some snowman soup?

Hi there,

nice to see you today. Finally I had time to participate in some challenges, yeah!

Korin at The Sweet Stop has an awesome sketch this week - I couldn't resist ...

And I just figured out that this card can even be a take for this cool challenge - check it out!

A while back I ordered this set from CC Design - LOVE it!!!!!!! The snowman is just gorgeous and doesn't need fancy coloring when you throw in some paper piecing, right?

I had so much fun coloring this cutie that I had to work with him again. Watch out for tomorrow's post, ;-)

The paper is from Bo Bunny's Kitchen Spice Collection - so warm but nevertheless so matching for Mr. Ice! And the Dazzling Diamonds look like snow falling down ... (well, at least to me ...)

Thank you for stopping by today and for all the nice and wonderful comments - I so appreciate each and every one.

Take care

Tanja

Recipe:

stamps: Warm Cocoa Wishes from CC Design

ink: Momento Tuxedo Black

paper: prism cardstock, very vanilla, Bo Bunny's Kitchen Spice Collection, PTI stampers select white

others: watercolor pencils and Aquapainter, white gel pen, Dazzling Diamond glitter, 2 way glue, buttons and twine, circle punch, glittery ribbon, dimensionals

Frosty Days

Hi there,

did you have a good weekend? Our's was calm and quiet - so nice! I even took time and sat down for coloring and stamping and choosing paper and .... it was so much fun!

And I came up with this cool image: I love CC Design and when I saw Nora I had to have her. She sat on my desk and I couldn't wait to "work" with her. The DP is from the Eskimo Kisses collection from Basic Grey - I adore this cool and friendly colors - they matches Nora so perfectly.

She was colored with my trusty watercolor pencils and Aquapainter. I threw in some stickles, pink pearls, green rhinestone stickers, snowflakes punched with MS on vellum and I tried my hand on this grommit .... phew! I'm not sure if I like them. If there is anybody out there who can tell me how to use them properly ... PLEASE PLEASE do so!!! I like them togetehr with this pink pirouette ribbon but :::::rolleyes:::::

I wish you a great Monday and thank you for visiting my corner of the world today!

Hugs Tanja

daydreaming ...

Hi there,

I hope you all had a wonderful christmas and could spend your days with familiy and friends.

We had the most calm and smooth christmas we could think of (except finding our son wait awake at 2.45 am on christmas day - ready to tear into the presents .... :::rolleyes:::). even though the rest of our family is in Germany we spend christmas day with our "adopted" family - which are our neighbor and friends next door. That was soooooo good!!!

I haven't had enough time and I were not in the right mood to sit down and stamp for a little bit .. BUT .... today I recieved the most beautiful present from a dear friend who sent me a cute christmas card and added a wonderful stamp from CC Design!!! How sweet is that???? (THANK YOU - my friend, you made my day today - thank you so much!!!!) So I think this afternoon I will sneak on my desk and play a little bit with my new toy ;-)

For today I wanna show you a card I finished right before christmas. i was tired of all the christmas and winter-y cards and I had her sitting on my desk for quite a while so I challenged myself so make a card with soft colors (usually I like using the brighter ones). And here is the result:

The stamp is from The Greeting Farm, DP is from my scrap stash, coloring is done with watercolor pencils and Aquapainter; ribbon & Punch & EF folder & cs are SU and raindrops are Cloud 9 Design!!!

I hope you will have a wonderful Sunday and thank you for popping in

Hugs Tanja

Sugar Daisy

Hi there,

I promised to show you my next Daisy card. And here is ..... drumroll.......

Sugar Daisy!!!

Like I said, after I colored her for the first time I couldn't resist and wanted to try her in different colors. I used my trusty watercolor pencils from Farber -Castell and an Aquapainter and I figured out : the more you practice the faster you can see that you are getting better little by little...

Usually I'm not a designer (does this sounds good or what ;-)) for romantic cards but this time I'm pleased with the result. It will be my take for the Sugar Bowl challenge.

