Tomic Challenge - Sketch

Hi everyone, the card I show you today is made for the new challenge at TOMIC, where the have a sketch to work with. But not only this... no character stamp is allowed and an embossed part is needed as well... sigh... not that easy and really challenging for me, as I always use a character stamp on my cards. I decided to put a sentiment as main part of my card, and wanted to use those lovely sunflowers from Magnolia. As embossed part I made a butterfly border.

The sentiment I used is from Whiff of Joy. And I coloured the flowers with Copics.

Have a wonderful day everyone!
Hugs, Karina

Christmas in July

Hi everyone my dear friends and visitors, have you noticed that I changed the layout of my blog? Well, I wanted it to be more open and oversightable..hm.. I guess this word doesn't exists in english, but I'm sure you know what I mean.. :o). I changed it from three columns to just two, as this way I can show bigger photos of my creations. And I made a new header, a more neutral one. Hope you like it this way. 

Now to my card... we still have one day of July, so not too late to show a Christmas in July card. I made it for the new challenge at TOMIC, where they ask for the traditional Christmas colours red, green and white, and stars as addition. Here is what I made...

I coloured the image with Distress Inks. On the piccie below you also can see all the glitz I added.

With this card I want to join following challenges:

TOMIC - Christmas in July 

Tildas Town - Name your Technique (Stitching)

Southern Girls - Angels or Fantasy

Addicted to Stamps - Christmas in July

Sweet Stampin - Christmas in July

Stamptacular Sunday - Patterns Galore

Have a magical day!

Hugs, Karina

Garden Blooms

Hello my dear friends and visitors. It is time for a Magnolia creation today. And I wanted to make a big tag again since a while... so here we go...

I coloured this adorable Magnolia image with Copics and the background papers I used are Pion Design. The sentiment tickets are from Whiff of Joy. The sweet birdie die is from Marianne Design.

Following you can see some close ups to see the details better.

With this tag I want to join following challenges:

TOMIC - Tag and Flowerstamp

Simply Magnolia - Garden Blooms & DT Call

Scraphouse - Bingo (tag, flowers, lace)

Midweek Magnolias - lovely lace

Magnolia-licious - neutrals and lace

Wish you a wonderful day! Thank you so much for looking. Your lovely comments are always so much apprechiated.

Hugs, Karina

Summer Holiday

Hello everyone, we're back from our short trip to Southern Germany with visits of Mainz, Darmstadt (where we visited the 'Hundertwasser' building 'Waldspirale', Stuttgart and Castle 'Weitenburg', where we stayed for two nights. We had a wonderful time. Especially the stay at the castle was so very special and fascinating. We felt like hundred years ago to the Medieval time of kings and queens. I will share some pics to a later time this week.I still have some days off this week, so I will enjoy relaxing at home before it will get back to the daily routine. I hope you enjoyed the posts lasts week I prepared before our departure.

Today I finished my card for the new challenge at TOMIC. The theme is Summer Holiday and we have to follow a sketch. Here is my card:

The colouring is made with Distress Inks and I used some beautiful papers from Maja Design. Love them!

With this card I want to join following challenges;

TOMIC - Summer Holiday & Sketch

Tildastown - Accessory stamp and Tilda or Edwin

Magnolia Down Under - Seeing Double (two Bling each, two cherry flowers)

Just Magnolia - anything goes

Midweek Magnolias - Bling

Ribbon Girls - use Ribbon or Lace

Have a wonderful day!
Hugs, Karina

May it raining Strawberries

Hi everyone, hope you enjoy the day off today. Just as I do... as we will be away for some days I was working on some DT cards, which I will shedule for this weeks. And I also made following card for the new challenge at TOMIC where they want to see fruity pockets. As I want to join other challenges as well I tryed to get all themes together in one card, which I sucessed :o). Look at the list at the bottom of this post what all I have mixed :o).

Here's my pocket, better say what's inside the pocket. The sentiment is self generated on the computer.

And here you can see a close up of the image, which I coloured with Distress Inks. The papers are from Magnolia.

Well, here are the challenges I am joining:

TOMIC - Fruity Pockets

Tildastown - Water Fun

Just Magnolia - Gingham

Simply Magnolia - Lace and Pearls

Papertake Weekly - National Colours (red & white for Switzerland)

Have a wonderful day with lots of sunshine!

