Some Amazing news and World Card Making Day 2017!!!!

Hello everyone and thank you for stopping by!!!!

I have some amazing news to share with you:

I made it into the awesome Heffy Doodle Stamps Design Team 2017/18 !!!!!!

How amazing is that, right? I´m still over the moon and I´m feeling so honored that I was selected to work together with all these amazingly talented ladies!!! wooooot woooot!!!! You can find out more about the Team if you click on the picture!!!

As today is the official World Cardmaking Day Heffy Doodle provides not one but two special designed free digi stamp that you can download on the Heffy Doodle Blog. One of them has an american mailbox on it and the other one a british version, but both are just adorable ans supercute!!!!

 I chose the british free digi stamp as it is closer to the german mailboxes, than the american one. 

So here is my take on it: 

I started by printing out the image on some shimmery white cardstock and colored it using watercolors really carefully so I won´t smudge the black printer ink. It was a challenge, trust me :) Thank god for hairspray to fix the image at first lol

You might wonder why my mailbox is yellow instead of the british red??? As I live in Germany I chose that my bear will have a german yellow mailbox.  

I picked a notecard as a base and diecut a stitched rectangle out of flirty flamingo cardstock to matt under the  colored image.  On both sides I added a piece of light blue ribbon for a nice touch. 

To add a little bling I gave my cute little bear a necklace out of rhinestones and also put a rhinestone in every corner of the image. 

Last but not least I added the sentiment "Happy World Cardmaking Day" to the card and popped it up on foam dots. Where did I got that sentiment from you might ask??? Guess what???? You get it free with the digi download!!! How cool is that!!! Extra Win, I would say!!! I just cut it out including that lovely little globe that comes with it. Fits perfectly for today, don´t you think??? BUt of course you can use that awesome free Digi stamp for all kind of other cards.

 I hope you will have a great and very creative World Cardmaking Day!!!! Check out the Heffy Doodle Blog for more inspiration for this stamp. 

Happy Crafting everyone!!!!

Big crafty hugs
 Maria :)



 

Happy Valentine's day

Hello everyone and thank you for stopping by.  Today I want to reveal what the countdown was for. Last month I finally became an independent Stampin' Up! Demonstrator and I'm still so excited about it.  I joined my great Demonstrator's Franzi's team and we are going to have our firdt team meeting and event next month.It will be sooooooo much fun.

Okay now to today's project.  The sweet Franzi invited me to her Valentine's workshop and as always I prepared a little hostess gift for her. As it was valentines themed i picked the theme too and do she got this cute
VALENTINE'S MAILBOX

I found the idea and a written tutorial for it on the blog of the awesome Mary Fish.
She used the milkbox die Stampin up had until last june. As I don't have that die I went and looked for a tutorial on how to make the milkbox on my own.
I found a very easy one including a video tutorial (these are the best) from the great Sam Pootles (I know that it's not her real name) and made my milk carton just like shown in her tutorial. 

I added a little bow, that I made with the new Stampin´Up! Bow builder punch from the spring catalog. I used the Stacked with love DesignerseriesPaper and also used the same pattern for the pannels on the front and back of the mailbox. The hearts and the border were punched with the Stampin up heart border punch. 

I just love how this little project turned out and I´m happy that Franzi liked it as well :)

So I used great Stampin´Up resources to make this mailbox for my Upline Demonstrator.  How cool is that, huh?

Let me know what you think of it and please show pictures if you try to make the mailbox yourself. 

Have a wonderful Valentine's weekend and Happy Crafting everyone

Maria :)