Stempel Spass

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 ninth transatlantic get-together!  This month we have a guest playing along with us - Larissa from Car-D-elicious . She makes delightful cards and I can't wait to see what she created! This time it was Tanja's turn to pick the requirements: Christmas Bauble I used circle dies to die cut my "bauble". Used an iStencil ( Winter Striped Tree ) and sponged over it with Versamark. Heat embossed in white and ombre sponged with distress oxide ink. Added the die cut star circle. Used metallic paper for this. Added the sentiment and little stars from the Ellen Hutson set Merry and Bright Punched a hole on top with my Cropadile and threaded gold thread through it. ...

Hi Everyone, I really like this " Windy Day " stamp from Katzelkraft - just perfect for blustery winter weather. After all we are supposed to get some snow here on Saturday. Which will be bad, because my huge oak tree just lost all its leaves just now and I still have to get loads of them out front to be picked up.... I masked, colored with Inktense pencils and sponged. The pretty sentiment is from So Suzy Stamps . I liked this the best. Picked it from my huge supply of sentiment stamps.... Splattered white paint. Added Washi tape on the side and a bright red enamel dot for balance. In case you fall in love with this girl and don't want to order from France - you can also get this in the US from TopFlight Stamps . Happy Snow Day to all of you! Linking up with: ATSM - anything goes Watercooler Wednesday - feminine anything goes Hannah &Friends - Let it Snow

Hi Everyone, its inspiration time at  STAMPlorations ! This week is any stamp line at STAMPlorations -  Big Grins ,  The Bees Knees ,   Dee's Artsy Impressions  and   Shery Russ Designs . My stamp supplies:      Framed Cardinal , Layered Holly ,  Warm Hands, Warm Hearts I stamped the Cardinal onto DP and colored him with Inktense pencils. Die cut the Cardinal with a stitched frame. Stamped the holly leaves onto the outer "frame" and then glued fun foam onto the back of the cardinal to give him some dimension. Added the sentiment and an enamel dot. And now the good stuff: From December 1 to 31, all stamps, stencils, and dies (except for products in the New Release and Retiring categories) are 30% off with code HOLIDAY2017 (good for 1 time use only and not combinable with other codes). With my code STAMPGIRLCORNELIA you get 20% off (includes all stamps, stencils, and dies on all regular- and sale-priced i...

Hi Everyone, its a new month and that means a new  CUTplorations challenge  ! And here is our wonderful picture: My STAMPlorations supplies: Christmas Tree #2 ,  Peace Love Joy  CUTplorations die I used a wood grain embossing plate for my background. I spread alcohol ink onto that distressed gold card stock and die cut my word die. Used  my Cropadile to punch the little circles. The tree I had left over from last month CUTplorations card, you can see it  HERE . Added Washi tape.  Here is another view of it: Our rules and prizes: Players can link up as many projects as they want (1 project per blog post) Players must use at least 1 STAMPlorations product (stamp, stencil, die, or coloring page, or digi stamp) Prizes: $10 GC for the winner; $5 GC each to the 2 top picks If there are more than 25 entries: 1 player will be randomly drawn to win her choice of CUTplorations dies worth up to $15 ...

Hi Everyone, I could not resist to order some stuff on Black Friday. don't ask me why....my craft room is overflowing and I still have lots of NBUS shtuff....but regardless of that  - I treated myself to some Flora And Fauna sets. Of course I had to get the one with those cute birds. I simply can't say no to birds. and those are especially cute! Limited my colors to red and green, since I wanted to link up with Less is More . Colored them with Stabilo markers. Added tiny dots of Nuvo drops Happy Stamping! Linking up with: Less is More - Red and Green 52 Christmas Card Throwdown - pick a prior challenge - #20 Holly  AAA Cards challenge - Christmas Crafty Calendar Challenge - Christmas

Hi Everyone, I was playing with my Katzelkraft stamps again. I got inspired by a card from Heike Paulus from Mrs P's Papercrafts . Her card was quite elaborate, but I made a more simpler version of it. Mine is a mini fold up card - I basically took an A10 card and folded it into thirds. I took the Santa stuck in the chimney form the Noel Keep Calm set  and stamped it onto the top third. Masked it and sponged around. Colored the Santa etc. with Inktense pencils. the "snowflakes" are water drops. The Santa peeking out from the chimney is from the Noel KTZ 158 set . Colored it the same way.  Lastly I  stamped the sentiment into the middle third - it is from the set English Quotes . the merry Christmas is from a different stamp company. On the photo below you get an idea how this folds up. In order to hold it together I made a banderole out of Washi tape - you see it on the top photo. Happy Stamping! Linking up with: Double D Chal...

Hi Everyone, we have another b log hop at STAMPlorations - this one is all about the new stencils, designed by Sanna Lippert. I just love them all. But you know that stencils are just my thing.... I am showcasing two of them: The first one are those little trees - so perfect for Christmas. But if you put them sideways, they look like arrows, so lots of options to play around with them. Since I never have too many Christmas cards I used them as trees.... I used embossing paste, mixed with a bit of red ink and gold. The parcel (from the set  Joyful ) I stamped and heat embossed onto metallic paper and colored it with Copics and added Stickles for extra Sparkle. The sentiment is from  Christmas Reindeer . I stenciled twice - fist in black and them I moved the stencil a smidgen and used gold embossing paste. It almost give you a 3D effect - looks like the gold is floating. I die cut the  Holiday word die  in gold and black. Glued them toge...