AAA Colourful colour themed challenges - Colourboard #22

 Hello Crafty Friends,

Can you believe we are already halfway through November? Time is really flying! Being the 15th of the month means it is time for a new colour themed challenge over at AAA Colourful, and do we have a beautiful and classic colour palette for you to be inspired by! The colours of the November colourboard are - 

Red, White and Gold

The first thing that came to mind was, Christmas, the colours are perfect for Christmas cards, tags.... well anything Christmas related. They are also perfect for a million other occasions, and I am sure your imagination is far more vivide than mine.

You are free to create for any occasion you want, and whatever kind of paper craft project you feel like, and in any style too. The only thing you have to remember is to have fun and that the colours of the board have to be the most prominent. You may add neutrals like; black, greys, browns, skin tones. So join in the fun and show us how you are inspired by the colourboard. You have until December 14th to create, upload and link your colourful creation to the AAA Colourful challenge blog.

Here is a little about my card, how I created it and what products I have used.
I started by die cutting my poinsettia, in white and in shiny gold. I popped out all the petals from both poinsettias. The white ones I coloured using my Copic makers, and then put them back in their place of the white poinsettia. The gold petals I put aside for another time. I added the gold outline and leaves on top of the "white" poinsettia and glued them together creating a beautiful flower in red and gold.
Then it was time for the actual card. I started by stamping and heat embossing the background using a lovely background stamp filled with Christmas related words. I cut it to size, added a red border to it and addhered it to a card base I had already prepared.
I then added my poinsettia to the card, and at this time I decided to add a vellum border to my flower before addhering it to the card. To finish of my card I stamped and heat embossed a Christmas greeting on a piece of black cardstock, cut it out and added it to my card.


Products used for this card
Die sets: "Poinsettia Bloom" by Yana Smakula/ Spellbinders and "everyday sentiment banners" by Lawn Fawn
Stamps: "Bakgrundstext Jul" and "God Jul" both by hÄnglar & Wings
Inks: VersaMark watermark by Tsukineko
Markers: Copic sketch and ciao No. "R24", "R27" , "R29" and "R59"
Papers: Nennah solar white cardstock, Mirror Card in "Gold Pearl" by Tonic Studios, and Red and Black cardstock from my stash
Embossing powder: WOW! Opaque Bright White Super Fine


I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:
A Cut Above November challenge - Anything Goes With A Die Cut
Craft Rocket Challenge #131 - Christmas/ Winter
Krafty Chicks Challenge #794 - Christmas 


Hope you are inspired to join us in this fun and colourful challenge! For more information and inspiration by the fabulous design team please click on over to the AAA Colourful challenge blog, I promise you won't be disappointed.

Take care, keep crafting and get colourful!

Jane
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Gorgeous Gift Tags IG Hop - November 2025

 Hello,

It is time for another Gorgeous Gift Tags Instagram Hop, and this months we have the optional theme of - 

Vintage Vibes

A theme I found a little bit tricky, but I decided to give it a go. So here are my tags with a vibe of vintage (I think).

When I hear vintage I think of browns and black, so I started by ink blending two tags I had die cut using brown Distress Oxide inks. I was only going to make one tag, but I enjoyed the ink blending so much I ended up making two of them. I splattered some water on the tags to make the ink oxides and give the background some life. I also ink blended through a stencil using the same inks.

On my first tag I added some stamping, and as I for some reason kept thinking of Mary Poppins I decided to add my very own Mary Poppins to my tag. I die cut my Mary and her umbrella for some kraft-stock blackout paper. I then sanded the image to make the kraft paper show through the black, aging/ distressing it a little. I addhered my Mary with her umbrella to the tag and added the sentiment "Live the life you have imagined" and a piece of string

My second tag was a very quick and easy tag as I had already ink blended it. The only thing I added to the tag was a few rub-ons, a flower, a small bee and a greeting. After adding a string my tag was done. Quick and easy, but beautiful I think.

I hope you like my tags, and that you head on over to Instagram and hop along with us. I wonder if everyone has gone with the optional theme, and if not, what have they come up with?

Take care and happy hopping!

Jane
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Product used for my tags:
Inks: Distress Oxide Inks by Tim Holtz/ Ranger
Stamps: Create Happiness by Vicky Papaioannou/ Stamperia
Dies: Thinlits "The Park" and Framelits "Tag Collection" by Tim Holtz/ Sizzix
Rub-ons: "Botanical" by Simple Stories and Create happiness "Labels" by Vicky Papaioannou/ Stamperia
Papers: Kraft-stock blackout by Tim Holtz and white cardstock
Stencil: "Geometric Tiles" by Dutch Doobadoo

AAA Birthday Card challenge # 79

 Hello,

How are you? Ready for a new birthday card challenge? Challenge #79 at AAA Birthday Card is up and running, and do we have a fun theme for you this month -

Music

I love music and it is one of my biggest inspirations when it comes to creating, so it might not come as a surprise that this month's theme was chosen by me. I often get inspired by the lyrics of a song, but sometimes it's the title of a song that inspires me - like for this challenge.  For this card I was inspired by an old Billy Joel song. Can you guess the song?

Yes, that's right, Piano Man. My husband and two of our boys play the piano, so I have a few "piano men" in my life. My youngest son and his friends often gather at our house and play music together. My son is a drummer (and he plays the piano, guitar and base guitar), his girlfriend plays the piano, a few of his friends play the guitar and one plays the base guitar. They all take turn singing. Piano Man is one of their favourites to play and sing, and it has become one of my favourites too.

