New Post at Inkspirational!

Hi friends!

I'm here with my DT card for our new CAS challenge at Inkspirational! There's an option to be inspired by balloons in your design. 

I decided to make a monochromatic CAS card with Hero Arts Looking Glass Birthday Party and Looking Glass Square Frame dies and sentiment by Stampendous. 

To add interest to my monochrome design I made my own glitter card stock by heat embossing sparkly clear embossing powder on black card stock... Apparently the powder had many greenish and blueish particles because you can hardly see the black base anymore! Love how it turned out though although the outcome wasn't "clear glitter" lol!

Please head on over to our challenge blog for all the challenge details and lots of more DT inspiration.

I'd like to enter:

Stay Crafty With a Blog Named Hero March: Heat Embossing

(DIY glitter card with sparkly embossing powder)

Snippets Playground Challenge #475

All the layers in my die cut window were cut from small pieces of leftover paper

 

 

New Challenge at Time Out!

Hi friends!

At Time Out Challenges we have a very special post for you today. We are celebrating our 10th birthday. Yes, 10th!! We therefore have 10 sponsor prizes for grabs... And also as a special treat Time Out co-founder Sandie is joining us in the fun. Head on over to Time Out Challenges for all the challenge details and lots of inspiration!

I wanted to play with an Altenew image (they are one of our sponsors) and I decided to choose one from my stash that I hadn't ever colored in yet. I've made several cards with this stamp but always using the coloring stencils. Coloring in your images of course makes more time... But it is so relaxing for me and always makes me feel very creative. My plan for 2024 is to find more time for coloring in! 

For the sunflowers, their leaves and tulip leaves I used my new Altenew watercolor brush markers -love love love them. I have the winter- and spring sets. Such a beautiful product!! For the tulips and small flowers I had to grab some other mediums to have suitable colors for Altenew February Inspiration challenge color palette -this obviously means I need more of those water color brush markers, right?!? :) 

I hope to see you playing along at Time Out. 

I'm playing along:

Altenew February Inspiration Challenge

Seize The Birthday: Splatter

 

New Challenge at AAA Birthday!

Hi there!

I'm here with my DT card for the monthly AAA Birthday Card Challenge where we have a mood board for you for September. Remember this challenge is for birthday cards only! In my card I was inspired by the watercolor stripes and the cute pink flowers of the moodboard. I Copic colored a Rachel Vass digital stamp and inked a background with a Waffle Flower stencil. The sentiment by Stampendous is simply stamped. Basically it's a one layer card if you don't count the black card base! :) Thank you for popping by and I hope to see you playing along. All challenge details along with lots of DT inspiration HERE.

I'd like to play along at:

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Anything Goes

 

New Challenge at AAA Birthday!

Hi guys!

I'm here with my DT card for AAA Birthday where we have an easy challenge for you: Anything Birthday goes! We have a bunch of new DT members too so don't miss any of the inspiration, fun or challenge details, click HERE.

My card is a trifold card I learned to make in Hero Arts Spring Stamp Along a while back. The card focuses on using HA Looking Glass dies, this is the Birthday Party set. The set consists of three layers that you can use together or separately. In my card two of the die cut scenes are stacked together (on the second leaf of the card) and one is cut to the front leaf. The card base is made out of two standard size card bases stacked together. Hope all of that makes some sense! :) I've colored the images with Copics and stamped sentiments by Stampendous. 

Hope you like and thank you for popping by!

 

New Challenge at AAA Birthday!

Hi friends!

I'm here with my DT card for the new challenge at AAA Birthday where the theme for the month of March is Under the Sea! Please remember we only allow birthday cards. :) In my card I've combined two digital elements: a background by Alex Syberia and turtles from Varada Sharma. My sentiment is by Stampendous. I've colored the turtles with Copics, masked them, and added a couple of distress ink shades to the background. I've splattered some water and paint on top for even more "under the sea" feel! Hope you like and thank you for popping by. I look forward seeing your cards in the gallery! 

 

New Challenge at Inkspirational!

Hi friends!

We have a new challenge for you at Inkspirational:

I find it good to concentrate on beautiful, springy things as much as I can on this difficult time... And therefore decided to make a card that took several hours to stamp, mask to color in. :) I combined stamps by Stampendous (the flower) and Penny Black (just love that adorable girl!!) and colored the "scene" with Copics. I'm aware that these two stamps have completely different scale (some of the flowers are bigger than the girl's head!) but I had this vision of "lilliputian girl" from a fairytale in my head. Still can't really say if I pulled it off but I do love that girl image so much I can't stop looking at her! 

I'd like to join:

Simon Says Monday Challenge: Spring mood board

Thank you for popping by and I look forward seeing you at Inkspirational!

New Challenge at Less Is More!

HI friends!

I'm here with my DT card for the new Less Is More challenge: That's Torn It. Very fun and unique challenge theme!

The month of November is sponsored by Catherine Pooler. 

