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Hi Everyone, 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 ninth transatlantic get-together! This time it was Tanja's turn to pick the requirements: Inspired by Nature I have this die now for a while (it was a present). I actually don't know the company - let me know, if you do. I used water color paper and colored it with water colors. Added the sentiment (Kaisercraft). So it was pretty easy to do. I needed a card for my neighbor, who just delivered a baby boy. Besides that she is one of my fans and customers, so I wanted to make a special card for her.  But I also had a gift, so I needed a box. YouTube came to the rescue. After I watched several videos, I settled on THIS one. Used some of that DP, that has been piling up i...

Since I finally have some Avery Elle stamps in my stash I have to play in their challenge, right? Gosh,I am such a challenge junkie.....                   So here I am combining  Color Throwdown  with AEI♥U  and Seize the Birthday : I used the set called Fanfare for this card. I modified the sketch a tad.... And I glittered up the cake, look really yummy in real life. Does not project quite as well in the photo.... Thanks for stepping by and leaving all those fabulous comments. I really appreciate you taking your time to do that. Thank you all!

Hallo Everybody, today I want to welcome 2 new readers to my blog: Dewi  from Indonesia and Nicole -  BaNiKa  from Germany I am so happy you found me and hopefully you will enjoy your future visits here as well. I found a welcome picture for you in my "stash" - perfect for this time of the year: Its a Dogwwood - they are flowering right now, but I took this picture 2 years ago when I visited the Walter Reeds Arboretum near my home in New Jersey. --X-- But now back to cards....... I made this card for two challenges. One is Less is Moore , which is a sketch challenge this week and the second challenge is Simply Create Too , where the theme is "All about Babies". I have copied the sketch below. The sentiment is from Kaisercraft. And since its "Anything goes" at Simon Says" I am linking this card with them as well. The second card is done with the ink blowing technique that I tried yesterday  (see det...