The challenge at CAS-ual Fridays this week is to make a card using flowers or trees! I just couldn't resist using a couple dies from Memory Box...and made a couple cards!!... I used these two dies from Memory Box. I only used the top three petals from the tulip die and used the leaf die for the stems and leaves for the tulips. The sentiment is Hero Arts THEN...wanting to do another card a bit simpler, I opted for just 2 tulips on a kraft card... Another Hero Arts sentiment and used Papertrey button and impression plate(Linen/Canvas) for some added dimension and texture. Flowers are fun... what a fun challenge!! Thanks for visiting me today!! Hugs!! Lisa

Your cake is the perfect stage for gorgeous paper art, and we’ve got a great example for you today! This is a unique take on the traditional ‘bride and groom’ wedding cake topper that looks great and is easy to make yourself, we take a break from wedding invitations to bring you this DIY guide ...

Wonderland, one of the new Level 2 Paper Packs, is not just for winter-themed projects! Here's a cute and very simple box, ready to be filled with treats, or something fun. Now that I have the Cricut Expressions and after playing with some of the box shapes included in the Art Philosophy cartridge, it has got me wanting to do more, more, more. Last week I found a used Tags, Bags, Boxes & More cartridge (that I've been eyeing for a very long time) through a local online classifieds and made this box with my newly loved, hard-to-find cartridge. Though I have to say, I'm having a hard time with how little is included in the regular cartridges, as opposed to the CTMH Art Philosophy cartridge, which is truly loaded with so many great options. I really hope that CTMH comes out with another new one in the next Idea Book! To make the box shown, I used a 12x12 mat and clicked the Fit To Page option on my Cricut. It's finished size is 2 1/2" x 2 1/2" x 4 3/4". To cut the little 3/4" pennants, I used the Art Philosophy cartridge. Super cute box and so quick to make! Love that... Happy creating! :) Supplies used (all CTMH unless otherwise noted): Paper: Wonderland B&T; Colonial White, Lagoon CS Stamps: Trinity Alphabet, Art Philosophy Celebration Inks: Chocolate, Lagoon Embellishments: Chocolate waxy flax, Mocha Opaques adhesive gems, Lagoon button Other: Tags, Bags, Boxes & More cartidge (Provo Craft), Art Philosophy cartridge, 3D foam tape, Micro-tip scissors, Liquid Glass

Hello Ai fans! It's time for a brand new challenge here on the Art Impressions blog. Although we still have possibly quite a bit of winter where I am, we know it's beginning to warm up where some of you are. The rest of us will just have to live vicariously through your photos. For now we'll have to settle for a spring themed challenge. Bloom Where You're Planted We want to see your cards or handmade crafty projects using flowers, plants and trees! No particular theme. Just feature flowers and foliage. Before we look at our featured artist Nina's project let's announce the winner of our last challenge. The Top Spot for our You're My Everything challenge went to... Stamping Vicki for her 4 Valentines using 5219 – Lovable Animals Set. Please contact Leah at [email protected] to claim a free stamp set of your choice! Also, be sure to grab our badge to display on your blog, Facebook or Instagram! Now for our Lucky, Lucky Random Winner! The random number generator selected Sandi Hugget. She used 4900 – Reel Great Guys Set. Please contact Leah at [email protected] to claim a free stamp set of your choice! Also, be sure to grab our badge to display on your blog, Facebook or Instagram! Now let's take a look at the amazing projectS Nina created for our challenge! Hello Ai fans, Nina here and I am excited to be with you today to share my creations for our new challenege Bloom Where You're Planted. For my first card I used my favorite set Llama Set. I stamped the Llama and the little cacti cluster four times using Memento Tuxedo Black Ink and my Mini Mist. I colored them using my Copic Markers. Copic Shades: Yellow: Y08 Y06 Red: R29 Brown: E99 YR24 Greens: G09 G14 YG67 YG25 YG23 I then used my scissors to cut around all the images and backed them with different thicknesses of foam tape to give this variety of dimension. I cut a white panel and die cut a circle in the middle and used foam tape to attach it to a very dark green panel. I then started attaching my Llama and other cactus clusters. I placed the whole panel on a light olive green panel. I then decorated with enamel dots. I also created another card using the beautiful Friends forever Set. I again stamped the lovely image of the girls on a Bristol smooth white paper using my Memento Tuxedo Black and my Mini Misti. I also stamped my sentiment from the same set and die cut the panel with square stitched does. I colored them with Copic markers as well as Spectrum Noir Markers. My color palette came from the floral pattern of a paper from the new Valentine's paper pack. I will create my background from that paper by the end. Copic Shades: Browns: E29 E27 E25 Greys: C2 C1 Red Brown: E19 E07 Yellow Brown: E99 YR24 Spectrum Noir Shades: Greens: VB2 VB5 Pink: AP1 AP3 Skin: FS4 FS5 I layered underneath the white panel, pinks and the pattern paper from the Valentine's paper pack release. I hope you enjoyed my projects and can't wait to see your creations for this challenges. Thank you Nina for your wonderful inspiration! Adorable cards. We can't wait to see what YOU enter in our challenge! Any handmade craft with flowers, foliage or trees will do. If you'd like to join in our challenge be sure to link your project below... ✻ Please make a new card or handmade crafty creation. You can make any item you wish; this is not limited to cards! ✻ Limit two submissions per person. You will receive extra votes if you use Art Impressions stamps! ✻Please include your first name and last initial on your submission. ✻We love to comment on your entries, but keep in mind if you use a private group or a platform that you need to sign up for, we probably won't be able to. ✻ The Ai Challenge is open to everyone, international submissions are welcome! ✻ Include a link back to the Ai Blog or grab our button on the top right of our sidebar! ✻ Share the Ai love if you can, by clicking and commenting on your fellow crafters. ✻ Make sure to get your link up by the deadline to enter your creations. ✻ Good luck and happy stamping! You are invited to the Inlinkz link party! Click here to enter

