Stempel Spass

     Hi Everyone, I wish you all a Happy Easter! I used an egg die from QuicKutz. The cute little animals are by Cats on Appletrees. A real simple card. The  Happy Easter sentiment  is from Crackerbox Stamps. Love its pretty font. Crackerbox Stamps also has an Easter sale going on until Monday - 15% off everything and free shipping on US orders of more than $45. Great deal! I trimmed the card and added a strip of patterned paper on the side. I hope you liked this. Thanks for visiting! Happy Easter and happy stamping! Linking up with: AAA Cards challenge - Easter with small and few Paper Dragonfly - birds Critter Crazies Challenge - anything with a critter Alphabet challenge - A is for animal antics Cut is up - Easter  

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 2rd Sunday of the month and this is our 47th transatlantic get-together! This time it was my turn to pick the requirements: Easter card with embossing folder and die cuts Awhile back I bought some goodies by Alexandra Renke, which you nowadays can thankfully get in the US and I really wanted to use them. The gorgeous dotted embossing folder has a star in the center, but its covered up by the egg, so it works for Easter as well.  I swiped an inkpad lightly over the embossed dots, as I wanted a bit more contrast. The bunnies are also by Alexandra Renke. The egg is a Lifestyle Crafts die. The little blue strip is a snippet from an alcohol ink background. Lets check out   Tanja's artwork! ...

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 24th transatlantic get-together! We also have the talented Daria from My Creations joining us. This time it was Tanja's turn to pick the requirements: Pop Up Box Card I already did a practice run with my Spotlight card over at STAMPlorations, where I made a tutorial on how to do this. It is not quite as much work as you think it may be - otherwise I would not have made two of those.... I used my favorite bunnies from Impression Obsession, the grass is from Clearly Besotted, the small eggs (PP) are a balloon punch from which I trimmed the nipple off to make it look more like an egg. The big egg is a QuicKutz die. I used the water color paper I made for my spotlight...

Hi Everyone, playing with 7 Days 7 Sketches - onto day 2 and 3:  First   DAY 2 , of course....I had a LOT of trouble with that sketch. My first try was so bad, it was unsalvageable - almost unheard for me. I threw it out. My second try is okay. I should have probably been not so focused on Father's Day, but whatever.... I think the sketch is easier for a layout than a card - but that is probably just a meager excuse..... Materials: stamps: Hero Arts - Shoot for the Moon (Cl773), Papertrey - ancient Fathers Day set, Neat&Tangled - big splatter Simon Says square stitched die Dylusion ink spray splatters doodled frame-not a supply, just hand drawn Also linking up with: Simon Says Wednesday challenge - Masculine Now DAY 3 : A much easier sketch for me :))) Materials:  Papertrey - ancient Fathers Day set - cut away that frame that you see in the above card, should have cut if off for that o...

Hi Everyone, just a quick post to wish everyone a Happy Easter - even that in part of the world that Holiday is already past... We had visitors this weekend and I had to work, so not much time..... Used my favorite IO bunnies and egg dies by Quickutz, Embossed some of those eggs with embossing folders.  And now those bunnies will retire until next year! Linking up with: All Sorts Challenge - Easter Challenge up your Life - Embossing Snippets Playground - use a snippet (bunnies, embossed eggs) Steckenpferdchen - bunnies Friday Mash-up - Easter Critters

Not only do I have 3 new members  INEKE  (Sorry, can't find a link) CATHY JUDY to welcome to my blog. Go and checkout their's if you have time - its definitely worthwhile. Cathy has a new blog -great finds can be made there and Judy I have known forever from flickr, but just discovered her blog 2 days ago (spent quite some time there), funny, how things go... AND   I can also welcome a new member to my family:  Andromeda  a Russian dwarf hamster - my son got her for his birthday. He is sooo happy to have her!  I don't want to test your patience - usually I have welcome picture for my new members, but lets just keep it with the hamster pics for now, I don't want this post to get out of hand. I post a welcome picture in my next blog post  - I guess you have to come back and check it out ;) --X--   BLACK and GREY    that is  the challenge at   Dynamic Duos this week...

I wish all my dear followers and visitors   Happy Easter! Thank you for all your kind comments and for your frequent visits - they are very much appreciated! Cath Edvalson at Moxie Fab has all those cool challenges going on - I am sure you know about them. One is about Washi Tape. I do own some...., but I rarely use it. I really don't know what to do with it. I like Jennifer McGuires suggestion - she uses it instead of repositional tape and it really is fabulous for that. But regardless,  I decided to try to use it for what is is designed..... and made a card for my nephew's birthday: I taped the Washi tape onto card stock and then ran it through my Big Shot in a Sizzix embossing folder - works beautifully, I think. I totally blends with the paper. You can't even tell its separate. The arrows are die cuts from QuicKutz and the sentiment is Studio 112.