Stempel Spass

 I made this card fo rthe  Make It Monday #16   from Papertrey. The theme issCombining Chalk and Stamps with Impression Plates.  Melissa  explaines in a fabulous video how to do that. I causes this great effect and I love how this card turned out. Papertrey   I took that polka dot embossing plate by Papertrey and added chalk in various shades of pink and purple. I then stamped on it with the Dot Spot set. The sentiment is from the Papertrey set Cutting Garden. The die cuts I used fro the sentiment are also by PTI. I added some Stickles. Not sure why, since the card looked pretty good without it. Here are some more shots to show you the texture of this card better: I am also submitting this card to the AAA challeng e . Of course I had the colors in mind when I chose them for this card.      And lastly this card will join the Snippets Playground - sentiment papers taken from my ever growing snippets pile... ...

So here is my second card for the  The  Friday Mashup : I love this stamp over your stencil technique! I learned that in the    Stenciled online class. The stars are by  Papertrey - I die cut my stencil. I then stamped over the stencil with stamps from the Papertrey Dot Spot set. The sentiment is by CASual Fridays- the set is called RAD. The tiny stars are by MFT. I am also linking this card with the  Trendy Star Moxie Fab challenge  color me...! challenge - 5 colors of one's choice - mine are neon yellow, orange, pink, purple and black Dream Valley challenges - no designer paper

Emboss resist is this week's theme at Make it Monday . The talented Heather Nichols has a great video on the blog - check it out. it is really simple to do and I love the effect! I used one of my favorite Papertrey sets for this - its called Dot Spot. The sentiment is from the set - Wonderful Words Hello This was so quick and easy! I used some Stickles on the center dots - here is a close-up: I am also linking this with Dynamic Duos Again - thanks for stepping by - have a great night and thank you so much for all your lovely comments!

Thankfully Papertrey posted the inspiration picture for the blog hop 10 days ago, so I could "prepare" for it.... I am actually leaving today for my 2 week vacation in Germany - visiting my parents and friends and I won't have time to blog and probably no time to comment.... So here is my card: Its hard to photograph gold, so here is a different angle: And a close-up: Materials: Papertrey Dot Spot, Papertrey Hello Die, Martha Stewart punch I hope you like it! I actually sent this card to a blog friend of mine in Germany, who is spending the summer in a Rehab clinic with her severly disabled son and her other two boys. She has a great blog ( Kreativsuechtig - but it is in German)  - if you have time, pay her a visit! I will be back in about 3 weeks after I have caught up with everything back home... Have a great time and see you soon! And before I leave I wanted to thank all of you for visiting my blog and leaving...

I started to fall in love with the  Make it Monday challenges .... this week it it paper piecing. I don't really have any Papertrey stamps that lend themselves easily to this technique, so I improvised... I used the QuicKutz colorwheel die (got that one really cheap on their outlet site) and used the Papertrey Dot spot set, which I heat embossed in white. The sentiment is Papertrey Happy Trails I added a gem in the center - I hope this counts for the technique.... The color wheel is pieced together with pain chips. I wanted to thank everyone for all their lovely comments - it is so nice to read them! thank you for taking the time to do that!

No sure, what's wrong with me lately..... thought I'll combine the Make it Monday Marvelous Monogram challenge from Papertrey with the   Challenge, but no, it was not the regular Make it Monday, it was a blog hop ending yesterday. Alt least I did not screw up with the silver challenge . It took me a while to come up with something - actually Papertrey spurned my imagination  - as you can see. I made this card for my nieces birthday - those are her initials. I just hope she has more important things to do than checking my blog, I would like this to be a surprise..... It was kind of tricky gluing on the letters After some trial and error I managed to adhere them with glossy accents. The bigger silver circle is glued to chipboard, to give the card some dimension. And here is another challenge this card will be part of :   CASology CIRCLE   - as my new member Kimberly just told me - I wanted to make something else for this one,...