~ AAA Birthday Challenge #71 Masculine Birthday Cards 🧔🥳🎂

 Hello my crafty friends,

Hope you are doing well. I'm back with simple inspiration for AAA Birthday Challenge #71 - Masculine Cards ☺️

I chose to make a simple birthday card for Dad 🤩

I used a background Stampset, Happy Birthday Die & a pattern paper from MFT for today's card !! 

It's a simple self explanatory card as I played with colors from pattern paper & die 😊 I hope you like my card inspiration and if you would like to play along with current challenge please head over to AAA Birthday Challenge Blog and get inspired by my fellow crafters to play along :) 

Do let me know how it has turned out in the comments below 👇🤗 also if you are interested in such card inspirations please do follow me here and on my Instagram page - Papiershades 

Supplies used - 

Happy Birthday Script Die - MFT

Father Figures Background Stampset - MFT 

Just Delightful Stamps & Die-namics - Pattern Paper

Thank you for stopping by here 😃

Love,

Deekshita ❤️ 

~ AAA Birthday Challenge #70 Ink Smooshing - Tweet Birdie Birthday 🎂 🤩

 Hola Friends,

Hope you are doing well and here we are in the love month of the year already 🤗 💕 

New month comes with new inspiration, & here it is a new challenge at AAA Birthday Card Challenge # 70 - Ink smooshing 🎨

In today's card I have made a simple yet beautiful background using a technique called Ink Smooshing 🤩 

Have you tried this technique?! I chose a watercolor paper for the same and distress inks as colors. Cardstock was prepped for wet on technique and inks on the plastic wrapping paper. Smooshed some inks with sprayed water and transferred the inks to paper by dabbing them. 

Used prepared ink- smooshed background for die cutting the word - Birthday and used black cardstock to highlight the same !! Colored few critters using alcohol markers and adhered them to the card panel using foam square. 

This panel was later pasted to white A2 cardstock. 

Some close up pics of the card below 👇 

I hope you like my card inspiration and if you would like to play along with current challenge please head over to AAA Birthday Challenge Blog and get inspired by my fellow crafters to play along :) 

Do let me know how it has turned out in the comments below 👇🤗 also if you are interested in such card inspirations please do follow me here and on my Instagram page - Papiershades 

Supplies used - 

Elphie Selfie Stampset from Lawn fawn 

Scripty Birthday Die from Lawn fawn 

Distress inks - Picked Raspberry, Tumbled glass , Crushed olive , Wilted Violet , Spiced Marmalade, Squeezed Lemonade , Shaded Lilac , Candied Apple 

Thank you for stopping by here 😃

Love,

Deekshita ❤️

~ AAA Birthday Challenge #68 - Lovely Layers 💌

 Hiii my crafty friends,

Hope you are doing well and here we are in the last month of the year already!!! 🤗 

New month comes with new inspiration, & here it is a new challenge at AAA Birthday Card Challenge #68 - Lovely layers 😉 

My take is a very simple shaker birthday card which makes recipient happy and feels like kid again' 😆

Self explanatory card - Here I have used pattern paper & large die from lawn fawn. 

Inlaid Happy Birthday diecut with the pattern paper and shaker window beneath it. To add a little shine used a diecut in glitter paper and placed everything on the A2 top folding base card !! And that's it :) 

Supplies used from Lawn fawn : 

Pattern paper - Perfectly Plaid Fall collection 

Die - Gaint Happy Birthday 

I hope you like my card inspiration and if you would like to play along with current challenge please head over to AAA Birthday Challenge Blog and get inspired by my fellow crafters to play along :) 

Do let me know how it has turned out in the comments below 👇🤗 also if you are interested in such card inspirations please do follow me here and on my Instagram page - Papiershades 

Thank you for stopping by here 😃

Love,

Deekshita ❤️

~ AAA Birthday Challenge #67 - Favourite Image 🖼️

 Hello my crafty friends, 

How are you all ?! I hope you are doing great 😃 It's November already!! And here in India we are lined up with festivals. We celebrated Navaratri, now followed by Deepawali 🪔 We look forward to this to celebrate with our families & loved ones 🤩 

Coming to today's inspiration I'm back to share a simple card that's made for AAA Birthday Challenge #67 Favourite Image 🖼️😃

My take is as simple as that - 

I chose few colors to make background of my own. On an A2 sized cardstock I made an abstract design using alcohol markers and filled them later stamped an floral image on that with Black ops Versafine Onyx. 

