All The Flowers Of Tomorrow…

are in the seeds of today. 

Hello, welcome to my blog. Today i would like to share my card made for Cute Card Thursdays Challenge #163 “it is so distressing”.  

My layers of cardstock and Design papers are just slightly distressed with a tool but i did use some Walnut stain on each layer.

Supplies used:
Stamps: Hanglar Stanglar and Verve (Sentiment)
lilac organza ribbon (underneath the pink lace) and the pretty silver flower are from “The Ribbon Girls” shop
Papers and fabric flower by Prima Marketing “Sweet Fairy” – paper pad
pearl swirl: Recollections
Tools: Martha Stewart border punch, butterfly punch, Spellbinder dies for front and inside – all can found at Cute Stamps and Cards
Other: colored with Copic Sketch, Walnut Ink and blending tool – Cute Stamps and Cards

Info:

on the Ribbon Girl Blog is a give away posted  to celebrate the release of the new boy stamps from Lili of the Valley. Boy and Men cards are so difficult to do, the Ribbon Girls are delighted that these stamps are being launched.

The give away will run until Saturday 14th May the Ribbon Girl Colour Challenge Number 8 will begin on Sunday 15th May 2011.

Sending my Love

Hello my friends, thank you for having a look today.

Today’s card was worked using Bea’s cute sketch over on the Friday Sketcher blog and i was able to combine “Just Magnolia/ Just Hanglar’s” theme “Love” with both challenge sites. whoohooo :-)

Finally i got a round to use at least one image from the nautical stamp line Magnolia released with the Bon Voyage Collection. I must say those are one of my favorite stamp line… my DT kit got lost around the time those stamps came out and by the time i had them there were soooo many samples on blogs to see, that it was kind of hard to come come up with something different. Not saying that my card today is “different” :-) but sometimes if i see something really cool, it is hard to get this picture out of my head and come up with something else. I.Y.K.W.I.M :-)

 

Stamps: Sailor Tilda on rope latter“Bon Voyage” Collection 2010
Papers: My Minds Eye “Hattie”
Embellishments: pearl brads, grey “vacation” ticket (My Minds Eye), octopus charm (Cute Stamps and Cards), hemp and twill (Stampin up), white gel pen (on cheeks)
Tools: Distressing tool, Blending tool,

The new Magnolia “Butterfly Dream” pre-order stamps can be seen here!


Copics: E 00/ 50/ 34/ 11/ 13/ 000/0000 /37/ 39/ 31/ 30 C: 0/ 4/ N3/ 4 R20, RV21 B 91/ 93/ 0000/ 45/ 97 – this card has been sold – Danke Sonja xoxoxo

Hopefully you find time to play along and post your own creation on the Friday Sketcher blog. This week we have a very new sponsor giving a prize to one of you, check out “Pink Cat Studio” !! The fabulous Sassy Sketcher girls who made a card for this week are: Bea, Bev, Jacque, Janneke, Jeanette, Jorunn (takes a break) & Tanja

Hugs  Claudia

Big Ships & Small Ships

Hello, time for an other boy card… isn’t this Lili of the Valley image adorable? I have done a search online for some good sentiments and i was happy now many i could find that i liked. This one was my favorite together with this image :-) nice, sweet and best the card can be used all year long for most occasions.

  

This card is a custom order for the lovely Sonja K. from Germany, she also picked the cute image. I enjoyed making this card. Danke liebe Sonja!

I entered this card to this weeks challenge on Cute Card Thursday where we would like to see “Shiny Happy” cards.

Stamps: Lili of the Valley: “Sailing Boat”

Sentiment: computer (font: Arial)
Papers: Girls Paperie 2010 – boy line
Anchor charm and flowers: Cute Stamps and cards.
Tools: Martha Stewart punch also Cute Stamps and cards, Stickles in Stardust. Drew Drops and hemp from “The Ribbon Girls”
 

Don’t forget to enter today in my blog candy :-) click on photo

One happy little boy…

and Mama… got a kitten for Valentines Day :-) Meet Pixie :-) the reason why i was absent from my blog the last few days, but isn't she a beautiful reason???? Saturday we pretty much took 1 day to drive to her breeder and back one and the other days, i had to watch out for her during the time she gets used of the house and our older cat Maus and of course pet her like crazy. OMG… she is really adorable.. as soon i touch her she starts to purr so loud. My older cat never did that. I hope she stays that way. I just colored this morning a Hanglar image in and she was sitting most of the time in my lap.. was actually quite hard to focus with such a sweet distraction.

