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

Calendar - January and February

These are the first 2 months that I created from Virginia's SRM stickers (plus a piece of the cardstock she secured the envelope with - quite unnoticable ;-).

Nearly everything on them is new in my stash. I got the washi tape with birds and the EK Success border punch from my little bro for Xmas - he's so cool! The lamp on the February card is also from my new HA - Konnichiwa set and I haven't used it yet. I like it so much that it has flowers on it. I tried to make these months as happy as possible because for me they are the longest and greyest months of the year but I still like them. :)

I'd like to enter them into following challenges - I hope they count though they're not cards :)

Simon Says Stamp - New Something

A Blog Named Hero - New Year, New You
Paper Smooches - Anything Goes

Supplies: washi tape, EK SUCCES border punch, SRM calendar stickers, Paper Smooches - Geographic stamp set, HA&BG - Konnichiwa stamp set, HA mid tone inks (Butter Bar, Raspberry Jam, Tide Pool)

Calendar Pages

I'm working on a small calendar with V's SRM calendar stickers at the moment but I'm quite slow because of the holidays and all the travelling. However, January and February are now ready and I'll post them tomorrow, hopefully. I can't wait to sit in my craftroom for a longer period again. :) I also won an e-gift card from Marie and I can't decide now what to delete from my cart. Decisions, decisions. :) 

And if I were you I'd check out Marie's new 7 or Less series and the interview with the fabolous Debby on Wida's blog. She is my superhero in blogland. :) This must have something to do with the fact that she' living in Scotland, I suspect. ;)

Alrigthy, that's all for now, I'll be back soon.

Boldog karácsonyt! / Merry Christmas!

So these are my gift card holders for this year. The last one is just an embellishment but I got the ingredients from the ubersweet Virginia. :) Sadly, after having done it I forgot it at D's place though I was planning to give it to its receiver (sshhh....secret) this morning. Silly me. :-/ 

 To my brother (because he has never enough sporting goods)

 To my best friend and her husband (IKEA gift card for their new home)

To Dad from Mom (concert tix)

To ...ssshh...

Supplies: Neenah Desert Storm / Solar White cardstock, ??? patterned paper, Echo Park Sweet Day / Dots & Stripes papers, Hero Arts & Basic Grey Konnichiwa stamp set, IKEA wrapping papper, gold satin ribbon with snowflakes, Uniball gel pen gold, die cut circle (from V), SRM stickers (from V), little heart punch, red Ranger Stickles, red card stock, gold lame cord, Hero Arts Midtone inks, CART-us snowflake stamp

Mini Ticket Holder - Sneak Peak

Just a little sneak peak for those who are interested. Sorry for the bad quality. These are holding 2 really small concert tickets for my dad from my mom. :-) I still have to make 2 gift card holders and a little box, so I'll be back when I'm all done and post a better picture of them.

Baubles

I was so waiting for the right time to share these cards because I'm absolutely in love with them! I made these for mailing to my friends whom I cannot meet around the holidays this year. I clear embossed the background and I really loved that it got so sparkly! Very christmassy. :) The ornaments belong to the same big stamp from HA, I just coloured them with Copics and cut them apart. I'm planning to do a second series of them because I definitely need some more. lol

I'm entering these cards into the following challenges:

Addicted To CAS #2 - Bauble
Simon Says - ANYTHING GOES

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Már nagyon rég vártam arra, hogy megoszthassam ezeket a lapokat, mert nagyon elégedett vagyok velük. Ezek kifejezetten postára adásra készültek, azoknak akikkel az ünnepek előtt már nem tudok találkozni. A háttérül szolgáló bélyegzőhöz átlátszó domborítóport használtam, és nagyon-nagyon tetszik a végeredmény! Igazi karácsonyi hangulata van. A díszek egy nagy bélyegzőhöz tartoznak, csak kiszíneztem, aztán szétvágtam őket. Már készülőben van egy második sorozat is, mert biztos, hogy szükségem lesz még rá. :)

Anything Goes

I made this card from my latest order from Pippi.

