AAA Colourful - Colourboard #6

 Hello Crafty Friends,

It's the 15th of the month and you know what that means....... time for a new Colourboard challenge at AAA Colourful, and do we have a beautiful board for you to be inspired by!

We want you to take inspiration from the board, and the most prominent colours on your creation should be the colours of the board. You may also use neutrals like black, white, greys, browns and skin tones. We welcome cards, tags, ATCs, scrapbook pages, journaling pages...... well any paper craft basically, in any style and for any occasion.

This time the colours of the colourboard inspired me to create a sunset birthday card for a cat lover. I hope you like it!

The AAA Colourful challenge blog is filled with beautiful, stunning and gorgeous inspiration by our special guest designers for the challenge, Helen and Tenia, and the amazing design team, so why not head on over to the AAA Colourful challenge blog for more inspiration and information about how to play along. 

You have until the 14th of August to create, upload and link your colourfilled creations to the AAA Colourful challenge blog. Hope to see you there!

I would like to enter this card to the following challenges;
Crafty Animals - ATG must include an animal
Critter Crazy challenge - ATG with a featured critter
My Time To Craft - CAS Clean and Simple
The Paper Funday challenge - ATG optional twist critter crazy

Take care, keep crafting and get colourful!

Jane
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Birthday Cheer

 Hello,

Inspired by the July challenge - Fabulous Flowers - at AAA Birthday, and a few other great challenges, I just had to create a second card on the theme.

I fell in love with this postage die as soon as I saw it, and all the cute, beautiful and fun creations I've seen on social media, so in the end I just had to get one for myself. This is my first time playing with the die, and I just love it! It's so versatile, and I have so many ideas on how to use it.

For this card I paired it with some beautiful die cut flowers, and a little bee. I started by die cutting all the pieces for the flowers and the postage background panel. I ink blended the postage panel in a soft blue using Distress oxide. Assembled the flowers, which I'd cut from coloured cardstock and added some ink to, and addhered them to the postage panel. I stamped a few post related images and a birthday greeting to the postage panel. I addhered the panel to a card base after giving it a frame/background in the same colour as the flowers. I felt there was something missing, so I die cut a bee, assembled it and added it to the card.

I hope you like it, and that you are inspired to play along with us at AAA Birthday. For more information on the challenge please see my previous post or the AAA Birthday Card challenge blog. 

I would like to enter this card to the following challenges;
Beautiful Blossoms challenge - Anything Florals Goes with optional Mood Board #18
My Time to Craft - Summer Florals
Scrapping4funChallenges - Birthday
Sweet Stampin' - Fabulous Flowers
The Sisterhood of Crafters - In the Garden

Take care, keep crafting and have fun!

Jane

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AAA Birthday Card challenges Game #63 - Fabulous Flowers

 Hi Crafty Friends,

It's time for a new birthday card challenge at AAA Birthday, For the month of July we have a fabulous theme for you, picked by the talented DT member Tristan,  and the theme of month is

Fabulous Flowers 

The AAA Birthday Card's challenge blog is filled with beautiful and fabulous birthday cards by the talented design team and our special guest designer for the month, Celeste AKA Crafting Junky. 

I hope you are inspired to join us in this flower filled birthday card challenge as we would love to see your creations fill the AAA Birthday's challenge blog. You have until the 31st of July to create, upload and link your birthday cards to the challenge blog. Hope to see you there!


Playing along with the following challenges;
Beautiful Blossoms Challenge - Anything floral goes optional moodboard
My Time To Craft Challenge . Summer Florals

The Sisterhood of Crafters  - In the Garden

Take care, keep crafting and have fun!

Jane
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AAA Colourful - Colourboard #5

Hello and Happy Weekend,

It's the 15th of June, a very special day, it's not just my birthday (hooray), but also time for the fifth challenge over at AAA Colourful, and this month we have a beautiful colourboard for you to be inspired by

This time I've opted for a card, and more or less just copied the colourboard with it's lovely blue sky and the red balloon. It's such a gorgeous picture I just had to try to turn it into a card.

