Colourful Splatters

Hello everyone and happy April!

Today I'd like to share this card with you as my DT project for our new theme "splatters" over at Challenge Up Your Life:

I have used one stamp in many different colours to create the background and have backed a die cut photo frame with vellum to give this cute critter a less busy background. He was busy creating, could you guess?

I hope we will get to see a "splatter" project made by you in our gallery over at Challenge Up Your Life! Have a wonderful day and happy crafting ;o) Yours Maike

Supplies: tba

Happy 40th magic iris card

Heya everyone ;o)

"Interactive Cards" is the theme for the newest challenge over at Papercraft Challenges. This is what I came up with:

I used tge "Magic Iris" die by Lawn Fawn and their "Camera Add-On" to create this card for a dear friend who turned 40 at the beginning of March. He loves playing with his camera so the add-on was a must. I used holographic paper for the opening mechanism to give it a more realistic feel.

I added a 40 in the center of the opening and aside from the sentiment only added two little tags in the upper left corner. 

I hope you like the card and also love interactive cards just like the DT members from Papercraft Challenges. If so, we would love for you to join us in the fun and link your crad to our gallery! Have a great day, stay safe and happy crafting! Yours Maike

Easter Bunny with flowers

Hello all!!!
Today I am back with sharing my card for the newest Challenge Up Your Life mood board:

And this is the card I have created for this challenge:

I have used yellowish-(golden)-green hues for the background to create the mood for this card. Going from there I decided to make it an Easter card and used one of the cute bunnies from Gerda Steiner Designs. 

I used some fun flower dies from Paper Smooches and a frame by Honey Bee Stamps to set the scene for the Easter bunny and added the sentiment and my card was done. It came together rather quickly, even through those flowers had so many little parts. A bit of "Stick it" behind the paper is a very good way to save on time - and maybe frustration ;o)

I'd love to see one of your creations in our gallery at Challenge Up Your Life. Have a fabulous day! Happy crafting, Maike

Supplies:
Stamps: "Easter Bunnies" by Gerda Steiner Designs
Dies: "Dainty Flowers" by Paper Smooches (retired)
          "Happy Christmas" (frame die) by Honey Bee Stamps
           "Frohe Ostern" by tba

Snow much fun - polar bears

Hello everyone ;o)

Today I'd  like to share my newest DT card for Challenge Up Your Life with you. This time we want to challenge you to use "triangles" somewhere on your project:

I used one of my favourite stencils by Create a Smile to create this fun background for my polar bears. The colours I used are "Shaded Lilac" and "Salty Ocean", because they remind me of winter - especially in this combination. 

I die cut the opening for the den from the panel and glued dark grey cardstock behind it. In order to have a place for the one polar bear to sleep on I used a Copic marker in a darker grey shade to draw in the ground. Next I added the sentiment strip on which I had heat embossed the sentiment and the second polar bear playing outside in the snow. Some scattered snowflakes finished the card off.
I hope you are going to join our challenge! At first I felt challenged allright to create something with triangles, but just have a look at the DTs work. There are so many ways to incorporate triangles... Anyways, I would love to see your work added to our gallery! Have a wonderful day and happy crafting ;o) Maike

Supplies:
Stamps: "Polar Friends" by Hello Blue Bird

Dies: "Stitched Den" & "Mini Snowflakes" by Lawn Fawn

Stencil: "Triangles" by Create A Smile Stamps

Challenges:
Simon Says Wednesday Challenge: "Anything Goes"

Dare 2B Artzy "Winter Fun"

Crafty Gals Corner "Snow Much Fun"

Stamping Sensations "AG with Stamping"

Inkspirational Challenges "Cozy"

Ice Skating Fun

Hello my dear crafty friends,

I hope you are all doing well and enjoying the wintery and hopefully cozy time! Perfect time for crafting, don't you think? ;o) If so, you will be happy to know that our new theme at Papercraft Challenges is "Winter Wonderland". This is my take on the theme:

Have I ever told you that I despise having to mask images? I don't mind the work, but I don't seem to be able to find a properly working masking tape that doesn't rip my paper once I am done with all the stamping and inking. That is why I love background stamps such as the one I have used for my card. 

When my crafting mojo leaves me I find that I am able to find it again after colouring a few backgrouds and that way I do have quite a collection gathered by now. As for making this card there was "only" a lot of colouring involved but not a lot more than that. I felt that it was good enough as it was without any more embellishments. By the way: Do you guys have a good Copic colour combination for foxes? Mine became a bit too reddish for my taste, but I could do anything about it anymore once I had noticed. If you do, please could you let me know in the comments? I'd be most grateful ;o)

Hope you will join us in our gallery with your own "Winter Wonderland" ;o) Have a wonderful weekend and happy crafting to you all! And please take care! Hugs, Maike

Supplies:
Stamps: "Henry (Bear)", "Grace (Fox)" & "Mountains large" by Purple Onion Designs

Winter Fun (Fox in the snow)

Happy New Year Everybody!

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas, a relaxing last couple of days in 2021 and a great start into the new year! I wish you all the best, time for all the things you'd like to do, a hard working muse and good health!!!

Now onto today's card-> I created it for the newest challenge "Winter Fun" at Challenge Up Your Life:

This cute fox in front of the still christmassy decorated house is an image (or better are two images) by Purple Onion Designs and I had a great time colouring them. Besides colouring I only added some sparkle to the lanterns and the wreath to the front of the door, but kept it simple otherwise. I felt there was a lot going on in the images already and wanted to let them shine.

Because I kept the outside rather plain I also decorated the inside of the card:

I hope you are going to join us with some "Winter Fun" projects and wish you happy crafting and lots of fun being creative ;o) Maike

Supplies:
Stamps: "Rupert (Fox with snowballs)", "Wilson (Bear with snowball)", "Front Door"
               & "Door Decor #1" by Purple Onion Designs

Driving Home For Christmas (Old Betsy)

Hello everyone!
Today I would like to share a card with you that I have created as an inspiration for our newest challenge over at Papercraft Challenges. The theme is "Driving Home For Christmas". I hope you might have guessed it even without me saying so ;o) A car is rather unusual on cards of mine, but this image is just so super cute - I just love the happy bear in its truck!

All the stamps are from Purple Onion Designs which are all just adorable I think. Sometimes I hesitate to use them because they take a little bit of extra time to colour for me, but everytime I do use their images I just love how the cards turn out. For this card I started by airbrushing on a light blue (B91) and then took it from there. I didn't have a stamp saying "driving home for Christmas", so I thought with the presents in the back I'd let "Old Betsy" speak for "her"-self ;o) Old Betsy is what the stamp of the car and the bear is called ;o)

I hope you are having a wonderful time now and around Christmas and I wish you all the happiest of times with your loved ones and your family. Maybe you'll have the odd spare moment and if you do and you'd like to craft a little then, I'd love it if you would share a project with us in our gallery.

Stamps: "Old Betsy", "Toy Store Background", "Bakery Background" by
              Purple Onion Designs