Birthday greetings from Nina!

In Austria we had a fabulous crafting magazine called "kleinformat". Unfortunately, the owner had to stop printing it this summer and continues with a blog. In one of the editions I got, I read an article about "Nina and Other Little Things". I liked Nina immediately! It turned out that you can order a Nina stamp online. I did so, and made a birthday card for my best friend using the Nina stamp.

I hope you like the stamp too:

I used the "Hearts a flutter" dies to create the garland.

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• Crafty Catz #200: Happy Birthday
• Crafting By Designs, Anything Goes, October 2
• Challenges 4 Everybody #30: Anything Goes
• Creative Craft Challenges2 #20: Anything Goes
• Papertake Weekly Challenge: Anything Goes, October 1
• ABC Challenge: W for Words
• Sister Act Card Challenge #26: Anything Goes

My first diaper cake!

A friend of mine welcomed a baby boy last week. As two other friends and I will visit the new arrival in two weeks I thought of a present. At the moment I love to use my "Zoo babies" stamps from stampin'up.
Scanning various scrapbooking galleries for inspiration, I saw a project at http://remarkablycreated.com/ where Janet Wakeland made a diaper cake using the Zoo Babies as decoration. Immediately, I knew that want to try one too and that this will be my present for Gerwin.

Here is my version, a three layer diaper cake:

I used a criss-cross stitch to create separated segments between the animals and make it look like crafted sleeves. On top, I sewed a blue ribbon on every sleeve. The cherry on top are the two blue flags saying "a gift for baby" and the dummies.

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• Crafting By Designs: Anything Goes, October 2
• Aud Sentiments Challenge Blog #90: Sentiment for a child
• Challenges 4 Everybody #30: Anything Goes
• Creative Craft Challenges2 #20: Anything Goes
• Creative Knockouts #4: Your favourite things
• Paper Crafting Journey: For a Boy, September 26
• Papertake Weekly Challenge: Anything Goes, October 1

Pink Birthday wishes!

My cousin's daughter turned 6 last weekend and I made her a birthday card using just pink ink and paper.

It was another possibility to use my Stampin'up set "All in the family" together with other birthday stamps and different cutting dies.

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• Aud Sentiments Challenge Blog #90: Sentiment for a Child
• Bearly-Mine Challenge #105: Anything Goes
• Challenges 4 Everybody #29: Anything Goes
• Crafting By Designs, September 25: Anything Goes
• Inky Chicks #13: Pretty in Pink
• Kreativer Bastel Blog #31: Anything Goes
• Party Time Tuesday #139: Anything Goes
• Sister Act Card Challenge #25: Anything Goes
• ABC Challenge: V for very cute

Good Night, Baby!

I bought a cute Baby paper set from trimcraft a while ago. As a friend of mine is expecting in the next couple of days, I already made a baby card for her.
This time it is a clean and simple card:

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• Sister Act Card Challenge #24
• CAS on Sunday #19: Oh, Baby
• Love to Create Challenge Blog #83: Clean N Simple
• paulaholifieldcrafts ALBC, September 1: Clean & Simple
• ABC Challenges: V for Very Cute
• Challenges 4 Everybody #29: Anything Goes
• Kreativer Bastelblog #31: Anything Goes
• Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge Blog #144: Anything Goes

Let's go orange!

Today I was in the mood to use simply orange and yellow.

For the yellow paper and the butterflies I used two different embossing folders.

I finished it up with some embellishments and ribbon.

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• Creative Craft Challenges2 #19: Use Ribbon
• Crafty Cardmakers #100: Winged Things
• C.R.A.F.T. Challenge #224: Paper Piercing
• Challenges 4 Everybody #29: Anything Goes
• Flutter By Wednesday #252: Autumn Colors
• Kreativer Bastel Blog #31: Anything Goes
• Paper Crafting Journey, September 12: Flowers
• Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge Blog #144: Anything Goes
• Sister Act Chard Challenge #24

Party People!

For this funny birthday card I combined my "All in the family" and "Party Hearty" stamp set from Stampin'up. To get all the different colored hats it took longer than I thought. One reason was, that the ink didn't dry very fast on this white paper of mine. I found a suitable brad for every hat and inked the edges of the white paper with pink. Finally, a button as ornament.

I enter this card in the:

• Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge #144: Anything Goes
• Crafting By Designs: Anything Goes with KennyK Downloads
• Sister Act Card Challenge #23
• ABC Challenge: U for United
• Party Time Tuesday #137: Button it up
• Through the Craftroom Door Challenge: September 10, Anything Goes

Welcome, Zoo Babies!

New in my collection is the Stampin'up set "Zoo Babies". I love the characters! I had to try them out immediately.

They should feel like home, so I used the paper with the leaves and branches. ;-)

I have some birthdays coming up so I made a birthday card:

I enter this card in the:

• Crafty Ribbons Challenge #60: Anything Goes
• Aud Sentiments Challenge #88: Inspiration
• Challenges 4 Everybody #28: Anything Goes
• Paper Crafting Journey, August 22: Anything Goes
• Papertake Weekly Challenge, September 3: Anything Goes
• Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge #143: Spooled Items
• Sentimental Sundays #170: Happy Birthday
• Sister Act Card Challenge #23
• ABC Challenge: U for Unlimited
• Through the Craftroom Door, September 3: Anything Goes