AAA Colourful - colourboard #28

Hello Crafty Friends,

A new colourboard challenge is up and running over at AAA Colourful, and this month we want to you to create paper craft projects using the colours -

Purples, Blues and White

A colour combination I found to be very tricky. The challenge inspiration image made me think of space, but I didn't want to go that route. I tried a few different ideas, but nothing felt right...... so I almost gave up. I am still waiting for my creative to come back, it seems to have taken a very long and drawn out break. In the end, I managed to create a simple card, and here it is

The starting point for this card was the peacock which I stamped, die cut and coloured. I know they are more blue and green, but I think purple and blue works just as well. After die cutting my card panel I die cut a heart on it. I placed a piece of cardstock I had embossed behind the heart opening to give it a little more interest. The peacock was placed infront of the heart and I stamped a sentiment. To add some more colour to my card I decided to give the panel a border, that I had ink blended to match the purple of the peacock. The finished panel was attached to a card base and I had a card! 

Products used for my card
Stamp set: "peacock before 'n afters" by Lawn Fawn

Die sets: "peacock before 'n afters", "small dotted rectangle stackables", "outside in stitched heart stackables" all by Lawn Fawn
Embossing Folder: "Vintage Tile 3-D" by Altenew
Inks: Distress Oxide Ink "villainous potion" and "wilted violet" by Tim Holtz/ Ranger
Markers: Copic sketch and ciao

How, and what kind of project, are you inspired to create when you look at the colourboard? We would love it if you share your purple, blue and white paper craft project with us on the AAA colourful colour themed challenge blog. You have until the 14th of June to create, upload and link your colourful project to the challenge blog.

All the information you might need on how to play along can be found on the challenge blog, a blog filled with beautiful and fun projects by the amazing design team for you to be inspired by. So why not head on over and check them out?! 

Hope you'll join us!


 I would like to enter this card to the following challenges:
Aud Sentiments Challenge - Embossing (wet or dry) and/or Flowers + Sentiment (the inside of the heart is dry embossed)
Dream Valley Challenge - All Creatures Great and Small
Simply Clean & Simple - CAS optional theme Things That Fly
Unicorn Challenge - Something New (the embossing folder I've used is new)

Take care, keep crafting and get colourful

Jane
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Gorgeous Gift Tags IG Hop - May 2026

 Hello,

It's the 5th of May and time for the Gorgeous Gift Tags IG Hop, and the optional theme for the month ot May is - 

Lacy

As you can see I decided to go with the twist. I started by die cutting two tags out of white cardstock, then I painted the lower half of both of them one in blue and one in pink. On the blue one I added a strip of lace at the top of the painted area. I die cut some flowers and leaves, assembled them and added them to the tag. While I was assebling the blue tag I started wondering what it would look like if I added lace on top of the whole painted area of the tag, and decided to do so on the pink tag. I finished the laced area with a ribbon of small flowers. The top half of the tag felt a bit bare so I run it through my cuttlebug with an embossing folder to give it a lace effect. I die cut and coloured some more flowers and leaves, and added them to the pink tag. Some ribbon where added to both the tags and I called them done.

I hope you like my tags, and that your are inspired to create some of your own. Instagram is filled with lots tags for you to be inspired by by the talended hoppers of the Gorgeous Gift Tags IG Hop. So why not hop on over, and see who has gone with the optional theme and who hasn't. 

a close up of the top of the pink tag

Happy Hopping!

Jane
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Products used
Die sets: Little Blooms Etched Dies by Spellbinders and Liten Blomma by Gummiapan
Paints: Distress Paint "Uncharted Mariner" and "Picked Raspberry" by Tim Holtz/ Ranger
Inks: Distress Oxide Ink "picked raspberry", "citron twist" and " wild honey" by Tim Holtz/ Ranger
Embossing Folder: 3-D Texture Fades Embossing Folder "Doily" by Tim Holtz/ Sizzix
Lace and ribbons: from my stash

AAA Birthday Card challenge #85

 Hip Hip Hooray,
Happy 7th birthday to AAA Birthday Card challenges!

