Scrap Rendez-Vous

Bonjour! Mes amies de Scrap Rendez-Vous ont eu l'idée d'un festival des cartes qui durera tout le mois d'octobre. Chaque jour il y a une créatrice qui montre une carte et le sketch qui va avec. Mes amies m'ont fait l'honneur de m'inviter aujourd'hui! Voici un petit bout de ma carte. Pour plus de détails, cliquez ICI!

Hello! My friends over at Scrap Rendez-Vous are having a month-long card festival - each day there's one designer showing a card and a sketch that goes with it. My friends made me an honor of inviting me today! Here's the sneak-peek of my card. For more, please click HERE!

Seeing stars

Hello! Yes, I'm seeing stars. But that's how it is when you feel as if in heaven! If you remember this message, you know that I was distressed over having to change my camera now. But there was no use in repairing it, especially as it was almost 4 years old. And there was also a problem with the 18-55 lens. After lots of thinking and hesitating, today a miracle happened. We went to a nice little store empty handed and went out of there with a little baby in our hands. A little brother of my old Nikon D40x, another Nikon but a D5100 arrived at home! That's why I'm seeing stars. The best part? Its lens, 18-100, with a nice, crisp sound of well working shutter. Mmmmmmmm, that's heaven!

I also see trees, Christmas trees that is in different stamps now (that's all because of the monthly contest over at Hero Arts). Well, the following card is made with an idea I had last year and made THIS card with. So, I'm sort of into recycling again! :) Anyway, here's another Christmas tree card, brad-like this time.

I stamped the kraft panel with partially inked HA Dots Cling stamp, then added green and white brads. Since they lacked some shine, I've added some Stickles, green or white accordingly. Added sentiment (from my Stamp Box) and ribbon and adhered the panel to a green inked and stamped card base.

What a treat it is to be able to take straight pictures! I'm really happy tonight and am looking forward to playing more with my new baby! See you!

Christmas is near!

Hello! I know, you don't believe me. But it's true! It's coming up fast and we all better start to think about those cards! Fortunately, some new challenges are up to help us with this task. Here's the first one, by Hero Arts. Their monthly challenge is Holiday cards, idem with non-holiday stamps and sketches. When I read the second part of the announcement, I was thrilled! Two out of my 3 published cards in Holiday Cards & More were made using non-holiday products so I just could put that thinking cap back on!

Monday night I couldn't fall asleep and was browsing my stamps in my head. Suddenly, a bulb went off! I thought I found the right stamp! I even stood up from the bed and started working on something but my husband woke up and I had to sleep on my idea till the next day... But as they say, "La nuit porte conseil" and when I woke up, I could precise my idea.

So, after all this blah-blah, here's my card. I went for the fern stamp, masked off a part of it and stamped and white embossed it. To dress borders of the panel, I inked partly Classic Fabric Design with Versamark, stamped and coated the image with Perfect Pearls. It looks a bit as stamped in white but in real life it shines and changes.

Here's a close up.

To make the tree a little more real, I've added glittery brads and a star to the top that I coated in glitter myself. The sentiment is by myStamp Box as I still, believe it or not, do not own any Season sentiment by HA. But this year I will! :)

When my son saw that card, he immediately said: "Oh, a Christmas tree!" Hopefully, you'll have the same reaction! :) Thanks for visiting!

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! :)

Bonus!!!

Hi there! I'm extremely excited to have a spotlight on PC blog today! {Doing the happy dance!} At the occasion of the launch of Holiday Cards & More, I was asked by Courtney to share some thoughts about card making and also how to wish Merry Christmas in the language of my country and be a stop in their Christmas tour around the World! If you want to know what I said, please click HERE! {Still dancing!!!} :)

Here's one of the cards I have in the issue (that I'm still waiting for). If you want the instructions on about how to make a tree like that, please turn to this special issue. There's even a digital version of it if you're an impatient cookie! What I can already tell you is that the sentiment stamp is from myStamp Box Everyday Lines set.

My fellow spotlighted friend is Jane from Croatia. And she's having a nice giveaway at the occasion! So head over to her blog, leave some love and cross your fingers!

See you tomorrow here for another tour of the world! Cheers!

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*)!

Project 12 - August

Hello again! It's the sketch time again! Another installment of Project 12 with a great sketch from Becky Fleck. Although there were only 3 pictures originally, I've found a way to sneak in some more! Especially that there were some important events that took place in August, like my son starting school!

Here's my take on the sketch:

I purged again my stash and went for those old OA papers and embellies. The journaling is short for there was not much to tell. So instead of one piece of cardstock, I used several to tell each part of the story separately.

All die cuts are pop dotted for dimension.
The Repeat after Me stamp set by myStamp Box was very useful again to make the border in Faux stitching manner.

And one last detail: I hand stitched those trails behind bugs - it was fun!

Thanks for stopping by! I appreciate your visits!