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:

Addicted to Stamps & More challenge - all occasions

Can You Handle The Pressure challenge - must use an embossing folder optional pumpkins/orange

Cardz 4 Galz challenge - colouring (I used Promarkers alcohol markers)

Girlz and The Art of Letters challenge - Letter M...... is for Music

Inkspirational challenge - seeing stars

Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge - add some texture

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge - ATG

The Paper Funday challenge - ATG optional cute or creepy

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