AAA Birthday Cards Challenge April: Shaker card #60

 

Hello, this month the challenge prompt is shaker, I made a  shaker card, but I was thinking a cocktail shaker or wobbler also shakes, so....

I again made more than one card, that's the danger of having them done in plenty of time and then second guessing yourself ;-)

So for my second and final rendering: 

I cut this little die from Dutch Crafts it from black cardstock.

Matched the moon with a circle shaped die and diecut that into a panel.

Stamped the Happy Birthday (Whimsy Stamps Simple Sentiment Strips) with Versafine Black ink and let it dry

Built up the shaker part with acetate, 2 layers of foamtape and filled it with gold stars confetti, maybe a few too many, but I liked the idea of golden stars  behind the Moon as if it's space. Closed the shaker with the same black cardstock and adhered it to a cardbase.

For the first card:

I started by diecutting the cloud shapes into a card panel (Joy Crafts)

I Inkblended the cardbase in different  Blue Distress inks. Adhered acetate to the back for the cloud panel and  built the wells up with thick foamtape from Heffy Doodle and added the confetti, closing the shaker with the cardbase.

The Sentiment is from Whimsy Stamps and the image with dies is from MIntopia (Voy Volando), stamped it with Extreme black ink and colored it with Copic Markers, cout him out and adhered it to the card with foamtape.

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AAA Card Challenges March: Geometric #59

Hello, this month we play with Geometric shapes on your birthday cards.

For my card I first went blobs, liked it but then I realized organic shapes aren't geometric..so onwards...My second card looks a lot like the end result, but I can't stand the look of it, so onto the third and final version.

I've inkblended rectangles with Distress ink Lost Shadow, then laid circles on top, And As Distress  inks are transparent, you can see the shapes underneath, something I loved about my organic blobs.

I've used  Wilted Violet, Picked Raspberry, Mustard Seed, Mowed Lawn and Mermaid lagoon.

The sentiment is from Clearly Besotted Brushed Greetings II and I stamped it with Versafine Clair ink Morning Mist.

Splattered with a bit of black metallic ink, Ok not perfect circles but I needed something organic  and a bit of shine. I think the circles look like floating Planets

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AAA Birthday Card Challenges February : Heart #58

Hello, this month we're all about Hearts  on Birthday Cards, probably because it's Valentine's but I didn't know how to implement it. 

In the end I came up with a Diecut Heart window (Marianne Design CR1351 and I cut it from a cardpanel.

Traced the opening onto the cardbase and inkblended various tones of green Distress ink, like grass or a meadow or just a contrasting color

I stamped the sentiment from Whimsy Stamps ( Simple Sentiment Strips) and then mounted the panel with foamtape and adhered it to the cardbase.

I had some of these diecuts left over from  a color challenge I entered last year and thought I could tuck those into the corner, so I did.

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AAA Birthday Card Challenge January: Rainbow Colors #57

Hello this month we're all about Rainbow or Rainbow colors  at the AAA Birthday Cards  Challenge.

My card is DIstress inks applied through a Create a Smile Stencil (glassware) and a Whimsy Stamps Sentiment. I've added the illusion of shelved with a pencil, I didn't want them to be too prominent, much like the sentiment I've done it in Morning Mist from Versafine Clair ink.

Then I wanted to add a clever image or diecut, but I decided against it and just continued the vases to the bottom (light pink and light yellow)

My Distress inks were: Candied Apple, Carved Pumpkin,Mustard Seed, Twisted Citron, Mermaid Lagoon, Wilted Violet, Picked Raspberry and later Spun Sugar and Squeezed Lemonade 

 

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AAA Birthday Card Challenges #56: Add a tag

 

Hello, this month the Birthday Card we make should feature a tag, or a card with matching tag.

My tag is actually a window in a tag shape, like I saw Michelle from the Card Grotto do on her Youtube channel in May.

For my card I mirrored the window as my element (Toucan) faces the other way. 

I've used all things Marianne Design:

Tag LR0411

Flowers are from the Bee set COl1505

Toucan is Col 1457

Double Sided tape LR0014

Distress inks: Twisted Citron, Mowed Lawn and  Rustic Wilderness.

lots of colored cardstock.

I started bij cutting the tag shaped window 3 times from the left t make it straight and without smudges, only to realize I prefer it on the other side, so two more panels diecut and it still wasn't straight, looks straight when I stick it on, but I was fed up, so I  cut cut a matte to make it straight.

I traced the opening onto the cardbase, masked the edges outside the matte and applied my Distress inks, then splattered with water and set is aside to dry.

In the meantime I diecut all the elements from Scraps of colored card, backed with the double sided tape, so they  become stickers. I forgot one or two bits.

Mounted the panel with the tag window with foamtape before I realized I forgot to stamp the Happy Birthday and at this point I really didn't want another mess, so I did add it afterwards in photoshop.