Okay, I have to hurry. We will do the rest of our christmas grocery shopping today! And I think I won't like it ;-)

Have a wnderful weekend and thank you for visiting me today

Hugs Tanja

Recipe:

stamp: Daisy from Elisabeth Bell by Sugar Nellie

ink: Momento Tuxedo Black

paper: kraft, whisper white, Bella Rose DP SU, Specialty Paper Taste of Textiles SU

other: circle Nesties, Swirl die SU and Big Shot, watercolro pencils and Aquapainter, red stickles, liquid pearls, buttons Playground SU, Prima Flowers, rhinestone brads and stickers, lace Maya road

winter-y colorQ

Hi there,

I'm back with my take for this week's colorQ challenge over at my friend's Arielle's blog. If you haven't bee there yet you have to check it out. Arielle chooses the most beautiful pics for your inspiration - love it!!!

This week we are supposed to use the colors: basic gray, bashful blue, whisper white and very vanilla.

Yes, I know, bad me, I cut the gray mat a little too short so you cannot see it on the right hand side. But hey, that's my kind of art, huh? Okay, was just a try - I haven't had time to redo it so I just left it like it is. The snowflakes are from The Serene Snowflakes set from SU. I embossed them clear and sponged bashful blue over them. The sentiment is from the Winter Schminter Set from Whipper Snapper, stamped in basic gray.

And because I was in the mood I made a whole set of these lovies (my card for Arielle was the last one, that's why I ran out of time). Unfortunately the sun wasn't out that day and the pictures are a little blurry - I think I really have to work on my photography skills!

All the card are the same stamp sets just different paper.

And for this one I stamped the snowflakes with Versamark and tried my stamping pastels once again. I always forget that I hav them until they fall in my hands - like this time! But I'm not sure what technique I like better for this kind of cards. What do you think?

That should be all for today. I'm working on a card for the Sugar Bowl challenge - I couldn't resist my new Daisy from Sugar Nellie and colored her in again. Hope I can show you the card tomorrow - or on Sunday ;-))

Take care - Hugs Tanja

stuffed stockings

Hi there,

today is christmas party in preschool and usually the day for exchanging gift. And this year I found the template for this cute stockings on this blog . Because I decided to give each teacher a gift card from Barnes & Nobles I created this stockings and sneaked the card inside. They were made so easily - it took me just 45 minutes to finish all 4. How cool!!!

And due to the fact that I went a little overboard with stocking up on new paper I decided to use some treasures from SU last year's collection. I think I will make myself some of those stocking too just to hang them on our fireplace ;-)

Paper is Frosty Days or Ski Slope (forgot which one), ribbon is old olive SU, stamp "You light up my life" from Sweet and Sassy, and I used choc chip marker for tracing and writing. That's all!!

Thanks for popping in today - Wish y'all a wonderful Thursday - just one more day until the weekend ..... :-))

Hugs Tanja

Introducing Daisy

Hi there,

a while back I received some stamps from Sugar Nellie and I have to admit that I absolutly LOVE them. This little girl is Daisy and from the first day I saw here I had to have her. Well, now she is mine and this is my first card I made with her.

The colors are kinda unusual for me but it all began when I saw a tutorial about this wonderful flowers made of tissue paper (tutorial was made by Patty Benett). I tried one of those and I chose purple because my Secret Sister like this color and I wanted to make her one. I then added a yellow button to bring in some fun color. Usually I wanted to use one of those flowers for this card but .... well. It should not happen. So I had the colors for Daisy chosen from a flower I haven't even used.

But I'm babbling .... This cutie will be in the mail by today to make a long trip for a birthday :-)

Have a wonderful day and thank you for stopping by

Hugs Tanja

Recipe:

stamp: "Daisy" from Elisabeth Bell by Sugar Nellie

ink: Antique Linen Distress and Momento Tuxedo Black

paper: elegant eggplant, summer sun, Patterned Paper Pack II

others: Label 3 and circle Nesties, chit-chat rub-ons SU, clear rhinestone Michael's, purple ribbon SU, gold stickles, watercolor pencils and Aquapainter, sponge, white gel pen

Club Anya blog hop!

Hi there,

when you are here to hop with the Club Anya folks then you are right. If you just stumbled onto this blog you are very welcome to sneak around and just check out what this is all about.

There is a huge - I mean really HUGE - blog hop going on tonight starting at the Club Anya blog . Everybody will show you something christmas related.

