Happy Mother's day!

Hello and thank you for stopping by. Just a quick post today while I'm on my way to work. I hope you all had a great mother's day. Here are 4 mother's day cards I made this year. The green one with the german sentiment was for my own mom and she really liked it (she loves green, so this was a safe choice)
Please let me know what you think!
HAPPY CRAFTING!!!!!!

For my mom

For a garden loving lady

For a sweet friend that just had her first child

And her mom

Happy Easter!!!

Hello and thank you for stopping by!!!
Just wanted to wish all of you and your families a very blessed easter!!! Enjoy the chocolate, eggs and good food and time together!!!
Here are some easter treatboxes,  that my friend Laura inspired me to. I made them for my colleagues at work as little easter-treat :) They seemed to have really liked them :)

 

Can you spot the little bunnies and eggs hiding in the treatholder? The paper and  the flowers were stamped and punched using the Petite Petals bundle from Stampin' Up!!! I love that bundle, it´s so great :)
Happy Easter and Happy Crafting everyone!!!

Morning Meadow madness!!!

Hello and Thank you for stopping by!!! I was very pleased about all the positive reactions after my first post and the new design of my Blog!!! Thank you everyone!!
This past weekend I was looking for inspiration and found this awesome card on Pinterest using the Stampin Up stampset Morning meadow.
This card inspired me so very much that I made my own version of it.

I used a different matching stamp for the pansies that is also in the Morning Meadow set and fits the pansy-punch from Stampin Up. I stamped the flowers on Very Vanilla cardstock.
I curled the leafes of the flower with my bonefolder to give them a more realistic effect and added some bling in the middle to make them more elegant :)
I used my distressinks and the Inkssentials blending tool from Ranger for adding the color over the white embossed branches.
I also dryembossed the paper with some scorelines to give it a little frame :)
The sentiment I added is also from Stampin Up from the set Simply Sketched.

One card of that kind wasn´t enough for me (and here begins the madness) and so I made a few in different colors :

The other sentiment stamps I used are from LOTV´s Simply Sophisticated
My wonderful creative friend Cindy gave me the advice/idea to make some in multi-colors and so I did an I really like how they turned out :)

 

Please let me know what you think and which one is your favourite. I hope you will have a fantastic weekend!!
HAPPY CRAFTING!!!!

Happy New 2014

Hello and thank you for stopping by!!! First of all I want to wish all of you a wonderful and successful  Year 2014!!! I know I have neglected my blog very very much in the past year, but I can't change the past and so I will just try to be a better blogger this year. I won't promise blogging on a regular basis but I have a few cards that I made that I would love to share with you.

So here is the card I want to start my new Bloggingyear with:

The image on the card is from the new actual Launch of LOTV and is called James-Butterflies. I colored him with my Ranger Distressinks and cut him out with the Labels 2 Die from Crafts-Too and embossed him too with my Cuttlebug.

The backgroundpaper I used on the card was made by using my new Hexagon-punch from Stampin Up that I got for Christmas from my amazingly talented and generous friend Annette! I used paper from the Linen Closet stack from DCWV and punched out the hexagons. I inked the edges of all the hexagons with Vintage Photo Distress Ink to give it a more finished look. I glued them down randomly on a piece of cardstock and inked the edges with the same vintage photo Distressink from Ranger. Then I used a brown marker to draw all the sewing-lines arround the hexagons.
Cut the paper in 3 pieces and added a few nice embellishments such as metalic brads, brown ribbon  and a vintage wood-button I got from a friend once.
To finish the card I used a sentiment from the LOTV Everyday Grungy Messages set.

Please let me know what you all think! As today is National Hugging Day I send you all lots and lots of hugs :)
Have a blessed day and HAPPY CRAFTING!!!

Maria :)

I would like to enter this card into the Monthly Challenge of LOTV

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Follow my blog with Bloglovin

Hello my dear Followers,
as some of you might already know Google reader is shutting down very soon.  My friend Anne sent me a message  that had all these infos in it.
You will find my Blog under this link:
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This is from Google/bloggers official website

https://support.google.com/reader/answer/3028851 gives yo a more accurate descriptions

in other words:

Google Reader is shutting down soon, that means all the followers here on my blog  and then all the blogs that I follow will disappear.

Here is the link to bloglovin if you want the blogbovin button to keep your followers and to still follow  and stay subbed to your favorite  blogs 

http://www.bloglovin.com/Google

I hope you will keep following me there. see you there

Happy Crafting

Maria :)

I love LOTV!!! Happy 9th Birthday !!!!

Hello and thank you for stopping by!!! Today is the 9th Birthday of one of my absolute favorite Stampingcompanies. LOTV!!! What is LOTV you will ask. LOTV stands for Lili of the Valley they are from the United Kingdom and make the most adorable stamps. I´m a huge fan of their work and have a bunch of their stamps ...and LOVE them!!You should pop over to their website and have a look yourself.
Today on their birthday they have a PARTY going on in their shop in Leeds and also on their Facebook page. You should have a look and join in. I´m sure I will be there  (online) :)

To celebrate with all their customers they also have a great Birthday Giveaway challenge on their blog.
All you have to do to enter is to make a Birthdaycard and share it on your blog, their facebookpage or to send it to them via email til 6PM (UK time) today. They offer a fantastic prize, of 9 stamps of your choice, to win. All of their stamps are amazing and they have a wide amount of stamps to pick from for all kind of occassions. 

