Online Card Class "Watercolor", Day 1

Thanks to a very kind friend I am taking the Online Card Class on Watercolor that started yesterday. I've often seen homework from these classes on other blogs but this is the first time I am taking an Online Card Class and I am very excited. They are really well organized I have to say.

So yesterday morning I watched the three videos and then got to work. The first technique did not work out so well for me so I don't have a card to show. I don't know if I didn't use enough water or my cheap watercolor paper was too flimsy or both.

I had better luck with the technique of the second video but ran out of time to finish a card. I did that this morning and here it is:

Instead of Distress inks like Laura used I wanted to see if it would work with watercolors and it did! I embossed the little sentiment from Hero Arts in white and die cut a new-to-me die from Memory Box (NBUS - click on the link if you want to know what that means and who coined it) three time and glued them together for a bit of dimension.

This is for

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge - Anything goes

keep it simple - Watercolor

I am off to watch todays videos...

Thanks for visiting,

Susanne 

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge turns 5!

I really did not want to miss out on congratulating the Simon Says Wednesday Challenge on turning 5! Happy Birthday (and many more...)

I used the Simon Says happy die which I love and layered it a few times to raise it up. I was spritzing a TCW stencil but it didn't come out the way I imagined. This background is actually the stencil used as a stamp with the residual mist as ink. The golden layer is a scrap. 

It so happens that several other challenges have stencils as themes so I am sending this over to 

Virginia's View

keep it simple 

Moxie Fab Challenge

Ha, this is rare that a card of mine fits so many challenges! 

Have a great week you all,

Susanne

Stamp: My Sentiments Exactly

Die: Simon Says

Stencil: TCW

Mists: Heidi Swapp, LuminArte (Radiant Rain)

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)

Another card for "keep it simple #31"

Happy weekend everyone!

Today I have another card for the "keep it simple" challenge #31 - text.

Of course I used the Hero Arts newspaper print background again...

The flowers are cut out and colored then put back it the background that I had stamped in the meantime. I like this technique because otherwise those thin stems are so hard to glue down...

If you want to play you still have more than four days to enter!

Enjoy your weekend,
Susanne

Stamps: Hero Arts (newsprint bg, greeting)
Die: Memory Box

The Card Concept - Buildings 3

Hi there,

Today I am playing with a new challenge The Card Concept. They have given us these yummy colors and gorgeous inspiration picture.

Did I ever mention that I love all kinds of buildings?? ;) So, you see, I really had to make a card... The cool thing about this challenge is that you can play no matter what your preferred style is. Hop on over to their blog if you ever wondered what, for example, CAS exactly means as they explain the different styles really well (thank you, guys!).

I used a stamp set that another stamping friend gave me (am I lucky, or what? Thanks again, M). I drew those thin lines with a Stabilo fineliner because I couldn't find a ribbon that worked among the gazillion that I own! Ever happened to you?

I think my card qualifies for the Clean and Simple style...

Even though the newsprint background is not that visible on the photo I think I could send this over to keep it simple where the want to see text. I have never played there but have followed them since they started and I can't believe that they are already at their 31st challenge!

Two more people have joined me on my blog adventure! Thank you so much for following and I hope you will like what you see here! (That goes also for all the others who come for a visit!)

GIBMISS has been blogging for many years and that means there is lots of inspiration to be found if you go for a visit! And check out the cool background of her photos - the sea! Makes you want to pack your suitcases, right?

And my friend Silvia from Switzerland is a new follower (sorry, no blog for you to visit)! Hello, Silvia, and thank you!

Here is your welcoming quote (by Groucho Marx):

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today.

I can choose which it shall be.

That's it for today! Have a good one,

Susanne

Stamps: Inkadinkado (Life in the city), Hero Arts (greeting, newsprint background)