I tried the black banner like in the Video from Michelle, but I  didn't know where to put it and at the top is wasn't   that pretty.

I then tucked the branch and all the bird bits into the window and assembled the Toucan and foliage. And lastly I added some details with a white gelpen.

I'd like to wish everyone  Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

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AAA Birthday Card Challenges #55: Large Sentiment

 

Hello, this month we at AAA Birthday Card Challenges are all about the sentiment, a BIG Sentiment.

For my card I've used the Marianne Design alphabet (Col1449), the biggest letter dieset I have and it was actually so big it didn't fit on a normal size card A6 or 4"x6", so I made it a slimline.

I did start on an A6 panel and inkblended a rainbow of Distress inks and then splattered with water, white paint and Lawn Fawn Liquid Stardust.

Lined them up as best as possible, always hard with individual elements and raised all the letter with foamtape. 

As I cut the A4 cardstock into a slimline size, I always have this panel left, so I thought I should use it and it just fits the letters  in two rows.

I measured the centre of this panel and laid out the letters, then picked them up one by one, mounted them with foamtape and stuck them on the panel.Not perfect, but I'm fine with it actually.

I did try to take the R off and re stick it, but it wasn't budging and, at this point, I really didn't want to mess up, so I left it.

The white on white was a bit Blah, so I also added a black matte, makes the letters pop for sure.

Stuck all of it together, thought about adding some enamel dots, but I didn't think it needed it.

I thought I would have the inkblended panel left to do an opposite card with white letters and a rainbow background, and if I had measured properly I probably might have, but as the Y on Birthday didn't fit in one row, the  panel doesn't work any more.

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AAA Birthday Cards Challenge #54: Favourite Colors

 

 

Hello this Month we have a collab with our sister challenge  AAA Cards.

(AAA Cards is: inkblending with 3 or more colors) and AAA Birthday Card Challenges is: Favorite Colors.

AAA Cards is a Clean and Simple Challenge, so CAS cards  and ours is of course Birthday Cards

Now my favorite colors are Distress inks for inkblending and I've used more than 3 ;-)

I've used: Picked Raspberry, Candied Apple, Carved Pumpkin, Mustard Seed, Twisted Citron, Mermaid Lagoon, Chipped Sapphire, Villainous Poison and Wilted Violet.

For my card, I masked off an area and applied the Distress inks with inkblending brushes, then splattered with water and adhered an image from Whimsy Stamps (Peeking Pandas that I colored with Copic Markers)

Stamped the Happy Birthday from Whimsy Stamps (Simple Sentiment Strips) with Versafine ink.

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AAA Birthday Cards Challenge September 2023: #53 Animals

 

Hello, this month I've chosen the theme and it's animals.

Our moderator Jane has used cat paws for the badge as I chose the theme and, although tempted, I just couldn't make a cat card just now.

Technically mine are insects but still animals in my opinion.

I've used the bee and ladybug from Marianne Design  and colored them with Graphit Brush alcohol markers., cut them out with the included dies.

For the background I've cut a Hexagon from a cardpanel (Love 2 Craft) and then traced the opening on the cardbase, so I knew where to mask and or inkblend.

I thought the hexagon window, but also the Memory BOX Texture Honey Comb stencil would fit the theme. I've used  Distress inks (Mustard Seeds, Spiced Marmalade and Dried Marigold).

The sentiment is from Whimsy Stamps (Simple Sentiment Strips) and I've stamped it with Versafine ink.

Mounted the panel and bugs with foamtape and adhered them to the cardbase.

Lastly I've added some shimmer with a Nuvo Shimmer pen and details with a white gel pen.

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AAA Birthday Card Challenges August: #52 Anything Birthday Goes

 Hello this month Anything Birthday Goes.

For my card I've used  digital stamps from Miezo, 

I also printed a Polar Bear going to the beach and I wanted to use it for another blog post, but it was too crowded for me.

I printed the digis and colored them with alcohol markers.

The sentiment is from Technique Tuesday (Alligators and Crocodiles) and I stamped it with Versafine ink.

My border was supposed to look more beach sand like, but it turnoed out darker than I inteded (Distress inks Rusty Hinge and Ground Espresso and some Mermaid Lagoon). I cut a mask and then inkblended the sea first, removed the one mask and adhered the mirrored mask but I left a little white as if it's the sea foam...made the blue fade into the white for  CAS feeling.

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AAA Birthday Cards Challenge July: Butterflies #51

 Hello, this month at the AAA Birthday Cards we're all about Butterflies.

For my card I've used the Concord & 9th set Beautiful Butterfly.

I've stamped the wings with Distress inks, by using an mini ink applicator directly on the stamp, had to do them al twice.

