AAA Birthday Challenge #38 - Flowers

Happy Monday!

Entering June, so we're almost halfway through 2022!
This month the prompt for AAA Birthday Challenge #38 is Flowers!
Who follows me for a longer time knows I absolutely LOVE floral cards!

 

I first used my Silhouette Studio to weld the Dog Rose digital stamp from Alex Syberia with the background (Silhouette Design Store ID: 165901) and cut it out.

Then I colored the image with Copic markers and stacked the background together.

Finally I stamped the sentiment from Pinkfresh Studio with Versafine Onyx Black ink and used the coordinating die to cut it out. I adhered it with foam tape to create some dimension.

Supplies
- Alex Syberia - Dog Rose digital stamp
- Silhouette Design A2 stacking card base diamonds (ID: 165901)
- Pinkfresh Studio - Perfect Sentiments
- Copic markers: V01, V12, V15, V17, RV11, R83, R85, R56, YG13, YG25, YG17, Y15, Y38, YG95
- Versafine Onyx Black
- Foam tape

AAA Birthday Challenge #37 - Let's Party

Happy Monday!

This month we celebrate our 3rd birthday at AAA Birthday Challenge!
So join us in our celebration and we would love you to share a birthday card in our gallery!

 

I made this clean and simple card for my little niece and I think she'll love this colorful card.

I first stamped the 3 balloons from Clearly Besotted with 3 Altenew inks and used the coordinating dies to cut them out.

Then I used the same 3 colors and blended them together on the bottom part of the card.

I stamped the 3 strings of the balloons with Versafine Onyx Black and used the same ink to stamp the sentiment.

Finally I added the silver glitter washi tape and adhered the balloons with foam tape to create some dimension.

Supplies
- Clearly Besotted - Party Time Again
- Altenew ink:
          - Purple Wine
          - Maple Yellow
          - Ocean Waves
- Versafine Onyx Black
- Silver glitter washi tape
- Foam tape

AAA Birthday Challenge #36 - Critters

Happy Monday!

I'm here today to tell you all about the April challenge at AAA Birthday. We challenge you to create a birthday card filled with critters.

For my card I first stamped the toucans from Newton's Nook with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and used the coordinating dies to cut them out.
I used Copic markers to color them.

Then I stamped to floral background from Poppy Stamps with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and also colored it with Copic markers.

I used a pierced circle frame from MFT to cut out a white circle and used a slightly bigger circle for the floral background and glued them together.

Next I blended Twisted Citron distress oxide ink and Just Green Altenew ink to create the background with the Tropical Leaves stencil from Newton's Nook.

I stamped the sentiment with Versamark on a strip of black cardstock and heat set it with white embossing powder. I adhered it on top of the leaves background and on top of this I adhered the circle with foam tape to create some dimension.
Finally I added the toucans also with foam tape.

Supplies
- Newton's Nook - Toucan Party
- Newton's Nook- Tropical Leaves stencil
- MFT - Pierced Circle Frames
- Poppy Stamps - Flower Garden
- Memento Tuxedo Black
- Copic markers: E35, E37, W7, W9, B000, B01, B05, RV13, RV14, Y17, YR15, Y06, Y08, V01, V12, V15, G21, YG63, G94
- Twisted Citron Distress Oxide ink
- Just Green Altenew ink
- Versamark
- White embossing powder
- Foam tape

AAA Birthday Challenge #35 - Under the Sea

Happy Monday!

It’s time for a new challenge at the AAA Birthday Blog. This time we challenge you to create a birthday card with an 'Under the sea' theme.

I first stamped the fish from MFT with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and colored them with Copic markers. I also used the coordinating dies to cut them out.

Then I used masking tape to create a border for my background.
I first stamped the bubble background from Whimsy Stamps with Versamark and heat set it with white embossing powder. Then I blended Mermaid Lagoon and Blueprint Sketch Distress Oxide ink and removed the masking tape.

