Happy Saturday everyone!
Today I’m playing along with the colour challenge at the CAS Colours and Sketches challenge. I love the autumnal combo!
I used a couple of Penny Black clear stamp sets – Delicate Flowers and Acorns and Animals and coloured the images using my beloved twinkling H2O paints. To complete my card, I splattered some paint and added a sentiment from a 2018 My Monthly Hero set.
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LucieG.
Hello everyone!
Today I’m playing along with one the Color Throwdown! The palette this week looks like red, yellow, porcelain and brown – very autumnal!
I actually made a tree scene card using these colours yesterday. However, when I went to upload it, I felt that it wasn’t appropriate given the terrible fires engulfing the forests in the western USA. So, today I had a bit of free time and re-did my card using the beautiful Simon Says Stamp Fractile Leaves set plus a background die from The Stamp Market. The sentiment is by Hero Arts.
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LucieG.
Hi there!
It’s time for the a new challenge at AAA Cards! This fortnight we’d like you to create a CAS card using the sketch we’ve provided; our optional twist is ‘at the movies’! Our sponsor is Casual Fridays .
I’ve spent the last few weeks overhauling my craft room. Still haven’t finished, but I have discovered that my boxes of random stamps and dies contain some real gems which haven’t had a chance to shine on my cards. I wasn’t originally planning to play along with the optional twist this time, but when I saw this quote in a forgotten Stamping Bella sentiment set, I thought it would be perfect to use.
I really wanted to pair it with an evil dark dragon like the one towards the end of Enchanted, but I don’t have anything like that! I even searched through my patterned paper mountain, but couldn’t find anything…. the closest thing I had was paper with cutesy dinosaurs that looked anything but scary! So in the end, I used an old wood-mounted dragon stamp, Seedless Preserves distress oxide and some kraft paper. This turned out to be quite a different card for me, but I like that the quote has centre stage.
My team mates have come up with some beautiful cards which are on the AAA Cards challenge blog. We are also joined a previous challenge winner, Ma-mi, who has some lovely inspiration on her blog!
Hope you can play along with us!
Thanks for stopping by!
LucieG.
Hi there!
It’s time for another challenge at AAA Cards! This fortnight we’d like you to create a one-layer CAS card. Our optional twist this time is ‘my other hobby’. Joy Clair Designs is our sponsor.
One of my other hobbies is gardening – but I don’t do any baskets or pots of annuals and it’s been a few years since I went to Hampton Court Flower Show… so I guess gardening for me tends to be more like what I think our friends in the US call ‘yard work’ – you know, landscaping projects, weeding, pruning, shrub planting, mowing and watering. Oh my word, the watering this year….. I can’t be the only garden owner who is relieved that our heat wave finally broke at the end of the week!
Anyway, on to my card for this challenge! For AAA, one layer means just the card base, no additional die cuts unless it is inlaid into the card base. A one-layer challenge is mainly a stamping or stencilling challenge for me really. I’ve actually used clear stamp sets for a couple of gardening cards whilst I’ve been blogging (here and here), so I turned to my old wood-mounted rubber stamp collection this week! I used an old Funstamps stamp called Gardening Shelf which I felt was a good reflection of my yard work type of gardening!! I coloured the image with my Twinkling H2O paints… and yes, I do have purple gloves for gardening!! The sentiment is by Mama Elephant.
My team mates have come up with some beautiful cards which are on the AAA Cards challenge blog. We are also joined by a previous challenge winner, Coni, who has some fun inspiration on her blog!
Hope you can play along with us!
Thanks for stopping by!
LucieG.
Hi there!
It’s time for another challenge at AAA Cards! This fortnight we’d like you to create a CAS card using just one edge of your card. Our optional twist this time is ‘beach’. Stamplorations is our sponsor.
We had a beach theme back when I had just started on the AAA challenge blog – see the card I made at the time here. I was tempted to use those fabulous beach huts again but then as I was reorganising my craft room, I came across the beautiful Stampin Up Summer By the Sea set that I’ve had for well over a decade. I don’t think I’ve ever used the boy/sandcastle stamp and thought it would be perfect for this challenge! And I love inking up those wood-mounted stamps, there is nothing like them! Of course cling and clear stamps are much easier to use nowadays with the MISTI and other stamp platforms! I coloured the image with my Twinkling H2O paints and added a sentiment from a Simon Says Stamp set to complete my card.
My team mates have come up with some beautiful cards which are on the AAA Cards challenge blog. We are also joined by a previous challenge winner, Vicky, who has some lovely inspiration on her blog!
Hope you can play along with us!
Thanks for stopping by!
LucieG.
Hi everyone!
Last November, life got super busy for me and I was so grateful that I had devoted July 2019 to Christmas cardmaking! It meant I had enough handmade cards to send out to friends and family! I couldn’t wait to do the same this year!
Once again, I LOVED devoting a whole month to Christmas cards and I’m not ready to move on from making Christmas cards now! I have some really lovely festive supplies and I’ll definitely be creating more Christmas cards on and off during August.
Like last year, I generally ‘shopped my stash’ to create my cards and didn’t have the ‘distraction’ of new stuff! I truly feel that sometimes ‘fast craft fashion’ means so many items don’t get the ‘air time’ they merit – most brands don’t have their festive releases ready for Christmas in July which makes it easy to devote crafty time to existing supplies!
It was also fun to create festive cards for challenges which were not focussed on Christmas-themed cards! I ended up with cards using non-traditional colours – some challenges really stretched my creativity!
Thanks to everyone who followed along and shared kind comments with me – I really appreciate all of you!
Have a great day!
LucieG.
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