New Challenge at Time Out!

Hi friends!

I'm here with my DT card for the new challenge at Time Out where we challenge you to be Thankful!

We are happy to be sponsored by Lawn Fawn! In addition to sponsor prize our winner also gets called to guest design in a future challenge. This time our GD is Deepti A, one of our regular players and a super card maker! Don's miss her card, challenge details or any DT inspiration, click HERE.

In my card I've used a Thank You- sentiment by PTI along with Hero Arts Looking Glass die Bird on a branch. I love these looking glass dies -they are surprisingly quick to create a card with and add so much detail and interest! I went with a brown/copper-pink color combo with the addition of green leaves of course... I always love copper and pink together!

Thanks for popping by and I look forward seeing what you'll make for us! xx

 

New Challenge at Less Is More!

Hi friends!

We have a new challenge for you at Less Is More:

You could use metal objects, metal colors, foiling etc. 

Funky Fossil Designs continues as our August sponsor, play along for a chance to win a fabulous prize! All the challenge details and more DT inspiration in our challenge blog HERE. 

I chose steel and silver as my metallic inspiration. I die cut a PTI snowflake both from silver glitter card and from the steel grey card base and inlaid the snowlake flat to the card base. The CAS-ual Fridays greeting is heat embossed with silver powder, the photo doesn't really catch it... But it's ok to read IRL lol. :) A very simple and a very CAS Christmas card from me this time, I hope you like it. 

Thanks for popping by! 

New Challenge at Less Is More!

Hi friends!

I'm here today with my DT card for the new challenge at Less Is More. This time we have a sketch for you:

Skull and Cross Buns continues as our January sponsor with a prize for our monthly winner. 

Immediately when seeing the sketch I thought about this pretty old PT stamp with the bow and the strings... I thought it was perfect! I went with a die cut sentiment (Winnie and Walter). It's cut from red card and I've inked an ombre effect on it and added sparkle with WOS -unfortunately the camera didn't really catch neither of those effects very well. 

Our guest designer this time is the fantastic Toni. Have a look at her fun card and all the DT inspiration in our challenge blog HERE... And then is your turn to show us how the sketch inspires you! Thanks for popping by and happy crafting!

I'd like to join:

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge: CAS

New Challenge at Less Is More!

Hi friends!

We have a new challenge for you at Less Is More:

This challenge is sponsored by Happy Little Stampers. Do play along for a chance to win a fabulous prize or to be chosen as a guest designer in the future!

I made two cards this time. It's been grey and rainy for the past week in Finland so photographing these was a pain... Please try to imagine the whites as pure whites and click the photos larger for closer look at the details!! 

Card 1 Silver

For my first card I chose silver. I've die cut a Marianne Design snowflake and backed it with silver mirror card, it shows beautifully from the openings the die cut. I also die cut a circle from silver glitter card and heat embossed a CAS-ual Fridays sentiment. Lot's of silver in this card! 

Card 2 Copper

My second card is a bit more busy but hopefully still CAS. I've die cut a Papertrey Ink snowflake and heat embossed it twice with sparkly copper powder. The Winnie and Walter sentiment is heat embossed on non-sparkly copper powder. The soft pink rectangle is die cut with a Penny Black die. I love copper and pink together! 

This post is pretty short and sweet, sorry about that... But I'm glad to have you popping by and hope to see you again! Do visit my DT buddies for more metallic inspiration! 

New Challenge at Inkspirational!

Hi friends!

We have a new, fun challenge for you at Inkspirational, where we challenge you to use  doily (real one, die cut, stamped... Any doily will do!) I went with a die cut doily: I used three of them to create a white on white background for the stamped and die cut PTI flowers (colored with Copics and white gel pen). The sentiment is a Finnish birthday sentiment. Sorry for this super short post, but it's already 2 days late (I thought I had this scheduled!). My DT friends and talented GD Toni have a lot more inspiration for you in the challenge blog! 

Time Out Challenges Reminder!

Hi friends!

I'm here with a DT reminder card for our current challenge at TIME OUT:

This challenge is sponsored by Sarah Gray from Funky Fossil Designs. She sells wonderful stencils in her folksy shop HERE and I had great joy to work with one of her stencils in my card! 

Our guest designer this time is the talented Amanda. Don't miss her card or any other inspiration by our DT, click HERE!

