Happy Friday everone!

Shall you watch The Royal Wedding later today?

I must admit I will be watching it, at least a little bit.

I wish them good luck!!!

Meanwhile I'm sitting there watching TV I'll probably have something really good for my coffee.

Something that is on my card maybe...hi,hi..

For my card I have used the sketch over at Papertake Weekly Challenge.

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Papers: Panduro - Happiness, Pink Dots

I must show you these fantastic buttons...

Stamps: Tina Wenke/Stampavie

Sentiment: Create with TLC

Color: Copics

Tools: Nestabilities Lacy Squares, Shapeabilities Nested Lacey Pennants

Glossy Accents, Buttons, Brads, Ribbon, Doily and Pearls

The inside...

Entered challenges:

Cute Card Thursday - Sketch (from Papertake Weekly)

Tuesday Throwdown - Brads (or Eyelets)

Top Tip Tuesday - Squares

Pear Tree Designs - Colourful

Simon Says Stamp and Show - Buttons

Phindy´s Place - Paper Piecing (Happy 1st Birthday! No time to hop around,sorry!)

Have a wonderful day!

Hugs, Birgit

Best Wishes

Hello again!

I created a card this morning for Card Patterns 

as well as the Bling It On challenge at Totally Gorjuss.

After I was finished, I looked at the card and thought - what have I done?

Was it not a bit too much glitter .... hmmm.

What do you think?

I started  by stamping the flower image from La Blanche,

 then colored it with Copic Markers and Stickles.

After that I cut and embossed it with a Nestabilities Label Eight,

and placed it over another cut and embossed purple cardstock, this time with Nestabilities Lattice Rectangles.

The background paper is so old that I do not know where it comes from,

it was stiched to the same purple cardstock.

But the piece that I have used with my punch is from BoBunny - "a gift of love".

The sentiment from StampingScrapping is stamped and cut with Shapabilities Fancy Tags.

I have decorated the card with flowers, ribbons, bead string and lace from my stash.

And the leaves have been given a coat of Glossy Accents.

Then I have gone loose with the Star Dust and Platinum Stickles!

Here is the inside....

I enter this card in Craft Your Passion Challenges too - Show Us Your Layers

Thank´s so much for stopping by! Have a wonderful day!

Hugs, Birgit.

Off Centre

Hello!

I hope you all had a wonderful weekend and a joyous Easter.

Thank you for looking what I have done this week for Less is More.

This little bird is from Crafty Secrets and I colored it with my Copics.

I would also like to use my new Spellbinders that I just got delivered.

The Metal Flower is given to me by my daughter, but I know she bought it at Panduro.

I placed a pearl in the middle.

I saw that my card can fit in The Ribbon Girl Challenge - Red, White and Blue.

That´s all from me.

Hugs to you....

Birthday card for Emma!

Happy Easter!

This will be a very short post because I want to spend time

as much as I can with my family this weekend.

But I still want to show a card that I have done to Emma who has just turned twelve.

This lovely stamp is from Tina Wenke / Stampavie,

and I colored it with Copics and used a little Stickles.

This is a close-up from the inside.

Entered Challenges:

Stamp With Fun - Birthday

A Spoonfull of Sugar - Lets Celebrate

Have a wonderfull Easter Sunday!

Hugs, Birgit

Once Upon A Time...

Hi there!

I have made a card where I have used the sketch over at Fruarna Lilja .

And I couldn´t resist these vintage images from The Graphic Fairy.

I matched them up with papers from Maja Design - Sommartider,

and some old lace from my stash.

On the framework, I put a little Crackle Accents and Stickles-Platinum.

My Once Upon A Time stamp are from What a Swirl stamps set from StampingScrapping,

and I have stamped directly on a white ribbon.

Different flowers from various producers,

and the frame around the image is made ​​with a Spellbinders Heart Circles.

For the inside I used another lovely image from The Graphic Fairy.

Entered Challenges:

Cupcake Craft Challenge - Lots Of Layers

Papertake Weekly Challenge - Spots N Stripes

Tuesday Throwdown - Polka Dots

Craft Your Passion Challenge - You´ve Been Spotted

Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge - Stitching

Thanks so much for stopping by today, I love you are visiting me!

Hugs, Birgit.

What experiments!

Good morning!

This week's challenge of Less is More, was to use acetate.

Oh dear, the only acetate I had left was already stamped with purple swirls!

I looked everywhere! Finally I found a small piece that has been cover for a box of craft stuff.

I have seen on youtube that you can heat emboss on acetate, so I thought I'd try it.

First I used Distress Ink Black Soot because I did not want the stamp would be jet black.

Then I poured the clear embossing powder over and warmed up.

Of the heat, the acetate shrunk together and became even smaller, and the color disappeared.

Of course I immediately realized my mistake.

Now what to do? Well I tryed to use Distress crackle paint all over, but it made ​​it gray instead.

So I tried to wipe away most of it. Then I found out that I would stamp on the top of the crackle paint instead, this time with black Momento Tuxedo.

Then the crackle paint started to crackle and fall off the acetate!

So then I put on Glossy accents over the whole surface.

The result you can see here ....

It appeared a shade of pink that I do not know where it comes from. Weird ...

Moreover, I also used a punch and seam binding that I wrinkled up.

On the inside I used a matching paper from Laura Ashley

to bring out the subject and the white crackle paint.

That´s it for my make this week, but I gotta tell you,

sometimes the result is quite different from that expected.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great week!

Hugs, Birgit.