Learning the ABC

My niece just started school, and to help her learn the alphabet, I had the idea to create this ABC poster for her!

I cut out the letters from colored cardstock with my Silhouette machine. The images are all colored with Copicmarkers and come from several stamp sets.

A - Affe - ape from My Favorite Things Sweet Safari
B - Bär - bear from My Favorite Things Wild Woodland
C - Chamäleon - chameleon from Clearly Besotted Colour Chameleon
D - Dackel - dachshund from My Favorite Things Top Dog
E - Elefant - elephant from My Favorite Things Sweet Safari
F - Fledermaus - bat from My Favorite Things Witch Way is the Candy
F - Fuchs - fox from My Favorite Things Critter Clan

G - Giraffe - giraffe from My Favorite Things Giraffing Me Crazy
H - Huhn - hen from My Favorite Things BB The Whole Herd
I - Igel - hedgehog from My Favorite Things Wild Woodland

J - Jaguar - as I didn't find a jaguar image, I altered a lion image from My Favorite Things Lions and Tigers
K - Kuh - cow from My Favoite Things BB The Whole Herd
K - Katze - cat from My Favorite Things Cool Cat

L - Löwe - lion from My Favorite Things Wild About You
M - Mammut - mammoth from Neat and Tangled Prehistoric

N - Nashorn - rhino from Gerda Steiner Designs Party Animals
O - Otter - otter from My Favorite Things Otterly Love You
P - Papagei - parrot from The Alley Way Stamps Land HO!

Q - Qualle - jellyfish from Create a Smile Glowing Seaside
R - Reh - deer from My Favorite Things Deer Friends
S - Seekuh - manatee from Hero Arts Manatee Stamp & Cut

T - Tiger - tiger from My Favorite Things Lions and Tigers
U - Uhu - eagle owl from Hobby Art Ltd. Owls
V - Vogel - bird from My Favorite Things Birds of Paradise

W - Wal - whale from Lawn Fawn Critters in the Sea
X - Xaver - I couldn't find an animal with X, but this cute little dragon told me his name was Xaver... He's from My Favorite Things Magical Dragons.
Y - Yak - I drew this yak myself because I couldn't find a yak stamp.
Z - Ziege - goat from My Favorite Things The Whole Herd

My niece loves this poster - hope you like it, too!

Just married!

On Saturday, Jeanin, one of my sweetest Instagram friends, got married. So many of the happy crafty friends decided to create together a mini book with our congrats for her. Each one of us created one page measuring 10 by 10 cm with rounded corners, and then we put all the pages together. Look at the finished project:

 Isn't it fabulous?
And here's the page I contributed to the project:

I created a background with Ranger Distress oxides Salty Ocean and Peacock Feathers and some stencils. Then I die-cut the tree with the Penny Black Tree of Love die out of red and white cardstock. I used the main part of the white die-cut, discarded some of the white hearts and replaced two of the white hearts with ted ones. I glued some more red hearts in the top right corner of the panel and added the sentiment by Clearly Besotted with Archival Jet Black ink.

Look at all the other pages by hopping along the blogs on my blog roll, most of them participated.

A bit of autumn...

Where's the summer gone? I somehow have the feeling that we didn't have a real summer at all, and now it's already beginning to look like autumn with colorful leaves everywhere. This inspired me for my project today. Take a look...

The Ranger Distress Oxide inks include some awesome autumn colors. I chose spiced marmelade, fossilized amber, wild honey, candied apple, peeled paint und lucky clover to blend over the Dutch Doobadoo Fabric stencil with the Ranger Blending Tool onto a piece of white cardstock. I then splattered some water onto it to create the light sprinkles and added splatters of Ken Oliver Liquid Metals Copper. They create a really lustrous metallic effect. This is what the panel looked like:

I cut a bunch of leaves with the Waffle Flower Greenery dies out of this panel. Don't they look just gorgeous?

 

I created two cards with the die-cut leaves.The sentiments are from the Waffle Flower stamp sets Enveloper Hello and Happy Day. I stamped them with Memento Tuxedo Black ink.

Have a late summery week - autumn only on these cards 😉!

Materialliste /Materials I used

              

Happy Birthday, Birka!

