AAA Cards Challenge #284

 Good morning! If you have followed me for any amount of time you know I love a great sketch challenge. Today on the AAA Cards Challenge we have our first sketch challenge of the year.

I rotated the sketch and using the Papertrey Ink Bubble Talk and Heart Squared sets to create my CAS design with three shades of ink and a little heat embossing.

Altenew Febuary Inspiration

 Hey there. We are traveling for a few months but wanted to play with the fun color palette on the Altenew Challenge. It is a unique one to use with flowers.

My card features the products from the Chocolate Flowers kit. Stamps, stencils and dies.

AAA Cards Challenge #283

 Hello. We are mixing things up a bit this year and throwing in some color challenges on the AAA Cards Challenge.

Stamps: Stamplorations Yuletide Deer

Papertrey Ink KIS Birthday

Extras: Silver Detail Embossing Powder

Alcohol Markers and Nuvo Drops

I am looking forward to seeing what you create with 

this muted color palette.

AAA Cards Challenge #282

 Hey there. We created a new theme this year for a few of our challenges on the AAA Cards blog, "Follow My Lead". One of our designers will create a card to inspire you. You will use that card as your inspiration to create your own CAS card. First up is Marlies.

I decided to create a stack of white die cuts with a red heart to mimic Mariles' card. I used the typewriter from Spellbinders and the heart confetti die from Echo Park. I accentuated the heart with red ink and glossy accents, and heat embossed the greeting from Papertrey Ink, Scripted on vellum. 

I can't wait to see how Marlies card inspires you!

Altenew January Inspiration Palette

 Hello, I wanted to play with some new sets I received. Altenew had a pretty inspiration photo to draw from on their January challenge.

I used the Chocolate Flowers stamp and stencil set and the Timeless Sentiments 2 for my card.

This also fits the bill for the Simon Says Stamp "Something New" Monday Challenge. I used Concord and 9th inks for the blended flowers and stamping.

Color Therapy featuring Cottage Garden Alcohol Markers

Hello. Altenew is working a little color therapy in your life with some alcohol marker art on Instagram today.  I used the newer Cottage Garden set to create my "flame stitch" background. If you are not familiar with the term "flame stitch" I have included a photo below to show the stitch. The Cottage Garden markers also fell right in line with the Altenew Inspiration color palette.

I used a white panel of cardstock to create my flames with the markers. Then covered the panel with two-sided adhesive and sprinkled glitter over the panel, pressing it into the adhesive. I then ran the panel through my die cut machine with the Crossstitch Canvas die to give it a stitched look. Adding foam tape to the back of the panel I mounted it to a dark green card.

Using the Stencil Art: Natures Splashes add-on die set I cut- out four white leaf clusters, glued and stacked them together for dimension. Then using the Craft-Your-Life: Wings & Petals kit, I die-cut the larger butterfly from white cardstock and the base butterfly from velum coloring it with the Y301 alcohol marker. The greeting is from the Scripty Sentiments die set. The shadow layer was white cardstock that I colored with the G965 alcohol marker.

It was fun to think of different ways to use alcohol markers other than coloring Altenew's beautiful images traditionally.

One more with a different feel but still sporting a butterfly from the Hope Butterfly set.

 

I started with a Bristol Smooth top folding card for smooth ink blending. I die cut the leaf from the Nature's Splashes add-on die set, making a mask with tape. Then taped off the area I wanted to blend and chose three soft ink colors that matched the Cottage Garden marker set.

After removing the tape, I placed dots of C030 marker on the leaf edges to help define the leaf silhouette. I then stamped, heat embossed and colored the Hope Butterfly with the alcohol markers from the Cottage Garden set.

Using a rectangle die I cut the center of the card out and Heat Embossed the greetings from the Sulfur Cosmos set. Then popped the panel up with foam tape. So head on over the my Instagram @SentSue and hop along with us for some fun prizes. These cards also fit the gorgeous inspiration photo for the Altenew January Inspiration Challenge.

AAA Cards Challenge #281

Hey there. We are starting off the new year on the AAA Cards Challenge with a "Flies in the Air" clean and simple challenge.

Stamps: Concord and 9th Simple Seasons

Lawn Fawn Flying By

Stencil: Stampin' Up Clouds

Extras: alcohol markers and Glossy Accents

Here is a reminder as to what "Clean and Simple" is:

I hope you can carve out some time in the next two weeks to create a CAS card following our theme.