Hidden message!

I haven't used the Essential Sentiments Rip Strips Die-namics by My Favorite Things much but for this unicorn friendship card I hid an important message behind it.

I enter this card into the following challenges:

• Everybody Art Challenge #425: versteckte Botschaft
• Crafting from the heart #205: Anything Goes
• Lemon Shortbread Challenge Blog #67: Anything Goes

Love, Grandma!

I made this mother's day card for my grandmother:

I enter this card in the following challenges:

• 4 Crafty Chicks #401: Women's Celebration
• Creative Friday #204: for a girl/woman
• Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge Blog #378: Anything Goes

Again, ... Birthday!

I enter this birthday card in the following challenges:

• Crafty Cardmakers #210: Birthdays
• TTCRD, April 24: Anything Goes
• Crafting from the Heart #203: Anything Goes

Floral Frenzy!

I enter this colorful card with heat embossed doodle blooms by My Favorite Things for the current Simon Says Challenge: Floral Frenzy:

Furthermore, I enter this card in the following challenges:

• QKR Stampede #288: Anything Goes
• Creative Fingers Challenge Blog #144: Anything Goes
• Colour Crazy Challenge #12: Anything Goes

Concrete Mixer for your Birthday!

This is the birthday card I made for my son's 3th birthday. He loves ALL site vehicles. So I bought the stamp set "keep on trucking" by Your Next Stamp.

I enter this card in the following challenges:

• Creatalicous Challenges #133: Anything Goes
• Fab'n'Funky Challenges #381: Babies, Boy or Men
• Everybody Art Challenge #419: Männerkarte
• A Bit More Time To Craft Challenge #62: Anything Goes
• Inspiration Destination Challenge Blog #144: Anything Goes

Blueish!

I haven't done a brayered background in a while. This time I chose blue and related colors with a "create a smile" birthday sentiment.

I enter this card in the following challenges:

• Impression Obsession Challenge, February 15: Birthday Wishes
• Addicted to Stamps and More #279: CAS
• TTCRD, February 13: Anything Goes
• Kreative Knockouts #233: Anything Goes

Snowflakes, big and small!

Today, I show you a CAS winter card with a snowflake background stamp by Create A Smile Stamps and a snow man by Depot.

I enter this card in the following challenges:

• Dani Peuss #61: Schnee Weiß
• Creative Friday #197: Es schneit!
• Handmade on Tuesday #134
• A Gem of a Challenge #221: Cool in Blue
• Crafty Catz #400: Anything Goes

Koala Birthday Wishes!

For this birthday card I used the Create a Smile stamp set "full of treasures" on a brayered background.

I enter this card in the following challenges:

• HLS January Mixed Media Challenge: Garden
• Brown Sugar Challenge Blog #274: Birthday
• QKR Stampede Challenge #277: Anything Goes
• Crafty Catz #398: Anything Goes
• Colour Crazy Challenge, Week 1: Anything Goes

First Card with Krumspring product!

This is my first card using my Krumspring butterfly stamp on a birthday card with a stencilled background and a sentiment by Create A Smile Stamps.

I enter this card in the following challenges:

• Lil Patch of Crafty Friends Challenge #70: Anything Goes
• Sweet Stampin', November 18: It's Our Birthday
• TTCRD, November 21: Anything Goes
• Cards and More Challenge Blog #198: Things with Wings
• Everybody Art Challenge #413: Anything Goes

Sweet Greetings with Strawberries!

This strawberry card suits perfectly for this weeks Cards and More Challenge #197: Anything Goes with Red.

New Backdrops!

For this card I played with new backdrops I purchased recently. Centerpiece is the cute "Adorable Elephant" by My Favorite Things which is one of my favorite stamp set. Sentiment is by Create A Smile Stamps.

I enter this card in the following challenges:

• Cute as a Button Challenge #39: Anything Goes
• Addicted to Stamps and More #266: Anything Goes
• Crafty Sentiments Designs Challenge Blog, October 31: Use your Favorite Stamp
• Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge Blog #353: Anything Goes
• Creative Fingers Challenge Blog #140: Anything Goes

First texture paste card!