Finally I stamped the sentiment from SSS and heat set it with white embossing powder. I used foam tape to adhere the sentiment and the fish to the card to create some dimension.

Supplies
- MFT - Gill Friends
- Memento Tuxedo Black
- Copic markers: B21, B23, Y15, Y38, YR15
- Masking tape
- Whimsy Stamps - Mini Bubbles Background
- Versamark
- White embossing powder
- Distress Oxide ink:
          - Mermaid Lagoon
          - Blueprint Sketch
- SSS - Tiny Words
- Foam tape

AAA Birthday Challenge #34 - Pattern

Happy Monday!

We kicked off a new challenge today over on the AAA Birthday Challenge blog.
We invite you to create a card with a beautiful pattern.

Clean, simple and masculine. That's how I would describe my card for this challenge.

I used the Pattern Power stamp from Altenew and used 3 Altenew colors: Dusk, Ocean Waves and Teal Cave.

The sentiment is from Happy HB die from SSS and is stacked 2 times to create some dimension.

Supplies
- Altenew - Pattern Power
- Altenew ink:
          - Dusk
          - Ocean Wave
          - Teal Cave
- SSS - Happy HB

AAA Birthday Challenge #33 - Two Favourite Colours + Micro Blog Hop

Happy New Year!

It's the first AAA Birthday Challenge of 2022 and we challenge you to create a birthday card featuring your 2 favourite colours.


To celebrate the New Year, new beginnings and new blog colours AAA Birthday and AAA Cards are having a micro blog hop.

Fancy winning a £10 spend at ........ or a second prize of a mystery parcel? Then play along like this:

1. Comment on both AAA Birthday and AAA Cards first 2022 challenge post.

2. For two extra entries into the draw enter a different card at each of the first 2022 challenges.

To accommodate the different timings of the two challenges the Micro Hop will begin at 8.00am UK time on Sunday 9th January and close at 23.55 UK time on Saturday 22nd January.

You can of course enter cards at AAA Birthday before and after those dates, but they will not be a part of the prize draw.

For my card I chose 2 Distress Oxide colors: Twisted Citron and Peacock Feathers.
I blended these colors onto a piece of cardstock and used the Cosmo Flower Petals from SSS to cut out the leaves.

Then I used the same 2 colors to stamp the dotted background which is from Altenew.
I adhered this background onto the cardbase and used foam tape to adhere the flower.

Finally I stamped the sentiment from IO with Versafine Onyx Black ink.

Supplies
- SSS - Cosmo Flower Petals
- Altenew - Dainty Swiss Dots
- Distress Oxide ink:
          - Twisted Citron
          - Peacock Feathers
- Impression Obsession - Happy birthday (C14778)
- Versafine Onyx Black
- Foam tape

AAA Birthday Challenge #32 - An Easel Card

Happy Monday!

It's already december so time for the last AAA Birthday challenge of this year where we challenge you to create an easel card.

I created this diamond easel card.

 

 

I stamped the flower and leaves with Altenew inks and matched it with the paper which is also from Altenew.

The sentiment is from Ink Blot Shop and is stamped with Versafine Onyx Black ink.

Supplies
- Altenew - Grateful Heart
- Memento Tuxedo Black
- Altenew ink:
          - Pink Pearl
          - Coral Bliss
          - Citrus Burst
          - Maple Yellow
          - Honey Drizzle
          - Limestone
          - Silver Stone
          - Industrial Diamond
- Ink Blot Shop - Sentiment Label Blocks
- Versafine Onyx Black
- Altenew Pastel Dreams Paper Pack
- Foam tape

AAA Birthday Challenge #31 - Animals

Happy Monday!

We have a new fun challenge over at AAA Birthday! This month we challenge you to create a card featuring animals.

For my card I first stamped the donkey from Whimsy Stamps with Memento Tuxedo Black ink. I cut it out by hand and colored it with Copic markers.

