Valentine's Day Hugs

Sending you all lots of Valentine's hugs!

Stamps: Winnie & Walter (sentiment, multifaceted)
Dies: Winnie & Walter (hugs), My Favorite Things (scalloped panel)

The colors look a little different on screen. The card is a soft pink. The layer is dark brown, splattered with gold, the sentiment gold embossed. The word die is cut from watercolor paper, gold embossed with the background, and watercolored in different shades of pink. Really wanted to use the glass beads that I've had for ages. Wasn't easy to shape a heart from glue...

Challenge:

Winnie & Walter January Color Combo with Heather

Winnie & Walter Birthday Bash Die Challenge with Lydia






Thank you for all your visits and comments!

Be well and keep in touch!

Joyeux Anniversaire, Anita!

Anita from mypapercraftworld is celebrating her birthday today (the 18th) and I would like to wish her a year filled with love, laughter, beauty, fun, friendship, good food and drink, health, strength, and lots of time to create!
She is one of the sweetest people in blogland and always leaves such warm and well written comments. If you are just crawling out from under a big rock and don't know her yet, please take time to visit her blog. You won't regret it because she is also a very inspiring cardmaker!

Oh, you would like to see the card I made for her? My inspiration came from that sweet card of her that we are to CASE over at STAMPloration.

Stamps: Winnie & Walter (sentiment), Lawn Fawn (heart)

Other: Embossing Folder (QuicKutz), Washi Tape

I was inspired by the colors Anita used, the dots, the W&W sentiment, and the hearts.

Inked up selected dots of the embossing folder, spritzed with water, "stamped" on Mixed Media paper, added splatters (some of them shimmer), stamped the heart, added Glossy Accents to it, stamped the sentiment (the happy is embossed), added washi tape to card, adhered panel to card.

This card wants to play at

CASEplorations February

of course! See graphic above

Check out how the DT and Anita CASEd this sweet card!
ETA: This card was a winner!

and at

Happy Little Stampers February CAS Challenge "Embossing Folder Stamping"

Love that technique!
ETA: This card was a winner!

And since you are still here I am showing you a Valentine's card using another one of the panels (because, of course, I had to make several panels using this technique, right?).

Thanks for stopping by! 

Hugs,

Susanne

Two Valentine's Cards

Happy Valentine's Day!

So delighted that you stopped by for a visit! I baked some cookies - would you like one?

I know, I know, you are really here to see some cards and I have two for you today. Now that they have been received, I can show them to you.

Stamps: Hero Arts (stems), Technique Tuesday (tiny dragonfly), Michaels $1 bin (sentiment)
Other: Grosgrain ribbon, Brilliance ink (for the dragonfly), Markers


Challenge:

Time Out #49  'Love is the flower you've got to let grow' 

And this is the second card:

Stamps: Inkadinkado (sentiment)

Die: Impression Obsession

Other: Precut panels, glitter card stock, gems

Challenges:

Simply Create Too #102 "Love or Valentine's"

Stamping Smiles TicTacToe Challenge #3 

(I picked the first row: Love/Add Shimmer/Hearts)

With the fabulous Darnell as Guest Designer!

Stamps/Ink/Paper Challenge #34 "Love"

And in case you didn't see this in my last post:

A new feature on my blog!

I am so excited because I figured out how to add social media buttons. If you get this post via email or a reader you have to go directly on my blog to see them (on the right).
I have decided to put all my cards on my Pinterest account to make it easier to look for a specific card. Also I am planning to use my Instagram account to post cards. And Keep In Touch has a facebook page (also not very active so far). Check it out and follow me!

Thank you for your patience! I will let you get back to eating some more chocolate...

Hugs,
Susanne

Mice in Love x 2

Sorry that it took me so long to post some new cards! Besides trying to catch up with everything here at home I have been creating. Some cards I can't post yet because I haven't heard that they have been received... Seems like the post offices are also still trying to catch up after the holiday rush.

The call for "Brads" over at Use Your Stuff had me look through my stash and find those heart shaped ones. The stamp is from one of the sets I won from Virginia. I stamped it twice, colored it, and then made two similar but different cards with it. I didn't add any sentiment as the image speaks loud enough, I think.

Stamp: Penny Black

Other: Stencil (Memory Box), Brad (Gary M. Burlin), Glitter paper (DCWV), Faber-Castell Polychromos

Challenge:

The Card Concept #46 (ETA: Winner!!)

