Happy birthday unicorn

Hello and thank you for stopping by!
Today I have a birthday card for you that I mailed to a fellow demonstrater  which is celebrating her 29th birthday again today. 

 She loves unicorns and as i didn't have any unicorn stamps I decided to make my own somehow. 

)I then took the horse from the lunar animals from mama elephant. Colored it's hair in melon mambo and added some glitter with wink of stella and my sakura glitter gel pen. But a horse is not a unicorn so i cut a horn and glittered it too and attached it to the horse. Tadaaaaaa my selfmade unicorn!

But a unicorn is a magical creature and needs a magical world to live in. So i took some washitape and masked some sunbeams on whisperwhite paper. Then i blended all colors of the rainbow on the background as unicorns and rainbows are just meant for each other.  

Then i removed the tape and got this beautiful background.

For the clouds I made a template (in lack of cloud silhouette dies) using different size punched circles that I taped together and then traced the silhouette on a piece of whisper white.  I did this 2 times. Then I pierced the outline of my clouds and spobged it with soft sky ink to give it some dimension. I layered it on top of the sunburst background with dimentionals.

On the thick whisperwhite base card  i traced a rectangle with the golden glitter tape we had during the saleabration. On top of it came my finished sky background. 
The sentiment was cut from golden glitter paper using the hello you framelits and the birzhday stamped and cut out using the hello you stampset.

Everything attached and the card was ready to go to Austria.  I hope Judith liked it and you like it as well.  

Happy crafting!
Maria 

Papier Turnier Blog Hop

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Today I´m taking part in my first ever Bloghop which is called Papier Turnier which means Paper Tournament :)  Judith from Austria organised this Bloghop that takes place every 2nd Thursday of the month.

 You´re probably arriving from .Janina Baltrusch or maybe you´re starting on my blog. Make sure to visit all of the blogs to get the full inspiration and ideas from all the very creative ladies taking part.

This month´s theme for the bloghop is   Flowers and Blossoms :)
As many of you know I love flowers  and so I loved this theme of course too :)
 With the new Stampin Up Annual catalog that launched on june 1st I had a few new sets and bundles I ordered from it that i used for my card.

The base of my card is made from thick whisper white cardstock. On top of that I layered a piece of the new Irresistibly  Floral Specialty Designer Series Paper that I colored with my sponge tools and ink in the colors of Real Red, Pumpkin Pie, Daffodil Delight, Old Olive, Tempting Turquoise, Dapper Denim and Rich Razzleberry. I was so happy when I saw that paper in the catalog as it´s similar to a SAB product we had in 2015.

I then cut a strip of vellum and heatembossed a sentiment of the the Over the Rainbow stampset from SU in black on it. The sentiment is about Rainbows and so it´s a connection  of the colors I used on the background. I then adhered it with gluedots and tear & tape to the card.

To finish off the flowers and blossoms theme I stamped , colored and diecut some flowers and a vine from the falling flowers stampset and May flowers framelits that you can buy in a bundle. I added 3 little rhinestones to the flowers and adhered them on the vellum :)

 And voila the card was done and it was a lot of fun to make it :) I hope you do like it and will give the products I used a try as well. Please leave a comment  and let me know what you think :)

Now have fun with the Blog Hop and have a look what the other lovely ladies created  :)
The next in the line after me is

Sonja Schiller

Thank you for stopping by and Happy Crafting!!!

Only 3 more days

Hello and thank you for stopping by!
Today it's only 3 more days until the big Stampin up Onstage local event in Düsseldorf.  I'm so excited!

Today's card is another birthdaycard.
The base of the card is in Wisteria wonder and i stamped the Everything Eleanor swirls on it in perfect plum.

Then i used my banner dies to cut out a banner from very vanilla cardstock and I stamped it with the leaves from the rose garden stampset in Sahara Sand.  I covered the edges with the glitter tape from the last saleabration and added a Sentiment from the Saleabration set Party pants. In the right top corner i stamped  a pansy flower twice on vanilla cardstock with perfect plum ink and punched one of them with the pansy punch and one with a circle punch and mattet it with a perfect plum circle. 

I also added some wink of stella to the flower and put it on top of the circle-flower and layered it with dimentionals.
Rhinestones arranged in the middle of the flower and the card was finished. 

Please let me know what you think about it.  Thanks for stopping by and happy crafting!

Maria :)

Only 4 more days

Hello and thank you for stopping by!
Today it's only 4 more days until the big Stampin up Onstage local event in Düsseldorf!!!!! Woohoooooooo!

Today's card is for a dear friend of mine that is celebrating a special anniversary in her life. In a few days it's been 5 years since she had beat breastcancer and that means she is cancer free.