Added few faux splatters using black pen 🙈 Sentiment strip is again handwritten 😊  I chose this image as I wanted to give a silhouette effect on my card and added my own touch 🤩

Supplies used :

Stampset - Better Together stampset from Gina K designs

I hope you like my card inspiration and if you would like to play along with current challenge please head over to AAA Birthday Challenge Blog and get inspired by my fellow crafters to play along :) 

Do let me know how it has turned out in the comments below 👇🤗 also if you are interested in such card inspirations please do follow me here and on my Instagram page - Papiershades 

Thank you for stopping by here 😃

Love,

Deekshita ❤️

~ AAA Birthday Challenge #66 Circle Shaped ⭕🎂💌

 Hello there crafty buddies,

To all my lovely crafty friends, How have you been ?! Hope you all are enjoying your last days of summer and welcoming fall season 🍁🍂 

I enjoyed with family and friends as we had a wedding in the house (most awaited one 💕) and took a small break from crafting. But its time to gear up and finish half done projects to get back that memento 🤗 Isn't it ?!

How often you have made shaped cards ?!

I love to create cards with different shapes and my favourite is circle shaped card 🤩 If you are wondering why I'm asking this ?! Because we have new theme at AAA Birthday Challenge #66 Circle Shaped Card. 

It means -  your card should be a circle shape, not just a card with circles on it. 

Today's inspiration is as simple as that, and self explanatory too !! I have used a pattern paper & plain cardstock for the base and used a coloured floral on top it. 

Took a black circle shaped cardstock and adhered pattern paper & plain white cardstock over it leaving a small spacing . I used alcohol markers to color my images. It was adhered to the base using foam squares to add a little dimension. 

Stamped a birthday sentiment on the plain area and added faux black dots using pointed pen (inspired by Carly Tee) Finished a card with sequins ✨

Supplies Used : 

Pattern Paper - MFT Feelin' Festive

Stamp - Waffle Flower Bouquet Builder 1

I hope you like my card inspiration and if you would like to play along with current challenge please head over to AAA Birthday Challenge Blog and get inspired by my fellow crafters to play along :) 

Do let me know how it has turned out in the comments below 👇🤗 also if you are interested in such card inspirations please do follow me here and on my Instagram page - Papiershades 

Thank you for stopping by here 😃

Love,

Deekshita ❤️

~ AAA Birthday Challenge #65 Background Focus 😊

 Hello my crafty buddies, 

Thank you so much for stopping by 🤗 I'm sorry for not in action here as wedding preparations of my BIL(much awaited 🙈) keeping me busy !!! 

Today I have inspiration for our monthly AAA Birthday Challenge 65 # Background Focus 👀

This card is self explanatory I chose to use a pattern paper from my stash and added a sentiment to finish of the card. 

Since it's mainly into background focus I chose this paper and kept it simple 🙈! Let me know in the comments how often do you pattern paper & only sentiment to make a card !! 

 I hope you like my card inspiration and if you would like to play along with current challenge please head over to AAA Birthday Challenge Blog and get inspired by my fellow crafters to play along :) 

Love,

Deekshita ❤️

~ AAA Birthday Challenge #63 Fabulous flowers

 
Hello 🤗 my crafty buddies, 

It's been a long time that I haven't showed up here !?! I took a small break as I needed it 😶 I missed my craftspace and was so happy to be back !! 

Today I have inspiration for our monthly AAA Birthday Challenge 63# Fabulous flowers 🌼 

I have used solid stamping technique for today's card. Stampset is from Indian brand called Mudra. Since the focal point should be on florals I tried to keep the background in subtle colour. 

Added few gold splatters and embossed sentiment. And of course few sequins ✨ I hope you like my card inspiration and if you would like to play along with current challenge please head over to AAA Birthday Challenge Blog and get inspired by my fellow crafters to play along :) 

Do let me know how it has turned out in the comments below 👇🤗 also if you are interested in such card inspirations please do follow me here and on my Instagram page - Papiershades 

Thank you for stopping by here 😃

Love,

Deekshita ❤️

~ AAA Birthday Challenge #59 - Geometric 💠🔺🔸🔶🔵⚪

 Hello my Crafty friends,

I'm back with simple card today that's made for AAA Birthday Challenge #59 - Geometric 

Here is my take on the same , I chose few colored cardstock and cut them in triangle shapes and adhered them to A2 card base. 