So to celebrate their awesome Birthday I made this cute birthdaycard using some of their great products that I own.

I will explain my card from top to bottom :) The background-pattern-paper is from the Springthing Matstack from DCWV. I inked  the edges of the card with my dauber and the peeled paint distressink from Ranger.

On the top of the card I stamped a very cute sentiment from the A5 Verses set from LOTV.

The Image I used is from their Summer Bears Companion Stamp Set and I colored it with Distressinks. I cut it with a Die from Nellie Snellen and embossed it too. I added the It´s your Day stamp from the Calendars Stamp set with the peeled paint distressink.

Under the image I tied a light green ribbon to a bow and added a button from studio g. 

On the bottom of the card I stamped the birthdaygreeting from the Handwritten phrases set. 

 I love how harmonic the paper, inks, image and all elements appear and work together :) I just LOTV stamps and they help me to make nice and very cute cards :)
Thank you LOTV for making such adorable stamps and also great sentiment stamps.
HAPPY BIRTHAY LOTV!!!! I wish you more successful years ahead and more wonderful stamps to come :)
What do you think?
I hope everyone is going having  a great weekend. See you all soon :)
HAPPY CRAFTING :)
Maria :)

I like my friends and my friendships

Hello and thank you for stopping by!!! First of all I want to wish all of you a Happy New Year and all my new Followers ( hi Niamh) a warm welcome to my random-updated blog lol. It´s almost end of january and this is my first blogpost of the year...well let´s see what I can do with that. Let´s hope I will be a more active blogger this year :)
So on to today´s card I want to show you. My wonderfully talented Friend Anne-Marie is a DT-Member of the Twist of Faith Card Challenge Blog and so she shared a challenge they have there right now with the theme Friendship. Normally I don´t do challenges as I´m not the type for it. But this time I just wanted to try.

The last year was very tough for me and my family and I had a couple of wonderful people supporting me through that time and beyond .  One of these amazing people in my life is my friend Annette. I was able to visit her and her wonderful husband Ron last year in the USA. They made my trip there a supercool and unforgetable adventure.

Annette and I at the entrance to the Timpanogos Cave

Annette and I at the Stampin Up headquarters on my birthday

 As I appreciate her friendship so very much I created this card for her .

The stampset I used for the little characters is the Stick Family set from Stampabilities. It´s a build the characters yourself set and was fun to put the characters just the way I wanted them to be.

 I colored them with my distressinks and I think they turned out pretty cute. I also added a selfmade paper flower that I colored in with my distressink and put a purple rhinestone in the middle.     

                               
The sentiment is from Fiskars Friends Forever Quotes set. The sentiment reads : Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of ALL THE WORLD. And to fit the sentiment I tied some golden thread ribbon arround the label diecut from Spellbinders and made a pretty little bow with a purple flower button on top as purple is Annette´s favorite color :)

 

 I embossed some light purple cardstock with my polka dots embossing folder from cuttlebug and sponged it with Tim Holtz Dusty Concord Distress ink . I distressed the edges a little more to pop up from the white.

As last step I added 4 nice corners and decorated them with purple rhinestones.

What do you think?
I hope everyone is going having  a great weekend. See you all soon :)
HAPPY CRAFTING :)
Maria :)

Happy New Year´s Eve everyone

Hello and thank you for stopping by!!!!
I just wanted to wish all my followers a Happy and safe New Years Eve and a Happy New Year 2013!!!
Thank you for stopping by now and then to read my posts throughout the year. Thank you for your amazing support and very nice and kind comments and words, they warm my heart.  Thank you for following my blog, you are all amazing .
I hope to be able to share more of my creations in the new year and also to make more video-tutorials after winter will be over.

Happy New Year 2013 for you all!!!

Have a great time everyone
Big hugs and lots of love
Maria :)

I like this cute turkey 2.0

Hello and thank you for stopping by! Today I won´t show you anything new, but I want to share with you how to make these cute turk-owls I made last year  so you can use it for your THIS years Thanksgiving-decoration.
You can find the original post of this little darling creatures here.
I hope you will enjoy the little videotutorial.
Sorry that it ended so suddently, but as i took my video with my phone my mom called and so the video ended without me wanting to....oh well ...good that the tutorial was almost at the end.
If you have any questions on how to make the turkowl, don´t hestitate to comment below :)
Thank you for taking the time to follow my blog and the videos, I hope they inspire you a little.
Let me know what you think

I hope everyone will have a great weekend.
HAPPY CRAFTING :)

Maria :)

I love to color with my distressinks

Hello and thank you for stopping by!!!!

First of all I want to thank you for all the lovely comments of my last post and video-tutorial. I felt very flattered that you liked it that much and I will try to include more videos in my future posts.
Today I want to show you how I color my stamped images unsing my distressinks.
What you need to color with distressinks are:
- acrylic clear block
- fine and medium watertank-brush
- distressinks in different colors
- Papertowel
- stamped/printed Image to color

So here is the tutorial I made coloring a Lili of the Valley stamp from the Summer Bears Companion Stamp Set.  Hope you will enjoy it.

And here is the card I made with the same image for a craftingfriend.

What do you think?
I hope everyone is going having  a great week. See you all soon :)
HAPPY CRAFTING :)
Maria :)