AAA Colourful colour themed challenges - Colourboard #13

Hip Hip Hooray!

Today we are celebrating AAA Colourful colour themed challenges first birthday. Congratulations to a full year of fun, inspiring and colourful colourboard challenges! To celebrate we have a gorgeous colourboard for you to be inspired by, in the same colours as the very first AAA Colourful Colourboard one year ago - 

Rainbow colours

Unfortunatelly I haven't been able to created anything this month for you to be inspired by due to being stuck in bed with pneumonia. But I can highly recommend a visit to the AAA Colourful challenge blog which is filled with beautiful colourfilled creations by the fabulous design team, and our special guest for this month, Bonnie Klass. 

This month we are welcoming a new design team member, the talented Kateryna aka Pioniya. Welcome Kateryna, so glad you have joined the team!

Don't forget to visit the AAA Colourful challenge blog to get inspired to play along with this fun challenge. You have until the 14th of March to create, upload and link your colourful creation to the challenge blog. Hope to see you there!

Take care, keep crafting and get colourful!

Jane
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AAA Birthday Card challenge #70

 Hello Crafty Friends,

It is the 1st of February and time for a new birthday card challenge at AAA Birthday card challenges. The theme for the month was picked by our talented DT member Vicki, and it is such a fun theme this month -

Ink Smooshing

Here is my take on the challenge

I started by stamping my image on a card panel, then it was time for some ink smooshing. I used a piece of acetate and pressed the ink pads directly onto the acetate, then I sprayed the ink with some water to make it move. The acetate was pressed onto my stamped image to colour the flowers and leaves. I tried to smoosh the inks on to the flowers so they all got a different colour. I stamped a birthday greeting, and gave the panel a black border/frame before addhering it to my card base. 

Products used for this card
Inks: Distress Inks by Tim Holtz/Ranger, VersaFine Clair "Nocturn" by Tsukineko
Stamp set: From my stash, don't know the brand

Now it is your turn! We can't wait to see your ink smooshed birthday cards. You have until the 28th of February to create, upload and link your birthday card to the AAA Birthday Card challenge blog.

In need of more inspiration, or information? Head on over to the AAA Birthday Card challenge blog which is filled with cute, beautiful, colourful and fun inspiration cards by the fabulous DT and our special guest designer for the month, Ashwini Rao (Her card is beautiful!).

Take care, keep crafting and have fun!

Jane
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Ps. This month we are welcoming two new design team member, Carol and Janine. Welcome ladies, so happy to have you join the team! Carol starts this month, and she has made such a beautiful card, don't forget to check it out and show her some love. Janine will be joining us in March.

AAA Colourful colour themed challenges - Colourboard #12

 Hello Crafty Friends,

and welcome to the first challenge of 2025 at AAA Colourful! This month we have a colourboard filled with pinks and reds for you to be inspired by.

Here is my take on the challenge, a card to say Hello to the new year and our new Design Team member Steph aka MortiCraft. Welcome Steph, so glad to have you join the team!

Colours used:
Distress Oxide inks; Spun sugar, kitsch flamingo, picked raspberry and candid apple
Distress Ink; Lumberjack plaid

Now it´s your turn. How are you inspired by the colourboard? Remember we love all kinds of paper craft; scrapbooking layouts, cards, PL, ATCs, art journaling.........
Can't wait to see your colourful creation!

The AAA Colourful challenge blog is filled with cute, adorable and beautiful creations by our special guest designer for this challenge, Jen aka Puffins N Paper (her card is absolutely adorable) and the design team, all for you to be inspired by. It is also where you can find all the information you might need on how to join in the fun.

You have until february 14th to create, upload and link your creation to the AAA Colourful challenge blog! Hope you'll join us!

Take care, keep crafting and get colourful!

Jane
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AAA Birthday Card challenge #69

 Happy New Year Crafty Friends,

and welcome to a new year filled with birthday card challenges at AAA Birthday Card challenges! To kick off 2025 we have a fun wintry theme for you to get inspired by, chosen by the lovely Jane T. The theme for the month of January is - 

Winter Birthday

so we want to see birthday cards fit for a winter birthday celebration. Here is my take on the theme

Living on the northern hemisphere, I immediatly thought of snow and ice when I found out this month's theme. The cute little snowman by Tim Holtz/ Sizzix was my inspiration for this card. He was laying there on my desk, left over from making Christmas cards and tags, and I just had to put him to use. I combined him with a few other die sets by Tim Holtz/ Sizzix to create this card, except for the stitched rectangle that's from Lawn Fawn. To get the cold crispy feeling of winter I added sparkling silver paper behind the die cut panel.