She is a seal color point lynx 10 weeks old female Ragdoll. incase one of you wonder. I actually wanted a blue kitten and had my name on a waiting list for her.. but when we came to pick her up – it all changed after seeing Pixie.

Speaking of happy little boys.. this one does not look too unhappy either… wonder what he is thinking about. Weeeeelll… maybe about the new forth coming stamps that Lili of the Valley is going to release soon????? Girls, i saw this morning the stamps and let me tell you they are ADORABLE! Save your pennies lol

This card – image “By The River” was picked by Sonja and is a custom order. Danke liebe Sonja! 

Stamps: Lili of the Valley – By the river.
Sentiment: Lili of the Valley
Papers: Basic Grey Marjolane (or so :-)
Dies: CREAlis – flowers 11 dies can also be ordered through Cute Stamps and Cards
white seam binding ribbon through “The Ribbon Girl”

Take care girls :-) see you tomorrow ~ one happy Claudia

With All My Love

Hi my friends, it’s Saturday and back with a new card :-) some might have seen this card already over on Just Magnolia ~ Just Hanglar. I made the card using Mina’s fabulous sketch. At first i must say i was kind of intimidated but once i picked my papers i enjoyed it. This Basic Grey paper pad is one of my all time favorites. There are lots of cards on my blog using this paper… mostly combined with my sweet Hanglars :-)

So my image is this time water colored… stamped a few more out and i hope i can get them colored in this weekend and than during the week i was thinking to look for nice sketches online and just do the embellishing.

 While i was trying to find how i should color her dress i opened several of my ink bottles and noticed something surprising. Usually i use Stampin up re inkers but i can not deny that i did not get infected by the Distress Ink-bug as well. Of course i had to buy several colors of the bottles too!

But what really surprised me is that there are so many colors just identical to Stampin up colors! This yellow is Stampin up Barely Banana and it is the same color as the yellow Distress ink. HOWEVER what i like about SU collection is that they have So Saffron, YoYo Yellow, Marigold Morning and so on.. which makes it so much easier to add the shades to the clothes. I have tried several times to color faces with Vintage photo and to me it is simply a brown color. Maybe i do not dilute it enough but Stampin up’s Blush Blosson IS a nice natural skin color and so easy to use – unfortunately this color is now retired. I got the other day an extra bottle off Ebay- just in case.

Anyhow.. just wanted to give my 5 cents, and i think since i have said all that i think i need to mention that I am NOT a Stampin up Demonstrator and not affiliated with the company in any way!

Stamps: Hanglar Stanglar
Sentiment: With all my Love (Magnolia)
Dies: Spellbinder circle and scalloped Circles,
CREAlies border die through Cute Stamps and cards or directly from CREAlies
Coloring: Distress Inkers can be found at Cute stamps and cards – my Stampin up colors were: Blush Blossom and Pretty in pink for face
Hair: Distress Walnut Stain, Barely Banana, Vintage Photo
Box: Vintage photo
Shoes: Going Grey and Distress Black Soot
Trousers: River Rock
Ground: Mellow Moss
Halo: Bordering Blue and Going Grey
Ribbon: white Seam binding Ribbon through The Ribbon Girl as well as the Drew Drops

Happy Birthday Dude

Hello how are you? whoohooo weekend is here :-) Iam finished with my Valentines cards pewwhh… just some treats to finish off, for the kids at school – of course could not let them leave my house without to decorate 22 treats individually – what was i thinking?!

Can you tell.. was digging and playing in my boxes with my Hanglar Stanglar collection. Just loving the boy images they produce. Feeling kind of uninspired with my paper selection, sorry i used again this sweet newer line from My Minds eye. Thank good i have some new stuff on the way. The sentiment is printed with the computer and the card was worked with a sketch my friend Bev came up for this weeks challenge on the Friday Sketcher blog. Loving it!
 

