2 sweet 2 bite

Hello, back with an other Saturated Canary card, this one has been out for quite a while but I know that it will be soon available in Rubber through Little Darlings. The stamps name is “Vampire Rose”. Its hard to tell on my photos, Rose has two little Dracula teeth.

I totally forgot the colors I used, papers ect.. I made the card mid June.. just before I left to Germany.
Some supplies I remember are Go Create dies, Tim Holz silver frame and Magnolia swirl die.. other supplies like, black gems, glitter and purple tuelle flowers I got at Michaels.

Thanks for looking
hugs

Spooooookkyyyyyy

Hi friends…

a little late for my project for Just Magnolia/Just Hanglar. I had to make my project for our challenge last night.

Well… I printed my calendar sheet as usually but than sponged over the piece with Vintage photo. Than heat embossed with clear embossing powder – added a little bit of some silver for added sparkle over the piece.

Off to get my car from the repair shop. Geee… almost 1 week no car it is so annoying. see ya!
Love Claudi

stamps: all by Magnolia (ghost is a special stamp and was never released for purchase)
available through Sir Stampalot : Tilda with broom
Papers: Magnolia – available at Sir Stampalot

Just For You

Hello friends…
As always.. Fridays is Just Magnolia/Just Hanglar Stanglar challenge and we have a Bingo card for you to play with.

I will make it short today because I have one more photo than usual.
This shot shows you a bit better the colors. I first went around the image with a light green – I wanted the card feel a spooky and grungy.. plus I wanted to pick up the colors of the DP (green bats) after blending the green with Gamsol I went over with cool grey 70% and added the night around my cute Hanglar bat girl.

Papers are a mix of different companies and pads. I used Maja Design, Basic Grey (Erie) and Making Memories (spider web).
Sentiment (Stampin up) was this time stamped onto white paper after I was reading a comment on one of my cards over on the LOVT blog.

If you look at the corners of the bat paper.. I used silver stickles (inside and outside) to create a little corner accents (used my index finger to get it in place).I have repeated this in the inside as well – and added also gems to the inside.

here is a shot where I think the bats show a bit better. Added some Stickles in Stardust to the wings to make them stand out a bit more and added eyes with a white gel pen. Flowers have tulle inside – I believe these are not available at Wild Orchid Crafts – not sure. I know I got mine through Magnolia.

The bat wings of the girl and the heart tail have some black gems as well. I just like how it gives the image some extra dimension when you hold it.
other supplies used
Copic: Express Blending cardstock
Stampin up oval punch
Black Satin Ribbon (Ribbon girl) corner piece (Wild Orchid Crafts)

Thank you Sharon for ordering a Halloween card using a Hanglar Stanglar image from me.

Some news about Sir Stampalot you might not want to miss

FREE DEMOS THIS WEEKEND

Saturday ~ 27th (10am - 4pm)

• Gina Martin - Rubber Stamp Tapestry
  Rubber Stamp Tapestry stamp designs and techniques to make the most out of these great peg stamps that can mix and match to endless possibilities.
• Clare Rowlands - Molly Blooms Stamp Range
  designer behind the magical Molly Blooms stamp range. Clare will be using copics too, to show you how to create wonderful projects using these cute Molly and George character stamps.

Sunday ~ 28th (10am - 4pm)

• Lindsay Mason - Tim Holtz products and Personal Impressions Stamps
  Lindsay will be using the latest Christmas stamp designs using lots of her favourite techniques for backgrounds and colouring, including Distress Inks and Distress Stains.

Monday ~ 29th (10am - 4pm)

• Crafty Lou - Magnolia Rubber Stamps
• Chris Scott - Hero Arts Rubber Stamps
  This double act is a hoot!
  They are demo'ing all sorts of colouring techniques, card layouts and designs using Tildas, Hero new designs, various Christmas stamps and embellishments, punches and die cuts.

