A card i made

After nearly 2 weeks without crafting i made a birthdaycard on friday.

I hope you like it.
I used some of the new Prima Flowers and a new SIIC swirl.
I like the size of the crystals. They are really small. I think it is a good size for cards.

Happy Easter

Happy Easter everyone!

Today i want to show you my take on Tim Holtz´ Tag for April.

Fairy in a bottle

For a long time i wanted to "capture a fairy in a bottle".
This weeks theme at Simon says stamp and show made me doing it.
Theme is: bottle it
I used a fairy from the Graphic 45 "Once upon a springtime" paperline.
Some Background paper from Glitz "Beautiful dreamer"
Trims from "Creating is fun" on Zibbet.
Prima Vintage trinkets.
Some Prima vine. A Prima flower from the new release.
A birdcage charm from Drew Scotts shop on Etsy.
A pinecone and some foam flakes from a model railway set.

12 tags of 2012 March

Today i´d like to share with you my tag i made for Tim Holtz´12 tags of 2012.

For the background I used 2 different flower stamps because I don´t have the wood stamp Tim used.

I stamped with walnut stain like he did. I colored the tag with vintage photo inkpad and then I distressed the edges of the tag with a nail file.I colored the distressed edges with walnut stain inkpad.

The bigger butterfly is from Tims Grungeboard elements collection.I first embossed the whole Butterfly with vintage photo embossing powder and then glued the snippets from his paperline on it. After it dryed I put glossy accents on the snippets.

For the small butterfly I cut a butterfly from cardboard where I glued on double sided sticky tape. I glued on the snippets and the embossing powder, then embossed. The sticky tape shrunk a bit. But this way the butterfly had a small white edge all around. I inked the edges of both butterflies with walnut stain inkpad.

The sentiment is stamped with Archival ink Jet Black.

The left flower is made from Tims tissue tape with a metal button glued on.

The right flower is made from two Prima pedals that I inked with Glimmer Mists and just a bit of Tims Distress Stain in Walnut. Both pedals are held together with a small TH fastener.

I glued the butterflies on the tag and tied some seembinding on top of the tag and decorated with a Pink Paislee metal butterfly charm.

I forgot to spray it with some glimmer spray, but I think it looks good without it.

I would like to enter this tag on this weeks Simon says stamp and show challenge:

An Idea-ology Bonanza.

Some cards and flowers

Hey everyone,
today i´d like to share some cards and flowers i made during the last days.
2 birthday cards, a card for easter and some laceflowers.

Valantines day tag

Hey bloggers,

Tim Holtz came up with something new this year.
12 tags of the year.
Every month he creates a new tag, like the 12 tags of christmas.
The tag for Febuary is a a Valentines day themed tag.
This is what i made out of his idea.





This tag fits the Simon says stamp and show challenge: Anything goes!

Door sign

Hey bloggers,

today i wanna show you the door sign i made for the Simon says stamp and show challenge.
This weeks theme: anything but a card.

So i thought i could do the door sign i have for a long time now.
It looked like this when i bought it and it was only 1€.


I painted the whole thing with chocolate brown acrylic paint.



I covered it white crackle medium and then i painted it with white acrylic paint.



Then i cut out some roses from a paper napkin and glued them on the sign with Mod Podge.
I also covered the whole sign with Mod Podge.



After this i stamped on it with a floral stamp and a butterfly stamp. For this i used Archival ink in sepia. On the back of the sign i glued some lace all around the edge..



I also glued some lace on to hang it.



I glued on some Alphabet stickers.



And also flowers.




Now i am working on another tea box. But this time its for me.
Here is a sneak peek

Great Giveaway

Hey everyone,
The lovely Drew Scott is doing a HUGE giveaway when he reaches 5000 subscribers on YouTube.
So check out his channel, its Cardofmyeye on Youtube.
He is very creative and for me, and many others, he is the next Tim Holtz ;-)

Good luck everyone!

What i did last week

Hello blogging friends.

Some days before New Years Eve i got the message that i could start a new job in march.
For this new job i have to learn a lot new things so i decided to buy a notebook where i can write down important things.
And as i would like to be a bit different from others, i altered it a bit.

The notebook has had 2 acrylic covers. I removed the one on the back for another project.



The front cover i glued together with the red cardboard cover page. For this i used Tim Holtz Tissue Tape. I left the top side open so that i can put in an old book page from an old lexicon.




Then i used archival ink to color the edges.



I then decorated the hole book with some Prima stuff, Bling, an old key old buttons from the fleamarket.....



My notebook fits this weeks Simon says stamp and show challenge:
something old something new.

Happy New Year!

Hey Bloggers,
Happy New Year everybody.
I hope you spend some wonderful days with your family.
I had a wonderful last week. I will get a new job soon. And i am so happy about it :-)
We spend the New Year's Eve with the family, some friends and their kids.
It was very funny, the food was delicious and we talked a lot.

I did not have much time for crafting during the last days, but today i made a tag for my father in laws birthday gift. This tag fits for the Simon says stamp and show challenge:
a Tim Holtz themed tag.



I stamped the background with a text stamp and embossed it. Then i coloured the tag with some selfmade glimmer mist. After this i covered the whole tag with some clear embossing ink and used clear UTEE for embossing.(2 times)
I made a small flower from TH craft glassine paper. The glassine paper was inked , i stamped on it and then headed it to get the ink into the paper.
I also added some rhinestones and a banner made from the glassine paper. I wrote "Happy Birthday" on it and also heated it so the paint stays in the paper. The last thing i added was some twine.