World Card Making Day Blog Hop with Paper Crafts!

Hello lovely people! I'm very excited to welcome you on my blog which is the first stop in the WCMD 2012 winners blog hop! What an honour to be part of this event!!!
(And sorry for the late arrival, something went wrong with the publication...)

I think even one year after receiving an email announcing my win in the contest, I still have to pinch myself! :) My card won in the Season's Greetings category and this year I was asked to make a card for the hop in the same category. Since you have 20 stops to make I won't bugger you with much "talk" and without further ado, here's my card:

Usually the WCMD is a good time to get started on those holiday cards. My card could be easily mass produced, the key being to cut the work in chunks: heat embossing - day one, die-cutting and cutting out - day two, sewing and finishing - day three. :)

OK, now let's hop on! Here's the complete list of participants:

 Agata Pfister - that's me!

Your next stop --- Amber Kroening

Angeline Yong Jeet Leen

Ashley Marcu

Carolynn Wilson

Chunyan Wu

Emily Leiphart

Heather Hoffman

Jamie Green

Jocelyn Olson

Kerrianne Bowen

Laura Bassen

Leigh Penner

Lorena Canto

Mercedes Weber

Mignon Jessica Bear

Pamela Ho

Sarah J. Moerman

Stasia Sloma

Tarynne Wise

Paper Crafts Connection

Have fun hopping! :)

Bon weekend! / Good weekend!

Hello! J'avais prévu de poster autre chose aujourd'hui mais voilà que ma boîte aux lettres m'a fait changé d'avis! :) C'est que j'ai reçu aujourd'hui longuement attendu le magazine de Paper Crafts où figure ma carte gagnante du concours World Card Making Day de l'année dernière. Puis ma photo mais passons... :)

Hello! I've thought about posting something else today but my mail box made me change my mind. I received today the March / April issue of Paper Crafts magazine with my winning card from last year's World Card Making Day contest. There's also a pic of mine but that's less important... :)

Alors voici ma petite carte. Pour tout vous dire, je l'ai ajoutée dans l'envelope sans grande conviction, juste parce que envoyer une seule carte me paraissait un peu bête. Et voilà!

Here's the card. And I have a confession to make. I put that card in the envelope because sending just one card seemed silly to me. And here we go...

Elle a donc accompagnée la carte ci-après, ma grande favorite changée en perdante. Je l'aime quand même, et vous? ;-)

It accompanied the card here after, my favorite for the contest, turned down apparently. Still, I love it, how about you? ;-)

Et c'est comme ça que commence mon weekend. J'espère que le votre sera aussi bon! A bientôt!

And that's how my weekend begins. Hope yours will be nice, too! See you soon!

WCMD

Hello fellow card-makers! I'm very glad to welcome you to my blog!

So, as everyone knows, WCMD launches officially the season of Christmas card-making. And here's my almost first card I'll be sending soon. Because Christmas is right around the corner (something like 85 days, I believe)!

For this simple card I've chosen to work with myStamp Box Let it Snow stamp set. I stamped the snowflake on cardstock, heat embossed it and cut out. The sentiment comes from another set by the same company, Everyday Lines. I simply stamped it repeatedly and added some Stickles in between phrases. Then I matted this piece and adhered to my card.

The snowflake was adhered with some 3D adesive.

Hopefully you've enjoyed this card. Happy WCMD and happy {global} hopping! :)

Getting inky

Hello! It's been a while since I haven't got inky. The Distressy-fingers style. Yesterday was the day and I enjoyed it thoroughly! I had the idea of that card in my head for a couple of days and it ripened under the mild, indian Summer sun we're enjoying those days here in Switzerland. I used colors from Hero Arts monthly challenge.

Leafs are stamped and embossed on sticky back canvas. Then I cut them out, applied Mustard Seed and Peeled Paint Distress inks. And finally I've added and smeared some Distress Stickles all over them for some sparkle.