It was easy-peasy to assemble it with EP's Sweet Day papers and Prima's Frost Flowers. There are also some flowers with snowflakes on them in the package, they are SO gorgeous. I just couldn't decide where to use them yet. :) Also this was the first time I used a doily on a card. Actually, I ordered 3 of them and I didn't know they were THAT large. LOL But it turned out well in the end.

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Ez a lap a legutóbbi pippis rendelésemből készült.

Az EP Sweet Day kollekciójából nem volt nehéz a papírválasztás, már nagyon régóta utaztam erre a pakkra. A virág pedig a Prima téli kiadása, a hópelyhesek tetszenek a legjobban, de még nem döntöttem el, mire is tegyem őket. :) Most először használtam tortapapírt is, 3 ugyanilyet rendeltem, és nem esett le, hogy ezek ilyen nagyok... de végül is jól sült el.

I'm entering this card into Simon Says Stamp's Anything Goes challenge.

Winter Blue II

The sentiment was made with D's pretty old-school Dymo. I so wanted to have one as a child. :) The snowflakes were stamped with the same ink multiple times. Really easy and flat card, just perfect for mailing.

I'm entering this card into the following challenges again:

CFC79 - Winter Blues 

ATCAS#1 - Codeword: Snow 

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A feliratot ezúttal D apukájának régi Dymojával nyomkodtam (tudjátok, amivel régen a postaláda-feliratokat készítették :D hogy vágytam egy ilyenre!), a háttér pedig ugyanazzal a nyomdapárnával készült, többször rányomva a hópelyheket.

(The sentiment is straight. The photo is not. :))

Opening Draw at Scrap i Pebre

Over at Scrapi Pebre you can win this set of paper yummies till 6th Dec. You just have to follow her blog, write a comment with your email and blog address and post this picture on your blog with a link to her site.

The reason for the drawing is that she's just opened her own store! She's a really nice person and I'm really glad for her. :) Take your chance and pay a visit to her!

Gyerekkor

Befejeztem hát ezt a könyvet épp néhány másodperccel azelőtt, hogy beértünk volna a Délibe vasárnap. Jó sokáig tartott. Az év nagy részében ezt olvastam. Nem akartam, hogy vége legyen. A végén aztán valahogy mégis akartam.

540 oldal. Az utolsó részben ugyan megrendültem kicsit, hogyan sikerül kb. 10 oldalban elereszteni azt az illúziót ilyen hamar, amit az egész könyv addig építgetett, de nagyon hálás vagyok azért az illúzióért, végig olvastatta magát a könyv, még akkor is, ha a kb. 500x előforduló Fliegengitter szóra csak a könyv második felében jöttem rá, hogy ja, szúnyoghálós ajtó. :) Szép könyv. Nekem való. Szerencsére még van Zsuzsa Bánktól egy novelláskötetem olvasatlanul, de az már vékonyka, úgyhogy most valószínűleg VM új könyve, ill. a pszichomókus könyvek lesznek a következők az idén felhalmozott kupacból. Viszont Bánk könyveire bátran mondom már most, hogy biztosan újraolvasom még őket. Tehát a novelláskötet után újra jön a Der Schwimmer, ha addig nem jelenik meg új könyve. Utóbbi egyébként megjelent azóta magyarul is „Az úszó” címmel. Asszem VM igazi versenytársra talált a szívem könyvespolcán. :)

Úgy látszik, szeretem hasonlítgatni a nekem tetsző könyveket. (Fry-nál pl. a magyar-angol kötet fordítását hasonlítgattam legutóbb.) A Der Schwimmer, a Der heißeste Sommer és a Die hellen Tage is gyerekekről, gyerekbarátságokról, felnőtté válásokról szól. Ezért a Die hellen Tage után különösen kíváncsi vagyok VM Szitakötőjére (témailag elvileg hasonló).

Update: Ezt az interjút nagyon ajánlom a könyvvel és Zsuzsával kapcsolatban.