Play along in all November challenges for a chance to win a fabulous prize and to be called to guest design for us in the future! Please head on over to our challenge blog for all the challenge details and more inspiration from our fabulous team. 

In my card I've used a wintry floral image by Stampendous and sentiment by CAS-ual Fridays. The base layer where I've stamped the flower is kraft card. I've first stamped it with regular black memento ink using my misti leaving the stamp in the misti for the duration of my coloring. After the coloring I've re-stamped the image with Versamark and heat embossed it with gold. I then glued the top layer with the torn window and did some extra tearing until it was to my liking. It still looked a bit boring so I did some inking for a more aged looked... It was starting to look very nice but then I sort of over did it and it looks a bit dirty now, yaiks. :) But... That's the way it is turn out. :) I added some Stickles detail to the berries and called it ready!

I'd like to join:

Stamping Sensations: Traditional Christmas colors

Penny Black and More: Christmas

Watercooler Wednesday Challenge: Feminine Anything Goes

Time Out Challenges Reminder!

Hi friends!

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

I wanted to think a little bit outside the box this time and went to Thesaurus.com for worlds related to bright. Golden and shiny were both listed... So I ended up watercoloring a gold heat embossed image. There's very subtle shine in the coloring because I added some pearl watercolor to my water. The rose stamp is by Stampebdous. I really like how this turned out. I was ready to give up at some point but I'm glad I just ended up adding more and more color layers because the final look is very pretty to me! I finished the card with some white paint splatters and golden sequins. 

This challenge is sponsored by Happy Little Stampers with a $20 voucher to out winner, chosen by the DT. There's lots of gorgeous inspiration from our DT members and talented guest designer Anila

so don't miss any of the fun, click HERE! I hope to see you joining us!

With this card I'd like to join The Daily Marker Coloring Contest (Intermediate). 

I'm also joining the August Flower Challenge: One Layer Card

New Challenge at Inkspirational!

Hi friends!

I'm here with my DT card for the new challenge at Inkspirational: 

Fun, right? At first I could only think of unicorns but I was able to widen my thoughts a little bit in the end! The creature in my card (by Stampendous) is maybe an elf, maybe a fairy... I don't know really! I picked her up in a sale box from a local craft shop -I think she is definitely worth more than the under 2 euros I paid for her! I paired her with a large sentiment by CAS-ual Fridays -mostly because my stenciled bg was a bit messy from the top and this large sentiment covered it up conveniently. :) Really love this sentiment and I think you are going to see it in many of my Christmas cards this year.  The creature is colored with Copics and I added some white gel pen highlights and Wink of Stella on her wings. I could not help myself from splattering the background with white paint (I can't remember when I've made a card without splatters...) and to me it it really brought the whole background alive. 

I hope you'll now head on over to our challenge blog for all the challenge details and lots of inspiration from our team and our talented guest designer Mimi! Thanks for popping by and happy crafting!

I'd like to join:

ABC Christmas Challenge: G is for glitter (in her wings)

Penny Black and More: Feature a creature

New Challenge at Inkspirational!

HI friends!

I'm more than one day late with my Inkspirational DT card, sorry about that! I got confused with weeks and thought our previous challenge was still running for another week.. Well, these things happen! :)

The next fortnight we are inspired by the gorgeous photo above. There's many directions you could go to with this photo -music theme, colors, roses, pearls, lace... I went with colors, roses and pearls (if you look at the photo closely you'll see the tiny pearls I embellished the card with!) I've heat embossed my Stampendous image with white embossing powder and "glitter-watercolored" it with a water-filled, run-out wink of stella brush pen. I'm sorry you can't see the glitter in the photo... But the coloring has lovely sparkle IRL! I die cut the panel with a MFT rectangle die with decorative edges. Taking good photos sucks this time of the year... This one is taken in natural light but I tell you, there isn't much light around here right now... And the ones I took with unnatural light look even worse. I anyway hope you can see some details! :)

I'd like to join:

CAS-ual Fridays Challenge: All that Glitters

CAS Watercolour: Birthday

Watercolor Wednesday: All About Occasions

That's all from me now and I hope to see you playing along! Don't forget to visit the blogs of our DT members and our inspiring guests designer Charlotte, who I've just learned lives in Finland as I do! Yay! :) 

CAS One Layer

Hello friends! Here's my weekly offering for Less Is More: One Layer Week: Curve

I'd also like to enter the Merry Monday Christmas Card Challenge: Create a Scene

My scene only involves a snow bank an a night sky so I do admit it's on the boring side when it comes to scenes... Just remove my card from the gallery if this is way too simple! I hope to come up with a better scene before the challenge closes. :)

Anyway, I made a very quick CAS card:

-masked the snowbank using a SSS snowbank die

-sponged three shades of blue and green inks for Lapland inspired night sky

-added some extra texture to the sky part with Marianne Design bg stamp using white pigment ink, barely visible in the photo but nice, subtle look IRL

-die cut the stitched curve with the matching SSS die

-gold heat embossed the Finnish Christmas sentiment 

No embellies, no nothing. :)

Thanks for popping by! 

