Serenity

Happy Sunday!

I know I'm late for a happy Sunday ... We had a wonderful and HOT summer day! What about you???

For today's card I threw 2 challenges together - Our Creative Corner sketch-/ and Raspberry Suite color challenge.

And I decided that this will be my card for my Secret Sister because I like how it turned out. And the Serenity Prayer is perfect for her .... can't tell you more ... it will be a secret until the 1st of August.

So, for this card I tried my new butterfly-die from SU and the specialty paper I bought months ago and haven't touched it since. I hate to use paper that I really like because I know one day it will be gone .... sounds crazy, huh?

Everything else on this card is pretty self-explaining.

Thank you for "seeing" me today - have a great start in the new week!

Toodles Tanja

Recipe:

stamps: Serenity Prayer from Our Daily Bread Design, Polka Dots background SU

ink: chocolate chip, cameo coral

paper: cameo coral, chocolate chip, very vanilla, specialty paper SU, DP Afternoon Tea SU

others: butterfly die SU, Martha Stewart border punch, dimensionals, Rhinestone stickers, groovy guava double stiched ribbon

Lovely Lady

Good Morning everybody!

How are you doing today?

Do you remember my card kits? Well, I still have a couple of those. And today I wanna show you one of the images I'm in love with. It's Miss DaisyBittyBloom from Stampingbella and I think she is the sweetest! I got her in one of my card kits I received from a swap and I couldn't wait to color her in.

The best things of the card swaps are that you get the PP and have to try to use is (well, if you want to). And this lady came with those orange DP from SU - love love love it!

Have a closer look to the the big flower in the upper right corner. I stamped the "fresh cut" with Versamark on whisper white and colored it with Pastels and punched it out!

I still have to work on my shading skills but I really like how everything turned out.

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

Hugs Tanja

Recipe:

stamps: Daisy BittyBloom from Stampingbella, Fresh cut - SU

ink: basic black, Versamark

paper: certainly celery, whisper white, summer sun, pumpkin pie DSP

others: pastels, Swiss dots embossing folder, Label 1 Nesties, SU markers, Chit chat rub-ons, double stiched ribbon, Flower fusion, brads SU, white Gel Pen, Mat pack, Paperpiering tool

new technique

Hello everybody!

I'm still working on project to take with us to Germany. While we will be in Germany my mother will have a shoulder surgery and my MiL will celebrate her 60th birthday. So, I wanted to make a very special card for each situation and ended up trying the Tri Shutter Card! It is so easy to make and the result is awesome.

The first one is supposed to be the birthday card. I LOVE the Bella Rose DP from SU - the red is awesome and the flowers .... yummy!

The second card will be the get-well-soon-card (that's what the sentiment says in german ;-) ).

To both cards I will attach a picture of the family on the left side of the card (where the ribbon is) - well, at firstI have to search for good one, then crop it, chosse the wallet-size, get my hubby to print it ....... we will see =)

Thanks for stopping by today. I hope you will have a sunny summer day!!!!!

Hugs Tanja

Recipe

red card:

stamp: Edwin with tulips - Magnolia, love - TGF Dress-up-Ian and Anya

ink: basic black

paper: kiwi kiss, riding hood red, whisper white DP Bella Rose

others: Prima flowers and brads, SU markers, buttons, silver hardware from Hodgepodge SU, riding hood red ribbon, build-a-brad, dimensionals, Megabilities curved rectangles, circle punches

green/blue card:

stamp: two boys from Whipper Snapper, Eastern blooms from SU

ink: basic black, only orange, yoyo yellow, Antique Linen Distress Ink

paper: kiwi kiss, night of navy, whisper white, Main Blueberry DP

others: SU markers, Prima flowers, buttons, build-a-brad, kiwi kiss ribbon, silver hardware hodgepodge SU, special greenbrad Making Memories, square punch

Father's Day or another color challenge

Hi y'all,

this is Kristina Werner's color challenge for this week - I love the colors but to use them all together .....? Hm, I had a hard time coming up with an idea but that's what they are for, right?

A couple weeks ago I ordered this beautiful stamp set from Papertrey Ink Called "Fathers know best" and I love the way how I can stamp the images - so clean and crisp. And everything was packed in so nicely .... (Won't be the last time I placed an order there ;-) )

So, I finally ended up using four stamps of this set.

The only thing I had to mess up with was the button - just had a chocolate chip one. Everything else is pretty self-explaining.

Thanks for stopping by today - I wish you a wonderful and sunny Sunday!!!!

Hugs Tanja

Recipe:

stamps: Fathers knows best - Papertrey Ink, Sanded Background stamp SU

Ink: More Mustard, Real Rust, Antique Linen Distress Ink

Paper: Basic Black, Very Vanilla, Real Rust, More Mustard

others: embossing folder and BigShot, Top Note Die, Curly Label Punch, Cordouroy button chocolate chip, Twine, Sponge, Dimensionals

Swimming lessons

Hi there,

just another quick post today. We just headed home from swimming class with my oldest son. Our temperatures are around 100°F and humidity is nearly the same in percentage ;-)

So, we try to rest a little bit and then we will be on our the way to another pool party ......pweh!

I received one of my favorite Rileys the day before yesterday and I had to ink him up right away. Love love love him! And I found these yummy paper in my stash from K&Company and had to put everything together. Riley cannot decide - swimming in the pool or tanning under an umbrella ... a combination of both would be great, huh?

I didn't want to cover so much from that DP so I just sponges the edges and put a little piece of this awesome "waterpaper" behind Riley. I always have to think about the swimming lessons my son is participating since 2 weeks that I had to sew a little fence around him to keep him "safe" =)

Added some dew drops and there we go ....

Thank you for stopping by and enjoy your day!!!

Hugs Tanja

P.S. Even though it won't be worth it this will probably be another entry for the Hanna DT guest designer search over at the forum at SCS - go check it out!!!

Recipe:

stamp: Fins Riley

ink: basic black

paper: Canson watercolor paper, riding hood red, whisper white, DP Seaglass from K&Company

others: Nesties Label 1, dew drops, watercolor pencils Faber Castell, blender pen, white gel pen, dimensionals, sewing machine and white threat