Happy Birthday AAA Cards!

Hi There

Today AAA Cards are celebrating their 3rd Birthday.

I was recently a DT member at AAA and they were kind enough to ask me to Guest Design for their Birthday. Thank you very much Jane for this honour and a very Happy Birthday!

Here is my card:

Here I used The Ton Bokeh Burst stamp again and a circle die cut so just the edges of the splatters show. I used delicata gold ink to give a lovely shimmer. I then used splash stamps over a card and cut a butterfly from this. The splash stamps and covered in WOS but it is hard to see the sparkle from the photo. A vellum butterfly die finishes the card off with a sentiment stamped with delcata ink.

This Birthday celebration has a lot of sponsors-check out the graphic here:

Then pop over to AAA and see how you can win.

Have fun x

I will enter this into:

Less is More-shimmer-my delicta gold ink, wos covered water stamps and the enamel dots (sparkle dots) add a lot of shimmer to my card!

The Card Concept-loving the pink and gold mix

      

AAA Cards #87-Shiny Spring

Hi All

Our new challenge at AAA Cards is:

'Shiny Spring'

Remember to keep those cards 'Clean and Simple'

I didn't go with Spring colours but for flowers with a more dramatic look. I used gold embossing and glitter fun foam for my 'Shine'e

I sentiment stamp is from the set Doodled Flowers by Happy Little Stampers-our sponsors for this challenge. The winner will get a $15 discount voucher.

The flower was a gift from Nonni. I coloured the flowers with copics and promakers.

Our Guest Designer for this challenge is the very talented Trinia. I have been seeing Trinia's card in quite a few of the challenges I am on the DT for and am amazed by her creativity. Take a look at her blog here and you will see what I mean!

Trinia and the DT have all made amazing cards-take a look here and then get inky.

Enjoy x

I will enter this into:

The Card Concept-had to go with the purple and gold in the photo and I would say my card is Clean and Layered

     

AAA Cards #86

Hi All

A new challenge srats today at AAA cards.

This challenge is;

Clean and Simple cards where the main focus is diecuts

My 'Birthday' die is the main focus here and has been cut with fun foam to give it dimension to really help you focus on it.

Here I have used our Sponsor, STAMPlorations, images and dies. The grungy background stamps have been heat embossed. They are from the set Celebrate Artsy. The die cut 'Birthday' can be found here in the store. That tiny 'HAPPY' is from one of my fav sets Holiday Artsy-it under went some stamp surgery!

This card is for my crafty buddy Kim who is celebrating her Birthday today-hope it arrived in time Kim and have a wonderful day xx

Our Guest Designer for this challenge is the very talented Judy-take a look at her blog here and prepare to be inspired!

Our DT have all made amazing cards to inspire you-check them out here

I will enter this into:

STAMPlorations CAS with the twist of sky blue

STAMPlorations CUTplorations-colour of the blue dress and the reds in the others

   

AAA Cards #85

Hi All

We have a new challenge at AAA Cards.

Did you see the Oscars? We have a very timely and fun challenge for you:

We'd like to see a card inspired by the fashions on the Oscar red carpet. 
This could be male or female and from any year

I had so much fun looking through the Oscar dresses over many years and this is the card I made inspired by the dress below:

I had to make it a star focused card as if you are on the red carpet-a star you are!

I love the colours in this dress but the gold confetti design on the bottom half of the dress reminded me of my star stamp from The Ton Stamps. So I used Delicata gold ink to stamp the star off the edge and then just heat embossed the 'star' in pink and popped this up. I felt the card needed a little more balance so added a sentiment from Happy Little Stampers at the top

Here is the dress I have hanging in my wardrobe!!

Oscar De La Renta dress worn at Oscars 2016

This challenge is sponsored by Happy Little Stampers-the winner will get a $15 gift voucher to use in their store. My 'Happy Birthday' sentiment is their store.

Our DT have all chosen stunning outfits to draw inspiration from-check them out here and then why not pick out an outfit and join us

I am entering this into:

The Ton March Challenge-Luck-stars have for thousands of years been seen as lucky-shooting stars, 'thank your lucky starts'-if you want to know more on this, check out this link here

AAA Cards #84

Hi There,

I hope you are all having a fun weekend and ready to join in our new challenge at AAA Cards.

Today our theme is

 'Clean and Simple Watercolour cards'

Here is my card:

I heat embossed this splatter flower image and then used yellow water colour paints for the centre splashes. I then lightly outlined the embossed flower with a mix of blue and yellow water colour paints to give me a very light green. The die cut sentiment is cut from fun foam to pick up the yellow centre colour. The die is from STAMPlorations and the flower from Visible Images

Our sponsors for this challenge are Uniko-the winner will get their choice of stock stamps-check out thier amazing store here

Michelle is our Guest Designer for this challenge. Check out her blog My Passion for Crafting to see her amazing projects.

Our DT have all made fabulous cards to inspire you-check them out here

I will enter this into:

Addcited to Stamps and More-CAS

STAMPlorations CAS-no twist

         

AAA Cards #83

Hi All,

We have a new challenge for you at AAA cards.
We are asking you to make 'Clean and Simple' Love themed card with the option of making a card in a different shape.

As you can see I went with a long and thin card.