Hugs, Karina

Honeybee

Hi everyone, hope you have had a wonderful weekend so far. Mine were great, just as I love it. One day undertaking something... we went to a photography exposition which were very interesting, the other day time for crafting :o). The perfect weekend for me!

The card I show you today I made for the new challenge over at TOMIC where the theme is either a Sketch (which I rotated), then a photo Inspiration and using the colour yellow. This is what occured under my hands...

I made the colouring of Honeybee Tilda with Distress Inks and added some twinkle flakes to the wings. The papers I used is from My Minds Eye Lost & Found Sunshine. I also used different Magnolia Doohickeys for my card.

And as a special accent I added a cute little bee charm to the heart tag. 

All those items are available at Bunny Zoe's Crafts.

Besides of TOMIC I want to join following other challenges with my card:

Tilda's Town - anything goes

It's a Magnolia Challenge - Bingo (Lace, Pearls, Die Cuts)

Scraphouse - Flowers

Fairytale - Things with Wings

Magnolia Down Under - Own Embellies from Scratch (all die cutted pieces are paper scraps)

Have a magical day!

Hugs, Karina

Bottle Hanger

Hi my dear friends and fellow crafters, I hope you had a wonderful weekend. Were you able to spend some lovely hours together with your mum on this mothers day? Hope so. We had, made a visit at her home, because she isn't very well and so not able to go out as we planned first. Hope she will be well again soon. What I made for her you will see on another day this week... so keep on visiting me :o).

Today I want to show you another project I made this weekend. I just so love those bottle hangers, and so I created two more of them. The one I want to show you today... 

I made some dry embossing... I so love this effect and I think it looks so nice on a bottle hanger. I just rediscovered it, as you maybe saw alreday on my previous project from today. It gives such a lovely effect and looks so elegant. To make it look more intense I made some distressing over the structure.

With this project I want to join following challenges:

TOMIC - Bingo ( I just noticed that I even have three rows my project fits in... Doohickey Die, Glitter, Yellow / Glitter, Magnolia Patterned Paper, Butterfly and a diagonal row as well; Yellow, Magnolia Patterned Paper, Embossing Dry or Heat... :o)

Stamptacular Sunday - Butterfly Kisses

Sentimental Sunday - (B)irthday and (B)utterflies

Sugar Creek Hollow - Tags

Fussy and Fancy - Butterflies, Ribbons and Punches (the corners are punched)

Deep Ocean - What a wonderful woman

Wish you a wonderful start into the new week!
Hugs, Karina

Best Wishes to a Princess

Hi everyone, I hope you had a wonderful weekend. Weather was amazing... love it how it is now. The card I want to show you now is made for the new TOMIC challenge, where they have a photo inspiration and as addition a get well or best wishes card. Mine is a best wishes one for a little princess, who is a Princess from head to toe.

I made a criss cross card. Love this shape of card. I used Tilda catching Stars, coloured her with Distress Inks. The background papers are from Prima 'En Francais'. The border die is Magnolia as well; 'Sweet lovely lace. The clock is Tim Holtz.

Here you can see how you can take the inside of the card out. 

And here is the inside, for some personal best wishes.

I added some stickles to the stars and the crown.

Of course a crown charm cannot be missed :o). Here you also can see the structure of the clock. I painted it with creme and white, added some creme crackle paint here and there. And as a finish I covered the whole shape with clear crackle paint. I love this effect.

Beside of TOMIC I want to join following challenges with my card:

Midweek Magnolias - Open Theme

Deep Ocean - Use Punches / Dies

Magnolia Mania - Bingo (Distressing, Lace, Tilda)

Stamps and Fun = Creativity - Just Magnolia

Timbroscrapmania - anything goes

Have a good start into the new week!

Hugs, Karina

Some Bunny Loves You

Hi my dear friends and visitors, are you doing fine? Did you enjoy few days off so far? Hope so, just as I did. Especially today was a great day for me. I went to the natur historical museum, where they have a special show each year over the Easter day. There you can see little chicks, when you're lucky enough you see them eclose, till they are few days old and can hold them in your hands. We saw two eclosing which was soooooo great. And I hold such a little cutie in my hands two times, both of them fell asleep in my hands. They might have love the warmth of my hands. This really was such a great experience I never had before as a city slicker...

