A Butterfly for Leni!

My cousin's girl Leni celebrated her 4th birthday and I needed a girly birthday card.
I used my birthday embossing folder and decorated it with ribbon, brads and a foam sticker butterfly.

I enter this card in the following competitions:

• Come and Get it Challenges, March 29: One for the Girls
• Allsorts Challenge Blog #304: Feature a Creature
• The Sisterhood of Crafters, March 25: Come fly with me
• Aud Sentiments Challenge Blog #128: Anything Goes
• Simply Create Too Challenge Blog #82: Anything Goes
• Sister Act Card Challenge #99: Anything Goes

Happy Birthday, uncle!

My uncle celebrated his 50th birthday. I used this patterned paper with this beautiful planes.
On the picture you can't see that the numbers on the sentiment are made with red powder and the heat embossing gun.

I enter this card in the following competitions:

• CAS on Sunday, #55: Numbers
• Sister Act Card Challenge #99: Anything Goes
• Simply Create Too Challenge Blog, #82: Anything Goes
• Aud Sentiment Challenge Blog #128: Anything Goes
• The Sisterhood of Crafters, March 25: Come fly with me

Embossed Washi Tape!

I liked the idea of embossed washi tape I saw on Pinterest. I created a monocromatic card and used my Martha Stewart Monarch Butterfly Punch again.
It is a clean and simple card BUT I love the outcome!!!!

I enter this card in the following challenges:

• Come and get it challenges, March 22: Winging it
• Creative Friday, #124: Embossing
• Eureka Stamps Challenge #133: Thing Spring
• Wags'n Wiskers #150: Monocromatic

Buttons, Brads and Bling!

For this card I got inspired by Kath on Pinterest. I always wanted to use my old newspaper designer paper and found the perfect layout for it.

The stamped and die cut flowers are from the Sizzix set "Flowers, Lovely". Furthermore, I used a stamp die cut and the flags are from the Stampin'up framelits set "Hearts a flutter".
I competed the card with buttons, brads, pearls, twine and embellishments.

I enter this card in the following competitions:

• Sentimental Sundays, #251: Buttons, Brads and/or Bling
• Craft your passion challenges, #254: Always Anything Goes
• Brown Sugar Challenge Blog, #138: Anything Goes
• Sister Act Card Challenge #98: Anything Goes

Green Butterflies!

A clean and simple card. I used an embossing folder and my Martha Stewart Monarch Butterfly Punch and set them on a green ribbon band.

I enter this card in the following challenges:

• Fantasy Stampers Challenge Blog: #32 Spring is in the Air
• Eureka Stamps Challenge #132: The Color Green
• Crafty Boots Challenges, March 16: Spring
• Craft your Passion Challenge #253: Always Anything Goes
• Creatalicous Challenges #73: Anything Goes
• The Pink Elephant Challenge TPE #290: Pinch Me

Blue Skies are ahead!

I saw a similar card on Pinterest by My Chic & Crafty Lil' Heart. I like the idea of the transparent paper on top of the patterned paper. That's why I tried it. As I recently bought the Lawn Fawn Blue Skies stamp set I created this get well card:

I enter this card in the following challenges:

• Cut it Up, #66: Windy!
• Creative Fingers Challenge Blog, #70: Anything Goes!
• Loves Rubberstamps Challenge Blog, #141: Anything Goes!
• Papertake Weekly Challenge, March 3: Anything Goes!
• Sisteract Card Challenge #96: Anything Goes

Welcome, Johanna!

My cousin welcomed her second child two weeks ago. After a cute boy she and her husband added a sweet little girl to their family. Her name: Johanna.
I made the following card for her:

I enter this card in the following challenges:

• Creative Friday, #123: girly
• Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge Blog, #217: One for the girls/Female Cards
• The Pink Elephant Challenge, TPE #288: Girly Girl
• Chocolate, Coffee & Cards Challenge, #86: For a Child
• Through the Craftroom Door, TTCRD March 3-9: Anything Goes

Treasure chest for Sebastian!

As for all kids in our family, I also made a treasure chest for Sebastian, the son of my cousin. I used another cigar box of my late father and decorated all sides of it with various papers, washi tapes and stickers. It is one of my most time consuming projects so far. I love the outcome!

I enter this project in the following challenges:

• Crafts 4 Eternity Recipe Challenge, #R 216: Anything BUT a card
• Crafty Boots Challenge, March 2: Anything BUT a card
• Ruby's Rainbow, #99: Anything But a card

Butterflies on a branch!

I love to use the Martha Stewart monarch butterfly punch. As spring is coming, I created the following card where two butterflies are "sitting" on a branch of a tree:

I enter this card in the following challenges:

• Brown Sugar Challenge Blog #136: Spring
• Crafting By Designs, March 4: March Anything Goes Challenge
• Wags'n Wiskers #149: Ready for Spring
• Allsorts challenge blog, week 301: Spring is in the Air
• Crafty Sentiments Designs, March 3: Spring Colours Challenge
• Creative Card Crew, #82: Green
• Creative Moments, #63: Anything Goes/Spring Greens
• Eclectic Ellapu, March 1: Go Green

Happy Birthday, Erika!

It's been a long time since my last post. The reason is that my kids and I have constantly been sick since Christmas. With two little sick kids at home I had no energy in the evenings for my hobbies. I just went straight to bed.

But here is a new card of mine which I made for my aunt who's birthday is in two weeks.

I enter this card in the following challenges:

• Sweet Stampin' Challenge, March 7: Green for St Patrick's Day
• 4 Crafty Chicks 4CC #236: Green
• A Gem of a Challenge #139: Clean and Simple
• Addicted to Stamps Challenge Blog #134: Clean and Simple
• Craft your Passion Challenges #251: Always Anything Goes
• Simply Create Too, #80: St Patrick's Day/Mostly Green