Funky Fossil - Home is where the Heart is

Hi Everyone,

I am playing with the new release from Funky Fossil Designs. I used the set Scandi Home for this card. 

I heat embossed the cute little house  and flowers onto bronze shimmer card stock and heat embossed it with WOW Verdigris embossing powder. Added the little heart and "HOME" and heat embossed in white for some contrast. Added white gel pen accents. Heat embossed the bottom half of the sentiment with Verdigris embossing powder onto the black card stock. I mounted the bronze panel onto some matching card stock and assembled everything.

Scandi Home

 It shimmers nicely. You can see this better in this picture.

Linking up with:

Topflight Stamps - Happy Birthday

Hi Everyone,

It's Topflight Stamps day!

Carabelle Studio came out with some wonderful new stamps - including this cute set that I used for my card.

I immediately fell in love with those quirky animals by Carabelle Studio! So I squeezed almost all of them onto my card. I colored them with water brush markers and water brush pens. I used watercolor paper as background.  The sentiment is from Katzelkraft. I trimmed my card base and used green card stock to frame it.

Here are the stamp supplies I used:

Use code FUNSTAMPING to get 12% discount at Topflight Stamps.

Carabelle Studio Funny Animals, Katzelkraft Holiday Quotes

 

Versafine ink, Hunkydory Brush Markers

Use code FUNSTAMPING to get 12% discount at Topflight Stamps.

Linking up with:

Watercooler Wednesday - Anything Goes With a Masculine Twist

Addicted to Stamps and More - make your mark

Time Out - birthday

Simon Says Stamps - add a sentiment 

Katzelkraft - Bugs & Insects

Hi Everyone,

as you all know, Wednesday is Katzelkraft day on my blog. 

I am addicted to this fun Katzelkraft set Bugs & Insects. I could not put it away... I made a whole card series, which you will see over the next few days. One I already showed you, you can see it HERE

 Here is my first card:

There are so many fun critters on that one:

Flower Silhouettes KTZ219, Les Nounounes KTZ234

I masked of a narrow strip at the bottom and on the left. Sponged with distress inks. I stamped the flowers and the centipede. I colored it with water brush markers. Added white gel pen accents.Added Stickles to the flowers. I thought this card can live without a sentiment.....

Hope you liked this - I'll be back next Wednesday with more Katzelkraft inspiration!

If you feel the urge to buy any Katzelkraft products, you can also order them in the US from those companies: Topflight Stamps, Lost Coast Designs, or Frantic Stamper. 

Use code FUNSTAMPING to get 12% discount at Topflight Stamps.

Happy Stamping!

Linking up with:

Less is More - more

2 Crafty Critter Crazies - anything with a critter

Craft Stamper TIMI challenge - anything goes

Shopping our Stash - the great outdoors

  

Day of the Month Card Club - Send a Card to a Friend

Hallo Ihr Lieben,

Hi Everyone,

ich will Euch an die Day of the Month Card Club Challenge zu erinnern.

I want to remind you about our Day of the Month Card Club challenge.

unser Thema ist:

 the theme is: 

Send a Card to a Friend 

That basically means anything goes, just send it to someone who will enjoy it (we won't check up on this requirement....)

But if you would like to receive this card, let me know in the comment section and I will draw a winner by the end of the challenge.

I used two Katzelkraft sets for this card  - the Flower Silhouettes (KTZ219) and Les Nounounes (KTZ234), also called Bugs and Insects. Did some masking, ombre sponging and colored with markers and water brush pens. Added some Stickles to the flower. If you like those insects or other Katzelkraft stamps you will get 12% off at Topflight stamps with code FUNSTAMPING.

Ich hoffe, ich konnte Euch animieren, mitzumachen!

I hope I enticed you to 

play along and link up here!

Ich zaehle auf Euch. Ihr habt noch bis zum 29.2. Zeit

I am counting on you! You have until the end of the month (2/29) to do so.

Bei dieser Challenge duerft Ihr waehlen und den Sieger ermitteln. Jeder darf waehlen, auch wenn Ihr nicht mitgemacht habt. Die 3 Teilnehmer, die die meisten Stimmen erhalten, werden zum Sieger gekuert und duerfen sich einen Gewinnerbutton mitnehmen. Die Wahl beginnt am 2. des Monats . Die Gewinner werden am 5. des folgenden Monats vorgestellt und die neue Challenge beginnt dann am 7. des Monats.