I dag har jeg en juleeske med to skuffer å vise frem. Papirene jeg har brukt til denne er alle hentet fra den nye Pion Design kolleksjonen Waiting for Santa – 6*6”, og du finner dem på arkene Merry Christmas og Winter bird. Pions vakre juleborder er så flotte i miniutgave også, og de finnes på arket Christmas Poem. Skal vi åpne skuffene? I den nederste skuffen er det fire telys, og i den øverste skuffen er det massevis av fyrstikker. Så tenker du kanskje: Hvordan skal en tenne disse fyrstikkene da? Jeg har laget en tag i kraftig kartong, som har fått en egen lomme over skuffene. Den er ikke bare til pynt….sånn ser den ut på baksiden. Jeg klippet løs sidene fra en tom fyrstikkeske, og laget en fyrstikktenner tag:)

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Having almost finished my Beehive Explosion Box, I put it on the back burner because of more urgent projects that I had to complete. I have ...

Chissà cosa staranno pensando tutte le mamme dei maschietti che mi seguono... ERA L'ORA che la maestra Valentina pensasse un po' a loro e non solo alle femminucce! Avete proprio ragione, in questo blog non ci sono tante idee al maschile, ma con tre post cerco di rimediare. Ecco qui un trenino da mettere sul tavolo pieno di dolcetti. Per realizzarlo occorrono tre scatole di formaggini, carta fantasia, cartoncino, bottoni e passamaneria. Per allargare le scatole dei formaggini, QUI trovate un piccolo tutorial. Dopo aver rifasciato le scatole incollate i vari dettagli. Per tenere uniti i tre vagoni ho utilizzato uno stecchino e dei piccoli dischetti di legno. I bottoni li trovate da CREAFAMILY. A prestissimo con un'altra idea tutta al maschile. Maestra Valentina

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Here is a cute little birdhouse mini that I made following Kit's tutorial. I love her videos, she's so much fun! This one uses images from Abby at Little Birdie Blessings and The Graphic's Fairy. Since it's a birdhouse, I decided to use scripture verses about birds. The verse on the third page is the one from Matthew 6:26. Look at the birds of the air, they neither sow, nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value then they? How many times have I had to remind myself of this truth?! There are 14 pages to add pictures or journaling. I decided I wanted to stamp this flower flourish from Heartfelt Creations on the inside of the front after I had already decorated the front. To solve my little problem, I stamped the image on tissue paper, colored it with Creative Inspirations Paint, (which gives such a beautiful shimmer and sparkle) and then adhered it with gel medium. The gel medium makes the tissue paper translucent, so now you can't see the tissue paper and it looks as if it was stamped on the card stock. I stamped the bird, cut it out, covered it in UTEE, and added it with pop dots. I sewed beads around the first page. After I uploaded my pics, I realized that I misspelled 'Solomon'! Now that's going to bug me until I fix it, LOL. Last week, Abby posted the sheet music for Joyful, Joyful we adore thee. I thought that was such an appropriate song for this mini. Birds always sound so joyful. So I added that to the reverse side of the pages. The front of the birdhouse. I loved making this book. I'll be making some more; I think these would be a wonderful place to keep inspirational quotes, sayings, and verses . I'm not sure if this meets the requirements at Stampin' Sisters in Christ Challenges to 'make me smile, create a happy card'. If not, feel free to ignore, LOL. Thanks so much for visiting and have a blessed day!

My friend, Nikki, pinned a pic of a gorgeous picnic basket from Randi Thorsen's Norwegian blog. I was very taken with it so decided to have a go at making my own, converting all the metric measurements into inches. I made one of these baskets for the MI Mingle and have just made another one and made a photo tutorial to show you how to make one. The tutorial is in the right hand side bar of my blog under "Picnic Basket Tutorial". Here's what I came up with : If you make one, make sure you leave me a comment so I can come and see it :) Happy Stamping!

