Birthday Card | Guest Designer Spot - AAA Birthday Challenge "Game #28 - Photo Challenge"

 

Hello and Happy Monday!

I'm so excited to be joining the AAA Birthday Challenge Team this month as the Guest Designer and we've got a great photo challenge for Game #28! Here's the inspiration pic - isn't it pretty?!

I chose to focus on the beautiful ceramic vase filled to the brim with those gorgeous pink flowers and the ruffled edge on that perfectly iced cake! It's almost too pretty to cut into! I began by die cutting lots of flowers and ric rac using retired MFT Die Sets. I inked the edges of the flowers/leaves to give them a bit more detail and stenciled a pattern onto one of the Altenew Vase dies. 

Then it was time to assemble! I began by gluing the aqua ric rac pieces to the bottom of an A2-sized card front. I attached the vase on top with foam tape and this gave me room to create my die cut bouquet, which was adhered into place with glue/foam tape. I stamped/die cut the word "HAPPY" from Lawn Fawn, stamped the rest of sentiment using my MISTI and added some gems from Picket Fence Studios to finish up this floral birthday card! I hope you'll join us for this AAA Birthday Card Challenge!

Thanks so much for stopping by and I hope you have a wonderful week!

Rachelle ♥

Birthday Card | Paper Rose Studio - "Cactus Quotes"

Hello!

I've got a CAS birthday card to share with you today featuring this wonderful cactus image from Paper Rose Studio's "Cactus Quotes" Stamp & Die Set. I love the leaves on this potted plant and it's so fun to color with the "no-line" technique!

The image was stamped with Evergreen Bough DOI onto 100# white card stock, water colored and die cut. I stenciled a band at the bottom of a 3.75"x5" panel with Pink and Main's "Mandala" pattern in Tumbled Glass & Twisted Citron DOI's. 

The stenciled panel was attached to the front of a top-folding A2 aqua card base, the cactus was popped up with foam tape and the sentiment was stamped using the MISTI. I added a few of the "All Occasion Glitter Enamel Dots from Pink and Main for a bit of bling.

Thanks so much for joining me and have a great day!

Challenges:

Watercooler Wednesday - #306 - All About Occasions

Double "D" Challenges - Flowers in Containers

Sisterhood of Crafters - Create your Own Background

Through The Craft Room Door - Anything Goes

AAA Birthday #21 - Use a Stencil

Krafty Chicks #544 - Any Occasion

Simon Says Stamp - Wednesday - Anything Goes

Take care and stay safe!

Rachelle ♥

Birthday Card | Avery Elle - Fairy Happy | AAA Birthday Guest Designer - Game #15 - "3D" Challenge

Yippee!

I am so excited be the Guest Designer over on the AAA Birthday Card Challenge and especially for this month's theme: "3D"! 

I decided on a 3D Easel Card design and chose the adorable "Fairy Happy" stamp set from Avery Elle to inspire my fairyland scene! This card showcases a ton of ink blending and ended up being a somewhat unusual size - 4.5" x 7" - but it still fit into an A7 envelope! 

I began by ink blending the front panel stenciled clouds with Distress Oxide Inks (Antique Linen, Tattered Rose, Warm Honey and Abandoned Coral) and used these same colors on the inside of the card. The front was scored 2.75" from the bottom to create the easel fold. The dark green panel was blended with a grass stencil, die cut with a scallop edge border and adhered to the bottom of the card front with strong 2-sided tape. 

Several stitched ovals were die cut, glued together and ink blended to provide the focal point of my scene. The Avery Elle images were all stamped, colored and die cut. I needed a few extra images and so I drew/colored my own mini mushrooms and leaves to add to the design. I glued all of the images into place and attached the completed oval panel just below the fold and only to the grass at the bottom. The flying fairy at the top was attached from behind with a small piece of acetate and I love how she hovers above the coral bells!

The word "HAPPY" was die cut 5 times, glued/stacked together and colored with a bit of ink to match the base. Once I determined the easel angle, I stamped the sentiment using the MISTI and glued the die cut stack in place. I was really pleased with this green/rose/gold color palette and the finished pop-up easel design! Hope you like it, too!

We can't wait to see your 3D creations over in the AAA Birthday Card Challenge Gallery!

Additional Challenges:

Crafter's Castle - July Anything Goes - #31

Fairy and The Unicorn Challenge - Fantasy - July Challenge

Cute Card Thursday - #641 - Anything Goes

Krafty Chicks - #514 - Stamp Act

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Bright And Cheerful

Watercooler Wednesday - #278 - Anything Goes with a Feminine Twist

Shopping Our Stash - #423 - You're So Sweet

Crafty Cardmakers - Create Your Own Background

Color Crazy Challenge #26 - Anything Goes

Rachelle ♥

Birthday Card | MFT Stamps - Doodled Blooms & Love Bugs | Guest Designer on the AAA Birthday Challenge Blog - Game #10 "Cute"

Hi There! 

