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Montag, 26. Oktober 2020

Happy Halloween (cat and dog)

Hello everyone ;o)
this is a sad post to write, even though I really like this card and am quite happy how it turned out. The sad part is that this will be the very last challenge at the Crafty Cardmakers. Our wonderful Lin from the "Twisted Witch" blog has good reasons to step down from coordinating the team and the challenge. However I am really heartbroken that the challenge won't continue. I have met so many lovely and fabulous people and talented crafters through the challenge. I am grateful for having been a part of this team for as long as it lasted and I wish each and everyone just the best of luck, good health and happiness! 
But now onto today's card. This is my inspiration for you for our "Things That Go Bump In The Night" challenge:


I started with the background and used different Distress Inks to create a lighter middle and a darker outside and also stamped a cemetary scene on top of the grassy hill. When in the end that still didn't feel dark enough I went around the panel with "Black Soot" and that really made even the darker, duller colours pop. 


Next I stamped and coloured the two fun images by Simon Says stamp. They are from an older set which is new to me though. They are quite big and I also love the sentiment which is from the same set. That one was stamped and embossed before I added the cat and the dog, but after the background had dried for quite some time. I thought, that the top was a little too bare so I added the spider and her net to the upper left corner and that finished off my card. I hope you like it and I also hope that you will help us leaving blogland with a bang by participating in our last challenge! 


Supplies:

Stamps: "Trick Or Treat" by Simon Says Stamp
Dies: "Cute Cobweb" by Lawn Fawn

Challenges:
Simon Says Wednesday Challenge "Layer it Up" (3 layers plus inked layers)
Animal Friends Challenge "Spiders"
Dragonfly Dreams "Spooky and / or Cute"
Sweet Stampin Challenge "Halloween"
Send a Smile 4 Kids "Anything Goes"
My Time to Craft "Halloween or Cats"

Montag, 31. August 2020

A Fairy Nice Day

Hello my dear crafty friends!
I hope you are all doing fine and that you get to enjoy some sun outside or some light over your craft desk ;o) I happen to have an idea for the latter: How about joining us at the Crafty Cardmakers with a "Things With Wings" themed project this fortnight??! I had so much fun pairing this cute fairy with the beautiful "Bloom" stencil by Create A Smile Stamps:


It is a rather simple card but I do love it for the vibrant colours. Also when you look at it for some time and focus on the fairy's feet the card gets a more dimensional look. At least it is that way for me. 


For the "Blossom" itself I used three different Distress Inks (Mustard Seeds, Pink Raspberry and Peacock Feathers) and made sure they overlapped quite a bit, to get all the other blended shades too. I didn't want the sentiment to take anything away from the background so I decided to just stamp it there using the MISTI tool to get a really deep black line. I hope you are going to join us for some fun with "Things With Wings" and would love to see your project in our gallery ;o)


Supplies:
Stamps: "Little Fairies" The Greeting Farm
Stencil "Blossom" by Create A Smile Stamps

And if you like fairies, here is another card I made using the same stamp set:


And a whole bunch of fairy goodies for my dearest "Klosterschwestern" in 2018. The tree log contained a special rubber to help when one made a little booboo ;o)



Montag, 29. Juni 2020

Big Hugs - Rainbow Background

Hallo everyone ;o)
I hope you are all doing fine and that you get to enjoy some nice summer days! Today I would love to share this super cute card with you which I made for the new "Create Your Own Background" challenge at the Crafty Cardmakers:


Even though it might look different there were only three Distress Inks involved in creating this background: Picked Raspberry, Mustard Seed and Peacock Feathers. I love how you can get a lot more colours simply by overlapping them. It still is magic to me ;o) Once I had the background piece ready I set it aside to let it dry completely and went on die cutting the sentiment three times. I glued the pieces together to make the word die stand out even more. 


In this picture you can see the effect quite well. I am lazy so I usually put "Stick it" behind sentiment dies. Do you glue them together differently? If so I would love to hear which adhesive you use, because all the ones I tried are too runny or too thick when I lay them down and my beloved snail glue doesn't work for me either... Well, back to this card ;o) I had stamped the image in a very light grey and coloured it in a no-line fashion. I thought it would work well on an elephant ;o) I added it to the sentiment strip, added an additional dot detail to the background and my card was done. I hope you like it and that you will join us at the Crafty Cardmakers ;o) Happy crafting everyone ;o)
And...


... to you all!!!

