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Mittwoch, 21. September 2011

Hanna and Friends #112 - Anything Goes

Diese Woche ist Anything-Goes-Woche, denn auch bei Hanna and Friends haben wir ab heute dieses Thema *g*.

This week is anything-goes-week, because this will be our new challenge at Hanna and Friends beginning today *g*.

Diese Karte hat meine liebe Sylvia vor kurzem von mir zum Geburtstag bekommen und ich glaube, mit dem Motiv hab ich voll ins Schwarze getroffen *g*. Farblich hab ich hier mal sehr mutig in den Farbtopf gegriffen, aber bei Sylvia darf ich das auch mal riskieren, ich glaube fast, mit Pastell würde ich da einen ihrer berühmten Blicke ernten *lach*. Das Foto ist leider nicht so toll, aber die Karte wurde original 5 Minuten vor ihrem Eintreffen hier fertig und ich konnte nicht großartig auf gutes Fotolicht warten. Die Fotos mit Tageslichtlampe wurden merkwürdig gelbstichig, also muß ausnahmsweise mal ein Blitzfoto herhalten, auch wenn die mir sonst einfach viel zu viel Farbe schlucken.

I made this card for my dear friends Sylvia, who visited a couple of weeks ago far a small birthday celebration and I think with this image I hit the mark *g*. Colorwise I went a bit wild and daring, but with Sylvia I can risk that, if I went for pastels with her I'd probably earn one her infamous looks LOL. Sadly the picture is not the best, but I literally finished this card 5 minutes before she arrived and therefore couldn't wait for good light to take pictures. My daylight lamp failed, all the pictures had a weird yellow hue, so I decided to use the flash picture, though I usually don't like how the flash sucks out so much color of my creations.

Rezept / Recipe:

Stamps:
Kraftin' Kimmie Moonlight Whispers, Whimsy Stamps
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black & Bamboo Leaves
Cardstock: Bazzill Bark (I believe)
Patterned Paper: Stampin' Up Melon Mambo and I think Certainly Celery
Coloring: Copics
Dies & Punches: Spellbinders, Stampin' Up embosslits & circle punches
Ribbon: Seam Binding Ribbon by Crafty Ribbons
Other: Stickles Crystal

Dienstag, 2. August 2011

Eine Box muß her / We need a box

Moin moin! Ich hatte ja schon versprochen, daß ich das letzte Teil meine Wichtelpaketes an Nina - das Meerjungfrauen-Großprojekt - dann heute als Abschluß zeige. Das soll dann natürlich auch passieren. Als kleine Vorgeschichte: Ich zeigte ja vor einigen Wochen hier eine häßliche, bunte Box, die ich für mich selbst als Cardstash aufgehübscht hatte. Nina fragte damals, ob ich nicht noch zufällig noch so eine häßliche Box irgendwo rumstehen hätte *g*. Hatte ich nicht, aber als sie dann mein Wichtelkind wurde, wußte ich sofort, daß mich das nicht aufhalten würde. Leider konnte ich nirgendwo eine Box in der Größe und dem Format, das ich wollte, käuflich erwerben, also muß ich bauen und das kam dabei heraus.

Morning! I promised to show the last item from my "secret summer santa" for Nina today (sorry for writing that post in German only, it was the one showing the LOTV candle holder a few days ago) and of course I intend to keep this promise. I little bit of history: When I showed that ugly, way too colorful box I pimped into a card stash for myself a while ago, Nina asked me if I had another one of those standing around somewhere. I did not, but when random.org chose me as her "secret santa" (is there a different non-christmas word for it?) I knew right away I wouldn't let that little detail stop me now *g*. I couldn't buy a box in the sitze and shape I wanted anywhere, therefore I had to build it myself and that's the result.

Ein passendes Papier zu finden, gestaltete sich mal wieder als Ding der Unmöglichkeit. Normales Scrappapier ging gar nicht und nach stundenlangem Suchen und Wühlen im Internet fand ich dann endlich zwei Packen Digipapier, die zu dem paßten, was ich haben wollte. Genau wie auf dem passenden Notizbuch und dem Hängerchen hab ich auch auf dem Deckel der Box wieder mit kleinen weißen Steinchen, Muscheln und jeder Menge Halbperlen dekoriert.

