Happy Birthday Young Man!

Hello and happy Friday!

Today I'm sharing a card for a young man that I worked with for several years.

Although I no longer work with him, he still receives services at my school.

He just celebrated a milestone birthday so we threw him a little party.

I was inspired by a card from Marybeth Lopez.

His favorite color is orange so that's where I began.

We had delicious pizza and donuts per his request and presented him with a gift card. I know he loved the party and I hope he loved his card. He deserves all the best.

Reeling in the BIG ONE! from Art Impressions

Hello Ai fans!

My Father-in-law turned 90 last week and he used to love to fish.

I knew he'd enjoy this card.
(He did. He emailed me.)

I used two fun stamp sets from Art Impressions
along with a beautiful masculine paper pack.

Everything is linked below. This was a super simple card.
I just stamped, colored and cut out

the images with the coordinating dies for the Hats Off set. 

The fish from the Reel Great Guys set are a little older
and don't have dies but they 

were super simple to fussy cut. I love
all of the fun sayings in this set.

Copics used:

B21, B45, E30, E74, YG05,

YG41, C1, T4, RV1, RV93 

My Top 10 Art Impressions projects of 2024

2024 is quickly coming to a close and I have my Top 10 favorite projects for the year.

It's never easy to narrow the list down because all of the Art Impressions stamps and dies are so wonderful! This is what I finally settled on in no particular order. I hope you enjoyed them.

 They say it's your birthday

Bunny Puppet Treat Bags

Fall Greetings

Yellow Flowers, Bees and Earrings

Punch Bugs make me SMILE

OL' Geezer

Deer Shaker Card

So Thankful

Ballooning through the Mountains

Hydrangea Chickadee

Here's hoping 2025 brings you everything you're hoping for!

I can't wait to begin a new year with Ai and I can't wait to see what you create.

I'm retired, go around!

Hello Ai fans!
The current challenge at Art Impressions is Masculine Masterpieces.

I needed a retirement card for a female coworker which is how this card began. Once I made hers I thought that it would be really nice for a man as well. The colors worked well for men or women so I created this version for the challenge.

This guy is READY for retirement!

5406 – Mr. Set

I tried to convince him not to pack his black socks but he insisted.
At least he's not wearing them with sandals.

I hope you guys aren't getting sick of my shaker dome cards. I just can't get enough of them! I love interactive cards and these little shakers are so fun and easy to use.
5808 – 5pk Snow Globe Shaker Dome

The fun "cruise ready" lady and the accessories are from 4932 – Pack Your Bags Set.

The small happy retirement sentiment is from 5187 – Happy Trails Set.

I used the 5726 – Nested Circle Dies to cut the paper that went behind the cruise ship in the dome.

The fun sentiment on the front is from 5115 – Birthday Laugh Lines.

I will NEVER get sick of these domes and I have so many more ideas swirling in my head.

Stay tuned...

O-FISH-ALLY OVER THE HILL! from Art Impressions

Hello Ai fans!

Today I have a pair of very similar birthday cards to share with you.

The first will go into my stash.  The second will be given to someone and 

I'll tell you that story in a minute.



Masculine cards are some of my favorite to make and I chose green because when you

don't know what colors someone likes, it seems pretty neutral.  Also, I feel like so many

shades of green are very masculine.
Lol!  As I'm looking at my card I'm wondering just how many shades of green

I packed onto it.



For those of you who don't know, I work in an elementary school.

Our principal is turning 50 on June 15th.  We're celebrating him all day long.

Each grade level from Pre-K through 5th grade has an activity planned to do with him.

I made a card for all of the faculty to sign for him. His favorite thing in the world to do 

is go fishing.  Art Impressions had me covered! 
Enter...5406 – Mr. Set and 4900 – Reel Great Guys Set.

Besides the two main sets I used on this card I used a bunch of other Ai products.

5543 – Journal Template Die Set for the tab with the 50 on it.
5562 – Journal Letter Die Set
5606 – Harvest Journal Paper Pack
5463 – Slimline Dies Set for the mattes and the banner the sentiment is on.
Memento Ink Pad
Sakura Pigma Micron 05 – Pigment Fineliners – 0.45mm I used this to hand draw the sign around the Gone Fishing sentiment.
4773 – Acrylic Block 5 Pack (Variety) to stamp the smaller images and sentiments

In case you missed it...there're still several hours to take advantage of the 40% off Father's Day sale category.