Wild Hibiscus with Ferns

Today's card was made with leftover pieces of this card and that card.  I am a little proud of myself for not adding the pieces to the huge pile of stuff I will use "later" but actually made something with them.
ETA: I should probably mention that this is a 5x7 inch card.

A close up so you can see the shimmer:

Stamps: Altenew (Wild Hibiscus), Hero Arts (sentiment)
Other: Fern stencil (TCW)


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

Virginia's View Challenge #23 "Spray, Mist, Splatter"
The background was sprayed and splattered, and even the butterfly was stamped on a piece of sprayed in blue.
ETA: This card won Honorable Mention!






The Ultimate Challenge Blog Hop with Altenew
For some reason I cannot copy the image to this post. Please click on the link to see all the different challenge blogs that are participating!


Thank you so much for stopping by! Have a great week and

be well,

Susanne

Sailboat

The latest NBUS (Never-Before-Used-Schtuff) challenge over at Darnell's blog is almost over but I really wanted to play because I am so grateful that she is regularly nudging us towards using the things we buy. My NBUS box is bursting at the seams and given the time I could have made hundreds of cards... Alas, time to create is still very scarce right now but I sat down yesterday and made a card. I really wanted to use this MFT sailboat die (that I have had for way too long) while real sailboats are still on the lake.

Stamps: None!
Dies: My Favorite Things (sailboat), Memory Box (waves), SSS (stitched rectangle), cloud unknown


I cut out the different parts of the sailboat from various PP, the waves from a recent play with spritz bottles and adhered everything to a stitched rectangle that I thought was a very light blue but looks grey on the photo.

Speaking of photo, I am suddenly unable to download photos from my camera to my computer. I have no idea why. Plus I also can't do a backup on my external hard drive. I just hope my laptop doesn't break down before get a new one... So this blog post almost didn't happen! But I took a photo of the card with my phone and managed to get it on the post (not hard but I had never done it before). Phew!

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


NBUS #7







Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge #30 - "Anything Goes"







Virginia's View Challenge #23 - "Spray, Mist, Splatter"






Uniko Challenge #35 - "Inspired by a Song Title"
(In my case it's "Sail Away" by David Gray - one of my favorite songs, check it out if you don't know it!)





Thanks for stopping by despite my infrequent postings of late! Your visits and comments still make my day so please don't give up on me!

Be well,

You Are A Star

Made another card with the set "True" from Winnie & Walter, this time with the star. And a background made with water soluble crayons. Added some shimmer to the stars as you can see better in the close up. And I am happy that I found several challenges it works for!

On the inside I will write: "Let your light shine"

Stamps: Winnie & Walter (stars, word "star"), Uniko (rest of the sentiment)
Other: Water soluble crayons (Caran d'Ache)


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


Winnie & Walter Rerun #11







Winnie & Walter "The Gossip Column with Taheerah - Spectrum"







Virginia's View Summer Challenge "Make It Colorful"







Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge "Add Some Shimmer"






Thank you for your visit and comment!

Be well,

Wish-granting fairy and a less transparent snowman

What would you wish for if you would meet this sweet fairy? 

This cute stamp as well as the label die belong to my friend Dora.  She brought them a long time ago for us to play with. I stamped, colored,  and cut out the panel but didn't finish it that Thursday night. So it sat on my desk. Then I discovered that a panel that was left over from a play with Gelatos had the same colors as her wings. Eventually this card came together. Too bad that you can't see well all the sparkle from the Stickles on the wings, stars, and flowers in her hair!

Stamps: Penny Black (fairy), Hero Arts (starry background), Inkadinkado? (sentiment)
Die: Spellbinders Label twenty-two
Other: Fancy corner scissors (Fiskars)


Challenges (please click on the links for rules and inspiration):


Butterlfly Challenge #44 "Fairies"
(because the butterflies are sleeping)






Virginia's View #21 "All About Glitter"








Simon Says Wednesday "Die Crazy"






Freshly Made Sketches #217








Remember that transparent looking snowman from my last post? I couldn't rest until I dabbed him with some pearlescent white chalk. I find he looks better now. What do you think?

I will take a couple of weeks off from blogging and commenting to enjoy the holidays with my family.

Have a wonderful the holiday season!

