Always bring your own sunshine

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.

 

Sweet Little Things

"Anything small-sized goes"

Small animals, small objects, small card sizes, small homemade gifts, etc. 

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I’d also like to remind you about the challenge on our new blog, “The Little Things” 

The theme is: Easter 

Please remember, we focus on small formats such as ATCs, 

tags, Memorydex cards, bookmarks, etc.

I combined the two challenges and created a Memorydex card.

I cut out the bunnies with scissors; everything else was die-cut. 

Arranged everything on the Memorydex card and added the sentiment.

Thanks for stopping by.

And maybe you'd like to join us for both of the challenges,

the Dream Factory and The Little Things :))

Linked up with:

Allsorts - It's Springtime

Try it on Tuesday - Make it cute

Sweet Stampin' - Spring or Easter Creations

Send A Slile 4 Kids - Animal cards 4 Kids

Creative Fingers - Anything Goes

A Place to Start - Anything Goes

I used:

Stamps: Sentiment and sun (Jillibean Soup); bunnies(Clearly Besotted); 

Inks: Onyx Black (Versafine); Wild Honey and Mermaid Lagoon (Distress Oxide);

Dies: Memorydex card (AALL&Create); Fence, Firs clouds, flowers and grass (I Love♥2 Craft);

Alcohol ink markers, colored cardstock, butterfly stickers,

Celebrate Spring & Happy Easter

Hi everyone!

Today marks the start of challenge #2 on our brand new challenge blog 

“The Little Things”

The theme is: EASTER

As the name suggests, this challenge blog is all about little things—more specifically, little cards.

Any card type that is smaller than a standard card (10,5 x 15 cm / 4.1" x 5.9" inch) is okay, 

such as ATCs,  ATC coins, tags, Memorydex cards, 

Mini Moo cards, bookmarks, inchies, etc.

The variety of card shapes gives you plenty of room to create something that suits your personal taste.

After searching through my stash, I found a sheet of green paper. I cut out two ATC's, stenciled squares onto them using Mowed Lawn (Distress Oxide), and added text and a grid patterns with stamps.

I colored the images with alcohol ink markers and cut them out with scissors. 

Since I also wanted to include inchies in our "Little Things" challenge, I used them as a background for the images.

Join the Fun!

I can’t wait to see the creativity you’ll bring to this month’s challenge!

Linked up with:

ATC Around the World - Squares

Tag-along (and ATC's) - Spring Flowers

Four Seasons - Spring

The Pick 3 Challenge - Pick at least 3 of the 6 elements given (I choose: Coloring, Flowers & Bright Colors)

Little Red Wagon - Include an Animal

A Place to Start - Anything Goes

I used:

Stamps: Bunnies, flowers, eggs and sentiments (Clearly Besotted); background text (Viva); grid (Katzelkraft);

Inks: Onyx Black (Versafine); Mowed Lawn (Distres Oxide);

Stencil: AALL&Create 

Alcohol ink markers, 

Happy Easter - Mini MOO Cards

Hi everyone!

No design team work today. - Just for fun!

Here is what I came up with.

These cute bunny girls are from the wrapping paper of mini chocolate bars. 

I recently rediscovered them while rummaging through my treasures. ... just goes to show that everything has its purpose at some point - right?

Before I cut them out, I pasted them onto thicker paper to make them easier to handle.

The stamps in the background are from Craft Sensations, the sentiment is from Stampin'Up. The papers used are from the small scraps box. Here they are stenciled scraps (the brick wall) and a piece of Yupo with alcohol inks on it.

This one got the same brick wall in addition with two small scraps of homemade background paper behind it. 

I added a little lace to the bottom of each bunny's dress. Jazzed up some parts with alcohol ink markers and traced the outlines with a black fine liner. I then pasted everything onto the mini cards, drew paws on each bunny and then added a little green ink to suggest grass. Hope you like them.

Note:

If you're looking for measurements of the MOO MiniCards, 

they're a slimline 1.1” x 2.75”. That's 70 x 28mm in the metric thing. 

...and that's very challenging!! ;)

Linked up with:

If You Give a Crafter a Cookie - Bunnies and Eggs

Try it on Tuesday - Oh so Sweet

Crafty Gals Corner - Adorable

Daisy Chain - Not Square

The Paper Funday - Anything Goes with Optional Twist: Things that Begin with the Letter "B" (I've got Bunnies)

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

Ellibelle's Crafty Wednesday - Anything Goes

A Place to Start - Anything Goes

I used:

Stamps: Background stamps (Craft Sensations); sentiment (Stampin'Up);

Ink: Onyx Black (Versafine); Fired Brick and Mowed Lawn (Distress Oxide); 

Stencil: Brick wall (Scrap Plaisir);

Alcohol ink markers, 

Happy Easter

Hi everyone!

No design team work today! 

I wanted to take part in the ATC Around the World challenge. The theme is Easter time. Here is what I came up with.

The bunny comes from a wrapping paper. Before cutting it out, I pasted it onto thicker paper so that it was easier to manipulate.  ....it would have been a shame not to use it - what do you think?

