Happy Birthday, Opa!

My grandfather turned 86 years today! I am happy you are still with us! Reason for a special birthday card.
Once again, I used the heat embossing technique. This time for the black numbers on his card.
The black powder contains some silver flakes as well, this is why it shimmers so beautiful!
I also used two embossing folders on the silver/grey stripes.

I enter this card in the following competitions:

• Cut it Up! #41: Anything Goes
• Sister Act Card Challenge #49: Anything Goes
• Stampin' for the weekend, March 14: Anything Goes
• TTCRD, March 25-31: Anything Goes
• Aud Sentiments Challenge Blog #102: Anything Goes
• Challenges 4 Everybody #39: Anything Goes
• Crafting by Designs, March 5: Anything Goes

First Easter card with Bugaboo digi!

I won some digi stamps from Bugaboo and choose some easter images. It was the first time that I used my copic markers to color an image.

This is my first easter card this year:

I enter this card in the following challenges:

• Creatalicious Challenges #61: Easter Wonderland
• Kaboodle Doodles Challenge #216: Dreaming of Spring
• Paper Crafting Journey, March 13: Photo Inspiration
• Paper Creators Craft #21: Spring is in the Air
• Little Red Wagon #221: A Rainbow of Colors

Wild birthday greetings!

I wanted to use the woodgrain embossing folder with brown paper to create a tree. 

The outcome was this wild birthday card:

I enter this card in the following competitions:

• Creative Knockouts #29: Things with wings
• Creative Card Crew #58: Animals
• Simply Create Too #57: Animals

First Heat Embossing Birthday card!

For my birthday, I got an heat embossing dryer and some colors. Unfortunately, it took a while until it was delivered. Now, I can't get enough of it and all my recent cards have at least one heat embossing element on it.
This card was made for my aunts birthday this week:

The pink flowers and the sentiment are created with a pink embossing powder. The two smaller flowers have a pink fabric button in the centre and the big flower a green heat embossing dot.

The color combination is perfect for a spring birthday card!

I enter this challenge in the following challenges:

• Crafty Ribbons Challenge #81: Anything goes with ribbon
• Divas by design, March 19: Flower Power
• Kreativer Bastelblog #43: Blumengrüße
• Open Minded Crafting Challenges #6: Use some buttons
• Ruby's Rainbow Challenges #75: Happy Birthday
• Sentimental Sundays #199: Flowery Springtime
• The Pink Elephant TPE #243: Use your favorite color combo
• A Gem of a Challenge #115: Mothers Day/Female Birthday
• Charisma Cardz Challenges #6: Birthday Girls
• Craft your passion challenges #206: Mothers Day/For the Ladies

Pink elephant for a baby girl!

An old friend of mine in Austrialia welcomed a baby girl recently and I wanted to send a card around the world. I used the elephant stamp from the SU stamp set "zoo babies" and kept the rest quite simple:

I enter this card in the following challenges:

• Aud Sentiments Challenge Blog #101: Any sentiment for a girl
• Bearly Mine Inspiration and Challenges, March 1: One for the girls
• Craft your passion challenges #204: Young at heart
• ABC challenges, March 1: G for Girls
• Papertake Weekly Challenge, March 4: Anything Goes

• Sister Act Card Challenge #47: Anything Goes
• The Paper Nest Dolls Challenges #5: Anything Goes
• TTCRD, March 4: Anything Goes

Make a cake turquoise!

I needed another birthday card and wanted to use my SU "make a cake" set again. I got inspired by a card from Dawn Tidd on Splitcoaststampers:

I really like the outcome as the colors match perfectly. It is not often that I have ribbon, ink and paper in the same color.

I enter this card in the following challenges:

• MIM #182: Final make it monday
• Challenges 4 Everybody #39: Anything Goes
• Crafting by Designs, March 5: Anything Goes
• Crafty Creations Challenges #258: Happy Birthday
• Crafty Ribbons Challenge #79: Anything goes with Ribbon