Be mine

Happy Saturday to you! I just wanted to pop in quickly to present you my card for the emboss resist technique challenge in honor of PTI's 3yrs Anniversary.

Truth be told: This is my second try with this challenge and pretty much everything went wrong in the first run. I overexposed the embossing powder to the heat gun, the brayering was like... uggh etc. So I trashed this first version and here's my cute and simple second try:

Mhm, I'm still not super pleased with it. Is it possible to emboss on top of already embossed areas? I wonder how the "Be mine" sentiment would look in cream... Anyways, thanks for stopping by!

Supplies

Stamps: PTI Heart Prints, PTI Background Basics text Style I

Ink: PTI dark chocolate, Heyda dark orange, Versamark

Paper: PTI kraft

Other: PTI vintage cream twill ribbon, Guetermann clear embossing powder

16 inches

... that's how much snow came down yesterday! It was having breakfast - snow shoveling - do some cleaning - snow shoveling - bake a cake - snow shoveling - make a card...

...snow shoveling - go sledding *g* - more snow shoveling... you get the idea! I think I don't need anymore workout for the weekend ;o) Is it also (still) snowing where you are?

Supplies

Stamps: PTI Faux Ribbon and Everyday Button Bits, Technique Tuesday circle

Ink: PTI smokey shadow and ripe avocado

Paper: Dani Peuss grey cardstock, PTI stamper's select white cardstock, Basic Grey Offbeat patterned paper

Other: sewing machine / thread, Marvy Uchida 2" scallop circle punch, EK success 1 3/4" circle punch, distresser, white gel pen

Happy Hump Day

Hi there, I'm back with another card. I decided to work on my patterned paper stash - decreasing it to be precise. My first inspiration came from the current 2 Sketches 4 You blog in form of sketch no. 44, the second was A Passion for Papertrey's challenge "Emboss it". So here's what I made of it:



Well, it's pretty obvious where the sketch came in... as for the embossing part, I heat embossed the flower stems and sentiment from PTI's Mod Squad set and additionally used my new Crop-a-dile to emboss the dots below the sentiment.

So, that's all from me now, hope you liked stopping by today!

Supplies
Stamps: PTI Mod Squad
Ink: Versacolor chestnut, Heyda moss green, PTI vintage tea-dye duo
Paper: Cosmo Cricket Early Bird, PTI stamper's select white, Dani Peuss cream cardstock
Other: Crop-a-dile, Making Memories Paperie buttons, Depot swiss dot ribbon, Fiskars scallop sentiment punch, stapler, glue dots, glue runner

A first layout

... I finally got to photograph my first scrapbook layout! You may remember from this post that I forgot to take a picture before giving it away as a present. So here it is:



Sorry for the bad photo but I had to photograph it by night without flashlight (by cranking up the ISO setting way to much... ack!) because of the glass protection. I tried to keep it fairly simple as to leave the stage to their wedding picture. I'm quite happy that they liked it and hung it up in their living room :-)




Supplies
Paper: My Mind's Eye Life Stories Pink Damask, PTI vintage cream
Other: Ikea Ribba frame, Spellbinder's Nestabilities Labels one, clear rhinestones, sewing machine and thread, Faber-Castell pigment pen sepia, printer

Raspberry Suite Color Challenge #21

Hello friends, how's the new year going? I thought it's finally time to get back into the swing of things and post something new over hear. Dawn's new color challenge was the perfect occasion to give some love to some almost zero used stamps. First, let's have a look at the colors...


Aren't these yummy? Makes me think of blue skies and lemon sorbet :) Now, here's my attempt, a little 3,5"x3,5" card to use up some scraps:



See that perfectly flat, knotted ribbon? I {heart} Dawn's great new video tutorials! They're so helpful and of course fun, too :-) Anyway, I used my new Hero Arts Designer Woodgrain as well as this cute, never used bird stamp. The sentiment says "A birdie told me...", so that's a perfect "all occasion" card for my stash. I have quite a thing with "flying objects" lately, huh? Okay, that's all for now! Have a fabulous Sunday, all :-)


PS: Whaddaya think of the new PTI sneaks? I haven't ordered for quite some time now but I'm not sure if (or better say: how long) I can withstand to order... LOL




Supplies
Stamps: Hero Arts Designer Woodgrain, Klartext Juni-Kit stamps
Ink: Heyda turquoise, Versacolor chestnut
Paper: Dani Peuss cardstock chocolate, cream cardstock (recycled)
Other: PTI Vintage Cream twill ribbon, Copic marker #BG11 and #BG 13, Stabilo Woody pencil yellow, Dove Craft foam dimensionals

Happy Christmas

Just dropping in to wish everyone a very merry Christmas!! Hope you have a wonderful time with family and friends :-)

Both of my cards today are for the EBTKS Sketch Challenge #2, if only a free

interpretation of the original sketch. The Christmas card above is inspired by

this über-cute card done by Lisa Arana / Dahlhouse Designs. The second

card is for a colleague who recently became father of a cute little boy named

Ole (it's a Danish name - not to confuse with Spanish "olé" as his IT

colleagues suggested...).

Hope you like my cards today. Enjoy the Christmas season! I hope I'll be back tomorrow for the PTI blog hop.

Supplies

{Happy Holidays}

Stamps: PTI Beyond Basic Borders, Fancy Pants Happy Holidays #1, Hero Arts

Tiny Owl

Ink: PTI ripe avocado, Colorbox chestnut

Paper: PTI kraft, white cardstock (recycled), designer paper with Christmas

ornaments (unknown),

Other: Fancy Pants pom pom ribbon, paper piercer

{Baby Ole}

Paper: PTI rustic cream, Cosmo Cricket Earth Love

Other: Cosmo Cricket Earth Love chipboard, Heidi Swapp Lemonade Stand

Ledger alpha, Cosmo Cricket Earth Love ribbon, Fiskars scallop sentiment

He's makin' a list and checking it twice

Hi there, I hope you have / had a great Sunday! I could finally take the time to (give some finishing touches to and) take photographs of things I crafted at a workshop two weeks ago at a local store, the Papierwerkstatt. I was super excited when they first handed us (I went there with four colleagues) out the workshop material - Collage Press' Joyride collection. Snowflakes, little propeller-driven airplaines, skier, vintage bookprints... I truly {heart} it!!

a paper box for a small gift with a gift tag

a simple mini album and a 3-D folded ornament

a simple card with stitching lines as ornament hanger

I think the last one is my favorite card of the bunch. I just love the big and small snowflake together. If you like the cards above, you will definitively want to go to the Papierwerkstatt blog to see more of their Christmas card designs here. Enjoy!


PS: Yesterday was kind of a historic moment: I did my first scrapbook layout - a present for my BFF's birthday! When I gave her the framed layout, I suddently had a "duh-moment". I was so content with the result that I forgot to take pictures...