Armfuls Baby Cards from Art Impressions

 Hello Ai fans!

Our current challenge here on the blog is called ABC, 123. Use Letter or Number dies in some way on your project.

Today I've made a slimline trifold card.  When I first saw the new letter and number dies from Art Impressions, I instantly thought about children's blocks.

I used square dies along with the mini baby dies and slimline dies to create my trifold card.

I created a baby boy version and then I created a more neutral version because I have a coworker expecting twins and we don't know the gender/s yet.

The possibilities are endless when it comes to these letter and number dies. You can spell out anything you like with them. I hope you're inspired to join in our challenge. You could be the next winner of a free stamp set.

Birds on an Arbor from Art Impressions

 Hello Ai fans and Happy Sunday!

Today I have a trio of cards to share.

Two of them are Mother's Day cards for my mom and mother-in-law.
The third is a "just because" card.

We'll start with that one.

I created my card with the current Don't Fence Me In challenge
going on HERE on the Ai Blog.

Links for all of the sets I used can be found at the bottom.



This is my mother-in-law's card and it's an A2 size with not too 
much dimension since it has to be mailed to Florida and I know 
my husband would rather just pop it in the mailbox instead of 
driving to the post office because he's really busy with work right now.

This one is my mom's.  I used the scraps from the other card and popped 
her main panel up since I'll be delivering hers in person.

It was actually my mother-in-law that inspired these cards.  They visited us last 
summer and she spent a lot of time bird watching at our feeders.  She was fascinated
with them and rightfully so.  We have some beautiful birds. 

Copics used:

G20, G82, BG02, R81, YR21

Lime Green Twin Tone

Have a great weekend everyone!

Screen Door with Ai Mini Dies!

Hello Ai fans!

This card popped into my head at the end of summer.  My husband and I needed to replace the screen on our sliding glass door.  We had a bear in our yard and our dog smelled it.  He leapt through the screen and took off. He was fine...the bear was gone in no time and we have an invisible fence that keeps our dog in our yard.  The screen didn't fare as well.

After cutting and installing our screen door we had left over screen.  I simply couldn't throw it out.  I wasn't sure why yet but then this card popped into my head. If I could co-install a real life door why couldn't I create one with cardboard and paper?  On the front I used two dies...the cat is from 5333 – Cats Mini Dies and the watering can is from 5336 – Garden Mini Dies.

When you open the door you see the kitchen counter and cabinet. On the counter and on the wall I used all of the dies from 5335 – Kitchen Mini Dies and I used the mirror to create my "stainless steal" pan from the 5334 – Salon Mini Dies.

The clock is from the new 5323 – MB Wall Accessories from the Matchbook series Bonnie just released.

When you open up the cabinet doors you can see the verse which is from Art Impressions - Clear Photopolymer Stamp Set - Daisies which is a Scrapbook.com Ai exclusive.

My screen door is very plain and boring.  Maybe someday I'll have a prettier, rustic one like this. One can hope!  Happy crafting!