Thursday, February 27, 2014

AEI♥︎U #1 + RIC#54 & Cardstock Comparisons

Avery Elle has a new blog for the AEI♥︎U Challenge and Challenge #1: Birthdays is happening now. I created this card using stamps from several Avery Elle sets and taking my color palette from the Runway Inspired Challenge #54.








I took the Happy Birthday stamp from Simply Tags: Everyday and stamped it multipe times to create the background panel framed by the Oh Yeah die (the red image was stamped first to get it in the right spot).

The small speech bubbles are inked after being stamped and heat embossed with sentiments from Thanks a Bunch and To The Point stamp sets. 




The main panel is cut slightly narrower than the card base so that a sliver of Harvest Gold shows on each side.

I want to give a huge thank you to a couple of bloggers that have provided a great service to their fellow papercrafters!

About a month ago Kara at KandRdesigns had a great post comparing white cardstocks - as you can see, she covers quality, weight, price & color. Well, Heather, from Housesbuiltofcards, was inspired by Kara's post and took it a step further. A picture is truly worth a thousand words when you are trying to find the exact right shade of green (or blue, or red, or pink, etc.) and Heather has given us those pictures in this fantastic post.

Now, in the interest of full disclosure, I won Heather's cardstock giveaway, but my linking to her post is only because I don't want anyone to miss this terrific information.

Thanks for stopping by,

Jacquie


13 comments:

  1. congrats to you on winning that cardstock! you're right, that was a great post!

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  2. I love the repeated image in the background. Thanks for sharing the link. It was great to see all the colors of cardstock in one place.

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  3. This is such a cool card. I am a big fan of making backgrounds, and I love how you created this one. Thanks for the link, it's dry helpful.

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  4. FABULOUS take on the challenge! The bright and colorful speech bubbles are so perfect for this design! So glad that you join the fun with us at Runway Inspired Challenge!

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  5. Love your card, Jacquie!! The bg is so neat and the speech bubbles give the perfect finishing touches. Great card!

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  6. Fabulous card, and thanks for the link to that card stock review. It was quite interesting.

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  7. fantastic card! I really like your colour combination! Thank you for joining us at the AE blog!

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  8. Fun card, Jacquie! Love all those speech bubble and how you emphasized one sentiment in RED! Thanks for joining the inaugural AE Challenge!

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  9. What a fun card Jacquie! Thanks so much for the link-back - and congrats again on the cardstock win!

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  10. Love the big convo bubble and the little ones anchored to it! What a great idea! Thanks for playing along with Avery Elle.

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  11. Those speech bubbles are so much fun! Thank you for joining us on the Runway!

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  12. Oh my goodness - this is so stinkin' cute and clever, Jacquie!! I love how you stamped the Happy Birthday sentiment in the background of the die cut word bubble, and then added the perfectly placed pops of color!! Brilliant!! Thanks so much for playing with us at the Avery Elle Challenge - we're so glad you did!!

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