Then I stamped the  body of the butterfly with Morning Mist Versafine and the sentiment also Versafine black ink.

I've tried the ink plus water for a watecolor look, but the nice grunge texture with the splatter would dissapear.

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AAA Birthday Cards Challenges June: Watercolors

 

Hello, this month we're all about watercolored cards.

For mine, I stamped the Lawn Fawn Crocodile onto watercolor paper with Versafine ink and then colored him with Mijello Mission Gold watercolors.  Same for the background I made kind of a river for the Croc to swim in. I diecut the croc with the coordinating dies and added white dots to it's eyes and mounted it with foamtape for later.

The background is also watercolor paper and Mijello Mission gold watrercolors. Let it dry then splattered with Finetec Iridescent  watercolors in Teal and Blue, it's hard to see  as they all looks  like a pearl.

The sentiment is from the Whimsy Stamps Simple Sentiments Strips and I als o stamped it with Versafine ink. Cut the edges, to make a mat and mounted it with foamtape adhered it to a cardbase and adhered the Crocodile on top.

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AAA Birthday Card Challenges May 2023: Balloons

 

Hello, this month we're all about balloons, I went with Birthday Balloons , but what about a Hot air balloon? or Balloon animals? Weather balloon? I don't know can you think of others? Not sure Weather balloons is very birthday likem byut hey...

My card wasn't really coming together, this is the 4th version I think and frankly I would have been happier with just the Panda image with the sentiment, but is that at all festive?

Made a balloon like background ( a few times) by inkblending Distress inks onto the cardbase. The first  version was Wilted Violet, Marmaid Lagoon and Mowed Lawn, it was tricky to get the  colors from going muddy. So I tried it again with warm colors..didn't like it, then I decided to do a rainbow in rainbow order and that didn't give me mud :-)the Chipped Sapphire was a later addition as I didn't notice my balloons were dropping to the right and I wanted it to look random(ish) and I also wanted them to be overlap so they'd feel transparent.

Panda image is from Marianne design (EC0179) and I stamped it with Versafine to get a nice bold impression, then I was left with the balloon. I decided to color it with Spectrum Noir Glitter ink, on normal paper, because of the Versafine Ink I  couldn't color it with alcohol markers. After that I cut it out with the coordinating dies in the set.

The sentiment is from Whimsy Stamps (Simple Sentiment Strips) again, I just love it, couldn't get it straight so I stamped it on the slant on purpose.

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AAA Birthday Card Challenges April: #47 Layer it up

 Hello, this month we're all about layers over at the AAA Birthday Cards Challenge, but that's not my thing.

I think it's my thing, so I buy these cute layering diesets from Avec Creations (Love 2 Craft) and well, then I don't use them much, I like them, I think I used them last year for the interactive challenge and the sea scene  on another card. Can't resist them as the price is such a good value, I think less than 4 euro, can't resist.

I thought this particular set might be cool for a sweet 16, in the Netherlands that's the legal age to get a scooter license, so this would be nice if someone's reached that age, or perhaps someone that is a scooter fan.

Anyway there's more parts in the set, I didn't use, I think a flower basket, but that might make it only for the girls.

I diecut all the pieces from colored cardstock and stuck them on top. the grey background was initially open, but it looked weird on a white cardbase, so I stuck a pale grey there and then it looked weird still on white, so a colored cardbase for me..oops, I know I'm shocked too.

I even stamped the sentiment in Versafine Morning Mist grey!..grey! Blimey who am i?

Even now I think the lantern is too stark in black, but  yeah hindsight.

It has to be a birthday card, of course, and  the recipient will love it, might change the lantern into sliver, for a shiny metal street light, not sure.

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AAA Birthday Cards Challege March: #47 Stripes and/or dots

 

Hello this month we at AAA Birthday Cards Challenges are all about strips and or dots.

For my birthday card I've used the set from My Favorite Things : Full Circle with pretty colored inkpads from Card Deco

I did make two panel as I wanted to do some clever layering where the pattern carried on, but I smudged the other one too much to use it, so lucky the cardbase  wasn't smudged too badly.

the strips and dots are also in the set and the sentiment is from Clearly Besotted Stamps (Tiny type), and I've used Versafine black ink for this.

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AAA Birthday Cards February Challenge: #46 Use a Stencil(s), with video

 Hello, this month we're all about using Stencil or Stencils.

For my card I've used the Create a Smile Bubble Circle and my Favourite  Distress inks: Wilted Violet, Mermaid Lagoon, Twisted Citron, Mustard Seed, Carved Pumpkin, Candied Apple and Picked Raspberry.

I applied them with blending brushes on a cardpanel.

The image and sentiment are from Your Next Stamp: One in a Chameleon, I have had it for a  few years, so I'm not sure it's still available.

I've stamped the sentiment and image with Versafine ink and cut the Chameleon out, mounted it with foamtape and adhered it on top.

