Hello Friend!

Hello Ai fans!

It's May so we have flowers!

Fabulous Flowers

That's the current challenge here on the blog.



I used several Art Impressions products on my cards.
5444 – MB Garden for the bucket of tulips and sentiment

5096 – HM Garden Set for the little birds

5543 – Journal Template Die Set for the banner

5463 – Slimline Dies Set to cut the designer paper

5408 – ShadowBox Window Die to create the 3-D window

and

5606 – Harvest Journal Paper Pack

I just love how you can mix and match all of the Ai sets.

Their versatility makes them so useful.
I think my card is so cheerful.

One of them will be my friend Rhonda's birthday card.

I colored my birds bright yellow because at this time of year, our goldfinches have just turned back from their winter mustard brown color to their brilliant yellow.  We love to see that because it means the weather is turning nice again.

Copics used:

BG02, G20, G82, YR21, R81

 

Succulent Mini Critter Pots from Art Impressions!

 Hello Ai fans!

Today I have the two cards that I made for the Zoo Crew challenge going on right now here on the blog.  Just go to the bar above and click current challenge to be taken to the post and enter your project!

I used two new sets for my cards and two other sets for my sentiments.

The images are from 5519 – WC Mini Critter Pots and 5528 – Desert Succulent Set.

I'm a little worried that my cactus in the dog planter look a little like cucumbers but oh well...lol!
I used a brick embossing folder because I wanted a sort of Bojo exposed brick vibe with open shelving. 
I used my 2.0 MM Molotow Marker and my 4.0 MM Molotow Marker to make the dots on the owl and frog.  I put the liquid down, let it dry, colored my markers over the dots and then used my white eraser to rub them off.

Hello Friend is from 5444 – MB Garden and was cut using 5132 – Tag Stitched Dies.
There's still time to enter the challenge.

These little pots and plants were so fun to color.  I used my Brother Scan and Cut to cut all the little shapes out so that I didn't need to fussy cut them. They're actually a watercolor set so no cutting necessary if you prefer to WC.

My second card was for our daughter's birthday.  She loves succulents and also loves her Crocs so I added a pair from a retired set.  The Always Among the Blooms verse on her card is from 5028 – Potting Shed MTF.

Markers used:

Le Pen technical drawing pen 0.05

Marvy no. 5 Yellow

Tombow 228 and 992

Copics:

V0000, V01, V06. RV55, B34, W00, W3, C1, C3,

G14, G20, G21, G6, G82, E31, E41, E59, E74, E99

Two little gardens from Art Impressions

 Hello Ai fans!

Happy 2022!

This is my first Art Impressions post of the new year and I love this sweet little set.

Today I've used the 5444 – MB Garden to make two little matchbook cards.

You'll also need the 5317 – MB Template Dies to add your little garden scene to.

You can check out all of the other Matchbooks if you like this one!  They're the cutest little things!

Since they come with dies they can be assembled pretty quickly.

I used the same two sided paper for both of the MBs.  I just flipped it over and used a different side facing forward for each one.

My matchbooks work for the current challenge going on here on the blog right now, Get in Shape.  Cards or projects with fun shapes. No squares or rectangles.