To celebrate we have a fun and open theme for you this month - 

Anything Birthday Goes

My DT-card for this challenge

You have until the 31st of May to create upload and link your birthday card creation to the AAA Birthday Card challenge blog. A blog filled with inspiration by the talented design team and our special guest designer for the month, Gundi (Papierelle). Gundi's card is so cute!

I hope you are inspired to help us celebrate by filling the challenge blog gallery! We are so curious to see what you come up with for this challenge. See you on the challenge blog!

Take care, keep crafting and have fun!

Jane
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Products used for my card

Die sets: "Stitched Numbers" by Spellbinders, "Rupert Colorize" by Tim Holtz/ Sizzix, "Grassy Border" by Lawn Fawn

Stencil: "Mini Cloud Edge" by MFT

AAA Colourful - colourboard #27

Hello Crafty Friends,

It's the 15th of April and time for a new colour challenge at AAA Colourful. This month we have a vibrant colourboard in - 

Pink, Red, Turqouise, Green and yellow

for you to draw inspiration from. The colours of the board must be the most prominent on your creation, but you may also include neutrals like black, white, greys, browns and skin tones.

My DT-creations for the month, two small tags

For more inspiration, and information, please visit the challenge blog. The design team and our special guest designer for this challenge, Deborah Wheeler (her card is beautiful!), have filled the blog with beautiful, fun and colourful creations for you to be inspired by.

You have until the 14th of May to create, upload and link your colourful creation to the AAA Colourful challenge blog. I hope you'll join us!

Want to know how I created my tags, and what products I've used? Then please keep on reading.

I got the cutest little tulip die set in the post the other day, so I just had to use them for this challenge. I started by die cutting and colouring the tulips and the vase. The vase is actually a glas die from a drinks die set, but I think it works very well as a vase. The tulips were arranged as a bouquet and placed in the vase. The vases with their bouquets were addhered to two tags, one which had been dry embossed and "swooshed" with ink. I added a greeting and some ribbon from my stash to the tags and they were done.

Products used for these tags:
Die sets: "Små Tulpaner D210430" by Gummiapan, "Collectables Cocktails and Mocktails" by Marleen/ Marianne Design, "Stor Tag D201142" by Gummiapan and "Tag Collection Sizzix Framelits" by Tim Holtz/ Sizzix
Embossing Folder: "Cracked" by Tim Holtz/ Sizzix
Inks: Distress Oxide Inks "Vintage Photo" and "Salty Ocean" by Tim Holtz/ Ranger
Markers: Copic sketch and ciao "BG02, BG05, R27, R29, R81, R85, Y08 and YG03"
Stamp sets: "Clear Stamps - English" by InkyWings/ hÄnglar&Wings

I hope you like my tags, and that you are inspired to play along with us in this fun and colourful challenge!

Take care and get colourful

Jane

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AAA Birthday Card challenge #84

 Hi,

It is the first of April, and time for a new challenge over at AAA Birthday Card challenges. This month we have a fun and versatile theme for you, a theme chosen by our talented DT Helen. It is a theme that might help you use up some products you already have in your stash. The theme is - 

Use Washi Tape

That's right, we want you to create Birthday Cards using washi tape in some way, shape or form. Here is my take on the theme -

There are so many ways you can use washi tape on a card, and I can't wait to see how you incorperate it on your Birthday card creation!
In need of more inspiration? Fear not, the AAA Birthday Card challenge blog is filled with fun and beautiful ways to use up that washi tape on a card, so click on over and admire the work by the design team and our special guest designer for this challenge, Silke (her card is beautiful!). Don't forget to click on their names to visit their blogs, and please show them some love!

After seeing all that inspiration I am sure you are raring to have a go at creating your own washi Birthday card. You have until the 30th of April to create, upload and link your creation to the AAA birthday Card challenge blog. Hope to see you there!

If you want to know how I created my card and what products I have used, please continue reading.

