Birthday card

Hi there,

here is a birthday card with the age on the front :-)

I used some stamps I had for a while and matchings dies.Background is an old book page. Love the combination.

Have a nice day, happy stamping!

Sandra
(Sunny)

Supplies:
Paper: No name out of my stash
Stamps: Stampin Up
Dies: Stampin Up
Inkpads: Stampin Up, Distress

Little Sneak / kleine Vorschau

Hi there,
Hallo,

here is just a little sneak of what I made over the weekend... Scrapbook isn't finished yet, still need to decorate the other pages....
Hier kommt ein kleiner Einblick, was ich am Wochenende gemacht habe. Dies ist eine von 12 Doppelseiten, die das Scrapbook beinhaltet. Das Grundgerüst des Albums ist fertig, ich habe meine Bind-it-All mal wieder entstaubt. Nun fehlt nur noch Feinschliff, sprich die Dekoration der Innenseiten.

Want to see more? Just leave a comment and I will take more pictures.
Interesse an weiteren Fotos? Dann hinterlasse einen Kommentar und ich knipse auch die anderen Seiten.

Have a nice sunday, happy stamping
Wünsche Euch einen schönen Sonntag, viel Spaß beim Kreativ sein!

Sandra
(Sunny)

Opening a business

One of my colleagues, Chris, asked me for an individual card. His friend will open a business (dog parlor) soon and Chris wanted something special.

I really like dogs but as a true cat lover I have only a few dog stamps. I remembered my card I made for the OLS "road trip" theme some months ago and ended with something similar:

I printed the sentiment ("all the best to your open business") on heavy white card stock. Think it is much easier to print first and stamp the image afterwards. Using a stamp-a-ma-jig to get the stamp in the right spot. Coloured it with different water based dye ink pads. Let it dry. Card takes from start to finish less than 10 minutes.

Supplies:
Stamps: Penny Black
Ink: Memento Tuxedo black, several Distress inks (for colouring)

Thanks for stopping by.

Have a wonderful sunday, happy stamping.

Sandra
(Sunny)

Thank you (OLS Challenge #8: Shades of Summer)

Only one colour combo left at the OLS Challenge #8: Shades of Summer. ;-) I really, really enjoyed the challenge this month and played several times and used all other colour combos at least once.

This time I used the last missing Shades of Summer #4:

This is my first autumn themed card in 2014. But as it seems that summer is already over here, well - why not?

Stamp is from an old Hostess Set by Stampin Up. Coloured the image with Distress inks and a wet paint brush. I really like the effect the Distress ink made. It is a very soft watercolour look.

Supplies:
Stamp: Stampin Up - A little Bit of Happiness (Hostess-Set, discontinued)
Ink Pads:
Memento - Tuxedo Black,
Distress - Tea Dye, Peeled Paint, Vintage Photo
Water fillable Paint brush - Kuretake

Thanks for stopping by.

Have a nice day, happy stamping!

Sandra
(Sunny)

Congratulations

Of course I still do stamping other cards than for the OLS challenge, too. :-)

But to be honest the August theme of the OLS has inspired me really, really a lot.

So, this card won't fulfill the rules of the OLS, because it has TWO layers, but the colour combo is inspired by the "Shades of Summer #3" (which was my most favourite of all).

I was in need of another birthday card so I made this one:

This time I combined different stamp companies and inks. They fit nicely together. Just think outside the box. Not necessary to use only products of ONE company (at least when you don't work as a DT member or SU-Demo).

Supplies:
Stamps: Stampin Up (flower), Hero Arts (chevron), MSE (sentiment)
Ink: Stampin Up, Distress, Memento
Rhinestones: noname
Punch: Stampin Up

Have a great day, happy stamping

Sandra
(Sunny)

Using Your Scraps

I really dislike to waste any paper.

Usually I use only tiny pieces of paper when I want to use some framelits or punches but this time I used a full card base to cut my framelits I needed for an other project (wedding card- forget to show *sorry*).

So this blue card base is the leftover piece and I wanted to made a card with it. I used a half sheet of white card stock, marked the inside with a pencil so I know exactly where to stamp and used the coordnating stamp set for the framelits set. Softy erased my pencil lines and glued the white cardstock to the inside of the blue card base so the hole of the framelits is covered.

Then I coloured the sentiment lightly with some distress ink and my waterbrush. Of course, the card needed some decorations. So I used another stamp set and stamped the flowers in blue, orange and punched them with their matching punch.

The flower center is another small punch.Coloured some clear rhinestones with alcohol markers and mounted all together.

I don't know why but coloured cardstock isn't compatible with "clean and simple" for me. So I usually ended up with a lot of things on my cards *sigh* Guess I should ask Susan for some coaching...

Supplies:
Stamps: Stampin Up
Ink: Memento, Stampin Up, Distress
Punches/Framelits: Stampin Up
Additional: Foam Tape, Rhinestones, Alcohol markers

Have a nice day,

Sandra
(Sunny)

the opposite of clean and simple

Ok, every now and then I want to stamp something not so clean and not so simple.

Even I still reduce the embelishment to a minimum - owing to the  german mailing cost : to send a card with those many layers of paper and tons of embelishment would cost a fortune *sigh*

This is the card I came up with:

Hm... the colours don't show up well. Sorry!

I used Distress inks (first and second generation stamping) and the light green paper isn't that gaudy in real.

Stamps:
Stampin Up - "Zeitlos" (german set name -  I think the original name is "Vintage Vogue")
Inks:
Memento Tuxedo black
Distress Frayed Burlap, Victorian Velvet
Paper:
Papyrus (white), noname (light green)
Other Supplies:
Framelits (Stampin Up), Scissors, Foam tape, brads.

Have a nice day,

Sandra
(Sunny)