Today I want to show you another Easter card I made those days. And to be honest I am quite satisfied with it. This may be because I love this image so much. Such a pity I have to put it away again for another year... I made this card for the newest TOMIC challenge where the theme is 'some bunny loves you'. It have to have a bunny on it, combined with a sketch and a photo inspiration.

I made the colouring with Copics. And to give the eggs a special effect I added some tranparent crackle paint to them. I love it. 

Besides the TOMIC challenge I want to join following challenges:

Just Magnolia - anything goes

Totally Papercrafts - Bingo (Flowers, Diecut, Blue)

Magnolia-licious - Foto Inspiration

Deep Ocean - Masking

Have a happy Easter!

Hugs, Karina

TOMIC Challenge # 43 - Easter & Photo Inspiration

Hi everyone my dear friends and visitors. This time I want to take part at the TOMIC challenge again. Well, I already wanted last week, already made my card for it, but then I missed the deadline to upload it... sigh... So you will see it to a later time. This week I made this card below. The theme is Easter in combination with a Photo Inspiration, and it have to have at least one egg on it. On mine are two :o). Hope you like it...

I coloured the image with Copics. The papers are Pion Design. And I added some clear crackle paint to the eggs, which you can see a bit better on the close up below...

Beside of the TOMIC challenge I want to join following other challenges:

Just Magnolia - Springtime

Magnolia-licious - Photo Inspiration

Deep Ocean - Masking

Simply Magnolia - Die Cuts and/or Punches & Ribbon

ABC Challenges - L is for Lavender & Lace

Have a wonderful weekend!

Hugs, Karina

Bottle Decoration

Hi my dear friends out there! Hope you had a wonderful Saturday so far. We had quite a sunny day, but still very fresh because of some cold winds. Today I want to show you something different. At TOMIC the want to see a bottle decoration. I never made something like this before. And I wanted to make something different as the ones you normally see. I quite like what I had as a result...

I wanted to give my bottle decoration an Easter theme. So I used one of my favourite Tilda's. She is sooooooo cute. Love her! First I formed an egg with a thick wire, and made an additional round part on the top as the hanger, which is not to see on my pics. Then I crocheted with white yarn around the formed wire.

I coloured this sweetie with Distress Inks. And sat her on some orange bast.

On top of my 'egg' I added some ribbons, a big orange flower, some die cuts and two butterflies.

With this project I want to join following challenges:

TOMIC - Bottle decoration and butterflies

Simon Says Stamp and Show - Bottle it

My Mum's Craft Shop - Spring has Sprung

Stampavie and More - Spring / Easter

Stempelsonnen - Easter

Have a wonderful weekend!

Hugs, Karina

Two Hearts that beat as One

Hi my dear friends and visitors. Today I want to share a special card with you. Special because I am very glad how it turned out. Aren't thos love birdies so cute? I also used the new Magnolia papers for this card which I love so much. To give it a Shabby Chic touch I distressed the edges and added some crackle paint to it.

Here you can see a close up of the image...

and of the love post mark...

With this card I want to join following challenges;

TOMIC - Sketch and Edwin

Just Magnolia - Pink, Pearls and Lace

Magnolialicious Highlites - Vintage / Shabby Chic

Cute Card Thursday - Pink Valentine
Magnolia-Licious - Foto Inspiration
Stamp with fun - Love

Have a wonderful weekend everyone! It is still so brrrrrrrr cold here and got some more snow today... can't wait for spring and warmer temperatures...

Big hugs, Karina

Holding your Heart

Hi my dear friends and visitors. Today I have something else to show you. You know, I mostly join the TOMIC challenge, and so I want this week as well. They want to see an oval card with embossing this time. I decided to make a small card and although this is something out of my comfort zone I quite like the result. Isn't this Maggie just the cutest?

Here's a close up of the image..

Beside of TOMIC I want to join following other challenges;

Simply Magnolia - Hearts and Love
Totally Tilda - Pink and Red and Valentines
Magnolia-licious - Foto Inspiration
Magnolia-licioushighlites - anything goes
Cupcake Craft - all you need is love

Have a wonderful start into the new week!
Hugs, Karina

Valentino

Hi my dear friends and fellow stamp lovers. This week I want to join the TOMIC challenges again and the theme is Monochromatic Pink and a Bow. As Valentines is coming nearer and nearer it had to be a Valentines card.

