Stempel Spass

Hi Everyone,  I have some exciting news!!!! I now work with iStencils to design cards for them! I was over the moon, when they asked me to do that!!!  I absolutely love stencils and their stencils particularly appeal to me. I have that soft spot for graphic design and there is an abundance of graphic stencils at their site.  You may have seen my last card I made with an iStencil, if not you can see it HERE . This is a different one that I got on my shopping spree with them...... I finally got over my embossing paste fear and mixed myself some color. I did not completely mix the colors together, I liked the different shades I got. I used that gorgeous iStencil and overlaid it with a heart mask, that I cut out of a large post it note. Smeared the paste over it and let it dry. ​ http://www.istencils.com/store/products/27-00002-r-sc Splattered some metallic blue spray ink. Let it dry..... I then added the LOVE die cut, heat embossed the Y...

Hi Everyone -  I am so happy and proud to be guest designer for the Craft Stamper magazine January Take it Make it challenge ! I got that honor with winning the November challenge with THIS card, where I also won this fabulous stamp set from  Artistic Stamper  (see picture below), which I used to create my two inspiration cards. This months theme is Anything Goes with stamps (no digis)- don't we all LOVE this?  In both cards I stamped the background with the wavy stamp from this stamp set in various colors. I then used those wonderful Raindrop stamps from Ryn Tanaka and stamped them over the wavy lines. I used a light color wash to color the water drops and added white highlights to make them more 3-D.  The sentiment stamps are by STAMPlorations - for the pink card I used  Bloom Sketches  and for the green card I used  Artful Flutters I am linking my card with Ryn's customer creation challenge - anything with Ryn stamps ...

Hi ,  its challenge time at  Addicted to Stamps and More ! This fortnight we have a gorgeous inspiration picture for you: I used my favorite Papertrey Woodgrain embossing plate, which I inked up with grey Memento Luxe ink and ran it through my Big Shot using light grey card stock. The beautiful daffodil stamp is by STAMPlorations -  Boxed Blooms and Bold Sentiments. I heat embossed it in silver and colored it with Copics. The sentiment is from the same set. Some how this card turned into a Sympathy card - did not really plan to make one, but the end results fits that best. I hope I won't need it soon...... We have a generous sponsor this week - its The winner will receive 3 free digis of her choice! So come on over to the  ATSM challenge blog  and get some  inspiration from our wonderfully creative DT   and we hope you find time to join in the fun!

Hi Everybody, we have a new sketch challenge for you at STAMPlorations !  I used this fabulous   Boxed Blooms and Bold Sentiments , for the flower picutres. For the background strip I used the  Vignette: It's Your Day  and the litlte celebrate is from  Sentiment Builders: Celebrate . I added a thin strip of Washi tape and some Stickles. So here is our sketch:   Our team has fabulous inspiration cards for you, so head over to our  BLOG  and we also have a wonderful guest designer this month - its Carol from Just me:C  - she is an amazing card  maker  and very creative. Go and visit her and leave her some love! This challenge ends August 29; the winner will be announced   August 31 . Just to let you know - I am on vacation and I won't be able to comment. But I still will enjoy reading yours and I sure will catch up with you once I'll be back home again.  I am also linking up ...

This is my second post today - please scroll down (or click HERE ) for the House of Cards post there is a challenge starting there today too! --- I just love the STAMPlorations sketches - they are always a little different from what else is out there in blog land and make you think differently. This sketch I really liked. I used the  using   Boxed Blooms and Bold Sentiments  set here. I first stamped the daisy with Versamark and heat embossed it in white. I then took a square punch and some recycled card stock to use as a stencil and sponged in yellow. I rotated the stencil and masked off the yellow square and sponged the remaining triangle in orange and repeated it once more to sponge in pink. I outlined the squares with a black pen to give it more definition and stamped the sentiment. Splattered black and yellow all over the card and added the enamel dots.  Here is the sketch: Our team has fabulous inspiration cards for you , so head o...

Hi, its Cornelia here! Today I want to explore some options with the  Boxed Blooms and Bold Sentiments set from STAMPlorations. I have already played around with it HERE  and HERE . And if you are familiar with the STAMPlorations blog you have seen my teamies using it as well.  And that is what I want to share with you today: I used glossy paper and stamped with Staz-on ink and then used Marvy markers to color the images. I have that patterned paper at home, basically forever. It was the first patterned paper I ever bought. And I rarely ever use any.....but those stamps reminded me about some of those papers and wanted to incorporate it into a card somehow. I have tried them in the past, but found the pattern to overpowering and the colors weird......So I took some colored vellum and overlaid it onto the paper. I glued the vellum to the PP where the black panel is, so you won't see the glue. The string on top hold it in place there as well ...

Hi, here is my second blog post for today - please scroll down for the House of Cards challenge post! So its time again for the new sketch challenge at STAMPlorations ! And here is my interpretation: I kept it very simple - the colorful background panel I colored with alcohol inks on glossy card stock. This beautiful lily stamp I also stamped on glossy card stock and popped it up with foam tape and some gold thread behind it. I used the sets  Boxed Blooms and Bold Sentiments  and  PATCHWORK FRENZY: Graphic Squares  (sentiment) for this card. Here is a close-up: Go and visit the STAMPlorations blog to let our wonderful DT inspire you and also have a look at the fabulous card from our talented Guest Designer  Monika ! The challenge ends July 18; the winner will be announced July 20 I am also linking this up with this month  Bizzy Becs Challenge  - Anything goes and A Blog named Hero - color it in - colo...

Hello Everybody, its time again for another challenge at STAMPlorations   you gonna love it - its STAMPS and GLITTER! I had to play around with my new STAMPlorations stamp set  Boxed Blooms and Bold Sentiments . I stamped the rose on patterned paper and colored it  with pencil. I used square  Lifestyle Crafts dies to emboss and cut out he frame. I mounted the cover card stock with foam tape to give more dimension. The sentiment is from the same set. Lastly I added Stickles - you gotta need glitter here..... Her are some close up shots to show you more detail: Head over to the blog - we have a fabulous Guest Designer this month - I am sure you all know her  - its the amazingly talented Kimberly Wiener from Wienerhoneymooners . And of course our DT has some wonderful inspiration for you as well! And her is the fabulous prize for this month: 2 Spellbinders Borderabilities Dies (Class...