AAA Colourful - colourboard #30

Hello Crafty Friends,

It's the 15th of the month and time for a new colourboard challenge over at AAA Colourful, and for the month of July we have a board of - 

Blues, dusty pink and yellows

for you to be inspired by. The colours of the board must be the most prominent on your creation, but you may add neutrals like black, greys, browns, white and skin colours. Remember we love all kinds of paper craft projects - scrapbook spreads, art journaling pages, ATCs, cards, tags........ and in any style and technique too.

I hope you are inspired to play along with us in this fun and colourful challenge! You have until the 14th of August to create, upload and link your project to the AAA Colourful challenge blog, a blog filled with inspiration by the design team and our special guest designer for the month, Deanne. Deanne's card is absolutely stunning! Hope to see your creation there too!

Want to know how I created my card, and what products I've used? Please keep on reading.
I started by creating a stencil for my circles, using nesting circle dies and a scrap piece of paper. I die cut a panel out of white cardstock and marked out the middle on it. I placed the stencil with the largest circle on the panel and masked off half of it, so that I could ink blend one half at a time. After colouring the largest halfcircle in a light pink, I switched stencils and went on with ink blending the second largest one and so on. When I had used all four of my circle stencils on the top half of my circle (yes, there are four different colours, two pinks and two yellows, on the top even if they are a little difficult to see in the picture), I started on the lower half of the circle. In the same way as before I coloured the half circles one at a time but this time using shades of blue. I gave the panel a blue border and added a stamped and heat embossed sentiment strip over the circle before addhering it to my card base. 

Products used for this card

Inks: Distress Oxide Inks by Tim Holtz/ Ranger
Stencil: Homemade using dies
Dies: Nesting circle dies
Stamp set: "Little Line Agenda" by Mama Elephant
Embossing powder: WOW! Opaque Bright White Super Fine
Papers: Neenah Solar white and blue cardstock from my stash

I hope you like my card, and that you are inspired to play along with us as we can't wait to see your colourful creation!

Take care, keep crafting and get colourful!

Jane
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AAA Birthday Card challenge #87

 Hello Crafty Friends,

It's the first of the month and time for a new challenge over at AAA Birthday. The theme for the month of July, chosen by me, is - 

For Girls

as last month was for boys I thought we should celebrate girls this month, and here is my card for a little cutie who loves unicorns

The AAA Birthday Cards challenge blog is filled with beautiful, cute and yummy inspiration created by the amazing design team and our special guest designer for this month, Brenda. Love Brenda's card, any birthday girl would. So head on over to the AAA Birthday blog to get inspired to join in this fun challenge, and while you are there don't forget to spread some love 💕

You have until the 31st of July to create, upload and link your girly birthday card to the AAA Birtday Cards challenge blog. Hope to see your creation there!

Want to know how I created my card and what products I have used? Please keep reading.

Since I knew I wanted to create a unicorn card, I started by stamping, die cutting and colouring the unicorn for my card. Now for the card itself; instead of decorating the front of the card I decided to make a see through card and decorate the inside. I die cut the front of my card base using a cloud border die, leaving an opening in the front panel of the card. To add an extra layer of clouds to the front I die cut a panel using the same border die and added it to the card base. The unicorn was adhered to the card front, making it hold the top and the lower part of front together. I also stamped a birthday greeting on the front of the card; the top one to cover up a mark I accidentally made on the card 😳

As I didn't want the backside of the coloured unicorn to show through from the inside of the card, I die cut out an extra unicorn from white cardstock and added it from the inside of the card to the back of the unicorn.
Using a cloud stencil, I blended a sky onto the inside of the card, a sky that is also a part of the front of the card as it is see through. I added a die cut greeting "Grattis" (congratulations in Swedish), and wrote a message, which I blocked out in the photo below.

Products used

Stamp sets: "Magical Day" by Neat and Tangled, "Grattiskombinationer#2" and "Ännu mer Grattis" both by hÄnglar & Wings
Die set: "Magical Day" by Neat and Tangled, "Puffy Cloud Borders" by lawn Fawn and "Grattis D240612" by Gummiapan
Stencil: "Mini Cloud Edge" by My Favorite Things
Inks: Distress Oxide "salty ocean" by Tim Holtz/ Ranger and Memento "Tuxedo Black" by Tsukineko
Markers & Pens: Copic sketch and ciao, Aqua Shimmer "glitter gloss" by nuvo and Gelly Roll "white" by Sakura

I hope you like my card, and that you are inspired to play along with us this month!


I would like to enter my card into the following challenges;

Addicted to Stamps & More! - challenge 520 Diecuts and/or Stencils (I have used both) 

Dream Valley Challenge - 364 Anything Goes

Just Us Girls - challenge 829 Anything Goes Stencil Week (stenciled background/sky)

Seize the Birthday - challenge 329 Anything goes

Stencil Fun Challenge - Use a Stencil Anything Goes (stenciled background/sky)

Take care, keep crafting and have fun!

Jane

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