Happy Easter!

Hi there,

hope you all have a wonderful Happy Easter!

I have started to clean up my tiny little stamping room - too much stuff inside. Seems that I do have enough paper 'til the end of my life, even if I planned to get 140 years old ;-)

So I decided to do not buy anymore paper as long as the cupboard is full with- except white or kraft. I use white cardstock mostly for my "clean and simple" card base and kraft to made scrapbooks.

I will be able to make many many cards. So if you see any card you like, please let me know and I would be happy to send it to you (for free - nothing required in return).

Here is an easter card I just made using some scrap images I had for ages in my stash:

Card is made for my daughter. She would love a goose as a pet as much as I do. Unfortunately our garden is to small to keep some.

Image is from Penny Black.

Have a wonderful Easter.

Sandra
(Sunny)

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)

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)