• FREE refreshments
• FREE Parking
• Don't forget to bring your camera!

Best Wishes

Hello, hope you are all well…
today I have a few more pictures to show, so I am going to make my “blurb” short.

Some of you may have noticed that I do use my Silhouette recently a lot on my cards. This time I used the cutting machine to create a spider web overlay.
Do not get me wrong… if you look at the detailed cuts… there was still a lot of hand detail work involved with my craft knife.

The shape from the Silhouette library was the web frame (circle in the center) I downsized it so it would be the usual size for a 6x6 card plus my matting. Than I used some of the smaller patterned sheets of Basic Grey paper to add some color to the card. Next I used the Grand Spellbinder circles (Cute Stamps and Cards) to cut the paper behind the kids out. I made sure that the bats in the trees to the right top of my circle will show after I add my two images inside. Just a little bit stitching with the sewing machine to set the frame a bit more off against the web was added.



This weeks challenge on Just Magnolia/Just Hanglar is “add a little bit glitter” so I just added some Stickles in Diamond (I like that it shows against the black cardstock in greenish) to the outside perimeters of the spider web.

I colored both of the images on purpose with muted colors. Yes, most of the times I would probably color the girls dress in a different color than the boy’s.

To pick up the colors I first colored the wings in black and than added while the ink is still wet some purple to pick up the shades.

Here is an other detail shot to show the tiny silver dots I added to the ends of the wings and the cute little scary cat charm which I got from my friend Carole. She always finds the cutest charms

Additional info:
Pearl stickers are by Martha Stewart – through Sir Stampalot
Sentiment/cardstock: is by Stampin up

inside decoration
Magnolia dream tag  die through Sir Stampalot
Sentiment: Stempelglede through Cute Stamps and Cards

Groulish Treats - Card

Hello good morning, this is my last Halloween card for this year. I am going to give this to my friend Mina and Sam, along with the basket from yesterday when we go to her Halloween party.

Stamps: all 3 are from the Magnolia “So Spooky” Collection 2009 and fit into the Challenge that Camilla set for the Magnolia DT to use at least 3 Magnolia stamps on the card.
Papers: all last years Making Memories
Embellishments: Orange Stickles, Shimmerz Pumpkin Pie paint, Robins Nest “Halloween”, Ribbon: Offray and Stampin up, Hero Arts Pearl Stickers,
off to bring the boys to school :-) have a lovely day hugs

Witchy Greetings

Happy Thursday to all of you… well. for some reason iam the entire week one day off lol… so for me it is Friday lol. seams iam ready for the weekend :-) The card for today is made for a fun challenge over on the Cute Card Thursday blog. Check it out we have again a fabulous prize up.
For my card.. i think you have it all seen before lol. The papers are the new Magnolia papers and have been sent to all the DT’s – there should be plenty of inspiration for those cute stamps and papers be on the blogs. I have created those big scallops with my Stampin up 1 3/8 circle punch but before i have punched it out i ran the black paper once though the Swiss dot embossing folder. I have gotten many wonderful flowers in my DTkit but as usually :-) i kind of like it simple so i just spritzed the entire card with Shimmerz “Babies Breath” and the black flower got a separate treatment on a piece of scrap paper and i tucked it under the big bow.
That’s it! 
So, if i could figure out how to do the “wrap around text on my pictures that would be nice too :-)
Stamps: Tilda with broom and sentiment (Spooky 2009 Collection)
Papers: Magnolia and Stampin up (Basic Black), Neenah Ultra White
Ink: Copics, Memento Black
Embellishments: Making memories (black brads) Shimmerz Spritz babies breath, Offray (gingham ribbon),

Spooky

Welcome to my blog! Today i have made a quick card using some treasures that i have picked up in my LSS last Sunday. Just 1 sheet of Designer paper and on top of that this cool swirly and glittery overlay. Love it! As soon i saw it i knew that i wanted to make my card using Tanjas sketch for this weeks Friday Sketcher challenge with. I hope you will find some time to join us today or all week on the FS blog.

