Challenge 30 - Aifactory

How is everyone today, thanks for dropping in to see what the Aifactory has been doing this week.

I hope everyone has been to visit the new look Forum's and challenge blog!

We have all noticed that the challenges are not really getting much attention so.. put your hands up and tell us what needs to be done to get people to play along!

For one thing, the Challenge blog is back on blogspot where it is simple to find and for all to participate in!

Last weeks challenge was Easel cards which I absolutely loved and as a friend noted in her comments.. yes they are certainly addictive!

This week is 

Anything goes

The challenge for this week is going to be Anything Goes ~
you can create anything your heart desire

that means absolutely NO excuse for lack of participation!

The Design Team were given some beautiful flourish's to play with, and I finally learnt one new thing about photoshop..I really need to learn that program!~  After I created my project I sat there playing with my flourish's and found out that I can colour them and rainbow them and just entertain myself for hours!   I will have to show you girls what I did after I post this card.

 

Aren't they lovely.  Now don't panic if you dont have photo editing software, these images can be printed a is or manipulated in WORD or similar programs.   

I decided to dig out my Rub on's paper and run it through the printer to create flourish rub on's which I then used on my project.

The flourishes give this particular card an asian feel, I think that happened due to the colour combination i used.  I quite like the finished product!  I used the freebie image from the Aivault (Clearly Delightful) and played a little with some techniques that are new to me.

I have always wondered how other cardmakers get the shading on their die cut backgrounds.. and I found a blog that showed how (have to find the link later) but it was simply a matter of using the nestability die as a mask.. how simple!  I sponged the yellow behind the bird and then I used my Stampin up stamp pad to colour the bird with an Aqua brush.  It literally took seconds and it was a nice change from Copics.

We would love to see as many people participating this week, so get creative and make your easels

pop over to the challenge blog and link up your creations so we can come  and visit you.

If you would like some freebies to play with jump over to the Aifactory Vault where there is now 2 pages of free products to play with.  

Don't forget to showcase your projects so others can enjoy them, and comment

Papercraft Planet, AIFactory, Splitcoast Stampers, SNR Card Universe

if you tag your project with AIF030, or Aifactory 30 it will make it easier for us to find your projects.

The DT team was given a challenge of participating in as many challenge blogs as possible this week!  So here goes.  If you can think of any others that I missed, dont hesitate to let me know! 

To clarify some of these challenge entries.. I feel my bird is very "springy" as in he looks like he just hatched!  And the flowers are springy too.

 Easter is in the sentiment and the bird (ie.. little chicken that is placed on top of easter baskets)

Raise the bar - April Food (a technique you dont normally use)

Sew Many Challenges - Lets punch it

Stampin for the weekend - Easter

Lexicreation - Easter

Magical Crafts - Easter/Spring

Christian Paper Crafts

bling, buttons and butterflies

Curtain Call - Stampin with Stacey - Red, Pink, Yellow and Black  

Act 22 which has now closed :(

Dare you to Digistamp - Easter

Friday Sketches - Sketch

Fussy and Fancy - Easter

If the shoe fits - going green (RECYCLE)

my butterfly is punched from an old birthday card (and i missed the cut off)

Abc challenge - R is for RED

Wednesday Challenge - Spring Bling  

(I think my bird is spring as are the flowers everywhere)

Crafty Creations - Anything goes

Fun for Challenges - Anything goes

Little Red Wagon - rolling into spring

Stampin Royalty - Easter Theme

Nutshell -easter/spring

Pixie Cottage - Circles

Stampotique Designs - Hippity Hoppity Easter

I think your meant to use their stamps though.. :(

Everybody Art Challenge - Spring

Papertake Weekly - open theme

Scrap Creations - Easter

Roses on Paper - Punch it

Squigglefly - Flower power

Corrosive Challenges - Easter

Pile it on - Animal Riffic

Annes Creative Nook - Anything that represents Easter

Quirky Crafts - Flowers

No time to stamp - Easter

Paper Play - Easter

Charisma Cardz - Spring has sprung (missed the cut off)

Practical Scrappers

use something you have owned for over a year (punches)

Incy Wincy = Easter or Spring

Pollycraft - Sparkly Things

Sisterhood of Scraps - use whatever scraps are on your tables

I loved this challenge as I have a box of scraps on my table in front of where I craft.. and most of my card came from that box!

Stamp with Fun - Easter

Creative Card Crew - going dotty

my embossed background (missed the cut off)

Digital Tuesday - happy spring

CRAFT Easter

and ofcourse..

AIFACTORY Anything goes

as you can see I missed the cut off for some of these.. I left the links up though so people can click on the blogs to see what the next challenge is!

Have fun playing everyone