Hello Winter

Hi everyone!

ATC Around the World is looking for Winter Birds.

Here's what I came up with.

There was that sheet of paper from a failed alcohol ink experiment that had been lying around in my stash ages. I almost threw it away, but I kept thinking that maybe it would be useful for something someday. 

While rummaging around for the winter bird challenge, my gaze fell on the messed-up sheet again. I immediately noticed that the blue spots looked like birds! So the idea was to stamp birds on the spots, and I found two matching ones right away!

I colored a few areas, such as the wings, bellies, and beaks, with acrylic paints and alcohol ink markers. Colored the lower part of the ATC with white acrylic paint to depict snow. Stamped small dots on the right edge and then splattered white ink onto the ATC.

Finally, I stamped the word “Winter” and tore it along the outline. I wanted it to look like a big, fluffy snowflake. LOL  I glued it on and then stamped the word “Hello” on top.

Can you see the two birds too?

Thanks for stopping by! 

Linked up with:

ATC Around the World - Winter Birds

Allsorts - Create your own Background

Crafty Animals - Anything Goes, but must include an animal

Tag-Along (and ATC's) - Anything Goes

A Place to Start - Small Critters

We Love to create Mixed Media - Anything Mixed Media/paper crafting Goes

Craft Galore Encore - Anything Goes

Love To Craft - Anything Goes

I used:

Stamps: Birds (Jane's Doodles); Winter and dots (Katzelkraft); Hello (Stampin'Up);

Ink: Jet Black (StazOn);

Alcohol inks, alcohol ink markers, acrylic paint pens,

Lily made of wood

Hi everyone!

Today I have something completely different to share with you!

I got a 3D wooden puzzle for Christmas. 

Now that it's finished, I'd like to show you how beautiful this lily made of wood has turned out.

The puzzle includes a few extra pieces to extend the stem of the lily. So you can put the flower in a normal vase.

The opened lily is even articulated at the base of the flower. This means it can be bent into different positions.

The bottom part of the packaging has a very pretty floral design. 

I think this could be recycled into something beautiful.

Thanks for stopping by!

Ruff Day!

Hi everyone!

Time for a new challenge at 613 Avenue Create! 

The theme is: Animal Magic  

(create something featuring your pet or favorite animal)

Alternately "Anything Goes"

I love animals, and as babies, they're even more adorable and simply irresistible.

When my eyes fell on this very old image, I knew instantly what I wanted to do with it.

The picture was part of a set of images for a 3D card I made a long time ago for my dear aunt, 

who loves dogs more than anything.

The little puppy was the only thing left from the set, and today, over ten years later, 

it has finally found its place on an ATC.

The pink background was, in my opinion, a little too dominant—even though I love that color! 

So, I added hearts with texture paste, stars with a stencil, and some bits of washi tape. I think that gave the picture a nice balance. 

Finally, I embossed a short sentiment, cut it out, and glued it onto the ATC.

Hope to see you play along with 613 Avenue Create 

Have Fun! 

...and thanks for stopping by!

Linked up with:

We Love Stamping - Hearts or Anything Goes

Alphbet Challenge Blog - T is for Texture

Tag-along (and ATC's) - Add a Number or Anything Goes

Allsorts - Create your Own Background or Anything Goes

Stamping Sensations - Favorite Stamps or Anything Goes

We Love to Create mixed media - Anything Mixed Media/paper crafting Goes

I used:

Stamps: Sentiment (Crackerbox & Suzy Stamps); 

Ink: Picked Raspberry

Stencil: Hearts (Scrap Plaisir); stars (Craft Sensations);

Washi tape, Image, Versamark, texture paste, embossing powder,

...hanging out with you

Hi everyone!

We're heading into the second half of our current Dream Factory challenge, and I would like to briefly remind you about it.

 

Love Actally

Love, Hearts, and/or Valentine's Day

The movie poster inspired me to create the pattern in the heart - luckily, I had a suitable stencil. 

I punched out a large heart. From this, I punched out a smaller one. I slightly shifted the two hearts and glued them together. Stamped the cat, cut it out, and glued it onto the hearts. 

I splattered black ink onto a blank card and glued the hearts and cat onto it. Punched out a very small heart from red glitter cardstock, glued it to the cat's paws, and finally stamped the sentiment.

Movie Poster

Thanks for stopping by.

And maybe you'd like to join us...

Linked up with:

Cut It Up - My Heart

Crazy is our Frame - Stencils are our Game - Use a Stencil w. opt. theme: Anything with Four Legs

Shopping our Stash - Love Me Do

Try it on Tuesday - Add some Text

Creative Knockouts - Something to Say

Addicted to Stamps and More - Any Occasion

I used:

Stamps: Cat and sentiment (Stampin'Up); 

Inks: Onyx Black (Versafine); Barn Door (Distress ink);

Dies: Scrap Plaisir

Stencil: Craft Sensations

Red glitter cardstock, black ink,

Here We Go !!

Hi everyone!

