New Girlfriends Blog Hop!!!

Copic colors used:  skin- E00, E000, 20, E11 black hair- C7, C5, C3 red hair- E18, E09, E07, E02 cake- E44, E43, E42, 0, E37, E35, E32 blue green details- BG09, BG05, BG10 raspberry details- Rv29, RV25, RV23 yellow green details- YG17, YG13, YG01 orange details- YR68, YR65, YR61 white details- C5, C3, C1, 0 black details- C7 C5, C3 blue details- B97, B95, B93, B91

Hey all!  Welcome back!  At Art Impressions, we are hopping to celebrate the release of some brand new Girlfriend images...WOO HOO!  You know 'em, you love 'em, you can't live without 'em!

We all need our girlfriends.  We laugh together, cry together, rejoice together.  They are our rocks and they lift us up!  Sometimes they also need to help us lift our birthday cakes up...LOL!  I just turned 47 and let me tell you, I'm certainly glad I didn't opt for candles ;)  No need to start the fire detectors chirping!  This image is aptly called Giant Cake and now I'm craving something sweet.  Cake, anyone?  Pick up all of the new Girlfriend images in the Ai Shop.  

You should have arrived from Karen Day's fabulous blog.  Next you'll head to Kerry Kung's blog where you'll no doubt find something wonderful.  If you get lost along the way, head to the Art Impressions Blog and you'll have access to the entire Hop List to get you back on track.  

Oh yeah, and don't forget our awesome Girlfriend Giveaway below!

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Under My Umbrella from Art Impressions!

Copic colors used:  skin- E00, E000, R20, E11 hair- C7, C5, C3 (black) E18, E09, E07, E02 (red) black details- C7, C5, C3 light brown details- E44, E43, E42, 0 yellow green details- YG17, YG13, YG01 blue green details- Bg09, BG05, BG10 ground- BV29, BV25, BV23 background- BV34, BV31, BV000, BV0000

Hey, all!  Back today to share a card I made for the Art Impressions blog.  This one features those ladies we all love so much...the Girlfriends!  This image is from the Under My Umbrella Set and can be found in the shop with LOTS of other cool stuff.

Visit the Art Impressions Blog to join this week's challenge and to check out daily inspiration from the design team.  

Until next time (tomorrow), stay crafty!

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Picture Perfect by Art Impressions

Hey, all!  I'm back today with something fun and fabulous from Art Impressions.  This is a super cute set called Picture Perfect featuring our favorite characters from the Girlfriend line.  They never cease to make me chuckle!  You can find this set in the Art Impressions Shop along with LOTS of other wonderful images.

As always, check out the Art Impressions Blog for daily inspiration from the DT.  I better get to bed, I'm about to pass out on my keyboard.

Until next time, stay crafty!

Trip's Ahoy Challenge at Art Impressions!

Hey, everybody!  I'm back sharing a new challenge starting today on the Art Impressions Blog. The theme is Trips Ahoy and and we are asking you to share your travel or nautical themed creations. 

The Girlfriend line makes me giggle.  I just love them so much!  This foursome always looks like they are having the best time, so it would stand to reason that they would go on a girls "getaway".  I'm thinking a swanky weekend in New York City a la Sex and the City style.  You know, maybe pop into a trendy lounge with a one word name like "lib-a-shuns" for Cosmopolitans.  Then off to catch the hottest broadway show, "Sing Speak Act Dance" starring Harry Connick, Jr. and Queen Latifa.  Followed by a very posh late night dinner in a hard to get into restaurant, also a one word name, but an added edgy attitude, something like "grub" (all lowercase is really "in" right now).  BUT, these gals like to have fun, so the evening would not end there...perhaps more drinks at an equally trendy bar called "high octane" (oops, two words, but all lowercase, so it's still in).  And finally, dancing at a new place called "FROLIC" (lowercase is so 15 minutes ago).  Whoa!  I'm exhausted!  These ladies are wearing me out!  LOL! 

You can find your own "getaway" gals in the Art Impressions Shop under their real name, Uptown Girls (#4129).  Be sure and enter the latest challenge, you have 2-weeks to get your entry in.  I can't wait to see what you come up with!

I'll see you later with another post.  Stay Crafty!

Use Your Stash Challenge at Art Impressionsss

Hey, all!  Just poppin' in to remind you that there's still plenty of time to join the Use Your Stash challenge at Art Impressions!  Grab something that's been sitting on a shelf, neglected; combine it with one of our fabulous Ai images and work your magic.  

My stash item, you ask?  Well, it's really a tad embarrassing, but my item is my Ai stamped image.  Yep, this beautiful quartet of sunbathers has been hibernating in my craft room for almost a year.  What a crime!  Unfortunately, it's not the only one.  I must have hundreds of stamps that have never seen ink.  Do you have the same problem?  Apparently, I am Quick Draw McGraw with the credit card and am able to shop faster than I am able to craft a card.

This ridiculously wonderful image makes my day.  I imagine me and my best girlfriends doing this very thing when we hit middle age.  Shoot, I forgot...I'm already middle aged...LOL!  Anyway, this darling image is called Girlfriends (#U3573) and is available in the Art Impressions shop.  By the way, a wonderfully thoughtful friend of mine made me a birthday card last year using this very same image.  Totally makes me smile every time I see it :)  

Okay, your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to grab a little something from your stash that's been sitting and waiting for some attention.  It could be a tool that you couldn't live without, a crazy cool stamp that you fell in love with, that package of embellies that's now covered in dust, or that die that you snagged at a bargain price so you bought one for you and one for your crafting buddy.  Whatever the case me be, take it out of the package and use it, then share the results with us at Art Impressions.  Visit this link to get all the details!

Okey dokey, I'm out!  Until next time, stay crafty!

Girlfriends...priceless!

Hey, all!  A blog post in the middle of the week for me is a rarity, but I fell in love with these Girlfriend stamps by Art Impressions and just couldn't contain myself!  I cajoled, begged, and bribed my boss at The Hen House Paperie to carry this line so I jumped at the opportunity to make a sample to use in the shop.  

When I look at this image I am reminded of all the crazy, fabulous, amazing friends I have and I just can't help but smile.  What a lucky girl I am!  By the way, I'm the one in the red dress on the left...LOL!  Which one are you? ;)

I know this post is brief, but I hear the Sandman calling my name.  Until next time, stay crafty!