Here's how I created my card

After a long and hard think, and going through my stash of washi tape, I decided to create a background using the tape. I started by cutting a panel out of cardstock, I draw a diagonal line on the panel to have as a guideline when I started to stick my washi tape down. After sticking down the tape in the pattern I wanted, which was a little fiddly at first but much easier than I had thought, I gave the washi taped panel a dark blue border before addhering it to a card base. I wanted a shape to add my greeting onto, but had no idea on which shape so I tried out a few different ones before deciding on a circle. I die cut a white circle, and a scolleped circle in dark blue, and glued them together before stamping a circular greeting. The letters in the greeting where coloured using the same colours that's on the washi tape. The "greeting circle" was added to the card using foam squares.

  

Products used

Washi tape: "Say Cheese Tomorrow At The Park" by Simple Stories

Dies: circle die set and scalloped circle die set, old sets from my stash (do not know the brand)

Stamp set: "reveal wheel circle sentiments" by Lawn Fawn

Markers: Copic sketch and ciao

Take care, keep crafting and have fun!

Jane
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AAA Colourful - colourboard #26

 Hello,

It's time for the 26th colourbord of AAA Colourful colour themed challenges, and the colours for the month are shades of - 

Blue, Beige and White

and here's my take on the colourboard

I am so curious to see how you are inspired by the colours of the board, please see below. Use the colours how you see them and in any way you want. You may add neutral like black, white, greys, browns and skin tones, and you can create any kind of paper craft project you feel like; art journal pages, scrapbooking spreads, ATCs, cards, tags..... and in any style too.

I hope you are inspired to play along with us. You have until the 14th of April to create, upload and link your paper craft creation to the AAA Colourful challenge blog, a blog filled with amazing inspiration by the Design Team and our special guest designer for the month, Trina P (I love Trina's creation, it is absolutely stunning!).

If you want to know how I created my card and what products I have used please keep reading.

Like last month I had an idea of what I was going to create, but the end result is nothing like what I had envisioned. I wasn't going to make a card and I was not going to include bunnies but here they are two cute little bunnies on a card.

I started by die cutting a white bunny, and coloured his nose, the hearts in his ears and the bow tie. Then I thought he needs a friend, so I cut out another little cutie but this time in kraft paper (which is a bit of a beige colour I think). I coloured the nose and hearts with a beige marker, and the bow using the same blue as I did on the other bunny. I found a scrap piece of beige paper in my stash, which has a spring feel to it and goes well with the colours of the bunnies. I added a navy blue border to the patterned paper and wrapped a piece of string around the papers. I stamped and heat embossed a sentiment on a small banner I had die cut from the same navy paper I used for the border. The banner was glued on top of the string. I added the bunnies using foam tape, and then addhered the panel, also using foam tape, to a card base. I felt something was missing, so I gave the girl bunny a pearl neckless.

Products used
Dies: "Everyday Sentiment Banners" by Lawn Fawn, Bunny die set from my stash, do not know the brand (lost the packaging)-
Markers: Copic B24 and E53
Papers: Neenah Solar White, scrap from Simple Stories, and navy and black cardstock scraps from my stash

Embellishments: String, half pearls
Embossing powder: WOW! Opaque Bright White Super Fine

Take care, keep crafting and stay colourful!

Jane

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Gorgeous Gift Tags IG Hop - March 2026

Hello,

It's time for the March Gorgeous Gift Tags Instagram Hop, and the optional theme for the month is - 

Easter 

I have created a very simple and easy tag using a stamp and some dies. I started by randomly stamping feathers in a variaty of colours on a sheet of white cardstock. Then I got my tag dies out and cut out a few tags in different sizes. I added a die cut sentiment in black, and black border to make the colours of the feathers pop. Some coloured ribbons where added and my tag was done. The greeting on the tag says "Glad Påsk" which is Swedish for "Happy Easter".

 

I hope you like my tag, and maybe even get inspired to create some tags of your own.
The Gorgeous Gift Tags Instagram Hop is full of fun, beautiful and inspiring tags created by the participants of the hop, so why not head on over to Instagram and hop along with us.

Happy Hopping

Jane
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Products used:
Die sets: Tag Collection Sizzix Framelits by Tim Holtz/Sizzix and Glad Påsk D170721 by Gummiapan
Stamp: Feather 15030603 by Gummiapan
Inks: Distress Oxide Inks by Tim Holtz/ Ranger