Sunday 10 May 2015

Happy Birthday AAA Cards!


YAY!!!! It's finally here -our fabulous 1st anniversary blog hop! We are celebrating by having a Birthday theme for our challenge this week and also by giving out tons of great prizes - so make sure you play along with us this week and leave lots of comments on the DT member pages to maximize your chances of winning!

So now onto my card(s) for the week... I decided to use products from one of our wonderful sponsors, Simon Says Stamp. I started with the Simon Says Stamp Birthday Farm Animals set and did some stamping with masks and my MISTI to create the image. I coloured using Copics (still learning!) and then I decided that I wanted to make it into a one-layer inlaid die cut card. I used my Simon Says Stamp Stitched Rectangles to create a frame, and then I used an older set from Simon Says Stamp to stamp the celebrate and the star around the frame. 




When I started the first card, I decided to stamp everything twice since I was convinced that I would mess up at some point and I did not want to start over. I was very surprised when I finished that I hadn't messed up! I had two almost identical card fronts but I wanted to make two very different cards so decided to turn the second card front into a shaker card. I masked the animals and used the Simon Says Stamp Stars and Dots stencil to creeate the background with some silver Viva Ferro. I then used the same stitched rectangle dies to crate the frame. I used clear sequins (and a few blue stars) because I didn't want to distract from the image. I really like how both cards turned out :)





For the final card, I decided to incorporate the new Baby Party Animals stamps with the Birthday Farm Animals for a twist. The Baby Party Animals are part of the fabulous new release from Simon Says Stamp - there is a lot of great products in this release that have made their way onto my "most wanted" list. For this card, I used the baby pigs, the banner and the balloon. One thing that I would like to point out is that the different baby animals have the same body shape so if you don't like the arm orientation on the animal you want to stamp, you can "borrow" the arms from another animal. On my card, I wanted the baby pigs to each be holding up their "outside" arms - so the piglet on the left was stamped true but the piglet on the right was masked and stamped with baby rabbit arms (again made easier with the MISTI!).





I coloured the image and die cut using the Simon Says Stamp Postage die. The background was created using the Birthday greeting from the Baby Farm Animals set - stamped repeatedly tone on tone.

So that's it for my Birthday cards! Now it's onto the next stop on the hop - the amazing Jenny Colacicco or if you want to go back to the beginning - link here to AAA Cards!

So join in the fun with us as we celebrate 1!!!!

Thanks for visiting!
Jill

64 comments:

  1. What an adorable shaker card! I love the cow and stamp!

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  2. Fun set of cards, all the images are very cute and funny.

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  3. Fun set of cards, all the images are very cute and funny.

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  4. Simply fantastic Jill and live how you're made three similar but different cards. X

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  5. Both of your cards are just fabulous ...Love that adorable shaker card:)

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  6. Your cards are funny. I love them!

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  7. i'm kind of addicted to shakers cards, so that's my favourite, but all your creations are fabulous!

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  8. Fab cards Jill, especially love the shaker.

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  9. Oh! Wow! I love that shaker. Those animals!! What a riot! :)

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  10. Fun cards. Great shaker card.

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  11. Fun cards. Great shaker card.

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  12. Two amazing card. Beautiful shaker card. Best wishes on the occasion of 1 anniversary. I wish you many folowers.
    Regards,
    Bozen

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  13. I just love all three cards. Really loving how people are using their animals in groups for celebrations. Have got to give this ago.

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  14. Wow ! 3 great cards. Saw the first - loved the fun animals and sentiment border; then the 2nd - great shaker; 3rd - love the postal border.

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  15. These are so cute. I love the cards with all the animals but really giggled when I saw all of the pigs on the last. Adorable.

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  16. Jill, all three cards are funny, the shaker is the best! Happy 1st AAA Cards Birthday!

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  17. These festive animals made me smile! And a fun idea as a shakercard!

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  18. Both of your cards are so fun...really love the shaker card!

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  19. How great that you ended up with 2 great cards when you thought you'd have to toss one. Love all three. The images are so fun. Love what you did with all of them.

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  20. Love the 2nd card the best. The stars really help the cute and hilarious farm animals pop! But I think the inlaid technique on the first one is really clever!

