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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