AAA Card Challenge #71 - Blending

Hello everyone,

We are back with a new challenge at AAA Cards and it's one of my favourite techniques - BLENDING!

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Michelle Bala from Passionate Crafter

I was playing around with my background/coverup dies the other day and I made a few cards with similar styles and I used the positive and negative pieces. 

For this one I used the positive (at least I think it's positive!) part of this Chicken Wire coverup die.  I have a little confession to make.  When I purchased this die, I was looking for just the hexagons and that one wasn't in stock so I thought I would get this one as it was the same thing just a different brand.  Well when I got it in the mail I took it out and realized that it has little bumps on the sides of the hexagons that does look like chicken wire.  Now one would think the name itself would tell me this, but noooooo!  LoL!!  Oh well, I still enjoy the die. 

I used white card stock to cut out the die and added Glad press & seal to the back in order to keep all the pieces together.  I then used three colours of blue ink to blend it out to white.  I then used some navy colour shine spray to add the little splatters for interest.

I have little baggies of die cut words and images that I start and sometimes colour but don't end up using on a card so I went through and found this Happy die and the birthday and added them to the card.  I almost added some sequins and enamel dots but I am really trying to not add all the little embellishments all the time.

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Thanks for stopping by, see you again soon.

Coralynn  :)

Supplies:

InLinkz.com

AAA Cards Challenge #67

Hello everyone!

You are going to go googley over our challenge.  It's all about googley eyes!  

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Our wonderful sponsor for this challenge is www.stampendous.com

Now for my card.

When I saw the challenge for googley eyes I knew this is what I wanted to do.  At first I thought of having a card front full of googley eyes but then I opted to just add a cluster of them in the middle of my card. I added the sentiment from a SSS October monthly card kit with MFT liquorice black hybrid ink. 

I almost called it done but then I kept looking at the card and as we all do, thought I should add just one more thing and so I did.  I added the wonky lines to two sides and then called it done.  

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Coralynn  :)

Happy Hello! AAA Card Challenge Game #45

Hi everyone,

I'm playing along with the AAA Card Challenge  Game #45 and the theme is "It's So Hot!"

Here is my card.

I used the Simon Says Stamp July card kit supplies for this card.

It started out as a shaker card.  I got all the foam tape on the back and then realized that I forgot something, yup the acetate!  So I thought I would just roll with it and make it a FAUX shaker card!!

I cut out the front panel with stitched square dies and a heart die for the window.   started out as a shaker card and I ahing.  So I thought I would just roll with it and make it a FAUX shaker card!!

I took the outline Hello and stamped it in Audrey Blue ink and coloured it in with my Y21 & 0 copic marker.s  I let the ink dry enough that it didn't smudge when I used the markers and I didn't do any heavy shading either.

I then added in the confetti hearts and stars from the kit and instead of having them shake around, I glued them to the background.  I also added some of the SSS sequins that come in all the different sizes.   I took some of the stickers that came in the kit and added them to create a sentiment and added in the sun, clouds and hearts.

Thanks for stopping by, see you again soon!

Coralynn   :)

Supplies:

InLinkz.com

Tying The Knot - Card

Hello everyone,

I'm back with a card that I made with the May SSS Card kit.

I aboslutely love that new Fresh Pink Peach ink from Simon that came with this kit.  

I masked off the each colour and left a small strip in the middle for the sentiment.  I used the confetti stamp that came in the kit and stamped it with versamark ink and let that dry.  Jennifer McGuire did this a while back and when you allow versamark to dry on dye ink it will actually give it that bleached look.

I then used the frame dies from SSS and cut that out of the slate card stock that came in the kit.  I needed something to give it some interest and this did the trick.  As most of my cards end up with sequins, this one is no different.  I added some enamel dots as well.

Supplies:

InLinkz.com

Thanks for stopping by, see you again soon!!

Coralynn :)

Butterfly Reflections Ink, January Mood Board

Hi everyone,

Today I was inspired by these colours that were put together by Amanda on the Butterfly Reflections In blog.   

For my card I put together some pinks from my card stock stash (which is from Recollections) and the gold card stock is from one of my SSS card kits.
I used my Martha Stewart butterfly punch that punches out three at once.  I then used the Lawn Fawn Stitched boarder dies for the bottom of the card.

I then used some Heidi Swap colour shine in gold and with a paint brush splattered the top part of the card.  I stamped the sentiment from the Lawn Fawn "Love you tons" set and left out the "tons" and I used MFT's black licorice hybrid ink.  To finish off the card I used some MME enamel dots I also got in a SSS Card kit.

Supplies:

Lawn Fawn "Love You Tons" - Butterfly Reflections Ink

Card stock, Martha Stewart Punch, Heidi Swapp colour shine - my local Michaels Store.

Thanks for stopping by!

Coralynn :)