For my card I used following items, all available at the Bunny Zoe's Crafts shop;

'Valentino' from the new Magnolia collection Sweet Crazy Love

Distress Inks

My Minds Eye papers Lost and Found Madison Avenue 6 x 6

Whimsy Treasured Moments Tickets

Whimsy Tickets

Marianne D Rose Bunches - English Rose

Whiff of Joy Crystals Candy Pink

Besides of the TOMIC challenge I want to join following challenges with my card:

Charizma Cardz - Happy Birthday

Papertake Weekly - Die Cute

Do You Stack up - Photo Inspiration

Truly Scrumptious - Shabby Pastels & Paint

Creatalicious - Love

Have a wonderful weekend everyone!
Hugs, Karina

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2012!!!

Hello my dear friends, blog visitors and fellow crafters! This will be my last creation I will show you for this year. The theme at the new TOMIC challenge is 'Happy New Year', so a perfect occasion to write you my wishes as well...

HAVE A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2012

May it be a wonderful, lucky and healthy one for you and your beloved! See you again next year :o)

Besides of the TOMIC challenge I want to join following other challenges:

Cute Card Tuesday - Happy New Year

Magnolia Down Under - Red, Creme and Gold

Simon Says - Anything goes

Kartenallerlei - Party

Nightshiftstamping - Uhr / Clock

Big hugs, 

Karina

Tomic Challenge # 29 - Snowflake Symphony in Purple

Hi everyone, just a hurry hi as we got some guest within the next few minutes. I made a card for the actual TOMIC challenge and want to upload it... only little time to go till the challenge ends. So here we go with my card I made for the theme Snowflake Symphony in Purple. 

Big hugs and have a wonderful Christmas day!

Karina

Magnolia Christmas Ornament

Hi my dear friends and fellow crafters. Today I want to show you one of my newest creations. I made something different this time; a Christmas ornament. This is the challenge theme at TOMIC this week.

I wanted to go a bit more natural with my ornament and picked up some thin branches outside and bonded them together with some twine to build a wooden star. Then I hung a tag on it and decorated it with few ribbons and flowers. I didn't want to add too much of embellishements as I wanted to keep the nativeness of my ornament.

Here you can see a close up of my ornament. I coloured it with distress inks and add a bit of stickles to the image.

Beside of TOMIC I want to join following other challenges:

Just Magnolia - White plus one other colour (green)
Sweet Stampin - Sparkling
Charisma Cardz - Last Minute Christmas
Simply Magnolia - Christmas
Magnolia-licious - Stars

Shaker Card at Tomic Challenges

Hi everyone my dear friends and visitors. Today I have something special for you to take a look at. It was a challenge for me, but had so much fun to do. So this will definitely not be the last shaker card I made. As it was the theme at the actual Tomic challenge I gave it a try. And I really love how it turned out.

A close up of the image, where you can see the glass splitters at the ground

I surrounded the 'window' with some beautiful vintage lace by Marianne D which gives the frame a lovely effect.

A close up after some shaking :o)

First I wanted to use some gelatine sheets for the window, but weren't able to get some at the local store. They only had gelatine powder. Well, I could have used it for the filling... :o)

The most of the items I used for this card are available at Bunny Zoe's Crafts:

Magnolia Stamp Sweet Christmas Collection - Halo Tilda

Colouring - Distress Inks

Paper - Authentic 'Wonder'

Dies - Spellbinders Shapeability Fancy Tags

Lace - Marianne D Vintage Off White

Flowers - Prima Arcadian and Marianne D Vintage

Flat Backed Pearls and Pins 

Bunny Zoe haves all Magnolia Stamps up to 25 % off!!!

Beside of TOMIC Challenges I want to join following challenges with my shaker card:

Cute Card Thursday - anything goes

Scraphouse - Christmas card with Glitter and Sparkle

Simon Says Stamp - Photomontage Inspiration

Let's Ink it up - Christmas Project

Timbroscrapmania - Bow

Well, now I wish you a happy weekend. Will be away for the Christmas market in Heidelberg, Germany. Looking very much forward. But nevertheless I sheduled some new projects for you to take a look at. So keep on visiting me.

Hugs, Karina