Yippee! I'm so excited to share this card with you today as a Guest Designer over on the AAA Birthday Card Challenge Blog! The current challenge is: Game #10 "Cute" and I decided to go with a bright spring scene featuring two now-retired MFT Stamp sets - "Doodled Blooms" & "Love Bugs". Be sure to head over to see all of the other wonderful projects that the AAA Birthday Team Designers have created for this challenge!

Using Tattered Rose and Shaded Lilac Distress Oxides, I ink blended an A2 background panel and spritzed it with shimmer spray; when dry, I adhered it to the front of a top-folding A2 horizontal card base.

All of the images were stamped (using VersaFine Onyx Black Ink), watercolored and die cut. I die cut extra blanks for most of the images and glued/stacked them together to give added dimension. The bottom grass border was die cut and backed with craft foam. I determined the location of the corner sentiment and stamped it using the MISTI.

I glued the flower stems/butterfly onto the background panel and popped the larger flower heads into place with foam tape. The grassy border was glued over the stems at the bottom of the card and the ladybug/mini flowers were adhered to finish off the card. I really like this rosy-lilac color palette for a feminine birthday card! 

Thanks for joining me and you've got until March 1st to submit your "Cute" Birthday creations over on the AAA Birthday Card Challenge!

Additional Challenges:

Love To Craft Challenge Blog #43 - Anything Goes

The Joy of Sets Tic Tac Toe Challenge - Watercolor - Purple - Die Cuts

Crafty Calendar Challenge - Use Die Cuts/Punches

Krafty Chicks #492 - Anything Goes

Stamping Sensations - February / Feminine

Creative Knockouts #335 - Birthday 

Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes Wednesday Challenge

Thanks so very much for taking the time to comment - I appreciate each and every one!

Rachelle ♥

Birthday Card | Neat and Tangled - Complementary Colors | Corner Shaker Card

Hi There!

I have created a corner shaker card to share with you today! It took me a little while to figure out how to do it but I kind of like the final result! Using a clear acetate envelope was the trick to making this work.

I partially stamped, colored and die cut the boy/balloon images; leaving the top off of the paint tube and the attached strings off of the balloons. I knew that I wanted to add my own balloon strings, made from gold cording, which would be coming out of the end of the paint tube, and adjusting the stamped images worked perfectly! A 1.5" strip of the striped pattern paper was added to the bottom of a top-folding A2 card base and the top left corner was ink blended with Distress Oxide Inks: Fossilized Amber, Tumbled Glass and Shaded Lilac.

Using my boy die cut as a guide, I sketched/cut my shaker opening from a piece of heavy white card stock 4.25" x 4.5". I cut/taped my acetate envelope to size, which would fit into the top left corner but be hidden by the white cardstock overlay and filled it with the shaker contents. The shaker pouch was adhered into place on the card front. I adhered the gold cording to the back of the balloons and attached them to the card stock with foam tape making sure that all of the strings came down to the center point of the shaker opening. Using a double layer of foam tape, I popped the boy into place with the end of the paint tube over the balloon strings.

I added total foam tape coverage to the back of the white card stock and adhered the panel into place over the shaker pocket. The sentiment was then stamped using the MISTI! This card has a lot of dimension and the corner shaker worked out better than anticipated! : )

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

AAA Birthday: Game #9 - A Shaker Card - this card is a design team submission

Krafty Chicks 492 Week #5 Anything Goes

Little Red Wagon - Aw, Man! #534

Watercooler Wednesday: WWC256 All About Occasions

Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes

Double "D" Challenges - Fun With Balloons

Thanks so much for joining me and I really appreciate all of your comments!

Rachelle ♥

Birthday Card | Ellen Hutson - Everyday Doodles & Concord & 9th - Stuck on You

Hi!

Sharing a festive CAS birthday card featuring a combination of Essentials By Ellen and Concord & 9th Stamp Sets! The color palette is from the current AAA Birthday Card Challenge and I immediately thought of a bright birthday cactus with these "comic-book-like" colored candies!

I stamped the long landscape block (Julie Ebersole's Winterscape Stamp Set) at the bottom of an A-2 top-folding card base with VersaFine Onyx Black Ink. The cactus, balloon and party hat images were stamped, die cut and assembled together. Once I determined placement, I stamped the grass, triangles and sentiment using the MISTI. I popped the cactus/balloon grouping off of the card front with some foam tape to give it some dimension and finished the card with a few shiny green stars. These products really work well together and I can't wait to pop this in the mail!

This card is entered in the following challenges:

AAA Birthday Challenges Game #6 Color Palette

Through The Craft Room Door - AG 

Dragonfly Dreams - Use Black a Little or A Lot

Seize The Birthday - #177 - Anything Goes

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Rachelle ♥