A very special post today... where do I start?

Today there's the launch of a very, very special Blog Hop. A lot of us have been looking forward to this for a very long time, and I'm so happy and proud to be part of all that amazing stuff going on! It's Birka's birthday today  - you all know Birka, don't you? She's one of the most amazing, funny, creative, kind and caring people out in this crafty world. And that's why the Happy Crafty Friends, a group of amzing, incredibly talented girls secretly planned a Blog Hop with tons of surprises and had a hard but oh so fun time keeping secrets, hiding stuff and trying to hold our tongues!

Das ist ein sehr spezieller Post heute... wo soll ich anfangen?

Heute beginnt ein sehr, sehr besonderer Blog Hop. Viele von uns freuen sich schon gaaaanz lange darauf, und ich bin so stolz und glücklich, dass ich an all diesen wunderbaren Dingen teilhaben darf, die hier gerade passieren! Also, heute ist Birkas Geburtstag - Ihr kennt alle Birka, nicht wahr? Sie ist eine der bezauberndsten, lustigsten, kreativsten, freundlichsten und mitfühlendsten Menschen, die mir je in der Bastelwelt über den Weg gelaufen sind.Und darum haben die Happy Crafty Friends, eine Gruppe von wunderbaren, unglaublich talentierten Mädels ganz heimlich, still und leise einen Blog Hop mit tonnenweise Überraschungen geplant und eine ziemlich harte, aber soooo lustige Zeit mit Geheimniskrämerei, Verstecken und bloß nichts Verraten verbracht.

Well, every Blog Hop starts with a card, so - drumroll, please - here's my birthday card for dearest Birka!

Na gut, jeder Blog Hop beginnt mit einer Karte, also - Trommelwirbel, bitte - hier ist meine Geburtstagskarte für die allerbeste Birka!

Birka loves everything pink and glitter, so of course this card had to be the most pink card I ever created! The background is made with Ranger Distress Oxide Picked Raspberry ink and a The Art of Brett Weldele stencil. I added a bit of shimmer with Nuvo Embellishment Mousse Peony Pink and some dots of Nuvo Jewel Dops Pale Periwinkle.

Birka liebt Pink und Glitzer, deswegen musste dies hier unbedingt die pinkeste Karte werden, die ich jemals gebastelt habe. Den Hintergrund habe ich mit Ranger Distress Oxide Picked Raspberry ink und einem The Art of Brett Weldele Stencil gewischt. Am Rand dann noch ein wenig Glitzer mit Nuvo Embellishment Mousse Peony Pink, und dann noch ein paar Pünktchen Nuvo Jewel Dops Pale Periwinkle darauf.

The image is one of the exclusive stamps the Happy Crafty Friends designed just for Birks's birthday and the Blog Hop - you can win it if you join the party, so make sure to read this post completely! I colored the image with Copic markers and a white Sharpie and added some black Wink of Stella on the nose. The doggie sits on an action wobble, so you can see this fun little guy wobbling on the card because he's so happy to join Birka's party.

Das Motiv ist übrigens einer der exklusiv für Birkas Geburtstag und den Blog Hop von den Happy Crafty Friends gezeichneten Stempel - Ihr könnt das Stempelset gewinnen, wenn Ihr bei der Party mitmacht, also lest diesen Post unbedingt komplett durch, um Eure Chance nicht zu verpassen!

Ich habe das Motiv mit Copic Markern und einem weißen Sharpie coloriert und auf die Nase noch etwas schwarzen Wink of Stella gegeben. Der Wauzi sitzt auf einem Action Wobble und kann vor lauter Freude, dass er bei Birkas Party dabei sein darf, wunderbar herumwackeln.

So this is my card - now it's time to take a look at all the other amazing cards created by the Happy Crafty Friends - go to their brandnew blog!

Das war also meine Karte - jetzt ist es an der Zeit, dass Ihr Euch all die anderen wunderschönen Karten anschaut, die die Happy Crafty Friends gebastelt haben - geht mal auf unseren brandneuen Blog!