  

Hopefully you find time to play along and post your own creation on the Friday Sketcher blog. This week we have a very new sponsor giving a prize to one of you, check out “7kids College fund”.
The fabulous Sassy Sketcher girls who made a card for this week are: Bea, Jacque, Janneke, Jeanette, Jorunn (takes a break) & Tanja

On a sad note i have to tell you that Inge has decided to step down from the DT. Iam going to miss her very much. Her sketches and cards are and were always a great source of inspiration for my own work. Thanks hun for helping us in the past!

Supplies: Hanglar Stanglar boy with skateboard
sentimet: Computer generated
Dies: Spellbinder – pinking circles – Cute Stamps and cards, CREAlies – corner die
Paper: My Minds Eye
Embellishments: Stampin up and Making Memories (buttons)
Copics: E11, 25/ 000/00/0000 41/50/2729/21/34/13/ R20/ 0/ YR21/ 12/ 15/ 68/ BG10/ 72/75 / Y38 through Cute Stamps and Cards

Reminder!

while you are here.. don’t forget to enter my blog candy, today!… i will pick a winner on Sunday and have something new up for one of you on Valentines Day.
hugs xoxoxo

A Vintage LOVT Card

Hello my friends. Back today with a totally different type of card than yesterday. My friend Sonja requested a card with this cute LOVT image called “Swing Time” and i thought it was a perfect motif to go in an other direction than the card bright Magnolia card from yesterday.

 

 Stamps Lili of the Valley “Swing Time”
Papers: K&Company – i believe it’s Bailey
Sentiment: Whimsy Postmark stamps now also available through Cute Stamps and Cards
Die: Cuttlebug concentric hearts – Cute stamps and Cards has a great selection!
Crochet lace is from the Ribbon Girl Ginghams can also found at the Ribbon Girl site.

Copics: R000, 24,32 G 82, 40, 21, E00, 31, 34, 25, 39, 37, 53, 49, 15, 11, 21, 44, 000, 50, 42

I do not have many pictures to show today… puh.. we are awaiting this big snow storm to hit us today. Girls, if you grew up like i did in a smaller town of Germany i have never seen anything like this before. Our grocery stores are huge… but yesterday all 30 check out lanes were over flowing with people and some of the shelves where even empty. I could not get out in time to pick up my kids, so today i had to go again to stock up. of course got myself some glue (tape, Aileen and Scott) just in case aim stuck here for a while and at least i can hug and play with my Copics. If you do not hear from me, you know it’s cause i am most likely with out power and freezing my behind off hahahaha. I think i have to better go to a store to get some fire wood as well.

Alright see you all soon. Hugs

A Card For Mom’s

Hello ladies… today i made a card using one of my cute Lili of the Valley images. This one is called “New Hat”There are many sentiments that would work with this image.. of course i liked “Hello! Gorgeous” a lot but for some reason she made me grin and reminded me when my kids are in all my stuff and having a blast and i think.. OMG.. i have to clean this all up and i have to be at a place in just a few minutes. What can you say lol they are having fun :-)

On the side note.. Girls.. i am going to be most of the time out of my house from today until Sunday… not sure how much time i will have to see you on your blogs.

Thanks for understanding!

Stamp: Lili of the Valley “New Hat”
Papers: Basic Grey Hopscotch
Sentiment: Amuse Art Stamps
Flowers: Wild Orchid Crafts
Dies: Spellbinder Circle Cute Card and Stamps
Tool: Stampin up Word Window Punch
Embellishment: Pearl brads (Cute Card and Stamps) Taffeta mine is from Stampin up but i have gotten a word that “The Ribbon Girl” has gotten some in as well, the blue crochet ribbon is by Webster’s Pages

   
Copic Sketch colors used are: E: 0000, 000, 00, 11, 29, 25, 21, 51, 53, 50, 43,W00, 3, 4, R 20, BG32, R20, 22, 000, 11, 21, Y32 Cute Card and Stamps

This card was a custom card requested by my friend Sonja in Germany. Thank you!

Sketch for this card can be found over at Cute Card Thursday! Check it out we have a great prize up to win.

Hanglar ~ Always on my mind

 Hello ladies, how are you?
Yesterday was my son’s first concert, we were so proud of him. He’s not really into singing but he did a great job. You could definitely tell that the girls are more INTO it hahahaha.

Since my crafting time was limited yesterday i just picked  a colored image with already pre cut card layers, from last year and worked a little more more shadows  in the image and finished it off with embellishments.

