Meet my GnomeBee from Art Impressions

 Hello and Happy Thursday!

I am absolutely in LOVE with the new Gnome set!  Today I'm sharing a Black and White card that has pops of yellow and green.  My favorite colors!

I've used several new sets to create my card and I'll link everything below.  One thing I can't link is the itty bitty bee on his nose.  That is from a retired Freebie stamp but I couldn't NOT put him on my card.  I love him so much.

The gnome set comes with dies but the other watercolor sets don't so I used my Brother Scan-N-Cut to cut out the flowers.

It's funny how people can look at something and see different things. I look at this and see he's dressed like a bee. My husband would look at this and say, "Cool!  He's a Steelers fan!" lol!

Everything was colored using Copic markers and Twin Tones.

Copics used: E15, E30, E33, RV66, N1, T3, YG07, G05

Twin Tones used: Black, Gray, Yellow

Gnomes and Bees from Art Impressions

 Hello and Happy Sunday!

Do you love these new Gnomes as much as I do?
And, yes.  Just so you all know, I can see you furrowing your eyebrows and hear you muttering, "Well that's a silly question," in my head! lol!

Of COURSE you love them!

Gnomes live in the woods so I added lots of bees. Gnomes love flowers and so do bees, so I'd assume that Gnomes love bees too. The teeny little bee is from a retired freebie.  He sits on a flower that a sweet little bear is holding.  I only inked up the bee and placed him on the gnomes nose.  It wasn't easy, but it was worth it.  Maybe someday Bonnie will make us a full bee set with everything from a teeny little cluster of 3 bees that we could ink up as one, two or three...all the way up to larger bees that could be the star of our cards!

One very cool feature of this new Gnome set is that one of them is a Front and Back stamp which means you can create a window showing him from the front and on the inside of the card where you see his backside.

The same goes for the little bees from Birds and Bugs. Since some face left and some face right, you can make those F&B stamps too!

I love using clear acetate to make it look like certain images are flying or floating.  You just have to love bees!

5785 – Gnomes Set
5794 – Whimsical Flowers
5797 – Little Things Sentiment Set
5463 – Slimline Dies Set
5561 – Birds and Bugs Set
5543 – Journal Template Die Set
4967 – WC Fence Dies
5724 – Nested Rectangle Dies

Copics used:

B00, Y11, Y15, E33, E47, E53, YG13

Happy Meow-loween! from Art Impressions

Hello Ai fans!

Today I'm sharing a Halloween card that I made using the new Art Impressions Halloween and Cat and Dog Mini Dies.  The fence is from the watercolor line. 

5333 – Cats Mini Dies
5337 – Dogs Mini Dies
4967 – WC Fence Dies
5328 – Halloween Mini Dies

I used a faux leather paper to make the cat and the bat. I wanted them to have some texture like the real animals do.

I used the Art Impressions 5135 – Hexagon Double Stitched Dies.

The paw prints are from the dog set and the moon is a circle that I covered with Crystal glitter glue. I put some metallic silver paper behind the paw print cut outs from the dog set.

On the inside I used a verse and an image from 4941 – Spooktacular Set.

Christmas on the Farm

Hello Ai fans!

Today I'm sharing the first Christmas card I made this year.

I used:

5011 – WC Truck Mini Set

4936 – Christmas Wonder Set

4960 – WC Fir Trees Set

4967 – WC Fence Dies

I made a vignette card by cutting an oval out of the top layer of paper after I embossed it and then popped it up for some dimension.

It's Easter at the Mansion!

Hello Ai fans!

Today I'm sharing the Holiday Mansion with the 4976 – HM Easter Set.

The mansion is a fun, interactive set with see through windows and doors that open.  There are so many possibilities.

Here's the inside of my card.

I made a second version here.

Don't you love the little 4967 – WC Fence Dies combined with this set?

I used an acrylic glaze over vellum on the windows to give them a more realistic glass look.