AAA Birthday Challenge - #7 Include a number.

Hi all,

Its that time of the month again ... It's the first Monday of the month which means it's time for a new challenge over on AAA Birthday and this challenge #7 is to include a number on your card! The design team have been hard at work for this one, we have so many amazing creations, so I hope we inspire you and you come on over and join us!


We also have Izzy  as our guest designer for this month too! So don't forget to pop over and take a look at her card and leave some love too!

Here's my creation for this challenge,

For my card this month I have tied to use up scraps, you know the ones that end up in a basket, either you just don't like them or they are the wrong colour ect... well this is one of them, the inked background originally was a thank you card, but the placement was slightly off, so I found a die cut circle in my scrap bin and stamped the Happy Birthday from the Simon says stamp circle sayings,  I adhered that with foam tape and then die cut "50th" out of mirror board and glued it to the circle...Simple card, and I've used up 2 scraps LOL.

I won't be needing this card just yet, but it's good to know that I have one in my stash ready, now if I could only find my mojo to complete some Christmas cards and I'd be laughing!

Hope you all have a fab week and have something crafty planned!

Hugs

XoX

AAA Birthday Challenge - #6 Colour Challenge

Hi all,

Its that time of the month again ... It's the first Monday of the month which means it's time for a new challenge over on AAA Birthday and this challenge #6 is a colour palette challenge! The design team have been hard at work for this one, we have so many amazing creations, so I hope we inspire you and you come on over and join us!

We also have Trina  as our guest designer for this month too! So don't forget to pop over and take a look at her card and leave some love too!

Here's my take on the colour palette challenge...

So when I saw those colours for the colour palette challenge I thought of Halloween...but we are a Birthday challenge so I needed a birthday card that I could incorporate those colours into...

So This stamp is one that I won from the Less is More challenge a couple of months back and I couldn't wait to use it!  Its by Uniko and its called Peony Bev the owner of Uniko is so lovely and she posted it to me all the way from the UK!

Anyway, lets get back to the card!.. I have inked this up with Archival ink on Bristol Smooth as I wanted to watercolour it with my Arteza brush markers, I only used a few colours;

A105 - Lemon Yellow

A112 - Orange

A101 - Red

A161 - Emerald Green

A120 - Seaweed Green

A122 - Moss Green

A104 - Noir

I also went over the image with my Polychromos pencils for a little bit of extra detail too, and a few sequins and some splatters of black paint complete the card!  The sentiment is from the Peony set also!

Thanks for popping in to see me, I hope you like my card and don't forget to pop over and join in!

Hugs
XoX

AAA Birthday

Hi all,

Its that time of the month again ... It's the first Monday which means it's time for a new challenge over on AAA Birthday and this challenge #5 is use a stencil! 

I was still in Masculine mood and wanted to play with some happy mail I had ordered whilst I was ill... Retail therapy, good for the soul, not so much for the wallet LOL..

So I created this card by stenciling the stripes in distress oxide ink, I then die cut a circle the same size as my port hole, out of masking paper and stuck it down,  I Went over most of my stenciled lines with distress oxide ink and flicked some water for splashes of sea LOL..

I die cut the porthole and glued it to the MFT circle shaker pouch, added some sequins and balls inside and glued that to the panel.

The anchor was coloured and then fussy cut and I just added some twine to resemble rope, the sentiment is from the Neat and Tangled set - Yo Ho Ho, and that completes my card!

We also have Rachelle joining us this month as our guest designer, so please pop over and have a look at her card and the other cards by our amazing design team! I really hope we will inspire you to join us and play along  and you have until September 29th!

Thanks for stopping by!
Hugs
XoX

AAA Birthday DT Post - For The Boys

Hi all,

Its time for a new challenge at AAA Birthday this time it's a card for the boys! And we also have a guest designer with us for this challenge, the very talented Clarissa!   So please head over and take a look at the DT cards and join in with the challenge!

