Pink, Navy & White

A few weeks before her birthday my niece Anja, an avid reader of my blog, sent me a picture of a combination of fabrics in case I wanted a "challenge" for her birthday card. I loved the idea and tried to use all the colors and patterns. Here is the photo she sent me.

And here is the card she got:

Stamps: Dotted background (Hero Arts), roses background (Impression Obsession), sentiment (SSS)
Dies: Heart (Wplus9), banner (SSS), butterfly (Poppystamps)


The pink I used was an envelope in a former life that I recycled and it shimmers although not quite as much as the fabric.


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

CAS-ual Fridays #172 Color Challenge






Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge "Anything Goes"






Time Out Challenge #82 "Flowers with the optional twist of kissing"
No twist






Seize the Birthday "Anything Goes"






Have a fantastic week and

Be well,

Masculine Birthday Card with Motorcycle

Hi there,

Just quickly popping in with a masculine birthday card.

Stamps: Doodlebug (motorcycle, flames), SSS (sentiment), Hero Arts (background)
Dies: Doodlebug (motorcycle, flames), MFT Die-namics (chevron border)


Challenge:

The Male Room #35 "Transport"







Seize The Birtday "Add Dimension"
The motorcycle w/flames and the sentiment are popped up.





CAS-ual Fridays Challenge #148 "Birthday Boy"



 



Uniko #32 "Masculine"






ETA: Over at my Instagram account, Ardyth suggested that I enter this card also at

CASology #199 "Fast"







Be well,

Holiday Greetings in Pink and Silver

Popping in today to show you a starry Holiday card I made! And look at all the challenges it wants to play in! I don't know about you but I love silver/grey with pink!

For the background I used the falling stars stencil from SSS (love it) with silver embossing paste. The big star is cut out from gorgeous glitter paper from Michaels. The sentiment is white embossed on matte silver card stock from Marco's.

Stamps: Inkadinkado (sentiment), Penny Black (script background)
Die: PTI (star)
Other: Star stencil (SSS), silver embossing paste (Viva), star punch (Fiskars), glitter paper (Recollections)


Challenges (please click on the links to get inspired by the Design Teams and galleries and find out about the rules):

Time Out #43 "Christmas with optional twist of pink or purple"






Inkspirational #95 "Anything goes with silver"








Virginia's View #20 "All about textures"







CAS(E) This Sketch #148







CAS-ual Fridays #145 "Precious Metals"
Hope it is CAS enough... If not, please let me know!






So glad you stopped by and hope you will come back!

Hugs,
Susanne

Happy (belated) Birthday, Anita!

There is a big birthday party happening today for Anita from My Papercraft World.  I am a big fan of her work and she leaves the kindest comments to her fellow bloggers.

It was the idea of our sweet friends Bev from Happy Dance and Darnell from djkardkreations. Thank you so much for organizing this surprise party! Apparently Anita's birthday was on February 18th but we found out too late so Bev and Darnell decided to hold the party a month later. Hopefully Anita will accept belated birthday wishes and cards! ;)

To honor you, Anita, I wanted to CASE one of your cards. There are so many that inspire me but for today I picked this one:

And this is what I made:

I hope, Anita, you don't think it's too "triste" but as I explained in my last post I really love grey at the moment and was hoping it would look elegant and festive. I didn't use the same technique as you did in your card but cut strips of different shades of grey (the dark one is graphite, not black) and one of silver glitter paper, stamped the Hero Arts background in different grey inks (and one in silver) and taped them above and below the silver embossed sentiment. 

So with this, Anita, I hope you had a wonderful birthday and wish you many more happy and healthy ones!

Now, everyone please check out the rest of the birthday cards over at Darnell's Playhouse  and feel free to join in. Darnell said the link button will be open for a couple of weeks. The champagne, food, and cake are over at Happy Dance. It all looks scrumptious! I'll see you over there...

Because of all the different greys I used (9 in total - silver is kind of a grey, right?) I would like to send this over to CAS-ual Fridays #129. 

ETA: My dear friend Cornelia pointed out that I should also send this card over to keep it simple where the theme is stripes and so I am doing just that! 

Big hugs to all of you,

Susanne

Stamps: Hero Arts (dotted flower background), Avery Elle (sentiment)

CFC #129 / retrosketches #106

Even though I normally gravitate towards bright rainbow colors I really love grey at the moment. That's why I absolutely had to play at the CAS-ual Friday Challenge #129 where they want to see at least two shades of grey. They have recently changed rules and the challenge runs for three weeks now which is perfect for slowpokes like me. And, oh miracle, I am not even entering at the last minute - you have until Friday to play in case you are inspired!

I used the current sketch from retrosketches after a card by the fabulous Laurie Willison.

I discovered this awesome paper in my stash with different shades of grey and some sparkle. Wrapped a black heat embossed strip of vellum around and mounted it with foam on a card that I textured with PTI's linen impression plate that is finally in my possession (NBUS). Easy-peasy and QACAS as Darnell would say.

Before I close I have the pleasure of welcoming a new follower who does not need any introduction as every stamper in the blogosphere seems to know and love her: Virginia of Yes, Virginia... She has recently launched a new challenge blog Virginia's View  where the first challenge has over 300 entries!
Just in case you have been living under a rock don't know her blog get comfortable and hop on over. It is full of wonderful card inspirations, breath taking travel pictures, photos of delicious food, recipes and lots of humor (featuring her husband, Dr. John and Ryan Gosling).

The quote I picked to welcome Virginia is from St. Augustine and I thought it fit since she loves to travel:

The world is a book
and those who do not travel read only one page.

I thank you all for stopping by, hope you will be back and wish you a great week,
Susanne

Stamps: Stampin' Up (word)
Other: PTI (Impression Plate), DCWV (patterned paper)

CFC #116 Chevrons and Sequins

Happy Wednesday!

Over at CAS-ual Friday they want us to use Chevrons and Sequins and it was a great motivator to finally break open the sequins that I bought months ago. But where were they? I searched high and low and was growing desperate when I finally located them. Phew!



So here is my card:

The top chevron is cut from matte silver paper. The rainbow chevron is made by tearing tissue paper and glueing it onto watercolor paper, a fun project that I did at a friends house one day.

Thank you for visiting and for your kind comments!

Have a great day,

Susanne

Stamps: Hero Arts (newspaper background), sentiment computer generated

Die: Chevrons (My favorite things)

CFC 113 take two

Hello again!

Another card for the CAS-UAL FRIDAY 113 challenge of "kraft and type", that I made out of scraps of yesterdays card. It practically made itself which doesn't happen very often.

ETA: This card was a Contender at CFC!

Thanks for visiting!

Susanne

Stamps: Hero Arts, Morning Star
Die: Memory Box

CAS-UAL FRIDAYS

Hello! 

Today I have a card for another challenge! Yes, I am surprised myself! This time it is for CFC113 to combine kraft and text.


And this is what I made (I hope it is CAS enough...)

I absolutely love the newspaper print background from Hero Arts. You might see it often... In the center of the flower is a holographic dot. I like them because they make mailing easy.

Hope you have time to create something today!

Susanne


Stamps: Hero Arts (background), Happy Birthday from the dollar bin at Michaels, Stampin' Up (leaf) 
Die: Memory Box