Stamps: Magnolia "So Spooky" Collection "Bat Tilda" kindly given to my by my wonderful generous friend Jacque! whool thanks sweetie, Sentiment: Michaels $1 Dollar bin

Papers: Stampin up (Basic Black, Kraft), Designer Paper: Fancy Pants Design (Flying Bats)

Embellishments: Shimmerz (Spritz Licorice), Fancy Pants Designs (clear overlay "Circle Web Frame"), Stampin up (Hardware and ribbon), Prima Marketing (flowers)

So Spooky ~ Happy Halloween

Hello, my card for today is "hot off the press" lol the glue is not even dried. Boy!... love the new Spooky stamps! Unfortunately seams like just the very few lucky DT-Members who were able to attend Stempel Mekka in Germany did get their Design Teams stamps. The more fortune i feel that Jacqueline were able to purchase some stamps for a couple of friends of mine. whoo - thanks hun! The "owl" and "Bat Tilda" are stamped images that i have received yesterday from my wonderful friend Jacque!

The church window can be found in the Easter Collection. That's why i love my Magnolia accessories. Usually i do not purchase all the Tildas or Edwins but iam a big sucker for accessories, cause i know they can be combined with stamps from other collections/seasons. Well.. lets hope the Spooky Collection will soon be available. I have pre-ordered mine at 7kids!

Stamps: Magnolia "So Spooky 2009" Collection (Owl and Bat Tilda) and Easter 2009 Collection (Church Window), Sentiment: Stampin up (my dear kind friend)
Papers: Stampin up (Basic Black), Basic Grey (Ambrosia and Eerie)
Embellishments: Stickles, Stampin up (Ribbon and Hardware) decorative corner a gift from Carole xxx :-) love it
Tools: Martha Stewart Dripping Gue punch

HappY Boo to YoU!

Hello and welcome to my blog. Today's card is made for Cute Cards Thursdays challenge to use "Black and Yellow". Well... you will not find many yellow cards on my blog. It is just not my color. For my card i choosed a piece of black Reminice paper, that has all over black sparkly swirls (still shows though the acetate on top) and used a piece of left over foil with some silver spider web on. I used Martha Stewart Zig Zag punch on the foil to give it some interest since there was not a very big piece left. I have stamped the cute Hanglar bug onto Neenah Ultra smooth card stock with Memento black ink and colored him/her with several yellows and grey Copic Sketch markers in. I thank added to the wings Yellow Stickles and some Star Dust to the top.

After that was done, i started to pick some embellishments, the flowers from Prima Marketings white Big Bloom Bucket had the perfect shape, kind of like the wings from the bug. All what i did was spritzed them with the Shimmerz Licorice Miniz Spritz and OMG... i think this is now one of my favorites. This Spritz leaves a wonderful visible silver shimmer on everything.

Recipe:

Stamps: Hanglar Stanglar (not available if you do not have a mailing address in Norway or Sweden)

Papers: Stampin up (Yo-Yo Yellow, Basic Black), Reminice (foil Halloween and DP Graduation Collection )

Embellishments: Shimmerz Spritz Miniz (Licorice), Robins Nest (yellow), Prima Marketing (flowers), Stampin up (black grosgrain), Stickles (Yellow and Stardust), Bead heads (Quixotic cards),

Tools: Martha Stewart Zig Zag Punch

Copic Sketch: Face/Hair: e000, e50, e00, e17,e11, e31, e15, r20, clothes: c5, c9, c6, 110, c0, c7, y18, y11, y19, y15, Halo/ ground: w0, w3, w2, w1, W5, W6

Don't forget to check the Shimmerz Blog ALL this week for amazing projects by the Education Team AND the Design Team!

