Baby shower

Hi there,

I really enjoy to reanimate my blog :-)

Two stamping friends just became mother - Katharina got a little boy named Anton, and Cigdem a little girl.  So I was in need of two baby cards. Usually all of my friends are in a age range where no longer children are expected (maybe grandchildren in a few years :-) ) so I don't have a lot of baby stamps in my stash and need to improvise...

This card was for a boy:

And this for a little girl:

Usually I am not into these "Barbie" colours :-) My alltime favourite colours are all these blue-green colours like teal, Turquoise, soft sky and mint. But I thought blue wouldn't fit to a little girl. So I decided to take some soft pink colours... As I didn't know her name I stamped just "Baby"...

Which one do you prefer?

Have a nice day, happy stamping!

Sandra
(Sunny)

Supplies:
Stamps: Stampin Up (Sentences), Hero Arts (letters - discontinued)
Punch: Stampin Up
Embossing folder: Stampin Up
Paper: No Name out of my stash

Halloween cat/ how my stamping changed over the years

Well, Halloween is already over but I want to show you another card I made this year:

I used another stamp of the cute Lawn Fawn Halloween set, this time I choose the small cat, the hat and matching dies:

Supplies:
Stamps: Lawn Fawn
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Grape Jelly
Dies: Lawn Fawn
Paper: Papyrus
Alcohol markers: Delta Markers by Rotbart (coloured ones), Trias by Pantone (grey & black)
Miscelleaneous: Diamensionals, snail adhesive
 
And then I realized how much my stamping has changed over the years. I am more and more into the clean and simple style, lots of white spaces and less or none embellishments.

For example. this is a card I made two years ago (?) for Halloween:

Supplies:
Stamps: Magnolia
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Brilliance Lightening Black (Spiderweb on the black cardstock), Distress inks (for colouring the image)
Dies/Punches: Stampin Up, Quickutz, Spellbinders
Paper: Canson & different out of my stash
Miscelleaneous: Embossing folder, scissors, glue


And this card is even older, I made it in my beginning of stamping

Supplies:
Stamps: Penny Black (cat), unknown (Halloween sentiment)
Ink: Clearsnap Embossing Black

Paper: different out of my stash
Miscelleaneous: scissors, glue, napkin, Eyelets, markers, black embossing powder, heat gun


I used a piece of matching napkin as a background. Love this technique (easy to make fast backgrounds) but as it is a "No-Go" at the stamping scene I usually avoid sending cards with napkin backgrounds to others stampers.

Used some Eyelets to attach the stamped sentiment on the card.

Eyelets are one of the things I used to use really a lot. But when I started to create "clean & simple" cards I thought they won't fit into the clean and simple category.

Do you have any suggestions for another use of these large box full of eyelets I have? Any comments are highly appreciated.

Have a great day, thanks for stopping by.

Sandra
(Sunny)

Christmas card # 3

This is Christmas card # 3 I made last Sunday:

Supplies (all Stampin up):
Stamp: unknown name
Ink: Baked Brown Sugar
Paper: Real Red, Basic Black, Baked Brown Sugar, Whisper White, Dazzling Diamond Glimmer Paper
Miscelleaneous: Mustache framelits die, Label Petite Curly Punch, Diamensionals, Snail Adhesive, Polka Dot Embossing Folder

Thanks for stopping by!

Sandra
(Sunny)

Another small gift card

I made another small gift card using my brand new embossing folder. Well, I am sure that the folder itself isn't brand new, but I was searching for some not so small dots like the one I already have and found this one in our local craft store.

Sigh. I can't never leave the craft store without buying at least ONE new embossing folder, smile. They are my personal heaven. (Better not to tell you that last time -last friday-  I bought more than one folder *g*)

The embossing folder of Cuttlebug are still my most favourite of all. They are cheap (about half the prize of the SU folder) and the results are really great. They don't break the paper like some of the old SU folder do.

I also like the embossing folders of Sizzix and can't cardly wait for the new designs by Stephanie Ackerman. Hope they will be available here oversea SOON.

Back to my card.

I used several Stamps by Stampin Up (Mixed Bunch and Vintage Vogue stamp sets) .

Have a nice day,

Sandra
(Sunny)