I started by ink blending my sky on a card panel, then I die cut, coloured and assembled the ballon before adhering it to the card panel. I die cut a banner and stamped and heat embossed a sentiment on it, and added that to the card panel. Then it was time to adhere the panel to a card base, but should I have a border around the panel or not? At first I wasn't going to, but in the end I decided to go with it. Here's how it turned out

Products used
Ink: distress Oxide ink "Salty Ocean" and "Candied Apple", Distress ink "Festive Berries" and "Lumberjack Plaid" all by tim Holtz/ Ranger, VersaMark "watermark stamp pad" by Tsukineko
Dies: "Party Balloons", "Outside In Stitched Stackable Rectangles" and "Simple Wavy Banners" all by Lawn Fawn
Stamp set: "Dandy Day" by Lawn Fawn
Embossing powder: "Opaque Bright White Super Fine" by WOW!

Now it's your turn! Need more inspiration, and information? Ok, head on over to the AAA Colourful challenge blog, which is filled with beautiful, cute and colourful inspiration by the Design Team and our guest designer for the month, Tammy. Don't forget to visit their blogs/ social media, and show them some love.

You have until the 14th of July to create, upload and link your creation to the AAA Colourful challenge blog. And remember you can create what ever you want, cards, ATCs, Tags, scrapbook pages, journaling pages......... The colours on the colourboard should be the most prominent on your creation, but you may also use neutrals like black, white, greys, browns and skin tones. Hope to see you on the challenge blog!

Take care, keep crafting and get colourful!

Jane
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Student 2024

 Hello Crafty Friends,

Today I'm sharing a card I created for our youngest son's girlfriend who graduated/ "tog studenten" on the 11th of June. She loves butterflies and the colour purple/lilac, which is also the colours of the educational program she attended, so the theme of the card was easy. This is what I came up with

I also incorporated a traditional "studentmössa" ( a Swedish graduation hat) to give the card that graduation feel. I hope you like it!

Here's a photo of our son and his girlfriend in her "studentmössa" taken at the graduation party. They are so cute together.

Have a lovely evening/ morning/ day!

Take care, keep crafting and have fun!

Jane
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Ps. Welcome back tomorrow for some inspiration for the fifth challenge at AAA Colourful

AAA Colourful - Colourboard #4

 Hello Crafty Friends,

It's time for colourbord #4 at AAA Colourful, and we have a beautiful palette of colours for you to be inspired by

Isn't the colourboard beautiful? I love it, and I love the softness and the flow of the tulle in the picture. In an attempt to create that softness and flow I went with colourful circles on my card. I tried to get the colours as close to the image as I could, but as the circles overlap they changed a little in colour, but that's ok with me.

I started by creating my background of colourful circles, using a set of stencils with circles in different sizes and Distress Oxide inks. After ink blending my panel of circles I stamped and heat embossed the image and the sentiment. I gave the panel a black border and adhered it to the card base. 

Products used
Stencils by Lavinia Stamps
Stamps by Visible Image
Inks by Tim Holtz/ Ranger 
Embossing powder by WOW!


I hope you've been inspired to play along with us as we would love to see your colourful creations! It doesn't have to be a card, it can be a tag, a journaling page, ATCs, a scrapbook page ..... we love all types of paper crafts. For more information, and colourful inspiration by the talented design team and our special guest designer for this challenge, Karen please head on over to the AAA Colourful challenge blog. Don't forget to show them all some love!

Take care, keep crafting and get colourful!

Jane
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AAA Birthday Card challenges Game #61 - CAS

Hello Crafty Friends;

It's the 1st of May and time for a new challenge at AAA Birthday. The theme for the month, which was chosen by DT member Helen, is

CAS

(Clean And Simple)

This is one of my favourite styles of cards, and here is what I came up with for the challenge

I stamped the image and masked it before adding some ink to the background. I removed the mask and coloured the bear (isn't he just adorable?!) with my markers. I stamped the birthday greeting, and my card was done. A quick and easy one layer CAS card.

Products used
Stamp set: "Bears" by C.C. Designs
Ink: Distress Oxide ink by Tim Holtz/ Ranger
Markers: Copic
Paper: Neenah Solar white

Now it's your turn! We would love to see your CAS birthday cards fill up the challenge blog at AAA Birthday. Not sure about the criterias for CAS cards? CAS stands for "clean and simple" so clean lines and lots of white/empty space on your card, and your there. Information on how to play along with us can be found on the challenge blog. The blog is also filled with beautiful and fun cards by the design team and Lynne our special guest designer for the month. So head on over to AAA Birthday's challenge blog for more inspiration and information. Hope to see you, and your CAS birthday card creations there!

Take care, keep crafting and have fun!

Jane
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