Stempel Spass

Hi Everyone, I made that card for Becca - The Damsel of Distressed - I am sure you know her blog - if not you may want to visit her - I promise you won't be disappointed! Becca is fun, full of energy and has her won fabulous style! Now she is celebrating her birthday and she has a mood board - if you want to join in . She also raffles of 7 prizes, woot, woot! I guess its easy to see what inspired me on her mood board! Used that bird from Unity stamps, a stencil frorm Prima and the rest (glasses and sentiment) is by Paper Smooches. I double die cut the glasses and mounted them with a tiny piece of foam tape to give them more dimension. Added reflections to the eyes and colored that little heart in red. Also linking up with: CAS on Sunday  - see sketch below The Paper Players  - frames        Happy Stamping!

Hi Everyone, I just love making kids birthday cards....this one will go to Germany to the then 4 year old son of one of my former Au Pairs. I used the cute dog from the Paper Smooches set Birthday Buddies, stamped him on Kraft paper and colored him with pencils. I like him even more with a googly eye and gave him some tail   wags.....Added a felt heart and some sequins. The "floor" he sits on I made with a credit card - those things come in handy at all sorts of occasions ;) And here you get another view of him: I just love him! Challenges I am linking up with: CASual Fridays  - Felt and Sequins Paper Smooches - Anything Goes Virginia's View - Clean Slate Seize the Birthday - anything birthday

And yet another Christmas card.....this one I made for the Paper Smooches challenge  - the inspiration picture is below. I stacked up various animals  from my sets and colored them with Copics in a muted color palette. The sentiment is also Paper Smooches - Christmas sampler, There is just something about those stamps that make me smile. They are just too cute, without being cutsie..... Here is the inspiration picture: Also adding this card to  Simon Says Wednesday challenge  - Winter and to  Simon Says Monday challenge  - anything goes Challenge up your life - Xmas without Xmas stamps Traumfabrik  - A Christmas Carol/anything Christmas Happy stamping and have a great day!

Hi Everyone, its challenge time at ATSM and our theme is "Make your Mark" I used Paper Smooches stamps for this card - the stamps are from the set Santa Paws, except the background star, which is from  Birthday Buddies. I colored the dog with my Copic markers and fuzzy cut it. The stitched landscape dies are by Lawn Fawn. I added Wink of Stella to the stars and the brim of the Santa hat, but you can't see that in the picture.  I just love this punny sentiment! I mounted the card onto a white base with foam tape. Our generous sponsor is: http://www.eurekastamps.com/ The prize is 3 digis. I am also playing in the  Paper Smooches  challenge - Anything goes and in the Snippets Playground - my snippets are the dog and the hat. 

The son of a distant relative of mine - his name is Adrian is celebrating his 7th birthday and I wanted to make a card for him - he gets one every year. And what is better than to use those fabulously cute stamps from  Paper Smooches  for it? This weeks challenge is Anything Goes - what could be better? I also just discovered a new challenge - its by  Taylored Expressions  and they are celebrating their 6th birthday with a big birthday bash (see below) - I had to play and used their sketch for this card: I used a Memory Box stencil tp make the side strip and the "water" in the "aquarium" . The fish and sentiment are from the Paper Smooches set - Birthday Buddies. The "water plants" on the right are cut with a Memory Box die (NBUS). Here is a close-up - you can see better here, that I partially filled my aquarium with microbeads - got them on sale years ago and have never used them...  Part of the Taylored Expression requirements is...

I recently ordered some Paper Smooches stamps (because I don't yet have enough stamps, LOL).....they are just so damn cute - hard to resist..... But anyhow this set came in handy for this weeks Paper Smooches challenge . The inspiration picture is below - subtle stripes in blue, yellow and soft pink. I used the fish from the set Birthday Buddies, stamped it in Versamark and heat embossed it in silver - those jars have a silver lid. I made a mask for the fishes and then used a Memory Box stencil to sponge the stripes waves. I colored the fish with Copics - stripes here as well.   You see the silver embossing better on the oblique image, straight on it looks like black ink....  Added the sentiment and bubbles (with glossy accents) and a jute bow. this is a one layer card, which qualifies it also for the A Blog named Hero challenge - which is collaborating with Paper Smooches right now I will also link up with KIS - add a bow Seize the Birthd...