Snarktoberfest Blog Hop

It's Snarktober!

You know the word snarky? If not, that's what the Urban Dictionary says:
A witty mannerism, personality, or behavior that is a combination of sarcasm and cynicism. Usually accepted as a complimentary term.

And yay, there's a whole community of snarky stampers out there, and we want to celebrate with you!

Let's start the fun with a blog hop with lots of prizes!

Everybody who leaves a comment by October 5th 9pm PT/ 12am ET on all of our blogs has a chance to win one of the prizes from our sponsors:

• 1x $15 gift card to So Suzy Stamps
• 1x $15 gift card to Crackerbox Palace
• 1x $15 gift card to Strawberry Jude Stamps
• 1x £15 gift card to Swedish House Crafts
• 2x Snarky Bunkie Bag from Simply Charming Bags
  

   

So let the fun begin!
Here's my card:

These three funny guys are created with stamps by Gummiapan. You can get them at Swedish House Crafts, a fab stamp shop in the UK which carries the most adorable stamps and other goodies by several Swedish manufacturers.
I made a background using Ranger Distress Oxide inks and a cloud stencil, drew a line for the birds to sit on it and positioned the birds on the line with one layer of foam tape. I cut a slider channel into the background and placed a die-cut blotch as the sliding element into the channel. I hid it behind the owl by positioning the owl over the top of the slider channel with a double layer of foam tape.

So if you lift up the card, well... ummhhh... something's happening 😜!

 Wanna see it in action?

Hope I made you laugh!

More snarky cards to come during Snarktober!

And now don't forget to leave me a comment and then hop on to the other blogs on the list below to have the chance to win one of the awesome prizes! Have snarky fun and good luck!

• Josefine Fouarge
• Amber Trubiak
• Strawberry Jude Stamps
• Melissa Miller
• Suzanne Moore
• So Suzy Stamps
• Cornelia Wenokor
• Christiane Woldt (That's where you are right now.)
• Tracy Freeman
• Swedish House Crafts 
• Laura Volpes 
• Jessa Feig 
• Jennifer Leamy Lotfield
• Justine Hovey
• Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers (9 sisters will share their projects on their challenge blog)

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!

Materials I used:

             

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!

Materials I used:

   

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