The pretty corners are brass but i painted them with tattered rose Distress crackle paint to match my papers. 

  
Stamps: Hanglar Stanglar and Stampin up (Sentiment)
Dies: Heart cut from a coaster and sponged with Vintage Photo (Cuttlebug), Stampin up (ribbon slot punch)
Ribbon: organdy soft pink (Michaels), Flower
Coloring: Copic Sketch
Gems and Stickles all from Cute Stamps and Cards

My Heart Is Forever At Your Service.

Hi, hope you are well and have a great day.
Today i would like to show you one more card using one of the cute images Lili of the Valley is releasing today. The stamps are up on the website for ordering now!

This cute image is called “Teddy Romeo”.

I do not know if it really shows how big this card is (do not know the size in my head right now but if remember correct it is like 8.5 x 5 or so)… i have never made a huge card like this but i could bare to cut all those patterns down from my new My Minds Eye papers. I also can not recall the Copics i used to color the image in, i had to start twice. In my first image i colored the halo around Teddy in pink and it just did not work. In this image it is kind of like a warm grey with some hues of blue.

The card is worked using Mojo Monday’s sketch for this week.

Stamps: Lili of the Valley “Teddy Romeo”
Sentiment: Stampin up "(retired)
Papers: My Minds Eye
Ribbons: Stampin up
Coloring: Copic Sketch
Flowers and Swirl (Magnolia Doo Hickey) the main image and Sentiment is stamped on  Neenah paper and cut with Spellbinder Grand Four – all available at Cute Stamps and Cards.
Hugs

Claudia

Take Care Of Yourself

Hello my friends, thank you for swinging by and all your lovely comments.
Today i have a card to share with Lili of the Valley’s cute Fairy stamp called “Pom Pom” love this one, it works perfectly on the circle shapes and is just too sweet to use with pretty much any sentiments.

Speaking of sentiments… on Cute Card Thursday we challenge you to pull out the “old” and give it some good use :-) I made a mix of new stuff and old… the sentiment i had for a long time and never used it as well as this Organdy ribbon with the shiny edge. No idea where it actually came from.

okay.. and the rest of the stuff is new.. :-) new stamp of course, new super pink papers from My Minds Eye new line “Tickled Pink”.  The card is worked using a sketch from Lena Katharine which she provided for the new challenge on the Lili of the Valley Challenge blog. Love it… you have to check it out and hopefully you can find some time to join us??!

 

Other supplies: several Nesties.. not quite sure what the names are all.. circles and scalloped circle. The shape with the blue paper – wait i looked it up, its label 16 was cut in half so i was able to use it as the “rectangular” shape underneath the circle as the sketch asked for.

Flowers: Cute Stamps and Cards

Copics: E00, 31, 50, 0000, 11, R20, 32, 11, 000,22, C000, 03, 1, B000, YG0000,00

Sending You Birthday Wishes ~ Sneak Peek

Hello my friends, thanks for taking time to swing by. Today i have more photos than usually… probably because i am not making those Easel cards many times. This one is my second attempt.

The first picture shows you one of the nice script sentiments i got from my friend Crissy for Christmas. I looove it – it is made by Stempelglede in Norway.
 

I used Mojo Monday’s sketch # 171 circular shape sketch. There is one for square cards as well up.

Lili of the Valley “Birthday Fairy” remember all those cute stamps can be ordered after Lili of the Valley’s holiday break on January 4!

Don’t miss to enter my Lili of the Valley blog candy while you are here.. you could win 2 stamps by entering, following me and mentioning it on your blog!

Colored with Copic Sketch with the following pens: R 0000/ 01/ 12/ 22/ 20/ Y23
E/ 20/ 00/ 11/ 0000/ 93/ 40/ 42/50/ 43/ 44/ 29/ 27/ 25/ 21/ 34/ 31/ 21/ 41
C00/ 03/ 2/ W 10/ 6/ 4/ 5/ 3/ 10/

The card is 6x6 sized, i was able to make this card with the new Grand Calibur (gift from my friend Jacque for Christmas :-) and and Spellbinders Grand Circles, Spellbinder square and large scalloped square & ovals

Sentiment in front is by Stampin up
Paper is by Basic Grey “Olivia”
All supplies as Copics, Spellbinder sets and Grand Calibur are available through Cute Stamps and Cards!