How about a lovely spring bonnet to cheer things up? This is obviously a vintage bonnet...it reminds me of Bonnie (the singing) Bonnet from the Rankin and Bass show Here Comes Peter Cottontail. This bonnet was made just like my Top Note Turtle box. I know I said I'd give you directions for the Top Note Turtle box yesterday, but (among two other urgent things) I ended up having to take my son to the ER after he slipped on the ice and landed on his hip! It was a LONG day and I was just too exhausted by the time I could get back to it. This morning I spent quite some time digging us out of the snow that dumped on us last night, so I'm just finally getting to my blog. I hope to get the tutorial posted by the end of the day today, though. Stampin' Supplies: Vintage Labels (Sale-A-Bration FREE product), Eggcellent Eggs Kit (rub-ons), Sahara Sand card stock (to make the BOX), Apricot Appeal card stock & ink, Only Orange card stock & ink, Stampin' Sponge, Brocade Blue card stock & ink, Whisper White card stock, Brocade Blue 5/8" Grosgrain Ribbon, Big Shot, Top Note die, SU! Perfect Details Texturz Plate, Curly Label Movers & Shapers die, Curly Label Punch, 3/4" Circle Punch, Scallop Edge Punch, SU! Blossom Party die, Sticky Strip, Stampin' Dimensionals, Champagne Mist Shimmer Paint (mix w/alcohol & spray on flower). ~Kimberley Morris Stampin' Up! Independent Demonstrator since 1994 Colorado Springs, CO [email protected] http://kimberley.stampinup.net (click SHOP NOW at top right to shop)

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Hi Stampers, Happy Friday friends ! Today we will be making this adorable treat box . It's our January featured project for our Stampin' Anonymous Tutorials . I love this desig

I promised you a tutorial on how I made this box; so here we go! I chose to use Mint Macaron card stock for this as it seems to go with everything. I need to give credit to Barbara Johnson for the original template & idea. You need two piece of CS cut at 7 1/4" X 9 3/4" for the box. Score on the short side at 3 3/4" & 6". Score on the long side at 1/2", 4...

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Hi there! Last night I held a Planter Box Card Class for a small group of ladies. Everyone enjoyed themselves and even though the proje...

Hello again! I'm back to share a box card with flowers for Day 4 of the MFT April Release Countdown. It's made with a bunch of different dies and no stamps

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A fabulous bright and cheerful yellow floral Birthday Card! Front: A collection of Yellow and Cream flowers adorn the front of this card in a beautiful assortment. A couple of the flowers are raised slightly off the page using dimensional foam tape to give a fabulous 3d effect and shadows. Some of the leaves and stems are created using patterned paper in green tones with gold accents. Surrounding different flowers and buds in shades of blues, golds and red. Card base is 120lb white paper. Adhered to it is a very pale blue cardstock panel. Sentiment "HAPPY Birthday” is hand-stamped in black ink on an white piece of paper that has been cut into an elegant label shape. Finishing off the card are a few crystal gems. Card size is US A2 size - measuring about 4.25” X 5.50” Comes with 1 white envelope and enclosed in clear protective sleeve. Inside: Card is white and blank for you to write your own personal message. Back: Card is white and blank - with Zeina Designz logo. Made in a smoke-free home. Interested in browsing more Birthday designs? Click here: https://www.etsy.com/shop/ZeinaDesignz?section_id=36181309 Want to see ALL our cards? Click here: https://https://www.etsy.com/shop/ZeinaDesignz All cards are mailed in a bubble or rigid mailer to protect them from any damage. This card is made to order - so no 2 cards will be exactly alike, due to their handmade nature! Some slight variation in color/arrangement should be expected.

Oh my goodness so many gorgeous things to get from this catalogue... I went all out and ended up with quite a bit of lovely stuff to play with. I just did another smallish order (with hostess benefits) yesterday and I can not wait to get it. Here is another card in a box that i made with the blendabilities and the new blended bloom stamp. (I am a little obsessed with making these and love it to bits :-) Here is another card with the blendabilities - I am still a bit of a beginner but getting there. I really need to get onto this blog a little more to update.... so many things to update!!

Hi there and welcome to addINKtive designs. Today I have a Planter Box Card to share with you. After a bit of a craft 'slump' three challenges finally got me motivated and back into my craft room ...

After creating this card, I still had lots of flowers and leaves left from my watercolored "Bold Blooms" by Spellbinders. Papertrey Ink had a good sale a few weeks ago. I needed some paper and wanted a few of their...

Hello, fellow crafters!! I hope your week is going well!! I have three cards to share with you today featuring the January 2023 Large Die of the Month, Die of the Month and Embossing Folder of the …

Hi there and welcome to add INK tive designs. I'm first on the hop for our Friday night CASE-ing the Catty Blog Hop. We are a group ...

Club Blooms from Large Die of the Month Club was Released in January 2023. Create a floral arrangement with this die set.