Dog Gone Awesome Birthday

Hello there,

thank you for stopping by ;o) Today I would like to share with you the card I made for the newest PINspirational Challenge. This is our current inspration picture:

I do not own a lama stamp, so I thought I would use the striped from the background as inspiration plus use an animal and have it be mainly white. Many of my friend's are dog lovers so I thought this would be a perfect opportunity to use this cute puppy which is one of my newest stamps. I gave it a present to give to the recipient and made it a birthday card. I love how the white dog looks against the colourful and bright stripes. What do you think?

I hope you are going to join us for this fun and happy challenge. I would love to see your project in our gallery! Please stay safe and happy crafting, everyone ;o) Maike

Supplies:

Stamps: "Puppy`s Favorite Things" by Neat and Tangled (it will be discontinued, but you can get it in the sale right now)

              "Party Pals Clear Stamps" by Avery Elle

              Sentiment by My Favorite Things (retired)

Challenges:
Simon Says Wednesday Challenge "Anything Goes"
Creative Fingers Challenge "Anything Goes"
Send A Smile 4 Kids "Anything Goes 4 Kids"
2 Crafty Critter Crazies "Anything Goes with a Critter"
Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge "May Challenge"

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:

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge "Anything Goes"
Sweet Stampin "Bright and Beautiful"
Fairy and Unicorn Challenge "Anything Fantasy Goes"
Send A Smile 4 Kids "Anything Goes 4 Kids"
A Gem of A Challenge "Anything Goes"
A Perfect Time To Craft "May Challenge - Anything Goes"
A Bit More Time To Craft "Anything Goes"

Tippe Tappe - a card for a vet

Heya everyone,

I hope you are all doing good and that crafting or other hobbies, people, phone-calls, ... help you through this strange time. Challenge Up Your Life's new theme for the month of May is "Animals", so I am hopeful our gallery will overflow with your lovely projects at the end of the month ;o) This is my inspiration card:

A friend of mine needed a card for a vet who had opened their own office (or is it clinic?) and I had so much fun making this one for her. This is the front of the card and I wanted it to look like you were looking through the windows into the office. 

Though the windows you can only see the dog and the cat, but when you open the card...

...you will find a few more animals as well. The card can be opened one more time to give room for a text and - as I understood it - loads of signatures from friends to wish the vet good luck. I hope you like the card and I hope even more that you will link an "Animal" themed project to our gallery at Challenge Up Your Life for us to see! ;o) Please take care everyone and happy crafting, yours Maike

Supplies: tba

Challenges:
Simon Says Wednesday Challenge "Anything Goes"
Addicted To Stamps And More "Make Your Mark"
2 Crafty Critter Crazies "Anything Goes"
A Bit More Time To Craft "Anything Goes"
Lemon Shortbread "Anything Goes"
Krafty Chicks Challenge "Anything Goes"

Lifesaver

Heya everyone,
this is my card for the latest PINspirational Challenge! I am a bit late - well very late really, but life is getting in the way all the time recently... So I hope you'll forgive me. This is our challenge inspiration picture, though it is an "Anything Goes" theme at the moment to give everyone the "room" to create whatever is good for them or needed at the moment ;o)

I created the card using a background die by HEllo Bluebird and an older stamp set by Simon Says Stamp. 

I hope you are all well and that maybe if you feel like crafting you will share your project with us at PINspirational Challenge! Take care and happy crafting, everyone ;o)))

Supplies:
Stamps:
Die: "Ocean Scene Die" by Hello Bluebird

Easter card using the Magic Iris

Hello everyone!

I am soooo, so late with this post, but life pushed itself between me and my blog the last week, but here it comes. This is my card for this months Papercraft Challenge with an "Easter" theme:

I created my very first card with the Magic Iris die by Lawn Fawn and have to say I am in love! Once I got the hang of it I created this card very quickly.

The only thing I am a little unhappy about is that I would have needed to use a double layer of foam tape around the mechanism which I didn't and so the paper bends down towards the edges a little. However, next time I won`t make that mistake again and I do like the card very much. It was so much fun playing with it and having the cute chick revealed ;o)

I hope you are going to show us your crafty "Easter" themed projects in our gallery! Until then please take care and happy, happy crafting ;o) Yours Maike

Supplies:
Stamps: "Easter Bunnies" by Gerda Steiner Designs
Dies: "Magic Iris Die" & "Magic Iris Add On" & "Happy Easter Line Border"
          by Lawn Fawn

Frohe Ostern - Bunny with Easter basket

Heya everyone,

this is my inspiration card for our "Easter" challenge at the Crafty Cardmakers.

It is made with images by Gerda Steiner Designs and some lovely Lawn Fawn paper. I used a sketch I had put into my sketch book a while ago and love the result - especially with these light colours. I hope you like my inspiration card too and that you will join us for our current challenge. I feel that in the current situations handmade greeting cards are even more valuable than usual as they give a personal touch - so join me in sending out as many as you can ;o)))) Happy crafting and take care everyone ;o)

Kroküsse in pink

Heya everyone,

over at Challenge Up Your Life we would like to bring spring into your craft rooms by making the next challenge a "Focus on Flowers" one. If you know my blog you might know that I tend to use animals as my focal image 98% of the time - if not more so this was a real challenge for me. I love the flower images by Create A Smile, so I looked through them and found these crocus-images which I love so I decided to go with them and then I let myself be inspired by a wonderful Christmas card I got from Karolin. (You should definately hop on over to her instagram account, she makes such amazing cards!)

For the background I used the Cosmic Shimmer Metallic Gilding Polish in Lush Pink which really gives a wonderful rich colour and a lot of shine! (You can see it clearly in the first picture.) I placed the stamped and Copic coloured flowers on top taking my time to arrange the blooms and before glueing them down for good I also stamped the sentiment. The last thing to add was some Nuvo drops and my card was done. I hope you like it and that you are going to share your flowery projects with us in our gallery! Remember, you do have time until the 27th of April to do so and we would love to see what you come up with.

Have a wonderful month of April, take care of yourself and your loved ones and happy crafting ;o))) Yours Maike

Supplies:
Stamps: "Kroküsse (Deutsch)" or "Crokisses (English)" by Create a Smile Stamps

Challenges:

Simon Says Stamp "Spring Mood Board"
Basteltraum "Frühling / Spring"
Try It On Tuesday "Beauty of Nature"
Pink Creations "Anything Goes in Mainly Pink"
Scribbles Design Challenge "In Bloom"
Creative Craft Cottage "For The Girls"