AAA Birthday challenge #79 - Music

Hello again friends.  I'm back again to share my card for this month's AAA Birthday challenge and this month our theme is 'music' which is such a fun challenge with so many possibilities such as die cut or stamped musical notes, music paper or even images singing or playing instruments. I'm looking forward to seeing how everyone interprets the theme this month. Our guest designer this month is the lovely Sigrid so please pop over to her blog and leave her some love.

I used an older (but new to me) stamp and die set from MFT to make a fun birthday card for a friend. I know they are probably for kids but I think they work for us oldies too lol!  I went for a white and purple colour scheme and I really like how it turned out.  The card size is 5" x 6".  I hope you like it. 

Here is my card:

A closer look at the fun images:

Plus I decorated the inside:

I began by making my card base from white card cut to 10" x 6" and scored along the long side at 5". I then stamped the images onto alcohol marker friendly card, coloured them with Promarkers and used the coordinating dies to cut them out.  I also cut 3 more from white card so that I could layer them up for some extra dimension.  I cut a piece of white card 4 5/8" x 5 5/8" and embossed it with the music notes folder and matted it onto a purple panel with double sided tape.  I cut two stars from vellum so that my images would have a grounding piece to separate them from the background and I added the images to them with liquid glue.  I stamped the two sentiments with black ink and used a sentiment strips die to cut them out.  I also die cut 3 stars from the purple card to use as embellishments.  I placed the all the elements onto the background with foam squares.  I added some scrap white card behind the panel and then adhered it to my card base with double sided tape.  For the inside I cut another white panel and adhered a strip of white card which I embossed with the folder to the bottom with double sided tape.  I also added a thin strip of purple card above it with liquid glue.  I adhered this panel onto a purple mat layer with double sided tape.  I stamped the sentiment in the centre with black ink and finished off with a die cut star in the top right corner.  The panel was adhered to the card base with double sided tape.  

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

* to be updated * 

The Design Team have created amazing cards as always so please pop over to the blog and check them out and perhaps leave them some love on their personal blogs. I hope you will be able to join in with the challenge this month but don't forget it has to be birthday themed. I can't wait to see your creations in the linky.

Have a great day.

Love and hugs,

card supplies:

MFT - friendship rocks stamp & die set

Crafts-Too - musical notes embossing folder

MFT - blueprints 18 (for stars)

MFT - inside & out birthday greetings (for inside greeting)

Quickutz - nesting stars dies

Limetree Crafts - 280gsm silky smooth white card

Versafine Clair - nocturne ink pad

Stampin' Up! - card stock vellum - no longer available

purple card from stash

Gina K Designs - large strip sentiments dies

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Thank you x

Christmas (or not) BINGO challenge - GDT card

Happy Saturday friends and welcome to November.  I'm not really sure what happened to October but I hope you're ready for a brand new month.  I'm here this morning to share my card as GDT for The Christmas (or not) BINGO challenge. I was lucky enough to win one of their recent challenges and was honoured to be asked to be a guest designer. The challenge is an awesome BINGO board but you can only choose one vertical line to follow and use at least 3 of the options.  I chose to use Line I for my card (winter, icy blue or lavender, free, aperture or frame and snowflakes) and actually fulfilled all the criteria - go me!!

Here is the BINGO board for this challenge:

I chose to use icy blue for my colours as I really like blue for Christmas cards especially paired with snowflakes and my card is 5" x 7" in size.  Most of the elements are layered up so there is quite a lot of dimension on this card.  I hope you like it.

Here is my card:

A closer look at the details:

Plus I decorated the inside:

I took an extra close up photo to try and capture the sparkle gel in the background:

I began by die cutting each snowflake 4 times from white card as well as the frame 4 times and adhered them together with liquid glue.   I used the mat layer die to cut a panel from light blue card and covered it in starlight sparkle gel and put it aside to dry.  I made my card base from white card cut to 10" x 7" and scored it at 5" along the longer side.  I stamped the sentiment in blue ink and used the coordinating die to cut it out.  I adhered the frame onto the blue layer using double sided tape and the added the snowflakes with liquid glue.  I adhered the sentiment in the left bottom corner and finished off with some clear solid sequins.  It was difficult to capture there sparkle gel but it looks so pretty in real life.  For the inside I cut a white panel using a stitched rectangle die and a blue mat layer and adhered them together with double sided tape.  I stamped the sentiment in blue ink and die cut a snowflake from blue card and adhered that in the bottom right corner.  The panel was adhered to the card base with double sided tape.  I'm really happy with how this card turned out.

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

* to be updated *

Please pop over to The Christmas (or not) BINGO challenge blog for all the details/rules and to see the amazing creations from the design team. I would like to thank Becca and the team for having me as a guest this month. I hope you will find the time to enter the challenge and cannot wait to see all your projects in the linky.

Thanks for stopping by and see you all soon.

Love and hugs,
 

card supplies:

Gina K Designs - snowflake trio dies

Gina K Designs - Master Layouts 20 die set (for frame die)

Gina K Designs - Master Layouts 14 (for stitched rectangle and mat layer dies)

Gina K Designs - holiday floral stamp & die set (for outside greeting)

Gina K Designs - graphic tree stamp (for inside greeting)

Gina K Designs - powder blue ink pad

Gina K Designs - clear quartz solid sequins

Gina K Designs - starlight sparkle gel

Limetree Crafts - 280gsm silky smooth white card

blue card from stash

*I now have an Affiliate Link for the Gina K Designs store. If you are considering making a purchase I would appreciate you using my link as it will earn me a small commission at no extra cost to you. 
Thank you x