Happy Summer!

With this little card I wish you (in the northern hemisphere) a very happy summer and hope you enjoy every minute of it! Stamp sets from several different companies played very nicely together on this card. Don't you wish that people (especially politicians) would do the same...?

Stamps: Stampin' Up (sun, watermelon from an old, retired set), Technique Tuesday (sentiment), Lawn Fawn (ants), My Favorite Things (gingham, wooden backgrounds)


Challenges (click on the links for more information and lots of inspiration from the DTs and the galleries):

Gundi's Summer Challenge "Fruit"
Why don't you check out her blog and play along! She is so talented and generous; there are prices to win (she mails internationally)!

Time Out Challenge #88 Word Challenge

If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely' 

Virginia's Summer Blog Party






And since some of you really enjoyed the pictures in my last post I am going to show you some more of the beautiful city of Nuremberg:

Did you know that there are over 1,000 different kinds of bread in Germany? This display looked so gorgeous...
Next time I'll show you some photos of my hometown which is much smaller and not as famous but still pretty.

Be well,

Very CAS Bird Card

Wanted to play in the June Mix It Up Challenge where we are to combine Essentials by Ellen with Technique Tuesday products. So I dug out those fun chickadees and made this very CAS card. It took me, of course, much longer to make than it looks like... Did some paper piecing, watercoloring the shadow, added some washi tape, and die cute a speech bubble for the sentiment (which is from the Mondo Magnolia set).

Stamps: Technique Tuesdays (bird), Essentials by Ellen (sentiment)
Die: Lawn Fawn (speech bubble)


Challenges:

Essentials by Ellen June Mix Up Challenge (with Technique Tuesdays)








CAS Mix Up June Challenge
My third choice is either fussy cutting (the bird body), paper piecing, and/or washi tape (the last two are not on the list...)






Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge "Father's Day/For a Guy"






AAA Cards #66 "Watercolors"
I did watercolor the shadow!






Thanks so much for stopping by! Hope your week will be spectacular!

Be well,

Another CAS card for CAS(E) this sketch #132

As I said in my last post I had several ideas for sketch #132 of CAS(E) this sketch... That's why I am back so soon! And don't worry this time it is a card for a happier occasion!

Stamps: Hero Arts (flower), Technique Tuesday (sentiment)

The flower is heavily "winked" which is always hard to photograph. Here is a close up. Sorry it's not quite focused...

Challenges:

CAS(E) this sketch #132






a2z Scrapbooking July challenge "CAS"


And here are some more pictures from California. The last week we spent in the San Francisco Bay area on the coast. It was very hard to pick just a few from the many photos I took!
(You can see more pictures from our trip here and here)

Boardwalk in Santa Cruz

(Doesn't that roller coaster remind you of the die that SSS recently came out with?)

Big Sur

Along Highway 1 towards San Francisco

(Check out the coastal fog!)

That's about as much as we saw of the Golden Gate Bridge...

Capitola

And look what I found when we came back! 

Even the potatoes were sad that we were away for so long...

If you made it through the whole post - my compliments! 

Thank you for your visit and your kind comments! If you have any questions, please let me know!

Hugs,

Susanne

Hello for the "Cure for the Monday Blues Challenge #46" / Happy Little Stampers

Most of you probably have heard of and even played with the "Cure for the Monday Blues Challenge" where Taheerah posts a fabulous picture every Monday for us to get inspired by! I finally managed to play along this week even if it's just before the door closes! Don't you just love all the grays and yellows with white and a little black?

The pillow with the bird caught my eye. It reminded me of the bird punch from Stampin' Up. 

Stamps: Technique Tuesday (sentiment), Picture Show (dots)

Punch: Stampin' Up (bird)

Stencil: SSS

It looked a little bland on a white card so I took the diagonal stripes stencil from SSS and sponged Barely Banana on the front. 

Challeges:

Cure for the Monday Blues Challenge #46

Happy Little Stampers "Sponging"

Your visits and comments make my day, so thank you!

Hugs,

Susanne

AAA Cards - Game 33 / SSS Wednesday Challenge "Anything Goes"

As someone who loves the color orange (it's so sunny, warm, and joyful) I just had to make a card for Game 33 at AAA Cards. Look at this picture - doesn't it make you smile?

Here is what I came up with:

Stamps: Technique Tuesday (birds, sentiment), D.O.T.S. (grass)

Paper: Studio G

Aren't those birds fun? After seeing them repeatedly in blogland I just had to have them! You know how that goes... I can't resist things (or people) who make me smile and laugh! The paper is a 6x6 pad I recently found at A.C.Moore. It has these two patterns in all the rainbow colors. Couldn't resist those either. Was a bit disappointed though when I opened it and found that the colors were a little duller then on the cover sheet and the dots are not pure white but more of an off-white. That's why I had to use an off-white card base. 

Challenges:

AAA Cards - Game 33

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge "Anything Goes"

Thank you for visiting and making my day by leaving your encouraging comments! 

Hugs,

Susanne