AAA Cards Challenge #166 – Happy Birthday

Hello, and welcome to my blog! AAA Cards Blog is celebrating its 6th birthday!!!🎉🎉🎉 And so, the theme for challenge #166 is Birthday bash!!!🎉🎉🎉 We hope you join this celebration with your lovely clean and simple birthday cards.

We have the talented Sofie as our Guest Designer for this challenge. Click here to see her stunning card.

Since I moved to Hong Kong, I have witnessed another form of a “tea party”. People here love to meet their friends and families and eat dim sums. They say, let’s go yum cha (飲茶), the literal translation of which in English is ‘drink tea’. It refers to the act of drinking Chinese tea and eating dim sums together. There are so many different snacks served at these dim sum restaurants, and all of them are exceptionally good. To give you an idea of this party, I have posted a picture below that I had clicked when my friends and I had gone out for a sumptuous dim sum lunch.

I know you are probably craving for dim sums now, don’t you agree they look so delicious? I absolutely love dim sums, and I couldn’t think of a better way to celebrate AAA Challenge Blog’s birthday than having a dim sum party! And so, that is the theme of my card.

Whenever any scene, like this one, has a lot of images, I start by trying out different combinations by stamping the images on a piece of printer paper. Once I am happy with the placement of the images, I stamp them on a sheet of masking paper and fussy cut them. After that, I stamp the images in the foreground first, mask them and then stamp the images in the background.

The images I have used in this card are from the Dim Sum Fun Stamp Set by Mama Elephant, and I stamped them on an A2 cardstock using Memento Black ink. I then unmasked the images and used my Copic Markers to colour them.

Below are the colours I used:
Dim Sums – E00, E0000, 0, N2, YR09, YR04, Y17, Y15, Y08, Y02, Y0000
Bamboo Baskets – E18, E17, E15, E13, E11, E000
Teapot – N5, N3, N2, N0, 0, R27
Teacups and plate – N5, N3, N2, N0, 0, E37, E35, E31
Chopsticks – E37, E35, E31
Shadow – C2, C00, 0

Next, I stamped the sentiment from the same stamp set using Obsidian Pigment Ink. As the final step, I stuck this panel on an A2 card base.

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