I created the background of this card with stencil, brushos and water. My Less is More DT friend Anita used this technique in one of her cards lately and I wanted to give it a try! It's very easy: you simply sprinkle brushos on top of your stencil, spray water on top, and then remove the stencil. I used too much water and it pooled quite a bit but I do like the end result anyway. The flowers are from PTI and are colored in with Copics and white gel pen. For these I owe thanks to my Time Out DT buddy Anita who has sent me the die cut card stock pieces to stamp the flowers on! So this card is inspired by not one Anita, but two! :) 

With this card I'd like to join:

Stamping Sensations July: In my garden (my second entry)

New Challenge at Inkspirational!

Hi friends!

We have a new challenge for you at Inkspirational and I'm really excited about this one... I got to chose the topic and I chose "small stamps". I think so often we forget the smaller stamps in our sets and just use the big ones! I hope you'll enjoy this topic and will play along. More DT inspiration from our design team members and a fabulous cactus card from our GD Valerie HERE

My card is inspired by the sketch and CASE This Sketch and the colors of Color Throwdown. I just stamped small PTI flowers with pastel ink colors, following the sketch, super simple! I did want some extra detail so I die cut a curve with a Lil'Inker die. The sentiment is actually a sticker that I've popped up with fun foam. I finished off the card with a couple of rhinestones. Hope you like and thanks for popping by! 

Time Out Challenges Reminder!

Hi guys!

I'm here with my reminder card for the current Time Out Challenge where we are inspired by this gorgeous, sunny, springy photo:

There's so many ways to be inspired here! I went with the color palette, the moroccan feel of the pattern in the vase + stripes in the napkins. The mandala stamp is an oldie and goodie by PTI and I think the die was a thank you gift from Winnie and Walter -I'm not 100 % sure about that though. I die cut the sentiment 4 times -twice from black card and twice from blue card and stacked the sentiments together for dimension. The mandala is heat embossed with white powder on a rectangle cut with a Marianne Design die. I embellished the card with sequins and called it ready. :)

Our design team has plenty of inspiration for you HERE. This time our guest designer is a former DT member and one of my favorite bogland crafters, Sarah. Great to have you joining us, Sarah! The sponsor of this challenge is Altenew and who wouldn't want to win a voucher to their shop... Play along for a chance to win! 

Thanks for popping by and happy crafting!

I'd like to enter:

Pixie's Snippets Playground #323: snippets of yellow, blue and black card along with a snippet of vellum used here! :)

Stamping Sensations: One for the Girls (I think this color palette + the lacey look of the mandala make this card very suitable for a female recipient!) 

CAS-Ual Fridays Challenge: Spring Fever (I hope you think this color combo is as springy as I think it is!)

Time Out Challenges Reminder!

Hi friends!

I'm here to remind you of our current challenge at TIME OUT:

This challenge is sponsored by CAS-ual Friday Stamps and if you use the optional twist, your entry is in the draw for a 25$ gift voucher to their shop! 

I kind of went with the twist: I did not make a card but my project is a one layer piece! I chose two of my hobbies for this challenge, reading and crafting, and made a crafting-themed bookmark! I have to keep this post short and sweet due to house guests, no time to hang around online, but do leave me a question about the products and techniques I used if you want to know more! Thank you!

I hope to see you joining us! More inspiration from my fantastic team mates and our talented, fabulous guest designer Ashwini HERE! 

New Challenge at Less Is More!

Sorry for the unfocused photo, I try to get this replaced with a better one but please bear with this in the meantime! Clicking it larger might help a bit! :)

Hi friends!

We have the first challenge of 2018 for you at Less Is More and we also have some news: from now on you'll always have 2 weeks to play along, we are changing our challenges to run fortnightly! I hope you'll like this little change. We are still continuing with the monthly sponsors and with our familiar challenge rota so no worries, not too much is different! :) We actually have a new sponsor in January, Skull and Cross Buns. Exciting! 

Now let's get into the details of our first challenge in January: 

 I know one person who just loves loves loves purples, my good friend Sandie , and this is my message to her:

Sandie , I challenge you to enter this challenge at least twice times during the next fortnight! How about creating 3 cards for us?!? Do I hear "challenge excepted"?!? :) 

Our guest designer this time is the talented Wei. I really love the cute purse superhero card she created for us!

I've made a quick CAS card for this challenge using an oldie but goodie PTI stamp and sentiment stamp by Concord and 9th. My coloring is made with ZIGs and an old wink of stella pen filled with water -this gives such a lovely sparkle! I'm out of marker proof black ink so until I do some crafty shopping, no Copic coloring here! I guess this could be a good time to work on my water coloring skills! I forgot to stamp on Bristol paper (it's way better with ZIGs than normal watercolor paper) so this coloring job is very flat, not much dimension here... But oh well! At least it sparkles a lot! :)

That's all from me this time. Do visit my DT buddies for lots of more inspiration, I'm sure they have some extra cards in their blogs! 

