Happy Bath Day

I want to show you a funny bathday, umh, birthday card today 😊. I used the cute crocodile stamp by Scrapadile, colored it with Copic markers and added some accents with Derwent Inktense pencils.

To make the bubbles look more real, I added some clear Wink of Stella and coated them with Ranger Glossy Accents.

Can you see the gloss and sparkle?

To finish the card, I die-cut the panel with some decorative rectangle die by WPlus9 and glued it onto a dark blue card. Guess this would make a great card to accompany a giftcard for a day in a Spa or some bath pearls or so.

Happy Easter!

Happy Easter! I hope you all have a wonderful weekend!

Today I want to show you a fun slider card with the little kiwis by Scrapadile.

For the egg, I blended Distress Oxides Bundled Sage, Cracked Pistachio and Twisted Citron on a panel of white cardstock. I sprinkled some water and some diluted Distress Oxides Vintage Photo and Salty Ocean on it. Then I die-cut the egg with the crackle by Craft Emotions from the panel.

I stamped the cute kiwis by Scrapadile with black Memento ink and colored them with copicmarkers. To get some texture on their feathers, I dipped a piece of paper towel into Copic blending solution and dabbed it onto the image. I learned this technique recently from Kathy Racoosin and think it’s a great way to achieve subtle texture on small images where it can be tricky to use a lot of different Copic markers.

Here’s a close-up where you can see the texture better.

For the background, I stamped an full-cover stamp by Impression Obsession with light green dye ink onto a panel of textured white cardstock. I used the My Favorite Things Circle Spinner Channels Die-Namics to create a small channel into my background, then mounted the upper part of the egg onto a slider replenishment by My Favorite Things. The sitting kiwi and the lower part of the egg were glued below the slider channel, the upper part was put into the channel, the standing kiwi glued right from the egg. Oh, and I forgot the sentiment - it’s by Kartenkunst and was stamped with black Versafine ink onto the background. I mounted the whole background panel onto foam tape and glued it onto a green card.

Here's a little video of the slider card in motion!

Mermaid alert!

Something completely different from me today...
Usually; I'm well-known for my funny animal cards or some kind of snarky cards...well, a few flower cards here or there... and perhaps an altered book or something like that... But my little niece is going to start school in September, and in Germany, there's the tradition to give children a "Schultuete" on their very first day at school - a large cardstock cornet filled with sweets and little gifts and with a richly decorated outside. My niece asked me to create a mermaid-themed Schultuete, and though this is TOTALLLY out of my comfort zone, this is what I started with today...

The copics I used are:

• BV29, B99, B39, B37 and B95 for the hair
• BG72, BG05, BG02, BG00, G00 and Y11 for the fish tail
• YR23, YR31, Y13 and Y11 for the scallop
• R20, R00, E00, E000 and BG70 for the skin

And of course I use several Wink of Stella brush pens for all the sparkle.

And though this is not my usual style, I have to admit I love the result...

Now it's time to decorate the Schultuete... I'll show you Pictures of the finished project!

Who let the cats out?

Friends of mine are vets, and they send birthday cards to their four-legged patients. So I create a whole bunch of cards for them once in a while. So look at all the meowing and barking on my desk!

For a closer look:

I used my copic markers for coloring. I love the following color combinations for coloring cats and dogs: 

• C1 - C3 - C5 - C7 (for the cats with the more cool gray tones)
• W0 - W1 - W2 - W3 - W5 - W7 (that's for the cats with those slightly brownish gray tones)
• E51 - E53 - E33 - E35 - E57 - E27 - E79 (for the dogs and the red-brown cats)
• R20 is the pink I used for the ears and noses

Now look at some of the finished cards:

The sentiments I used are from Stempelkueche, Klartextstempel and Create a Smile Stamps. The fish and paws background is an Echo Park stamp, and the background with all the dogs and bones and paws is a Whipper Snapper Designs stamp.