Finding a matching paper for my purposes proved to be impossible. The ususal scrappaper didn't work out, because no company at all had ocean themed paper out at that time and after digging through the internet for hours and days I finally found two packs of digital paper matching my needs. Like on the matching notepad holder and hanger I once again decorated the lid using the little white stones, sea shells and lots of flatback pearls.

Um den Rand des Deckels hab ich 3 Reihen gerafftes Saumband in 3 verschiedenen Farben geklebt. Die Farben sollten so ein wenig an das Meer erinnern von dem tieferen, dunkler türkisen Wasser unten hoch zur weißen Schaumkrone. Keine Ahnung, ob das funktioniert, aber so war es gedacht *g*.

I glued ruffled seam binding ribbon in 3 different colors and 3 rows around the lid. I wanted it to look like the different layers of the ocean, the deeper darker turquoise waters getting lighter until they are toped by a white foam crown when the waves are crashing to the shore. No clue if it actually works, but that's what I was thinking of *g*.



Die Box war alles in allem ein ganz schönes Megaprojekt, hat aber riesig Spaß gemacht. Seit Beginn der Bauarbeiten ist auch noch viel mehr Graupappe bei mir eingezogen, ich will jetzt endlich mehr damit basteln und so vielleicht auch endlich ein paar der kleinen Fehler ausmerzen, die ich immer noch dabei mache.

All in all this box really was a mega project, but it was so much fun. Since I started on it I bought a lot more chipboard and I really want to do more with it in the near future and perhaps I'll finally manage to work out all the small mistakes I still make when building something from scratch.

Rezept / Recipe:

Stamps:
Kraftin' Kimmie Moonlight Whispers
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Stampin' Up Baja Breeze
Cardstock: Bazzill Simon & Sea Water
Patterned Paper:
Digital Paper. "She Sells Seashells" by Mikki Levanos and "Raft Island" by C'est La Vie Digital Designs
Coloring
: Copics & Spica Glitter Pens
Dies & Punches: Spellbinders Grand Circles, Stampin' Up Word Window Punch
Ribbon: Seam binding ribbon from Crafty Ribbons
Pearls: 3mm, 4mm and 5mm ivory flatback pearls from Summer-Ray
Other: Stickles "Waterfall", some sort cord, gauze bandange, small white stones & sea shells.

Montag, 18. Juli 2011

Stamp with fun #120 - Sketch

Guten Morgen! Montag, mieses Wetter, eine neue Arbeitswoche, noch immer kein Urlaub in Sicht, wenn das nicht einfach zu viel des Guten ist *lach*. Aber ich kämpfe heute immerhin mal gegen das trübe Wetter an und bleibe sommerlich. Wir haben heute bei Stamp with fun einen tollen Sketch für euch und nach diesem Sketch ist ein passendes Notizbuch zu dem Hänger von Freitag entstanden.

Good morning! Monday, shitty weather, a new work week, still no vacation anywhere to be seen, if that isn't just brillant, I don't know what is LOL. But I'm at least fighting this awful weather and present you something summery. We have a fabulous sketch for you over at Stamp with fun for this week and I made a matching notebook to the hanger I showed last Friday.


Ich hatte beim letzten Notizbuch dieser Art ja schon gesagt, daß man eventuell auch die Innenseite noch schön nutzbar machen kann, mit Einstecktaschen für lose Notizen und so etwas in der Art. Diesmal habe ich das auch mal in Angriff genomen.

When I showed the last notebook of this kind, you might remember me saying that the inside would be perfect to add some pockets for lose notes and stuff like this, so I tried this, this time around.

Das sind hier diesmal auch gleich zwei Taschen geworden und da ich letzte Woche die tollen Kalender Tabs für 2012 bekommen habe, habe ich so einen auch gleich noch mit reingepackt. Ist ja vielleicht ganz praktisch.

I added two pockets and one of the great calender tabs, which arrived from the UK last week. I thought it might be usefull.

Ich habe einen Workenshop zu diesem Noitzbuch Cover verfaßt, den ihr ab heute hier finden könnt.

