AAA Colourful - Colourboard #10

 Hello Crafty Friends,

Can you believe it is mid-November already? This Autumn has really flown by and Christmas is fast approching. The AAA Colourful colourboard for the month is filled with gorgeous colours very well suited for all you Christmas project, and non-Christmas projects too.

When I first saw the colourboard my mind filled with ideas for Christmas cards, I just had to decide on which one to go with. But then I bought the first few Christmas gifts and I realised I am going to need a few tags for my gifts, so Christmas tags it is.

I love the combination of red, green and gold with white for Christmas, very traditional. I have used different die sets by Tim Holtz and Sizzix to create my tags. I have also used some word dies by PyHobby and a Christmas stamp set by hÄnglar & Wings. "God Jul" is Swedish for "Merry Christmas".

The AAA Colourful challenge blog is filled with gorgeous creations by the talented Design Team and our special guest designer for this challenge, Nance. Nance´s card is so beautiful! I can highly recommend a visit to the blog, where you will also find all the information on how to play along with all the fun and colourful challenges at AAA Colourful. Remember we love all kind of paper crafts and in all styles too, so welcome to join in the fun!

You have until December 14th to create, upload and link your paper craft project to the challenge blog. Can´t wait to see how you are inspired by the colours of the colourboard!


I would like to enter these tags to the following challenge:
The paper Funday Challenges  - #71 ATG with the optional twist Tag(s)

Take care, keep crafting and get colourful!

Jane

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AAA Birthday Card challenges Game #67 - Favourite Image

 Hello Crafty Friends,

Today is the start of a new birthday card challenge over at AAA Birthday. Due to life being a bit too busy at the moment I am taking a break for this one, but I can highly recommend you popping over to the challenge blog to check out the challenge and the fabulous creations by the talented design team and our creative leader and admin Jane T.

The theme for the month of November is great, and something everyone can play along with as long as you create birthday cards. This months theme is -

Favourite Image

As the challenge board says, you have until November 30th to create, upload and link you birthday card to the AAA Birthday challenge blog. Hope to see you there!

Now don't forget to check out the fabulous makes by the design team and Jane T.

Take care, keep crafting and have fun!

Jane
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Visible Image October ATC swap

 Hello,

Hope you´re having a lovely Sunday. Today I´m sharing my ATC and accompanying card for the October ATC swap at the Visible Image FB group. The theme for the month was - 

Autumn Colours

and/or

Halloween

For my card(s) I was inspired by the autumn colours of the trees in our garden, and the gorgeous orangy-red evening skies we´ve been having. Here´s how my ATC turned out

As always all the stamps and stencils used are by Visible Image stamps. For the ATC I´ve used the "VI Minis #1" stamp set, and the "One Kind Word" stamp set for the sentiment.
Now for the accompanying card

Here I have used the "Branch Out" stencil, and the "One Kind Word" and the "Look Forward with Hope" stamp sets to make up the sentiment. I wanted a bit of a shadow or illusion of movement of the tree so I ink blended it twice through the stencil, first in reddish-brown colours and then a bit off set in black. For the falling leaves I used "Lunar Paste" by Simon Hurley and ranger. 

The two cards together

I hope you like my cards. Tomorrow is the last day to sign up for the November swap, so hurry on over to the VI FB group page if you would like to play along.

Take care and happy crafting!

Jane

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Visible Image September ATC swap

 Hello Crafty friends,

Today it is time for me to share my ATC for the September ATC swap at Visible Image. The theme for the month was - 

Use Your Newest Visible Image Product

My newest VI product is the "Anyone for Bubbles?" stamp set, which I paired with the "Frosty" stencil. A stencil I think works perfect for a "fireworks" background. Obviously I created a card to go with the ATC. Can you spot what I have done differently (apart from the bottle instead of the glasses, and the sentiment)?

You see it? If not, maybe it is easier to see with the two cards together. 

Yes, that is right. I have used the stencil in two different ways, once as it was intended as a stencil and once as a "stamp" where I inked up the stencil before pressing it onto my card. Two for the price of one!

I hope you like my cards. If you would like to join the swap head on over to the Visible Image FB page where the sign up list for the month of November is open until October 28th. Maybe we get to be swap partners!

Have a fabulous weekend, and happy crafting!

Jane

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Visible Image August ACT swap

 Hello,

Hope you are having a lovely week! Today I am sharing my ATC for the August ATC swap at the Visible Image Facebook group. For those of you how have read my last posts I haven't forgotten about July, I didn't participate in that swap as I was away sailing. But now for my August card on the theme - 

Things with Wings

Even though it is not mandatory I often create a card to send with the ATC for my swap partner, just because I enjoy it. Here is a picture of my ATC, and accompanying card, for my August swap partner.

I have to admit this month I liked my card much better then my ATC. All stamps and stencils used are by Visible image. 

Happy crafting!

Jane
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Visible Image June ATC swap

 Hi,

Continguing to share my ATCs for the Visible Image ATC swaps this last spring and summer, todays card is from the June swap on the theme - 

How does your garden grow?

As I love daisies, and one of my favourite stamp sets by Visible Image is the " Dasy grunge" set I just had to use it for my card this time (and I grow daisies in my garden).

I also created a card to send to my swap partner for the month. Here is a picture of the card and ATC together.

Would you like to join the swaps? There is a new swap being launched tomorrow at the Visible Image FB page. You only sign up for one month at a time, and you only have to create a single ATC to send to your designated swap partner for the month. Greeting cards are not mandatory, that is just extra if one feels like it.

Happy crafting!

Jane
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Visible Image May ATC swap

 Hello,

Time to share another ATC for the Visible Image ATC swap, this time for the month of May. The VI ATC swap had been up and running for three years when the swap was launched and the theme was -

Celebrations

Three years of ATC swaps.... WOW! How amazing is that?!!! Jane Tyrrell who is organizing the swaps is doing a fabulous job! Thank you, Jane!

I only found the swap in January last year, so this is my second year playing along and I am having so much fun. A big bonus is all the new friends I am making across the world!

As I don't think you can have a celebration without music I added that to the theme of this swap. I used the following VI products; "Sing" stamp set, "One Kind Word" stamp set and two new stencils "Art Spheres #1 and #2".

Unfortunatelly I forgot to take a picture of the accompaning card I made, but never mind it's the ATC that matters. Hope you like it!

Happy crafting

Jane
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