This and that ....

Happy Sunday to everybody!!!!

This is supposed to be a short post due to the fact that I have 2 1/2 boys (hubby included) homesick!

I seem to do a lot of cleanup lately and so I came up with these three cards. I just grab what I found on the desk - after doing tons of scrapbooking and working on the last swaps I commited.

This sweet dog was send to my by my dear friend Paola aka Sama at Splitcoaststampers. I had him colored for quite a while and wanted to put him on a card. The paper and sticker are "Summer Home" simply scrapping from SU and the XOXOXO is from SU "Fundamental Phrases".

This stamp is from Paola too. I guess it is Penny Black and the inside stamp matches perfectly with "Stressed????? Me????????"

I send this card to my friend in Germany - she is having a hard time juggeling her kids, the job and the rest of the family. She just called me and said it made her laugh out loud! That's all I wanted =) 

Paper was Baja breeze, kiwi kiss, whisper white and DP from SU (forgot the name). Ribbon and eyelets are rom Michael's.

My friend Mary hosted the February Sisterhood-swap and her theme was Mardi Gras. Boy, that was hard for me... but anyway. For that swap I stamped a background stamp and embossed it with irisdescent (???)  embossing powder. It's very glittery but I kinda like it. This was my example cardstock and I wanted to use it asap. I just colored in the little hedgehog with SU markers and matted it on creamy caramel, added some pop-up dots and there we go. Anything fancy!  

Thanks for visiting me today in my little corner of the web. Hope to see you soon

*****Waving*****

Tanja

Raspberry Suite Color Challenge #7

Hello everybody,

I hope you had a wonderful Memorial-Day

-Weekend. We went to Pensacola and spent a couple hours at the beach, visited the museum ..... We had fun and beautiful weather!

I want to show you 2 cards today.

The first one I made for Dawn McVey's color challenge:

Okay, to be honest: I wanted to use exactly this DP and there is obviously no Raspberry in it. So please, just think that the pink pirouette may look a liiiittle bit raspberry-ish, okay =) ?

It's a simple layout but I really like the color combo. I embossed the Always Artichoke with the swirl-embossing plate from SU and "colored" the swirls with a glitter pen - irl it looks fantasic - unfortunately you can't see it in the picture....

And the second card was made from some scraps I had laying on my desk ...

Thank you for stopping by - comments are very much appreciated ;-)

Hugs Tanja

Deets:

1. card

stamps: Oval all SU

ink: rose red

paper: mellow moss, always artichoke, pink pirouette, Bella Rose DP

accessories: scallop oval punch, glitter pen, swirl embossing template SU, ribbon American Crafts, dimensionals

2. card

stamp: Shopping-Bella (?-was in one of the stamp-kits I received froma swap), Studio G

paper: night of navy, white cs, apricot appeal, Que Sera DP K&Company

accessories: SU markers, red rhinestones Kaiser crafts, dimensionals

First color-challenge for me!!!!

Hello,

finally I had time to participate in my first color challenge: Kristina Werner's color challenge #53

And for the first time I inked up my brand new Skater Ian from The Greeting Farm.

Something is still missing on the card but I couldn't figure out was it is .... So I stayed with what I have done so far. I colored Ian with SU markers and embossed the black paper. Then I sponged white ink on it so that the blackis not to hard for little Ian ...

Thank you for stopping by - wish y'all a wonderful Memorial Day weekend

Hugs Tanja

Deets:

stamp: Skater Ian from TGF

ink: basic black SU, Brilliance moonlight white,

paper: pacific blue, whisper white, basic black, summer sun, DP ?

accessories: SU markers, dimensionals, red gingham ribbon, embossing folder and Big Shot, sponge, white gel pen, black jounaling writer, spiral punch

Otto the owl

Hi there,

I hope everbody is enjoying a beautiful weekend so far. The weather here in AL is beautiful - sunny and not too hot, yet.

Today I finally finished a card for the "Forest swap" hosted by my dear friend Jeanette aka Forest Ranger over at SCS.

I'm not that satisfied with my coloring but anyway! I love Otto! Otto the owl is a Whipper Snapper stamp and as I mentioned before I adore those stamps.

The inside is pretty simple. I just stamped one of the leave stamps from the "trendy trees" SU set around the green cardstock. I think this will become one of my favorite SU sets ... =)

Thank you for stopping by today - wish you a wonderful weekend

Hugs Tanja

Otto the owl

stamps: Otto the owl from WS, Trendy Trees SU

ink: basic black, old olive, kiwi kiss, close to cocoa, apricot appeal

paper: creamy caramel, very vanilla, close to coca, certainly celery, always artichoke, Mellow Basic Grey, Grass John Deere,

Accessories: watercolor pencils, blender pen, stickles, crystal effects, pop dots, sponges, Mat Pack and paper piercer, circle punches

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