September Sisterhood

Good morning friends!

Sorry for being mia for a couple days - we just enjoyed the nice summer weather and spent most of the days in the pool! But nevertheless I finished my cards for the Sisterhood for September ... yeah!!!

My dear friend Roxane aka 2CuteCats over at SCS challenged us to make a fall-card (not a Thanksgiving or a Halloween-card). I didn't wanna use the typical fall-colors and images so I pulled our these beautiful set from the last Holiday mini-catalog and used the rubber boots for the first time. Since we brought back some gorgeous ones for the boys from Germany I'm totally hooked on these shoes. Sounds crazy, hm?

And I wanted to try my Sizzix dies on some other materials than paper. And I absolutely love how it turned out on the kork (cork/ corc ???) Everything else is quite straight and clean. I hope my sistahs will like it.

Thank you for popping in today - hope to see you soon

Hugs Tanja

Recipe:

stamps: "Scene in a garden" SU 

ink: basic black

paper: kraft, real rust, choc chip, natural white, Autumn vine DP SU

others: kork, Top Note die, BigShot, more mustard brads, dimensionals, organza ribbon, Jute twine, watercolor pencils, Aqua painter, corner rounder punch

Augst Friendships

Good morning!

I think I mentioned before that I'm part of a group of the most wonderful ladies who swap together every month and share good things and not so good things and just chat and ....

Every month one lady of the group is hosting the swap and provide the monthly theme. For August my friend Gael wanted us to create a card with a moving part. I chose to make this flip-flop one and absolutely love the technique.

But after chosing the technique I had a hard time to put the paper and stamps and embellies together. Finally I ended up with this

version.

This is the back of the swing part. I decided to keep it in friendship mood and used my great friend stamp set from SU.

The new in-colors work great together and so I kept the combo easy and kinda fall-ish.

Thank y'all for stopping by today

Have a good day

Hugs Tanja

Deets:

stamps: Inspired by Nature, Great Friends, Snow Burst all SU; "Remember" from Stampology by Autumn Leaves

ink: whisper white, moonshine white Brilliance, Kiwi Kiss,

paper: soft suede, crushed curry textured, rich razzleberry,whisper white, Razzlebery Lemonade DP

others: MS butterfly punch, pearl sticker, satin ribbon, paper piercing tools, dimesionals, white gel pen, Label 3 nesties

Peachy Keen Challenge

Edit: darn, I just figure out that I messed it up. I forgot to use a pumpkin ..... sorry! But if you could imagine the little purple spider down there might be a pruple pumpkin ...... okay, bad idea!

Good morning!!!!!

My friend Lorie - DT member at Peachy Keen - asked us to participate in the challenge over at Peachy Keen's. For this one we have to make a Halloween card with ric-rac on it and you have to use the color purple. Nothing easier than this ... but I don't own a single Halloween-stamp. So I went to a good friend of mine and flip through her stuff and found the cutest Halloween stamp-set ever ( it's called "Best Friends" and guess what... it is already retired :rolleyes:)!

I LOVE LOVE LOVE this spooky guys .... Unfortunately the colors don't show up too well in this pic ...

I sew the black threat through the dp by hand - and as soon as I figure out how to install a close-up-look to the picture posted here you may be able to see that excactly (like I said I'm still working on my blogging skills ;-))

On the white background I stamped the bats that came with that set and those funny spider and "hide" them behind the stitches. The beautiful paper is from the last years collection from The Paper Studio Company and is called Jeeper Creepers! I did a lot of sponging on nearly all this papers. And everything else is kinda self-explaining.

That's why I'm gonna skip the deets today, grap my kids now and I'm off to the pool! Too hot and humid here... even in the house.

Thank you for joining me today - and thank you Lorie for showing us the way to another fun-challenge.

Hugs Tanja

Welcome-present

Happy Monday

Wow, the Verve-blog-hop was a Wowzer!!! Did you see that I got 110 comments? Awesome - thank you very much to everybody who visited me over here.

Today I'd like to share a project that I made for hubby's new boss and his wife. They came to the US by July 15th when we were still in Germany for vacation. So we still "owe" them a little something as a welcome present.

I first made this card with my new rich razzleberry cardstock and the new rub-ons I wanted to try forever .... It is simple but looks great in addition to this purse.

My SiL made one of those for my inlaws' Anniversary and I liked how it turned out. So I got the template which she found on this blog and just went ahead.

Watcha think? Do you like it???

Thanks for checking in and have a good day

Hugs Tanja

Deets: for the purse

no stamps today

paper: rich razzleberry and crushed curry textured cs, Razzleberry Lemonade

others: big eyelets , satin ribbon from Michael's, little bling from Michael's too, Velcro dots

for the card:

stamps: "short and sweet" from SU

ink: basic black

paper: rich razzleberry textured, melon mambo textured, whisper white

others: pearl stickers, dimensionals, Dots & Desings rubo-ons SU, modern label and word window punch SU

Verve blog-hop

Hello everybody!

Welcome to the first ever official Anni-VERVE-sary Blog Hop. Verve turns two today and we’re celebrating with a hop, hop, hop! The party kicked off over on the Verve blog, so if you’ve just happened along, be sure to hop on over there to start from the beginning! And to make this party a real shindig, there’s a mystery jackpot hidden at one of the stops along the hop. One lucky commenter on that blog will win Verve’s entire August release! But of course, it wouldn’t be a mystery if you knew which blog, would it? So if you’re feeling the love, give a little shout out to the bloggers in the hop and you just might have a reason to jump for joy!

This is my entry for the blog-hop. You could think I made a Father's-Day-card but this one is so perfect for my husband. I'm so blessed to have such a supportive and loving man on my side that I would "fly" with him to the end of the world. And he is my hero because he kills every single spider in our house for me even at 3 o'clock in the morning (and because of a million other reasons). You probably don't wanna know all this - so I will stop babbling now.

Thanks for stopping by! Now it’s time to hop on over to Beth’s blog, for a little more Verve-y goodness.

Have a wonderful day and thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Tanja

Deets:

stamps: Up and away - Verve (sentiment is from Father knows best - Papertreyink - pssst!)

ink: basic black

paper: soft suede textured, mellow moss, very vanilla, Basic Grey "Archaic"

others: border punch MS, Paperpercing tools SU, Twill ribbon, button brads from Michael's, Dew Drops Robin's Nest