Blast from the past - blog hop

Hi there,

and thank you for stopping by today. A warm welcome to all the hoppers who arrived here for the TE blog hop - you are on the right track :)

For today's hop I finally inked up my "You are my hero" set which was sitting on my desk for ever. And I used one of Taylor's awesome Key Ingredients set (just annot remember which one it is ...). Since I have to two and a lot of teenager around us this set is just PERFECT! So I tried to create a card that could be used for a boy or a girl. And the sketch Sankari provided was great to work with.

Unfortunately it was soo difficult to get a good pic from the card without any reflection from the foil - well, this is my best try, sorry!

The stars were stamped with black craft ink and then embossed with iridescent (???) embossing powder. In real life it looks so cool but on the photo ...:(. I added a lot of sponging with basic gray ink. The foil was cut with a circle nestie, embossed with an embossing plate from PTI and after that crumbled up. I like the look.

Gotta run, the kids need a nap (shhht, Mommy too ;))

Hugs to y'all and hope to see you back soon

Tanja

Supplies:

stamp: You are my hero - Taylored Expression

ink: Momento Tixedo Black, Basic Gray, Black Craft ink SU

paper: from one of TE's awesome Key Ingredients set (means: I'm not sure ...)

others: clear and iridescent embossing powder, sewing machine and threat, circle nesties, Embossing plate from PTI, black button PTI, red rhinestone stickers - Michael's, dimensionals, sponge

Blast from the Past - TE blog hop

Hi there,

and welcome to the "Blast From The Past" blog hop from Taylored Expression. When you come from Carol Rinear's blog then you are on the right track. If not then you might want to go back to Taylor's blog and start from the beginning.

There was just one "challenge" for this hop: use a stamp set that was released before the year 2010. EasyPeasy!!! I chose "Discover your wings" - and I used the sketch Taylor provided for this hop - love it!!!! Paper is from October Afternoon - Thrift Shop. Everything else is pretty selfexplaining.

Now hop over to my sweet friend Arielle's blog to see what she whipped up for you - I promise it will be worth a visit ;)

And just in case you get lost on your hop you can find a list of all the participants on the end of this post (I really hope the link is working ....)

Thank you for stopping by today - I hope to see you soon!

Hugs Tanja

January Sisterhood

Hi there,

have I told you that I'm a part of a wonderful group of ladies who swap cards every month? And while swapping we grew to a group of friends who support each other in all situation of life. I just love you ladies!!!

But anyways ... we are taking turns by hosting the swap each month and for January my friend Michelle chose the theme "All about you"- create a card that is inspired by e.g. your birthstone, birthflower, the color of your "birth month" ... - Miche, did I explain that correctly???

Well, I'm born in August: peridot, poppy or Gladiola, lion, .... I saw a wonderful poppy stamp from hero art but it was released Jan 8th - too late for me :-(. So I went with the color of the peridot and created this card.

I stamped the flowers from Taylor's "Discover your wings" set with white craft ink onto DP and embossed it with white embossing powder. Then I distressed the edges with a distressing tool and then matted it with very vanilla cardstock.

Another attribute of my birth month is Happiness - so I went ahead and sewed happy-ly on my cards. I tried a couple of different stitches but I like the regular one the best.

Added a sentiment from the same set in old olive ink - glued it on certainly celery card stock, threw in some rhinestone stickers and punched out butterfly .... et voilà!

I hope the ladies will like the card even though my sewing went a bit crazy *smile*

Thank you for visiting me today and for your support through my journey of trials and errors here.

Special hugs

Tanja

Recipe:

stamp: "Discover your wings" Taylored Expression

ink: whisper white craft, old olive

paper: certainly celery, very vanilla, Bali Breeze DP SU, Teh Crafter's Stack from DCWV

others: white EP, sewing machine, threat, rhinestone stickers, MS butterfly punch

TGF swap

Hello,

I'm back with two cards to share. I signed up for a swap hosted by my dear friend Kadie - aka Kmensley- over at SCS for cards with stamps from The Greeting Farm - btw, Kadie has been one of their talented Spring Gardner this year. She challenged us to use a TGF stamp - and here is what I came up with.

