AAA Birthday: January - Tammikuu

The first challenge of the new year and the new decade is starting at AAA Birthday and we have a fun one for you - a shaker card! As our Guest Designer, we have Vita Thai. I encourage you to check out her Instagram account and leave her some crafty love!

Instead of playing with foam adhesives, I decided to make a sort of a faux shaker card again. So I took a small cellophane bag, cut a piece of patterned paper that fitted inside it, and added my sequins in there. I really like it this way as the sequins won't fall to the bottom of the shaker part but instead 'float' around the cellophane bag. The stamped image I used is Curvy Girl Gardener by Stamping Bella, I love it and bought it for myself as a birthday treat :) I coloured it with my Copic markers and used the matching die to die cut it. For the background, I used patterned paper in pretty rainbow colours. The sentiment I used says 'Congrats' in Finnish, I stamped it onto a banner die cut with an MFT die.

Here's a close up of the Gardener.

I hope you'll join us on our first challenge of 2020! Please visit AAA Birthday for the details on how to play along and to view the gorgeous cards created by my fab teamies.


On vuosikymmenen ensimmäisen haasteen aika AAA Birthdayssä ja teemana on shaker-kortit. Guest Designerina meillä on Vita Thai.

Sen sijaan, että olisin tehnyt perinteisen shakerin, päätin huijata hieman. Otin pienen sellofaanipussin, leikkasin sinne sisälle palan kuviopaperia ja lisäsin paljetit sinne. Tällä tavoin paljetit pysyvät "leijumassa" eivätkä putoa shaker-osion pohjalle. Raamit sille stanssasin Hero Artsin stansseilla. Leimakuvana käytin Stamping Bellan Curvy Girl Gardener -leimaa, jonka väritin Copiceilla. Taustalle hieman sateenkaaripaperia ja tekstileima MFT:n stanssilla stanssattuun banneriin ja kortti oli valmis.

AAA Birthdaystä löytyy ohjeet osallistumiseen ja DT-porukan inspiraatiokortit. Kannattaa käydä kurkkaamassa ja osallistua! :)

Penny Black Share the Love: Key to Kindness

I'm sharing the love again with a card made with new stamps and dies from the new collection by Penny Black called Share the Love. This time I decided to make a shaker card the easy way so I took a cellophane bag, inserted a bit of patterned paper from the paper pad Gentle Whisper and added my sequins in there (no playing with foam adhesives needed!). I die cut the frame using the new Stitches of Love frame dies and adhered it to the shaker part. The stamped image I used is from the new Key to Kindness stamp set which is one of my faves, the florals in the set are so whimsical and pretty. I coloured the image with my Copic markers and fussy cut it out. I then heat embossed the sentiment from the new Only You sentiment set onto a strip of grey cardstock and added the pink die cut 'you' (die cut with For You die set). For the background, I used patterned paper from the paper pad Beau Jardins.

I'm entering my card to the following challenges:
* Penny Black Saturday Challenge: December - Anything Goes, Optional 'Sparkle and Shine'
* Watercooler Wednesday Challenge: WWC252 - Anything Goes
* Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Something New (new stamps and dies)

 All stamps and dies used are by Penny Black and available in their online store:
* Key to Kindness (30-665)
* Only You (30-666)
* Stitches of Love (51-597)
* For You (51-105)
* Beau Jardins (80-011)
* Gentle Whisper (80-008)

Uusi kortti uusilla Penny Black -tuotteilla, feikki-shaker-kortti tällä kertaa. Feikki siinä mielessä, että en käyttänyt tähän kohotarroja tms vaan pientä sellofaanipussia, johon laitoin palasen kuviopaperia Gentle Whisper -paperikosta ja paljetit sinne sisään. Helppoa ja nopeaa! Kehyksen stanssasin Stitches of Love -setin stansseilla. Leima, jota käytin on ihanasta Key to Kindness -setistä, väritin sen Copiceilla ja leikkasin irti. Tekstileiman Only You -setistä embossasin harmaalle kartonkipalaselle ja lisäsin stanssatun 'you:n' (For You -stanssisetillä stanssattu). Taustalle hieman kuviopaperia Beau Jardins -paperikosta. Kaikki käytetyt tuotteet ovat Penny Blackin ja saatavilla nettikaupastaan, linkit yllä.