AAA Cards Challenge #182 - One Layer + optional twist Silhouettes

Hey! Welcome to my blog!

Today I'm sharing my DT card and info about the new AAA Cards Challenge.

The main theme - and the compulsory part - is One Layer, but there's also a fab optional twist of using silhouettes. And of course I went for it!

I started by creating a background wall using the Funky Fossil stencil Brick Wall and three colours of ink. I wanted a good crisp stamping of the images so I used my misti tool to stamp the cat and spider silhouettes on top of the inky wall. I drew in the spider thread with a micro fine pen. 

I finished off by stamping the greeting above the wall. I thought this was a fun way to use Halloween stamps for a different occasion. 

Supplies:

Stamps: Clearly Besotted, Fright Night; Uniko, Simply Said Birthday

Stencil: Funky Fossil, Brick Wall

Inks: Memento, espresso truffle, peanut brittle, cantaloupe, tuxedo black

Be sure to pop over to the AAA Cards blog to check out what the rest of the DT and our wonderful Guest Designer Monika have been up to - HERE.

Huge thanks for your visit today, I really appreciate you taking the time.

Stay safe and keep crafting!

Wednesday Words

I'm really loving the challenges over at {Pin}spirational and the current one has lots of pink. Right up my street then!

I decided to give an older Clearly Besotted stamp set some love and keep to my preferred CAS style:

Tempting though it was to go overboard with the pink I kept myself under control and limited it to the images and card base.

Supplies:

Stamps: Clearly Besotted, Colour Chameleon

Inks: Memento, tuxedo black

Pens: Copic, R81, 83, 85, C1

Thanks so much for dropping by today, it's so good to have a little company.

Stay safe and keep crafting!

Friday Focus

I'm so rubbish at time zones across the world that I'm not sure if today's card is going to make it in time for the challenge at The Paper Players, but as it's made I'm sharing it anyway.

How could I resist a Clean and Simple challenge?

I used two Clearly Besotted stamp sets and coloured the image in some bright primary colours that always seem to evoke school days to me.

Supplies: 

Stamps: Clearly Besotted, Bedtime Story, All Booked Up

Ink: Memento, tuxedo black

Colours: Copic, C0, E50, Y18, BG34, B18, R29; Miya oil pencils

Huge thanks for looking today, I love it when you do.

Stay safe and keep crafting!

Papermill Direct DT Inspiration

Hey!

I'm up on the Papermilldirect blog today using an adorable little gift box using their Sweet Shop Mixed Card Pack and a die from Time For Tea Designs.

Come on over and take a look at how I created it - HERE.

Supplies:

Card: Papermill Direct, Sweet Shop Mixed Card Pack

Stamps: Clearly Besotted, Summer Treats & Sunny Sundae

Die: Time For Tea Designs, Mini Gift Box

Colours: Copic pens

Thanks so much for looking and don't forget to follow that link over to the Papermill Direct blog - HERE

Stay safe and keep crafting!

Monday Moment

Today i'm sharing a card I created for the photo challenge at Inkspirational.

Here's my card:

I went with a singe yellow image - the feather - and kept everything very CAS. Just like the photo inspiration really.

Supplies;

Stamps: Clearly Besotted, Tickle My fancy

Inks: Memento, dandelion; Versafine Clair, notcturne

Card: Papermill Direct, daffodil

Thanks for looking today, I really appreciate you taking the time.

Stay safe and keep crafting!

Wednesday Words

Today I'm playing along with the challenge at Less is More.

It's their one layer challenge with the theme of Going Dotty. Here's my card:

I used a couple of older Clearly Besotted stamp sets that seemed to fit the dotty theme perfectly. On the flowers I inked up in yellow and then added a touch of pink to the outer edges. And as this is a one layer card I rounded the bottom right corner with a punch.

Supplies:
Stamps: Clearly Besotted, A Little Something, Thank You
Inks: Memento, bamboo leaves, dandelion, lilac posies, tuxedo black
Punch: Xcut corner rounder

Thanks so much for dropping by today, it's been so fun to have your company.

Stay safe and keep crafting!

Monday Moment 2

Today I'm sharing a card I created with the colours from the current CAS Colours & Sketches challenge.

  

They really caught my eye and I actually have all three of them in my ink pad stash.

I already had these stamps out on my craft table with an idea for a different challenge, but as the closing date for CC&S is so close I thought I'd better get on with that card straight away.

