Flower Framed

This card was pretty simple to create with a PaperSmooches set. Obviously, I'm entering this into their current Anything Goes challenge. :) I put a Post-it note in the middle and started to stamp with each stamp in each colours. I tried to keep their balance though so I paid attention where I stamped in which colour.

Then I decided to put a leaf as a feather in the middle and heat embossed it on gold.

I wasn't sure about the sentiment for a long time. The card was sitting on my shelf for ages. Then I really needed a birthday card for my aunt and suddenly I knew exactly how I should finish it. I grabbed my red alphabet stickers (from Basic Gray I think), put them on my ruler and to mix it up a little I put on there a capital letter as the second letter and glued them on. To give it its final shine I put some glossy accent on each letter.

I'm also entering this into Simon Says Stamp's Emboss It challange.

Mad Woman Colouring

This is my 2nd post for today, you can check out the 1st one with many yummy colours and sparkliness for the current Curtain Call challenge here.

This week's Runway Inspired Challenge was a big challenge for me. I was colouring this card like a mad woman yesterday evening. LOL My hubby stepped in and asked what I was doing and I said: 'Shhh, I've got an idea!' I just truly hope you can see it too. :-D

The stamp is originally an inverse background stamp from HA that I smudged with shadow inks and pressed at an angle to my cardstock so that it totally resembles the upper part of the dress. Then I coloured in the flowers with my Indian ink pens (basically, the same as distress markers) and stroke them with a size 2, wet paint brush. And then I couldn't resist adding 2 matching enamel dots. :-) I think they totally fit the bill.

 Thanks so much for checking my card out! ;-)

Spring Card for Grandma

I made it, I made it! I managed to make a card for the current CASE Study 181 challenge. From Joni Nina Andaya's card were the roses and the striped tag that mostly inspired me. 

See those mint enamel dots? And I thought I'd never use them.

I like this card so much, it shouts: it is spring people! Thanks so much for stopping by!

A Gorgeous Dress

This dress is the most beautiful one I've seen in a while. It is gorgeous! I would so love to wear it (without the fur of course). So I instantly wanted to make a card based on this inspirational photo of RIC's 52 challenge. And this is what it turned out to be:

If you look closely there are smaller yellow dots in the bacground of this cool springy patterned paper (one of my favourites) but I also wanted to highlight the thing that caught my eyes for the first time I looked at this dress: the feather-like splatters. Sooo I fuzzy cut a feather from a sheet of gold paper.

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More and More PS Stamps

I made this card as soon as I got my hands on these stamps at my parent's (I send my orders to them because it's safer but they live 70 km from me). It's for my mum's nameday.

Her name means violet (the flower) so I also made a pun about it inside, like there's no violet on here but there's no one even like you! :)

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Challenge: Lawnscpaing Challenge no. 63 - One Layer

OCC Homework Day 4 - Part 2

I'll keep this post short as I have to run now. This is the 'Her' part of my homework for Day 4 at OCC, aka my Mother's Day card. I kept the sketch of my masculine card, but put more embellishments on it. Hope my mom will like it tomorrow!

Thanks for your nice comments so far, I'll try to wander around a bit later too and check you guys out with your homework! ;)

Challenges: 
In(k)spire Me - Muttertag
bastel-traum.ch - Muttertag/Vatertag

Supplies: Bazzil Butter mint cardstock, yellow and white striped washi, mint washi, Versamark ink, Ranger Queen Gold embossing powder, HA & BG Konnichiwa stamp set, Prima flowers, Basic Grey Sweet Pea alphabet collection, Christmas red Stickles, small heart punch

OCC Homework Day 2

Believe it or not, this is for a girl. See the golden embossed flowers behind the bike? My good friend from Switzerland loves motorbikes, in fact she has a rather huge Töff (as they say in Schwitzer Dütsch) and she loves riding it in the mountains. 

I chose to you use the same or similar colours for my 'His' card for this OCC homework. So expect another card some time in the evening (nearly done, only needs a sentiment:).

Challenge: Paper Smooches - Anything Goes

Supplies: Neenah Desert storm and Solar white cardstocks, Ranger Queen gold embossing powder, Versamark ink, Pebbles blue candy dots, mint green washi tape, chipboard bike, Paper Smooches Alpha-dot set, HA & BG Konnichiwa stamp set

OCC Homework Day 1

While my masculine card for Day 2 is still in the works, here's how I interpreted the homework for Day 1 at the Online Card Class His & Hers. I made this for my Granny for Mother's Day (coming up this Sunday in Hungary), so I made it simple and elegant. 