I'm using sentiment which is hand lettered and few sequins to finish off my card 🤩

I hope you like my card inspiration and if you would like to play along with current challenge please head over to AAA Birthday Challenge Blog and get inspired by my fellow crafters to play along :) 

Do let me know how it has turned out in the comments below 👇🤗 also if you are interested in such card inspirations please do follow me here and on my Instagram page - Papiershades 

Thank you for stopping by here 😃

Love,

Deekshita ❤️

~ AAA Birthday Challenge #57 Rainbow or Rainbow colors 🌈

 Hello my crafty friends!! 

Wishing you all a very Happy New Year 2024 🎊

Cheers to a new year! May the new year carry you one step in the direction of your wishes 🥰 

😇😊😍🎉🎊🎆 

New Year with new hopes , we are coming up with new challenge at AAA Birthday Challenge #57 i.e Rainbow or Rainbow colors 🌈 which would be cheerful to start a year with lovely rainbow inspired card 🤗

I chose to use a rainbow color inspired ink blended background for my card and Happy Birthday die to cut it and used negative space and adhered everything on white A2 card base. 

I hardly can't resist using sequins in my card projects 🙊 Lastly I added few sequins to add little interest to the card 🤩 

I hope you like my card inspiration and if you would like to play along with current challenge please head over to AAA Birthday Challenge Blog and get inspired by my fellow crafters to play along :) 

Do let me know how it has turned out in the comments below 👇🤗 also if you are interested in such card inspirations please do follow me here and on my Instagram page - Papiershades 

Thank you for stopping by here 😃

Love,

Deekshita ❤️

~ AAA Birthday Challenge #56 Add a Tag 🔖🎂🥳

 Hi my Crafty friends,

It's a last month of the year already !!!! Hope all are busy with preparation for Christmas already 🎄 🎁 

But today I have a new card that's made for AAA Birthday Challenge - 56 Add a Tag

I have attempted a masculine birthday card with tag attached. It was a quick card but choice of colours made it easily as I had a pattern paper that matched my colored lil guy 😊

Little guy is from the Scooby Mysteries stampset from Craftyscrappers and I colored him using alcohol markers. Sentiment & patterned paper was gifted by Jane from Janedoodles :) I have used rounded tag Punch from dress my craft. Lastly for the little bing the used few sequins here and there !! Viola it's ready:) 

I hope you like my card inspiration and if you would like to play along with current challenge please head over to AAA Birthday Challenge Blog and get inspired by my fellow crafters to play along :) 

Do let me know how it has turned out in the comments below 👇🤗 also if you are interested in such card inspirations please do follow me here and on my Instagram page - Papiershades 

Thank you for stopping by here 😃

Love,

Dee

kshita ❤️

~ AAA Birthday Challenge #55 Large Sentiment 💫

 Hi my Crafty friends,

Hope you're doing well !! I'm back with a new card that's made for AAA Birthday Challenge - 55 Large Sentiment

For today's card I have chosen die cut, critter and a sentiment 🤗 BIG die cut sentiment was coloured using pastel water wash technique. Added Fairy Pixie instead of letter 'I'. Sentiment birthday wishes was gold heat embossed. 

It's fun to combine large sentiments in the card and I loved using them in my card today!! Lastly I added few sequins to add little interest to the card 🤩 Sharing the close up look of the same. 

I hope you like my card inspiration and if you would like to play along with current challenge please head over to AAA Birthday Challenge Blog and get inspired by my fellow crafters to play along :) 

Supplies Used ,

MFT - BIG Birthday Wishes Die 

Tinker Birthday Stampset from Craftyscrappers

Birthday Wishes Sentiment from SSS 

Do let me know how it has turned out in the comments below 👇🤗 also if you are interested in such card inspirations please do follow me here and on my Instagram page - Papiershades 

Thank you for stopping by here 😃

Love,

Deekshita ❤️

~ AAA Birthday Challenge #54 Favourite Colors

 Hii Crafty friends,

I'm back with a new card for a new challenge at AAA Birthday Challenge - #54 Favourite Colors . 

I chose to make a galaxy themed card for today's card 🌌 as blue and pink are classic combo and I love the results of them using ink blending technique. 