Next I adhered the design paper onto the card base and I also stamped the sentiment from IO onto the card base.

I die cut 3 circles and colored 2 of them with a matching Copic marker. I adhered them together and added the donkey with foam tape to create some dimension.

Supplies
- Whimsy Stamps - Wonky Donkey
- Memento Tuxedo Black
- Copic markers: N2, N4, N6, R11
- Circle die
- Impression Obsession - Have fun
- Versafine Onyx Black
- Scrapberry's design paper
- Foam tape

AAA Birthday Challenge #30 - A Slimline Card

Hi all!

it's the first Monday of the month so time for a new challenge at AAA Birthday.
It's a fun one where we challenge you to create a slimline card.
Alex Syberia is sponsoring this challenge with a $10 gift card.

I first played with the design from Alex Syberia in my Silhouette Studio and isolated one flower.
I mirrored some of them so that not all the flowers look the same.
I printed 5 flowers, cut them with my Silhouette Cameo and colored them with Copic markers.

In the corners of the card base I used Cracked Pistachio Distress Oxide ink and a mini stencil from Tim Holtz.

I adhered the scalloped slimline front from Carlijn Design on top of it and adhered the flowers with foam tape to create some dimension.

The sentiment is from SSS. Here I stacked it several times and used mirror cardstock for the top sentiment. The small sentiment is also from SSS and is heat set with White embossing powder.

Supplies
- Alex Syberia - Beautiful Flowers Slimline
- Silhouette Cameo
- Copic markers: B00, B01, B02, BG11, BG32, BG13, YG11, YG13, Y11, Y15
- Carlijn Design - Scalloped slimline die
- Tim Holtz - Mini Stencil Set 34
- Cracked Pistachio Distress Oxide ink
- SSS - Script hello
- SSS - Tiny Words
- Versamark
- White embossing powder
- Foam tape

AAA Birthday Challenge #29 - Not A Card

Happy monday!

It's the first monday of the month so a new challenge started at AAA Birthday.
This time we challenge you to create not a card.

I made these money holders for the 16th birthday of my twin niece and nephew.

For the first one I used Design paper from Dear Lizzy.

I stamped the circle from SU with Peachy Keen Lawn Fawn ink and used the Heather Lowercase die set for the '16'. I also die cut the word 'sweet' and added it on top.
I added a piece of ribbon and a bow to finish it.

For the second money holder I made my own patterned paper by stamping the hexagons and patterns from Lil'inker Designs. For the 'sweet' sentiment and 'sixteen' I used the same set as the previous money holder.
Here I also added a bow to finish it.

Supplies

First one:
- Design Paper Dear Lizzy - Happy Place
- SU - Superstar
- Peachy Keen Lawn Fawn ink
- Circle die
- Pinkfresh Studio - Heather Lowercase die
- Ribbon
- Foam tape
 

Second one:
- Lil'inker Designs - Texture Four Set
- Versafine Onyx Black
- Pinkfresh Studio - Heather Lowercase die
- Ribbon
- Foam tape

AAA Birthday Challenge #28 - Photo Inspiration

Hi crafty friends!

We just started a new challenge over at AAA Birthday. It's a photo inspiration challenge sponsored by Varada Sharma and you can win $10 digi stamps so come join us and play along.

For my card I used Varada's A Corner in my garden set, used the print and cut function in my Silhouette Studio and colored these flowers with Copic markers.

I then printed the sentiment, which is also from Varada Sharma, on a piece of cardstock and matted this onto a piece of light blue cardstock.

On my card base I used a 3D embossing folder from We R Memory Keepers and adhered everything with foam tape to create some dimension.

Supplies
- Varada Sharma - A corner in my garden
- Varada Sharma - Birdhouse (sentiment)
- Silhouette Cameo
- Copic markers: YG13, YG25, YG17, RV21, RV13, RV14, Y15, Y26, E57, B000
- We R Memory Keepers Next Level Embossing Folder: Gemstone
- Foam tape