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Hi Everyone, its challenge time at House of Cards ! You are going to love this one, because we also have a lot of information for you on today's post as well as on follow-up posts throughout the month. So - our theme is ENAMEL DOTS! I am sure you all love them, but they are kind of pricey -after all they are just tiny blobs of plastic.... But the good news - you can make them yourself with little effort and little cost - I made mine. But I won't give anything away here - go and visit the blog! There you can also see the creation from our fabulous guest designer -   Lisa from LJ Creations ! You can also check out the other DT members for more inspiration~ Barbara ,  Cohenna ,  Daen'Ys ,  Dana ,  Donna N. ,  Donna T. ,  Emily ,  Gracie ,  Judy ,  Katy ,  Lilian ,  Linda ,  Lorry ,  Merethe ,  Michele ,  Monika ,  Mrs Duck ,  Pat ,  Rocky ,  Ruza ,  Sue ...

 I could not believe it when Marina from Inkspirational asked me if I wanted to be guest designer! I am still totally over the moon about it !!!! And of course I said yes. The theme for the next two weeks if FLIGHT Now there are many possibilities for that, but I choose to go with air travel.  I used an old stamp set from Recollections and combined it with my all time favorite Avery Elle set - To the Point. And then I was not sure if I liked the card enough, so I made a second card with rainbow colors.... I bent the triangle and mounted the plane on foam tape after I cut it out. So I hope you are as excited as I am to play with us for the next two weeks. Come on over to see all those beautiful card from the design team and get inspired! Thank you all at Inkspirational to give me this opportunity! And I'll see you at  Inkspirational ..... I am also linking BOTH cards with the current Avery Elle challenge - CAS --X-- ...

 It has been a while since my last new member greeting and I have now 4 new members who joined my blog - I made it past 150! That is fantastic - thank you all for joining and thanks to my long term members for  staying with me! Stephanie (sorry did not find a link) Petra  aka Hellerlittle Katie Melhus Neets B And if you have time, you may visit them and say hello - they have wonderfully creative blogs, full of inspiration! And here is your welcome picture: As my other recent welcome pictures this is also from the Corning Glass Museum. The artist is Vera Liskova, a  Czech  glass artist and the piece is titled "Anthem of Joy in Glass". I hope it brings you joy looking at it. I sure like it! --X-- But now back to cards... I found two fun challenges to combine. Taheera always finds those wonderful inspiration pictures and the  AEI♥U Challenge  - make your won designer paper is just up my alley! I used t...

I just came back from vacation - a week of no card making - I was getting withdrawal symptoms - LOL! What better than being inspired by Marion Vagg  - this weeks fabulous Muse over at the  Muse challenge ! You'll see her card below. I used the Avery Elle set Bright Days. I heat embossed the yellow sun rays and then sponged around them. The sentiment is also by Avery Elle -To the Point. the card stock is textured - got it from my blogging friend Anita, but you can see this better in the picture below: Here is this weeks Muse card: I am also adding this card to the  Simon Says Wednesday challenge  - the theme is CAS and to CAS-ual Fridays - Three Thirds (3 "suns", 3 colors) Have a great day Everyone and thank you for all you fabulous comments during my week of absence from blog land! I loved all of them. Thank you so much!

Surprise, surprise!!!!! Happy belated Birthday Anita ! Ah, you thought you can just sneak by here, but no, Bev and  Darnell noticed you got a year older! Well lets hope you celebrated accordingly, but if not - here we all are, raising our glass! Cheers, for another happy, healthy and crafty year! Materials: Stamplorations Distressed Floral Swirls and Art Deco Border Builders,  Hero Arts Essential Messages, Avery Elle To the Point. Anybody can join in the celebration - the linky is open for 2 weeks. Come on and celebrate amazing Anita's birthday! --X-- I did not want to have two blog posts, so I am just going to post my challenge card here: I had soooo much fun playing around with one of my TCW stencils - I made a few cards, which I will show you one by one over the next weeks..... For this one I took the colors of Dynamic Duos - black and mustard.  The sentiment is by Papertrey - Mum's the Word and the splatters I ...

When my son saw this inspiration picture from the very first colour me challeng e he exclaimed - "you have to play in this challenge" - and guess what - he was right!     I took a very literal approach here, since that picture is just perfect! Here is my card: Since it also kind of fits the sketch from the Friday Mashup I'm linking it there as well. Materials:  Die and sentiment by Avery Elle,  stamp: Close to my Heart One Way Borders Flair Paper Candi buttons I am linking this card with the  Snippets Playgroun d - used several Snippets here --X-- Here is the inspiration picture for this weeks Color Throwdown I finally stocked up on my Neat and Tangles stamp supply and now own several sets! Yeahh, I finally can play better in the Neat and Tangled challenge, called Little Tangles . The two stamp sets I used are Everyday Labels and Party Dots. I also used Washi tape, stuck it onto white card s...

Don't you love it - that inspiration picture from Avery Elle ? For me it makes a big difference if I am going to play in a challenge. this one really appeals to me -  probably because of those colors..... Hers is my take on it: I spritzed the background paper with Mr. Huey. I hung the banners from a piece of twine, fastened with bards - after I fuzzy cut them from paint swatches. I like the semi-glossy finish of those and they are nice and sturdy. All stamps are Avery Elle. Added some enamel dots. I am also linking this card with: Simon Says Operation Write Home   Pixie's Crafty Snippets Playground  (paint swatches again...)

The July challenge is still going on at Avery Elle  and below you see the inspiration photo. I finally own some Avery Elle stamps, although I hardly used any for this challenge.... I cut out strips of colored card stock, adhered them to white card stock and put a clear acrylic sheet behind the colored strips. It was kind of hard to photograph this card, but I think with three different views you get how it looks like... I like the middle view best, where the light reflects off the acrylic.... The sets I used were Bright Days and To the Point. --X-- Ahhh, you guys seem to like my Germany pictures - I have gotten some very nice comments about them - thank you all, I love your comments :) So here are some more pics - this time as collages. We - my son and friends of us took the train to Tegernsee and hiked up the Baumgartenschneid, which is 1444 m high. The weather was not great, so we did not have a good view, but we enjoyed ourselves nonetheless! ...