Warm mittens

I am back with a card I made for my sister. Don't know if she has received it yet but some of the challenges I made it for are closing soon! 

My sister is an amazing knitter! She has knitted all kinds of complicated things for all kinds of different people. For Christmas she bought me some yarn (I got to choose) and helped me make a hat! Isn't she the sweetest?

So I thought these new-to-me stamps and dies would be perfect for her. Since the yarn I picked for my hat was grey and off-white I chose those colors for the card. Then, so it wouldn't look too blah, I added some blue accents. 

Stamps: MFT (background on card), Impression Obsession (background on mittens), Winnie & Walter (sentiment)
Dies: MFT (mittens)


Challenges:

The Card Concept #46 (ETA: Winner!!)
Clean & Simple
Inspired by the knit mittens





Time Out #47 "Birthdays"
Without the twist








CAS on Sunday #74 "Winter"







Shopping Our Stash #234 "Something New"
Stamps and Dies are new!






Seize the Birthday 
I think the card is pretty clean & simple but if the DT disagrees it's without topping






Your visit and comments make my day!

I have a wicked sore throat! Tomorrow the first thing I'll do is call the doc! Hope it's not strep...

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

Happy New Year!

Hello friends!

Happy New Year! I know, 2016 is not that new anymore but since this is my first post this year I wanted to wish you a happy, healthy New Year with lots of time to create!

I hope your holidays were enjoyable. We spent them in Germany with my family and it was wonderful! We hadn't been there for Christmas in 11 years and among other things I wanted to show my kids some of the "Christkindlmärkte" (outdoor Christmas markets). My pictures are not the greatest but just to give you an idea:

(My hometown projects images onto the facades of buildings downtown)

Now first some administrative stuff:

You might have already seen it on other blogs that here will be some changes with Blogger:

Effective January 11, 2016 only Google account holders will be able to follow blogs with Blogger. In addition, Blogger will also remove any followers without a Google account from the blogs they are following. For the full announcement from Google click here.

I definitely don't want to loose any of my dear followers! So if you are reading my blog via Google Friend Connect you have the following options:

• You can create a Google Account.  Then you would need to become a Follower again because all previous Followers who did not have an account will be permanently removed from my Follower lists by Google.

• If you choose not to open a Google account, you can still follow my blog via email, bloglovin, or feedly.

And now I would like to do a review of my favorite cards that I posted last year. This year I did not pick one per month but my favorites of all so sometimes there are several in one month and other months are missing. If you want to go to the original blog post click on the dates underneath the photo.

2/2/15

2/17/15

3/19/15

3/26/15

4/19/15

6/6/15

7/27/15

8/3/15

8/14/15

8/18/15

8/31/15

10/9/15

12/23/15

Boy, that was hard. Could have included several more...

If you are interested check out a similar post from last year by clicking here.

I am linking up over at Lyndal Higgins blog.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart if you stuck with me till the end!

Hope to post some new creations soon and that you'll be back!

Hugs,

Susanne

Peace and Joy to You and Yours!

Wishing you all a

Merry Christmas

and

a New Year full of

Happiness, Health, and Love!

Stamps: Hero Arts (ornament, sentiment), DRS Designs (star background)

Other: shimmery cardstock (Recollection)

Thank you for all your visits and comments!

Looking forward to another year on this blog with you!

Cheers!

Susanne

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 Wintery Cards

Just popping in quickly to show you two more wintery cards that I made. They are both 5x7.

White embossed the trees, matted the panel with matte silver cardstock. Popped up the sentiment. Added stickles to the trees, snowflakes, and around the sentiment panel.

Stamps: Penny Black (trees), Stampin' Up (sentiment)


Challenges:

Penny Black Saturday Challenge "December" - Christmas/Holidays


Simon Says Monday Challenge - Just a Pinch
Added just a pinch of stickles...







White embossed the snowman on kraft. Colored with sharpies. Added a red layer, the sentiment, and a glittery snowflake. Seeing it on screen reminds me that I wanted to color the snowman with a bit of white chalk or something. Shucks!

Stamps: snowman unmounted and unknown, Savy stamps (sentiment)
Die: MFT (snow flake)


Challenge:


Inkspirational #97 - Flake
(Second entry)







Thanks for stopping by during this busy time! I appreciate your visits and comments very much!

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