Hugs,
Susanne

Two big glittery snowflakes

My apologies for the sparse posting here at the moment! I am so behind with everything this year and am now officially in panic! As I am sure you are all busy as well I will keep this short but I wanted to share two glittery snowflakes cards I made.

and a close up to see the glittery card stock better (although the gray weather didn't make the glitter sparkle very much)

And since I didn't want to waste the negative die cut I made this card

Stamps: Stampin' Up (both sentiments)
Die: Hero Arts (snowflake)
Other: Glitter paper (Recollection), snowflake paper from my stash


Lots of snowflake themed challenges in blogland at the moment. As always click on the links to find out details or browse for inspiration:


Virginia's View #21 "All About Glitter"
Sadly, Virginia's View is taking a brake after this one. Since Virginia did everything by herself it is understandable that she is in need of of a brake! I hope she will be back because she always had cool themes!








Time Out #45 "Snowflake are Winter's Butterflies"







Inkspirational #97 "Flake"




   



Cupcake Inspirations #339 "Let It Snow"







Simon Says Work It Wednesday "Holiday"







Simon Says Wednesday Challenge "Let It Snow"







Hope your holiday preparations are going well! Don't forget to take deep breaths once in a while (note to myself)!

Hugs,
Susanne

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

I think you are amazing...

Last month I was the lucky winner of a blog appreciation giveaway over at the sweet, creative, generous, and famous Virginia of "Yes, Virginia..." !  (I had a lucky streak there, I know!)

Look what I found in my mailbox! So many fun goodies!

This is the card I made with some of the gifts to thank her for her generosity (Virginia, I hope you have received it. I mailed it almost 2 weeks ago and couldn't wait any longer to post it because I wanted to enter it in your challenge!)
Isn't that hedgehog bringing mail full of love the cutest? That's how I felt when I got my mail from Virginia - that it was full of love!

Stamps: Penny Black (hedgehog), CAS-ual Friday (sentiment), Hero Arts (friends background)
Dies: Nestabilities (circle), Die-namics (scallops)
Other: Faber Castell Polychromos


Challenges (click on the links to find out about rules, prizes, etc. and to find inspiration in the awesome galleries)


Virginia's View #19 "All Things Colored"







Pixie's Snippets Playground - week 198
Every paper of the border was a snippet!







Btw, I think you are all amazing for stopping by and leaving me comments!

Wishing you a great weekend,
Susanne

Autumn Hello

On a recent Thursday night Dora brought her new stamp from Purple Onion to the 7Cardologists get-together. We all stamped the cute raccoon with the pumpkin designed by Stacy Yacula on watercolor paper but then went off in different directions. I watercolored mine, fussy cut it, and made this card.

Stamp: Purple Onion Design (raccoon)
Die: Top Dog Dies (hello)


Our cards all ended up looking very different, so for more ideas on how to use this adorable stamp please click over to Dora's blog (here and here) where she has posted what the other girls made!


Challenges:

Virginia's View #19 "All Things Colored"







Simon Says Monday Challenge "Wonderful Watercolor"






Simon Says Wednesday Challenge "Mood Board"







Simon Says Work It Wednesday "Stamp"







Time Out #42 
(Pumpkin and striped scarf)








Hope you are all well!
Hugs,
Susanne

Purple card for Domestic Violence Awareness

Hi there,

Maybe you have noticed lots of cards featuring purple in the blogosphere lately. I know that some of you have even made purple cards for the blog hop to raise awareness for domestic violence organized by the fabulous Becca Cruger aka "Damsel of Distressed"! Please click on the link to read her very moving post! Did you know that 1 in 3 women will experience domestic violence in their lifetime? That is a lot! And it's not only women. Nobody deserves this!

If you are experiencing domestic violence, reach out for help! 

Call the 24/7 confidential National Domestic Violence Helpline at 

1-800-799-7233

(Sorry, I only have the number for the States)

Please help raise awareness, post a purple card, and link it to Becca's blog, where you will find the rules and more info. And look at all the sponsors that she has lined up! You have until 10/14.

I recently placed an order at Winnie & Walter and used one of the sets to make a card for this hop.

Stamps: Winnie & Walter (circles), Altenew ("rock")

Die: SSS ("you")

Challenges (please click on links to find out about rules and to admire the galleries):

The Hop to Stop

Winnie & Walter "WCMD 2015 - Watercolor with Vanessa"

Winnie & Walter "WCMD 2015 - Gold/Metallic with Lydia"

Virginia's View Challenge #19 "All Things Colored"

Simon Says Work It Wednesday "Stamp"

Simon Says Stamp "World Cardmaking Day"

I have to say that you all ROCK for stopping by here and leaving me sweet comments! Thank you!

Wishing you all a fun filled weekend,

Susanne