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  :)

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Thoughtful - Card

Hello all!

I'm over on the Butterfly Reflections Ink blog today.  I hope you will head on over to see my post.

Thanks for stopping by, see you again soon.

Coralynn  :)


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Love You!

Hello everyone,

Coralynn here and I'm back with a set of cards for you.  This is an oldie but a goodie.  I love the elegance of this set and thought I would try a new to me technique of added a contrasting colour around the image to pop it off the card.  

I used the "Love for Mom" set and stamped with Versamark and heat embossed with white embossing powder on to water colour card stock.
I then die cut the front panel and added colour with my Zig clean colour markers with an aqua brush.

I added the sentiment with a black pigment ink and used clear sequins from the Mink Owl sequins mix. I popped the front panel on to a pink and yellow piece of card stock and adhered that to the card bases.

That's it for me, thanks for stopping by.

Coralynn  :)

Sea You Soon

Hello everyone,

It's Coralynn and I'm happy to be back with a fun summer card for you.  I also have some fun pictures of my kitty, BooMan as we call him, helping me out with taking pictures of my card. So stay tuned till the end of my post.

Today was a beautiful day and it would have been a perfect day to go sailing.  Since I wasn't able to, I thought I would make a card about sailing instead.

I started out with an A2 card base and I used distress inks to add the water.  I then heat set it so that the embossing powder would only stick to the embossing powder. I used the boat, waves and shells from the Beach Babes stamp set and added them to the card with SSS Clear ink.

I cut out the front panel with a story book die from Pretty Pink Posh and popped it up over the images and the added some die cut clouds from my stash. I added the sentiment with black ink and as usual I always forget to add it till the end.  This time I was lucky as the foam tape was thick enough under that front panel for me to stamp it without messing it up.  

Okay, I just had to share this with you all.  My BooMan (my kitty) often hops up on my table and lays down with me while I craft.  Well today he decided to do so while I was taking pictures of my card for this post.  Needless to say he doesn't really care about what is on my desk at the time; he just jumps up and walks around wondering what I'm doing.  Love having him with me though.  So what you're seeing in the picture is him walking through my shot.  The first picture is the tip of his chin and chest and the second one is his belly.

Thanks for stopping by, see you again soon!

Coralynn   :)

Tic Tac Toe Challenge 15 - Stamping Smiles Designs

 Hello everyone,

We are back for Stamping Smiles Designs Tic-Tac-Toe Challenge 15.

My choice: WORD DIES - SPARKLE - COLOUR BLOCKING

Now I have to say that I did google colour blocking as I just assumed that it was blocks of colour but I found out that it was also solid sections of colour.  So I have found a few designs that I liked but this style caught my eye.  

I started with an ivory card base and used a stitched rectangle die to cut out the panel.  I then took a pencil and drew the lines to block off my colours and then went over them with a copic multi liner. 

 I then used Scattered Straw, Pumice Stone and Tattered Straw distress inks and added them with a water brush to the panel and let it dry.  I then took my Wink of Stella marker and added sparkle to the work die and the top left corner.

Thanks for stopping by, we hope to see your creations in the link up!

Coralynn  :)

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InLinkz.com

AAA Card Challenge #70 - Stitching

Hello everyone,

We are back with Game #70 here at AAA Cards and it's all about stitching. 

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&

EunJi from Follow your Dreams

I love stitching on my cards but I thought I would branch out and use actual stitching from my sewing machine.  Well let's just say it's the thought that counts because all went wrong short of breaking a needle, which thankfully didn't happen.  But I decided to move on and try it again another day.  

I ink blended Mint and Audrey blue SSS inks onto vellum and heat set it (ink doesn't dry as fast on vellum as it does on card stock.  I then took one of the cross stitched circle dies from Lawn Fawn and die cut the vellum.  

I then die cut the work hello from white card stock with MFT's Emmitt alpha dies and adhered it to the die cut circle and the used that space to add adhesive and added it to my card base.  This would be a great card to mass produce but the little letters can be a bit tedious to add.  Mind you I'm the type that likes having all the letters straight but that rarely happens that way.  

How to Win:

Link up your card

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Thanks for stopping by, see you again soon.

Coralynn  :)

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InLinkz.com

Happy Birthday - Mint Owl Studio

Hello everyone,

I'm back today with a water colour birthday card.

I have been doing lots of water colouring lately and I have always loved embossed sentiments on a watercolour background.  So this is what I have for you today.

I used the Happy Moments stamp set and heat embossed the sentiments with white embossing powder.  The happy is directly on the watercolour panel and the birthday is on a piece of black card stock from my stash and cut it out with my scissors and popped it up with foam tape.

When I have a panel that is warped because of the water I add fun foam to the back so that I have a solid piece to help straighten the panel but this one was a bit harder to do.  I had to set something heavy on top of it overnight in order to get it so that it wasn't warping the card base.  Oh the troubles we go through to get a perfect card!  LoL!!

That's if for me today, thanks for stopping by.

Coralynn  :)