Hi everyone,

the new Spring Release went live last Friday and it is jam-packed with totally adorable stamps and fabulous dies!

For my first card I used the Lovey Dovey set which comes with beautiful large love-themed sentiments. I picked the precious 'I love you to the moon and back' one and created a night scene around it.

First, I started off with the background and trimmed down a piece of white cardstock to a regular A2 size. I used the smallest of the Tim Holtz Moon Masks and created a radiant blend around the circle using Distress Oxide Inks (Salvaged Patina, Prize Ribbon, Chipped Sapphire and Black Soot). I also added the moon texture with the stencil and a light touch of Pumice Stone ink. I let everything dry completely before stamping the sentiment inside the moon with VersaMark Ink. To create a shiny, translucent look I used Salvaged Patina Distress Embossing Glaze to heat emboss the sentiment.

Next, I die cut the Cityscape Border from black cardstock to mimic house silhouettes in the dark of the night. I also hand cut some yellow paper to go behind it for the tiny enlightened windows. For the ground I trimmed down a dark grey cardstock strip and adhered it as well as the cityscape to my ink blended background.

I fell in love with the new Passionate Penguins Stamps the first time I saw them – they are sooo cute! Of course I had to use them on my card ;-) I stamped the penguins in the car with Memento Tuxedo Black Ink and did some Copic coloring. The image was die cut with the coordinating die and popped up using foam tape. Finally, I die cut three little hearts from pink cardstock and covered them with Glossy Accents.

Thank you so much for stopping by! Wishing you a wonderful day!
Anja

Hello Bluebird • Rooftop Reindeer • Merriest Wishes

Hello everyone,

I finally got my hands on the amazing products of the Hello Bluebird October Release. So much cute stuff!

This is the first card I made using the Rooftop Reindeer set. I colored one of the adorable deers with Copics.

Then I combined it with the Birch Trees Die and a Distress Oxide Inks background to create a snowy winter scene. The sparkly hill was made with Tim Holtz «Clear Rock Candy» Distress Glitter.

I heat embossed the sentiment from the Snow Play set (which is brand new, too) with «Liquid Platinum» embossing powder. Finally, I added two wood veneer stars to finish off my card.

Thank you so much for stopping by! Will be back soon!
Anja

DT bastel-traum.ch Challenge #66

Good morning everyone,

today starts a new challenge over at the bastel-traum.ch blog and the theme is «Hobby/Leisure».

 

This challenge will run until July 15th, 8:55 am CET (Central European Time).

The latest Lawn Fawn release was phenomenal and I loved creating with one of my favorite stamp sets which is called «You Are Sublime». The little diver is just the cutest and of course the submarine had to be yellow.

I created an Alcohol Ink background using aqua, blue and a bit of purple and green tones. Next, I stamped, Copic colored and die cut the images for my underwater scene (BTW, the shell is from the «Life Is Good» set). I white heat embossed the sentiment from the «Elphie Selfie» set on a thin strip of black cardstock.

For some shine, I added Glossy Accents to the bubbles, swimming goggles and submarine portholes. To finish off my card, I adhered two sparkly faceted crystals by Little Things from Lucy's Cards and a Brutus Monroe two-tone pearl.

I'm entering the current Lawn Fawnatics Cards for Guys challenge:

Thank you so much for stopping by!
Anja

Hello Bluebird • Piggy Picnic

Good morning everyone,

I finally got my hands on the new products from the Hello Bluebird May Release. And what can I say, I just LOVE them all!

I made this card using these adorable pigs from the Farmyard Little Bits stamp set. They are sitting on a polka dot blanket (from the Hippos on Holiday set) enyoing a little cupcake picnic. I did some masking to create my scene. Since I haven't done the No Line Coloring technique for quite a while, I used it for a change. I combined Copics and Prismacolor pencils for details. I tried the new-to-me «Fadeout No Line Coloring» ink by Ink On 3 and I really like it.

In the background, I did some light ink blending using the Tim Holtz Distress Blending Brushes which are great for this. Next, I die cut the My Favorite Things «Snow Globe» shape from «Subtle Plaids» patterned paper. I directly adhered my colored scene to the card base and popped up the plaid window panel with foam tape. The sentiment from the Farmyard Little Bits stamp set was heat embossed in white on a small banner. Finally, I added two die cut clouds (Puddle Play Die) and a small pink heart.

