My (Ai) Hero! Art Impressions For the Fellas Challenge!

Hello Ai fans!

Today we begin another new challenge over at Art Impressions.  This one is called FOR THE FELLAS.  Father's Day is just around the corner so it's time to honor the men in our lives.

I made a card using several different types of guys because I know so many men are many different things for their families...they grill, they fix things...the kill our bugs!!!

I made a shutter tri-fold card.  This is what it looks like when it's closed.

I used several Ai stamps.

The men are all from the Art Impressions Heroes line.

This one's called BUG BUSTER.

This guy is the WEEKEND WARRIOR.

The dude on the front of the card is called GRILL FATHER.

The Father's Day verse is called FDMD set.

The Thanks for Wearing All the Hats verse is from the OPERATION WRITE HOME series called Every Hat Set.

Copics used:

Weekend Warrior:

B32, B93, E21, E25, E50, E51, E81, E93, Y08, Y35, YR24, C7,

TRIARTS BG6

BUGBUSTER:

E21, E50, E51, E81, E93, Y08, Y35, RV34, G02, N0, T1, B93

GRILL FATHER:

E21, E50, E51, E81, E93, R34, R85, T1, N2, G02

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Operation Write Home Hats set

Hello Ai Fans!

Yesterday we jump-started our Operation Write Home blog hop!!
Today I'm sharing a second card with an OWH set.
One thing to keep in mind (that I forgot...)
These cards need to be very thin and an A2 size.
My card is NOT ACCEPTABLE for OWH.  I'll just use this one for something else and make a smaller duplicate to send to OWH.  Don't make the same mistake I did!  View the guidelines HERE.

For my card I used OWH Every Hat set.

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Art Impressions Operation Write Home Bloghop!

Hello Ai Fans!

Today we have another wonderful bloghop for you! We're working with Operation Write Home  again and now Ai is offering two new sets with a portion of the proceeds going towards OWH!

I've used one of the new sets today called OWH Sending Love set and you can pop by tomorrow to see the other new set.

Keep in mind there are STRICT guidelines for OWH cards to be accepted.  You can view them HERE.  You don't want to do all that work and have your card be rejected.

 Here is the blog hop order...

Art Impressions
Crafter's Home
 Crystal Lopez
 Dixie Cochran
 Paula Spagnuolo
Karen Day
Kathryn Belmonte
Lee Mae Elkins
Kerry Kung
Nancy Keller
Piali Biswas
Kristie Marcotte
Reneé Matarese (that's ME!!)
(YOUR NEXT STOP...)  Ronni Unger
Rhonda Harre
Sandy Allnock
Operation Write Home Stars and Stamps

OWH is important to me because I have a nephew in the military.  He left home for eight months when his new baby girl was just 3 months old.  He's lucky to live in the age we do.  At least he can Skype and keep his voice and face fresh in Lilly's mind.  Service people years ago didn't have that option!

  This one's for Dan, Brittany, and Lilly!

 Saying goodbye...

OWH sketch with Spectacular Set from Art Impressions

Hello Ai Fans!

Today I'm sharing a thank you card since that's the theme of the blog hop.  I've also used a different type of bow since that's this week's Art Impressions challenge.
I've used sketch #165 from OWH.

I've put together a little "how to" for this pull out tag card...

1. Cut your base paper to be 5 1/2" x 11" and score at 4 1/4" and 8 1/2".

Glue the "envelope" closed at one end and along the seam.

Cut your decorative papers for the front.
The matte (my coral piece) is 5 1/4" x 4",
the patterned paper is 5" x 3 3/4" and the peach strip is 1 1/2" x 5".  Punch your desired border design onto (2) 1" x 5" strips.

Glue all pieces together.

Cut a "half" circle with a die.  This is a lot of pieces of paper to cut through so you may need to trim it with scissors if the cut doesn't go all the way through.

Cut your ribbon lengths to be 4 1/4", 4 1/2" and 6".  The 4 1/4" piece is adhered to the card with glue lines.  The other pieces are folded and adhered to each other with glue dots.  Top with a little self adhesive dot and stamp your verse.  I used Thanks from Art Impressions.

Cut and glue your tag pieces.

Stamp, color and cut out mouse.  Stamp your verse and glue mouse to tag.
Punch your hole for the tag ribbon and you're finished.  I've used a new set from Ai called Spectacular Set.

You can personalize this on the back of the tag.

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