The one booth that is sure to make you smile at the tradeshow is Art Impressions. Their stamps have hilarious images and cute caricatures of people and animals that will brighten any card or project. And this year AI is celebrating 30 years in business!! 30 years of making people laugh and smile is a pretty good thing. Probably most well-known for their “Girlfriends” line of stamps, the booth was filled with cheerful, samples of cards that were beautifully coloured. Here are a couple of our personal faves: There are newly released “Get Well” themed stamps too: Valentine stamps and cards were also on display and are so sweet! The Zoo Crew stamp line features hilarious quotes and animals in funny poses: Add some Shakers and Spinners, and you have stamped images that move! So much FUN! One of the newest releases are 3D Stamp sets called POP CARDS so…
Cathie Allan is our web show creating one heck of a cool background! CHECK OUT THOSE circles! SUPPLIES:Creative Scrapbooker Super Stock, Clearsnap ink, stylus, white foam tips, Art Screens, Smooch Accent tips and Top Boss ink, Art Impressions stamps and dies, Sizzix dies and Big Shot die cutting machine, Tombow Dual Brush pens, Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L. You seriously have to grab a coffee and watch this resist colouring in action – you are going to LOVE IT! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoEZVTaWy0g Happy Scrapbooking everyone! SUBSCRIBE TODAY to our quarterly publication – delivered right to your door!
12 DAYS OF GIVING! WIN WIN WIN!!!! Let the party begin! Each day for 12 days in a row we will be sharing three prize packages with you. Leave a message under the blog post for each post in order to be entered for all 36 Prize Packages. Visit the prize sponsor on facebook and say hello from Creative Scrapbooker Magazine or CSM. NOTE do not use the same comment everytime you post on facebook – Facebook thinks you are spam and may block you. Names will be drawn randomly and you can win more than once if you enter your name under more than one blog post! Winners will be announced on Dec 24th. Just in time for Christmas! Day#5 of 12 Starts NOW! Our first prize is from Simple Stories “Happy holidays from all of us at Simple Stories!” Document your holiday memories this season with our SN@P! Holiday Binder and Classic Christmas collection…
WINNER UPDATE – congratulations to Twila Young – this weeks lucky winner! WIN WIN WIN!!!! YAHOOO – this week we are giving away this collection of stamps from Art Impressions with coordinating dies! These stamps put a smile on my face!!! LOVE EM! I especially love the SPINNERS! To enter to win this prize package 1. Visit Art Impressions on Facebook – CLICK HERE – Tell them Creative Scrapbooker Magazine sent you. 2. Leave a comment right here in this blog post. You have until Friday Nov 11th at midnight to enter! Good luck everyone! SUBSCRIBE TODAY to our quarterly publication – delivered right to your door!
Stamping with your Dies by Cathie Allan Mediums and tools that multi-task always have a special place in my creative heart. I totally enjoy looking at my creative tools, toys and mediums from various sides to see what I can get them to do for me other than the “intended use” suggested by the manufacturer. For this blog post I decided to play with the “Heart Clasp Die” from Art Impressions. This die makes a lovely wrap for a card but by joining two of these dies I was able to wrap my scrapbook page and then of course wrapped my photo. I then took this die a “stamp step” forward by applying ink to the backside of the die I thus was able to use it as a stamp. Look at that die “go”!! To begin I made the Art Impressions, “Heart Clasp Die” perform as a stamp. Apply…
These are the CUTEST things ever!!! We have fallen in love with the NEW Mini Wobbles from Art Impressions! Watch this video for the details https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xZDLIdc7fo Here is what wobbles look like in their packaging and here is a project designed by Sharon Caudle that kinda shows what the wobbles do. The turkey head actually wobbles around!!!! LOVE IT!!!!! Visit Art Impressions today for more information and to get your next project wobbling! Happy Scrapbooking everyone SUBSCRIBE TODAY to our quarterly publication – delivered right to your door!