Thank you so much for stopping by! Have a great day!
Anja

DT bastel-traum.ch Christmas Blog Hop

Good morning peeps,

today I'm joining the special Christmas Blog Hop over at the bastel-traum.ch blog with this simple shaker card:

For the very first time, I made a vibrant background with Tim Holtz Adirondack Alcohol Inks. They are so much fun to play with! I also added a bit of «Silver Metallic Mixative» to the blue tones.

I thought it would create a nice winter night sky inside of a little snow globe scene which I created with dies and a matching shaker pouch by My Favorite Things. I cut the «Our Town» die from grey cardstock and adhered it to my alcohol ink background. Next, I white heat embossed the santa sleigh image from Stampin' Up!. I filled the «Dome» shaker pouch with a variety of sequins and seed beads.

The white cardstock panel was cut with one of the «A2 Stitched Rectangle STAX Set 2» Die-namics. I heat embossed the sentiment from the «Hand Lettered Holiday» set with silver embossing powder by Ranger.

I invite you to hop along with us for some final Christmas inspiration – here is the complete Blog Hop list:

bastel-traum.ch blog
Nicole Vögeli
Karin Åkesdotter
Ute Berger
Anja Bytyqi —> that's me
Dennice Watts
Claudia Meier
bastel-traum.ch blog 

Now I wish you all a MERRY CHRISTMAS and a HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Thank you so much for stopping by!
Anja

DT Stempelgarten Challenge December

Good morning peeps,

today starts the last Stempelgarten Challenge of the year. And since most of us are really busy right now, we have a simple theme for you this month: «Anything Goes».

This adorable Whimsy Stamps «Balancing Elf» (illustrated by Krista Heij-Barber) made me giggle the moment I saw him.

I colored this cutie with my Copics and fussy cut him leaving a small white border. For the background, I cut a sheet of Lawn Fawn «Perfectly Plaid Christmas» patterned paper and adhered it to my top-folding card base. Next, I run some red cardstock through my die-cutting machine with the Sizzix/Tim Holtz «Holiday Knit» embossing folder. I also cut it with a stitched rectangle die from the My Favorite Things «Blueprints 29» set and popped it up with fun foam.

I gold heat embossed one of the «Snow Globe Sentiments» on a strip of white cardstock which I die cut with a die from the same «Blueprints 29» set. I adhered the little elf with foam tape and added golden sparkling enamel dots as well as wood veneer stars by Studio Calico.

You will have time until December 31st, 2017 to enter the Stempelgarten Challenge and this is the prize you could win:

A craft package from the Stempelgarten Online Shop with a value of CHF 20.–.

I'm joining the current Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge with the theme «Anything Goes».

Thank you so much for stopping by! Have a wonderful day!
Anja

DT Skipping Stones Design | Tip/Technique Hop #2

Hi crafty friends,

welcome to our second Skipping Stones Design Tip/Technique Hop. Today each DT member will share a technique, tip or suggestion for creating or organizing. You should have arrived from the Skipping Stones Design Blog. We hope you'll find lots of inspiration while hopping along (see the complete link list at the bottom of this post). For your chance to be a random winner of a Skipping Stones Design stamp set simply leave a comment at each stop of the hop.

With my card I'm showing you how easy and quick you can create a background with the help of a stencil. And I also turned a solid stamp image into a metallic embellishment.

At first I sponged two turquoise tones of Dye Inks («Sea Glass» and «Mali Blue» from Simon Says Stamp) through the Tim Holtz «Doily» Stencil and created a light gradient. Then I stamped the sentiment from the Heartsong 2 stamp set in VersaMark and heat embossed it in silver.

I also heat embossed the silhouette bird from the Garden Stamp Kiss set with the same silver embossing powder. But this time I repeated the heat embossing two times to get a more raised image. Then I fussy cut my little birdie and adhered it with small 3D foam pads. To finish my card I added some rhinestones.

If you get lost along the way here is the line-up of all the hop participants:

Skipping Stones Design Blog
Anja —> that's me
Deanne
Ilina
Giovana
Martha Lucia
Coralynn
Teresa
Lee Ann

Make sure you leave a comment below and now hop over to see what Deanne created!