Little Gift Ideas

Hi there… thanks for visiting me today.

Finally i can show you two little calendars i have made a few weeks back. The idea is completely taken from my very talented German friend Monika. She sent me in 2009 and 2010 each year one of these. The only thing she did was, to adhere the calendar sheets to the front (like were you can see my teddy) so it could sit like this through out the year on my desk.

I thought that those tiny CD jewel cases would also make a great storage space or case to give some dies to friends.

Here i just placed a few of my Magnolia Doo Hickey dies – so you get an idea of the size. They do fit nicely, don’t they? Sweet little gift idea for a crafting friend.

It was fairly difficult to take good photos of the holder – maybe this photo shows better how the idea works. I covered the backside of the magnetic sheet with matching Designer paper. The calendar is just with Scott double sided tape adhered, so the focal point image can be easily exchanged for Spring or Summer if my friend likes to keep this holder.

 For the supplies:
Teddy on sled – Lili of the Valley
Snowman – Lili of the Valley

Sentiments: Whimsy Postmark stamps
Papers: Basic Grey
Dies: Marianne Design and Martha Stewart Snowflake punch, Magnolia DooHickey dies on Magnet sheets – iam using the full sheets to store all my Nestabilities on them. They are easy to cut to any size you need them.
Coloring: Copic Sketch
Aging/sponging: Vintage Photo
Magnet Sheets, little calendars, CD holders – source unknown Moni can not remember where she purchased them.

PS. Make sure to check out Sir Stampalot first year of a Mega Sale on stamps.

The Sweetest Day…

Hi, thanks for your visit.

Today i would love to “sneak” in a card with a floral pattern. OMG.. i must say i have kind of enough of Christmas cards :-) still a few to go, but i think for most iam good.

I love, love this cute Lili of the Valley image. Those little girls are from the newest release – perfect for any occasion. My card has a friendship sentiment.. i had a hard time finding a nice sentiment in my collection that had the right size AND the right font. I just did not want to go too contemporary, because of the words on the top right corner of the pink paper, in case it is hard to read it says “sweetest day”.

Stamps: Lili of the Valley “best friends”
Papers: Pink Paislee – very cute patterns 
Tools: Spellbinders big scalloped square and square Nesti’s can be found at Cute Stamps and Cards – along with the new Grand Spellbinders, border punch is by Martha Stewart
Coloring: Copic Sketch

Don’t forget to enter today’s Lili of the Valley’s Christmas candy giveaway on the Inspiration blog!!!!!!!!

Very Pink ….

Hi there, thanks for visiting. Today i have a really girly bag to show you :-) I just did not feel like decorating a Christmas bag… so i cut into some of my very pink Magnolia papers and went with a monochromatic project.
The project or layout was inspired by Bev’s super sketch from last week on the Lily of the Valley Challenge blog – there is a new Challenge up today – check it out there is some fun candy to win.

I love this cute girl stamp from Lily of the Valley, so sweet and size wise those images fit nicely into the smaller Spellbinders, however i kind of had to fill out all that space on the bag (its kind of a big one) so i cut the oval shape with my new Spellbinder Grand Oval set. I used my Big Shot to cut the shape out! Of course i decorated the back side of the bag as well… i just saved my time on editing this photo as well… all it is anyways is the same layout on papers plus my circle “handmade by Claudia” image. Pretty boring and aim sure you have seen this a million times already :-)

Stamps
Lili of the Valley “Rosie with Presents”
Sentiment: Stampin up
Papers: Magnolia papers
Embellishments: from stash various Stampin up products 
Tools: Grand Calibur Oval Spellbinders, Stampin up – Star punches
Coloring: Letraset ProMarkers

Edit to add: just noticed that:
Lili of the Valley are running a “12 days of Christmas” Candy event on the Ideas to Inspire blog, so pop across now to enter for todays stamp give away. Each day we will be giving a stamp away to one luck winner.

Praying Angel

Happy Thanksgiving to all of you!
If you came to have a peek at my card.. Thank you so much!

Lucky me i still found a card to show which i have made beginning of October with one of the “newer” Whiff Of Joy” stamps called Praying Angel.

