Thinking of You

Hi everyone,

A little while ago I saw a tutorial by Mary Dawn from My Pink Mexico to make little felt flowers (click here to go to the tutorial). I absolutely loved the idea and finally tried it for myself! :-)

I made three flowers in different colors. The white flower is a little bit bigger than the other two. The card base got some lovely texture by white embossing the Lattice Background. I stamped and heat embossed the label and sentiment as well and adhered all the pieces to the card.

The cards I send are usually not this bulky, so I hope it survives in the mail! This card is actually on its way to my mom right now, so I hope she doesn't read this blog post before it arrives! :-)

Thank you so much for stopping by today!

Have a lovely evening! :-)

Hugs,
Tone

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Three Yellow Cards

Hi there,

Hope your weekend was lovely!

I was in a yellow mood the other day and ended up making three yellow cards! One birthday card and two thank you cards.

For the birthday card I inked the Large Blossom with Versamark, the Old Letter Writing with Pumice Stone Distress Ink, kissed the two stamps and clear embossed on Hero Arts Daffodil layering paper.
The result was not as I had hoped, with the embossed part not showing up very well. So I used my Ink Blending Tool to add more Pumice Stone over the image to make it stand out more.
In the end I'm really happy with how it turned out! :-)

On the background of this card, I stamped the flowery border from the Garden Borders set several times with Malted Milk ink. The rose image, frame and sentiment are all stamped with Versafine black ink and clear embossed . This way it was easier to add color to the images. I used a water brush and distress inks for the coloring.

On the last card, I stamped the Leaf and Floral Background in Soft Sand Shadow Ink and inked the edges with Pumice Stone Distress Ink. The frame is stamped in Wet Cement Mid-Tone ink and the sentiment is heat embossed with Zing Charcoal embossing powder. This powder is a bit difficult to use because little particles always sticks to the paper.

I think my favorite is the birthday card. Which is your favorite of the three?

Hugs,
Tone


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Giveaway winner!

Hello hello!

It's time to announce the winner of my giveaway! :-)

Thank you so much to all of you who participated!

And the winner is:

Arlene - California!

I e-mailed you, Arlene. Please send me your address so I can get the goodies to you!

I had so much fun with this giveaway that I'm going to have another one again soon.
So stay tuned! :-)

Hugs,
Tone

 

Giveaway!

Hi everybody,

This month it's two years since I wrote my first blog post, and I want to celebrate that with all of you with a giveaway! :-)

Here are the goodies you can win:

Now, this is how to enter:

1. Become a follower (with Google Friend Connect)
2. Please share the news about my giveaway by adding the photo above to your blog sidebar linking back to this post
3. And lastly, add your name to the Inlinkz below! :-)

The giveaway ends Monday the 28th of May (midnight CET), and I will announce the winner on Tuesday May 29th.

Hero Arts Scramble

Today's 90 minute Hero Arts scramble was to make a card for yourself, using your favorites and having fun! I had some new stamps that I was dying to ink up, so this challenge was just perfect! :-)

Here is the card I made:

I used some of my favorites right now: new stamps, butterflies, script, kraft, teal and small square cards.

This little CAS card with it's huge butterfly simply makes me happy!

Hope you like it as well! :-)


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Thank You, Hero Arts!

I am so happy because I just received the price for my March Fresh Face win! In addition to the stamps I chose, they also sent me the 2012 catalog. Thank you so much, Hero Arts! :-)

The stamps are absolutely fantastic, and I just had to create a card with the Lattice Background right away! :-)

The heart and the background are stamped in Hero Arts Bubble Gum Mid-Tone Shadow Ink, while the sentiment and the Old Letter Writing are in Wet Cement.

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Velveteen Stamping

When I saw Shari's new technique, Velveteen Stamping, I loved it immediately!

I first made this little card using the Woodgrain circle stamped in white with the Thanks circle stamped over it in Mid-Tone Cup O' Joe. I love how it looks!

For the background I stamped the Leaf and Floral Background in Mid-Tone Wet Cement.

Then I thought I would try the technique on kraft. This looks completely different, but I really like it.

The Flower Dot Pattern is stamped in white and the Speckled Ornament over that in Seedless Preserves Seasonal Distress Ink. I distress inked the edges with different colors of brown Distress Ink. 

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