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  21. Amazing cards! I love your shaker card especially... beautiful coloring!

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  22. I love the images, really cute and funny and you've made fun cards with them. Happy birthday AAA cards

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  23. What a fun set of cards, love those animals!

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  24. Happy Birthday AAA Challenges! Your critter cards are pure delight...awesome colouring and ever so much fun! To everyone at AAA: May birthday #1 be followed by many, many more...love your challenges and, especially, the DT inspiration!
    ~c

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  25. Such FUN cards - love them both!!! Happy Birthday AAA Challenges!

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  26. FABULOUS cards!! Happy 1st Birthday AAA Cards Challenge - here's to many, many more!!

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  27. Too Cute! Happy Birthday AAA

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  28. Oh my gosh! Your cards are super cute!!!! Such adorable images and a great shaker card also!

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  29. Lovely to see two very similar yet completely different cards using the same stamps and colours. Great tips in your post too. Thanks for all the wonderful inspiration from the DT. I've really enjoyed your birthday blog hop. Stef x

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  30. Oh! Such cute little critters! I love how great your shaker card came out!

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  31. The images are supercute, nice coloring! L.O.V.E

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  32. The images are supercute, nice coloring! L.O.V.E

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  33. Fabulous cards--wonderful stamping and great coloring. Congratulations on 1 year.

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  34. Hooray for shaker cards!!!

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  35. I loVe your cute cards. Thanks for sharing.
    Crafty hugs,
    Dawn
    DesignsByDragonfly.blogspot

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  36. All three are fabulous.. your copic coloring is fantastic. Love that frame around the first one so creative... the shaker card. I love it... and those cute little piggies... adorable. tfs

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  37. Love your set of cards - those animals are so cute and funny! I think the shaker is my favourite x

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  38. I don't know which card I like the best. All 3 are fun and fabulous.

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  39. I love the chicken, her face is adorable as is your card

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  40. Darling cards Jill. Love the sweet images and the different coloring. Especially love the shaker!

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  41. Adorable all!! I love those crazy animals and they way you combined the pigs on the last one was great! - THANKS so much for the inspiration. Happy Birthday AAA!!
    Lyn

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  42. Happy first Birthday. What fun birthday cards.

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  43. I love these fun critters - they are on my wishlist! Great colouring and designs, Jill - the perfect way to celebrate AAA's first birthday :)

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  44. I love having a spare card, just in case, and then it turns out that you make two cards! Bonus!

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  45. Perfect cards for cute little kids... Love them..... Happy 1st birthday by AAA...

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  46. Great cards, I especially like the shaker card. All really cute. :)

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  47. LOVE these cards, the images are so fun, Cathy x

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  48. Both cards are fantastic ! Love the characters... So funny ! Hugs, blessings and love from Catherine

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  49. Such adorable fun little characters, made me smile! TFS x

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  50. adorable cards! love that shaker one!

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  51. Fun cards! Happy 1st Birthday to AAA Cards

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  52. Great cards. I really like these happy crowds of partiers. I was there too :-) Congratulations! Many followers and wonderful ideas for next year.
    hugs,
    Bozena

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  53. they are set of cuuutee card
    and my fav one is the shaker card
    love your style and your coloring
    cute cute cute card
    Happy Birthday for AAA Cards..
    hugs, Monika

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  54. A party on a card! Wonderful. And happy 1st to AAA.

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  55. These guys are so cute. Love the shaker card. Hugz

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  56. These images always makes me smile..they are so ready to party! Great variety of cards. Happy Bday to AAA cards.

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  57. Great fun birthday cards, especially love the shaker card. Ax

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  58. Gorgeous!You did a great job with your colouring :)
    Best wishes,Nessa xxx

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  59. Gorgeous!You did a great job with your colouring :)
    Best wishes,Nessa xxx

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  60. Super cute cards! Love the shaker~

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  61. I love the two variations of the same farm animals image, and then the cute little pigs on that postage stamp edged mat are delightful. x

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  62. Such clever masking and stamping to make three super cute cards! I especially love the shaker card... Happy First Blogoversary!

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  63. You certainly were busy!! These are all so adorable!

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  64. All three of your cards are so cute! I love them all, but the shaker card is my favorite!

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