As it's the first of the month it means we have a brand new challenge over at AAA Birthday challenge. This month's theme is 'anything birthday goes' and we are also celebrating our 7th birthday. There will be randomly picked surprise prizes so get your cards into our linky for a chance to win. Our guest designer this month is Gundi (Papierelle) so please pop over to her blog and leave her some love.
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.
Love and hugs,
*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
As I will be making lots of masculine cards this month I thought I would start off with a girly card. I recently bought this stamp & die set (which came as a gift in a crafting magazine) from a destash group on FB and I thought it was perfect for this month's challenge. I hope you like it.
Here is my card:
A closer look at the details:
Plus I decorated the inside:
I began by die cutting a stitched rectangle from white card. I stamped the cake stand directly onto the panel using a light blue ink pad. I die cut the top and bottom tiers of the cake from patterned paper and lightly inked around the edges with a slightly darker ink. The middle tier was cut from white card. I stamped the banner with blue ink and the sentiment in the centre with black ink and used the die to cut it out. I stamped two of the flower arrangements, one in pink and one in blue and again die cut them out. I also stamped three candles one each in pink, blue and black and cut them out. I added the tiers above the cake stand using foam squares. I added the flowers and candles with liquid glue and the sentiment banner was placed across the cake stand with foam squares. At this point I thought the white panel looked a little bare so decided to add some light grey shading around the cake; unfortunately I didn't check my brush and the last ink I had used was a darker grey so it came out much darker than I wanted. To try and mask it a little I used a tiny dot stencil and some white pigment ink and went over the grey. The white turned a little off white but I think it looks ok. I wanted to draw in a little more colour so I found a coordinating plaid paper in the same paper pack as the one I used for the tiers and cut a panel 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" and adhered it to the front of my card with double sided tape. I added some scrap white card behind the stitched panel and added that over the plaid paper with double sided tape. I finished off with some pearls. For the inside I cut another white stitched rectangle, adding some of the plaid paper to the bottom and stamped the sentiment in the centre with black ink. I stamped out another flower and 3 more candles and added the flower to the top right corner and the candles to the bottom left corner. I then adhered the panel to the card base with double sided tape.
I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:
* to be updated *
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.
Love and hugs,
card ingredients:
stamp & die set - free gift with craft magazine
LOTV - Nitwits collection; bonnets & bowties 8x8 paper pack
Versafine Clair - nocturne ink pad
*Gina K Designs - master layouts 02 (for stitched rectangle)
Gina K Designs - ink pads - blue sky & medium carnation
Gina K Designs - ink cube - white pigment ink
Gina K Designs - masks & fillers stencil (for small dots in background)
Gina K Designs - pearl mix: rainbow & pearl mix: gold, black & silver metallic