Supplies:
Stamps: "Adorable Elephants" by My Favorite Things
Die: "Big Hugs Die" by Neat and Tangled (Linked to Seven Hills Crafts)

Challenges:

Montag, 4. Mai 2020

Celebrate - Gnome

Hello everyone,
"Celebrations" is the theme for the newest Crafty Cardmakers challenge. I love the theme, because it is so versatile and so I created a card with the theme as my sentiment:


I  let the Scan N Cut do the cutting work for me and then coloured the image with Copics. The little bug at the top left makes me smile everytime I look at this image which I think is totally cute, don't you?


The sentiment was created using the letter stickers by Create a Smile, which I love as well. (I make sure never to be without them actually, because they have helped me out of tight spots cardmaking-wise very often in the past...) I hope you are going to create a "Celebrations" themed project as well and share it with us in our gallery! Until then, please stay safe and happy crafting ;o) Yours Maike


Supplies:
Stamp: "Gnome on a Swing" by Stamping Bella
Dies: "Wonky Stitches Elle-Ments" by Avery Elle

Challenges:

Dienstag, 10. März 2020

Have a purrfect day (Cats)

Heya all!
So glad you stopped by today, because it is time for a new challenge at the Crafty Cardmakers ;o) Our "Green" challenge is a kind of tradition already. It is a theme that always gets me to think a lot about my stash and how I could make a card interesting with such a limited colour palette. This is what I made for this years challenge:


I decided to go for cats that are playing in the garden. That gave me the chance to add many different shades of green and also have the cats look different but still keeping to white and grey. Unfortunately the cat images by My Favorite Things I used for my card seem to be discontinued. I hope you are going to join us in our "Green" challenge. Have you played along with one or more of the previous ones? I would love to hear if this is a challenging theme for you as well and how you go about creating it.
Well, have a wonderful week, take care and happy crafting! Yours Maike


Supplies:
Stamps: "I knead you" by My Favorite Stamps (discontinued, but still availabe here)
Dies: "Meadow Borders" by Lawn Fawn
          "Essential Cover Up" by My Favorite Stamps (also discontinued)

Challenges:

Montag, 10. Februar 2020

Ganz liebe Grüße (Bunny)

Hello everyone ;o)
January has gone so fast hasn't it? I am always amazed about how one day or even one appointment can feel like a whole week, but looking back it all went by so quickly... Just shows that we ought to make the most out of the time we have, right? So I did what I like most: I made a card to make someone smile:


I created this card as an inspiration for our newest challenge at the Crafty Cardmakers. The theme is "Love is all you need" and just perfect for all the Valentine's or just "Hello"-cards you want to make. I decided to go with this super cute bunny by Purple Onion Designs and instead of the flower that she is usually holding, I wanted to give her a heart balloon. For it I went ahead and cut out a heart shape from a piece of paper, so that I could use the negative part as a guide which I could then fill with loads and loads of heart die cut pieces. After the "balloon" was complete I just had to glue the image to the matted piece of background paper and add the sentiment and my card was done. I hope you like the idea of altering a stamp to fit your needs and also that you are going to play along with us (again?) this time! Have a lovely week and happy crafting! Yours Maike


Supplies:
Stamp: "Bella - bunny holding long flower" by Purple Onion Designs
            "immer schön lächeln" by Klartext
           and loads of different heart dies (almost all I own in fact ;o)

Montag, 27. Januar 2020

Black and White Christmas

Hello everyone,
today I am sharing a rather unusual card with you I'd say ;o) The Crafty Cardmakers dare you to create a card in black and white only and I thought I would try to create a Christmas card with this specification:


When I created this card I was thinking of how a teacher would maybe decorate the blackboard with chalk for their class right before Christmas and believe I nailed the look ;o) What do you think? To create the card I first stamped the cats and the huge sentiment, poured the embossing powder over it and heat set it. Next I added the snowflakes in the same way.


Next I used Picket Fence Distress Paint to paint in the snowy hill and also to add the flicks of paint to the background. To finish the card I covered the cats in Wink of Stella Clear Glitter pen and also added a tiny bit of Nuvo Clear Drops to the right side of the cats. I really hope you are going to join us in our "Black and White" challenge at the Crafty Cardmakers. See you there and happy crafting, Maike


Supplies:
Stamps: "Snow Friends" by Mama Elephant
              "Warm Holiday Wishes" by My Favorite Things

Dienstag, 29. Oktober 2019

Spooktacular Wishes

Heya everyone!
Life is kind of hectic at the moment, so I hope you will forgive me that this post is late... For the Crafty Cardmakers new challenge theme "Halloween" I made this fun and not at all scary card! Which is how I like my Halloween cards best ;o)


The images are from a little set by Avery Elle called "Scary Pals" and I really love how cute the kids in their costumes look! 


