AAA Colourful - Colourboard #3

 Hello Friends,

It's time for the third challenge at AAA Colourful, and this time the colourbord is filled with a palette of -

soft colours

You don't have to match the colours exactly, and you may include neutral like black, white, greys, browns and skin tones, but the colours on the inspiration/colour board should be the most prominent on your creation/s.

This time I've created a tag, that will go with a card and a present for a little two year old.
Remember we like to see all kinds of paper crafts, cards, tags, ATCs, scrapbook pages, art journal pages and so on. Any paper craft you enjoy creating, your only limitation is your imagination!

I love the soft look of the colours on the colourboard, but I find them difficult to achieve when ink blending, and ink blending was the first thing that came to mind. But then this cute little dinosaur arrived in the post, and I just had to include "him" on my project. 

I die cut the dinosaur out of some patterned paper, and assembled "him". I also die cut a tag, and stamped some lines in the colours of the colourboard at the bottom of the tag. I attached the dinosaur to the tag and added a ribbon to the tag. As the tag looked a little empty I decided to give the dinosaur a balloon to "hold". The balloon was die cut from some white cardstock, then coloured using Distress Oxides. I finished the tag by adding a "2" to the balloon.

Now it's your turn to get creative and colourful! You have until May 14th to create, upload and link your project to the AAA Colourful challenge blog. Hope to see you there!

In need of more information and inspiration? Don't worry, we've got you covered. The AAA Colourful challenge blog is filled with amazing and colourful inspiration by the design team and our special guest designer for the month, Arlene Rose. Don't forget to visit their social media and show them some love! Any information I might have forgotten can also be found on the challenge blog.

Take care, keep crafting and get colourful!

Jane

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Products used for this tag
Dies: "Dancin' Birthday Dinosaur" by Spellbinders, "Framelits Tags" by Tim Holtz/ Sizzix and "Party Balloons" by Lawn Fawn
Papers: Nennah Solar White cardstock, "Spiffy Speckles" 6x6 paper pad by Lawn Fawn
Stamp: "Rippled Background" by My Favorite Things 
Inks: Distress Oxide inks "Squeezed Lemonade", "Spun Suger" and "Tumbled Glass"

 

AAA Birthday Cards challenges Game #60 - Shaker

 Hello Crafty Friends,

It's the 1st of April and time for a new birthday card challenge at AAA Birthday challenges, and do we have a fun theme for you this month! It's all about 

Shaker Cards

This fun theme was chosen by the talented DT member, Swapna. Please see challenge card further down

Here's my take

I don't create shaker cards that often. I find them a bit tricky to get right. I either get to much or too few shaker elements in my card, and it doesn't matter how much I "dust off" the glue from the sides of the 3D foam, my shaker elements always get stuck on it anyway. But this time I think I managed quite well, right amount of shaker elements and not many of them got stuck. I do like shaker cards, and think they are a lot of fun. And I must admit I had a lot of fun creating this card.

Now it's your turn! You have until the 30th of April to create, upload and link your shaker birthday card to the AAA Birthday challenge blog. The challenge blog is filled with fun and beautiful inspiration by the talented design team and our special guest for the month, Deborah Frings. So head on over to the challenge blog, and while you are there give them all some love!

If you want to know how I created my card and what products I used, please keep reading. Otherwise

Thank you for taking the time to stop by, I really appreciate it!

Take care keep crafting and have fun!

Jane
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How I created my card, and product used

I started by cutting out a cupcake using my Silhouette. I cut out the top of the cake (a cupcake top shaped hole) directly on my card panel, which I had already die cut. Then I cut out two whole cupcakes, one in pink and one in blue. Using my scissors I cut off the top from the blue cake and the bottom of the pink one. Then I glued the pink top on the blue bottom parts to create my pink cupcake in a blue capcake wrapping. The pink cupcake in its blue wrapping was glued on top of the cupcake opening on the card panel. The bithday greeting was stamped, after bending it slightly to shape it to the cake. Then it was time to adhere the card panel to the card base, but first I added some pink paper and some sprinkles on the card base. Just before adhering the panel I realised I had forgotten to attach the acetate behind my cupcake shaped hole in the card panel. I added the acetate and some 3D foam strips on the back of the panel and adhered it to the card base. I added a a puffy heart and my shaker card was done.

Products used

Die set: "Small Dotted rectangle Stackables" by Lawn Fawn
Papers: Neenah Solar white cardstock, "Watercolor Wishes" 6x6" petite paper pack by Lawn Fawn
Stamp set: "Baked with Love" by Lawn Fawn
Embellishments: "Rainbow Crumbs" by Dress My Craft, "color theory" hearts by Studio Calico

Visible Image March ATC swap

 Hello,

My ATC, and accompanying card, for the March ATC swap at Visible Image have arrived safely at my swap partner's in the UK. The theme for the March swap was - 

Flora and Fauna

and here is how I interpreted the theme

I started by stamping and heat embossing the tulip and the bee on the ATC, then masked them off before ink blending and stamping the background. After removing the masks I coloured the images using my Copic markers. I stamped the sentiment and embossed it on a separate piece of paper, cut it out and adhered it to the ATC. The wings of the bee got a little sparkle to them.

