Lavinia dragon Mideela

 

The Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge is: Things with wings.

The Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge is: Stencil it, showcasing Pink Fresh Studio.

For my card  I masked off a circle, inkblended the only Pink Fresh mini set I have (soul of Provence), I've used  Candy Violet, then laid a stencil on top and went over it with Regal Kiss.

Stamped the  dragon with Versafine ink (Lavinia Mideela small).

For the sentiment I've used Whimsy Stamps (Simple sentiment strips) also with Versafine ink.

See the links above if you want to join or for more information.

Distress ink recipes Salvaged Patina

Chirstmas Craft Creations May Theme: Tags or ATC

 

This month we play with ATC (artist trading cards or coins) and Tags.

I went with a set of three Artist trading coins. Punched them out of Mixed media card, masked off the snowbanks and then inkblended Distress inks Mermaid lagoon and Tumbled glass, little bit of Chipped sapphire. Added splatters of water and then stamped the silhouettes from Marianne Design with Versafine ink.

The Mooses, Meese, Moose, whatever you call them I turned into Rudolphs,kinda without thinking. Stamped them on Copic friendly paper and colored them with my Triblend

,markers, cut them out, mounted them with foamtape and adhered them on top. They're from Clearly Besotted (Merry Christmoose)

For more information or to play along the Christmas Craft Creations, see this.

The Male Room Challenge: Water/Beach

 This month the Male Room Challenge is all about water and or the beach.

I went with an underwater  scene.

It's based on a T-shirt I once saw and I thought it was hilarious. I like punny cards for men, so it all made sense in my head.

The Shark and the little fish are from Avery Elle (Shark hugs and Monkey sea, Monkey do), I stamped them with My Favorite Things Extreme Black ink on Copic colouring paper, then cut them out.

I then Printed the Sharkasm using Word onto a panel. Did the sentiment in Word too "Yes, I just love a salad" hehe, cos you know Sharks eat a lot of greens....

Anyway coloured the images with Copic markers.

For the background I inkblended Distress inks (Tumbled Glass, Mermaid Lagoon, Chipped Sapphire) on the the Sharkasm panel and then splattered water for bubbles.

The Algea or Seaweeds are dies from a Pound Shop like store in the Netherlands and  I cut them from a variety of green card.

Adhered the panel to a cardbase then added the images and lastly the seaweed.

For more information or to play along the Male Room Challenge, see this.

I just realized this might also fit the Less is More Challenge of Sea Creatures. so if you're looking to join the Less is More or want more information, see this.

AAA Birthday Challenges: 2nd birthday with many prizes and a treasure hunt

 This month we're celebrating turning two! Woot. We have many fabulous, kind and generous sponsors joining in with the celebrations. I've used products from Create a Smile.

For my card I made a background using Distress inks Mowed Lawn, Salty Ocean and Tumbled glass. I applied the ink through the biggest of the Basic Ovals stencil from Create a Smile and the Grass is from Clearly Besotted.

The sentiment and fun images are from Create a Smile also, from the set Crazy Chick.

I've stamped them on Copic paper, cut them out and then coloured them with Copics.

Added them to the cardbase with foamtape and liquid glue.

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

Good luck, hope to see you join in with our celebrations.

The Flag Hunt

We are a multi country DT and have all placed our country's flag on our personal blogs. We'd love for you to go on a flag hunt to discover our countries. 

Note down each DT - there are 13 - and their country and email your answers to Jane - aaabirthdaychallenge@gmail.com.

All correct answers will be put into a draw and one lucky winner will receive a $25 MFT gift certificate. I am from the Netherlands

AAA Cards Challenge #189 Up to 1/3 and Mystical Beasts, with video

 This fortnight we want to challenge you to use max 1/3 of your cardfront and the optional twist is Mystical Beast chosen by Francesca.

For my card I sized the Unicorn digis from Kinda Cute by Patricia, to be just under 5cm in height so together with the sentiment from Lawn Fawn it would be 1/3, that sentiment is from Loveable legends and I stamped it with Versafine ink. Coloured the images with Nuvo shimmer pen in Midas gold and Graph'it alcohol markers. Adhered the panel to a cardbase with tape runner.

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

Birthday Fishes

 Today marks the start of a new challenge over at Less is More: sea creatures.

Also today I got in these new Water Plushies from Clearly Besotted and well I had to use them, didn't I?

I stamped the images with My Favorite Things Extreme black ink, coloured them with markers and cut them out.

For the background I masked off a horizontal strip and inkbeldned Distress inks: Tumbled Glass, Mermaidd Lagoon and Chipped Sapphire. then splattered with water voor the bubbles.

I didn't feel any of the sentiments went with my images, so I made

one with my label printer.

Mounted the images with foamtape and adhered them on top. in my package there were three of those rhinestones as a freebie/filler and so I used those and added a few more.

For more information on the Less is More Challenge, see this.