Love Blooms Here from Art Impressions

 Hello Ai fans!

The current challenge is YELLOW and I couldn't be happier about that.

Yellow isn't my favorite color, however, I do feel it's the most CHEERFUL color there is.

Today I'm sharing a card with a cat sunning himself amongst some beautiful flowers.
This is a new release, 6195 – Love Blooms, and part of the Holiday Lane series.
These little scenes make putting a card together so easy. No figuring out placement or perspective. The work is done for you. You just fill in the blanks and personalize it.

Be sure to enter your project using yellow and you just might win a free stamp set. Click the photo below to be taken to the challenge.

Arteza Real Brush Pens:

Ice Blue

Bubble Gum Pink

Chocolate

Pea Green

Arctic Blue

Spearmint Blue

Sunset Yellow Honey

Pale Skin

Acid Yellow

Pretty Little Flower Shop from Art Impressions

 Hello Ai fans!

I created this card for our current Mix & Match challenge.
Use at least two different stamp/die sets on your card.

I used 2 stamp sets, 5 die sets and 2 paper pads on my card.
Variety is the spice of life, right?

I used my Arteza Real Brush Pens which are sort of between a marker and watercoloring the Art Impressions way.  Since I don't watercolor often, I decided to use die cut flowers and flowers painted with Dr. Ph Martin's Bleed Proof White Paint. I like the way they turned out.

The 6194 – Flower Shop is part of the new Holiday Lane series.

Arteza Real Brush Pens:

Sapphire Blue

Spearmint Blue

Turquoise

Pea Green

Tawny

Ginger

Honey

Currant Red

Ice Blue

Smoke Gray

Pretty Little Floral Shop from Art Impressions

Hello Ai fans!

Do you love the new add-on 6159 – Floral Shop Die Set as much as I do?
It's meant to pair with 6114 – Box Village Template Dies.

My little flower shop was created for the current Feeling Crafty challenge.

You get all of these incredible dies in this new set.

I took some liberties and extended my shingles above the roofline of the box because I wanted a taller shop. I also tipped the window upright.

I also noticed that everyone sees things differently.

I saw what I have since learned is the window valance and instantly saw "window box" in my mind. The piece that is meant to be the actual window box was turned into a wooden sign by me...lol! I'm not at all sad with how it turned out. I decided to score my "valence box" where each scallop was and then use a brown ink pad to add some wood lines.

On the side of my box I trimmed the tops of the pickets off of the fence and made a trellis for the flowers.

I hope you like my little flower shop.

I can't wait to see what's next in this fun series.

 

Pocket Full of Sunshine Seed Journal from Art Impressions

 Hello Ai fans!

Today I have the inside of the little house that I shared last
Thursday for my challenge feature.
The 6114 – Box Village Template Dies come with a
journal cover with pages that you can add.

I believe it fits 6 and I chose to add 3 because mine had
seed packets folded in half and tucked inside
giving those pages more dimension.

Pruned & Fabulous!

That's my cover page...lol.
Oh GAIL! You're marvelous.

The challenge is to use sunshine, yellow and/or pockets.
I chose to use all 3 on my project.
Pocket Full of Sunshine!

For one of my pages I used 6150 – His Love Set 
and a sentiment from 6076 – Gardener Gail.
The pocket and banner the sentiment is stamped on
are part of the house die set. The circles are from 
5726 – Nested Circle Dies and 6045 – Scalloped Circle Dies.

For this page I used a frame from the house
die set and a flower from 5981 – My Joy Set.

My final pages used dies from 5336 – Garden Mini Dies
and one final sentiment from Gail.

This is what the journal looks like
tucked up inside the house.

House and Journal side by side.

I hope you enjoyed my little bit of sunshine.

Pocket Full of Sunshine Challenge from Art Impressions

Hello Ai fans and welcome to the new challenge here on the Art Impressions Challenge Blog!

This time we have a Pocket Full of Sunshine!

This challenge is pretty flexible.

We want to see SUNSHINE, YELLOW and/or POCKETS.

Show us your interpretation of what a Pocket Full of Sunshine means to you.

Maybe it's a bouquet of yellow flowers?
Maybe it's your favorite yellow Designer Paper?
Perhaps you love making cards or journals with pockets on them.

I'm the featured artist this week and I chose to create a yellow house with a sunshine to brighten it. Inside of the house is a mini journal that contains pockets. (You'll see that on Tuesday)

For my project, I used the new 6114 – Box Village Template Dies.
Please see the InLinkz below for a complete list of all of the Art Impressions supplies that I used.

This box die set is just the cutest! It comes with a cover and pages to create a little journal or booklet that tucks up inside of it. 

I also love how customizable the house is. It was marketed as a Christmas house to hold the Woodland Scene series but it is so much more than that. Two days ago, I shared it as a Valentine house that I created for my fireplace mantel.

This is the cover of my little journal which you'll see the inside of on Tuesday.
Gail looks so happy tending to her garden.

I hope I've inspired you to enter our Pocket Full of Sunshine Challenge.

You might be the next person to win a free stamp set.

Copics used:

G40, G43, E01, E31, E35, E42, E93,

Y000, Y21, YR12, YR15, YR61

A Sweet Little Valentine's House

 Hello Ai fans!

Today I've created a little Valentine décor for my fireplace mantle.

I fell in love with the 6114 – Box Village Template Dies the second I saw them.
I envisioned so many different seasons and themes for it.

This time, I went with a Valentine's Day theme and added a button door knob because this was also created for our Button Up challenge.

I added a large heart from the 5952 – Portfolio Template Die Set.

One really cute feature of the house is that the front door opens if you want it to. I didn't put anything inside the door this time so I just glued it shut.

So far we've seen lots of winter/gingerbread house versions of this set.
I can't wait to see some with some spring colors and flowers.