Guest Designing for Time Out Challenge #83

Hello crafty friends,

Today I have the honor to guest design for the Time Out Challenge #83 because they picked this card of mine as the winner.

For Challenge #83 we are to CASE the following fabulous card of "Desert Diva" Hannelie

I am sure you already know her because she is on several Design Teams but if you happen to be new to the stamping world please check out her blog. I promise you won't regret it but come back inspired! Here is her card for this challenge:

Isn't it gorgeous? As you will soon see I was inspired by the colors, the negative die cut, the black and white image, the white space, as well as the digital sentiment.

Stamps: JudiKins (crane), Desert Diva (digital sentiment)
Dies: SSS (little heart)
Other: Martha Stewarts (punch), Brushos


Now if you are one of the three people who doesn't know Hannelie I would like to tell you that she loves to create and use her own digital sentiments which she generously makes available for free on her blog. Over the years I have been following her I have downloaded several of her sentiments but have to admit that I usually forget to use my digital stamps. This challenge inspired me to use one of her digital sentiments. I also used her color scheme (one of my favorites), a black and white image, and instead of a negative die cut I dug out one of the magnetic punches from Martha Stewart (let me know in the comments if you remember them or even still have them) which I have never used but thought it was perfect for this challenge. I am so happy that I finally created something with it. It makes me feel much better about buying it...

And now hop on over to the Time Out Challenge to check out what the amazing Design Team created and then get creating! Maybe you will be the winner of the $15 gift certificate to Happy Little Stamper, our generous sponsor for this challenge.

ETA: Gundi of "papierelle" fame has pointed out that this card would work for her challenge so I am entering it there!

Be well,

Flowers and Snowflake

A warm hello to all of you stopping by here!

I am certain you all know Darnell ! Kind, generous, creator of acronyms as well as the NBUS challenges, and not only famous for her fabulous cards but of her humorous posts as well. Well, she is celebrating all kinds of milestones on her blog (you better click on over to read about them for yourself) with a new NBUS challenge, where she wants us to use not only Never Before Used Schtuff but, if possible, colored pencils on kraft! I tried it out and am very pleased with the result. My NBUS is the flower bouquet.

Stamps: Stampendous (flowers), SSS (sentiment)
Die: SSS (banner)
Other: Faber-Castell Polychromos pencils


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

NBUS #8

The Flower Challenge #4 "Blue and Yellow"

The half pearls and banner are a light yellow in real life

The snowflake card I originally wanted to enter at the last Time Out Challenge but I completely forgot to post it! I had these blue circles lying on my desk from a different project and thought they would look good with a snowflake on top. This is how this card came about. The background is splattered with two different colors of blues and dry embossed.

Stamp:
Dies: Spellbinders (Circles), SSS (banner)
Other: Snowflake punch (Martha Stewart), embossing folder (Cuttlebug)


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

Retro Rubber Challenge #54 "Let it Snow"
Only the sentiment is stamped (if that is not enough please ignore my entry) but way older than one year)

The Heart Desires #8

Be well,

Happy Halloween and a Christmas Card

Popping in to wish you a Happy Halloween and "scare" you with my card!

Stamps: Impression Obsession (background), others are from Hero Arts and Martha Stewart?
Dies: Impression Obsession (ghosts)


This weekend I spent a good chunk of time working on Christmas cards. A while ago I was the lucky winner of the monthly prize over at papierelle (have you checked out Gundi's fun blog yet?) and I finally played with the embossing folder and one of the cute images. Aren't that dragon baby and his friend, the mouse, adorable?

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

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge #305 "Anything Goes"







52 Christmas Card Throwdown"Pick a Previous Sketch"
I picked sketch # 32 from September 2014










Weekly Christmas Card Challenges "Anything Goes"

That's all from me for today! Hope your week will be full of fun moments!

Be well,

Happy Halloween!

These cute ghost and Jack 'o' Lantern stamps from Hero Arts have been in my stash for a long time and they are extremely happy that I finally used them. Just look at their grins if you don't believe me!

Stamps: Hero Arts (ghost and Jack 'o' Lantern), Martha Stewart (sentiment banner), Inkadinkao (spider, flourish), unknown (spider web)


Challenges (please click on the links to see what the fabulous DTs made, look at the galleries, and find out about rules):

Inkspirational #94 "Cute Halloween"







Shopping Our Stash #225 "Go Paperless"
I had fun stamping, sponging, and splattering the background myself!








Simon Says Monday Challenge "Throwback" 
I picked "Spooky" from October 2013







Btw, the friend who received my unsigned card (see my last post) was very gracious about it! Phew!

If you celebrate Halloween or not I wish you a fabulous day and thank you for stopping by!

BOO,
Susanne

Happy Easter!

Just quickly popping in to wish you all a very happy and joyful Easter!

