AAA Cards #286

The prompt at AAA Cards is "Follow My Lead" which basically means CASE the card that Kristin made.  (see below).  Here is my take on hers.

It all started with some watercolor paper and Distress Sprays.  Once the panel was dry, it was cut with Altenew's Hanging Garden, cut again in white and the colored pieces inlaid.  The sentiment is a BetterPress from SB.  

When you do a card like this you have leftovers so I made a second card.

This time the colored outline was attached to a trimmed panel of Gina K Moonlight Fog and inlaid with the white pieces. I thought it would make a great sympathy card so another BP sentiment was added. 

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AAA Cards #285 and Inkspirational #336

Even with all the other things I do and techniques I try on my cards, I still like the occasional clean and simple card.  AAA Cards is always CAS and this challenge has the twist of Spring Colors.  Inkspirational is also having a CAS challenge ( I omitted the twist) so off my card goes to both.

The flowers are Beautiful Blooms from Pinkfresh Studio.  There are six different images and accompanying stencils and dies in the set.  I did a number of them a while ago and just picked three to add to my card.  The sentiment is also from PFS.  

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AAA Card Challenge #281

I need to get busy on my Valentines.  I bought a stamp set from SSS that were good images for youngsters, not realizing they were full of hearts so I chose one of them to make a card for AAA Card Challenge using their twist.

The images were stamped with Gina K Amalgam ink and colored with Altenew artist markers.  The sentiment is from Altenew's Adore You.  Quick and easy and perfect for a 6 year old.  

With so much freezing weather in one area of the US and raging forest fires in another, my prayers are with all the first responders who try to keep us safe and those who have lost everything.  I can't even imagine the heartbreak and devastation they have caused.

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AAA Cards #255

Happy new year everyone!  I hope your holidays were full of fun, food and family.  Mine were and I'm so grateful that we got to spend time together. 

I've been in a card making frenzy the last couple of days and it feels so good.  I not only did some Design Team work but also made some for a few challenges.  The first one due is for AAA Cards.

I used an older MFT die that includes the snowflake and other dies to go over the O in JOY.  The word was cut from a panel in my B&P box and the snowflake from vellum.  It's a CAS challenge but I thought the card needed something else so I scored a line above and below the sentiment. 

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AAA Cards #254

I saw several cards in the Just Us Girls gallery that were also made for AAA Cards and they inspired me to make one for their challenge. 

The Woodware nativity and sentiment were stamped and heat embossed in gold on black.   I needed white too so I cut the panel with a lacy die from Reverse Confetti.  QACAS!

This will be the start of next year's cards.  I think I should have made two.

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AAA Cards Challenge #218

Just a quick post today to enter the AAA Cards challenge.  I saw the word 'flowers' and had to make a card. 

I stamped various images from WaffleFlower's Simple Stems on Bristol and colored them with Zigs.  The sentiment is from MFT.   Here's the sketch we were to follow.

Thanks for dropping by.  If you are in the USA, have a happy and safe 4th of July.

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AAA Card Challenge #210

I'm back in my crafting studio and raring to go.  I have so many ideas that my desk is covered with bits and pieces of unfinished cards and stamp sets.  I did finish one for  AAA Cards  that will be expiring shortly.  

I made my own hexagon stencil from a PinkFresh Studion die and colored it with a variety of Distress Inks.  The images, including the sentiment, are all from an ancient Technique Tuesday set.  Funny how looking at it on the big screen makes you think of a better way to do this.  I should have turned the hexagon with the bottom flat for the grass to rest on.  Oh well. 

I hope to be posting more regularly now so please come back to see what I'm up to. 

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AAA Challenge #204

Sometimes your stamp sets dictate that you play in a challenge.  That happened with AAA Cards and a stamp from CASual Fridays.

I mean how can you not play "on the edge with the option of snow" when you have a stamp like this?  I used silver pearl embossing powder and inked over it with Speckled Egg DOX.  The sentiment from HLS was stamped in the same ink.

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AAA Cards #202

 AAA Cards had me at gnome.  That is the option for their sketch challenge. 

I bought the Gina K set and have been having fun making gnomes.   I made this one a Scandinavian gnome by using patterned paper from American Crafts.  The sentiment is from another gnome set I have from Sugar Pea.  Here's the sketch.

As you can see I made an A2 card instead of square.

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AAA Cards #201

Today's card is for the AAA Challenge - use one corner, optional 'Boo'.  I hope 'Eek' works as well.

I'm sorry but the items on my card are from companies no longer in business. The web is stamped in black and glitter embossed and the spider is cut from flocked paper.  It looks way better IRL.

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AAA Cards #187

I used to play at AAA Cards frequently but haven't in a while.  They have been having rather unique parameters to their challenges to stretch your ideas for clean and simple cards.  I thought this one would be fun to try.

I got a freebie stamp from Picket Fence a while back and thought the little flowers would look great cascading down my card.

I divided my card into quarters and laid out the images in one corner, turning the cardstock in my MISTI to stamp the opposite corner.  I colored them with Zigs and added a heat embossed sentiment from Penny Black.

I hope this card brings you a little bit of sunshine in case you don't have any where you live.

AAA Cards #130

I bought the little stocking stamps and dies from Altenew a while back and thought they'd be perfect for the AAA Cards challenge to use three of something.

The fireplace is gray cardstock embossed with a brick folder after cutting the MFT dome. 

I'm finally getting back into the swing of all things cardmaking after all the holiday busyness.  All my Design Team cards are scheduled and I even had time to make a couple for challenges like this one.  I have another one ready and an idea for yet another so the inspiration is flowing and I'm getting excited to see what the New Year brings.