I created a workshop for this notebook holder, which you will find here, but since A5 might not be the right size for you, especially if you live in the US, you might want to try Google and search for "junior legal pad holder".
And as always this workshop is in German. I probably will translate my workshops one of these days, but not yet, no time yet.

Rezept / Recipe:

Stamp:
Kraftin Kimmie Moonlight Whispers
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Stampin' Up Baja Breeze, Distress Ink Frayed Burlap
Cardstock: Bazzill Simon, Stampin' Up Crumb Cake
Patterned Paper: Digital Paper. "She Sells Seashells" by Mikki Levanos and "Raft Island" by C'est La Vie Digital Designs
Coloring: Copics & Spica Glitter Pens
Dies & Punches: Nellie Snellen, Marianne Design, Magnolia
Embellishments: Sea shells, white pebbles, flatback pearls, all from stash
Other: Bandages, Stickles "Crystal" and Crackle Accents.

Freitag, 15. Juli 2011

Stempel-Magie #40 - Unter Wasser / Underwater

Halli hallo! Es sind schon wieder 2 Wochen rum, kann das denn sein? Auf jeden Fall ist es damit schon an der Zeit für mein zweites GDT Werk für Stempel-Magie und bei mir wird es diese Woche sommerlich, auch wenn es auf den ersten Blick gar nicht so scheint, aber Meerjungfrauen und Meer allgemein ist für mich irgendwie immer automatisch Sommer *lach*. Es ist wieder keine Karte geworden, im Moment lebe ich wieder sehr kartenfrei, warum auch immer, aber dafür ein Hänger.

Hi there! 2 weeks have gone by once again, how can that be? Well, it's time for my second guest creation for Stempel-Magie and this week I have summer for you, even though it might not be totally obvious on first glance, but mermaids and the ocean in general are always "summer" to me LOL. And once again I didn't make a card, I don't do those at the moment at all, no clue why, but a hanger.

In natura mag ich das gute Stück eigentlich super gerne, aber das Bild ist einfach nur grottig geworden *seufz*. Ich mag zwar im Inneren auf Sommer eingestellt sein, das Wetter hier ist es allerdings ganz und gar nicht und as kommt dann dabei heraus. Es ist ein Graus. Ich habe für diesen Hänger einige ziemliche unübliche Dinge fürs Kartenbasteln verwendet wie kleine weiße Steinchen, Muscheln, getrocknete echte Seesterne, aber es hat sich nicht nur angeboten, ich finde, es sieht auch richtig gut aus (obwohl man auch das auf dem Foto nur mit viel Fantasie erahnen kann).

It looks so much better than on the picture, but even though I am totally tuned in on summer on the inside the weather over here is... let's put it frankly: CRAP. And that's what you get out of it picture wise. Awwweful. I used a lot of non-papercraft stuff on this hanger like shells, tiny white stones and real dried starfishs to get lots of texture and an unique look and I LOVE how this turned out, even though you can once again just guess from the pictures.


Challenges:

Q
uirky Crafts - No patterned papers (make your own) - I used Glimmer Mist to get a splattered pattern on the second smallest circle of the main part.

Stempelträume - Sommer / Summer

The Crafty Pad - Lots of Texture

Allsorts - Free and easy July

Cute Card Thursday
- Going Round In Circles

The One Stop Craft Challenge - Summer Time

CREATIVE INSPIRATIONS - No Flowers Allowed

Kreative Stempelfreunde - Sommer / Summer

The Crazy Challenge - Summertime

pecreative-Challenge - Hängerchen


Rezept / Recipe:


Stamp: Kraftin Kimmie Moonlight Whispers
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Stampin' Up Baja Breeze
Cardstock: Bazzill Seawater, Simon and Vanilla
Coloring: Copics (sorry no picture this time) & Spica Glitter Pens
Ribbon: Aqua tafetta ribbon from local craft store
Pearls: Ivory flatback pearls from Summer-Ray.com
Other: Stickles Waterfall and Crystal, tiny white stones, shells, dried starfish

Donnerstag, 10. März 2011

Little Mermaid in her glittery underwater world

Good morning everyone. I finished a card yesterday, at last. All those secret projects are taking up a lot of time this month, but this one I can show you right away:




It's only the second time I inked up one of my Moonlight Whispers Mermaids. It's such a shame, they are a truly beautiful, magical thing.