The background is from an awesome paper pack with loads of the star burst by tba and adhered the lovely "Sky Burster" frame by Mama Elephant on top to give the kids a frame to sit in. I really like it when you can still see the colour on the edges of the card so I amde the card base just a tiny bit bigger than the frame. I hope you like my card and that you are going to join us and share your projects with us in our gallery here ;o) Have a wonderful week and happy crafting! Yours Maike


Challenges:

Dienstag, 4. Juni 2019

Whaley Huge Birthday Wishes

Hello y'all ;o)
Yesterday we published a new task at the Crafty Cardmakers Challenge blog. We would like to see "Masculine" cards and projects. This is my inspiration card:

 

When you know some of my cards you'll see that this is a particularly "empty" one for my stile, but I really like it. The background was made quickly with two different shades of blue Oxide Inks (Salty Ocean and Blueprint Sketch) and spritzed with a few drops of water which i removed with a cloth almost immediately.


While the card base dried I coloured the whale with Copic markers in light blue shades, so it would be clearly visible against the background. Lastly I added the sentiment with Archival Jet Black Ink and the card was done. What do you think? Do you like a very CAS card once in a while?


I hope you are going to play along with our challenge and link your project to our gallery ;o) I also hope to see you soon and wish you a wonderful and crafty week! Yours Maike ;o)

Supplies:
Stamps: "Totally Narly" Your Next Stamp
              "Wild Birthday" von Avery elle
                     (sentiment - unfortunately discontinued so linked to Ellen Hutson)

Challenges

Montag, 20. Mai 2019

Interactive birthday card with Donut Treats (Magic Picture Changer)

Heya everyone ;o)
For the "Birthday" themed new challenge at the Crafty Cardmakers I created this card as inspiration:


It doesn't look like very much yet, but if you pull that tab...


the pictures changes to this:


I just love how cute the mouse looks smiling at you from behind the stack of donuts ;o))) To create the card I used the "Magic Picture Changer" die by Lawn Fawn and the Add-on as well. 
As for the ink, I have used the Fadeout Ink-on-3 and love the result. When you stamp it at first you'll have an outlined image and with time this ink fades out to give the impression of no-line-colouring. I am sold on this ink for a no-line look for sure, because it was really easy to colour ;o) 


I would love to see your "Birthday" cards and projects in our gallery at the Crafty Cardmakers! Have a lovely week and happy crafting everyone ;o) Yours Maike

Supplies:
Stamps: "Donut Treats" by Mama Elephant
Dies: "Magic Picture Changer" & "Add-On" by Lawn Fawn

Montag, 6. Mai 2019

1,2,3 Challenge with a Fox

Hello everyone ;o)
I hope you all had a great weekend! The theme for our new challenge at the Crafty Cardmakers is "1,2,3" and almost as easy as that ;o) We would like to see your creations using 3 of one thing, 2 of another and 1 of a third. For example, 3 patterned papers, 2 diecuts, 1 image. It would be helpful if you could mention in your post what your 3,2,1s are! (I totally stole this explanation from our blog boss Lin - I hope she won't mind!) Here is the card I made:


I am really happy about how it turned out - mostly because I love this cute fox so much I think, but also because the challenge theme really helped me get out of my comfort zone a bit ;o) As for my 1,2,3s: I used 1 large image, 2 patterned papers and 3 sentiment strips.


I hope you are going to join us for this fortnight's challenge and share your work in our gallery! Have a great week and happy crafting my creative friends ;o) Yours Maike

Supplies:
Stamps "Be Her" by Waffle Flowers
Dies: "Stitched Dome Frames" by My Favorite Things

Challenges:

Montag, 11. März 2019

Big Panda Hugs

Hello everyone!
How are you today? I hope you had a good start to the week and are looking for new crafty challenges. I have one for you if you like the colour "Green" which - incidentally - is the theme of the newest task at the Crafty Cardmakers ;o) This is my inspiration card:


Even though I chose to go with pink letters, my card is mostly green and think that the two colours work really well together. I have tried it with green, black and white letters, but the card ended up looking kind of blahhh, so it had to be pink ;o) 


I hope you are going to join us with a (mostly) "Green" project over at the Crafty Cardmakers gallery ;o) Have a fantastic week and happy crafting! Yours Maike


Material / supplies:
Stempel / stamps: "Happy Panda" (discontinued) & "Watercolor Stripes" von My Favorite Things 
Stanzen / dies: "Big Hugs Die-namics" von My Favorite Things
                         "Wonky Squares Frames"von Avery Elle

