Twofer Card Challenge #7

We just returned from our yearly trip to Germany to visit family and friends and it is already time for the new Twofer Card Challenge! I especially enjoyed seeing the gallery last month filled with creative tree cards! This month the word prompt is

It doesn't matter if this makes you think of cold, refreshing or warm, comforting drinks, alcohol or soda - it's up to you (and your supplies)!

I played with the sweet tea set from Uniko. I really love tea (one of my favorites is a good Earl Grey) and wish that we had a place here that served a proper English tea with little sandwiches, etc. While in Germany I met a good friend at a tea house there. That was fun! Anyway here are my cards:

For the birthday card I embossed the cup with Antique Gold from SSS, added the flowers, colored them a little und cut the cup out. I backed it with a punched out oval of lavender colored vellum, added a layer of PP featuring little cupcakes, and an embossed panel. I was going for a Victorian look...

Stamps: Uniko (tea cup), SSS (sentiment)
Dies: PTI (border), SSS (banner)
Other: Taylored Expressions (embossing folder)



To make my other card look different, I stamped, colored and cut out three cups, added white enamel dots, and stacked them together. Added a bit of stenciling in the background, some Washi tape, and a sentiment from the tea set.

Stamps: Uniko (tea cup, sentiment)
Other: PTI (stencil), Washi tape

Now it's your turn! Which type of beverage will you choose?

Please find all the rules and lots of inspiration from my teamies as well as our two fantastic guest designers, Bonnie and Marianne on the Twofer Card Challenge blog

Be well and keep in touch!

Twofer Card Challenge #4

It is time for a new prompt at the Twofer Card Challenge and this month we would like to see:

For more details and the rules please click here.

I have to admit that I was a bit stumped with this one. My vast collection of stamps and dies is seriously lacking in the pet department. I guess I ended up being inspired by the funny stories my coworker told us about her pet bunny. He had such an distinct personality! Sadly he passed on last year but she just got an adorable little bunny girl and the cute pictures my coworker shows us makes me want to get one, too! So my cards feature the sweet bunny from Uniko:

Stamps: Uniko (bunny, sentiment), My Sentiments Exactly (dot), Stampscapes (birds)
Other: Marco's Paper (cloud paper), Punches (grass, flower)

Stamps: Uniko (bunny, sentiment), Hero Arts (background)
Dies: SSS (hearts)

Sending my Easter card to

Uniko Challenge #46 Color and Optional Twist Easter

Hope to see you in the gallery! I always learn so much from your creative takes on our prompt word!

Be well and keep in touch!

Orange Lily for Uniko's 6th Birthday

Yes, yes, I know, I am posting the second card in a row on a kraft card base but it is not my fault if that seems to works best with my elements...

If you wander regularly about in blog land you probably know that Uniko is celebrating it's 6th birthday! Bev, the owner is so sweet and she does it all alone while also taking care of little, active twin boys! One of the celebrations is a birthday linky party where we can upload birthday cards. Even though we are not required to use Uniko products, I wanted to play with the gorgeous lily again, a stamp set that I won last year.

Stamps: Uniko (lily), My Favorite Things (background), PTI (sentiment)

I stamped the lily on Bristol paper, colored it using my Akashiya Sai watercolor brush pens and fussy cut it. On the kraft card base I stamped the wood plank background using kraft ink from My Favorite Things and added some embossed splatters. The sentiment was stamped on a scrap of vellum and embossed with SSS Antique Gold embossing powder which goes well with the kraft, I think. The funny thing is that I thought I had ordered the Rose Gold embossing powder and was really surprised when my order came and I held Antique Gold in my hands! I checked my order and, sure enough, what had been on my wish list all along was Antique Gold and not the Rose Gold and I hadn't looked closely when I put it in my cart. Anyway I do like the Antique Gold, too and will just order the Rose Gold next time. This all just to say that it was not Simon's fault!   

Challenges:

Uniko 6th Birthday linky party





Time Out Challenge #104 "Bold"
I think that flower and the coloring is quite bold...




Thanks for your visit!

Be well and keep in touch!

Sympathy and Halloween

Hi there,

Thanks so much for stopping by! Today I have two cards for you for very different occasions.

First a sympathy card because my stash has dwindled down. I like to keep them simple.

Stamps: Stampin' Up (leaf), Uniko (sentiment)

I smooshed a background with Distress Inks. Stamped the leaf and the sentiment, tied a piece of raffia around it, mounted the panel on a piece of dark brown card stock, and attached it to a card that has pieces of dried flowers in it (from Marco's paper).

The second card is for a more fun occasion that's coming up: Halloween.

Stamps: Hero Arts (tree trunks background), Inkadinkado (sentiment, spider)
Die: Impression Obsession (ghost)

I stamped the moon surface (unmounted, unknown stamp) in white on yellow copy paper, punched it out and glued it on the blue card stock. Then I stamped the tree background on top of it. I cut a slit in the blue card stock and slid the ghost in there. The glittery bats with the fun googly eyes are stickers I found at Michaels. The rest is pretty self explanatory. Let me know if you have any questions.


Entering the first card in the

Time Out Challenge #95 "Sympathy with and optional twist of distressing"





Fusion Challenge 
I was inspired by the leaves





The Card Concept #80 "Autumn Love"

Be well,

Big Lily

A while ago I was lucky enough to win a gift card to the Uniko store and I choose this awesome lily set with it. I had it shipped to my sisters house in Germany, picked it up when I was there, and finally got around to play with. This is the first card I made with it.

