Good morning crafty friends,

Spring is finally here and there's a new theme over at the bastel-traum.ch blog: «Flowers/Mother's Day».

 

This challenge will run until May 15th, 8:55 am CET (Central European Time).

I created this floral Mother's Day card for my mom using the gorgeous WPlus9 «Kind Soul» stamp.

I watercolored these beautiful flowers with my ZIG Clean Color Real Brush Pens and fussy cut them out leaving a small white border. Next, I adhered them to a light pink top-folding card base on which I gold heat embossed the sentiment from the Clearly Besotted Stamps «Fresh Flowers» set. I kept the card simple and only added some Nuvo Jewel Drops.

Thank you so much for stopping by! Have a beautiful Sunday!
Anja

DT Make it Crafty CAS Inspiration | Hello Beautiful

Hi everyone,

have you seen all the fun chipboards in the Make it Crafty Store? I’ve chosen one of the new single words which are available in different sizes.

Here is the Clean and Simple card which I made with the Hello Brush Script Word Chipboard (2 inches):

I heat embossed the word in white and the 'backing layer' (which helps the word to pop) in black. Then I glued both pieces together with Ranger's «Multi Medium Matte». For the background I used the retired My Favorite Things «Stripes Cover-Up» die. I also die-cut a flower and some leaves with the beautiful Florilèges «Nature Fine» dies.

With Fall just around the corner, I tried a new more muted color combo with the Stampin' Up! cardstocks I’ve chosen. Finally, I assembled my card, stamped a WPlus9 sentiment (from the «Hand Lettered Hello» stamp set) right below the chipboard word and added some matching enamel dots.

Thank you so much for stopping by! Have a great day!

 

DT Make it Crafty CAS Challenge #11 | I Miss You

Hi peeps,

this is the card that I created for the current Make it Crafty Clean and Simple Challenge with the theme «Masking».

There are so many different ways to use Masking on your projects. For my little card, I masked off a circle and did some Ink Blending with Distress Inks. Therefore I die-cut a circle from Inkadinkado Masking Paper and used the negative to protect the rest of my piece of white cardstock which I cut with a Simon Says Stamp «Stitched Square» die. Then I blended in blues and greens («Salty Ocean», «Tumbled Glass», «Twisted Citron» and «Mowed Lawn») to create a gradient.

I carefully removed the mask and let my panel air dry. Then I adhered the masking paper die-cut circle to cover my ink blended background. I stamped the dotted border (from a coming soon MiC background stamp set) in VersaMark and heat embossed it with Ranger «Liquid Platinum» embossing powder.

This cute doggy is from the All About Love Elements Chipboard set. I put a little piece of red cardstock behind the heart cut out before adhering the dog onto my blended background. I also added a second red die-cut heart and stamped the «I Miss You» sentiment from the WPlus9 «Bubbletalk» stamp set.

The grey chevron paper is from the My Favorite Things 6"x6" «Calm & Cozy» pack and I glued it directly to my card base. Finally, I popped up the masked and stamped panel using foam tape.

You still have time to enter our «Masking» challenge by the end of the month. You can find all the details HERE.

Thank you so much for stopping by! Have a wonderful day!

Homework OCC | Stretch your dies | Day 2

Hi peeps,

I want to show you another homework for the Online Card Class «Stretch your dies».

This is my card for Day 2 – Flower Dies:

Kristina Werner showed this great technique called «Die Cuts Within Larger Die». This means die-cutting an arrangement using small dies.

At first, I die-cut a bunch of the flowers and leaves with a Paper Smooches dies set. I arranged them close to each other and put a piece of masking paper on top to keep everything in place. Then I run it through my die-cutting machine using a MFT heart die. I glued my die-cuts to a kraft card base before carefully removing the masking paper. Love how it turned out!

I added some glitter using my Wink of Stella Clear Brush Pen.

To finish my card, I die-cut the beautiful «Hand Lettered Hello» by WPlus9 from white cardstock and adhered it on top of the heart.

Thank you so much for stopping by! Hope you enjoy your weekend!

DT Everybody-Art-Challenge #306

Good morning everyone,

the Everybody-Art-Challenge is back and we are starting the new year with a bingo:

I decided to use the diagonal row Lace – Doily – Flower and created a Thanks card.

To start my card I stamped the MFT «Striped Background» in VersaMark onto some Bazzill «Taffy» carstock. I then heat embossed it with «Clear Matt Dull» embossing powder from WOW! – love that matte finish.

For my flower arrangement I used the «Fresh Cut Florals» stamps and coordinating dies by WPlus9. I stamped them in several Memento and Simon Says Stamp inks. The handwritten sentiment by Stampin' Up! was heat embossed in Ranger's «Liquid Platinum» onto a strip of vellum. To embellish my card I added some SU rhinestones and this beautiful lace butterfly from my stash.

I'm entering this card to the following challenge:

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge

Anything Goes

Thank you so much for stopping by! Have a wonderful day!

Dankeschön in Gold

Hallo Ihr Lieben,

meine Güte, nun ist es schon wieder so lang her, dass ich Euch hier etwas gezeigt habe. Zum einen bin ich natürlich mit meinem kleinen Töchterchen gut beschäftigt ;o) und zum anderen hatte ich leider einen Computer-Crash.

Nun läuft zum Glück aber alles wieder und ich kann Euch diese Dankeskarte zeigen, die ich für eine liebe Freundin gewerkelt habe.

Da Gold ja momentan total angesagt (wie ich finde, jedoch schwer zu fotografieren) ist, habe ich die schönen Stempelabdrücke aus dem Set «Embroidered Bouquet»
von WPlus9 in dieser Trendfarbe embosst und goldene Pailletten und Schmetterlinge durften auch noch mit aufs Kärtchen. Kombiniert habe ich mit Cardstock in Altrosé (Stampin' Up!) und Weiß. Der Dankeschön-Stempel stammt ebenfalls von SU und die geschwungene Stanze (Bracket Die) ist von Simon Says Stamp.

Gern möchte ich bei diesen Challenges teilnehmen:

WPlus9 Birthday Celebration Week 3
Trend Watch Challenge
2 Sisters Challenge
Challenge #173 ~ Embossing
Stampin' for the Weekend Challenge
Flower Power

Vielen Dank fürs Vorbeischauen und lasst es Euch gut gehen.