AAA Colourful colour themed challenges - Colourboard #15

Hello Crafty Friends,

The AAA colourful colour themed challenges have a new colourboard for you to be inspired by, a beautiful combination of blues, turquoise, lilac/purple and green

I love the colours of this board, but I have to admit I found them very difficult to work with. At first I couldn't come up with a single thing to create, maybe because I have lost my mojo or maybe because the board is almost monochromatic, something I always struggle with. In the end I just sat down at my craft desk and started playing with the colours using different mediums; acrylic paints, inks, sprays, markers, crackle paste, volume paste, stamps, dies ....... after a while my desk was covered in blue, bluegreen and lilac/purple paint and creations. All of a sudden I had multiple options to chose from😅but "which one to share with you as an inspiration?" that was the question. I asked my family and everyone had a different favourite, and opinion, so in the end I decided to pick a creation that is wayout of my comfort zone....... art journaling/ mixed media.

This project was inspired by a quote I found on the internet and made me think - As I already find the (almost) monochromatic board challenging why not try to create one of the most challenging  (to me) projects using the most challenging (to me) techniques?
So here is my attempt at art journaling using mixed media

I started by applying a layer of gesso to my pages, then I painted them with a beautiful turquois acrylic paint. When the paint had dried I added a layer of crackle paste, to see what would happen/ how it would turn out. I added a little white acrylic paint over the crackle paste as it had dried, just to get some variation. I kept on playing and added more mediums to the mix, next up was sprays. I sprayed the pages using different blues and spritzed it with water to make the paint move. To get even more texture I used a stencil and added volume paste through it. I stamped some little sentences and a bunch of leaves in blue, green and purple around the pages. I also stamped the quote and cut out the individual words before adding them to my pages. To make the quote stand out I draw a black border around each word.

I had so much fun creating these pages, and I am so happy I stepped out of my comfort zone. They may not be the most beautiful I have created but  playing with all the different mediums was so inspiring and I might just be getting my mojo back. And isn't having fun the most important thing when it comes to creating?!

I hope you are inspired to join in the challenge, as I can't wait to see what you will create using the colours of the colourboard! You have until May 14th to create, upload and link your project to the AAA Colourful challenge blog. Remember we love all kinds of paper crafting, and in any style.

Fore more inspiration, and information, please visit the AAA Colourful challenge blog, it is filled with beautiful, fun and creative projects by the talented design team and our special guest designer for this challenge, Nance Selkeld.

Take care, keep crafting and get colourful!

Jane
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AAA Birthday Card challenge #72

 Hello,

It's the first of April and time for a new challenge at AAA Birthday card challenges. The theme for the month was chosen by our talented design team member, Maaike, and she has picked a magical theme for us to be inspired by this month. The theme for the month of April is -

Mythical

Here is my take on this fun, magical and mythical challenge

I just knew I had to use this stunning unicorn by Visible Image for this challenge. I stamp the unicorn on a card base that I had already die cut. I added a few circles to the design and stamped a birthday greeting on the panel. Using a rainbow of colours I coloured the mane and the horn of the unicorn, and the greeting. I also added some glossy accent to some of the circles on the panel. The panel was addhered to a card base, and my card was done.

I created this card with our granddaughter, Maja, in mind. She loves horses, and unicorns, and goes horse riding every week so I thought she would like this for her birthday, and she did... she loved it!

Now it is your turn to get creative! So bring out your dragons, unicorns, fairies, leprechauns, mermaids, cyclopes and so on, and start creating a magical mythical birthday card. You have until the 30th of April to create, upload and link your mythical birthday card to the AAA Birthday card challenge blog. Hope you will join us!

For more inspiration, and information, please visit the challenge blog which is filled with cute, fun and mythical inspiration by the talented design team and our special guest designer for this month, Silke, her card is adorable!

Take care, keep crafting and have fun!

Jane
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Products used for this card
Stamps: "Magical Unicorn" by Visible Image and "Ooops!" by hÄnglar & Wings
Dies: "Small Dotted Rectangle Stackables" by Lawn Fawn
Markers: Copic sketch and ciao