The flowers, the Easter eggs and the sentiment are from Clearly Besotted. The small wagon and the left background stamp are from AALL&Create. The wire mesh on the right is from Bo Bunny.

The background for the ATC is “one of the messed up ones”. 

I stamped the eggs on design paper, cut them out and then spiced up some areas with alcohol ink markers. Flowers and wagon are also colored with alcohol ink markers and cut out. The lower edge of the ATC is decorated with a die-cut strip of grass.

Linked up with:

ATC Around the World - Easter time

If You Give a Crafter a Cookie - Bunnies and Eggs

Sparkles Monthly Challenges - Easter

Classic Design - Anything Goes with Optional Twist: Bunnies, Blooms or Butterflies

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

A Place to Start - Anything Goes

I used:

Stamps: Wagon and background stamps (AALL&Create); eggs, flowers and sentiment (Clearly Besotted); wire mesh (Bo Bunny); 

Ink: Onyx Black (Versafine); Mermaid Lagoon and Mowed Lawn (Distress Oxide); 

Dies: Grass (AVEC);

Alcohol ink markers, white Posca pen,

Hoppy Easter

Hi everyone!

Time for a new challenge at 613 Avenue Create! 

The theme is Anything Goes w/ optional twist Splash of Color.

Create something full of color

This card was done in no time! 

I just made fingerprints and gave them funny bunny faces with a black fine liner.

I stuck a strip of washi tape torn in two underneath and tore off the card. Adhered the card to a blank card and then stamped the Hoppy Easter with alphabet stamps. Spritzed some black ink splatters on the card. Done!

Play along with 613 Avenue Create and let your creativity run wild!

Linked up with:

Double D - Easter

Cas on Sunday - Easter

Addicted to Cas - Bunny

Try it on Tuesday - Rainbow Colours

Stamping Sensations - Birds, Animals, Flowers and Nature

Allsorts Challenge - Anything Goes

A Place to Start - Anything Goes

I used:

Stamps: Sentiment - stamped with alphabet stamps (AVEC); 

Ink: Onyx Black (Versafine); Seedless Preserves, Mermaid Lagoon, Mowed Lawn, Picked Raspberry and Wild Honey (Distress Oxide);  

Black fine liner, washi tape, 

Katzelkraft - Hoppy Easter

Hi everyone!

It's Katzelkraft day :)) 

This card was made pretty quickly. 

I glued the die-cut sun onto a “failed” background -- which you won't even notice now ;)) ...it now looks like a sky with clouds, whereas before it was a spot with flow lines.

I cut it into a square and glued it onto the card. 

I die-cut the word “Hoopy” from different colored cardstock scraps and pasted it under the sun. Just below it I stamped the word “Easter” with alphabet letters. I colored the bunny with alcohol ink markers, cut it out and adhered it next to the Easter sentiment. Added some grass and shadow under the bunny. 

Finally, I cut the card to size, colored the edges with blue ink and glued it onto a blank card.

Hope you like it :)) - See you next Tuesday with a new Katzelkraft creation! :)

Wanna see more of my Katzelkraft creations? 

...just click on the Katzelkraft label at the end of the post, or here.

I used:

 click on the image to go to the store and see it in full size

Linked up with:

Unicorn Challenge Blog - Use Dies

Double Trouble - Thing 1 (3  Colors of the Rainbow; 2  Die-Cuts; 1 Create a Scene)

Try it on Tuesday - Rainbow Colours

Addicted to Stamps and More - Any Occasion 

A Place to Start - Anything Goes

I used:

Stamps: Bunny (Katzelkraft); Easter sentiment (AVEC); 

Inks: Onyx Black (Versafine); Mermaid Lagoon, Mowed Lawn and Fossilized Amber (Distress Oxide);

Dies: Letters "Hoppy" (Make It); sun (AVEC);

Alcohol inks, colored cardstock snippets, Posca pen, 

Katzelkraft - Hello Spring

Hi everyone!

I'm back with a new Katzelkraft project :)) 

I always keep stamped and often already colored images that I didn't use when creating other projects. 

Today I pulled out some of these leftovers to make this spring ATC.

I also never throw away any scraps of paper, even the smallest snippet gets a second chance!

...and sometimes those scraps and leftovers just go well together :))

Hope you like it :)) - See you next Tuesday with a new Katzelkraft creation! :)

Wanna see more of my Katzelkraft creations? 

...just click on the Katzelkraft label at the end of the post, or here.

I used:

 click on the image to go to the store and see it in full size

Linked up with:

Snippets Playground - Anything Goes, using snippets

ATC Around the World - Frühling/Spring

Inspiration Station - Inspiration Photo

Try It On Tuesday - Spring

Cards 4 Galz - Springtime

A Place to Start - Anything Goes

I used:

Stamps: Bunny, grass and sun (Katzelkraft); flowers (Stampotique by Katzelkraft); sentiment (Stampin'Up); font in background (Scrap Plaisir); 

Inks: Onyx Black (Versafine); Mermaid Lagoon, Mowed Lawn and Fossilized Amber (Distress Oxide);

Stencil: Stampin'Up 

Alcohol inks, snippets,