Stempel Spass

Hi Everyone, Its challenge time at  ATSM ! For the next two weeks its going to be a Holiday theme - Easter is just around the corner! But it can be any other Holiday as well. Our wonderful sponsor is Stitchy Bear   I used an iStencil for the background. The bunnies are by Impression Obsession. Made the eyes with liquid enamel and a Sharpie. Added little pompons for the tails and sequins. The sentiment is a Michaels stamp. http://www.istencils.com/store/products/89-00108-r-sc Also linking this card with  Uniko Studio  - Anything Goes AAA cards - Easter colors Simon Says Wednesday challenge - anything goes Just us Girls - photo inspiration - mainly went with the colors Challenge up your Life - Easter Case this Sketch  - see below    Happy CASEing! Come on and play with us and check out all the fabulous card by our wonderful DT!

Hi Everyone, just a quick post today - its late and I don't have much time....just wanted to share two cards with you - my first is for this weeks Make it Monday where the fabulous Laura Bassen tells us the secret of double partial die cutting. You gotta watch that video! Here is the card I made for it: All supplies are by Papertrey and I added some sequins. Here is  a different view - I mounted it with foam tape onto card stock.  My second card is for  A Blog named Hero  - something unexpected it the theme. If you know me even a little bit, you know that is just the right thing for me..... I used a leaf stamp from the set Lotus Leaves to make the bird, the green "branch" is from the same set and I added those tiny little black adornments with stamps from the Heartfelt Messages set. Both sets are by Hero Arts Added some splatters and smeared green ink for extra interest.   I am also linking up with Simon Says ...

Hi Everyone, its INSPIRATION day again at  STAMPlorations !  The DT girls made some beautiful cards to entice you playing with your stamps or stencils - STAMPlorations or otherwise. I used that fun stencil finally for the first time: ARTPlorations Stencils - Hello & Company In addition I used a stencil by Memory Box  - Radio Waves,which I sponged in rainbow colors. So, if you are up for it - CASE my card or any other card and link it up  HERE  over at STAMPlorations. The InLinkz gallery  will be open until the 5th of April - gives you plenty of time! One winner will be randomly drawn from all entries to win a $15 gift certificate or their choice of any 2 ARTplorations stencils. Also linking this card with Uniko Studio - Anything Goes Darnell's NBUS Challenge #4 (Artplorations stencil) Simon Says Wednesday challenge - Anything Goes Simply Create Too - Anything Goes Happy CASEing!

Hi Everyone, its INSPIRATION day again at  STAMPlorations !  The DT girls made some beautiful cards to entice you playing with your stamps or stencils - STAMPlorations or otherwise. I used the Bold Florals  stencil and alcohol inks to make this card on glossy card stock. A little different from my usual more CAS approach. Just wanted to try something new. Vignette: It's Your Day             ARTPlorations Stencils - Bold Florals The sentiment I stamped with Memento Tuxedo black ink So, if you are up for it - CASE my card or any other card and link it up  HERE  over at STAMPlorations. The InLinkz gallery  will be open until the 5th of April - gives you plenty of time! One winner will be randomly drawn from all entries to win a $15 gift certificate or their choice of any 2 ARTplorations stencils. Happy CASEing!

Connected through our love for card making, blogging and being from Germany we (Tanja from   Little Art Cottage   and I) decided to create a monthly project within predefined requirements. We are going to show you the result every 3rd Sunday of the month and this is our first transatlantic get-together! Our requirements for our first meet-up were: Easter bunny/bunnies and stencil. And here is my card: I used an iStencil for this - I love that one - you can see other cards with it HERE  . Sponged in grey and pink. My favorite Impression Obsession bunnies and a Michaels sentiment. The pink bunny is mounted on foam tape. I am linking this card with  Simply Create Too  - Easter Bunnies Steckenpferdchen - Fruehlingserwachen - Spring - spring makes me always think of Easter! Traumfabrik -  Chicken Run and/or Easter Bunny   Uniko Studio  - Anything Goes Stempelkueche - Vierbeiner Just Add Ink - Eggs or...

Hi everyone, I needed a card for my nephew's birthday - he is in college studying aeroplane engineering - I needed something techy...what better to use than my brand new iStencil for that! I made a one layer card. http://www.istencils.com/store/products/6x6-ptp-018-pacman-stacks The sentiment is by Papertrey And as luck will have it  - it fits the current challenge at Time out  - CAS, black and white with a splash of color. Also linking it with Cardz 4 Guys  - CAS Seize the Birthday - anything birthday AAA challenge - Bare naked CAS Sorry for my brevity - I am going away and I still have a ton of stuff to do - I might not be able to comment as much as I would like to, but I promise to catch up with you once I am back home!

Hi Everyone, this is my second post today - for my GDT stint over at Retro Rubber scroll down or click HERE Its challenge time at  ATSM ! For the next two week its going to be Anything Goes - just my thing! And probably yours, too! Since our generous sponsor is Lawn Fawn I pulled out my sparse Lawn Fawn supplies to make this card - stamps and die cut. I also thought I use the Lawn Fawn colors - therefore the green and blue color scheme.... The funky cat however is by Paper Smooches -  I love that one! Come on and  play with us  and check out all the fabulous card by our wonderful DT! And I am still not done here..... Sharing the card I made for my  Spotlight post over at STAMPlorations  - you'll find the tutorial over there. I am linking this card with Just us Girls - Splatter The Paper Players - CAS floral CASology - Blossom     Now you have something else to check out ;) ...

Hi Everyone, I got invited to join in the fun for the next two weeks at Retro Rubber ! This is a fun challenge - you have to use your older stamps! What a great excuse to pull them out again and have them smell some ink! This week's challenge is real easy - its heat embossing! I pulled out this Hero Arts triangle background stamp, inked it up with Versamark and sprinkled WOW gold embossing powder in the center. For the outer part I used white embossing powder. That WOW embossing powder is amazing. Its very detailed and has a wonderful gold tone. I sloshed watercolor around ti and let it dry. Heat embossed that fun STAMPLorations HAPPY stamp from the  set  SENTIMENT BUILDERS: Happy  on vellum and attached it. The 50 is by Papertrey and the sequins are MFT.  I also wrapped some thin gold thread around the vellum. The numbers are mounted with foam  tape, as is the large sequin. I made that card for an "old" friend of mine - its going to Germany!...

Hi everyone, this is going to be a LONG post..... before I forget - you have to go and visit my amazing, creative friend Rahmat from Card and Cooking Corner  - "why?" You may ask, but you'll have to find out for yourself :))) - please leave her some love and tell her I sent you! As soon as I saw that inspiration picture from  Showcase Your Style I knew I had to play - just how to do this picture justice???? It took me quite a while to figure it out - I wanted the colors, the shine and the bubbles. I was playing around with one of those iStencil stencils making a card you'll get to see soon, when it hit me that it would work perfectly for the challenge - so here it is: It took a while to make this. I first sponged the background. Then I taped the stencil down and sponged in a darker shade again.  I then applied clear embossing paste and let it dry over night. (Did some touch up sponging again). I had to reposition the stencil and repeated, since i...