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Sunday, February 17, 2019

CAS Game #134 - One Corner + Music

Hi! Welcome to our new challenge!

For the next fortnight we're flagging up another useful tip for creating CAS cards and we'd like you to use only ONE CORNER of the card front for your image and greeting.

We've added in the optional twist of music. It's optional because we know just making a CAS card is enough of a challenge for many but if you like to add to the difficulty then please go with it!

We'll pick a top winner and some runners up!

It could be you!

Our sponsor this fortnight is Uniko.
The winner will be able to pick an in-stock stamp set of their choice from the wide range available at Uniko.

Thank you Uniko!

As well as the 1st place prize from our sponsor we also offer the winner the chance to be a Guest Designer for a future AAA Cards Challenge.

Our Guest Designer for this challenge is Karen and she has created the most awesome card to share with you.

Loving the crisp clean feel of Karen's card and all that lovely empty, smooth and unpatterned white space. Do go visit her blog to discover all the other beautiful cards she has created.

All the AAA Cards DT have made CAS cards to inspire you. It would be lovely if you visited our blogs and left us some love too!

Åsa

Bharati

Ceal

Cheryl

Elaine

Ishani
(using sponsor stencil & stamp)

Jane
(using sponsor stamps)

Ksenija
~coming soon~

Lucie

Maaike
(with a video on her blog)

Tracie

We're looking forward to seeing your CAS cards fill our gallery. Just remember here at AAA Cards we love empty, non patterned smooth white space.

An InLinkz Link-up

Sunday, February 10, 2019

The Winners Circle #132: Up to One Third + Masking

I'm kicking off today's post with the random pick winner of the giveaway to say thank you for helping us reach 500 followers here on the challenge blog.

The winner of this Clearly Besotted stamp and matching die set is:

Liz Cavill

Please contact Jane with your details to claim your prize - aaacardchallenge@gmail.com

And now it's time to showcase our fabulous prize winner and runners up for Game # 132

Thank you for all your gorgeous cards, our gallery was filled with the

most beautiful cards and we had a tough time picking our favourites.

But it had to be done so here we go:

1st place

and winner of a CAS-ual Fridays $25 gift certificate is:

#56 Aleksa

A perfect placement of a home made stencil using masking to ensure only one third of the card was coloured. We also loved the beautiful pastel colours and empty, unpatterned and flat smooth white space.

Congratulations Aleksa,
please contact Jane with your details - aaacardchallenge@gmail.com

Top Three

In order of entry

#25 Maria F

We loved the stamp choice that allowed for plenty of colour and plenty of faux texture without impinging on the CAS requirement of our challenges. Once again loads of empty, unpatterned and flat smooth white space.

#93 Bobby

This stamp set was made for our challenge! It automatically only used one third of the card front, but allowed for a rainbow of bright colours and lots of empty, unpatterned, flat smooth white space.

#100 Nananas

The use of this die adds extra interest and dimension without compromising the empty, unpatterned flat smooth white space. We loved the placement and blend of pretty colours peeping through.

Congratulations to you all, please grab our winners badge to display on your blogs.

Our current Challenge #133 is One Layer + the optional twist of Love and there is still plenty of time to get your entries in.

We'd love to see how you interpret this theme and come visit your blogs,

so don't delay, get crafting!

Peace and hugs

The AAA Cards DT

Sunday, February 3, 2019

CAS Game #133 - One Layer + Love

STOP PRESS
Yay! We've made it to 500 followers on this blog. Thank you all so much! To say thank you there will be a random draw of one of our followers for a small prize on the next winners post - 10th February.

Hey!

Today we've a brand new challenge starting and the theme is that very popular and favourite of CAS card makers - One Layer.

And since it's that time of year when Valentine's Day cards are everywhere we've added in the extra twist of LOVE.

We'll pick a top winner and some runners up!

It could be you!

Our sponsor this fortnight is STAMPlorations and the prize is a $25 gift code to their shop.

Shery from STAMPlorations has made this fabulous, sunny and cheery card with STAMPlorations goodies to inspire you to play along.

Shery

Thank you Shery and STAMPlorations

As well as the 1st place prize from our sponsor we also offer the winner the chance to be a Guest Designer for a future AAA Cards Challenge.

We are delighted to welcome Mac Mable as our Guest designer for this challenge. Her cards are just outstanding and her blog is a wealth of inspiration and ideas for using different techniques. Go give her some love!

All the AAA Cards DT have made CAS cards to inspire you. It would be lovely if you visited our blogs and left us some love too!

Tracie

Åsa

Bharati

Ceal

Cheryl

Elaine
(using sponsor stamps)

Ishani

Jane
(using sponsor stamps)

Ksenija
~taking a break~

Lucie

Maaike
(video on her blog)

We're looking forward to seeing your CAS cards fill our gallery. Just remember here at AAA Cards we love empty, non patterned white space.

An InLinkz Link-up

Sunday, January 27, 2019

The Winners Circle #131: Sketch + Pastels

It's time to showcase our fabulous prize winner and runners up for Game # 131

Thank you for all your gorgeous cards. We were so impressed by how you took our simple little sketch and created so many variations with it. An extra thank you to those of you that joined in with our just for fun twist of pastel colours. Our gallery was filled with the

most beautiful cards and we had a tough time picking our favourites.

Here's our picks:

1st place

and winner of a Happy Little Stampers SMILE stamp set is:
Janet Swanlady

Such amazing blending of those pastel colours and the sweet addition of simple flowers is just perfect. Love the stitched detail of the strips that adds extra without compromising the CASness of this card.

Congratulations Janet,
please contact Jane with your details - aaacardchallenge@gmail.com

Top Three

In order of entry

#36 Hannelie

A pretty ombre selection of pinks and the boldness of the black die cut sentiment really caught our eye. We loved how the empty white space was just left as empty white space!

#43 Izzy

Beautiful pastel wavy stripes and an inlaid die cut sentiment makes this card a perfect example of what we were looking for. Once again plenty of empty white space.

#47 Bobby

We loved how this card turned the sketch and the flowers were so perfect for the stripes. The addition of a die cut greeting across the bottom still allowed for plenty of empty white space and you know we love that at AAA Cards.

Congratulations to you all, please grab our winners badge to display on your blogs.

Our current Challenge #132 is Up to One Third + Masking and there is still plenty of time to get your entries in.

We'd love to see how you interpret this theme and come visit your blogs,

so don't delay, get crafting!

Peace and hugs

The AAA Cards DT

Sunday, January 20, 2019

CAS Game #132 - Up To One Third + Masking

Hey! Welcome to the new challenge here at AAA Cards.

We have another helpful CAS theme this fortnight - we'd like you to only use one third of your card for images and greetings.

Less than one third would be fine too, but one third should be the maximum. This of course means leaving two thirds of your card completely empty - that lovely 'white' space needed for CAS cards.

We'll pick a top winner and some runners up!

It could be you!

Our sponsor this fortnight is CAS-ual Fridays for a $25 gift certificate to their shop.

Thank you CAS-ual Fridays

As well as the 1st place prize from our sponsor we also offer the winner the chance to be a Guest Designer for a future AAA Cards Challenge.

Our Guest Designer for this challenge is Julie B. Julie has kindly stepped in to GD with us when we had a little gap in GD dates. She has the most gorgeous card which I know you'll going to want to discover the creation details about. Go visit her blog - HERE.