Here are two further round cards:

The bear is a 3D image in pyramid technique. I found out that it’s really easy to cut but quite hard to position the layers on one another especially if they are round. The text scrap is clipped between two brads and I used sticky foam pads to raise it a little bit (this is not really visible).

For the leaf card I used some things from my stash which since then I had no real idea what to use them for. Besides the leaf skeletons I found a chipboard flower, a wooden flower button and some fuzzy yellow yarn. I inked the chipboard flower with golden pigment ink and tied everything together with the yarn. The edges of the card have been chalked.

I made this card shortly after we’ve moved to a new home. The red background was once the bottom of a chocolate box which was a welcome gift from our new neighbours. At this time all my stash was still packed up in boxes. The flower embellishments were a freebie from the Papercraft Inspiration issue which was the first to be delivered to our new address. So all in all this is a highly symbolic card!

Here you can see the result of a bargain. The flowers are cut from a wall paper border I found in a DIY store. They are layered and the flower centers are made with Liquid Pearls.

The green ribbon has been sewed onto the card. With each turn of the thread I added a bead to it. The image of the orchid has only one layer but I formed it a bit to look three dimensional.

At the last craft and hobby fair I bought some round cards. By now I really like to use them. Here’s one for a wedding congratulation.

I stamped with a rose bouquet image around the edge of the card. Then I added mini eyelets evenly spaced and threaded thin ribbon through them. The heart in the middle is embossed.

This year (like all previous) I made the resolution to publish more often. I realized I don’t have to describe every card so detailed. This just prevented me from posting. So now with this astonishing insight I will put this into action.

And here comes the first card:

The circles are connected with thin wire which has several beads on it. The images are stamped and embossed with copper embossing powder.

Recently I stumbled across a little bag of foam shapes for just 1 Euro. I thought these would be perfect for Johanna’s (nearly 2) first self made card. I let her choose the colours and how things are arranged on the card. She painted with crayons and adhered the shapes.

I love the result. It was such fun and really easy to prepare.

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Lange hab ich den Sketch auf dem Inchie-Bingo-Blog immer wieder angesehen, ohne das mir eine Idee kam. Aber gestern abend kam mir die Idee, natürlich wieder genau zu der Zeit, wo ich eigentlich schlafen wollte. Naja, dann hab ich die Idee im Kopf noch ein bissl ausgearbeitet und dann heute umgesetzt. Dabei hab ich den Sketch einmal gedreht.

Bei dieser Karte habe ich fast ausschließlich mit VersaMark-Tinte und Kreide gearbeitet. Nur der Schmetterling ist jeweils mit schwarz gestempelt, damit er sich besser vom Hintergrund abhebt.

This year I had enough time to make a valentines card for my hubby. He was really excited.

Again 2 challenges inspired me to this card. The most obvious one was from Caardvarks who just had the rule to use a heart on the card. (Challenge post) This is not hard when doing a valentines card. The second was the 102. Sketch-Challenge by CPS.

And here comes the card:

Not everything turned out as expected but it seldom does. Nevertheless I like the card. The saying says: “You have the key to my heart.”Now for the description of the card:

Material:

• gray card
• patterned paper
• reddish paper
• heart stamp
• script stamp
• gold metal foil (a bit thicker)
• some lace
• VersaMark ink
• transparent embossing powder
• brown chalk
• ruby ink
• dark-red pen

Stamp the heart with VersaMark ink onto the reddish paper and emboss it with transparent powder. Cut it out and cut a key hole shape in the middle of it. Draw the key on the foil and cut it out. Be careful, the foil can be quite sharp! Then work the foil with an embossing pen to make it more 3-dimensional. Therefor use the small end on the front to “portion” the key and the bigger end on the back to round the key.

Cut the patterned paper and chalk its border with the brown chalk. Attach the lace to the lower border on the back of the paper. Ink the border of the card with ruby ink and stamp with the script stamp and VersaMark ink on its left side.

Attach the patterned paper on the card and glue down the heart overlapping it. Place the key on the patterned paper with foam pads. Finally write the saying with the red pen beneath it.

My Granny’s 80th birthday is soon and for her card I was inspired by two blog challenges. The first one is from A Spoon Full of Sugar and  it is called “Doodle Doo“. The second one is from Everybody Art Challenge and is named “Tag“.

The following card is the result of both:

Such a challenge is really handy for forming a first idea of a card. From there on the imagination just flows.

Especially the doodling was a lot of fun and easier than I expected. I guess I will use it more often from now on.

Here comes a little description of the card.
Material:

• white square card
• purple cardstock
• light-purple wallpaper or other structured paper
• patterned paper
• white gel pen
• Cuttlebug alphabet or similar die-cut numbers
• purple pen
• purple chalk
• narrow and broad purple ribbon
• purple eyelet
• border stamp
• white ink, best is StazOn
• purple half-pearls

Cut the numbers from the purple cardstock using the Cuttlebug. Draw a wavy line onto them with the white gel pen. Cut a tag from the patterned paper, draw some faux stitches with the purple pen and chalk the border. Set the eyelet on the top of the tag and attach the narrow ribbon to it. Glue the numbers to the tag.

Cut a square from the cardstock and the wallpaper with each one 1cm smaller than the other. Attach the wallpaper square to the cardstock one and glue the broad ribbon over the lower third of both. Best is to fasten the ribbon ends on the back with tape. Stamp the border with white ink onto the ribbon. The easiest are acrylic stamps especially if the stamp is shorter than the ribbon. Attach the whole thing to the white card.

Doodle some flowers onto another piece of cardstock and cut them out. Attach tag and flowers with foam pads on the card. Then decorate the border of the purple cardstock with doodles. At last glue some half-pearls on the lower edge of the wallpaper.