Happy Summer!

With this little card I wish you (in the northern hemisphere) a very happy summer and hope you enjoy every minute of it! Stamp sets from several different companies played very nicely together on this card. Don't you wish that people (especially politicians) would do the same...?

Stamps: Stampin' Up (sun, watermelon from an old, retired set), Technique Tuesday (sentiment), Lawn Fawn (ants), My Favorite Things (gingham, wooden backgrounds)


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

Gundi's Summer Challenge "Fruit"
Why don't you check out her blog and play along! She is so talented and generous; there are prices to win (she mails internationally)!

Time Out Challenge #88 Word Challenge

If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely' 

Virginia's Summer Blog Party






And since some of you really enjoyed the pictures in my last post I am going to show you some more of the beautiful city of Nuremberg:

Did you know that there are over 1,000 different kinds of bread in Germany? This display looked so gorgeous...
Next time I'll show you some photos of my hometown which is much smaller and not as famous but still pretty.

Be well,

Very CAS Bird Card

Wanted to play in the June Mix It Up Challenge where we are to combine Essentials by Ellen with Technique Tuesday products. So I dug out those fun chickadees and made this very CAS card. It took me, of course, much longer to make than it looks like... Did some paper piecing, watercoloring the shadow, added some washi tape, and die cute a speech bubble for the sentiment (which is from the Mondo Magnolia set).

Stamps: Technique Tuesdays (bird), Essentials by Ellen (sentiment)
Die: Lawn Fawn (speech bubble)


Challenges:

Essentials by Ellen June Mix Up Challenge (with Technique Tuesdays)








CAS Mix Up June Challenge
My third choice is either fussy cutting (the bird body), paper piecing, and/or washi tape (the last two are not on the list...)






Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge "Father's Day/For a Guy"






AAA Cards #66 "Watercolors"
I did watercolor the shadow!






Thanks so much for stopping by! Hope your week will be spectacular!

Be well,

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

Baby Girl for SSS flickr challenge

Just popping in with a card I made for the Simon Says Stamp flickr challenge. They want to see any kind of embossing - dry, heat, or paste. I used one of their amazing stencils with embossing paste mixed with pearl acrylic paint to make it shimmery.

Stamps: Lawn Fawn (Milo's Alphabet), SSS (baby girl)
Stencil: SSS (falling stars)
Dies: Sweet 'n' Sassy (clouds)

Did you see that Dora and Cathy have their "Get To Know You" posts up? If not, go for a visit and leave them some love! It's always fun to learn something new about our stamping friends!

That's it from me for now. I am trying to get over a strep throat but the antibiotics are not kicking in as fast as I would like to...

Thanks for stopping by!
Hugs,
Susanne

More Embossing for SSS Wednesday Challenge

I entered a card on the first day of the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge (to see it click here) and now I have another one for the challenge before it closes.

This time I used a different kind of embossing - namely embossing paste. To be more precise I used Heavy gloss gel which, according to Loll you can use instead of translucent embossing paste. I had bought the gel before my trip and finally got around to playing with it. And it was fun! I used a NBUS stencil from Memory Box and made a masculine card which to me means no embellishments.

Hope you like it! I think this glossy gel/transparent embossing paste gives a nice effect.

Have a wonderful rest of the week!

Hugs,
Susanne

Stamps: Lawn Fawn (speech bubbles), Simon Says Stamp (first happy), CAS-ual Friday stamps (second happy), Avery Elle (birthday)
Dies: Lawn Fawn
Stencil: Memory Box

OCC Watercolor - Day 2

Help - I am getting behind with my homework! I watch the videos but then don't have any more time to play because for some weird reason my family still wants to eat and have clean clothes, etc...! Why does the day not have 48 hours???
I made a card after watching Debbie Hughes' (love her) video. I didn't have the stamp she used so the effect is a little different.

I am going to keep this short so I can squeeze in some play time...

Thank you all so much for coming to my little blog and leaving me those sweet comments! You make my day!

Hugs,

Susanne

Stamps: Hero Arts (number background), Lawn Fawn (speech bubble), Savy Stamps (words)

Dies: Memory Box (numbers), Lawn Fawn (speech bubble)

Ink: Distress Ink (spiced marmelade)

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge: Halloween or Halloween Colors

Last minute again! Here is my card for the Simon Says Wednesday Challenge: Halloween or Halloween Colors!

As you can see I was inspired by the colors of the fun mood board they provided. I would like to encourage you to play but the challenge closes in 10 hours... I really hope that I have more time to write my next post because I would like to welcome two new followers! 

Since I probably won't post before I wish you all a fun and safe Halloween!

Thank you so much for you visit and you kind comments,

Susanne

Stamps: PSX (cat), Inkadinkado (spider), Hero Arts (words)

Die: Lawn Fawn (word bubble)