Thomas Kinkade Lighthouse

For the Arty Girlz Challenge Blog was this card made. The challenge this week is "stamping"! Man ... it has been a while since i made a card completely stamped. So this WAS a challenge :-)These new pretty papers in the stores are just sooo tempting and beautiful. My husband needs a card for a co-worker, who is going through a rough time so i thought the lighthouse stamp (Thomas Kinkade image) would be something appropriate.
The base of the card is Very Vanilla, the green panel is Mellow Moss stamped with Cheesecloth background and sponged arround the edges in Mellow Moss. I stamped a pice of Creamy Caramel with Canvas backgrounder and Close Cocoa ink and distressed it. The Lighthouse was first stamped onto shimmery white CS in Mellow Moss and again with Versafine brown, cut the oval out and mounted it with spacer onto the image stamped in Mellow Moss. To repeat the more natural feeling of this card i used the SU twill i love so much on my cards. I stamped the first few words of a saying from "In My Thoughts" on the front of the card and added 3 dots (evenly spaced with the piercing tool as help) and the rest of the saying was stamped inside.
This card is totally inspired by the awesome Debbie Olsen. All supplies CS and stamps (TK is Cornish Heritage) are Stampin up products.

Have a Happy Valentines Day ladies!

Verve Visual Challenge

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These cards were both made this past Sunday. Both for the Verve Visual Challenge . I do think the second card will not qualify for the Challenge, cause i decided not to add the two elements on the top left corner. I really loved the card just the way it is. Simple! No more embellishments.
This card uses: Magnolia, Penny Black and Stampendous stamps. The swirls and the butterfly are highlighted with some sakura stardust pen.

Now the second card is my favorite. I havent used this stamp in soooo long and i really enjoyed coloring the flowers.

Stamps used: Stampendous and Stampin Up for sentiment

Award

iam so excited and at the same time still in a kind of shock... :-) i went over to Kimmies and Sophias blog, of course iam reading my "stamping newspaper" with a good cup of coffee in the morning and i see that my blog got awarded with this award
My gosch i honestly can not believe it...Sophia and Kimmie are two of the stampers that i am drooling over their work for so many years and they both influenced my stamping in many different ways. Did you noticed that Sophia is now working for a second blog called "Moonlight Inker2"? You have to go visit her there!!!! Now i was thinking who should i give this award???
ALL of the girls that are linked on my blog are great stampers and are worth to check them out - otherwise i would not link them here! And all of you deserve this award.

So i thought i award and give you links to stampers that really helped me learn to stamp and give me my daily inspriation for my cards.

Barbara from No Ink Time (cute stamper)
Stampinkub (for the love of my "simple"cards and proof that man can stamp too)
Lisa from Shabbychick Junk
and the awesome and sweet (oh wait) bad, bad sherry :-)

Thanks for reading and i hope you will love the links i have posted as much is i love to look at their work.

Edit to add.

Rosella just gave me the "Cheer me up" Award one more time.

i would like to give this award to Ulrica my teammates from DT Magnolia,Kianel from DT Magnolia France , Bea from Magnolia DT in Germany and Isa DT Magnolia

Friends

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I have made this card already two weeks ago, but i couldnt show it cause the card was a surprise for my friend Tammi. Now that she got her mail i can show it to you. The card works also for this weeks Papertake Challenge, to use stripes on your project.

To the card... the tag panel is SU Very Vanilla CS, sponged with Close to Cocoa. The swirls are from "Bronc Buster" set with Close to Cocoa and stamped once off. The big twine is from Stampin up as well, i stamped the word Friends (SU current Level 1 Make It Count set)with Timber Brown Stazon on it. Jumbo eylet is from 7 Gypsies but i would love to get some from SU, i think they are easier to set than this brand.

Ismaki Challenge

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I made this card for the Ismaki Challenge Blog and for the Magnolia Challenge blog. It also works for Mondays Papertake Challenge blog. I used some sanding paper from husbands workshop :-) cause the challenge is to recycle something. The sanding paper is sponged with a bit with close to cocoa and chocolate chip to give it more definition. The sky was sponged to create the clouds. The long panel in blue behind Tilda is wheeled with Fishy Friends and the sentiment (both Stampin up retired sets) was first stamped with a glue pad and used Martha Stewarts green glitter. Tilda and the crab (High Hopes Stamps) are mounted onto spacer.

Magnolia Album

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Here is my submission for this weeks Magnolia Challenge Blog. The task this week is to use "recycled" items. This week was good for me... i had plenty of ideas :-) infact the little holder to give stamped image as a gift was my first idea to recycle the cardboard or Kellogsbox for the cover. For this fotoalbum i was not really sure if it would work for the challenge so i asked Donna cause my items are not really obviously.. and i am sure you know what i mean. :-) and she said it's okay. This project uses a wooden stick from the kitchen (you know the one you use in summer to make meat and veggies on the bbq) in german the name for is "Schaschlik-Spiess" and a old elastic hairband that was too streched out to use with my hair. You can see a better pic of these items on the bottom of all the picutures and i will post a tutorial on how to make this album in a seperate post - this would be otherwise to many pics.

If you like visit tomorrow my blog again and i can show you a card using a recycled item from my husbands workshop. i made it for Bea's sketch Ismaki challenge and the Magnolia Design Challenge Blog but now since you can win a prize this week i can not link a second project. The prize is ALL for you girls!!! :-)

This litte photoalbum uses half of a Stampin up "Simply Scrapping Kit" and some Palette O' Prints Designer Paper plus coordinating Stampin up CS. Decoration tip: you could also attach to the bamboo spine lots of different colors of ribbon to hide the stick and to make it more "girly" - i could not do that cause otherwise you could not see my recycled items.

Baby, It's Still Cold Outside

This week's challenge over at Artzy Girls Challenge Blog is 'Frames' so you could use cardstock to make a frame, do a stitched frame, a buttoned frame, alter a frame, doodle a frame.

Since we got some more snow just yesterday i thought it is a great reason to use one of my images i got from Tammi. I hope we will have soon spring weather and than i cant use her for a very long time anymore. Tilda was colored a while ago... she is very cute i love all the details on her sweater and her pants.

Now for the card. I first used my snowflake CB embossing folder to emboss the white CS, than i cut a oval with my Coluzzle template (Stampin up) inside the center. Next i cut a smaller oval in bashful blue cs and distressed the inner side of the oval with Tim Holz Tonic Paper Distresser. Stampin up's "Lovely as a Tree" was stamped with brown Versafine onto white CS, i added some birds with pencil in the background (because i love how Sophia does that). Than i covered the entire piece of cs with spray adhesive and glued a dryer sheet (used and ironed before used on card) over it. While the glue is still wet i used a brush and slightly dabbed Dazzeling Diamond Dust over the entire piece. I love this technique - it is soooo pretty in real live. Almost like a cold winter day when the snow falls down and it's kind of foggy outside. Thats the illusion you will achive. Glued all the layers together and stamped on the white panel behind the Real Red some swirls (Rhonna Farrer) with Grey ink. Finishing touches are some silver brads and blue Stampin up Taffeta Ribbon.