Quick round-up

From the cards I didn't manage to send out this year due to a long-lasting cold.

Csabi's Album

In my previous post I promised to show you the matching album I'd made for our little godson's 1st birthday... well, practically I gave it to his mother but I was sure he'd also appreciate it a few years later. :-)

He is so, sooooo cute! I really didn't need to embellish these little pages any more.

I got the album itself as a gift from Scrapfellow. If I remember correctly, I bought the enamel dots, the brown alphabet and patterned papers from them, too. The little detail stamps are from various Lawn Fawn and PaperSmooches sets. I painted the back page with some Martha Stewart acrylic paint. The blue foam letters are from Müller. :-)

And since it's full of patterned papers, I'm linking this one to Virginia's View Challenge #7, too.

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!

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.

Thanks for stopping by! :-)

Leafy Birthday

This card was inspired by this one from Debby Hughes and this one from Aimes mainly,  but I've seen similar ones all over blogland, just check out Pinterest. :) I did change a few things and I like it a lot. Anyway, it's for the 60th of my future mother-in-law. It's an A5-sized card, I know, a huge one! The background's made from the scraps from our future wedding album.

Challenges:
Paper Smooches Sparks - Anything Goes 
Simon Says Stamp - Emboss It

Thanks for looking!

Enamel Dots and Watercolor Paper Card

This is another use of my coool enamel dots... Yeah, I'm way behind the trends but I don't care.

Btw I love watercolor paper. Its texture is just mesmerizing, don't you think?

Challenge: SSS- Anything Goes

Banners Birthday Card

I could use my cute enamel dots finally. The sentiment part was quite hard to come up with.

Challenge: SSS - Anything Goes

Supersecret Card

It's so secret that I'll even hide it after the CAS-Friday Polkadot challenge for this week has expired. :-)

Update: everything's been hidden. Thanks for your nice comments. 

Have a great rest of the weekend!

Summer Fruits and a Sunflower

Tried to to something summery for my mum's birthday in July. I have a bag of fruit chipboards from Scrapfellow and I found some ideas on their blog on how to use them in different ways. I love that their shiny, I think it gives them an additional dimension. :-) Also, I bought the little sunflower ages ago, I knew I wanted to put it on mum's card, so there it goes.

Challenges: 

Simon Says Stamp - Summer Fruits

Retro Sketches - #69

Lawnscaping - Dimensions

Thanks for stopping by!