Now it's you turn. How are you inspired by the theme? We would love to see your birthday cards fit for a winter birthday. You have until January 31st to create, upload and link your winter birthday card to the AAA Birthday Card challenge blog. Hope to see you there!

The challenge blog is filled beautiful, cute and fun wintry birthday greetings from all around the world, so why not head on over and get inspired. Don't forget to check out the card from our first special guest designer of the year and for this challenge, Colien. Her card is so cute!


I would like to enter my card to the following challenges;
Allsorts Challenge - Use your dies
Krafty Chicks Challenge - All Occasions
Simon Says - Use Dies in DieCember

Take care, keep crafting and have fun!

Jane

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AAA Colourful - Colourboard #11

 Hello Colourful Friends,

It's the 15th of the month and time for a new challenge at AAA Colourful, the last challenge of 2024 but also the first of 2025. The colourboard is filled with gorgeous colours for you to be inspired by, and we can't wait to see what you come up with. 

Rembember we love all kinds of paper craft projects; ATCs, scrapbook pages, art journaling pages, cards, tags......  in any style and for any occasion. The colours of the board must be the most prominent, but you may also use neutrals like black, white, greys, browns and skin tones.

This month I decided to make a card with joyful wishes for the new year, and here's how it turned out

I hope you like it, and that you are inspired to play along with us in this fun and colourful challenge. You have until January 14th to create, upload and link your creation to the AAA Colourful challenge blog.

Don't forget to check out the fabulous creations by the Design Team and our special guest designer for this challenge, Jen aka Puffins 'N Paper, her card is gorgeous!

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges;
Critter Crazy Challenge - ATG with a Featured Critter
Fab'N'Funky Challenges - Christmas Animals
Krafty Chicks Challenge - Christmas
(PIN)spirational Challenges - ATG

Take care, keep crafting and get colourful!

Jane
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AAA Birthday Card challenges Game #68 - Lovely Layers

 Hello Crafty Friends,

It's the 1st of December and time for a new challenge at AAA Birthday Card challenges. This month we want to see Birthday Cards with - 

Lovely Layers

Here my take on the challenge

A Birthday card for a little princess. I think I counted to eight layers, nine if you count the colours and ink I have used and ten if you count the sparkle I added to the crown (doesn't show on the picture but I promise it's there)😉

The AAA Birthday Card's design team and our special guest designer for the month, Jo (Love her card!), have filled the challenge blog with beautiful, cute and fun Birthday cards in lovely layers. I can highly recommend a visit to check them out, and don't forget to visit their individual social media and show them some love. 💕

There are so many ways you can do layers, with papers, diecuts or even with paint. How would you do layers on a Birthday card? We would love to see your take on the challenge theme - Lovely Layers - so I hope you will join us in this fun challenge. You have until the 31st of December to create, upload and link you layered Birthday card to the AAA Birthday cards challenge blog.


I would like to enter my card into the following challenges;
Fab'n'Funky Challenge - Dies and/or Punches
Krafty Chicks Challenge - All Occasions
(PIN)spirational Challenge - ATG
Simon Says Stamps Wednesday challenge - ATG
Sweet Stampin' Challenge - Birthday
The Sisterhood of Crafters - ATG

Products used for this card

Stamp set: "Prins och Prinsessa" by hÄnglar & Wings, 

Die sets: "Lång Utriven Sida" by Gummiapan, "Framelits Tags" by Tim Holtz/ Sizzix, "Small dotted rectangle stackables" by Lawn Fawn and "Floral Lace" by Pink Fresh Studio

Papers: Neenah Solar white cardstock, "Really rainbow petite paper pack" by Lawn Fawn and "Black and White Stripes paper pad" by My Favorite Things stamps.

Ink: "Memento black tuxedo" and "VersaFine Nocturne" both by Tsukineko 

Markers: Copic sketch

Take care, keep crafting and have fun!

Jane
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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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