I used this card for this weeks Challenge over on Cute Card Thursday “Blast from the past” i went with “Re-use – Re-cycle”
the note papers are from an old music book.

Tried to make my card looking very vintage, by sponging all edges heavily with Vintage Photo. Papers are by Cosmo Cricket – love the pad “Winter Wonderland”, Christmas post mark stamp is by Stampin up other: Martha Stewart arched border punch, Prima flowers, Hemp and Stampin up Vintage brads, Coloring: Copic Sketch

Most of my supplies for this card can be found at Cute Stamps and Cards!

Just White and an other color

is our challenge over on Just Magnolia this week – sponsored by Letraset.
Thanks for swinging by to have a peek at my card!

Pheewwww… iam sure by now that my parcel with stamps must have gone lost in the mail. Bummer.. in 8 years i live in the US, this never happened, but why, why with my precious stamps… buuuhuuuu :-)

I am so blessed with some very good friends. Dear Debbie was reading in one of my previous postings that iam still waiting for my stamps and she just stamped for me a few images and dropped them in the mail for me, all the way from Israel :-) thanks hun!

On my card i used a mix of Magnolia papers and DVCW papers, Spellbinder Snowflake frame die and Fiskars big scalloped border punch. The flakes are made once again using Marianne Design flakes die set -
The roses have been first dipped into glue and than into Twinklet glitter for the frosty look

The winner of the Letraset ProMarker blog candy is Jen from Brain Things. Jen, please contact me (claudiaesrosaathotmail.com) within the next 2 days to claim your prize.

Thanks to each and everyone of you for entering and spreading the word.

Merry Christmas

Hello, thank you for peeking in today.

I love this new Whiff Of Joy stamp “winterliche Kirche” – just a church with some pine trees covered in a serene snow blanket. The stamp is in stock over at Cute Stamps and Cards. I colored this image with a mix of Copics and in refiller’s in.
All papers are from Magnolia – last years Christmas collection.

additional supplies used:
Stampin up: Word window punch, white satin ribbon, both snowflakes, scallop border punch
Sentiment: Penny Black
Stickles in Star Dust

tomorrow i am participating in a blog hop and i am able to give a blog candy away.. sponsored by the stamp company who is celebrating. Swing by to check it out… each DT and DT Alumni is having candy to give away… it really is worth to join in and have fun while you hop.

Jolly Winter Buddies

Hello my friends, sorry for the later posting today.

Was totally missing the time… needed some inspiration for my card today. So i went and checked out this weeks challenge over on the Whiff Of Joy Challenge blog and the girls there have a really sweet sketch up to follow.

Changed the the focal point image into a oval so i was able to use this cute and fun bird image from Whiff Of Joy’s latest release.

It’s hard to tell but i used on the “buddies” feather some star dust pen to make them sparkle a bit.

Maybe something to the “technique” i use recently. I first color my halo with a grey tone around the images usually a W3 or W2 , bled a bit than i airbrush in blue over the colors. Gives it a bit more interest.. i think.. maybe just until i find something else fun to do :-)

Stamps: Whiff Of Joy “Winter Buddies”
Sentiment: Whiff Of Joy “Seasons Greeting” along with the matching die – Fancy Shape
Heart charm = Whiff Of Joy

You can find all the stamps and the dies also at Cute Stamps and Cards
Papers: Cosmo Cricket last years paper pack Cute stamps and cards has a great selection!
other die: Magnolia Doohickey tag die, Spellbinder oval die
Flowers also Cute Stamps and Cards

Celebrate the Season

Hello, today iam back with a new card using one of my new Whiff Of Joy stamps. Those new images are just so cute and super whimsical.
I love that i can use all my really bright and cheerful papers and ribbons with those images.
This one is just pure fun :-) plus the coloring of those images are really not time consuming – perfect for those quick cards.

Stamps: Whiff Of Joy “Pinguins Winter Spass” also available through Cute Stamps and Cards or any other fine retailer that sells Whiff Of Joy products
Sentiment: Stampin up
Papers: Imaginice
Coloring: Copic Sketch
Tools: Spellbinder Snowflake
Martha Stewart Icicle
Crealies flowers die no 15
Other: Stampin up red satin ribbon, gems, Stickles and for the snow i used Twinklets (Diamond Dust) – gives a little more texture