Supplies:
Stamps: Clearly Besotted, Petite Baby shower + matching die & Happy Birthday
Inks: SU, coastal cabanna, crushed curry, cherry cobbler; Versafine Clair, nocturne

Thanks so much for looking today, it's been a pleasure to have your company.

Stay safe and keep crafting!

Jane
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Thursday Thoughts

Today I'm sharing a card I created for the challenge at Less is More.

This is such a pretty colour combination in real life, but boy is it difficult to take a decent photograph!

I wanted the card for a wedding anniversary, thought the colours were so appropriate. I used a cream card - I know it looks white but it is definitely cream - and heat embossed the flowers and greeting in white. I also added extra white colour to the flowers and leaves with a gel pen and Miya pencils.

Here's a closer look, but the colours are still all wrong!

Supplies:
Stamps: clearly Besotted, Floral Fancy, Mr & Mrs
Inks: Versamark + WOW! opaque bright white

Thanks for looking today, I really appreciate you taking the time.

Keep safe, stay home and craft instead!

Monday Moment

Today I'm sharing a card I created using the colours from the current CAS Colours & Sketches Challenge.

Here's my card:

I don't have any of the SU colours specified so I opted to match them as closely as possible to my Copic pen colours. The stamped image and greeting is from Clearly Besotted.

Supplies:

Stamps: Clealry Besotted, All Booked Up

Ink: Memento, tuxedo black

Pens: Copic, G17, Y02, Y04, B37, W1, C0 , C1

Short and sweet today, but thanks for looking.

Keep safe, stay home and craft instead!

Friday Focus

Hi everyone and welcome to my blog. 

Today I'm sharing a card I created for the Inspired by Words challenge at Time Out.

Here's where the quote led me:

I started by stamping all the Clearly Besotted images and then masked them off. I then used an MFT stencil to create a background using three different colours.

Once the masks were removed I coloured the images using Miya oil pencils.

Supplies:
Stamps: Clearly Besotted, An Open Book
Inks: Versafine Clair, nocturne; SU, mint macaron, melon mambo, daffodil delight
Stencil: MFT, mini cloud edges

Huge thanks for dropping by my blog today, it's so much more fun when you do.

Keep safe, stay home and craft instead!

Tuesday Talk

How are you doing? One of the plus things about staying home for me is the increased time I have to craft and get back into entering challenges again.

My card today is for the challenge at CAS Watercolour.

Here's my card;

I started my card by preparing a watercolour background block and then I printed the Clearly Besotted free Spring flower digi on top. I did this by printing it onto paper first and then using temporary glue to fix the card over the top of the print out and printing again. And lucky for me it didn't peel off inside the printer!

I then added colour using Arteza water colour brush pens. I added some white gel pen touches, stamped a greeting and matted it onto black card to finish off.

Supplies:
Stamps: Clearly Besotted, digi freebie & greeting from a retired set, Pretty Petals
Inks: Ranger distress, stormy sky, cracked pistachio; Versafine Clair, nocturne
Colours: Arteza, bruch pens; Sakura gelly roll, white

Thanks so much for dropping by today, it's always so much more fun when you do.

Keep safe, stay home and craft instead!

Friday Focus

Today I'm sharing a card I made using the colours from this week's challenge at CAS Colours & Sketches.

I've used a freebie digi stamp from Clearly Besotted. Check it out in their shop as they have a few free digis to help out in these difficult times - HERE.

I decided that as the message in this sentiment is so relevant that the bees wouldn't mind being coloured in pink rather than their usual orange and brown.

I didn't have a pen the correct colour for mint macaron so I mixed a blue and green together to get as close as possible.

Supplies:
Stamps: Clearly Besotted free digi
Pens: Copic, R20, R21, BV01, BV11, C0, G21, B000, O

Thanks for dropping by today, it's been a pleasure to have your company.

Keep safe, stay home and craft instead!

Thursday Thoughts

Well the sun has been shining brightly for the last couple of days and the card I'm sharing today is bright and sunshiny yellow. It's going into the Spring challenge at Inkspirational.

Here it is:

I used a yellow base card and added a white layer with a die cut window on top. The daffodils from Clearly Besotted were stamped and coloured before the white layer was adhered.

I finished the card off with sentiment from Uniko.

Supplies:

Stamps: Clearly Besotted, Spring daffodils; Uniko, Spring Botanicals Snowdrop

Inks: Versafine Clair, nocturne

Die: Pretty Pink Posh, Window Frames

Card: Papermill Direct, daffodl & smooth white

Colours: Miya oil pencils

Thanks so much for looking today, it's been fun to have your company here on my blog.

Keep safe, stay home and craft instead!