Operation Write Home Blog Hop

Today the Art Impressions Design Team is teaming up with Crafter's Home & Operation Write Home for a fabulous blog hop in support of Operation Write Home!  We are also debuting two brand new Art Impressions stamps designed specifically for OWH, and with your purchase - 25% of the proceeds will go to support OWH.  OWH provides homemade cards to troops that are away from home so that they can send cards and notes home to loved ones - to find out more about this wonderful cause, click HERE to get all the details how you can help.  So without further ado... here are two cards made with OWH Every Hat (sku# 4342), and one with OWH Sending Love (sku#4343 ):

What fun images these were to colour!  I managed to use a number of layers on my cards, but they need to be fairly flat to send overseas... so I added some stitching detail to jazz it up a little:

 

And here is the lovely OWH Sending Love set.  Isn't it sweet how the string on the telephone spells love?

To purchase either (or both!) of these sets, just click on the graphic below:

And now for your next stop on the hop... click on over to Kathryn Belmonte's blog for more ideas & inspiration!  If you've missed any of the stops along the way today - head back to the Art Impressions blog to start again.  Have a great weekend!

 

 

Retro Sketches #67

I have a bright, summery card for you today!  I pulled out the Art Impressions Stayin' Afloat set (sku#4239).  The main image has 4 gals floating in inner tubes, but I just coloured and cut out one of them to fit on this week's Retro Sketch:

Patterned papers are Hello Summer, Echo Park; Stamp set is Stayin Afloat #4239, Art Impressions; Ink is Tuxedo Black, Memento; Copic Markers; Spellbinders die. 

At The Movies Teacher's Gift

I'm very excited to have my inaugural post on the Art Impressions blog today! I had a lot of fun making my project this week... with the end of the school year upon us, I decided to make a thank you gift set that would be great to give to a teacher. I used the fabulous At The Movies Set -(sku#4237) from the Girlfriends Collection to make the card, then a matching gift card holder for a movie theatre gift card, and finally a cute little popcorn holder that I'll wrap up in cellophane to complete the gift.

I used the lovely Schoolhouse papers from October Afternoon, which inspired my Copic colour choices for the cute Flick Chicks image.  I used my sewing machine to zigzag my background pieces onto my card base.

Before I started, I cut out all of my die cut pieces using my Cricut Artiste cartridge (M key!) which had the cute little popcorn holder, gift card and film strip.  I assembled the popcorn holder and gift card keeper adding a few accents of coordinating paper to finish them off.  I had a great time doing my little photo shoot, and had to be careful not to get any greasy popcorn on my projects!  Here are the Copics that I used to colour up the gals:

Stamp set is At The Movies (sku#4237) by Art Impressions; Patterned papers are Schoolhouse, October Afternoon; Cardstock is Black, Colonial White & Cranberry, CTMH; Ink is Tuxedo Black, Memento; Cricut Artiste cartridge, CTMH; Copic Markers.



Exciting News!

I am so happy to announce that I am one of the new design team members for Art Impressions Rubber Stamps!  You've seen me using their fun Girlfriends images regularly over the past year, as they are such fun and fabulous images to colour, and the sayings are just hilarious.  I'm going to be posting on the Art Impressions blog (and here!) on Tuesdays, so be sure to come and check us out, and they host a great challenge, bi-weekly on Thursdays - with some pretty awesome prizes.  You can see AI's full product range here, or you just might find them at your local stamp store, like I did.  I'm going to repost the first project that I ever made with an Art Impressions stamp, and to this day it is one of my all-time favourite creations!

If you can't read the sentiment... it says: "Happy 29th Birthday from your 110 lb friend."

Dream Big

I made this card a few weeks ago... it was based on a sketch challenge, and I didn't quite have it finished on time, so hadn't posted it before now.  I'm in a bit of a posting lull right now as I'm busy working on some swap creations, so I thought this would be a good time to share.  This is another lovely Memory Box die - they're so delicate, and cut so beautifully, I can see myself using this pretty wreath often in the future.

Patterned paper is Chantilly; Cardstock is Outdoor Denim, Pear & Baby Pink; Ink and Organdy ribbon are Outdoor Denim - all CTMH; Stamp set is Words of Wisdom, Verve; Memory Box die.

Deconstructed Sketch #103

I went with fun, bright & bold today for the Deconstructed Sketch.  This is another saying from the wonderful Verve stamp set called Words of Wisdom, and I think that I may just use it as a Grad card:

Patterned papers are Little Boy, Echo Park; Cardstock is Sunset, Outdoor Denim & White Daisy, CTMH; Stamp set is Words of Wisdom, Verve; Ink is Nautical Blue, Memento; Twine & button are CTMH.

 

The Paper Players #147

I'm playing along with The Paper Players sketch challenge this week.  I had these little flowers already cut out and waiting for me on my desk, so I pulled out some matching Carta Bella papers and got to work:

Patterned papers are True Friends, Carta Bella; Cardstock is Slate, Cotton Candy & White Daisy, CTMH; Stamp sets are Borderline & Birthday Cheer Plain Jane, Verve; Meadow Leaf die, Memory Box; Mini Bookplate dies, Verve; Ink is Cotton Candy, CTMH & Tuxedo Black, Memento; Cricut Artiste cartridge, CTMH.