Glittered Thank You

Keeping this post nice and short as I'm in a hurry. This thank you card is for my hairdresser who helped us a lot before the wedding. :-) She's a very glittery woman so I hope she will like it. 

It was inspired by this week's CASE Study no. 183. Since it's glittery I'm also entering it into this week's Simon Says - Glitter It challenge.

Circle of Embellishments

I made this card for my granddad's 71st birthday. It was obviously influenced by this card from Debby Hughes, though I only kept the main idea of splatters, double-mounted cardstock, water-colored background and the circle of embellishments. :-)

I'm entering this card into the current PaperSmooches Sparks - Anything Goes challenge.

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Pastel Easter

Spring is officially here and I'm loving the colours of the latest Cure For The Monday Blues. 

This meant I had to begin my preparation for Easter with a pastel card!

Besides I did want to take part in Virginia's View challenge too, so I thought some paint would do no harm... well, it didn't, at least to my card. My light blue cutting mat however is full of small light green splatters.
Well, well, at least I learned something! LOL

Go and checkout those fabolous new challenges and create something beautiful! I am certainly still over the moon even after being back from our honeymoon LOL but slowly getting back to normal life.

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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!

Life In Technicolor

When this post goes live, I'll be a bit more excited than the day before since it'll be only two days until our wedding! Anyway, I still had to produce a thank you card for a dear colleague of mine who'd leave us by the end of the month. On the top of that I won't be here when they give it to him... oh, well. So I wanted to create something pretty - in a masculine way. And since nowadays the RIC challenges inspire me a LOT (thanks to Jennifer), I decided to go with this weeks photo.

Well, I couldn't imagine myself wearing this dress but I admit it's a pretty one. :-) So here goes my card to it.

Just like in the inspirational photo, there's a lot of stripes going on here, eh? It almost feels like a Julie Ebersole card for me. I said almost. There's a long way to go for me till I get there. LOL

By the way, my colleague loves his black bike, so to highlight it I put shiny glossy accent on it.
I'm also entering this card into the latest Lawnscaping Challenge - Dust 'em Off as I haven't used those ties in ages!

Thanks for stopping by and please think of me on Saturday so that I won't fall over on the church steps like Jennifer Garner did at the Oscar's! :-D
Wonder where the title of this post comes from? Here you go.

Cinnamon Bag + Some Get Well Wishes For My Godfather

I got this for my bday from D. He gave a coupon to me because he couldn't decide amongst them (hehe). And then we went together to the shop. I love it so much. It's compact enough so that I won't walk like a grumpy old woman in the end of the day. If I have more stuff, I'll put them into one of my textil bags. Perrrfect.

And this one is a mini card I created for my godfather. He got into the hospital a week ago. And it seems that he and us will have to be very patient, it can take at least a month till he'll be okay from every aspects. :-/ I'm so sorry for him, I know how much he wanted to be at my wedding... and he's not even old or something, only 53 this year.

So I created  a mini card for him (with brushes since he's a painter) so that it fit on his tiny table or into one of its drawers or maybe as a bookmark. The main thing is that it's small and he can have a peek at it any time. There's also a little smile in the lower right corner of the card in pale tomato, which I forgot to take a pic of...

And since it's Anything Goes at PaperSmooches again, I'm entering it into that challenge.

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Temperly London

Is the name of the current challenge at RIC's. And I went along with this picture.

I got new markers, so I combined Copics and Promarkers with some PaperSmooches stamps here. I have to say I'm more satisfied with Promarkers currently (not only because they're somewhat cheaper).

The idea of the washi tape background for the sentiment came in in the end. I wanted it to pop out, since it'll be for some other newly weds. ;-)

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Singing Hippo

For this card I used a piece of scrap from my previous card - I love the way the green paint turned out. :-)

I used some nay HA dye ink with some water to create a background for the hippo, and then white embossed it.

As it will be a thank you card for the girl who is the leader of the church orchestre at our wedding in 2 weeks, I reached for a note chipboard, coloured it with a brand new Promaerker (Sunburnt Pink - love it!) and put the final touch with some Glossy Accent on it.

Have you noticed the background? Yes? It's the cover of a Rolling Stones live record from the 70s and belongs to my future-father-in-law who's rather a classical music person. :-)) Well, you never know!

Challenge: PaperSmooches - Anything Goes

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Experimenting

...with the help of a new challenge on the horizon, called Cure For The Monday Blues.

This was the original inspirational photo, see that green pompom thingy in the top right corner?

 I tried using Gesso and then some acrylic paint with the help of a mini spritzer and a heat gun. 

I also put some Stickles on my butterfly and made fake stitches with a gold pen around the sentiment. Oh and have I told you I'm still in love with pastels? ;-)

It surely needed a bow so I'm also entering it into this week's Simon Says Stamp Challenge - Anything Goes with Twine or String.

Right, off to a jazz gig with my fiancé with the tickets I got from him for Xmas. :-)

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Double-stenciled

Yay, I got mentioned on Paper Smooches again! :-) Besides this, I hope also my next card proves that I'm on a roll ... maybe a sign for bigger plans? Hehehe. Once we're done with this wedding thingy. ;–) Anyway, the main idea came from last week's CASE Study no. 157 card by Donna Mikasa.

But I've always been in love with pastels and looks like it's gonna be super-trendy this year again, so this might be my year of card trends. LOL Oh, and stencils! I bought a pack of basics one last summer in Maastricht as I wanted to learn this technique...and then I hardly used them. And now they are back in fashion, as well. :-) I used a striped stencil with inks and one with hearts and heat embossing here.

And I shouldn't forget about the tissue paper and thread thingy either. Perhaps I use the word 'thingy' in this post a lot, eh? But I couldn't resist using some enamel dots thingy either to balance things out in the lower right corner.

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