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!

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!

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Yappy Birthday

Hi and good morning!

I hope you all had a great weekend, even when the weather wasn't summery at all, at least here in Northern Germany... It's my turn on the Cards und More Shop Blog today with this little project.
Perhaps I wanted to escape the rainy wheather with this card with its blue sky and little white clouds. And I had to use a dog on this card - dogs always make me happy.

I started with the cloudy sky which I created by sponging Ranger Distress ink Salty Ocean through the stencil Dutch Doobadoo Mask Art Clouds 2 onto white cardstock. Then I die-cut it with the My Favorite Things Die-namics Cross-Stitch Rectangle Stax and cut a slider channel into it. I always keep the piece I cut out for the channel and stick it later behind the front panel - I like that better than the plain white card base peeking through the slider channel.

Then I stamped the cute little dog from the Penny Black buddy & duck stamp set and the gifts from the Jane's Doodles Mr. & Mrs. Claus stamp set with Memento Tuxedo Black ink, cut them out and colored the images with markers. Isn't that little dog just the cutest?

Then I mounted the dog onto a slider piece and put it into the slider channel, stamped the sentiment from the My Favorite Things stamp set Four-Legged Friends onto a white card base, mounted the whole cloudy rectangle with foam tape onto the card base and added the gifts. For the final touch I added the new Nuvo Drops onto the gifts. Can you see the difference between the Crystal Drops (I used Crystal Drops Caribbean Ocean), which dry with a glossy finish, and the Jewel Drops (I chose Jewel Drops Pale Periwinkle), which dry translucent? They are soooo beautiful!

Here you can see the dog sliding down the card to open his birthday presents!

Have a great week!

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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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Cards und More Challenge - Anything goes With Summer

Today starts a new challenge at Cards und More!

As my DT inspiration card for this challenge, I created a card with the awesome Stay Cool set by Waffle Flower. I love this set, especially the big bear in the swimming trunks!

For the front of the card, I created a slider to make the bear with its diving goggles plunge into the water.

Can you see the gloss on the diving goggles? I added some Glossy accents to achieve this look.

For the inside of the card, I created a beach scene with all the other images of the Stay Cool stamp set. I had so much fun coloring them! 

I put the little bird with his swimming ring onto an action wobble to give the impression as if it was rocking on the waves.

I hope you like the card and take part in the challenge!

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Additional: Lawn Fawn - custom craft dies "Spring Showers". My Favorite Things Dienamics "Malking Waves"/"Stitches Whimsical Waves"/"Stitched Snow Drifts". Copic Markers.