Stamp: Inkadinkado (eggs)

Die: Cottage Cutz (bunny)

Other: Martha Stewart (corner and border punch), Cuttlebug (Swiss dots EF)

This card came about because I really wanted to use the MS punches that I've had for years! I colored the borders with pastel chalks which I haven't used in a long time either! 

Sending this to the City Crafter Challenge Blog where the theme for week 255 is "Polka Dots" and where the funny, kind, and famous Darnell is the special Guest Star!

This is the polka dot inspiration picture:

And to the Virginia's View Challenge #14 "Layers and Dimensions" since this cards features layers and the bunny is very dimensional!

Hope you find lots of good chocolate in your Easter baskets or whatever your heart desires!

Hugs,

Susanne

Time Out Challenge "Double the Joy"

Bev, the owner of Uniko Studios and DT member at the Time Out Challenge gave birth to adorable twin boys! To celebrate there is an extra challenge over at the Time Out Challenge blog called "Double the Joy". Bev, congratulations on your beautiful sons! May they bring you much joy and be really good sleepers! Here is my card

Stamps: Hero Arts (dotted background, sentiment)

Punch: Martha Stewart (elephant)

The elephants are punched out from mat silver card stock and the background is stamped in silver ink. 

Have a wonderful weekend,

Susanne

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge (animals) / Our Beautiful World

In the midst of all my busyness I wanted to wish you all a very happy Easter and Spring full of sunshine, love, laughter and lots and lots of delicious chocolate!

Since it has an animal on it I am entering it at the Simon Says Wednesday Challenge.

The grass was punched out from a sheet that I found in my stash. I must have had some acrylic paint left over from something and not one to waste anything I painted it on a sheet of cardstock! It was the perfect color for grass and added a little more interest IMHO.

I also have a photo for Our Beautiful World. The theme this week is words. When I am on vacation I like to write the name of the place with natural things that I find. That time it was white pebbles of roughly the same size. Oh, I am looking forward to summer!

Hugs,

Susanne

Stamps: Hero Arts (clouds), Inkadinkado (bunny), Savvy Stamps (saying)

Punch: Martha Stewart

SSS Wednesday (Pearls)

Hello there,

Just wanted to enter a card with pearls at the Simon Says Wednesday Challenge before it closes! It's another photo card.

I used to have roses in my garden. They were pretty fussy and needed a lot of care. After a few years they all died (not all at once). The climate here is a bit too rough, they didn't get enough sun, and after I had kids I didn't pamper them as much, maybe... What's left are photographs...

Have a great week,

Susanne

Stamp: Stampin' Up (background - retired)
Punch: Martha Stewart

Butterfly Challenge

Hello dear visitors,

There is a new challenge that gives those of us in snow covered areas glimpses of spring and summer: The Butterfly Challenge created by Mrs. A. For the first challenge she would like to see butterflies with flowers. I hope a photograph of a flower will be accepted because that is what I have today. For all the rules and beautiful inspirations click on the link. You still have six days to play in case you are inspired...

I used a Martha Stewart punch (probably my favorite one) for the greeting. Do you see the pearl in the star? The blue butterflies are cut out from a piece that I colored with metallic gelatos (oh, that means I can send it over to Pixie's Snippet's Playground, too). 

And now I have the pleasure to welcome a new follower: 

Melissa from Oh smudge!

Not only does she create wonderful CAS cards and is the creator of the popular CAS-ology challenge but she is also a very talented photographer and regularly shares tips about how to take better photos over at the Sweet Stamp Shop! I feel very honored that she follows my little blog!

The welcoming quote for Melissa is by George Lois

Creativity can solve almost any problem. 

The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.

Make the best of your day and know that you made mine by coming over to look and maybe even leave a comment...

Susanne

Punches: Martha Stewart (Happy Birthday), All Night Media (butterfly corner), McGill (large butterly), Marvy (small butterfly)

Other: Faber Castell (Metallic Gel Sticks)

Simon Says Monday Challenge - BLUE, Buildings 2

It's me AGAIN! Three days in a row posting! And no, I can't believe it either! But don't worry, this will not last!

Just wanted to send a card over to the Simon Says Monday Challenge where they want to see BLUE. I recently made a card for one of my Stamping friends that I haven't shared yet and it's all blue. And it's another example of how much I like houses and buildings. (See my other post here.) Look:

And here is a close up so that you can see the holographic paper behind the stars and the moon (I pierced them/cut it out because they stamped black and that didn't seem right). 

Background is made with - can you guess? Yes, Gelatos! How did you know? 

The stamp is part of a Halloween set that this friend gave me (thanks again, L) but I think it's not just for Halloween. 

The die cuts are all from matte silver cardstock. The star is textured thanks to my beaten cutting plate. I actually like the look!

Thanks for coming over!

Susanne

Stamp: Row of Houses (Martha Stewart Halloween)

Dies: Happy (Simon Says Stamp), Birthday (PTI), Star (WPlus9)

Embossing Folder: Stampin' Up

Other: Tiny Star punch (Fiskars), Gelatos