Here's a preview of all the Blog Hop cards:

Und hier gibt's schon mal eine Vorschau auf alle Blog Hop-Karten:

And here's the Blog Hop list   -   Hier geht's zum Blog Hop:

• Sonja
• Kerstin
• Sandra  
• Biggi 
• Jeanin 
• Claudia
• Jessa 
• Reni 
• Vanessa 
• Nicole 
• Anni 
• Wiebke 
• Stempel Dani 
• Nina  
• Katrin und Jennifer
• Christiane (that's where you are right now - hier seid ihr gerade!)
• Tina 
• Maike 
• Dunja 
• Steffi
   

And the best thing? You can join the party!

You can win amazing stuff, we have great sponsors and even if you don’t win – we have exclusive digi stamps for you – for free! And lots of fun and cards.
How to join? Create a birthday card for our birthday girl Birka - if you know Birka already you know she’s a sucker for pink - and link it up right here. You got one week to party with us, yay!

Und das Beste daran? Ihr seid Teil der Party! 

Denn Party heißt Geschenke und wir haben einige Geschenke für euch! Zum Beispiel? Exklusive Digi Stamps, nur für Birka gezeichnet - und ganz umsonst.
Wir haben außerdem viele großartige Sponsoren, die Euch gern mit Preisen überschütten würden.
Und warum das alles? Weil Birka die Beste ist, sie ist so so inspirierend und lustig, und weil sie uns allen einfach so viel bedeutet. Um ihr das zu zeigen, gibt es einen pinken Blog Hop mit vielen tollen Leuten und noch viel tolleren Karten.
Wie ihr mitfeiert? Ganz einfach – kreiert eine Geburtstagskarte für Birka – falls ihr Birka noch nicht kennt, ihre Lieblingsfarbe ist Pink – und verlinkt sie hier. Ihr habt eine Woche Zeit – eine Woche Party, yay!

And now - Happy Birthday, Birka!

We hope you all enjoy the Blog Hop and have lots of fun creating pink cards!

Und jetzt - Happy Birthday, Birka!

Wir hoffen, Euch allen gefällt der Blog Hop und Ihr habt viel Spaß, ein bisschen Pink aufs Papier zu bringen.

A big THANK YOU to our Blog Hop sponsors:
Ein riesiges Dankeschön an unsere Blog-Hop-Sponsoren:

• Cards und More 
• Chibitronics
• Clearly Besotted
• Craftin Desert Divas
• Create a Smile
• Dani Peuss
• Folia
• Seven Hills Crafts
• Stempelbar
• Stempelküche
• Stempellädle

There's snow friend like you!

A new challenge has started yesterday at the cards-und-more-shop blog! The theme is friends/craftyfriends.


Come on, join the fun - you can win a cuuuute stamp set by Jane's Doodles!

My DT card for the challenge is this cute winter scene - these snowy friends are ready for some snow ball fun.

For the card, I stamped some images of the Festive friends stamp set by Creative Expressions and colored them with copic markers. I prepared a background with Ranger distress inks salty ocean and blueprint sketch and spritzed it with some water and white acrylic paint, stamped the sentiment on it with Versamark ink and embossed it with white embossing powder.
I glued my images onto the background, added some Bo Bunny Glitter Paste Sugar for the snow and mounted the whole panel onto a dark blue card base.

Look at the sparkle of the snow!

These guys are defeinitely ready for some snow ball fun!

See you at the challenge!

 Materials I used:

   

Surfing by...

Today I bring you some summer-sun-fun-holidays mood with a shaker card with this cool cat image by Penny Black.

 I started with the funny main image which is part of the Kool Kats stamp set by Penny Black. I stamped it with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and colored it with Copic markers.

Then I cut a shaker window out of light blue cardstock with my cutting board, stamped the sentiment with Memento Paris Dusk ink on it and glued some acetate foil with Ranger Glossy Accents behind it. I cut narrow stripes of foam tape and glued them onto the acetate foil. Then I put some sequins (blue, green) and microbeads onto the image, positioned the shaker window over it and pressed it firmly down.
Now for the background. I used my Dutch Doobadoo Fabric stencil and wiped some Nuvo Embellishment Mousse Cornflower Blue onto a white card base. I love the shimmer and texture you create with that, take a closer look!

That's it - just glue the shaker element onto the card base, and a fun card is finished.

 

Materials I used: