It's a wonderful time

Hello everyone!
Oh my god, how time runs fast!!! We already have a new challenge at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown. This week it's about Smooshing and we want to see that fun technique on your Christmas cards.

If you don't know this technique, you can watch these videos to learn it, it's really super easy!
- Ink Smooshing Technique using Distress Inks
- Smooshing with Inka Gold

The panel for the small background had been on my table for some time. It was made with Distress Oxide inks and a stencil from Craft Sensations - I thought it would fit well here!

I cut it to size, backed it with black paper and stamped a sentiment from Craft Sensations. 

I dit my smooshing with Tranquil Tide (Stampin'Up) and some gold pigments. After drying, I diecut the two firs and stuck them to the small panel. I added an embossed sheet between the small panel and the base card.

Happy smooshing!!!

Linked up with:

Creative Sketchy Girls - Make a Christmas Card

Creative With Stamps - Tree

Merry Little Christmas - Anything Christmas Goes

The 12 Month of Christmas - Anything Christmas Goes

Watercooler Wednesday - All About Occasions

    

      

Stamps: Sentiment (Craft Sensations);

Inks: Tranquil Tide (Stampin'Up), Distess Oxide I think it was Mermaid Lagoon and Cracked Pistachio

Dies: Fir (Scrap Plaisir);

Embossing: Sizzix

Stencil: Craft Sensations

Gold pigments

A Special Day...

Hello everyone!
Today I have a little birthday card that has been waiting for so long to be shown!

The flower is punched from a piece of paper colored with Brushos. I inserted the cut pieces so that the flower doesn't look too empty. I glued it onto a piece of torn paper and stamped the sentiment. I stuck this on a panel embossed to a third and glued this to the base card. 

The card was accompanied by a few small surprise packs, full of useful things for our favourite hobby and to relax! ....and my lavender was still beautiful enough to make and add a few lavender spindles...

Linked up with:

Krafty Chicks - Gift Packaging or Tags

Craftyhazelnut's - Patterned Paper

Perfectly CAS - Birthday

The Flower Challenge - CAS

Adiccted to Stamps and More - CAS

    

   

Stamps: From the penny market

Inks: Onyx Black (Versafine); Brushos

Dies: Flower, hearts and label (Scrap Plaisir);

Embossing: Sizzix

Design paper, ribbon, lavender stems

Snowmen's Christmas Wishes

Hello everyone!
We have a new challenge at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown. This week it is all about Snowmen.

On my card there are snowmen from Hein Design, Penny Black, Scrap Plaisir and Craft Sensations - in short, I dug up my whole snowman collection! Ha ha ha 😂 🤣

I stamped a sentiment from The Stamps of Life and put some small pearl-pen dots in the "free" areas. I colored with felt-tip pens, and Volià, I like it!

Hope you have some time for this fun challenge - don't forget, Christmas is around the corner!!

Linked up with:

Merry Little Christmas - Anything Christmas Goes

Crimbo Crackers - Anything Christmas Goes

The Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge - Anything Goes

Christmas at Sweet Stampin' - Anything Goes

    

  

Stamps: Lower right corner (Penny Black); Lower left and upper right corner (Scrap Plaisir); Middle left (Craft Sensations); Middle right and upper left (Hein Design); Sentiment (The Stamps of Life);

Felt-tip pens, pearl pen,

Twofer Sweets

Hello everyone!
Not always easy to have an idea for two different cards with the same stamp, but when I saw Twofer's new challenge it was obvious and I didn't want to miss it under any circumstances!

I chose little cupcakes from Stampin'Up for my cards.

My first card is for Halloween. I used the little cupcakes to make flowers. I stamped an orange circle, stamped then the cupcakes around, colored them with felt-tip pens and fussy cut the flower. To make it look a bit scarier, I glued a black grid on the orange circle and gave everyone a googly eye. I put them in a bottle and stamped a spider to one of the flowers. The first word of the sentiment reminded me of a pumpkin and the second word of its stem. I arranged it so that the two words builded a pumpkin and its stem. I like it, hope you like it too!

The second card is a birthday card for which I was strongly inspired by one of my earlier cards and even though it looks almost the same, it is still different!

It's not very often that I use washi tape, but here I've gone to great lengths! Ha ha ha 

I tore and glued the washi strips as it came to mind and for the rest I also took up the basic idea of my card. I hope you also like this very similar version...

Linked up with:

Twofer - Sweets

Paper Players - Color challenge

Cardz 4 Gyuz - "Sooky" or Use Orange

If You Give A Crafter A Cookie - BOO - Cookie Challenge 128 

The Male Room - Halloween

Southern Girls - Anything Goes

Crafty Sentiments - Birthday

The Crafter's Cafe - Use a Stencil AND/ OR Halloween or use Purple Orange and Black

Tales From The Craftroom - Halloween

Stempelgarten - Halloween (erste Karte)

    

    

     

Stamps: 

First card: Cupcakes (Stampin'Up); Sentiment and vase (Craft Sensations); Spider (Scrap Plaisir); 

Goggly eyes, Felt-tip pens

Second card: Cupcakes and sentiment (Stampin'Up); Cake plate with bell (Scrap Plaisir);

Embossing: Sizzix

Washi tape, Felt-tip pens

DotMCC - Challenge #8 - Reminder

Hello everyone!

Just a little reminder on our current World Card Making challenge at Day of the Month Card Club!

This time only cards are allowed!

I made a card for a football fan.