Although I am a glittery, shimmery girl, I usually don't go this heavy on the glitter, but this card is for someone who loves glitter, so I hope it's not too much *lol*.

I'm going to submit this card to the following challenges as well:

Creative Card Crew - No Flowers

ABC Challenge - P is for Pearls

Charisma Cardz
- Easel Cards

Since I am feeling under the weather today, I am going to keep it short today. I'll try to edit the recipe for this card later, bare with me.

Donnerstag, 4. November 2010

Recipe card III






My last recipe card (for now), featuring Batty Princess. Another fabulous stamp. I am really so much in love with this collection and I am glad I could use them all on this project. Halloween stamps usually are pretty much useless in Germany, but I love them so much, I buy new ones very single year ROFL.

I have one more post left for this Halloween project and then I'll move over to non-Halloween again (over again *sadface*)

Mittwoch, 3. November 2010

Recipe card II






Oh dear, I am totally late today, I'm sorry. I am doing NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) again this year and it's just sucking me into it's fantastic atmosphere. It's only day three and I've already written more than 20.000 words O__o

Well, anyway, here is the second card for the book from my post two days ago, featuring the glorious Zelda Zombie and wonderful Fred & Ginger.
It's a recipe for Halloween jam and one for Pumpkin Soup *yummy*.

Hope you like it. Comments are love! Gotta go. Need to write more words LOL

Dienstag, 2. November 2010

Recipe card I






This is the first of 3 recipe cards I made for the book I showed yesterday. Each card is double sided and contains 1 to 3 recipes in total. This is the one with 3 recipes, featuring Mitzi the Mummy and Witchypoo from KK Moonlight Whispers.

Montag, 1. November 2010

Halloween cookbook




I was pretty busy in October, both concerning work and crafting. I am back on a 40h week at work after nearly 6 years of 36h and it took me quite some time to get used to that again. Sounds strange, I know, but it's the sacred truth, you feel those 48 minutes per day. Every single one of them LOL.
But I crafted. For my standards I made a lot actually.

First thing was this Halloween cookbook, which was a present, therefore I couldn't show it before today.

I used my complete Kraftin' Kimmie Halloween collection for that book, starting with Hattie and Horace on the cover. The horrible gloomy day light swallowed a lot of my coloring, but if you use a lot of imagination you can make out the healthy green glow around them and that beautiful warm grey colour of their skin *lol*.

Most of the papers used for this book were digital paper by Nitwit Collection. If you don't know them yet, you have to visit this shop! It's addictive, but oh so very beautiful.

The bat paper on the cover though is obviously from Magnolia, just like the Pumpkins. I used some clear embossing powder and a Versa Marker to add some shine to a few of these bats. I dearly love my Magnolia paper, but sometimes I find they lack some extra bam.

I used bookbinding rings to keep everything together to make it possible to add and perhaps remove receipt cards.

Well, if you like the book, stay tuned for tomorrow and the first receipt card. ^___^

Freitag, 24. September 2010

Little Mermaid



I saved the best for last (or at least I think I did). I worked for several days on this card and yes, I'm really proud of the way it turned out. I could hardly bringt myself to send it to the intended receipient *LOL*

Sadly you can't see in the pictures that I glued the large seaweed on in a special way. It's bent in the middle to give it a really 3D look.

I hope Nina will like it as much as I did.

Sonntag, 12. September 2010

The Magical Garden




This card arrived at it's destination now, so I have finally something to show you.

I bought a bunch of Marianne Design Creatables several weeks ago and they finally arrived last week. Considering it was a German shop the delivery time was abysmal, but oh well. Of course I had to play with them right away and so this card turned out quite different than I first imagined, but I loved it a lot when it was done.

I am also now officially a BIG fan of these Kraftin' Kimmie stamps. I loved them instantly when I first saw them, because they are so unique and funny and I bought this one pretty early on, but never used it until this card. That will change now.
I have to admit I don't like the newest collection, which has it's release day today, even the slightest bit, but I ordered the Halloween collection, already own the mermaids and will also get the fairytale collection asap *lol*.

I caught I cold, so there isn't much crafting done at the moment. Not good, considering my huge to do list for September *sigh*