Today, I wanna show you my first card where I used texture paste on an ombre background using a mandala stencil. It was easier to create as I thought and the outcome is amazing! I love it! That evening I made a bunch of textured backgrounds for future cards to come.

I enter this card in the following challenges:

• A Bit More Time To Craft Challenge #55: Anything Goes
• Inspiration Destination Challenge Blog #137: Anything Goes
• Crafting By Designs, November 1: Anything Goes
• Eclectic Ellapu, November 1: Anything Goes
• Creatalicous Challenges #126: Anything Goes

With Love!

I tried a new technique: coloring my embossing folders first and then put the white paper in it to run it through the big shot. I used 3d Pearl Paint from Action. As you can't use them to create "nuvo drops" because they are bad quality I was looking for another way to use it.

I enter this card for the following challenges:

• TIME OUT challenges #93: Breast Cancer Awareness
• Creatalicious Challenges #124: Anything Goes
• TTCRD, September 26: Anything Goes

Full of treasures!

I used the koala from Create A Smiles "full of treasures" stamp set to create this scenery for a thank you card.

I enter this card in the following challenges:

• Kreativ Durcheinander #45: Dankbar
• Colour Crazy Challenge #39: Anything Goes
• Simon Says #42: Anything Goes
• QKR Stampede #263: Cut It Up
• Creative Knockouts #213: Lots of Layers

Flying by for your Birthday!

This is my first card I was using my Happy Hippo stamp set by My Favorite Things. "Balloons in the Sky" is the name of the background from Create a Smile stamps.

I enter this card in the following challenges:

• Sweet Stampin', September 23: Cute & Cuddly
• Crafting from the heart #176: Anything Goes
• Scrapbook Stamp Society #126: Anything Goes
• Crafty Catz #385: Birthday Party Time
• QKR Stampede #262: Embossing

Time flies - belated birthday card!

I made this belated birthday card with the stamp set "time flies" by Create a Smile stamps.

I enter this card in the following challenges:

• Allsorts Challenge Blog #434: Things with Wings
• Colour Crazy Challenge #38: Anything Goes
• CAS on Friday #117: Dies
• Come and Get it Challenges, September 24: Anything Goes

All in Blue Birthday Owl!

This is the second card today where I used the "floral fantasy background" stamp by My Favorite Things behind the Rectangle Peek A Boo Window Die-Namics and their cute owl. The sentiment says "today is your birthday" by Create a Smile Stamps.

I enter this card in the following challenge:

• Tuesday Throwdown #360: Happy Birthday

Autumnal Coloured Friendship Card!

Tonight, I want to show you another card I created with using the brayered background technique I learned from a video by Yana Smakula. The sentiment is by Create A Smile Stamps and says "happy to call you my friend".

I enter this card in the following challenges:

• Craft for the Craig, September 3: Autumnal Coloured Project
• Scrapbook Stamp Society #124: Anything Goes
• Artistic Inspirations Challenge Blog #185: Anything Goes
• Crafting from the Heart #173: Anything Goes

Surprise: Koala Baby!

Today, I want to show you another baby boy card I made with the new Create a Smile stamp set "ein Wagen voller Schaetze".

I enter this card in the following challenges:

• AAA Cards #98: Creatures Great or Small
• Brown Sugar Challenge Blog #266: Anything Goes
• 613 Avenue Create #201: Anything Goes

Kraft Paper Birthday Card!

With my new stamps and die cut sentiments by Create a Smile stamps I created this cute birthday card with the Adorable Elephant by My Favorite Things.

I enter this card in the following challenges:

• A Gem of a Challenge #202: Use Kraft Card/Paper
• QKR Stampede Challenge #259: Anything Goes
• LTSCB #101: Anything Goes
• LTCCB #14: September Anything Goes
• Crafting with Friends #49: Anything Goes