I made a rather simple and clean card using a white cardbase on which i stamped the swirls of the Everything Eleanor stamp set in melon mambo. On top i mounted a scallop circle from vellum and two nesing circles in Melon Mambo and Whisper White. I also cut out a 5 with the big numbers dies from blushing bride glimmer paper and glued it on top.

A black sentiment from hero arts at the bottom section and some white and vellum flowers  together with some nice rhinestones and my card was good to go. 
It arrived at my friend yesterday and she loved it which is most important. 
What do you think?

Thanks for stopping by and happy crafting!
Maria :)

Only 5 more days

Hello and thank you for stopping by!
Today it's only 5 more days until tge Onstage local event in Düsseldorf.

To make the Remarkable set posts complete I want to show you this more sad and serious card. 

The cardbase is in crumbcake and covered with a layer of old olive. On top a whisperwhite layer with an image of calla lilies and a sentiment from a hero arts set.
Some simple trim on the bottom and top and this clean and simple card was ready.

Please let me know what you think.
Thank you for stopping by and happy crafting!
Maria :)

Only 6 more days

Hello and thank you for stopping by!
Today it's only 6 more days to go until the Onstage local event in Düsseldorf.

Today's card was for a friend in Utah. The main image is from the same set as the last post Remarkable You. This time its a lotusblossom that I heatembossed in white on watercolorpaper and colored with strawberry slush ink. Then I cut it using the labels collection dies and layered another label in strawberry slush under it. The background paper is retired DSP on coastal cabana.

I added some white satin taffeta ribbon,some butterflies and sentiment together with some bling and my card was good to go.

Please let me know what you think about it.
Thanks for stopping by and happy crafting!

Maria :)

Only 7 more days

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This post was planned to go up 2 days ago but as life is it's busy. So only 7 days until onstage.woohoooooooo

Todays card I want to show you is a card inspired by the magnolia trees i have seen blooming around everywhere now. 

The image and the leaves are from the set Remarkable you. I stamped them in archival black ink on watercolorpaper and colored the flowers.  I also added a little wink of stella glitter to give it the little extra. And some Rhinestones had to be on it as well (of course) sentiments are from the german version (Grußelemente)of the tin of cards set.

Please let me know what you think.
Thank you for stopping by and happy crafting.

Maria :)

Only 8 more days

Hello and thank you for stopping by!
Today it's only 8 more days until the big Stampin up Onstage local event that I will attend with some wonderful crafty ladies.
Todays card is a birthdaycard I made for an awesome crafty friend in Ireland.  It was her birthday last month and so I mailed her some crafty and tasty goodies and this card.

I once again used the vine i used on the national eastercards of my last posts and cut it from soon retireing Blackberry Bliss cardstock which is a very dark purple (looks almost black in the picture).

I also used 2 of the lovely flower stampsets (Flowershop and petite petals) and fitting punches(small flower and pansy) to stamp and punch a little flower bouquet on the left side of the card. A sentiment on the bottom, some rhinestones into the flowers and sequins next to the vine and my card was good to go.

What do you think?
Thanks for stopping by and happy crafting

Maria :)

Only 9 more days

Hello and thank you for stopping by,
As the Stampin Up  onstage l9cal event is getting closer I decided to make a countdown showing you a priject or card i made during the last week.
So here we go.
As easter isn't that long ago i thought I would start with my international and national easter cards. 
I made them using the honeycomb happiness Saleabration stampset . That little chick was just too cute. I watercolored it on watercolorpaper and handcut it. 

While I used the petite petals punch on the international cards I used the vine from the botanical builder for you framelit dies for my national cards.

  My awesome Demosister Peggy gave me the vine die for free. Awesome demo family I tell you. 

Please let me know what you think.
Thank you for stopping by and happy stamping!
Maria :)

Only 10 more days

Hello and thank you for stopping by,
I know I haven't blogged in ages but life happens and I'm more of a crafter than a blogger but I will try to get on here a little more often.

Today I want to show you cards I made for 3 awesome ladies of my SU team. In  less than 10 days we will be at the Onstage local event in Düsseldorf and we will have a bunch of fun. We will swap little crafty creations with other demonstraters, get to see the new catalog, use new products and we can purchase them before others. How cool is that? 
To add to the excitement I decided to send them each a card as a countdown reminder.
I used 2 stampsets for the cards. The number of years and the background set timeless textures.
The color combinations are favourites from my teammembers. 

 The curry, calypso coral and bermuda bay combination  was Franzi's favourite.

Saharasand, rosered and tip top taupe went to Peggy.And the third card in smoky slate, soft sky and calypso coral belonged to the wonderful Eva. 

If you would do me a favour and leave a little love and comments on their blogs I would really appreciate it.  Thanks in advance.
I will blog again soon and once the Onstage local event is over i will show you the 60 swaps I made for it.

Thanks for stopping by and happy crafting

Maria :)