Today I would like to draw your attention to a new challenge blog!

My friend Conny and I have been playing around with the idea 

of creating a challenge blog together for some time now. 

Our baby is finally born! 

Its name: “The Little Things.”

As the name suggests, this blog is about little things. But not just any little things—no, 

our challenges focus on small or very small card shapes!

For example: 

ATCs, Memory Dex cards, tags, bookmarks, Mini Moo cards, inchies, etc. 

In short: anything smaller than a normal card is okay!

Our first challenge begins on February 10, just two weeks from now!

Until then, you can get familiar with these different card shapes ;))

Here are a few links to some small things I've made over time. 

Maybe I can inspire you...

ATC's 

Best Friends

Fly with Me

A Wheely Good Friend

When life gives you Lemons

ATC coins

Foodprints 

Kiss that Frog

Mini Moo cards

Happt Easter

Just one Smooch

To the Moon and Back

Meow

Tags and bookmarks

Beware

Find your Wild

Lots of Kisses

Kindness and Love

Mushrooms

Just Go

OH LA LA

April

Normal People scare me

Thanks for watching! 

♥♥♥ 

See you soon! :))

Hello Winter

Hi everyone!

Even though it may seem that way, winter isn't over yet! 

Full of joy, the little boy slides down the snowy slope on his sled. 

I created him using the paper piecing technique. 

This means that you stamp the image onto different design papers, cut them out, and then put them together. So there's no need for coloring. Of course, you can add a few color accents here and there, as I did with the cap and face, but most of the time it's is not necessary.

This technique is also a great way to use up some leftover paper! ;)

The sled is die-cut from a piece of kraft cardstock that contained a few spots of melted embossing powder. The snow slopes are made of glitter cardstock, the edges of which I painted with a blue glitter pen.

Linked up with:

52 Christmas card Throwdown - Winter Sports

Make My Monday - Use Paper with Pattern

Allsorts - For Boys or Men

A Cut Above - Anything Goes with at least one die cut 

ABC Christmas - 'A is for Anything Christmas' & 'B is for Bright'

We Love Stamping - Something New (All the stamps on my card are new)

A Place to Start - Anything Goes

I used:

Stamps: Boy, firs and sentiment (AALL&Create); 

Inks: Onyx Black (Versafine); Tumbled Glass (Distres ink);

Dies: Sled (Card Deco Essentiels);

White glitter cardstock, blue glitter pen, alcohol ink markers,

Merry Christmas

Hi everyone!

Today, I'm having fun with the Christmas theme because I need to replenish my stash, which is getting seriously low. - I have had little inspiration to create Christmas cards during the last two years. I think I simply overdosed on these cards and needed to take a long, long break.

I stamped the image (Crafty Individualis) with Tranquil Tide (Stampin'Up) onto a strip of kraft cardstock. Redrew the pine cone with a black fineliner, then colored the image with colored pencils. Stamped the sentiment (Penny Black) on a blank card using Early Espresso (Stampin'Up). Added gold splatters to the top. Backed the image with die-cut glitter cardstock and glued it onto the card.

Thanks for stopping by!

Linked up with:

52 Christmas card Throwdown - Kraft-Green-Gold

Just Us Girls - Moodboard Week

Creative Knockouts - Something To Say

Ellibelle's Garden Party - Anything in or from a Garden

CRAFT - Anything Goes

A Place to Start - Anything Goes

I used:

Stamps: Sentiment (Penny Black); image (Crafty Individualis); 

Inks: Tranquil Tide and Early Espresso (Stampin'Up); 

Dies: Craft Sensations

Gold glitter cardstock, Kraft cardstock, colored pencils, white Posca pen, gold liquid ink,

Grand comme ça!

Hi everyone!

Time for a new challenge at the Dream Factory

Our movie for this month is:

Love Actually

It's actually a Christmas love story,  

but we're using it for our first challenge of the year.

So, for the next 4 weeks, 

it's all about 

Love, Hearts, and/or Valentine's Day!

I'm not really a fan of Valentine's Day, but once a year I can convince myself! Haha 

The background of my card is dry-embossed with small arrows and hearts -- hard to see, but it is! 

I added a strip of washi tape under the frog's feet als well. 

Frog and hearts are colored with alcohol ink markers and aqua markers, cut out and glued on.

The sentiment says: I Love you this much!

Movie Poster

Linked up with:

Shopping Our Stash - Out with the Old & In with the New (NEW: Hearts, sentiment, embossing folder OLD: Frog and washi tape)

Crafty Animals - Anything Goes, but you must Include an Animal

Paper Rocks Scissors - Anything Goes as long as you use Paper and/or Scissors!

Crafts Galore Encore - Anything Goes

A Place to Start - Anything Goes

I used:

Stamps: Frog (Katzelkraft); hearts (Polkadoodles); sentiment (Azza);

Inks: Onyx Black (Versafine); Picked Raspberry (Distress Oxide);

Embossing: Dutch Crafts

Alcohol ink markers, Aqua markers,