Well, and there we have the first problem here. I was so excited when I signed up for the hop that I didn't read all the deets. "Christmas" - is the theme. Usually no problem for me because I have tons of christmas stamps ... but .... none of the TGF ones. :-( Ordering some? Too late! Using digis? Have non of those either and there is no Ian or Anya christmas digi stamp in store.

Hm!!!!!! I went creative and and used "My guy Ian" set and just adjusted him a little bit. Ian is now wearing a Santa hat. I decided to keep this card "cool". We have a lot of single guys here around and it is always hard to make a christmas card for them. So I stuck with the "coolness" and just added a handwritten sentiment et voilà! Here is My Christmas Guy Ian

The hat is handdrawn too. I wiped of the ink for the cap and stamped Ian without hat. Then I just draw him this hat and colored it red. It kinda worked. Some liquid appliqué and it was done.

Thank you for hopping with me today - I hope to see you soon here :-)

Hugs Tanja

Recipe:

stamp: My Guy Ian - The Greeting Farm

ink: StazOn Jet Black

paper: soft suede, whisper white, real red, Merry Moments DP SU

others: liquid appliqué white, photo corner punch, watercolor pencils, Aquapainter, journaling marker black, buttons (from my stash), little golden bell (???)

An Award

Hi there,

I'm back! A little late but back....

Recently I received an award from Melina and Jeanette. - Thank you so much my friends - that really means a lot to me.

And here is what you have to do after recieving this award:

1. Thank the person that nominated you.
2. Copy the logo and place it on your blog.
3. Link the person who nominated you for this award.
4. List 7 things about yourself that people might find interesting.
5. Nominate 7 kreativ bloggers.
6. Post links to the 7 bloggers you nominate.
7. Leave a comment on each of the blogs letting them know they have been nominated.

7 things about myself:

- I have a stupid addiction for liquorice

- Our household don't need a TomTom - I'm pretty good in reading maps

- I drank a coffee with Jack Nicholson in a café in St. Tropez and didn't even recognize him at first .... (why it couldn't have been George Clooney?)

- When I was 14 years old I thought I have found the love of my life in a small twon near Manchester, GB (been there with a students exchange)- then I found this 15 years old guy in the bathroom in a pub in the middle of doing *** with another girl asking me if I wanna join .... boy, he was in trouble after that!!!

- I don't know the "Twilight" story and I won't!!! *****SHOCKING***** huh?

- When I will pass away (hopefully in not less than 60 years ;-)) then I will be Dr. Tanja Hartmann -> that's my goal for the long future

- when hubby and I were still living in Germany we used to go wreck diving in the Baltic Sea and once we dove while we coulnd't see as far as a foot length - that was really scary but all around us were the most beautiful jellyfishes I've ever seen :-)

That was probably more than you ever wanted to know about me, right?

So, I will give this award to Arielle, Susan, Lorie, Sandra, Mary, Kelly and Kadie

Phew, it was a lot of work coming up with all this information.... I need a cup of coffee!!

Hugs Tanja

Sisterhood December

Hi there,

I hate it when I can't keep promise .... Sorry for not posting for a week even though I told you I would. But after my inlaws flew back home we had 2 day for cleaning and relaxing and then we went to Disney World for 2 days. I can tell you .... we were really busy ;-)

Back to business.

I wanna show you a card I made for the most wonderful group of swapping-ladies called "Sisterhood of the travelling card". We swap together every month but most of the time we share good and bad news and just support each other in everything, right ladies?

This month Miss Fay is the hostess and challenged us to create a winter scene on our card.

I had this wonderful idea but finally I'm not impressed with what I came up with .... but well - 'tis is the season where everybody is busy and I really haven't had the time to redo 6 of this cards :-( I hope somebody will like it .... (sorry for the dark photo, the light outside isn't enough during bad weather, hm?)

Thank you for stopping by and watch out for the next post pretty soon :-))

Hugs Tanja

Recipe:

stamp: Tree and sentiment is from Verve and snow man from Inkadinkado

ink: basic black

paper: whisper white, Wintergreen DP SU,

others: clear EP and heat gun, precision scissor, liquid appliqué, stardust stickles, dimensionals, paperpiercing tool, sticky tape, snow from Walmart (christmas aisle)