Do you get inspired by music? If not you are still welcome to play along with this challenge as you don't have to be inspired by a song, as long as you follow the theme "Music" in general and create a Birthday Card you are very welcome to join us.

The AAA Birthday Card challenge blog is filled with Music themed birthday cards by the design team and our special guest desinger for this challenge, Sigrid. So if you are in need of some more inspiration, click on over and get inspired, and don't forget to spread some love while you are there!

Hope you're inspired to play along with us in this fun challenge! You have until November 30th to create, upload and link your Music themed Birthday Card to the AAA Birthday challenge blog. Looking forward to seeing you there!

Take care, keep crafting and have fun!

Jane

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AAA Colourful colour themed challenges - Colourboard #21

 Hello,

It's time for a new colourboard challenge over at AAA Colourful, and this month we have a colourboard in - 

Red, Green, blue, black and white

for you to be inspired by. Rembember you may create any kind of paper craft project you want to; ATCs, cards, journaling pages, scrapbooking spreads...... and in any style too. The colours of the board must be the most prominent, but you may use neutral like; black, greys, white, browns and skin tones.

Now for my paper craft project for this challenge. The colours of the board inspired me to create a card inspired by the traditional Swedish design of "Kurbits" and "Dalahästar". "Kurbits" is a decorative artform from Dalarna, Sweden, characterized by big imaginative flowers and leaves, often found on furniture, textiles, wooden objects like the "Dalahäst". Here's my take on this months colourboard, and interpretation of "kurbits".

I hope you are inspired to play along with us in this fun and colourful challenge. You have until the 14th of November to create, upload and link you colourful paper project to the AAA Colourful challenge blog. For more information and inspiration by the fabulous design team and our special guest designer for this challenge, Karen Mead (her inspiration card is beautiful!), please visit the challenge blog. Hope you'll join us!

Take care, keep crafting and get Colourful!

Jane

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Gorgeous Gift Tags IG Hop - October 2025

 Hello,

It's the fifth of the month, which means it time for a new Instagram Hop with Gorgeous Gift Tags. The optional theme for the month of October is - 

Halloween

My little tag was created using paper scraps and leftovers I had lying on my desk. Yes, I know I am a messy crafter, and it is often chaos in my craftroom when I create (hence the name of this blog and my name on IG).
I had a small piece of card I had ink blended left after another project. I was going to throw it away, but remembered that I have a set of slim tag dies somewhere in my stash. I also had a cute little ghost and bat that I had stamped, die cut and coloured lying on my desk so after die cutting the tag I addhered the ghost and bat to the tag, added some ribbon and stamped a sentiment. A quick and easy little tag using scraps and leftovers. I hope you like it!

Instagram is filled with gorgeous, spooky, fabulous gift tags created by the members of the Gorgeous Gift Tags Instagram Hop, so hop on over and check out who has gone with the optional theme of Halloween and who hasn't. I know you will find something you'll like, and you might even get inspired to create some tags of your own. 

See you on Instagram! Happy Hopping!

I would like to enter my tag to the following challenges:

Creative Inspirations challenge - Autumn/ Something Spooky

The Four Seasons challenge - ATG Fall with optional moodboard
The Paper Fun day challenges - #81 ATG with optional twist: Cute or Creepy

Jane
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AAA Birthday Card challenge #78

Hello,

It's the first of October and time for a new birthday card challenge over at AAA Birthday Cards. This month's theme was chosen by our talented DT-member Denise, and it is a good one, and so versatile - 

Ombre

I chose to ink blend the whole front of my card using different shades of pink to get the ombre effect. I wanted to get some more interest to my card so I ink blended through a stencil. I had planed to stamp and heat emboss a background before ink blending, but decided to go with a stencil instead. The words "birthday" and "wishes" were die cut out of white cardstock, and the background for the words in vellum. I addhered the words to my card, added a few clear enamel dots. 

Ink colours used for this card: Distress Oxides "festive berries", "worn lipstick" and "spun suger" by Tim Holtz/ Ranger

There are so many ways you can incorporate ombre on your card. If you are looking for inspiration please head on over to the AAA Birthday Cards challenge blog, it is filled with gorgeous creations by the amazing design team and our special guest designer for the month, Karen Walker. Karen's birthday card is fabulous, and so is her take on the theme!

I hope you will join us in this fun challenge as I can't wait to see your ombre birthday card! You have until the 31st of October to create, upload and link your birthday card to the AAA Birthday Cards challenge blog.

Take care, keep crafting and have fun!

Jane
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Hippeligrattishurra!

Hello,

How are you? I hope you have had a lovely summer/winter! It's been a long time since I posted anything here, but as you might have read in my previous post I have been away sailing the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. Now I'm back and ready to start crafting again. Today's card is for a little cutie who has just turned three. Her biggest wish for her birthday was a teddy and of cause we got her one, and here is the card I created to go with it

The design of my card was inspired by the sketch of AAA Cards' current challenge, their 300th game. Hip Hip Hooray! Congratulations AAA Cards, and thank you for all the inspiration over the years!

Products used:
Die set: "Stor Nalle" by Gummiapan
Inks: Distress Oxide by Tim Holtz/ Ranger and VersaFine Clair by Tsukineko
Stamp set: "Mer Grattis" by hÄnglar & Wings

Take care, keep crafting and have fun!

Jane
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