A Mermaid and a Chef...

I know my title sounds like the beginning of a joke but it's not... Sorry. 

Instead I have two cards to share with you, one featuring a mermaid the other a chef hence the title.

The mermaid card I started with my Thursday night stamping friends, also called the Cardologists, and finished at home. The stamps belong to one of my friends but I believe they are from Stampin' Up. I think this mermaid is very graceful and pretty. I glittered her tail with a shimmery gel pen and Stickles, used the latter to create a frame and added sequins. Very sparkly in real life! The background was created by sponging glossy card stock.

Sending it to

The Library Challenge #12 - Mermaid





Seize the Birthday - Water






The second card I made for my German brother-in-law who is a fantastic baker and cook. When a friend gave me this stamp I though it would be perfect for him. It comes with a variety of accessories. I used the silverware to create a subtle background on the white card. The black panel is patterned paper from my stash.

Stamps: Loralie Art Stamps (chef), Create a Smile (sentiment)


Sending this to

The Male Room Challenge #91 - Birthday
which is celebrating it's 5th Birthday - Congratulations

Addicted to CAS #142 - Masculine
Hope it is CAS enough...





Time Out Challenges #115 - Food and Drink
Birthday cake is food, right? It might be a whole food group...







Hope to see you back here on Friday for the new Twofer Card Challenge!

Be well and keep in touch!

Marbling with Shaving Cream

I LOVE making backgrounds. Almost more than making cards. There, I said it. There are so many decisions involved when you make a card...
Anyway, the marbling technique with shaving cream is quite easy and tons of fun. A couple of weeks ago I made a card to enter at the current CAS Mix Up but when it was all finished I realized there was no stamping on it! Might not have been CAS enough anyway. I'll show it to you some other time. A couple of days ago I made another card with stamping.

Stamp: Sentiment (Verses Rubber Stamps)
Die: Avery Elle (stitched scalloped border)

Just used a strip of marbled paper to keep it CAS. The yellow dots are made with nail polish. Read about this months ago somewhere on this world wide web. You make them on a craft sheet and after they are completely dry you adhere them to the card with a drop of glue.
By the way, the colors of the background piece and the border are a little different in real life (nicer) but no amount of editing would change them.


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


CAS Mix Up Challenge - September 2016
So excited that this card won "Outstanding Design"!






Addicted to CAS #97 "Stitched"






Be well,

Susanne

Flowers on wood background

The Pin Sights Challenge over at Ellen Hudson and Marika's card over at Time Out inspired me to make this:

Stamps: MFT (wood background), Avery Elle (sentiment)
Dies: Ellen Hutson (flowers & leaves), SSS (heart)


Die cut the flowers and leaves (NBUS) from watercolor paper and then watercolored them (to avoid the white edges). Stamped the background (NBUS) and the sentiment. Die cut the little heart, watercolored and applied WoS and foam mounted it.


And now look at this gorgeous inspiration board! Don't you love all that deep red! I was inspired by the red flower bouquet on the top left and by the layout of Marika's card.




















       


Also sending this to Uniko where "Anything Goes" with an optional "Love"  (check!)






and Addicted to CAS #80 where the challenge is "Red"







By the way, the card for my sister (see last post) finally arrived after almost three weeks! I guess the postal workers were exhausted after the holidays and took it very easy... But at least it didn't get lost! Hate when THAT happens!

Thanks for your visit and please come back!

Hugs,
Susanne

50th Birthday in pink and silver

Are you thinking "ANOTHER 50th birthday card"? I know! I keep asking myself how it is possible that so many of my childhood friends are turning 50 if I am barely 22? Weird, huh?

Anyway, I recently found this Memory Box die on sale and since it was in German I just had to buy it! It says something like "Best wishes".

Stamps: Inkadinkado (numbers)
Dies: Memory Box (sentiment), Poppystamps (banners)
Other: matte silver cardstock (Marco's)

The background has been in my stash for a while. It was from an alcolhol-ink-background-making-spree. It also has some silver in it. I am glad it has finally found its way on a card!

Challenges:


Addicted to CAS #69 "Banners"






Happy Little Stampers "August Sketch"







Simon Says Work It Wednesday







Seize the Birthday
(I guess banners don't really fly, they flap more in the wind, so maybe this is without topping...?)







Thank you for your visit!
Hope you are having a fabulous day!

Hugs,
Susanne

Addicted to CAS #47 - SSS Wednesday Challenge - NBUS #2 - SSS Monday Challenge

Today I have two very different cards for you - one is soft and subtle the other bold and colorful.

For as long as I can remember I have been fascinated by everything (ancient) chinese: calligraphy, medicine, philosophy, etc. I have quite a collection of asian stamps and supplies but rarely use them because I never know who to send it to. When I saw that the cue word at Addicted to CAS was "Oriental" I just had to make a card.

Stamps: Judikins (crane and calligraphy) 



For the next card I rubbed Gelatos over gessoed paper, spritzing it with water, adding golden splatters (can't seem to make a card without them at the moment), adding Heavy Gloss Gel over a stencil then diecut feathers from it.

Stamps: Hero Arts (sentiment)
Die: Simon Says Stamp (feathers)
Stencil: TCW


I am sending this to the following challenges:

Darnell's NBUS #2 (have never used the feathers)

Simon Says Monday Challenge (feathers are from SSS)

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge (Make your own background)

As always, thank you for your visit and your sweet comments - they make me so happy!

Have a great week,
Susanne

OCC "Stretch Your Stamps 2" / SSS "Sparkle" / ATCAS "Gold"

On day 5 (yes, I know, I am behind again) Jennifer McGuire showed us how to use different colored embossing powder on outline stamps. She used a delicate flower from Clearly Besotted that I don't have - I used a very old Stampin' Up vase! Since I had everything out I embossed it twice and made two different cards out of it.

Stamps: Stampin'Up (vase), Avery Elle (best wishes), Hero Arts (you're the best)

Since the result is very sparkly I am sending this to the Simon Says Wednesday Challenge "Make it Sparkle" and because the layers are snippets my cards can go over to Pixie's Snippets Playground. It's been too long since I played there - hope they will still let me in ;) ! And as there is different golds on those cards I am also entering them to the Addicted to CAS challenge "Gold"!

Hope you have a great week and come visit again soon!

Hugs,
Susanne