop ups!! And it's funny because at CHA I saw a couple of booths selling only pop ups like these so I guess it's a good way to go for people with less time on hand, or for people who don't want to spend hours and lots of thinking on a beautiful card.

I hope you'll play along with us and submit your card for the challenge on the Art Impressions blog.

Talk to you soon,

Marie

Art Impressions challenge: Pop it up

Hi everyone!
Today I'm participating to the Art Impressions challenge: Pop it up!
The challenge is to make a card with some decoupage/layered stamped image.

Here is my card:

Hope you like it and you are welcome to play with us, even without Art Impressions stamps. :)

See you again soon!
Marie

another travel/nautical card for Art Impressions

Hi everyone!
I made another card that is travel related for the Travel/nautical Challenge at Art Impressions.  I love the giraffe stamp set! I think it is so cute!! The look on it's face says it all!! lol And the sentiment that goes with it is awesome too. I didn't get to use it here though.

Don't forget that you can still play along. :)

Marie

Travel/Nautical Challenge from Art Impressions

Hi everyone!
It's time for a new card challenge over at Art Impressions:
Make a travel or nautical inspired card.

Here's my card:

For the background I used a picture I took on one of my trips. :) It adds a nice personal touch to the card.

And you, what can you come up with?? ;)
If you participate, leave my a comment here with a link to your card. I'd love to see it!! :)

Marie

Challenge 125 - Expect the Unexpected! Use something from your stash!

Hi everyone,

Twice a month, at Art Impressions, there is a challenged proposed. This week it's: use something from your stash. I love this challenge since when it's not a challenge, I tend to use my new stuff….so I have quite a lot stashed!!

Here's my card:

And the inside. :)

I find this stamps very fitting after a crazy Christmas and New year's week!! ;)

What I used from my stash? 

Heidi Swapp's file folder with animal prints. I new I wouldn't use it as a file folder, but still, I was hoarding it. What I like here it that the card stock is very sturdy! It makes great card base. And I also like that the color inside is coordinated with the outside. I like the animal print mixed with the giraffe stamps. :)

What I also used that I hadn't used for a very long while?

My spellbinder's embossing and cutting die. I used the long rectangle for the very long image. I love the look of a long and lean card.

And, what else?

The ribbon. I have an extra big box full of them and I don't tend to use much ribbons lately, so it was nice to look in there. I chose this ribbon because of the glitter on it. It adds a little something extra to the card that I found so (many too?) simple.

There you go! 

I made about 6 cards 2 days ago and I found it so relaxing. It's creation, but another kind of creation than doing a scrapbook page. If you want to use the challenge to push you to make a card, go ahead, I'd be happy (HAPPY!) to look at your card. 

The way it goes? 

Make a card and post it to your blog. Link it up to this blogpost here. 

And please come back here to tell me you played along so I know you heard it from me and your one of my followers!! ;) This is just a little extra for me; you don't have to do that. 

Thanks for reading my blog guys!! 

I appreciate you very much!!!!

Marie