Clean & Layered

Inspired by the heart and the colors

Stamp: Penny Black
Other: Stencil (SSS), Embossing folder (Sizzix), Brads (Recollection), Glitter paper (DCWV), Faber-Castell Polychromos


Challenges:

Use Your Stuff #206 "Brads"






Shopping Our Stash #234 "Something New"
Stamp and Brads are new/never used






Uniko #28 "Anything Goes with the option of love"







Penny Black Saturday Challenge January "Anything Goes"





Thank you so much for stopping by (and leaving me some love in form of a comment)!

Hope your weekend includes lots of creative time!

Hugs,
Susanne

A valentine for colorQ #279

Of course, I couldn't throw away the insides of the die cut heart from this card and had to make another card!

Stamps: unknown, unmounted script background, sentiment computer generated
Die: SSS (heart)

I am sending this to the colorQ challenge #279





A warm welcome to new follower

Karin from Karootje

She has been blogging since 2012 so there is tons of wonderful inspiration to be found on her blog!

Karin, my welcoming quote for you is by Winston Churchill:

Success is not final,
failure is not fatal:
it is the courage to continue that counts.

Wishing you all a great rest of the week! (The weekend is coming closer...)

Hugs,
Susanne

Love card

Quickly popping in before I go to bed to show you this:

Stamp: SSS (you)
Die: PTI
Stencil: SSS (falling hearts)

The LOVE is cut out from glossy, holographic paper and was not easy to photograph.

Challenges:

Simon Says Wedneschallenge "Have a Heart"





Simon Says Flickr challenge #11 "Love"


Time Out Challenge #23 "Valentinesday with an optional twist of hearts"




Just realized that I forgot to also enter it at the Uniko Challenge #17 "Love and Friendship"! 




Hugs,
Susanne

Another Valentine's card plus Buildings 4

"Anything goes with twine or string" at the Simon Says Wednesday Challenge this week! You still have over two days to play in case you are inspired to use a piece of twine or string on your project! Here is mine:

And since I used snippets it also get's to play at Pixie's Snippets Playground. 

The woven piece behind the heart cutout I made a while ago when I had many red strips left over from a project. Of course, I couldn't throw them away! Stamped some of them and did a little paper weaving!  Hope, you like it!

Also wanted to share another card using buildings (since it's been a while). Made this a few months ago for a dear friend and promptly forgot to take a picture before I mailed it. She was kind enough to photograph it for me:

The cloud is embossed with swirls and the speech bubbles has stickles around the edge.

I always appreciate your visits and kind comments!

Be well,
Susanne

Valentine's card:
Stamps: PSX (Love), background in the woven piece (unmounted by unknown company - sorry)
Die: WPlus9
Other: Embossing Folder (Cuttlebug)

Birthday card:
Stamps: Hero Arts (Silly Scapes, Radiant Banner), My Sentiments Exactly (Happy Birthday)
Dies: Memory Box (Large Classic Numbers)
Other: Embossing Folder (Lifestyle Crafts)

CAS(E) this sketch #61/Simply Create Too

This week's sketch at CAS(E) this sketch has a tree on it - look!

Yes, I know, the tree is just a guideline and we can use any shape. But since I love trees and really wanted to use my "new-to-me" Memory Box tree die I made this:

Since it's another Valentine's card I am also sending it over to the Simply Create Too Valentine challenge. If you need inspiration check it out! They have already over 200 entries of all styles!

If you know Darnell you know what NBUS means. For those of you who don't, Darnell coined this acronym and now I see it all over blogland. It stands for "Never Before Used Schtuff". I have plenty of those... So my NBUS today is the tree die!

And now, please help me welcome my new follower, Bev from Happy Dance. She is famous for her "pings" that are followed by beautiful and original entries to challenges followed by a happy dance. Please check out her blog and leave her some love! And this is my quote/advice to welcome her (unfortunately I don't know by whom it is):

Life may not be all we hoped for

but while we're here, 

we can dance.

Hope you all have many reasons to do a happy dance this week, my friends! Thanks for taking the time to visit and to comment!

Susanne

Stamps: Michael's (saying)

Die: Memory Box

Paper: Marco's (silver, matte for the tree)

Other: EK Success (stickers), Scott (washi tape)

CAS(E) this sketch #60

Hello everyone,

Hope your week has started out well and will continue to be a really good one!

I have a card for CAS(E) this sketch #60. Please check out their website for rules and times and the inspiring samples of the Design Team!

No stamps were used. The sentiment is computer generated because none of my stamps worked. Papers are all Recollection. Heart dies are from Sweet and Sassy.

Recently read somewhere that being creative (stamping, painting, writing, making music, etc.) helps against the winter blues! Though you probably already knew that...

So find some time to create something!

Thanks for checking in,

Susanne

ETA: My blog friend Cornelia over at Stempel Spass/fun stamping suggested I enter this card at Simply Create Too where she is on the Design Team and the theme is "Valentine's or use hearts".