I have stamped the image on neenah cardstock and coloured using alcohol markers. For the background have masked the area to do the ink blending. I have used the distress inks for the same. Some white ink splatters and water to lift inks. Sentiment was heat embossed on black piece of cardstock. Star sequins to finish it off ✨

I hope you like my card inspiration and if you would like to play along with current challenge please head over to AAA Birthday Challenge Blog and get inspired by my fellow crafters to play along :) 

Below is the closer look of the images !! 🥰

Supplies used 

MFT BB Space Explorer Stampset

Ranger distress inks in the shades of Blueprint Sketch, Chipped Sapphire, Picked Raspberry and Peacock Feathers.

Do let me know how it has turned out in the comments below 👇🤗 also if you are interested in such card inspirations please do follow me here and on my Instagram page - Papiershades 

Thank you for stopping by here 😃

Love,

Deekshita ❤️

Joining in for below challenges

MFT Sketch Challenge

MFT Color Challenge 

AAA Birthday Challenge - #52 Anything Birthday Goes 🥳🍰

Hi my crafty friends 🤗

Hope you are doing well ☺️ I'm back with inspiration project for AAA Birthday Challenge - #52 Anything Birthday Goes 🎂  

It's a simple yet colorful card inspiration for this month. I found a rubberstamp in my stash with the sentiment  " Let's Celebrate ". It was inked with ranger distress inks in the rainbow colors. 

Added few sequins in the same rainbow colors and this note card was matted on yellow cardstock. Below is the closer look of the project :) 

I hope you like my card inspiration and if you would like to play along with current challenge please head over to AAA Birthday Challenge Blog and get inspired by my fellow crafters to play along :) 

Supplies used 

Rubberstamp & ranger distress inks barn door, spiced marmalade , squeezed lemonade, cracked pistachio, tumbled glass, blueprint sketch & wilted violet 

Do let me know how it has turned out in the comments below 👇🤗 also if you are interested in such card inspirations please do follow me here and on my Instagram page - Papiershades 

Thank you for stopping by here 😃

Love,

Deekshita ❤️

AAA Birthday Challenge - #51 Butterflies 🦋

 Hello my crafty friends, 

Hope you are doing good 😊 We are enjoying the beautiful monsoon rains ☔🌦️ and I love to sip a coffee ☕ when it rains 😉 Let me know what you would like to do when it rains ?! 

Coming to my today's card inspiration for AAA Birthday Challenge - July  the theme for this month is Butterflies 🦋

I chose to make a CAS card with the current theme. 

Solid butterfly was stamped using the red dye ink and it's delicate lace overlay was stamped on the vellum using gold embossing powder. It was sticked to one another in the middle to add dimensions as wings. 

 And the rest is self explanatory, if you need any info get back to me :) 

Few golden pearl sequins were used to beautify the card 🤩❤️

     I hope you like my card inspiration and if you would like to play along with current challenge please head over to AAA Birthday Challenge Blog and get inspired by my fellow crafters to play along :) 

Supplies used 

Products used are MFT's Brilliant Butterflies Stampset and Magical Mandala die 

Do let me know how it has turned out in the comments below 👇🤗 also if you are interested in such card inspirations please do follow me here and on my Instagram page - Papiershades 

Thank you for stopping by here 😃

Love,

Deekshita ❤️

AAA Birthday Challenge - #50 Watercolors 🎨😍

 Hello my Crafty friends,

      Hope you are doing well 😊 Summer break is about to end in day or two and Miss A would be starting her school from next week!! She is having a Gala time with her little sisters 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩👯 

      I'm back with card inspiration that's made for AAA Birthday Challenge - #50 Watercolors 

     

        Watercolors is one of my most used medium and also the favourite one 🎨. For today's card I chose to make simple yet lovely and clean critter card with addition of pattern paper to add an extra bit to it  😄

      I stamped image on Canson watercolor paper with Versafine Onyx black ink and used zig clean markers to color them. Later I fussy cut the images leaving white space. I drew the clouds and grass for added interest and  gave a wash of blue and green hues. This was mounted on a pattern paper from MFT and then on the A2 size top folding card. 

