Swirls again

I am back today with another card using the swirl stamp set (Collage Friend - new for 2013) from Hero Arts. 

 

The brown ink used here is Colorbox Chestnut Roan - the butterfly and the flower was stamped on paper which was spray misted (October Afternoon sprinklers) before stamping - to match the card base.

And some details... I really like the friend text stamp from the same set.
This font type would work great with a chalkboard technique too.

Thanks for stopping by today and have a great weekend!

Tuesday Trigger

Hey,

This is my first time playing along with Moxie Fab World's Tuesday Trigger :)

I love the feel of this photo with the lovely vintage cutlery - isn't it wonderful!?

And here is my inspirational card.  The fork & spoon is an older stamp from Hero Arts (I love this stamp and use it often for placecards and such) - it is stamped in StazON Platinum ink.

The papers are Bazzill Cardshoppe &  Hero Arts Layering paper (for the card base). I used the swirl from the Hero Arts Friend Collage cling set (new for 2013). 

Thanks for stopping by! Have a great day!

From Owl of Us

I was inspired by Shari's fun folded card at the hero arts blog, so I had to give it a try.
I didn't plan it too well, though, so I had to make different kind of closing mechanism (the banner)...

Here is my attempt ;) I used 3 of the new Owls (they are so cute, aren't they!!) and some yummy shadow inks. The sentiment is from the "Howl are you" set, too.

To keep the card closed I stapled the banned across the picket fence ( a die from MFT).

Thanks for stopping by today!

A Love card

I made this simple stamped love/valentines card using the sweet Silhouettes stamp set and the huge XO from the XO clear set from Hero Arts.

I love the cirles with the tiny text in this set. So cute..

Other supplies:
Hero Arts shadow inks: Pale tomato, red royal, charcoal.
Hero arts Layering paper, charcoal + bazzill smoothies.

Happy 70th birthday

to my father in-law! 

This is the card I made for him. He should have some sparkle on this special day - so I glued some scor-tape onto a strip of copypaper,  punched the border using this punch - and then after adhering this to the front panel,  I added some nice Martha Stewart glitter. 

Stamps used are Tim Holtz's lovely background stamp from this set and a Hero Arts background cling stamp.

I made the glitter stars the same way - using scor-tape.

Happy Happy Birthday dear Jens! I hope we'll all have a great day !!

a chalky christmas

I just love the chalkboard trend going on right now - inspired by Pinterest,  I moved my chalkboard from the office to the kitchen & made some very simple xmas chalkboard art - (I need to pratice...)

;)

This year I finally made some christmas cards and actually sent them out! Yay! This is what I came up with ! Going all-in with the chalky part! I distressed some licorice bazill paper using some white memories dye ink to get the chalk board look and I then stamped the images using Memories Unicorn white ink. So Simple - but I really like this look of this!

So are you ready for the holidays!?  :-)

I wish you all a very merry christmas!

Velveteen technique

Sorry for the very long blog break. I have been working very long hours the last months and no time for creativity at all.

I did do a few classes with the velveteen technique in 2 of them ( a technique introduced by the amazing Shari Caroll a while back).  So at least I can share some of these cards, huh?

This first one is using the wonderful Snow Dots stamp from Hero Arts and the White Christmas stamp which is a negative stampe with lots of solid area - great for this technique.
The blue ink is the mid tone pool.

On the next one I used the Leaf Background and the Christmas Ornaments - all from Hero Arts.
The grey ink is wet cement.

 

By the way, it is snowing here today - the first snow. Can you believe it? Anyway, perfect timing on 1st of December! ;))