Thank you so much for stopping by! Enjoy your weekend!

DT-Card Everybody-Art-Challenge #286

Guten Morgen meine Lieben,

wir haben wieder ein neues Thema bei der Everybody-Art-Challenge und es lautet diesmal «Monochrom».

Ich mag ja Schmetterlinge total gern, deshalb ist es schon recht verwunderlich, warum dieser schöne große Stempel namens «Swallowtail» von Stampin' Up! bisher noch nicht zum Einsatz kam. Ich habe ihn auf Distress Watercolor Cardstock von Tim Holtz transparent embosst, um mit Distress Inks und der «Emboss Resist»-Technik den Hintergrund zu gestalten. Dafür habe ich 3 Lilatöne (Milled Lavender, Shaded Lilac und Seedless Preserves) ausgewählt. Die Ink Pads habe ich wahllos auf meine Unterlage (Non-Stick Craft Sheet von Ranger) gedrückt und dann wird das Ganze großzügig mit einem Mini Mister besprüht. Anschließend wird das Aquarellpapier immer wieder in die Farbe gedrückt bis man mit dem Ergebnis zufrieden ist. Ich habe es mehrmals wiederholt und es zwischendurch immer mal wieder mit dem Heißluftföhn getrocknet. Eigentlich mag ich ja «Matschen» nicht so gern, aber hier macht es wirklich Spaß und der Effekt ist einfach genial wie ich finde.

Der Spruchstempel stammt von WPlus9 («Strictly Sentiments 1») und wurde weiß embosst. Als Kartenrohling habe ich den farblich passenden Cardstock in Himbeerrot von Stampin' Up! verwendet.

Gern nehme ich an den beiden folgenden Challenges teil:

Aud Sentiments Challenge
Challenge 110 – Anything Goes
Crafty Creations Challenges
Challenge #266 Things with wings

Bei uns regnet es heute – vielleicht komme ich ja ein wenig zum Werkeln…

DT-Card Everybody-Art-Challenge #256

Guten Morgen Ihr Lieben,

heute startet wieder eine neue Everybody-Art-Challenge, diesmal mit dem momentan sehr passenden Thema «Winter».

Ich habe mal etwas Neues ausprobiert – inspiriert von einer wunderbaren Karte der talentierten Jennifer McGuire habe ich mich mal diversen Produkten des ebenso fabelhaften Tim Holtz gewidmet. Da ich es liebe, wenn es im Winter abends knackig kalt ist und sich der sternenklare Himmel z.T. in Blau- und Türkistöne hüllt, habe ich versucht meinen Hintergrund mit Distress Inks entsprechend zu gestalten. Vorher habe ich das Schneegestöber in Versamark gestempelt und weiß embosst und dann die Farben Evergreen Bough, Chipped Sapphire und Iced Spruce mit einem Blending Tool aufgebracht und «gewischt».

Die Tannenbaum-Gruppe (gestempelt in Chipped Sapphire) stammt aus dem Set «Holiday Joy» von Tim Holtz, das neben den wunderbaren Stempeln die passenden Sizzix-Stanzen enthält. Aus weißem Cardstock habe ich einen Schneehügel ausge-
schnitten und den oberen Teil mit Embossing Sticky Powder versehen und dann den tollen Clear Rock Candy Distress Glitter (beides von Ranger) aufgebracht. Das glitzert ganz wunderbar und aufgeklebt mit 3D Foam Pads erhält das Ganze etwas Dimension. Der Spruchstempel ist von Inkadinkado und die Sterne (Mirrored Stars) sind ebenfalls vom «Meister»/Tim Holtz ;o)

Gern möchte ich bei den folgenden Challenges teilnehmen:

Addicted to Stamps Challenge
Challenge # 70 – Embossing
Keep it Simple Challenge
Keep it Simple! # 28: Schnee/Snow
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge
Anything Goes
The Squirrel and the Fox Challenge
Challenge #58 – Summer or Winter
Totally Gorjuss Challenge
Challenge 212 – Snows the way to go

Nun verabschiede ich mich von Euch mit winterlichen Grüßen und wünsche Euch weiterhin eine schöne Woche.