Supplies: Neenah solar white and desert storm cardstock, black Copic Ciao marker, HA pale tomato shadow ink, HA flower stamp, Typoface rub-on letters

Challenges: 

7 or Less Challenge

Tuesday Trigger: Pretty Little Petits Fours

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It's All About Fashion

I'm so glad I can finally take part in a Runway Inspired Challenge. I love their inspiration photos so much! It's just I'm always late on taking their challenges. But now I'm in and you should check them out too! 

After last week's madness at work I needed a long-long crafty time and I managed to create 3 cards that I'm really satisfied with. Probably this is the best of them.

This card is not only fashionable because of the previously mentioned challenge's colours (though I toned down that yellow a bit), shapes (rectangles) and flowers. But also because I tried my hands on the nowadays quite popular 'chalkboard effect' technique. I really like the result. :)

I'm also entering this card into the latest Inspired By challenge as it happens to fit in there exactly, too.

Thanks for the stopping by!

Supplies: Bazil - Buttermint cardstock, Echo Park - Sweet Day and Happy Days 6x6 pad, VersaCraft - white ink, Prima flowers, Lawn Fawn - Happy Summer and Critters Down Under, 

A Giraffe, Some Polka Dots And An Owl

Well, this time not on one card but I'd be fun to try making a scene of these all tree. :) I'll do 3 posts in total, so stay tuned!

Have you heard about it?

Polly's turned 12!

I made this card for my little cousin and this ends the circle (I also made her a DIY notepad and a gift box for it, see my previous posts). This was the first time I used my new PS sets, I just love them, they're of great quality!

Challenges: 

Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes

Calendar Pages 2

This is my first post today, please also check out my gift box with a pin wheel.

Yes, I'm quite slow.... but at least they are ready. :)

You can find January and February here.

I'd like to enter the April page into Simon's Let's Get Paper Piercing challenge.
And I'd like to enter the May page into CAS-ual Fridays' Make Your Mark challenge (the tree is coloured with Copics).

Supplies: SRM stickers, Konnichiwa stamp set (HA&BG), Sunnier Days stamp set (Simon Says Stamp), Critters Down Under (Lawn Fawn), Geo-Graphic (Paper Smooches), Tuxedo black (Memento ink), Tide Pool/Raspberry Jam/Butter Bar (Hero Arts midtone ink), Red/pink/yellow ink (ColorBox), liquid pearl pen, Sweet Days 6x6 pad (Echo Park)

Another Birthday Card - With My New Heat Gun!

So I'm back to birthday cards. And since I got a super-duper Dovecraft heat gun from my boyfriend for Christmas (<3) I felt the urge to try it asap. :) 

The clear embossed pattern was made with a long forgotten wood mounted stamp. I bought a small box with similar patterns at a local store in the very beginning and I always forgot how great they were. However, I still have to get used to the timing of the heat gun in order to not overheating the images. :) Especially, if I work with two different embossing powders. 

I stamped the same image onto the butterfly, just upside down. And since it was cracked a little bit on its body and I wanted to use a button somewhere, I thought it would look cool to put it there and be a great use of at the same time. The beige strip was also made with my brand new EK Success border punch that I got from my now-not-so-little brother for Xmas. Love it! 

For the bottom part I was searching for the right image for quite a long time. I knew I wanted it to be a flower but at first I thought I didn't have the right one in my little stash. But since I got a cool storage box from my BF for my stamps I was able to slip through them again and  found this bold and simple flower. At the very end I felt it needed a rounded corner because of all the curved shapes. So I chomped it!

I'm planning to give this card to my BF's mom in February. I hope she'll like it. :)

Supplies: Neenah Deset Storm card stock, red card stock (local paper store), set of mini wood mounted stamps (from Müller), clear and white embossing powder, EK Succes border punch, Echo Park - Sweet Day paper set, Memento brown ink, Basic Grey buttons, Uniball white gel pen, Lawn Fawn abc set, We R Memory Keepers stamp set (flower), Glue Dots

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Simon Says Stamp - New Something

A Blog Named Hero - New Year, New You

Lawnscaping Challenge - Let's Party

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I'm very proud of this card because the combination of the unique flower shape and this paper was a sudden  idea of mine a few days ago. It's very simple but in this heat....I don't even feel that it needs a sentiment at the moment. The flower says it all - Kinga, this one's for you. :)

However, the sentiment could be done on the right side of the card if I'd want to.

I'd like to enter this card into CFC60  Use text in your Clean And Simple design.

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