A Witch's Hug

Hello, it is time for a great sketch to follow over on the Friday Sketcher blog.. my friend Jacque came up with a great idea. Time for a Halloween card.. i can not believe it how late iam this year. Choosed for my card one of the sweet Hanglars and colored her to match the new Basic Grey paper. Check out the spider.. i have played these days a lot with different colors of Stickles. I really have neglected those fun glues. on this card i have used Lime Green to extra highlight the papers on the outer edge of the card base and covered the entire spider (Martha Stewart punch) with green Stickles and than on top of that, i squeezed some "Star Dust" on too ("Black Widdow" style ya know lol)

Don't forget tomorrow's the big Stampers United blog hop at 6:00 EDT :-)

Stamps: Hanglar Stanglar

Papers: Basic Grey 6x6 (Eerie)

Embellishments: "hug" American Crafts, Stickles, Flowers: Prima Marketing, BoBunny, Ribbon (Stampin up - retired), Jute (gift from Carole - i think you can order it at Elaines store Quixotic), Robins Nest "Fresh Mowed Grass"

Tools: Martha Stewart (Spider)

Sorry no Copic Marker numbers noted

Halloween

 Hello and thank you for vistiting me today. Have you had a chance yet to take a look at the new sketch over on the Friday Sketcher blog designed by Jacquline? Well.. this one.. must say was a tricky one for me but the Design Team came up with many ideas and iam sure you will find some inspiration for your card. I have used the sektch to use up some of my acetate sheets i still had from my Scrapbooking beginnings :-)

 Added some Shimmerz paints to the pumpkins in Marigold and Celery to the bag and leaves.

 Thank you so much for all your wonderful comments since the last week.

My family left Sunday our home and on Tuesday morning we left Michigan at 4 am. it took us almost 16 hours longer to arrive at our destination in Florida as we had planned. We were on the road with the boys almost 2 days! On the way down to Miami, we stopped in Orlando to just grab some dinner and strech the legs, we took by accident a wrong exit and drove by the CHA expo center. OMG.. i was not expecting the complex beeing sooo hudge. If you are going down to Orlando at that time.. make sure you bring some rain gear. IT WAS POORING literally in seconds it was white in front of us.. i totally forgot that it is Floridas hurricane season at the moment. However today we went to Hollywood beach (close by Fort Lauderdale) and it was like you would expect from Florida. Hot and the ocean warm like a bathtub. I have my first sunburn and typing this laying on my tummy autsch :-)

Trick or Treat with Pet Collection

Hello, i am sorry i have been not much around these past 2 days. Will try to catch up Monday! What do you think about this card lol.. I really was not sure about it haha.. i really just enjoyed playing with my new stamps and combined them with some oldies - i think i went a little crazy :-) but everything is from Magnolia believe it or not. I have paper pieced some accessories from two Halloween Tilda's

I think it is quite nice to see the shimmer i have created with Shimmerz products. I have painted Tilda's dress with the color "Bubble Gum" paint and the flowers are spritzed with "Babies Breath" and "Mud Pie".
For my layout i have used the sketch over at "Stamp with Fun" check it out my friend Bea came up with the sketch and also sponsors this week.

Stamps: Magnolia "Khaki Tilda " & African Sun from the Pet Collection 2009, Broom and hat from Halloween Collection 2008

Papers: Basic Grey "Amrosia", Reminice (Graduation swirls)Embellishments: Shimmerz Spritz (Espresso and Babys Breath) Making Memories (hardware sentiment), Prima Marketing (flower bucket), Stickles,

Dracula

Stamps used on this card: Hanglar Stanglar, Magnolia, Alota for the spooky house

Sentiment: Stampin up

paper: Basic Grey

Coloring: Copics

Happy Halloween

Hi, here as promised my second card for today. :-) i wanted to make one last Halloween card before it is over :-) Those stamps are so cute - even for next year i thought they will be always fun to use.
The card was made very late last night and for a moment i was thinking to take a picture of the back of the black panel :-) it looks just crazy :-) all the sewing.... was some work but it looks really great in real. Unfortunately the picture does not look so nice :-) cause it was so late

Stamps: Magnolia Tilda with spiderweb.. Halloween Collection.

