cqc#76 make a wish

Hi ...

and bye.... ;)

Here is my card for this week's colorQ challenge. And due to the fact that I'm in the middle of some major packing for our move I have to hurry ...... so sorry!

I try to be back tomorrow with a card a little chat :)

Hugs to you

Tanja

cqc#75 happy birthday

Hi there,

I'm terribly late with my post for this week's colorQ challenge. We have two sick kiddos at home, hubby is preparing for his deployment (which will be in July but he already in trainings...) and I got a new job where I actually need to be in the office and not at home with the little ones ;). And on top .... our new home!!!! We will get the key on the 26th of this month - boy can you tell I am excited!!!!!! Enough rambling - and back to the reason you are here for, right?

I kept my card clean and simple again because I was in a hurry. And of course I used my beloved PTI goodies :) can't get enough of 'em.

Thank you for visiting me today - have a blessed one

Hugs Tanja

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#73 dotty hi

Hi there,

it's time again for the colorQ challenge. And Arielle has chosen "my" colors for this week's challenge. LOVE all kind of blues but I seem to have trouble getting a card done with them ... So I stayed with the cas style and used 2 PTI sets "Dot Spots" and "Outlined Alphabet"".

Unfortunately I messed up the "i" while coloring in poor light ...grrr! We wanna see your creation - come and play with us!!!

Hugs Tanja

late cqc#72 - sky is the limit

Hi there,

it took me exactly 3 days to get this post to live. I think blogger and I have a very special relationship - I can say: I do not like blogger!!!

But well... Arielle had another great color combo for this week over at the colorQ-challenge blog. I would love for you to play with us. There are always so many awesome cards!

And I'm happy because this is another PTI card ..... :) Can you say I'm a little bit addicted :))

Wishing ou a wonderful weekend

Hugs Tanja

cqc #71 yeah for PTI

Hi there,

are you already tired of seing PTI cards here on my blog? Well, sorry! BUt I have another PTI card for you today :)

Arielle has chosen this gorgeous colors for this week's colourQ challenge and after trying and playing with my stamps and working..... this is what came out. I love this subtle colors all in one place and my #1 favorite "tool" when it comes to work with lots of colors is making my own patterned paper. The Guide Line series from PTI is just perfect for doing this.

You need to play with us this week - I want to see what you will come up with!

Hugs Tanja

cqc #70 - Stars

Hi there,

another Tuesday and another colourQ-day! Go and check out Arielle's colors for today - to die for!!!!!

I chose this sketch from the clean-and-simple blog (LOVE all the cas ideas!!!) and went ahead with this soft combo *happy sigh*

The star is from an Elzybell bell that sat in one of the boxes for ever before I finally broke in it today :). And the sentiment is from the same set called "Stardust and Moonbeams". (guess what: no PTI on my card today ;) )

Thank you for stopping by today - have a great rest of the week

Hugs Tanja

cqc#69 - bookmark card

Hi there,

how is everybody doing? It's time for another colorQ challenge! And what do you think about this week's colors? I didn't know what to do with the cajun crazy...... hm! And I made a card and sent it to a friend without taking a picture - BUMMER! Well, this is my second choice and definately not my best. But a friend of mine is a bookworm and she loves color combos like this one ....

Here is the inside with the attached bookmark - clean and simple - just the way she is :)

Have a wonderful day my friends and thank you for stopping by today

Hugs Tanja

P.S. - just wanna let you know that I have a ton of cards to show you but I'm working on 3 envelope albums for my sweet hubby who will leave for his deployment in a while. So it will take some time to get pictures taken from the cards and the albums to show you what I was working on lately. So please bear with me and stay tuned.

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

cqc#67 Stacking up on birthday cards

Hi there,

long time no post ... I know!!!!!

I'll be back tomorrow with some "updates" from my neck of the wood.

Nevertheless I wanna leave you with this week's colorQ-challenge-card... Layout is from CardPositioningSystem

Brrrrummmmm, off I am

See y'all back tomorow

Hugs Tanja

cqc#62 - snappy snowflake

Oh boy, what a mess!!!

Hi there,

I scheduled this post on Monday because I was out of town yesterday.... But oh well, blogger didn't do it! So sorry about that guys. At least here is my card for Arielle's colorQ challenge.

Deets need to be posted later because I'm on the run again (seems to be a great race, right ;) )

Hugs to y'all

Tanja

cqc#61 - winter tag

Hi there,

sorry for the lack of posts lately. Things had been crazy around here. Stay tuned I will show you the reason tomorrow :)

Today is colorQ time again. Arielle pulled out this awesome photo - love the colors! This is also my take for :

Our Creative Corner

Crazy4Challenges

Gotta go - I'm at work ;) and I have to hurry :)

Will be back later

Hugs Tanja

cqc#59- corner bookmarks

Hi there,

it's colorQ-time again and this is my take for this week's combo. LOVE rich razzleberry! And I needed some bookmarks for my sister who ordered quiet a bunch so I used this weeks colors to create two corner bookmarks (you can find the tutorial here at SCS). I kept it simple - so me :)

What do you think? Have you already made bookmarks? Please leave a note and I would love to get some inspiration from you.

I'm off to get prepared for a class I'm teaching next week - still no clue what cards to make with 10 kids ..... (scratching head) - any ideas?

Hugs Tanja

cqc#58 - special

Hi there,

another week flew by and now it's time again for the colourQ-challenge. This week Arielle brought to you this great color combo - so fallish-y!

I wanted to use one of my newest Lori-Boyd-digis (go and check out her new release - jaw-dropping-cute!) and I decided to play with Jen Tapler's sketch.

