cqc #74 Fly away

Hi there,

another sky theme - you may ask? YES - Arielle has chosen a great color combo for this week's colourQ challenge and I had to go with the sky. And other than that... well, my hubby will be deployed by the beginning of July and I wanted to have a head start with guy-cards I plan to send to him. So you will see the sky and the clouds and the ballons and all the kites and other stuff like that more often .... (pssst, because it's related to his work;) )

For my card today I used a set from There she goes - darn, I always forget the name but they have just one that is with ballons and scenery ... . And the blue ballon was taken from the "fly away" set by PTI. I stamped the birds in black and added just a little glittery shimmer with a Sakura pen but on the photo you see just the glitter, grrr!

The background was sponged with broken china distressed ink. It looks stunning in reality but not on the pic - so sad.

Thank you for stopping by today - take care, my friend

Hugs Tanja

cqc#68 - poppies

Oh boy,

we had a rough week here at the Hartmann Ranch! I was home sick and so was oldest boy. The youngest one seemed to have more energy than ever and my hubby was preparing for a 3-week-training in Poland ***phew***. But now we are doing better. I still have the feeling that I could go to bed at 7 pm :) but I really need to spend more time with my goodies and camera and blog and so on ... , right?

Back to today's colorQ-challenge. I LOVE th colors Arielle chose for this week. When I saw the inspiration photo I knew that I wanted to play with this poppy stamp set from ThereSheGoes. So I grabbed my Copics and went ahead. I really like the result but I still need to practice a lot more. The cardbase was dry embossed with one of my PTI Impressions Plate (forgot to write down the name - sorry). Everthing else is pretty self-explaining.

Thank you for stopping by today and bearing with me

Hugs Tanja

There She Goes blog-hop!!!

Hi there,

welcome to the There She Goes Mother of All Blog Hops! If you have arrived here from Joanne's blog, then you are in the right spot. If not, I recommend that you start back on the There She Goes company blog to get the introduction to our hop as well as the information you will need in order to enter to win some exciting prizes!

Before you read any further: I just wanted to apologize for the pretty bad photos today. Whatever I tried the pic were either blurry or they had too much light. That is the reason why I couldn't show you a photo from the lid! Grrrrr, so sorry! I will definately work on a solution for those days .... :-(

For this blog hop the participants were supposed to choose one of the existing stamp sets from There She Goes (that means you will see each set from TSG in a project on the hop :) ) and use it fror a project.

I chose "Life's a beach". It fits perfect to our summer weather here in south AL.

And I had this tin sitting on my desk since the kids emptied it a couple weeks ago - it was filled with cookies from the Pepperridge Farm and I swear the kids ate them all ;-). I love to reuse regular household item so I thought it would be great idea to transform it in a "Paradise Fund" tin. Putting a little money away while it doesn't hurt too much is always a good idea. And since we love to travel .... well, extra money is always appreciated, right?

I painted it all in white with acrylic paint and after it was try I decorated it. Coloring was done with Copics and Stamping Pastels. Everything else is self-explanatory (???).

I just had to made this little 4x4 card - the paper is in my stash for ever and I wanted to use it so badly - and today is the day, tadaaaa! The paper is so sparkly and yummy. Copic were used here too. And to make the drinks shiny I added a little crystal effect to them.

Now it's time to send you on to Tiffany's blog. I hope you have as much fun blog-hopping as I had putting this all together. Hope to see you soon and thank you so much for taking the time and visiting me here.

Hugs Tanja

TSG #53 color challenge

Hi there,

I finally took a pic of my take for this week's challenge over at There She Goes. ANd guess who is in the trendsetting spotlight at their blog? YEAH, it's ME! Can you take a guess how excited I was when Holly shot me an email asking if they could feature me? HELLO? I feel so honored!!!!

Thank you sweetie!!!!!

Okay, back to the card. The image from "Welcome Home" set was colored with Copics. Everything else is from SU (except the buttons :) ) but I have no clue what DP it is ... I just used scraps...

Do you see the ribbon? I saw Michelle Wooderson coloring her ribbon with Copics and since I had no matching ribbon for this card I just gave it a try and I really like the outcome (is this a real word?)

Thank you for popping in today - I like having you here!!

Hugs Tanja

There she goes - sketch

THIS IS MY 2. POST FOR TODAY - SCROLL DOWN FOR MY WALTZINGMOUSE CARD!!!!!

Good morning!

Last night I had the chance to play with the "There she goes"-challenge. I just LOVE their stamp set with all these sentiments - so hilarious!

Thanks for stopping by today - I really appreciate all your wonderful comments :-)

Hugs Tanja

Supplies:

stamp: Loads of fun

ink: Momento Tuxedo Black

paper: PTI white, kraft, Basic Grey June Bug collection, new leaf cs PTI

others: SU embossing plate, SU borer and corner punch, Nesties label 1, Copic markers, library clip SU, dimensionals