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Hi Everyone, Its challenge time at  ATSM ! For  the  next 2 weeks we want you to play along with us - the topic is Anything Goes! The paint tubes are fuzzy cut from a PP by the Renke Manufaktur ( a sweet gift from my friend Elisabeth ). I mount with foam tape. A also gave them more vibrant colors.....the paint coming out of them is watercolor. The sentiment is by Papertrey - Happy Trails and the butterflies are a Martha Stewart punch. http://www.sweetpeastamps.com/ Prize is 4 digis from the store Come on by and get inspired by our talented DT! I hope to see you all over at ATSM! Happy Stamping!

Hi, some challenges just appeal to me and I have to play.....this was the case with the challenge going on at  Shopping our Stash , which I stumbled upon somehow.....the theme is Hide and Seek - put a hidden element on your card. Ans since I am still in full blown Valentine's mood - that gallery I am selling my cards at here locally has asked for some.....I made one for Valentine's Day: I punched out the tiny envelope (an ancient Marvy punch) and the hearts. The latter are from paint chips - give you perfect color coordination, although in the photo the smallest heart does not look darker, but it is... The swirl is by Papertrey - Happy Trails, the you is by Avery Elle. The hearts are dangling on a sliver thread and you can pull them out to reveal.... Not really a surprise...... Also playing in Inkspirational - Ombre    

I got my mail today and boy there were a lot of surprises in there - about some I'll tell you later, since I don't have a lot of time right now, but I also got some more stamping supplies - yeahhh - as if I would need more ...... I had to try some of them right away - using my new STAMPlorations set  SUBWAY ART BUILDERS: Create (this is a sneak preview of part of the set - the set will be released in Ma y)  and the  VIGNETTE: Artful Flutters The circle lines I created with a brand new stencil from Memory Box - Radio Waves - I sponged that - it was a bit tricky, because the stencil is so delicate.... The butterflies I made with a scrap piece of acetate - a leftover form some packaging, which I colored with alcohol inks and stamped the butterflies with Staz On ink. All the ink is on the backside of the butterflies to protect the colors. I added some Stickles to the bodies of the butterflies - love the sparkle... the curvy line is from Papertrey Happ...

Lyndal made a real stunning card for the  Muse  challenge, her card is below. I took my all time favorite TCW stencil to create this graphic card. The vertical stripes remind me about the trees and the coloring - well that is straight from Lyndals card. I added Paper Candy dots and colored them with Copics. I like those things - much cheaper than enamel dots and you can color them really easily in any color to fit your project. The only drawback is, that they are relatively large and only come in one size..... The sentiment is  Papertrey - Happy Trails Here is Lyndal's card: I am also adding this card to  Less is more   - Rules of Three recipe - used 3 colors   Moxie Fab STENCIL challenge

The Paper Players  have a somewhat tricky color combination this week in my humble opinion..... I concentrated on the blue and gold and kept the cantaloupe for the enamel dots.... I used the STAMPlorations set Trendy Feathers   - the sentiment is from the same set and the swirl and splot are from Papertrey Happy Trails. I masked the blue feather, before I stamped it a second time in gold. The gold is Delicata ink - I just love this ink. It so pretty in real life, the picture does not do  it justice..... Here is the inspiration photo: I am also linking this up with the  Simon Says Monday Challenge  - We Love Stamps (who doesn't???)

I saw this inspiration picture at Inkspirational , put it mentally on my to do list of challenges, promptly forgot about it until.....  recently when I rummaged through my papers I found this gorgeous patterned paper from DCWV and thought it would be perfect for this..... But how to make it into a card?.....I finally checked the linky list for the expiration and guess what - another last minute project.... So quick thinking was required...... I die cut the butterflies from gold foil and gold embossed the sentiment.  I put the sentiment on an additional strip of PP and used foam tape to give it some dimension. The butterflies are also adhered with foam tape. Its not really my style, but I really like it! I like how the sentiment plays into the dream of the picture and the butterflies go along with the gorgeous bird. Even the colors kind of match up.  I am also linking this card up with the CHNC Patterned Paper challenge and with Shopping our S...

When I saw this weeks Make It Monday I first thought there is something wrong with my eyes....sorry, Dawn , but it just looked blurry to me...But then I gave it a try at home and I was thrilled to see the result! The topic is Generation Stamping with Line Images & Multiple Colors - and Dawn McVey is doing a great video about this over at  Make It Monday  with all the  explanation  you need! I did not have any Papertrey stamps that I could use with this technique, so I took the diamond from the Hero Arts set So Kind for the generational stamping. I filled them with the little diamonds from the Happy Harlequin stamp set byPapertrey. The sentiment is Papertrey -  Cutting Garden. I really love the result of it. It looks so much better in real life than on the picture. It has real dimension! And then it inspired me to make a second card: I used my brand new Stamplorations stamp sets - the generational stamping I did with th...

