AAA Cards challenge

It's time for a new AAA Cards challenge

 This weeks challenge is to create a card using the inspiration card.  I started out with some paper or Washi tape for my card. The inspiration card has a band of color across the card and I love using paper tape so this made for a quick start.

 I cut out my flower using a Spellbinders die to go along with the flower on the inspiration piece. A die cut and a stamp for my sentiment, both from Paper Smooches. 

Here is the AAA Cards challenge.
Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

How do you Celebrate!?

Yeah, another Colour Q combo and I needed to create a card to go with it.

 Since CAS-ology is Celebrating their anniversary, I also played along with them.  I did start out with a Tim Holtz stencil and some Distress Stains to create my background on watercolor paper.  

 Next, I stamped the leaf branch from Waltzing Mouse Stamps and cut that out with it's matching die.  That great die cut "celebrate" is from Penny Black.  They have a bunch of great sentiment dies and I love them all!!! I did finish my card off with some silver Liquid Pearls. 

 Here is the Colour Q combo.

Here is the CAS-ology challenge.

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This is the day...

 I have said this before and I'll say it again, creating a card with just one layer is soooooo hard for me. I want to add something for dimension. I found two current challenges, both are using one layer and I was determined to do it! Less is More's challenge is also "off the edge" and they like to see white space. That is my next huge hurdle!!! 

 I used watercolor paper, this stuff is my new "most favorite".  

 That amazing leaf branch is a stamp from Waltzing Mouse.  The sentiment is by Ali Edwards for Technique Tuesday and those little butterflies are from a set by Clearly Besotted.  I used Distress Stain and Distress Stamp pad inks, love the look of these. 

 Here is the Less is More challenge.

And the Paper Players challenge.
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Happy, Summery colors

From the first time I saw the Fusion inspiration piece, I feel in love with it and knew I wanted to play along.  

 I used one of my favorite new sets of stamps and it is from Alternew.  I simply stamped this one flower over my card base and embossed them with white embossing powder.  These embossed flowers will act as a resist when I add the inks.  

 Once again, I just had to play with a watercolor technique.  Distress Stains and Distress stamp pads applied to watercolor paper and spritzed with water. I don't usually know how this is going to look when finished but it is always a fun adventure. My little vellum tag is a die cut from Reverse Confetti stamped with a Mama Elephant sentiment.  

Here is the Fusion challenge.

And here is a photo...

He is NOT singing loud, he is yawning in the middle of one of their songs! There just have to be fun pieces to a kids performance!

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This was a fun one!

Another online challenge to play with, the Color Throwdown challenge.

 I so loved the soft shades of the pretty colors.  As I set out to use the colors, I started out making a background with Distress Stains, Distress Stamp pads and watercolor.  I then set this aside to dry. This is always fun because some really neat character comes out with the watercolors when it all dries. This also had a great Mama Elephant sentiment and a Memory Box butterfly die. 

 I took my stencil and added some pink inks to the stencil with Distress Stain and then placed that on my card.  Next I took some white embossing paste and used a palette knife to spread the paste over a portion of the stencil. The pink inks on the stencil added an irregular color to the paste so that I then had my two shades of the pinks. The butterfly has an underneath layer in that same pink. I also used some pink Liquid Pearls for accent.

Here is the Color Throwdown combo.
Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

AAA Challenge #7

Another fun challenge!

 Be sure to check out AAA Cards for the embossing and pink challenge.

 I started out creating a background with Distress Stain, Distress Stamp pads and watercolor paper.  When you spritz these with water, you never know what you are going to get but you can be pretty sure it is going to be wonderful.  

 I next took a doily die cut and instead of cutting it, I used an embossing pad so that the design embossed into my colored paper. Love the look! Those amazing flowers are from Wplus9 Designs, the banner is from My Favorite Things and I embossed that black ink, I love that that makes the black more intense and elegant.  Remember the Blue Moon Scrapbook store has lots of Ranger products and the prize this week at AAA Cards is from that store. 

Now for a few photos...

 This is what we did this week. So much fun and you can see he is pretty happy. It can't possibly be time for summer vacation, can it?

His mom, my daughter made this adorable treat for the class.  Cookie "french fries", red frosting "ketchup" and an adorable hamburger that is really a cupcake with a brownie center and frosting ketchup, mustard and lettuce.  A bunch of work and oh so cute!

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Less is More!

Why do I have so much trouble with "simple"!? You know, leaving some white space.  I usually want to keep going but for my card, I added a few elements and then walked away.

 I wanted to play along with the Inkspirational CAS challenge and to also use the retro sketch.  Is that die cut word amazing! I just got it from Penny Black. I added color with some Distress Stain, such a fast and easy way to make it match.

 Do you love these flower stamps from Alternew!? I sat down to play with this super cool stamp set and created I don't know how many different combinations with the different layers. (Altenew has a sheet available on their web site for guidelines on used the layers) The only draw back is I did have to cut them out but that only takes a second. I also used the Lil' Inkers stitched layers die. 

 Here is the Inkspirational challenge.

Here is the retro sketch challenge.
Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)