I took this lovely Anya and colored her with my SU markers (haven't gotten any Copics yet and cannot decide if I really want them ...) And the idea for this layout came from one of the cards I saw in the last issue from PaperCrafts. But as much as I searched for the card again to give credit for the designer I couldn't find it anymore - sorry for this!

The patterned paper underneath is from K&Company from the Que Sera collection. And I HANDSTICHTED the two papers. It's hard to see on the photo but Kadie and Lorie (another outrageous talented friend of mine) use this technique a lot and I was just too lazy to pull out my sewing machine. Add some brilliant blue paper stamped with Polka Dots background, glue some flowers from K&Company, ad a bit of ribbon and ... voilà!! I hope Kadie will like it.

I always stamp some more images when I prepare to do a swap - you never know how much you will mess up while coloring, kwim? So, this time I had Miss Anya sitting blanc on my desk and I started to color her in some lilac-colors. Usually this is way out of my comfort zone - but I think it's okay so far. I added some glitter with my Sipca Penn on the flowers, two dew drop on the left side and some swirls - made with Spellbinder dies. Oh, and DP is from SU - Cottage Wall series. And I used the sketch from SCS for this week.

I like how it turned out and I think I will send it to my sister - she is having a real tough time at the moment. So hopefully it will make her smile.

Thank you for stopping by and have a wonderful Sunday y'all

Hugs Tanja

Good morning,

today I will show you two cards I made over the past days. 

The first one is my first ever creation with a TGF stamp. I love this little Dress-up-Ian. But I couldn't figure out what to do with him. SO I added some skulls and bones and the "you rock" stamp from Inkadinkado's "RockStar" set. With a lot of imagination you could think that Ian is dreaming about being a star ... okay, you may need a lot of imagination! =) 

Sorry for the blurry photo - I took it before 10 o'clock and the sun was okay so far but suddenly the light was so bright and I had to finish this. I promise better photos in the future, okay?

The second card is my submission for our monthly Sisterhood-card-swap. Catherine aka PaperAddict is hosting the month of June and her theme is to create something to honor your country (Catherine, I hope I repeated it correctly). Well, due to the fact that I don't have any german related stamps nor did I have any idea for a german card (hey, that is really difficult when you are living here in the States and you don't have ANY german stamps) I made THIS card.
I have the impression that something is missing but I can't say what it is. So I'll leave it how it is. 

When I saw the stamp from Our Daily Bread Design (I was on their website to search for a stamp set for my Secret Sister ***) I fell in love with the "I pledge Allegiance". Our youngest boy is an american guy so I think I will use it a lot for scrapbooking. But it was also perfect for Catherine's theme. So I pulled out that sriped paper and stamped starts on it. The most difficult part for me was the sewing - I tried it the first time on paper! I'm not able to sew a straight line but I think for this "vintage" layout it is okay. 

Thanks for stopping by - wish y'all a wonderful weekend

Hugs Tanja

Deets:

Dress-up-Ian

stamps: "Dress up Ian" from The Greeting Farm, "RockStar" from Inkadinkado

paper: sahara sand, riding hood red, whisper white, DP unknown,

ink: riding hood red, basic black and Stazon JetBlack

Accessories: SU markers, black double stichted ribbon Michael's, brad from Hodgepodge Hardware set SU

Pledge

stamps: "I pledge Allegiance" ODBD, Stars from Gel-a-tin

ink: chocolate chip and Stazon Timber brown, Antique Linen distressed ink Tim Holtz

paper: riding hood red, night of navy, "Americana" Provo Craft, Vellum from Office Depot

accessories: star buttons, twine, white threat