The football is a punched and embossed disc, colored with black felt-tip pen. The sneakers are from Stampin' Up, colored with alcohol markers and fussy cut with scissors. In the background there is a grid which indicates the goal net. The lawn is made with distress ink. To do that, I pressed the stamp pad several times on a piece of acetate and then transfered it onto the panel. I sprayed water on the remaining color and pressed it once more onto the panel - Love how it turned out! 

The saying is handwritten and enriched with three stamped labels. It says: Goals are not attained by strength but by perseverance

...last weekend we did a card swap on the theme of sport in our girls' workshop - so I made seven more cards!

....hope you have some time to play with us 😉

There is ALWAYS a reason to celebrate! 

Linked up with:

Colour Crazy Challenge - Anything Goes

Watercooler Wednesday - All About Occasions

The Male Room - Stay CAS

Little Red Wagon - Cut it out!

Addicted To Stamps And More - Make Your Mark

Time Out Challenges - Encouraging

    

    

Stamps: Sneakers, Grid and words on labels (Stampin'Up);

Inks: Smokey Slate (Stampin'Up); Mowed Lawn (Distress Oxide); Onyx Black (Versafine);

Embossing: Sizzix

Dies: From the Action Market

Alcohol markers, felt-tip pen, black fine liner

Christmas Cheers

Hello everyone!
A new challenge starts at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown - this week we have three colors for you:

White - Blue - Brown

Until the end of the month 52CCT has a DT-Call. If you want to join the team, you should take part in the 4 challenges of this month. For more information please visit the challenge blog.

I used design paper and two different stamp sets for my card. The rat comes from Katzelkraft and all the other stamps are from The Stamps of Life, except the little stars and the cap (Stampin' up). I watercoloured everything with felt-tip pens and then added some Wink of Stella on the firs and the little snow hill behind the rat. Bevor glueing all together, I added some splashes of white ink on the design paper for more interest. 

Actually the design paper is striped but the photo doesn't show it at all! :(

Have fun with the challenge

Linked up with:

C.R.A.F.T. - Christmas

Watercooler Wednesday - All About Occasions

Cute N' Crafty Christmas - Anything Christmas/Winter Goes

Christmas at Sweet Stampin' - Anything Goes, optional Stars

Crafty Friends - Christmas

Crimbo Crakers - Anything Christmas Goes

     

   

Stamps: Rat (Katzelkraft); Little stars and cap (Stampin'Up); Firs, rocking horse, Gift and sentiment (The Stamps of Life);

Inks: Onyx Black (Versafine), Nuit Blanche (Basi likes - Scrap Plaisir); Felt-tip pens

DotMCC-Challenge #8 - World Card Making Day

Hello everyone!
Welcome to our 8th Day of the Month Card Club challenge!

Our new theme is:

World Card Making Day

Celebrated on October 5th.

This special day should encourage everyone to make a homemade card and our challenge will give you a whole month to do it!

I don't know anyone who wouldn't be touched by a handmade card!

You can make them in many ways, for every occasion and often you don't even have to be well equipped for it. For example, I made my very first handmade card with dried grasses and flowers. Later I made 3D cards and for a while I also made embroidered cards - yes that was very time consuming but the recipients appreciated them all very much and kept them well until today!

Whether 3D, embroidered, stamped or created by computer, what counts is that you want to please the recipient with something special, something that comes from the heart, something that means "I'm thinking of you"!

You will see, card making is so much fun, that you'll create more than one of them in the future!!

A quite simple card, as you can see!

But just because it's simple doesn't mean I didn't care to create something beautiful for the person who gets this card!

I worked with watercolors and put different colored swabs on a white panel. In addition, I spread very fine, dark red splashes over the dried panel. My idea was to make it look like a rose petal rain. The silver colored sentiment that was allready printed on parchment paper matched like a glove! I die cut it with a circle die and glued it with a narrow, double-sided tape onto the panel, which I then glued onto a white base card.

I made this card for my dear niece's birthday.

There is ALWAYS a reason to celebrate! 😉

Linked up with:
Craft Rocket - Pink
Little Red Wagon - Cut it out!
Creative Fingers - Allways Anything Goes

     

Supplies: Just paper, watercolors and a sentiment that was allready printed on parchment paper + a circle die

Christmas in the Heart...

Hello everyone!
A new challenge starts at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown - this week we have a sketch for you!
From today until the end of the month 52CCT has a DT-Call. If you want to join the team, you should take part in the next 4 challenges. For more information please visit the challenge blog. 

...this sketch was quite easy and I immediately had my idea!

I glued a piece of linen onto a white panel, then punched out the circle and embossed the white surface. I marked the punched area on the base card, sponged it with Distress Oxide ink, sprinkled water on it and dried it immediately with a paper towel. I stamped the houses, watercolored them with felt-tip pens and fussy cut them. The tree and the sentiment are direktly stamped on the base card. Finally I punched the star and stuck everything onto the card. 

Have fun with the sketch.

52CCT Sketch

Linked up with:

Crimbo Crackers - Anything Goes 

Christmas at Sweet Stampin' - Anything Christmas Goes

Cute N' Crafty Christmas - Anything Christmas/Winter Goes

The House That Stamps Built - Circles

     

Stamps: Tree and houses (Scrap Plaisir); Sentiment (Stampin'Up);

Inks: Peacock feathers (Distress Oxide); Onyx Black (Versafine); Fekt-tip pens

Embossing: From the Action market

Dies: Star (Scrap Plaisir); Circle (from the Action market);

Linen