Happy Christmas

Just dropping in to wish everyone a very merry Christmas!! Hope you have a wonderful time with family and friends :-)

Both of my cards today are for the EBTKS Sketch Challenge #2, if only a free

interpretation of the original sketch. The Christmas card above is inspired by

this über-cute card done by Lisa Arana / Dahlhouse Designs. The second

card is for a colleague who recently became father of a cute little boy named

Ole (it's a Danish name - not to confuse with Spanish "olé" as his IT

colleagues suggested...).

Hope you like my cards today. Enjoy the Christmas season! I hope I'll be back tomorrow for the PTI blog hop.

Supplies

{Happy Holidays}

Stamps: PTI Beyond Basic Borders, Fancy Pants Happy Holidays #1, Hero Arts

Tiny Owl

Ink: PTI ripe avocado, Colorbox chestnut

Paper: PTI kraft, white cardstock (recycled), designer paper with Christmas

ornaments (unknown),

Other: Fancy Pants pom pom ribbon, paper piercer

{Baby Ole}

Paper: PTI rustic cream, Cosmo Cricket Earth Love

Other: Cosmo Cricket Earth Love chipboard, Heidi Swapp Lemonade Stand

Ledger alpha, Cosmo Cricket Earth Love ribbon, Fiskars scallop sentiment

He's makin' a list and checking it twice

Hi there, I hope you have / had a great Sunday! I could finally take the time to (give some finishing touches to and) take photographs of things I crafted at a workshop two weeks ago at a local store, the Papierwerkstatt. I was super excited when they first handed us (I went there with four colleagues) out the workshop material - Collage Press' Joyride collection. Snowflakes, little propeller-driven airplaines, skier, vintage bookprints... I truly {heart} it!!

a paper box for a small gift with a gift tag

a simple mini album and a 3-D folded ornament

a simple card with stitching lines as ornament hanger

I think the last one is my favorite card of the bunch. I just love the big and small snowflake together. If you like the cards above, you will definitively want to go to the Papierwerkstatt blog to see more of their Christmas card designs here. Enjoy!


PS: Yesterday was kind of a historic moment: I did my first scrapbook layout - a present for my BFF's birthday! When I gave her the framed layout, I suddently had a "duh-moment". I was so content with the result that I forgot to take pictures...

Toothpick Tree

Yay! I finally got to play with the Everything but the Kitchen Sink Challenge :-) Their current challenge is using toothpicks a layout or card. Once I started thinking about it there were so many ideas but as Christmas is coming closer I took the chance to make another card for the holidays.



I got a little Black Friday package with a new border punch and the Hero Arts woodgrain stamp and of course had to use it for the challenge... somehow also the Mod Squad stamps made it onto the card for a funky, somewhat tropical Christmas tree! Hope you like the result :)


Thanks for stopping by today! Now, please go check out what the EBTKS Design Team members did for the challenge - so cute and creative!!




Supplies
Stamps: PTI Mod Squad, PTI Vintage Labels, PTI Background Basics Retro, Hero Arts Designer Woodgrain, DFD Christmas sentiment
Ink: Heyda soft blue, Versacolor white, PTI new leaf, PTI dark chocolate
Paper: PTI stamper's select, blue circle from stash
Other: toothpicks, Fiskars apron lace punch, Ranger Star Dust Stickles

It's cold outside...

Slowly but steady I'm getting into the Christmas groove! Some of my lectures are later on the evening and on Wednesday I could take the time to stroll through around before. It was so wonderful to see the whole city center illuminated, smell (and eat, of course) the roasted almonds from the near Christmas market at the old castle...

Also, it inspired me to give the Christmas card-making another try, with the second card being a lot influenced by the Scandinavian samples of Cath's Christmas in the Old Country Challenge :-)

Both of these cards above along with all the others I've done in the weeks before and some gift tags went straight to a card drive for a children's hospital in the area.

On another note, this post by Dawn made me smiling all day long yesterday! I've been spotlighted for the little birdie card I made for Raspberry Suite Challenge #19 :) Haha, I found it out at university and my professor looked a wee bit irritated how corpus linguistics all of a sudden could make me that happy LOL

Supplies

Stamps: PTI Vintage Lables, PTI Star Prints, PTI Mod Squad, Technique Tuesday circle, DFD Christmas sentiment

Ink: PTI dark chocolate, PTI true black, PTI chamomille dye, Versamark

Paper: Bazzill white cardstock, PTI hibiscus burst, PTI scarlet jewel, PTI kraft, Basic Grey Offbeat 6x6 pad

Other: Fiskars star punch 2", Marvy scallop circle punch 2", Fiskars scallop sentiment punch, sewing machine/ thread, Depot cream satin ribbon, Ranger star dust stickles, Hero Arts white embossing powder, Carl corner rounder