cqc#28 and it's a circus ...

Hi there,

welcome to this week's colorQ challenge. Arielle chose another great inspiration picture and this is my take.

Since I started using my Circle Circus from SU I fell in love with it and for this color combo I pulled it out again. And I finally inked up one of the stamps from "Frames wit a Flourish" that is sitting in my drawer for .... well, for quite a while.

I LOVE clean and simple styles and I think the white space always looks so relaxing .... yes, I think I need a little bit of sleep and a day off and I'm back to my old self ;-)

Hope you play along with us!

Hugs Tanja

Supplies:

stamps: Circle Circus, Frames with a Flourish, Fundamental Phrases all SU

ink: bermuda bay, ruby red, pretty in pink, tango tangerine

paper: PTI Stamper's Select white

others: paper snipper, stickles

MTSC68 - Hey Dude

Hi there,

another short post today - kids are sleeping now but don't feel very good - a stomach bug is making his round, I think .....

I played with Mercy's Tuesday Sketch and had to ink up Ethan from StampingBella right away. I colored him with my watercolor pencils and cut him out with Nesties and matted him. All the DP was in one of last year's Key Ingredients from Taylored Expression - Love that paper! Buttons are PTI and cardbase is rustic white.

Gotta hurry, someone's crying again...

Hugs Tanja

VLVApril - Love & Flower

Hi there,

how are you all doing? Are you enjoying spring weather so far?

You may already know that I love to play with the Viva la Verve challenge over at SCS. And this month the inspiration for the challenges comes from living room. I wish I had one of these living rooms myself ....

Amber had a bunch of great pictures from living rooms and I chose this one to get inspired for my card. I just couldn't make the warm brown tone of the table go with my color combo :-(

Here is a close-up view of my 3-D flower and the pleaded ribbon. LOVE this technique. I saw that on one of the blogs I visited today but unfortunately I cannot remember who posted this great tutorial ... so sorry!

Thank you for popping in today and a huge thank you to all of you who left this encouraging comments lately - they are so much appreciated!

Have a wonderful day

Hugs Tanja

Supplies:

stamps: Love's Flower from Verve, Baroque Motifs from SU

ink: Momento Tuxedo Black, sahara sand, pretty in pink, purely pomegranate

paper.: purely pomegranate, sahara sand, PTI white, Welcome neighborhood DSP SU

others: Beautiful Wings embossing plate SU, Copic markers, Label 3 Nesties, dimensionals, clear rhinestone sticker, ripe avocado ribbon PTI, double sided tape

colorQ #27

Hi there,

it is time for another colorQ challenge and Arielle has chosen beautiful boy-colors. Hurry over and check it out!

For my card I used this little bear from Whipper Snapper for the first time ... shame on me .... he is soooo cute. And do you see the polka dots in the background? They are made with my new embossing plate from PTI that I had inked up with tempting turqoise and then embossed with PTI white cardstock. So cool.

So, what do you think about the rick rack? I used my rick rack die from PTI (can you say I'm hooked???). It cuts through the thick cs like butter ... *happy sigh* Just awesome toys, right?

Ready for more inspiration? Then hop over and check out the other DT member's blog. This ladies are so talented. Links are in my right sidebar...

Wishing you all a fantastic day and take care

Hugs Tanja

Supplies:

stamps: bear from Whipper Snapper, sentiment from Verve's Love's Flower set

ink. Momento Black, tempting turquoise, whisper white craft, assorted ink pads for watercoloring

paper: night of navy, tempting turquoise, PTI white, watercolor paper Canson

others: Aquapainter, white EP, Polka Dots embossing plate PTI, rick rack die PTI, dimensionals, orange stickles, white gel pen

4 in 1 Liesel

Hi there,

have you all had a good Easter holiday? We spent most of the day outside playing - the weather is gorgeous here. We even hopped into the pool today .... ;-)

My card for you today actually meets 4 (!!!!) challenges. I love the bright and sunny colors of the paper from Garden Variety by Cosmo Cricket.. And it gave me the inspiration for coloring Liesel with wheelbarrow in the same colors..... Kind of spring-y, huh?

Okay, what did we have? We had Crazy 4 challenge with kraft cs as a cardbase, KLStampinNScrappin with a 1-2-3 recipe, OCC with buttons (pfff, easy peasy for me ;-)) and we had Unscripted Sketches #49.

Without further adieu ... here come the supplies

Hugs Tanja

stamp: Liesel with wheelbarrow from Swiss Pixie by All that Scraps

ink: basic black craft, garden green, assorted ink pads for watercoloring

paper: kraft, real red, summer sun, Canson Watercolor Paper, Garden Variety by Cosmo Cricket

others: clear EP, Aquapainter, dimensionals, green and stardust stickles, white gel pen, buttons all PTI, threat, pure poppy satin ribbon PTI, paperpiercing tool and black marker, Cuttlebug Embossing Folder, Big Shot