Exciting news :)

Hello everyone, I just wanted to share a quick card with you and also some exciting news!! :) First, about the card: Last week, it was the birthday of a friend and sad enough, I thought about her all day long but in the end, I forget to call her, tough! A little card was in order - it's this one:

handmade envelope

card

"Hoo" could refuse the absolution to a cute little owl like this? ;-) On another note, I am BEYOND thrilled that Kate and Aimes of A Passion for Papertrey asked me to be their Featured Stamper for April and, of course, I gladly accepted!! You can read the introduction / interview, here on their blog. I'm so looking forward to sharing my cards for their bi-weekly challenges, the themes for this month are great! I hope you are able to join us :)

Have a fabulous day and in case we don't read each other before then: Happy Easter holidays!

Supplies

Stamps: Klartext Juni Kit stamps, PTI Everyday Button Bits

Ink: PTI true black

Paper: PTI stamper's select white

Other: Copic markers (E33, E55), Ranger Mini Mister with turquoise acrylic paint, Depot dot ribbon (yellow), Faber-Castell pigment pen (black), EK Success 3/4" circle punch, Advantus Tiny Attacher, printer

Poppy Seed Challenge #2

Hello everyone, I have a card to share for Lisa Johnson's second Poppy Seed Challenge! This time the three "poppy seeds" consist of using buttons, polka dots and the color light green.



As we don't celebrate St. Patty's, I thought I'd take the opportunity to make an early baby / toddler card. Two of my colleagues are expecting and it's my cousin's little one's birthday soon. You can see I left out the sentiment for now - so what ever "event" comes first it will be a baby or 2nd birthday card.

The idea for putting those half circles around the circle panel came from a card I saw a week ago at a local shop. You can see their beautiful original card(s) here. Oh, and did you see the birdies eye? I found some tiny black beads that were perfect for just that, also they fit into some of the button holes so you don't even have to fiddle around to glue it down.

So, that's it from me today. Thanks for stopping by!


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Supplies
Stamps: PTI Everday Button Bits and Polka Dot Basics, Klartext (workshop stamps)
Ink: Versamark, PTI true black
Paper: PTI kraft and vintage cream, Scenic Route North Shore (green), yellow cardstock (stash)
Other: PTI vintage button spring moss, PTI vintage cream saddle stitch ribbon, sewing machine / thread, Make Me 1" scalloped circle punch, Spellbinders Nestabilities (large circles), sisal twine, foam dimensionals

2S4Y Laura's Sketch #47

Happy Saturday to you! I'm back with a really quick post to show you my card for the current 2S4Y challenge. I haven't played with their challenges for a while and really liked Laura's sketch for this week so I just HAD to play :-) Here's my card with the sketch rotated by 90°:

So, that's all for now. Hope you liked stopping by today! Have a fabulous weekend :)

Supplies

Stamps: PTI Faux Ribbon, Background Basics Text-Style, Giga Guidelines, Fresh Alpha, Star Prints and Polka Dots
Ink: PTI Dark Chocolate, Raspberry Fizz, Aqua Mist and Spring Moss
Paper: Papertrey Ink Kraft, Hibiscus Burst and Rustic Cream, Dani Peuss chocolate, Atoz aqua, sheet music patterend paper from stash
Other: Depot dark brown satin ribbon, Marvy Uchida scallop circle 2", EK Success circle 1,5", Fiskars Upper Crest punch, sewing machine/ thread, Prisma Glitter, clear embossing powder

A Passion for Papertrey | Spring Clean Challenge

Hi there, here's a not so quick but fun card for Aimes and Kate's spring clean challenge. It's all about actually USE some of the stuff you would otherwise hoard forever! ...and we all have those things, right?

So, I've been guilty for holding on to many sheets of stripy patterned paper. I love the bright colors of one particular paper but honestly if there's one thing I can hardly cope with on any of my projects, it's stripes! Polka dots, flowers, other patterns whatsoever... no problem! But stripes? Eeek!

