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 celebrating our 100th challenge and are very grateful for all our followers and DT members for keeping this challenge as fun as it is! We are actually changing up our challenges a bit and are replacing the CASE challenge with a new "We challenge you to be"-challenge... And the first one of those is "Thankful", very appropriate for the happy 100th challenge festivities! 

We have 2 guest designers this time to make the party even more fun: One of our regular players, Bobby, and Verve stamp company owner Julee. Verve sponsors this challenge with a stamp set for the winner. Do visit the fabulous blogs of our guests and regular DT members, you won't be disappointed !

Now onto my card!

I've stamped and colored this image in already last summer but it took this long to turn it into a card! The sentiment is of course very good for the challenge theme but I'm also very thankful that spring is coming slowly but surely... I'm not a winter person which is not very handy when you live in Finland! About 2 more months and we may begin to see the first flowers of spring! This image is by Mama Elephant and I've colored it in with Copics. 

Now it's your turn to show us what you are thankful for... Have fun, take some TIME OUT and craft! 

September Christmas Challenge at Happy Little Stampers!

Hi friends!

It's already September... Time to get busy making Christmas cards, only 4 months to go! :) The September Christmas Challenge at Happy Little Stampers is Anything Christmas goes with the optional twist of Sparkle. Most of the team went with the twist and there's fantastic inspiration on offer HERE. We hope to see you playing along! Click HERE for information about the prizes. 

My card is a very simple CAS design. I've used a Mama Elephant bunny (I got to stamp and die cut this from my friend Milla, thanks Milla!), A Penny Black sentiment, some sircle dies + an snowflake embossing folder. The bunny is colored in with Copics and the sparkle is in her wings -I used Stickles. 

Thanks for popping by and I hope to see you playing along at Happy Little Stampers!

New Challenge at Less Is More!

Hi friends!

The final Less Is More Challenge for the month of July is a fun one: 

You could use paper piercing, eyelets, sewing, brads, piercing dies... Many fun ways to play along!

I went with piercing dies and decided to make some more Christmas cards for my stash. I've done about 50% of all the Christmas cards that I need this year so I'm doing pretty well! Last year was a disaster,  I think I got only 1/4 made of what I would have wanted to make... So this year I started already in January! :)

Card 1: Santa Claus (above)

My first card is made with goodies from my friend Milla... Only the sentiment stamp (Penny Black) is from my own stash! I've colored the hilarious MFT Santa with Copics and added lots of Stickles details. I love Stickles for Christmas cards although I don't use it often otherwise. The pierced circles are made with a Memory Box die. A couple of sequins finish off the card. I quite like gold with green, it's a festive color combo!

Card 2: Christmas Bunny (below)

The window die with beautiful faux stitches is by MFT... And from Milla again. ;) The Mama Elephant bunny (and yep, from Milla again...) is colored with Copics and I've added Stickles to her wings. The background is made with a stencil (Memory Box), some ink (already forgot what I used!) and an old make up brush. The white heat embossed sentiment is from a set by The Greeting Farm. I've played with clear, glittery nuvo drops too -they are hard to see in the photo but I've added them here and there in the inked background.

Our challenge blog is filled with fantastic DT cards for this challenge... And it's worth checking out the personal blogs of our DT members -there's often extra inspiration on offer there too! I look forward seeing what you'll create. Play along and you could win a fabulous prize from our July sponsor, Happy Little Stampers! Thanks for popping by and have a wonderful weekend.