Happy Mail

When I was a kid, I had a lot of pen pals all over the world. I was totally in love with beautiful papers and envelopes and collected all the letters and envelopes I got. Today i still like to decorate my envelopes, and I am always happy when I find some beautifully decorated envelope in my mail box.
When I saw the Enveloper sets by Waffle Flower, they immediately reminded me of my childhood. They are just perfect to decorate envelopes and create matching little cards. 

For these envelopes I stamped images from the Enveloper Hello and Enveloper From set by Waffle Flower with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and colored them with several Ranger Distress colors.

I tried to color  in a very whimsical and loose watercolor style. That's pretty easy with a waterbrush.

Here and there I added some details with a white Sharpie marker.

For some envelopes I created the matching cards in just the same way. This could be an easy-to-make gift, too.

Perhaps you give decorating your envelopes a try, too!

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Green Moodboard

There's a new challenge at Cards und More. This time it's all about a color moodboard with greens, greys and black. I came up with this sympathy card. The German text says: There are moments in life when the world just stops for a second. And when it starts going round again, nothing is still the same.

The background is created with the My Favorite Things Drifts & Hills stencil, the foliage is die-cut with the Waffle Flower Greenery dies.
So please join the challenge and see the inspiration cards of the other DT members!

SEAson's Greeting

Happy Sunday and Sea-Son's Greetings!

Today I'm over on the Cards und More Shop Blog with a cool water shaker card.

I'm addicted to all ocean creatures, and so I couldn't resist when I saw the cute SEAson stamp set by Waffle Flower. And I had immediately in mind to create a water shaker card with it - the SEAson-Santa just has to swim!

I stamped all the images with Memento Tuxedo Black ink onto white cardstock, cut them out and colored them with Copic markers. Then I created a background with Ranger Distress Oxide inks Salty Ocean, Peacock Feathers and Broken China and glued my images onto it.

Aren't those fish decorating their Christmas tree just too cute?

I filled a clear plastic bag with a bit water, some sequins and added a drop of Distress Ink Broken China so that the water looks blue. I sealed the bag with tape, wrapped it around my card and secured it on the back of my card. To hide the folded sides of my plastic bag, I cut a frame from blue cardstock and glued it over the plastic bag. I finally added the treasure chest on top of the frame - done!

Here's a short movie to show you how the water moves in the card.

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Thanks for looking and have a great Sunday!

Christiane

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 😉!

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Hi and welcome,

I hope you all had a great wekend!

Today I want to show you a card that is playing with a lot of contrasts - black, white accents and a lot of color. I therefore used bleaching, a very old technique, but still one of my favorites.

I got the Waffle Flower Enveloper Hello stamp set by a dear friend for my birthday, and I absolutely wanted to use it today. First, I stamped several images side by side with Memento Tuxedo Black ink onto white cardstock. I masked the girl's face, then sponged the whole image with mowed lawn Distress ink. Then I fussy-cut the image.
For the background I sponged white cardstock with Ranger distress inks mowed lawn, squeezed lemonade, picked raspberry and salty ocean. First I sponged through the Dutch Doobadoo Stencil Fabric, thenI removed the stencil and sponged with the same colors again. I added some more images of the stamp set with Memento Tuxedo Black ink. It looked like ths:

With simple household bleach I then bleached the images - be careful when working with bleach, you should only do this in well-ventilated rooms, and don't you get anything onto your skin or into your eyes! Nevertheless, the effect of bleach is kind of magic!

Then I colored the bleached images with markers and added accents with a white gelly pen. Finally, I stamped the words "Hi" and "Happy Mail". I glued the main image onto the background, then everything onto black cardstock and onto a white card.
Here's a close-up of the finished card:

It's kind of a cheer-up card, I think.
I hope I could make your Monday a bit happier with this, and perhaps you got inspired to play with bleach and white accents, too!

Wishing you a wonderful week!

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