Do what you love

Hi there,

today, Elizabeth Craft Designs is releasing new dies from the wonderful Susan Tierney-Cockburn Garden Notes line:

• cut out all the parts needed for three flowers with leaves on a branch with the help of the Elizabeth Craft Designs Dogwood 2 dies
• use Elizabeth Craft Designs Soft Finish Cardstock Dark Chocolate for the branch and watercolor paper for the flowers and leaves
• color the flowers and leaves with Pan Pastels (permanent green, magenta tint, diarylide yellow tint, neutral grey shade) and ink up the edges with Distress Inks (Peeled Paint, Worn Lipstick, Fossilized Amber) for extra dimension
• assemble the flowers and add Prima Marketing Micro Beads Pollen to the stamen
• cut out a tag from watercolor paper and cover it with white gesso
• add watered-down black charcoal powder in some places
• create some texture using the STAMPlorations Mixed Media Grunge and the STAMPlorations Mixed Media Elements sets and Archival Ink Black Soot
• add a touch of blue with Jane Davenport Aquapstels
• dye a piece of seam binding with that same blue color, rip it apart and thread the strands through the hole of the tag
• ink up the edges of the tag with black ink
• add a sticker from the Tim Holtz Small Talk sticker set as sentiment

Have a wonderful day.

Yours,

Start doing things you love

Hi there,

today, Elizabeth Craft Designs is releasing new products in the Becky Seddon line and I would like to show you this tag:

• cut out the Elizabeth Craft Designs Lake Scene from sturdy light grey cardstock
• color a piece of watercolor paper with the help of Distress Oxide Inks (Broken China, Salty Ocean, Worn Lipstick) and a Mini Ink Blending Tool
• add texture with some water droplets
• glue the Lake Scene onto the watercolor panel and cut out a tag shape
• dye a piece of seam binding with the same Distress Oxide Ink colors and thread it through the hole of the tag
• use a sticker from the Tim Holtz Small Talk Sticker set as the sentiment

I hope you got inspired.

Yours,

Stamp Connection #33

Hi there,

connected through our love for card making, blogging and being from Germany we (Cornelia from Stempel Spass and I) decided to create a monthly project within predefined requirements. We are going to show you the result every 2nd Sunday of the month and this is our 33rd transatlantic get-together!

Our requirement for this meet-up was:
"thank you + embossing folder"

• stamp one of the cups from the STAMPlorations Big Christmas Cups set with Memento Tuxedo Black and color the image with Delta, Touch Twin Brush and Copic Markers
• stamp three snowflakes from the same set with Versamark and heat-emboss them with WOW! Frozen embossing powder
• cut out a stitched panel from smooth white cardstock and mask off a strip
• add color to that strip with Distress Ink Weathered Wood and Prima Marketing Mica Powder Blue Opal Magic 
• run the panel through the Big Shot in one of the We R Memory Keepers Gemstone Next Level embossing folders
• cut out the CUTplorations thanks three time from smooth white cardstock, layer them on top of each other and add an ombre finish with alcohol markers 

Now make sure to hop over to see Cornelia's Creation.

Thanks for stopping by. We hope to see you again at the ...

Yours,

Have a beary good birthday

Hi there,

I created this Birthday Card for the Stamping-Fairies Blog:

Thanks for stopping by.

Yours,

We are Moving!

Hi there,

I created this CAS card using the super cute Create a Smile Cart full of Treasures stamp set as Inspiration for this the Addicted to Stamps and More CAS Challenge:

• stamp the adorable little koala with his wagon from the Create a Smile Cart full of Treasures set with Altenew Crips Ink (Sand Dunes) - I chose a very light ink because I wanted to try some no-line coloring
• color the image with Faber-Castell Polychromos Pencils and Zest-it
• add some highlights with a white gel pen
• create a background behind the koala with the help of the Flora & Fauna Texture Two set, Memento (Gray Flannel) and Hero Arts Shadow Ink (Tide Pool)
• use those same two inks to stamp kind of an ombre sentiment from the Create a Smile Cart full of Treasure set
• round the top right corner of the cardbase with a 1'' corner rounder

I hope you got inspired.

Yours,