Stamps: Uniko (lily and sentiment), Hero Arts (foliage in the background)
Other: Faber Castell Polychromos


Stamped and colored it with colored pencils, fussy cut around the flower, gold embossed the edge of the white panel, stamped the background with different foliage stamps, stamped and die cut the sentiment, and gold embossed the edge of that panel, too.

Of course I am entering it at the current
Uniko Challenge #42 where the theme is very fittingly "Flowers"

and Virginia wants to see what we created this summer






Thanks for stopping by!

Be well,

Playing with Embossing Paste - Take 2

Before I show you my card I would like to let you know that I will take a blogging and commenting break to spend some time with my family in Germany.

In my last post I promised to show you the card I made with a stenciled panel that didn't buckle because I used heavy Stampin' Up card stock. Julia inspired me to use colored cardstock. This time I also added some sparkle to the embossing paste. (Can't tell you right now what it was I added because I am not at home while I type this...) You can see it in the close up, although it didn't sparkle as much as I hoped for. This card looks very different from my last one...

Stamps: Altenew (flower, leaves), Uniko (sentiment)
Other: Memory Box (stencil)


Here is a close up to show you the sparkle in the embossing paste.

Challenges (click on the links for more information and lots of inspiration from the DTs and the galleries):


CAS Mix Up June Challenge "Embossing Paste/Gel"
My choice is fussy cutting







Time Out Challenge #84  'Flowers and Friends make life a garden'







The Flower Challenge #9 "Anything Goes"

Be well,

Sailboat

The latest NBUS (Never-Before-Used-Schtuff) challenge over at Darnell's blog is almost over but I really wanted to play because I am so grateful that she is regularly nudging us towards using the things we buy. My NBUS box is bursting at the seams and given the time I could have made hundreds of cards... Alas, time to create is still very scarce right now but I sat down yesterday and made a card. I really wanted to use this MFT sailboat die (that I have had for way too long) while real sailboats are still on the lake.

Stamps: None!
Dies: My Favorite Things (sailboat), Memory Box (waves), SSS (stitched rectangle), cloud unknown


I cut out the different parts of the sailboat from various PP, the waves from a recent play with spritz bottles and adhered everything to a stitched rectangle that I thought was a very light blue but looks grey on the photo.

Speaking of photo, I am suddenly unable to download photos from my camera to my computer. I have no idea why. Plus I also can't do a backup on my external hard drive. I just hope my laptop doesn't break down before get a new one... So this blog post almost didn't happen! But I took a photo of the card with my phone and managed to get it on the post (not hard but I had never done it before). Phew!

Challenges (click on the links for more information and lots of inspiration):


NBUS #7







Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge #30 - "Anything Goes"







Virginia's View Challenge #23 - "Spray, Mist, Splatter"






Uniko Challenge #35 - "Inspired by a Song Title"
(In my case it's "Sail Away" by David Gray - one of my favorite songs, check it out if you don't know it!)





Thanks for stopping by despite my infrequent postings of late! Your visits and comments still make my day so please don't give up on me!

Be well,

Purple and Green Flowery Birthday

Sorry that I am still not back to more regular posting (if there ever was such a thing on this blog) but it's still summer and there is still lots going on. I'll do the best I can and appreciate your visits and kind comments more than ever.

The 7 Cardologists celebrated another birthday! This time it was for the girl who moved away last year but is back right now for a visit! How wonderful it was to be all together again!

She loves purple so that made the color choice easy. The oval with the sentiment matches the flowers in real live much better. And the layer is not black as it looks on screen but dark purple. There is Wink of Stella on the flowers but that's, of course, not visible on the photo.

Stamps: Uniko (Beautiful blooms III), Happy Little Stampers (sentiment)


Challenges (click on the links for more information and lots of inspiration):


Uniko July Challenge "Flowers"







Happy Little Stamper CASE the Designer - Gloria Lee







Be well,

You Are A Star

Made another card with the set "True" from Winnie & Walter, this time with the star. And a background made with water soluble crayons. Added some shimmer to the stars as you can see better in the close up. And I am happy that I found several challenges it works for!

On the inside I will write: "Let your light shine"

Stamps: Winnie & Walter (stars, word "star"), Uniko (rest of the sentiment)
Other: Water soluble crayons (Caran d'Ache)


Challenges (click on the links for more information and lots of inspiration):


Winnie & Walter Rerun #11







Winnie & Walter "The Gossip Column with Taheerah - Spectrum"







Virginia's View Summer Challenge "Make It Colorful"







Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge "Add Some Shimmer"






Thank you for your visit and comment!

Be well,

Masculine Birthday Card with Motorcycle

Hi there,

Just quickly popping in with a masculine birthday card.

Stamps: Doodlebug (motorcycle, flames), SSS (sentiment), Hero Arts (background)
Dies: Doodlebug (motorcycle, flames), MFT Die-namics (chevron border)


Challenge:

The Male Room #35 "Transport"







Seize The Birtday "Add Dimension"
The motorcycle w/flames and the sentiment are popped up.





CAS-ual Fridays Challenge #148 "Birthday Boy"



 



Uniko #32 "Masculine"






ETA: Over at my Instagram account, Ardyth suggested that I enter this card also at

CASology #199 "Fast"







Be well,