So, here we go. Enjoy!!!!!

Hugs and kisses

Tanja

P.S. will post the deets later as I'm running out the door ***waving***

cqc#57

Hi there,

Harvey (my computer) seems to be a little stinker at the moment. Maybe he feels a little neglected ... *sigh*

But anyhow - last but not least here is my take of this week's colorQ challenge.

I thought I get a jumpstart on christmas cards this year... and I took this great color combo and designed a card with some not-so-typical christmas colors.

Since time is short here on the Hartmann Ranch I made it easy peasy and pretty much self-explaining (???).

Okay, today is hubby's birthday and we have some exciting things to do today - still a little secret here but if you stay tuned I will let you know in a couple days what's going on here and why I'm not posting that often ...

Sending huge hugs your way, my friends

Tanja

cqc#56 - comfy couch

Hi there,

another week another colourQ challenge. Love the colors Arielle has chosen for this week *happy sigh*.

Go and check out the sample from the amazingly talented DT - they will blow you away.

I will be back later with some deets - kids need to be brought to bed in a second :)

Hugs Tanja

cqc55 - 2 challenges

Hi friends,

have you heard it already? Arielle has posted two challenges over at the colourQ-blog for today- the first one is a wonderful fall-ish color combo and the second one is with lots of pink : it's Breat Cancer Awareness Month!!!

And if you play along with both challenges you can win a prize!!! How cool is that?

I made a card for each challenge and I kept them pretty simple.

My first one is for the pink-challenge and I was inspired by this beautiful card from Maille Belles. I just added a little bit more black for "drama" (love this word!).

This is my second card for the fall-color-combo. I stamped the leaf from "Fall Season" by Inkadinkado randomly in tango tangerine, riding hood red (still no pure poppy ink here yet) and river rock. I then added the sentiment from "Dream du Jour" by SU in black. The MS glitter was sprinkled on a strip of sookwang tape and the button was cut off an old jacket (I love to reuse :)) and popped right away onto this card. There we go!

Now it's your turn - show us your take on the color combos and with a little bit of luck you will be the winner!!!

Thank you for stopping by and leaving all this wonderful encouraging comments. They mean a lot to me.

Hugs Tanja

Supplies:

card1:

stamps: sentiment and ribbon from "Believe" by Verve, frame from "Fillable frames #4" by PTI (yeah)

ink: pink pirouette, pretty in pink, Momento Tuxedo Black

paper: regal rose, PTI white, PTI black

others: black stitched ribbon PTI, Sunshine impression plate and Fillable Frame #4 die from PTI, rhinestone stickers

card2:

stamps: "Fall Season" Inkadinkado, "Dream du Jour" from SU

ink: tango tangerine, river rock, riding hood red, Momento Tuxedo Black

paper: river rock, PTI black and white

others: MS glitter, sookwang strip, old button, black organza ribbon

cqc#54 - BOO

Hi there,

I'm late again. Seems to be a "new tradition" here - have to change this :)

Today is colorQ-day again and Arielle has chosen some great Halloween colors - love it. So I printed out this adorable little "Ladybug" designed and just released by Lori Boyd ( if you haven't yet you HAVE TO go and check out her digi-store - sooooooo cute).

The layout is from Iheart2 stamp by Jen del Muro - love it, definately will use it more often in the future.

Gotta run - need to prepare everything for tomorrow for work :)

Take care and hugs for y'all

Tanja

cqc#53 PTI Guide Lines II

Hi there,

it's been a busy week for the Hartmann Family. I had my frist day of work on Friday and even though I just LOVE to go to work it is pretty "exhausting" to make it a new routine. We are leaving the house so early and the kids still need some more time to get adjusted to the new situation. Preparing all the little things the night before is nesseccary and still needs a little practicing :).

So, enough rambling. Today is Tuesday again and that means time for the colourQ challenge.

I Loved the colors for this week but couldn't get the pear pizzaz worked in - tell me how do you like it ....

The DP is selfmade with my Guide Lines Two set from PTI - I think it is a must have set - so versatile and cool. I listed to my friend Arielle when she told me to "play" with my stamps. I pulled out quite a bit ink pads and .... played. LOVE the results *sigh*

Thank you for stopping by and hope to see you soon :)

Hugs Tanja

Supplies:

stamps: all PTI: Guide Lines Two, Fillable Frames #4, text style: places, please

ink: baja breeze, pacific blue, pumpkin pie

paper: PTI white, pear pizzaz

others: double stitched ribbon from Michael's, Fillable Frame #4 die, clear rhinestone stickers, dimensionals

cqc52 - happy birthday colorQ

Hi there,

here is another colorQ card for you today. Due to the fact that colorQ celebrate it's first birthday today (HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!) Arielle challenged us to create a card based on a sketch and with our favorite past colorQ combo.

I chose cQc #22 because I just love those combo - airy and breezy *happy sigh*. And I was in a need of a bookmark/ card so I decided to combine both.

This is the inside of the card.

I borrowed this "special" perforation cutter from my SiL and I think I need one for myself. This thingy cut the perforation exactly there where it belongs - love it! And after you finished reading thecard you just rip of the bookmark and use for whatever book you are reading - GREAT!

The sentiments and images are from PTI "All booked up" set - which is just the perfect set for all this little book related gifties .

That'll be all for today. Please stop at the coloQ blog and celebrate with us - and of course don't forget to check out the cards from the DT - they rocked the challenge :)

Hugs Tanja

P:S: - will be back later with the supply-list - kids are screaming and bleeding :::rolleyes:::