My card for this challenge, was party like a Pirate... it's a gorgeous image from LOTV, and I just love how the dog has to walk the plank LOL

I've coloured this with copics, and mounted it on some DP, I am trying to use some of my DP up I promise...( pinky swear )

I added some clear nuvo drops for the water.

Don't forget to pop over and have a look at the rest of AAA Birthday DT inspiration cards and join in with the challenge!

Thanks for stopping by

hugs

XoX

AAA Birthday DT Post - July Challenge - For the girls

Hi all,

It's time for a new challenge over on AAA - Birthday - For the girls! And we also have a guest designer with us for this challenge, the very talented Michelle Lupton.  Please head over and take a look at the DT cards and join in with the challenge!

So I decided to take a break from the flowers and get out an image from LOTV (Lili of the Valley)
This image is available as a digi image, and she is called Little Ballerina .

This is my card I made for the challenge

I've coloured the image using Copics and Polychromos Pencils, I've also added some nuvo sparkle to her tutu and ballet pumps. I die cut the image out and I wanted to frame it so I used the MFT Linked Chain Oval Frames Set. 

The flowers are what I had in my stash and I believe they are from Wild Orchid Crafts.  A couple of die cuts, sequins and pearls completed the card. And the sentiment that's by Clearly besotted - Sweet Little Sentiments I do love that font!

Don't you love that sparkle!

I'm also entering this into Creative Knockouts #304 For the girls

Thanks for stopping by, I do hope you like my card and that you'll pop over and have a look and maybe join in this months challenge!

Hugs

Alli

XoX

AAA Birthday Design Team

Hi everyone
I'm sharing some really exciting news today..   I'm so pleased to announce that I am one of the new Design Team members for AAA - Birthday  YAY,  I am so excited, amazed and happy that I am part of this fabulous team, thank you so much for choosing me to be part of this new adventure!
There's also a blog post that introduces all of the new DT's too!

And we have just started a new challenge -  #Game 2 - Water colours!

So for my first card as DT member for AAA - Birthdays, I've created a water coloured floral card, with the Sketched Flowers set from Simon Says Stamp.

This stamp has been water coloured using the Daniel Smith - Jean Haines Palette, dot card, which was a free with purchase from Jacksons art store in the UK.

After painting and letting it dry I added some sheen with my Gelly roll pen in stardust and some dots in the white, I'm really loving these pens again! Hopefully the photo's below we show that fine glitter and those white dots!

 

I've gone round the whole image with a warmish Gray colour to create a shadow, to give the image a little bit of depth and to make it pop, as its a flat card.  I've paired this card with some Berry Burst card stock by Stampin Up.  The sentiment is from the Circle Sayings by Simon Says Stamp and a few sequins from my ever expanding stash LOL.

I really hope you like this card and hopefully you'll be joining us to play along with this challenge and to check out the new DT members too!

Thanks for stopping by

Hugs

Alli

XoX

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Birthdays....

I don't know about you, but I seem to have more and more birthdays.. (no I'm not the Queen and I don't have 2 LOL) but I seem to be needing more and more birthday cards...

There was a time way back long ago, where i would buy a card(oops gosh did I just say that...) now I make everything right down to the gift tag, nothing says Happy Birthday or I love you more than a Handmade card or gift...all the time effort and love that goes in to the making of them!

So when I saw that I could not only make a couple of extra cards but also enter them into a challenge its a bonus!

AAA birthday blog are having their very first birthday challenge, anything birthday goes, so I thought why not enter!
And Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge is bright colours
Here are my cards...

For the purple one, I have used Simon Says Stamp set, Spring Flowers, coloured with copics on an alcohol ink background, with 2 sentiments, one from a SSS set and the Celebrate is a foiled sentiment by Ultimate crafts.

The pink cards is a Pretty Pink Posh set, Flowering Fuchsias, along with the hello gorgeous sentiment, coloured with copics on a watercolour stripes background stamp by MFT, the birthday sentiment is from the WOW MFT set too.

I love both of these cards... I just have to decided who's going to receive them haha...!

Thanks for stopping by!

Hugs
Alli
XoX