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Happy Shaker

The AAA Birthday Challenge this month is: a shaker card.
They're also looking for a new DT memmber, if you fancy it, I am applying :-D

For my Shaker I diecut the word Happy from a sturdy panel. Traced the openings onto the cardbase so I could apply my rainbow Distress inks.As the word is short, I've used purple for my background.

I stamped the word Birthday underneath, it's from Simon Says Stamp It's your birthday 3x4 set.
The letters are from Marianne Design Col 1449.
Distress inks: Candied Apple, Carved Pumpkin, Twisted Citron, Mermaid Lagoon.

For my shaker filling, I've used a large confetti glitter that is iridescent or translucent rather.
As the letters are so close together, I didn't fancy trying to separate the colours, so I applied colour to the background and used a glitter that wouldn't cover my colours.

For more information on the AAA Birthday Challenge, see this.

AAA Cards Challenge #156 with video

The AAA Cards Challenge this fortnight  is a sketch with the optional twist of Winter birthday.
At first I wanted to make the card exactly like the sketch, with snowflakes. but I switched to digi stamps from our Sponsor Crafty scrappers and mice from a friend ( I think they are Stampin up).

For my card I masked off a strip on my kraft cardbase and applied Distress Oxides, I wanted to stamp the sentiment on the strip, but I also wanted splatters, so I decided to go for splatters and  Stamped the sentiment underneath. The stamp is from Simon Says Stamp Brithday 3x4 set and I've used Versamark ink and Wow white opaque bright white embossing powder.

I colored the car with Spectrum Noir markers and mounted it with foamtape.
To keep layers to a  minimal I made the  strip on the cardbase and instead of putting a kraft layer on a white base I've used an all kraft cardstock. I glued the mice flush to the cardbase and used them as my embellishments.


For more information on the AAA Cards , or to play along, see this.

Peace on earth

I made this card early last year. then we changed our minds, so this is no longer the sketch, bus as I made it, I thought I would share it anyway.


For my card I used and old Uniko set, it's been rereleased in many guises, but the one I have is Jolly Christmas and I used the Santa from the set.
For the sentiment I've used another oldie, this time Hero Arts  Classic Christmas borders and I've stamped everything with My Favorite Things Extreme black ink and colored the image with Faber Castell Polychromos pencils.
 I've applied Nuvo Shimmer pen on the hat and red coat for a bit of playful shimmer.

My top 25 most favourite cards of 2019

With almost 500 cards this year, it was near impossible to choose just 25, but I did it!

All my cards in a row 2019 #400-442

Not the usual 100, but time was up..