Challenges:

Montag, 11. Februar 2019

Sending Love and Hedgehugs

Heya everyone!
Hope you all had a fabulous weekend! The mid of Febuary is quickly approaching and so is Valentine's Day. Keeping that in mind you might not be super surprised that we chose the theme "Love, Love, Love" for our current challenge at the Crafty Cardmakers. This is my take on the theme:


The focus is definately on this cute hedgehog, so I tried to give it a lot of dimension with Copics and the help of a white Gelly Roll Pen.I also created an ombre-background for it using "Picked Raspberry Oxide Ink" and spritzing it with water to give it a bit more interest. After stamping the sentiment I raised the front panel up using foam tape and also added a baker's twine ribbon. That's my card all done ;o)


I hope you like my inspirational card and that you are going to join our challenge at the Crafty Cardmakers. Have a lovely week my crafty friends and happy crafting to you all!!! Maike ;o)


Material / supplies:
Stempel / stamps: "Unmounted Stamp Set 05" von Magda Polakow
                              "Happy Hedgehogs" von My Favorite Things
Stanzen / dies: "Stitched Arch STAX" von My Favorite Things
                        "All Prettied Up" von Mama Elephant

Challenges:

Dienstag, 29. Januar 2019

Happy Happy Happy Panda

Heya my dear crafty friends!
Today's card is my inspiration for the new "Texture" challenge at the Crafty Cardmakers. I added texture in lots of ways to this birthday card. Can you spot them?


An easy way to add texture to a card is an embossing folder I find. Because I wanted it to take it up a notch I used Nuvo Embellishment Mousse for the top background which adds a metallic look. Next I created the second background for the back using Distress Oxide Ink. Dripping wate on Distress Inks and drying it with a paper towel would have given some texture on that piece as well, but I decided against it because I wanted the window area to look crisp and clean - compared to the rest at least ;o)


Another way to add texture to a card is dimension, so I created three for this card. The third one being the balloon which I die cut from some "nuvo'ed" paper and added an extry layer of enamel dots. I hope you like the card and that you are going to enter a card with texture to our gallery ;o) Have a wonderful week and happy crafting, yours Maike

A close-up, so you can see the layers and the shine a bit better ;o)
Material / supplies:
Stempel / stamps: "Happy Pandas" von My Favorite Things (discontinued)
                              "Birthday Wishes" von Pink and Main (discontinued)
Stanzen / dies: "Party Balloons" & "Small Stitched Rectangles" von Lawn Fawn
Embossing Folder: "Graphic Impressions -Birthday" von Taylored Expressions


Montag, 14. Januar 2019

Warm thoughts on a cold day

Hello everyone ;o)
I would like to share my card for the newest challenge for the Crafty Cardmakers with you. The theme is "Winter" so I thought a snowman would be the perfect image for it:


I used a piece of patterned paper for my background and added a very glittery hill to it. The paper is from Simon Says Stamp and has a fantastic shimmery look without leaving pieces of glitter all around it. I love it! 


I cut a long rectangle from some black paper and added my heat embossed sentiment to the left side which I had cut to a flag shape beforehand. Lastly I added the "Starry Frame" and the cute, cuuuute snowman from Paper Smooches.
I hope you are going to join our "Winter" challenge ;o) Have a lovely week everyone and happy crafting! Yours Maike


Material / supplies:
Stempel / stamps: "Cool Dudes" von Paper Smooches
                              "Snow Dance Mini Set" von Create A Smile
Stanzen / dies: "Star Frame Die" von Avery Elle
                        "Stitched Scallop Basic Edges" von My Favorite Things

Challenges:

Sonntag, 23. September 2018

Hey Friend (Fox)

Hallo zusammen!
Es ist lange her und scheinbar haben einige von euch schon gedacht, ich hätte das Kartenbasteln dran gegeben... - aber das habe ich nicht ;o) Die Sommerferien waren nur irgendwie nicht lang genug, um alles anzugehen, was getan werden musste, aber ab jetzt werde ich wieder regelmäßig posten! Zeigen möchte ich euch heute eine Karte ganz in "Herbstfarben" passend zum neuen Thema der Crafty Cardmakers:

Heya everyone!
It has been quite a while since I got around to posting something here on my blog and some of you might have thought I have given up on crafting - but that is not the case ;o) Life just had too many things at once in stock for me in the last months. Now I'll hopefully be able to get back to my old routine... The card I'd like to show you today was made for the new challenge "Autumn colours" at the Crafty Cardmakers blog:


