AAA Card Challenge 275: and I try a new technique to me

Hi everybody it's time for a new challenge at AAA Cards and this week it's anything CAS goes with the optional twist to use Autumn colours. I'll also play along with CAS on Friday's challenge to add leaves to a card.

I bought the Soft Seedlings (SU!) stamp set awhile ago as it's one of their Distinktive stamps but trying to make the leaves multi-coloured with a blending brush wasn't really happening for me and then I saw Lisa Freeman create a card with this set doing the baby wipe technique which you can watch HERE if you want to know how to do it. I've never done the technique before so thought I'd give it a go, basically you add drops of re-inker to a baby wipe and then stamp and smoosh your stamp.

I've used the following inks Sweet Potato Pie (TE), Citron (PFS), Guava (TE), Mulled Wine (TE).

My original plan was to have one leaf cascading from the top LH corner with the sentiment flowing from it but thought my first "stamp" wasn't that fab so ended up going across the top with the maple leaf and added one little floating seed which was the best stamped image, so maybe I needed more ink or more smooshing into my homemade ink pad to mix the colours. I've splattered with some Rose Gold Gansai Tambai paint and stamped the sentiment in the Mulled Wine ink. It's all been stamped directly onto an A2 card base and I think it's a really lovely card to send to a friend, so much better than my ink blended leaves I was trying to do. So a fun and easy technique to try your hand at.

Well I hope you can join in with the fun at AAA Cards with an Anything CAS goes card or play along with the Autumn colours twist, even though it's definitely Spring in New Zealand now it was still fun to play with the colours.

Thanks for popping in.

✿Karen✿

Seize the Birthday: use the word CELEBRATE

This is my last card for my guest designing the topper for Seize the Birthday and I thought I should finish with a cute card, as I really do love my wee cute animals that I can colour up with my Copics. This week's challenge the topper is to use the word celebrate on a birthday card. I'm also going to play along with the fun at Just Add Girls who have a "stencil" challenge.

I made a background using 3 inks to make a "rainbow" of colour and a stencil I received from Pink & Main in one of my big boxes from Scrapbook and Cards Today titled Fall 2022. I've used the yellow ink (Sunshine) for approximately 2/3rd of the stencil and then bought in the pink ink (Bubblegum) to make an orange and then from the bottom the teal (Turquoise) to make green.

Supply List:
Stamps: Moody Unicorn (GSD), Approaching Perfection (SU!)
Ink: Sunshine (PFS), Bubblegum (PFS), Turquoise (PFS), Lavender (PFS), Memento Tuxedo Black
Paper: Polished Pink (SU!), Neenah Solar White #110, Xpress IT blending

Dies: Frames & Flags (NN), Featured Sentiments (ALT)

Other: Celebrate stencil (P&M), blending brushes (TE), 2mm foam squares (SP), Prisma glitter (LF), Copics, white Gelli roll pen #10 and Quickie glue pen (Sakura)

Challenge: STB#292, JUG#746

Well I hope you can join in and celebrate along with the topper for my final Guest Designer spot with STB and a big THANK YOU to the Seize the Birthday design team for inviting me to have fun and play along with them in August and September; I've had a blast!

✿Karen✿

Just Add Ink 720: Just Add Rainbows

The latest challenge at Just Add Ink is to just add a rainbow/s. Now this is a cool and fun challenge. I've gone back to an old rainbow die which I have blogged about HERE and even though I thought I used bright card stock last time I've gone even brighter this time and I really love the brighter version.

As I had the old card still in my stash I've put the 2 cards side by side in this photo.

I've also added a wee Moody Unicorn to make a 5th birthday card for a special wee girl who loves rainbows and unicorns.

Supply List:

Stamps: Rainbow of Happiness (SU!), Moody Unicorn (GSD)

Ink: Fig (C9), Polished Pink (SU!), Memento Tuxedo Black

Paper: Fig (C9), Polished Pink (SU!), Parakeet Party (SU!), Tahitian Tide (SU!), Rainbow Glimmer (SU!), Xpress IT blending

Dies: Brilliant Rainbows (SU!), Slim Strips - 1/2" (PFS), Elements (Crafter's Companion)

Other: 2mm foam squares (SP), Copics, Prisma glitter (LF) 
Challenges: JAI #720

Well I hope you can make time to create some rainbows; as always the Design Team at Just Add Ink have knocked it out of the park, so make sure you do check out the inspiration.

Thanks for popping in.
✿Karen✿