I thought it was funny the Chameleon is Black and white against the colourful background, otherwise I feel it would be too busy and I like the gag.

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AAA Birthday Card Challenge: January 2023 Anything Birthday Goes, with video

This year the AAA Birthday Card Challenge will start every 1st of the month, instead on the 1st Monday, seems easier to us at least.

This month the challenge is: Anything Birthday goes. Seeing it's still winter I wanted to make a winter scene, with a Polar Bear from Marianne Design (EC0193) and with a sentiment from Whimsy Stamps (Simple sentiment strips) As I didn't have anything clever or punny except Warm Wishes, but I deemed it too small for this card.

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AAA Birthday Card Challenge #44: Embossing, with video

 

This challenge had me stumped for months as I didn't know what to do. Embossing could be dry embossing, tried it, didn't like it, making use of a scoring board..meh, embossing paste? also meh, a whole background embossed? meh, my CAS heart didn't like much.

So after thinking on it I came up with this heat embossed ombre falling snow card as it's Winter, I thought it made sense.

I've pulled out an array of Wow Embossing powders that are translucent and a super fine silver one from Paper Mania, of course Wow has silver too.

I've also rummaged through y snowflake stampsets and there's

usually one or two tucked into winter  or Christmas sets as well...use what you have is what I say all the time, could be dots as in confetti, balloons as it's a birthday Card challenge, stars, hearts, anything I suppose.

I stamped my images with Wow embossig ink, and sprinkled on the powders, one by one, shifting the stamps where needed.

The sentiment is from Simple Sentiment Strips rom Whimsy Stamps.

Mounted the panel with Foam tape as it warped a little from the heat.

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AAA Birthday Challenge #43 :Monochrome

 

The AAA Birthday Challenge this month is all about one color , a monochrome card if you will. 

I chose pink with Rose bud and Angel pink from Memento ink.

I inked the Nellie Snellen silhouette stamp (SIL015) with both colors and spritzed it lightly with water then stamped it.

Sentiment is from Whimsy Stamps Simple sentiment strips and I also used pink to stamp  it. Few pink enamel dots, it's all pink but fab. 

AAA Birthday isn't a CAS challenge, but my heart is a CAS heart so it's a minimalist card, but I love it. And  I thought I could have stamped the silhouette a few times

 I think with it all in the one colour family it might get chaotic. I look forward to your makes.

I made a second  card  too, I was playing with pink and Tealish Distress inks and I liked how the teal one turned out (Distress inks Peacock feathers and Salvaged patina). Nowadays there's  layering stencils, but I just used a few out of my stash and well some of them looked better than others. the teal one being the best. I also swiped Peacock feathers ink on a piece of white card, so I could match the sentiment. to the background (Carlijn Design Grote Teksten) Hoera mean Hooray.

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AAA Birthday Challenge #42: Favourite Technique

 

This month at AAA Birthday Challenge we are all about our Favourite Techniques,  or yours of course.

Mine is bi fold: inkblending and Stamp Coloring, so I 've used both :-D

I've started my card by masking off the lower part of the card, then I've applies Distress inks with a blending tool. at first I wanted to go for the rainbow,then I thought it might be cool as a Northern lights of sorts, so I splattered with water, white acrylic paint and Lawn Fawn Liquid Stardust.

For my rainbow I've used: Candied Apple, Carved Pumpkin, Mustard Seed, Twisted Citron. Mermaid Lagoon, Wilted Violet and Picked Raspberry, then arond the edges I've used Chipped Sapphire and Black soot.

For the snowman I've used a set from Marianne Design (EC0184) and the sentiment is from Whimsy Stamps Simple Sentiment Strips, I first stamped it on the cardbase, but then smudged it, so I covered it up with a little banner

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AAA Birthday Card Chalenge #41: photo inspiration

The AAA Birthday Cards Challenge of September is a mood board of sorts, we call it photo inspiration. I see flowers and lots of pink and it must be a birthday card of course.

For my card I used a layering stamp from Nellie Snellen, not a layering as we know, more a details stamped image divided in three so you can ink them up easier in different colours. It's an outline stamp. (Nellie's Choice LCS003- Flower border).

I stamped them with Memento, thinking maybe I'd like to colour up the flowers, but I stamped on the cardbase, so

Alcohol makers would show on the inside and I kind of like the different look to a solid coloured flower if that makes sense.

The Hoera je bent jarig is from Carlijn Design and means Hooray it's your birthday,  ;-) (Carlijn Design Grote Teksten) ,I also stamped it with Memento inks in an ombre effect by applying the ink with ink blending tools. I used different pinks as I forgot which I used last night for the border hehe, It's ok, I usually do black sentiments, so this is quite different. Few iridescent gemstones from Avec (Action).

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