Der knuddelige Fuchs ist aus einem ziemlich neuen Set von Gerda Steiner Designs und ich muss jedesmal grinsen, wenn ich diesen niedlichen Silberblick sehe ;o)

This super adorable fox is from a newer set by Gerda Steiner Designs and I always have to grin when I see his cute face ;o)


Bei den Farben habe ich mich an die Herbstpalette gehalten und überwiegend warme Töne benutzt. Falls euch das Wetter nun auch schon in Herbststimmung versetzt und ihr Lust und Zeit habt dieses in einer Karte oder einem anderen Projekt zum Ausdruck zu bringen, würde ich mich freuen, wenn ihr euer Werk bei den Crafty Cardmakers teilen würden. Habt einen schönen Sonntag, eure Maike

I stuck to warm colours with this card and if you feel like creating an autumnal project, I would love to see it in our gallery at the Crafty Cardmakers! Have a fantastic Sunday, yours Maike


Material / supplies:
tba





Montag, 21. Mai 2018

Have a fairy nice day

Hallo ihr Lieben!
Bei den Crafty Cardmakers startet heute eine neue Challenge zum Thema "Alles mit Flügeln". Da gibt es wirklich viel Auswahl - mehr als man im ersten Moment denkt finde ich - und ich habe mich für eine kleine Fee entschieden:

Heya my dear crafty friends!
We have a new challenge for you at the Crafty Cardmakers. This time it is all about "Things With Wings". There is lots to choose from - more than I thought at first - and I finally decided on using a cute little fairy:


Als erstes habe ich die Fronst für die Karte gestaltet: zuerst habe ich dazu das Rechteck und dann davon die ausgefranzten Kreise gestanzt. Ich mag den Look von diesen "Ripped Circles" und habe auch schon ein paar Ideen, wo sie vielleicht noch zum Einsatz kommen könnten ;o) Den Spruch habe ich mit "Tide Pool Ink" gestempelt und diese Farbe dann auch noch dazu genutzt, um den Rand ein wenig einzufärben, damit das Panel sich besser von der Kartenbasis abhebt.

First I die cut the panel and also die cut the circles from it. I like the "ripped" look and can see myself using them a lot ;o) I stamped the greeting in "Tide Pool Ink" and also coloured the edges of the panel to give it a bit of definition.


Als nächstes habe ich den Hintergrund für die Szene gestaltet. Die Wolken habe ich mit einem Stencil von Newtons Nook gemacht, sind die nicht niedlich? Unten am Hügel habe ich noch ein paar Blümchen gestempelt und in ihre Mitte einen Tropfen Nuvo Glitter Drops gegeben. Den Pilz habe ich dann auch noch dazugefügt, um ein wenig mehr Farbe auf die Karte zu bekommen. Bevor ich die mit Copics colorierte Fee aufgeklebt habe, habe ich das Panel noch mit Foamtape auf den Hintergrund und dann die Kartenbasis geklebt. Die Fee hat anschließend noch etwas Glitter auf ihre Flügel bekommen und weil es mir noch immer nicht glitterig genug war, habe ich außerdem noch einige klare und rosa Nuvo Glitter Drops aufgekleckst. Anfangs war ich mir nicht sicher, ob das nicht-schwarze Sentiment eine gute Idee war, aber ich glaube, das war es schon ;o) Ich hoffe, euch gefällt die Karte und ihr habt Lust bekommen bei den Crafty Cardmakers mit einer eurer Kreationen mitzuspielen. Habt heute einen schönen Feiertag und eine tolle Woche. Happy crafting, eure Maike

Next I created a background scene: a hill and some clouds in the sky as well as some flowers at the bottom. I added a dot of Nuvo Glitter Drops to the center of the flowers and placed a mushroom at the top of the hill for a bit of colour there. I put some foam tape on the back of the panel piece and placed it on top of the background. Lastly I added the fairy - which I had coloured with Copic markers - and scattered a few drops of clear and pink Nuvo Glitter Drops on the panel. It is very seldom that I go with a non-black sentiment, but this time I felt it would add to the soft feel of the card. Hope you like it and that you are going to play along with us ;o) Have a wonderful week and happy crafting, yours Maike


Material / supplies:
Stempel / stamps: "Little Fairies" von The Greeting Farm
Stanzen / dies: "Ripped Circle Die Set" von Your Next Stamp
                         "Wonky Stitches Elle-Ments" von Avery Elle
Schablone / stencil: "Cloudy Sky Stencil" von Newton's Nook

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