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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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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