Here is the accompanying card I sent to my swap partner, followed by a picture of the ATC and card together

Products used
Stamp sets: "Sketched Tulips" and "Bee Happy" both by Visible Image
Ink: Distress Oxide
Markers: Copic

Thank you for stopping by, I really appreciate it!

Jane

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Slim ATCs - hÄnglar & Wings

 Happy Easter!

In between egg hunting, good food and enjoying time with family, I've created three slim ATCs inspired by the current challenge hosted by hÄnglar&Wings on the theme

Easter/ Spring

For more information please see the challenge card further down. Now for my three ATCs

There has been a lot of masking and stamping taking place when creating these cards, and I have had so much fun. This format/size is really fun to work with, even more fun then the "normal" ATC size. I have used the adorable stamp sets "Påskhare" and "Hönsgården" by hÄnglar&Wing for these three cards. I hope you like them!

Thank you for stopping by, I really appreciate it!

Happy Easter

Jane

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Grattis

 Hello,

Sharing a card I created last weekend for one of my grandsons, Kit, who turned six on the 17th. His cousin, Folke, turned six on the 15th, but unfortunately I forgot to take a photo of the card I made for him before sending it in the mail.

Can you guess what Kit got for his birthday?

Yes, that's right, a new bike!

For this card I have used mostly products by Lawn Fawn. The greeting on the card says "Grattis" which means Happy Birthday/ Congrats (free translation) in Swedish.

Thank you for stopping by, I truly appreciate it!

Jane

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AAA Colourful - #2

 Hello Crafty Friends,

It's time for the second Colourful challenge over at AAA Colourful, and this month our colourboard is filled with a lovely palette of -

Blues and Purples

and a tiny hint of yellow. You don't have to match the colours exactly, and you may include neutrals like black, white, greys, browns and skin tones, but the colours on the inspiration/colour board should be the most prominent on your creation/s.

Isn't the colourboard beautiful? I love the blues and purples, and the lovely feeling of spring with all the pansies. At first I was going to create a card filled with little flowers, but then I changed my mind and decided to create some ATCs. My intention was to still incoperate the small flowers, but something happened on the way and this is how my ATCs turned out

Not a flower in sight, and not very spring like either ..... but spring is a good time to start afresh.

As I said this is not how I intended my ATCs to turn out, and at first I felt embarressed to show them to anyone, but then my DT colleauges kindly reminded me that "beauty is in the eye of the beholder", and asked me if I had fun creating these cards. And I did! I had so much fun creating these cards, and I was reminded that the most important thing when crafting is to have fun and enjoy the creative process!

So now it's your turn to have fun! You have until the 14th of April to create, upload and link your paper creations inspired by the colourboard to the AAA Colourful blog. The blog is filled with beautiful creations by the amazing design team, and our two very talented guest designer for this challenge, Deekshita and Parminder, so hurry on over for more inspiration, and information on how to play along. Don't forget to visit their blogs/ social media and show them some love!

We welcome all kinds of paper craft, so if you are into scrapbooking, art journaling, ATCs, cards, Pocket Page scrapbooking ........ we would love to see your creations! Hope to see you on the AAA Colourful challenge blog!

Take care, keep crafting and get colourful!

Jane
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Ps. Here's a close up of my ATCs, and a list of products used

Products used
Inks and pens: Distress Oxide "salty ocean" and "wilted violet", Distress Ink "black soot" all by Tim Holtz/Ranger, VersFine Clair "Nocturne" and VersaMark "watermark" both by Tsukineko, POSCA pen "white".
Stamps sets: "Happiness Matters", "No Regrets", "Imperfection is Beauty", "Hang In There" and "One Kind Word" all by Visible Image, "Bits & Pieces stamps CLBP 11" by CREAlies, Create with Happiness "WTK160" and "WTK163" by Vicky Papaioannou/ Stamperia
Stencil: "No 42" by Gummiapan
Embossing powder: "Opaque Bright White super fine" by WOW!
Embellishments: Enamel Dots "Transparent" by Nellie's Choice

There is still time.....

Hello Friends, 

Have you played along with challenge No 1 at AAA Colourful yet? If not, or if you'd like to create something more, there is still time.

Inspired by the rainbow of colours on the first colourboard, see futher down, I created this card

Hope you are inspired to play along with us! You have until the 14th of March to create, upload and link your project to the AAA Colourful challenge blog, which is jam packed with colourful inspiration by the amazing design team. Remember all paper craft is welcome, scrapbook pages, art journaling pages, ATCs, tags, cards........

Take care, keep crafting and get colourful!

Jane

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