Below is the close up look of the cute critters 😍

      I hope you like my card inspiration and if you would like to play along with current challenge please head over to AAA Birthday Challenge Blog and get inspired by my fellow crafters to play along :) We have Anagha as a guest designer for this month. I love how she pulls of color in every card and she captures them so beautifully. Thank you for joining us :) 

Supplies used 

Birth-Yay Stampset - My Favourite Things

Pattern Paper - My Favourite Things

Colouring Medium - Zig Clean Color Real Brushes 

Do let me know how it has turned out in the comments below 👇🤗 also if you are interested in such card inspirations please do follow me here and on my Instagram page - Papiershades 

Thank you for stopping by here 😃

Love,

Deekshita ❤️

AAA Birthday Challenge - #49 Balloons 🎈🎈

Hello my Crafty Friends,

         Hope you all are doing good !! Its a peek summer in Mangalore, and we are experiencing the heat waves. We have welcomed new born baby girl (niece) 🤩 She is keeping my day busy ☺️ and I'm very much excited to welcome her to my home and take good care of both my little sister and baby :) Miss A is enjoying every bit of it !!! 

          Coming to my today's card, we have a new challenge played at AAA Birthday Challenge #49 - Balloons 

I chose to make a shaped card with stencilling technique to depict the theme in the rainbow colours. Also handcut the balloon shape card :) 

Here is the close up look of the same 😍 Sentiments are heat embossed and the rest are ink blended :) 

I hope you like my card inspiration and if you would like to play along with current challenge please head over to AAA Birthday Challenge Blog and get inspired by my fellow crafters to play along :) 

Supplies used 

Confetti Background Stencil - Honeybee Stamps

Birthday Friends Stampset - Pretty Pink Posh

Party Balloons Stencil - Studio Katia

Do let me know how it has turned out in the comments below 👇🤗 also if you are interested in such card inspirations please do follow me on my Instagram page - Papiershades 

Thank you for stopping by here 😃

Love,

Deekshita ❤️

AAA Birthday Challenge - #48 Layer it Up ☺️

 Hello my Crafty friends,

Hope you are doing good !! I'm bit busy with personal front as family members health are on & off also summer break has started for Miss A and she keeps me busy.  

Today's card features the layer it up technique, that's played at AAA Birthday Challenge - #48 

This cue word ' Layer it Up' gives many dimensions. Rather than adding many layers to the card I chose to play with colours. I wanted to try the new coloring medium and used alcohol markers here for the first time and I'm very much happy about the results. 

To add layers beneath the colored roses, I stamped the continued part of the flower along with leaves and heat embossed with golden embossing powder. Adhered the colored roses and petals with and without foam pads to depict the layers. Some gold splatters and sequins to finish the card . 

Sharing the close-up look of the same 

I hope you like my card inspiration and if you would like to play along with current challenge please head over to AAA Birthday Challenge Blog and get inspired by my fellow crafters to play along :) 

Supplies used 

Stampset - You are incredible from Crafty Meraki 

Colouring Medium - Alcohol markers 

Do let me know how it has turned out in the comments below 👇🤗 also if you are interested in such card inspirations please do follow me on my Instagram page - Papiershades 

Thank you for stopping by here 😃

Love,

Deekshita ❤️

AAA Birthday Challenge - #47 Stripes/Dots

 Hello my Crafty friends, 

Hope you are doing well !! And it's March  already 🙈 and I witness the summer heat here. Hoping that sun would be gentle in coming days ahead here 😎🌸

I'm sharing a card little lately that's made for the AAA Birthday Challenge for the March - #47 Stripes / Dots 

I tried to capture the colors of spring in this card, took the cardstock stripes of 1/4th inch and adhered them on a square paper and then matted on copper mirror metallic cardstock . I struggled to capture the shine of the same in the pic below 🙈 

I kept it simple and clean this time. HB2U letters are die cuts several times and adhered  together along with a vellum. I wanted to add enamel dots but ended up using these mini florals which were made for other projects :)  

I hope you like my card inspiration and if you would like  to play along with current challenge please head over to AAA Birthday Challenge Blog and get inspired by my fellow crafters to play along :) We have Hannelie as a guest designer for this month. She is a Desert Diva and queen of CAS cards !!! I love how she pulls each and every single card with so much simplicity yet beautifully and elegancy :) 

 

Supplies Used  

Cardstocks - from Local Stores

HelloBlueBird -  Alpha & numeric dies

DMC dies - Ruffled roses and Five Pointed flowers 

Do let me know how it has turned out in the comments below 👇🤗 also if you are interested in such card inspirations please do follow me on my Instagram page - Papiershades 

Thank you for stopping by here 😃

Love,

Deekshita ❤️