I made a card... And maybe I'm about to make another one! Because you probably know what's coming this Saturday: World Card Making Day, WCMD for the family... :) And I decided to join in the madness of a global blog hop. See you then (or maybe a bit before? *wink*)!

World Card Making Day

Bonjour! C'est la journée mondiale de la confection des cartes! Alors ça tombe bien, j'en ai deux à vous montrer! Tout d'abord celle que j'ai faite pour le sketch #84 de Card Patterns. Le sponsor de cette semaine c'est Jen Marie avec les tampons Ippity.

Hello! Today is the World Card Making Day! Happy coincidence, I've got two cards to share! The first one is for the sketch #84 over at Card Patterns. Our sponsor this week is Jen Marie and Ippity stamps.

J'avais besoin d'une carte de naissance pour une fille d'ou le choix des couleurs (encres Distress Worn Lipstick et Walnut Stain). Puisque le tampon texte parle d'une étoile claire et brillante, j'ai rajouté un peu de Diamond Stickles sur quelques motifs et des Stickles Or sur la petite étoile du texte.

I needed a card for a newborn girl, hence the color choice (Distress inks Worn Lipstick and Walnut Stain). Since the text stamp is about a bright star I adde some Diamond Stickles on a few motifs and a touch of Gold Stickles on this one tiny star of the sentiment.

Matériel: cdc Migros; tampons Ippity; encres et Stickles Ranger; ciseaux cranteurs Fiskars; machine à coudre

Pour plus d'info sur le nouveau sketch ainsi que sur le sponsor et naturellement pour jouer, visitez le blog de Card Patterns.

For more info about the sketch as well as about the sponsor and naturally to play, please visit Card Patterns blog.

Maintenant, la deuxième carte. Je l'ai faite pour un défi lancé par Betsy Veldman. Il s'agit de s'inspirer d'une carte parue dans le Card Creations n°8 et la transformer en une carte de Noël. Puisque je n'ai pas ce numéro, j'ai regardé les projets qui étaient montrés sur le blog de Moxie Fab World à l'occasion du lancement de ce magazine. Mon choix s'est porté sur une carte de Renee Morris-Dezember (c'est rigolo comme le nom est de circonstance!) que vous pouvez voir dans ce poste.

Now, on to the second card. I made it for Betsy Veldman's challenge. She proposed to take a non-Christmas project from Card Creations n°8 issue and make a Christmas project out of it. Since I don't have that issue, I've chosen a project shown on Moxie Fab World blog. It was a card by Renee Morris-Dezember (it's funny how her name fits!) that you can see in this post.

Matériel: papier Bazzil et MM; tampon myStamp Box; encre Tsukienko; poudre à embosser Artemio; machine à coudre

J'aime bien inclure les pliages Origami sur mes réas et voilà une nouvelle occasion pour le faire! J'ai aussi utilisé une toute vieille collection des papiers de Making Memories que j'ai achetée à mes débuts scrappesques... Le tampon est de myStamp Box et normalement il est en une pièce. Mais c'était bien trop long pour la place que j'avais. Alors je l'ai tamponné en deux fois en masquant la partie superflue avec du scotch. Facile!

I love to include some Origami folds on my creations and here was another occasion! I also used a very old paper collection by Making Memories that I bought at the very beginning of my scrapping adventure... The stamp is from myStamp Box and normally it's a one line sentiment. But it was way too long for the space I had. So I stamped it using some scotch masking technique (if that's any!) Super easy!

Que dire de plus? Ah oui, aujourd'hui sur le blog de Paper Crafts Connection il y a des mosaïques de photos des lecteurs de partout dans le monde. Et sur la dernière il y a aussi ma bobine, au bord du lac chez nous... Fêtez bien cette journée en faisons une carte ou deux!

What's more to say? Oh yes, on Paper Crafts Connection blog there are photos collages from readers around the world and on the last one you can see my face, too! Happy WCMD!