Stempel Spass

Hi, friends!  It's time for another new challenge here at House of Cards !  We've got a fabulous one for you this fortnight and we cannot wait to see what you've got in store for us! This fortnight, we're asking for  CAS AND/OR CLASSIC/ELEGANT CARDS PLUS WE'D LIKE YOU TO USE THIS AS YOUR INSPIRATION ~ Use the colors, photo or both as your inspiration!!! We've got a lovely guest joining us this month here at HOC... Please help me welcome  Judith ! And here is my card: Do you see this fabulous paper? I got that from my friend Anita from My Papercraft World . The color block stamp I cut from left over rubber scraps. The birds are form Inkadinkadoo Bird Assortment and the sentiment is by Stamplorations - Art Deco Border Builders Ink up your stamps, come on over to House of Cards and let our DT inspire you - you have two weeks to play with us! Thank you  for visiting my blog today!

 I had some ideas for the FISH theme at this weeks CASology challenge - and that's what I ended up creating: I used my Sea Mates set from TAWS for the first card. The sentiment is from Technique Tuesday. The waves I cut with Lifestyle Crafts die out of vellum. The waves are held together by a Washi tape and bakers twine. The eyes I made with glossy accents and on the whale sprout I put some glossy accents - does not really show in the picture..... --X-- Here is a new challenge to link up with:  Go visit Stempelgaudi  and link up your favorite project from last month. Although this can be hard, to pick a favorite card ....For me it is.... I love them all......(almost all) --X-- My second card I modeled after the childrens book SWIMMY by Leo Leonni - it was one of our favorites when my kids were little..... The red fish are from Paper Source, the black fish I made myself out of left over scrap from a rubber stamp s...

This weeks runway inspired challeng e has again a great inspiration photo: And here is my take on it: The pink stamps are my own (see below , the sentiment is  a combo of Clearly Wordsworth and Hero Arts - Essential Messages (Cl371). I used Washi tape at the bottom, which I cut in half and splattered some blue/grey distress ink on top. I m very happy with the result, my husband was not thrilled, but my son liked it, yeahhh! And here is my inspiraton: This card  by Susan  and Tasnim , who reminded me that I can make my own stamps - I have done that several times before, for example on this card, where I made myself that background stamp: And here is a photo of some of my home made stamps using left over rubber from stamp sheets or craft foam, which also works great. I hope you enjoyed my little blog today - have a great day and as always your comments are greatly appreciated. I had to tur...