Christmas Card Kit Exchange with Marina and Pia #1

 Hi friends!

Some of you might remember that during this summer me, Marina and Pia have had fun exchanging card making materials and posting cards made with the same "ingredients". After our first round was over we decided to have another go... But this time with Christmas card supplies! I sent the first kit , "Textured Christmas" and you can see the photo of it below: 

The kit included textured paper, burlap paper, woodgrain paper, stamped Angels (Stampendous), gold heat embossed multi-language sentiment stamp, glittery, thick glittery die cuts out and some metallic snowflakes. 

So, my cards! 

In my first card I wanted the glittery, thick snowflake to be the star of the card. I also used textured paper from the kit by covering the whole card base with it. I added rhinestones and a black sentiment strip with white heat embossed sentiment. I love the simplicity of this card and yet it's quite fun and detailed!

In my second card I used both woodgrain papers from the kit and a glittery, green, die cut tree from the kit. The sentiment is heat embossed with glittery copper powder -it's surprisingly subtle in real life and this card did not become so screamingly glittery as I was afraid of! :) I'd like to enter this card to Addicted to Stamps: Trees/Branches and or leaves and Penny Black and More: Add a sentiment. The sentiment comes from Penny Black: Joyous-stamp set. 

In my third card I used the heat-embossed, multi language sentiment stamp as my focal point and "embellished" it with stamping Penny Black poinsettias with my Zig markers and water. I also inked the stamped portion of the card faintly with DI for less stark look. I can't decide if this is way too busy or artsy and pretty. :) I'd like to enter this card to Penny Black Saturday Challenge: Nature.

Then, my fourth card... with the burlap paper. The whole idea for this kit started from the burlap paper -I really don't know how to use it and I have a huge pile of it! I can't wait to see how Marina and Pia use it in their projects. I ended up covering a whole card base with the burlap, added metallic snowflakes from the kit and paper cut snowflakes and sentiment strip (not from the kit). I can't say I absolutely love this but at least I got some burlap used! 

In my final card I used woodgrain paper, the angels (colored in with Copics) and metallic snowflakes from the kit and combined them with a white heat embossed sentiment strip, from Penny Black again. The wings of the angels I of course had to glitter up with wink of stella and the dots in the brown dress sort of shine too. I'd like to enter this card to Glitter'N'Sparkle: Add something metal.

Now you've reached the end of this photo heavy post, I hope you enjoyed what you saw! Do visit Marina and Pia now and have a look what they have created with these same materials! Thanks for popping by! 

New Challenge at TIME OUT!

Hi guys!

Here's my DT card for the new TIME OUT challenge Inspired by Words

"Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine"

Anthony J. D'Angelo

I really love this quote, so many possibilities for your card... You can use just some words or the whole sentiment as your starting point. 

I made a card with my boyfriend in my mind. :) The Stampendous flowers are colored in with Zigs on marker paper, no water used this time. I fussy cut them out and adhered them with 3d stickers to the card base -there's quite a lot of dimension in this card although it doesn't show super well in the photo. Maybe if you click on the pic and enlarge it you'll get a better sense of it! The sentiment comes from CASual Fridays, simply heat embossed on black card with white powder. Hope you like!

Our guest designer this time is Sue (Foleysfriend) . Her blog is filled with beautiful CAS cards and if you  are not familiar with her work yet, don't hesitate to pay her a visit right away! Please head on over to TIME OUT Challenges and have a look what Sue and our regular DT members have created for your inspiration! Happy crafting!

Two Birthday Cards

Hi guys!

Here's two b-day cards I made this morning just for fun. I wanted to enter some challenges and really enjoyed just having fun with some of my favorite supplies. :)

My first card is inspired by Share Joy Challenge. I used the colors of the challenge and also used a Taylored Expressions embossing folder in creating my background. The inking of the bg makes it a bit hard to see how the embossing looks like but you can have the best impression of it in the top right corner. And actually: I'm using the same embossing folder in my second card and there you can get a very clear look of it! Anyway, I love the muted look of the distressed background I created for the first card. Inking, then "watering" the whole thing  and then dry embossing the dried, inked card, created a really interesting combination. The Stampendous flowers are colored with Copics and fussy cut. Coloring these was super fast but the cutting was a pain! :) A heat embossed sentiment on colored vellum finishes this card that has sort of a fall-look in my opinion. I'd also like to enter this card to Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Anything Goes.

The second card:

My second card is for the AAA Cards Game #65, The 2nd Big Birthday Bash. Congratulations AAA cards! What a great party you are throwing, wow! It also qualifies for the current Seize the Birthday (dimension).  In this card you can really see the embossed background well. I also used some die cut tags (same colored vellum than in my first card) where I heat embossed one of my favorite flower stamps with white powder. This turned out pretty good too although I didn't think much when making it, it kind of just came together! :)

Thanks for popping by and have a great weekend! Consider hitting the follow-button if you liked the look of these cards. ;)