I just die cut the love sentiment in my fav purple colour. This time using fun foam in puple glitter. I also did the same with the die cut heart. Tod add some interest I added a few score lines. This actually went to hubby for his Xmas card o was made a while ago.

One of our Guest Designers for this challenge is the very talented Kylie-owner and designer of  Happy Little Stampers who are sponsoring this challenge. The winner will get $15 gift voucher to spend in their store.

Our other Guest Designer is Sharon-her blog is full of creative projects-take a look here

I will enter this into:

Uniko-AG with option of Love

CAS on Sunday-hearts

Simon Says Wed Challenge-the colours of Love

Inspired by Little Things-going with 'Love'

     

AAA #82 Winter Chill

Hi All

A new challenge at AAA cards starts today and our theme is:

Clean and Simple Winter Chill Cards

I thought in the Winter when it is all chilly outside what we all need is a warm and loving hug and so made this super CAS card:

This challenge is sponsored by STAMPlorations. The 'Hugs' die on my cut is from their collection of CUTplorations dies-I love the font on these dies.

Our Guest Designer for this challenge is the very talented Katrina. Take a look at her blog here to see all her wonderful creative projects.

Then pop over to AAA cards for more inspiration from Katrina and our fabulous DT.

I will enter this into:

STAMPlorations CAS challenge

CASology-Cut

STAMPlorations CUTplorations Jan challenge-again I went with a coloured base and this CUTploration die 

Happy Little Stampers AG with dies

       

AAA cards #81 'Hello'

Hi All

A new challenge starts today at AAA Cards. Our challenge is:

'Hello'

Here is my card:

This stamp is from the Wish you were Here stamp set by Happy Little Stampers who are sponsoring this challenge. The winner will get a $15 gift voucher to spend in their store.

Our Guest Designer for this challenge is the very talented Valentyna. Her blog Flourishtina is full if inspiring projects.

Check out how Valentyna and the DT are saying hello to you all here

Have fun x

I will enter this into:

City Crafter-Hello

STAMPlorations CAS Challenge-I have used the twist of grey-my enamel dots are grey

AAA Cards #80

Hi All

We have a new challenge for you at AAA Cards and this is:

SILVER

We would like to see Clean and Simple cards with silver.

Here is what I made:

I stamped this sentiment from The Ton with delicata silver ink and mounted it on a stitched panel using a black base for definition. I just love this sentiment and how true it is!

Added a few splatters (glitter!!) again using delicta ink to finish this card. 

Our sponsors for this challenge are Stampendous. The winner will get a $20 gift voucher to spend in their store.

Our Guest Designer for this challenge is the very talented Deborah-check out here bloh here.

The challenge this week is for 3 weeks so plenty of time to play along! 

I am looking forward to seeing your 'clean and simple' silver inspired cards.

I will enter this into:

Addicted to Stamps and More-CAS

AAA Cards #79

Hi All

I hope you are having a fun weekend.

We have a new challenge for you at AAA Cards.

We would like to see 'Clean and Simple' cards that have some silver on them.

Here is what I created:

A square card with that much loved snowflake stamp from Visible Images. I am forever using it and this time stamped it in delicata sliver ink. I then die cut a 'Joy' sentiment a number of times with the top layer being cut out of silver glitter card. This is one of my fav Christmas cards this year.

The layout is based on the sketch from Freshly Made Sketches using my snowflake as the circle.

Our sponsors for this challenge are Happy Little Stampers. The winner will get a $20 gift voucher to spend in their store.

Our Guest Designer for this challenge is Marianne. Her blog is a delight to visit-check it out here

Our DT and Marianne have made some amazing cards for you. Pop on over to AAA Cards and you will be inspired I guarantee.

Time for you to take a little break and craft with us....make those card 'Clean and Simple'!!

I will enter this into Simon Says Wed challenge-Anything Goes

CAS-ual Fridays-glitter and snowflakes

Freshly Made Sketches

Kylie#s 12 Days of Christmas Card Challenge

      

AAA Cards #78 Circles

Hi All

Time for a new challenge at AAA cards. This time we are theme is:

CIRCLES

Here is my simple take on this theme:

I had some circle patterned paper that I really like and just found some card from my stash that matched one of the circles on the paper. I dry embossed this with a dotted embossing folder that I thought followed the circle theme. 

I think this will make a good card for a guy and I am always very short on these.

Our Guest Designer for this challenge is the very talented Jessica-check out her blog here.

We are sponsred for this challenge by Stampendous.

Hope you enjoy this challenge and remember to keep your cards 'Clean and Simple'.

Check out what our DT made to inspire you here

AAA Cards #77 Thanksgiving/Thank You

Hello All

We have a new challenge for you at AAA Cards. We would like to see Clean and Simple@

Thank You or Thanksgiving Cards

We are sponsored by Happy Little Stampers and the winner will get $20 gift voucher for their store.

We also have Guest Designing for us Elisabeth. I have followed Elisabeth for some time now and her creativity is endless. Her Clean and Simple cards are a true delight. Please take some time out and visit her blog auf's paper brought and you will see what I mean!

Pop on over to AAA cards to see what Kylie, Elisabeth and the DT have made to inspire you.

I will enter this into:

STAMPlorations CAS card challenge with the twist of purple