I'd like to join:

CAS-ual Fridays Challenge: All that Glitters

Here's another photo take on the card, this time in natural light... The sparkle shows better in the first photo though! :) 

New Challenge at Less Is More!

Hi friends!

I'm back with a DT post for Less Is More. Last LIM challenge for 2017! I'm so happy to be part of this team and even more happy that I get to continue next year... We have great challenges planned for you!

Our last challenge for 2017 is a sketch:

I'll try to keep this post short and sweet because of the many card photos included, I don't want to tire you out! :)

Card 1

(above)

In my first card I've stretched the sketch and created an A2 vertically folded card. I've used one of my favorite floral stamps, it's by Woodware and I love it so much! In the stamp the flowers are actually in a vase but I've only stamped the top portion of the image. I used black Versafine for stamping and heat embossed it with clear powder before water coloring the images with ZIG markers and an old Wink of Stella pen -the coloring has a beautiful shine to it but unfortunately the photo hasn't really captured it. No embellies in this one although I have used black Nuvo drops on top of the black dots that are included in the stamped image. 

With this card I'd like to join:

CAS Watercolour December: Anything Goes

Penny Black and More December Challenge: CAS

(my 2nd entry)

AAA Cards: Sparkle

Cards 2 & 3

These are last minute Christmas makes with die cut snowflakes and heat embossed Finnish sentiments on vellum! The first one is sort of a "mini-version" of the sketch because I used the sketch on a tag. I glued two identical snowflakes on the tag but only left the top one of them hang outside the tag, the bottom one is trimmed down. The second card is a super quick white on white card with some glitter details. Horrible to photograph! :)   

I did manage to keep this quite short, didn't I! :) Thanks for popping by and I'd love to see you joining us! This challenge will run for two weeks so you'll have plenty of time. The month of December is sponsored by one of our regular sponsors, Happy Little Stampers and as always, the LIM ladies have fantastic inspiration for you in our challenge blog HERE and most likely some extra cards in their blogs too. :) Don't miss any of the fun, join us! Happy crafting! 

TIME OUT Challenges Reminder!

Hi friends!

I'm here with a quick post to remind you of our current challenge at TIME OUT. We are inspired by the fun Christmas themed photo above -lots to be inspired by here! Our sponsor for this challenge is Uniko. Read all about the prize and be inspired of our DT projects HERE. 

If you look at the very first wooden rectangle where Graham's stocking is attached you'll see pretty obviously how I was inspired. :) I had an a4 sheet of this woodgrain paper and I actually made four quick cards with the same design. The Finnish Christmas sentiment is heat embossed with gold powder and I added some extra bling with sequins. I love the large snowflake die my wonderful crafty friend Sandie has given me some years ago -I think it might be PTI but I'm not sure. Correct me if I'm wrong Sandie! :) 

Our guest designer this time is one of my favorite bloggers, Sarah! She actually used to be a DT member at TIME OUT and it's great to have her back for this challenge. Play along and you could be invited to guest design for us one day too! Happy crafting!

New Challenge at Inkspirational!

Hi friends!

We have a nice and easy word prompt for you at Inkspirational Challenges:

Our talented guest designer Shawna and regular DT members have lots of fun inspiration for you, don't miss any of it but visit the challenge blog using the link above! 

In my quick and simple card I've used a sentiment stamp by STAMPlorations, background stamps by Uniko and flower by PTI. Coloring with Copics, white gel pen and wink of stella. Easy peasy!

I had to take my photo in unnatural light and it makes the white "overly" white... The background stripes are a lot more visible IRL for example. My camera settings should be ok and the light bulb I'm using is the kind they recommend for taking photos like this -if anyone has any tips for this, I'd love to hear them! Maybe I should just have the light more far away?!? Or it's coming too much from above maybe?

Edit. a couple of hours later... I now took a new photo outside in natural light... No sun in Finland... Now my card base looks blue! Oh man! :) This is hopeless!

Edit. One day later! :) I can be quite persistent sometimes... Don't know if it's a good or bad quality! ;) A bit less grey in Finland today and here's my third attempt to get a decent photo of this card. Getting there slowly but surely! :)

My card was inspired by the sketch at CASE this sketch and colors at CAS colours and sketches. I'm also entering: Simon Says Monday: Shimmer and Shine + Simon Says Wednesday: Pop it Up (my flower is popped up!). 

Thanks for popping by!