Now, I combined that with other stuff I did not hoard but simply haven't used yet or at least not in a long time, such as a corner rounder, my PTI Text Style stamps, a butterfly die, acrylic paint... which in sum resulted in this little number:

My discovery of the day is this: Add a few drops of your most favorite acrylic paint color and some water to a Mini Mister spray bottle, shake it well and ta-daa! You have homemade spray mist for literally pennies! :)

Supplies

Stamps: PTI Background Basics Diamonds, PTI Text Style I, DFD birthday sentiments

Ink: PTI smokey shadow, Heyda turquoise

Paper: PTI stamper's select white, Atoz orange cardstock, Fancy Pants Summer Soiree pp

Other: Spellbinders Nestabilities ovals, Provocraft butterfly die, corner rounder, acrylic paint, snail adhesiv, rhinestones, Depot orange satin ribbon, Fiskars apron lace border punch

A Passion for Papertrey's Black & White Challenge

Hi there! No card today - I worked on something a little different this time. A friend asked me for advice on cheap but elegant party decoration for her birthday. Huh, cheap but elegant? Nothing easier than that, haha! ;-) The one thing I came up with, was stamped party lights. Here are some pictures of my "prototypes":

I used some simple tea lights with IKEA candle holders (it's from their Galej line and they sell for 25 (Euro) cents per piece.

The candle holders were put inside a stamped (and border punched) sandwich bag. Easy peasy! Here's one with one PTI's gorgeous damask images on:

Wouldn't these look great for Halloween parties, too? Anyhow, since I kept my color combo to basic black & white, I'll enter this for the current A Passion for Papertrey Challenge. There are some a-maz-ing entries, take a look here!

Supplies

Stamps: PTI Damask Designs, Heidi Swapp Chandelier

Ink: PTI true black

Paper: sandwich paper bags

Other: IKEA Galej tea candle holders, tea candles, Fiskars apron lace punch

Poppy Seed Challenge #1

Hi there, I'm back to share my card for Lisa Johnson's new Poppy Seed Challenge - virtually in the very last minute! Here are the deets:

Basically, you have to incorporate one of each of the "seeds" Lisa "plants". What I like best about these is, that each of the seeds belongs to a different category, in this case a certain color, a stamp image and an embellishment. So there's a good starting point for a card including plenty possibillities to bring in your own style and creativity.

The light yellow part was toughest for me! I wanted to use it on the frame but it was actually too light to be seen. So, I ended up stamping the vintage labels frame with summer sunrise ink and than colored the space in between the two lines with a soft yellow Copic marker. I like that effect and think, I will try that again some time :)

Oh, and I based my overall color combo on Nichole Heady's selection of spring colors (summer sun, lemon tart, spring moss and melon berry).

Hope the sun is shining bright were you are! Happy almost weekend ;-)

Supplies

Stamps: PTI Vintage Labels, Mod Squad and Everyday Button Bits

Ink: PTI summer sunrise, melon berry and true black, Versamagic tea leaves, Versamark dazzle

Paper: PTI summer sunrise and stamper's select white

Other: Spellbinders Nestabilities Labels 1, Copics (YG01, Y21), Artoz rhinestones

Pippi Långstrump

Happy 1st March to you! How's the spring weather going were you are? Today is/was such a typical spring day - we had everything from a severe storm (aka hurricane Xynthia), hail and rain to sunshine. Crazy!


My card for you is part of my PTI DT appreciation series and today it's a card CASEd from a recent Betsy Veldman post. If you haven't seen it until now, go here! It's simply gorgeous, I think. If Astrid Lindgren had been a scrapbooker, her works would look like Betsy's. Colorful, awe-inspiring and oh, so beautiful!


There aren't too many changes compared to the original design. I replaced her stamped flower with a "Dawn-y" poofy flower and used my big scallop die for the card base. The cool thing about that die is, you can use also use it for smaller cards if you pre-fold the card in half and run it through your die-cutter. Also, big scallop borders much like the new PTI dies are possible. More bang for your bucks... I love that :)

Have you seen Nichole's spring challenge? I hope I can play along, the colors look so yummy :)


Supplies
Stamps: PTI Giga Guidelines, PTI Wishing You, PTI Turning a New Leaf
Ink: PTI spring moss, orange zest, raspberry fizz, aqua mist, tea-dye duo
Paper: orange and off-white cardstock (both recycled), Office System (pink)
Other: Sizzix Bigz scallop card die, sewing machine/thread, PTI vintage hibiscus burst button, paper piercer, sisal twine, Make Me flower punch 2", Copic markers (BG 11, BG 13, YG 01)