My blogging friend Maria and DT buddy inspired me to play in this month Stamplorations challenge . The theme is stamps and feathers. Perhaps you'll want to join in with their challenge. I'll be starting on their fantastic DT perhaps as soon as February and like her I am waiting for my new trendy feathers set to arrive, but I am not completely featherless....So I pulled out my Hero Arts feather stamps set and thought I give the chalkboard technique over at the Paper Players another try. I also added the gold embossed fountain pen tip to the Hero Arts feather, its from the Papertrey Happy Trails set, as is the sentiment and the little ink splatter.  I stamped it all with Versamark and heat embossed it. I sponged white chalk ink along the feather and to give it some shimmer I added Perfect Pearls in the end, so now its chalkboard with a shimmer. Looks really pretty and this time I got a "very nice" out of my husband. the usual commentary is just ...

One Layer Wednesday  - One-One-One is the challenge,  meaning one stamp, one color and one sentiment. A nice little twist on one layer cards. I decided to also do some sponging to give it more depth. Or is that not allowed? I have no idea. Maybe I should call it one-one-one-one? Just kidding.  Materials: Inkadinkadoo Meadow, sentiment - Papertrey Happy Trails

Today is blog hop day  at Papertrey   yeahh! And again there are delicious color choices.... For my first card I choose this picture and combined it with the challenge that's going on right now at Crazy for CAS , for which I choose this sketch from challenge #16:                And that is the card that came out of this: I masked the squares, die cut the flowers, colored them with ink pads and embellished them with little link circles and a drop of glossy accents. The sentiment is from the Papertrey Happy Trails set. I added 3 dots of liquid pearls. I am going to work on my second card now...

Schwarzer Hintergrund - black background is the theme at the  KIS challenge #15 I also wanted to play in this weeks CASE this Sketch  #31 and therefore I combined them both. I love my Hero Arts Feathers set - perfect to use for this sketch..... The stripes I made with Perfect Pearls, the sentiment is Papertrey Happy Trails and the hearts I have laying around since Valentine's Day - I squirted Liquid Pearls on them and let it dry Here is a close-up: I wish you all a great weekend and thank you very much for your sweet comments! I so much appreciate them!

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!

I liked the OWL so much I made some more cards.... I sponged the bac kground, used the  Hero Arts Dandelion Frame, which I masked. The sentiment is from Papertrey - Happy Trails the card above, the card below is from Impression Obsession.  It does not really show, but I put some Stickles on the dandelions - looks really pretty!  I did get inspired by a card made by  Janet  a.k.a Swanlady- her card is so beautiful!

Isn't that delicious? This is the Tuesday Trigger inspiration from Moxie Fab. I kept my card close to the inspiration photo.  The background is made with the Papertrey Woodgrain embossing plate. For the squares I used the Papertrey Take Tree die and the flowers are made with Martha Stewart punches. The sentiment is Papertrey Happy Trails. I used a smidgen of chalk to give the flowers some depth.

I just had time to watch the Make it Monday video at Nichole Heady's blog . Dawn McVey shares a technique that I remember from my childhood when we had fountain pens and blew the ink around on paper.  I guess good things never die...  I experimented a bit. My regular card stock that I use did not really work well - it just soaked up the ink. I took some glossy paper then - nothing fancy, just some advertisement that had a white back, dripped a drop of ink on it and blew with a straw. On glossy paper you can get real detail and it looks quite cool, I think. The sentiment is from one of my favorite Papertrey sets called Happy Trails, the bird I die cut from a paint chip - its from Memory Box, called perched Reed Bird. I gave it a little enamel eye and beak.

Due to time constraints I am combining two challenges.... .Just Us Girls  has "Ombre" as a theme and it's "all that glitters" at CAS-ual Fridays . So the dragonfly glitters over an ombre background. It kind of hard to photograph the glitter.  A while ago I saw on the Stampendous website the Kaleidoscope embossing powder  - that is really cool! It changes color depending on how long you heat it starting at blue to green, to golden brown. I only heated it at its blue and green stage, going with my background colors. I love the effect. I found another cool challenge to submit this card to: Catered Crop - the theme is glitter, too. How perfect is that? Materials: Dragonfly  - Stamping Ground, Gradation background by Impression Obsession, sentiment Papertrey Happy Trails, Kaleidoscope embossing powder by Stampendous