This week’s theme at AAA Cards blog is quite broad. So broad, it’s almost universal. We want to see your clean and simple cards featuring skies, planets or galaxies. I considered blatant advertising by using a chocolate bar wrapper on my card but thought better of it and raided my stash instead. Here’s my design team card for the challenge…

I started by stamping and heat embossing the planet image. I then coloured the inside bits with thinned metallic acrylics – letting them dry briefly and wiping the paint off the heat-embossed areas before it fully dried. I designed the sentiment circle to fit and mounted it on foam pads for a bit of dimension.

Used for my planets card

• Impression Obsession Rubber Stamps / Seth Apter: Planetarium [3186-LG]
• Versamark ink pad
• Woodware Magic Anti-static Pad
• WOW! Embossing Powder: Metallic Gold Rich (Regular)
• DecoArt Extreme Sheen Metallic Paint: Sapphire / Pink Tourmaline
• Sentiment strip laser-engraved and cut from 300gsm white card
• 5×7″ card blank

***BREAKING NEWS***

AAA Cards are having a DT call!

We’re looking for a few new Design Team members to start in January 2024.

If you like making CAS cards as we know them and would like to be on our team, then make a card for this and the next challenge and put DT after your name.

Our definition of CAS is:

• Minimal noise
• One focus image/point
• Minimal or no layers (max 3)
• Minimal or no embellishments
• Maximum empty space (empty/white space means no textured cardbase)

The DT call will wrap up with the next challenge. There’s no monetary reward, just your chance to showcase your work and build your name, we all do it because we love it.

The current Admin and DT will choose the players to be featured (‘winners’) from entries to the challenges. You should have a FB account as we handle most things DT on FB (chat and upload photos). A blog is handy for scheduling posts, but not a must, just preferred, as our challenges go live at 8AM UK time. As we welcome DT members from all over the World, your time zone might not be the easiest to go live at the right time. If you have an IG or FB business account you can schedule posts. Also, it’s important to comment positively on entries from players. You will have a column to comment on. This is most important as we rely on our players for the challenge to exist.

We would like to invite new DT members from November 1st so you have time to work on the challenges. We’ve already published the challenges for 2024 so everyone can work ahead – it’s important to be able to stick to deadlines.