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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