This is a voting challenge - the winner will be determined by vote. Everybody can vote, even if you didn't play along. Voting starts on the second of the following month. 

The 3 participants with the most votes will win. 

The winners will be showcased on the 5th of each month and the new challenge will start each month on the seventh.

Das auch alle ganz viel Spass haben, solltet Ihr bei mindestens 3 anderen Teilnehmern kommentieren. Vielleicht bei Leuten , die Ihr noch gar nicht kennt. Mal sehen, vielleicht werden sogar neue Freundschaften geknuepft!

And to make it more fun and appealing it would be great if you could comment on at least 3 other participants - perhaps you'll find some new friends that way. 

Vielleicht bringen wir ein bisschen Glueck und Freude in eure Leben!

I hope we are bringing some happiness in your life!

Es gibt IMMER einen Grund zum Feiern!

 There is ALWAYS a reason to celebrate!

Linking up with:

The Paper Players - Woodland critters (insects live in forests)

AAA Card challenge - one corner

Funky Fossils - You fill my Days with Joy

Hi Everyone!

Even if you don't care about Unicorns (like me) you have to just love those little chubby ones from Funky Fossils Designs. I honestly couldn't resist them. And they are so perfect for Valentine's day or girl birthdays or whatever sweet card you can think of.

Here are all the Chubby Unicorns from the set:

I combined them with the Let's Talk stencil. The sentiment is an ancient one from Papertrey. I colored with markers, water brush pens and  tiny bit of Finetech Mica colors.

And now the good news:

 You will get 15% off all merchandise with code HEART15 from today 2/14 to midnight (British time) on Monday 2/17!

Linking up with:

Shopping our Stash- Valentine's Day

Try it on Tuesday - Share the Love

Unicorn challenge - anything goes

Pinspirational - see picture below

Always Fun Challenge - Valentine's Day

Make my Monday - I love you

Crackerbox & Suzy Stamps - Happy Easter

Hi Everybody,

Some of the products I have used have been provided to me from various companies I design for. Affiliate links may be used in the links provided below.

Our monthly technique theme at Crackerbox Suzy Stamps is MONO COLOR and Easter is one of our discounted themes this month. For the complete list, see below.
So I figured I am going to combine the two.

My stamping supplies:

Happy Easter Vertical

Bunny Hug

Easter Egg

Catherine Pooler Ink

I colored the bunny and small egg with water brush markers and cut it out. The big egg is a die cut. I trimmed the Kraft card stock and mounted it onto a white card base. Stamped the sentiment. Attached the eggs and bunny to the card. I put foam tape under the head of the bunny to make it a little bit more dimensional. 

You can get $5.00 store credit once a week. Each month we will have several categories on sale for 20% OFF and a technique for that month. All you have to do is make a card with at least one stamp from the sales category and use the technique and 

post it on our Flaunt It If You Made It Page!

Vicky will put $5.00 on your store account and leave you a comment that it is done. We can't wait to see your creative work! 

Here are the 20% off stamp sale categories and card techniques.

February - MONO COLOR

Linking up with:

 Use your Stuff - critters

Topflight Stamps - Paper Artsy Zinis

Hi Everyone,

It's Topflight Stamps day!

We are showcasing Paper Artsy stamps this week.  Of course I had to go with the Zinis. they are just so cute and quirky!

I used some ancient rainbow paper from my stash. I stamped the little muse hole entry in the upper left hand corner and the Zini cat in the lower right hand corner. I stamped the cat again onto scrap paper and colored it with various markers. I fuzzy cut it and added it to my card. I also stamped the tiny mouse onto scrap card stock, colored it and fuzzy cut it. I added some white gel pen accents. Lastly I decided it looks a bit empty, so I added the stencil. Would have been better to add it beforehand....

Here are the stamp supplies I used:

Use code FUNSTAMPING to get 12% discount at Topflight Stamps.

ZINI 33, Zinski Art 44

Les Chats, AALL & Create Totally Dotty stencil

 

Versafine ink, Hunkydory Ink blending tool, Hunkydory Brush Markers

Use code FUNSTAMPING to get 12% discount at Topflight Stamps.

Linking up with:

Animal Friends challenge - mice/Maeuse

Inkspirational - love