Sentiment: Stampin up

Paper: Bazzill black bling, Kiwi Kiss

Coloring: Copics

Embellishments: Sewing machine, Making Memories, Stickles in green, Stampin up Hardware

Here are the Copic markers i used to color Tilda in:

Happy Halloween ya all.. gotta take the kids to a party... :-) Need a card layout where you can show off your cute accessory stamps?? Check out my Dracula card on my second blog today. I made a second card using the sketch for a Magnolia card.

Halloween Photoalbum

This is a little squash book i made to give with this years Halloween pics to my parents. The Hanglar girl was a presen from my very generous friend Carole - Thank you so much!!!
Stamps used on this project are: Hanglar Stanglar, Alota Rubberstamps for the house and swirls are Debbies Die Cuts.
and not enough.. look at this.. Carole sent me this darling card too :-o

Welcome Trick or Treaters

Here is a fun little projcet i made with the Halloween Magnolia's :-) and a doorhanger i got from Debbies Die Cuts. Those doorhangers are so fun to decorate and i was able to use up a lot of my scrap paper i had left from the cards i have made. I will be making one for Thanksgiving too.
I will be happy to hear that Diana Crick has ordered many of the stamps from this line and will have them soon in her shop.

Stamps: Magnolia (Fall 2008 collection), Sentiment: Stampin up

other: Doorhanger by Debbies Die Cuts, Martha Stewart dripping gue and bat punch, Nestabilities ribbon sliders, Prima flowers, Making Memories rhinestone brads and moon embellishment, Robin's Nest

Paper: Stampin up, Making Memories and K&Company

Happy Halloween

Today's card shows a wonderful image from Alota Rubberstamps. At first i was worried how long the coloring will take but it was really fun and easy to do. I think those bees are sooo cute :-)

Stamp: Alota Rubberstamps

DP: Making Memories

Boo! To You!

Hello and happy Tuesday! Today i would like to show you a card i have made using this weeks Ismaki sketch. The dimensions of this card are a bit bigger than the long card i have made a couple of weeks back using the Sarah Kay image because i wanted to create a little szene with the very new Magnolia Halloween stamps. This card fits into the standard SU large envelope.

I totally fell in love with these two Halloween DP papers :-) You are going to see a few projects in the next days this card is part of a "gift set" iam working on.

Stamps: Magnolia Fall 2008 for Tildas and the plant and moon are from the Magnolia Troll collection, Sentiment is computer generated

DP: K&Company and Making Memories

Embellishments: Swirl: Debbies Die Cuts, Stampin up: Hardware, Ribbons: Stampin up, Raspberry Ribbons and Michaels

Treat and Cards

Hi, gosh iam so happy that i can show you today the candy for the Pretty Pressings sketch and some lovely cards i recieved from friends. This morning was already craziness in my house. We went last night to Ikea and came home late. I left my handbag in the car and this morning my keys were locked in. So i had to figure out what to do with the kids ect. :-)

Here is a picture of the candy i have for you.. not much but i hope you will like it. There will be also some stamped images of the 2 Magnolia Halloween stamps i have (you can choose if WWC paper or for Copics). I include a cute stamp from Alota - some of you might recognize this stamp from the current Issue of Scrap Art Zine, there are 3 cards of mine published. One of them uses this image and it is called "Happy Fall ya all". I can show all my cards in about 5 weeks on the blog.
Here is the sketch. You can read about the candy here: Candy - please add your entry there.
Please make sure that you give me your direct link to your card on your blog. Meaning entries like : "My card is on my blog" can not count. Thanks for understanding and your help.

 Here are some lovely cards i recieved this past week for my birthday. :-) thank you so much ladies.. i love them. I uploaded the cards in the order i recieved them.