Happy Birthday in Monochromatic!

I saw that two challenge blog require something wooden and another blog's topic is monochromatic.
So I made the following card using my favourite woodgrain embossing folder and the Martha Stewart monarch butterfly punch again in my favourite color purple:

I enter this card in the following challenges:

• Crafty cardmakers and more #118: Wooden it be lovely
• CASology #101: Wood
• Little Red Wagon #243: Animal Antics
• Aud Sentiments Challenge Blog #109: TWO word sentiment 
• CAS on Sunday #36: Birthday
• Creatalicious Challenges #36: Happy Birthday!
• Crafty Creations Challenges #266: Things with wings
• The Sisterhood of Crafters, June 25: For the love of Monochromatic

Simple embossed birthday wishes!

I saw a clean and simple card from Jacquie Southas on Pinterest I wanted to try myself as you can never have enough birthday cards at home:

I enter this card in the following challenges:

• C.R.A.F.T. Challenge #261: Paperpiercing
• Crafty Creations Challenge #264: It is all about S
• Crafty Catz #232: Embossing
• TTCRD Challenge, May 27-June 2: Anything Goes
• The Pink Elephant #252: Anything Goes
• Challenges 4 Everybody #41: Anything Goes

Birthday wishes on wheels!

Finally, I had some time again to create some cards and to share them with you too.
I wanted to use my bicycle stamp for really some time now, and got inspired by a card from www.stampingpretty.com on Pinterest.

I used the heat embossing technique for the bicycle stamp. I like the simplicity of the card. I put white twine through the blue button.

I enter this card in the following challenges:

• Eureka Stamps Challenge #91: Masculine or Grungy
• Ruby's Rainbow #80: One for the Boys
• Simply Create Too #62: Father's Day (or for a Male)
• Sister Act Card Challenge #58: Anything Goes
• The Paper Nest Dolls Challenge #11: Anything Goes
• Party Time Tuesdays PTT #174: Anything Goes

Butterfly in the woods!

One of my clean and simple birthday card is this one, where I used my woodgrain embossing folder and punched out the Martha Stewart monarch butterfly and put a beautiful patterened paper behind it. At the bottom are some ladybeetles crawling.

I enter this card in the following challenges:

• Kreativer Bastelblog #46: Alles was fliegt
• Sister Act Card Challenge #55: Anything Goes
• Challenges 4 Everybody #41: Anything Goes
• Papertake Weekly Challenge, May 6: Anything Goes
• TTCRD Challenge, May 6-12: Anything Goes
• C.R.A.F.T. challenge #258: Birthday

First Mother and Daughter creations!

Yesterday evening I made Mother's Day cards for my two grandmothers, my mom and my mother-in-law.
My little daughters favorite activity at the moment is painting. So I thought I use parts of her very first drawings for the cards and leave the rest of the layout the same.

Here, you can see a picture will all four cards:

Aren't they beautiful? For the sentiment I used the heat embossing technique once more.

And here are the four cards one by one:

I enter this cards in the following challenges:

• TPE #249: Mother's Day
• Cut it up #49: Mother's Day
• Crafting by Designs, May 7: M is for Mom
• Addicted to Stamps #94: CAS
• Carisma Cardz Challenge #10: Mother's Day

Grandma's Garden Scenery!

My beloved Grandma had her birthday recently and I made her the following card:

I built the fence myself with a suitable designer paper. The basket with tulips is a stamp I colored with my copic markers and added a rhinestone on the bow. The three pink flowers are made of wood and the flower stem is cut out with a die cut. The little rabbit on the lower right corner is a sticker as well as the flowers surrounding the sentiment. The butterfly is once again made with my monarch butterfly punch from Martha Stewart.

I enter this card in the following challenges:

• Craft your Passion #211: Up in the Air / Things that can fly
• The Paper Nest Dolls #9: Anything Goes
• Creative Knockout #35: Flower Galore
• Crafty Cardmakers #115: It's a bug's life
• Bearly-Mine Challenge Blog, May 2014 Challenge: Flowers

Only Washi Tape, no Designer Paper!

I needed a birthday card for a relative of mine who turned 50 last weekend. As I haven't use Washi Tapes for a while I made this card only with Washi Tapes and used no designer paper at all. I was inspired by a card from  "A Christy Production" I saw on Pinterest.

For the numerics I used the heat embossing technique and red powder. The buttons and the brad give the card the final touch.

I enter this card in the following challenges:

• Ribbon Carousel RCC#91: Party Time
• ABC challenge, May 1: K is for Keep it Simple
• Paper Crafting Journey, May 1: Spots and/or Stripes 
• Aud Sentiments Challenge Blog #105: Use a Birthday Sentiment or the Number 4
• Crafting by Desings, April 30: May Anything Goes Challenge
• TTCRD challenge, April 29 - May 5: Anything Goes
• Sister Act Card Challenge #55: Anything Goes