Advent and a Christmas Card

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It's the first Sunday of the Advent, and I've put some lights up in our windows, here's a picture of the star in our livingroom. I took a blurry picture just to see if I was able to get this cool effect...

Now over to my card, I always look for fun ways to make use of my darling punches, so when I stumbeled over a Christmas tree card in this inspiring blog Stamp Crazy Girl, I just had to make a card right away! I even made my own dotted background paper. :o)

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Friday Sketchers # 80 ~ Pure of Heart

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Welcome to a new Friday Sketchers challenge! We have such a fun sketch this week made by our wonderful Tanja, I loved making my card using this sketch!

The image is lovely Pure of Heart by Sugar Nellie, one of the three fundraiser stamps they made. I love that they did this for charity!

I colored with Prismacolor pencils, put lots of glitter on this card, but it's not easy to capture in a photo... I put pink Distress Stickles on the edge of the pink dp and then spinkled glitter on it.

I hope you'll take a look at the wonderful cards made by my DT sisters over at the Friday Sketchers blog, and that you'll find inspiration to make a card and take part in the challenge, there's a great prize to win sponsored by Magnolia-licious.

Wish you all a fabulous weekend!

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Santa Snowman

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I love my Whipper Snapper stamps, it's easy to see why, right? He's so cute!
For this card I dug out a tool that's seldom used these days, at least by me, decorative scissors. I like the white borders they made on my card.

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TIOT # 45 ~ Buttons

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For this week's TIOT we are to use buttons on our cards. I love buttons, so this was right up my alley!
I've used the wonderful image Cherry Blossom from the Sampler Edition #2 by Elisabeth Bell for SCACD, colored with Prismacolor pencils. It's extra fun to use buttons when you have coordinated patterned papers and buttons! Here I've used a sheet from the BasicGrey Indian Summer pad, and buttons to go with it. (These buttons are now on sale in Susana's shop!)
I used Scrapper's Floss on the buttons, I colored a piece of white with a green ProMarker.

I have a 'thing' with buttons, I can never put them on a card without a thread or a ribbon through them, it feels unfinished. I have the same 'thing' with flowers, I always have to embellish the center in some way. If I put a button or a flower on a card with out these additions, then there's something very wrong with me! *LOL* Do you have any 'funny obsessions' like these? I'd love to know! Oh, I have one more, I have to ink on the edge of papers and die cuts, sometimes (almost never) it looks better without the inking, but it's sooooo hard not to do it!!! *LOL* Please note, that this is how I feel about my own cards, when I see cards made by other card makers, I do not have the same feelings and thoughts. I'm weird, yes, I know...

On the company blog Follow Your Heart you can see all the wonderful cards by the rest of the DT ladies!

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X~mas hÄnglar

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I got some of these new wonderful hÄnglar stamps this weekend, and I just had to make a card with this cute girl!

I hope you all will have a fabulous week!

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Friday Sketchers # 79 ~ hÄnglar

Finally a new wonderful

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This week we have a very inspiring sketch made by our faboulous Jeanette from Canada! I loved working with it!
I've used 4 different hÄnglar stamps to mask a little scene toghether for my image. Colored with Prismacolor pencils, sponged blue distress ink to make a night sky. The sentiment is by Card Craft-UK.


I hope you'll take a look at the wonderful cards made by my DT sisters over at the Friday Sketchers blog, and that you'll find inspiration to make a card and take part in the challenge, there's a great prize to win sponsored by Michelle's Scrapbooking & More.

I wish you all a fabulous weekend!

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TIOT # 44

The challenge for this Try It out Tuesday is to use the color blue together with one neutral color.
I've used the fabuous new image Marianne from the Sampler Edition #2 by Elisabeth Bell for SCACD. Colored as usual with my Prismacolor pencils. The sentiment is a piece of a printed fabric from my stash.

On the company blog Follow Your Heart you can see all the wonderful cards by the rest of the DT ladies!

Friday Sketchers # 78 ~ Boho Chic

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Happy Friday everyone! Today we have a wonderful and fun sketch for you at the Friday Sketchers blog! It's made by fabulous Jacque from USA.

I'm having these brand new stamps from SCACD, the Sampler Edition #2 by Elisabeth Bell. They're wonderful, and I've used gorgeous Boho Chic on my card today, colored with Prismacolor pencils.The circle sentiment is by Aud Design.

I hope you'll take a look at the wonderful cards made by my DT sisters over at the Friday Sketchers blog, and that you'll find inspiration to make a card and take part in the challenge, there's a great prize to win; a full stamp sheet sponsored by SCACD!

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Elisabeth Bell Release Blog Hop

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A new release at SCACD today, and you'll get to see all the fantastic new stamps in a fun blog hop on the DT blogs! The beginning is at fabulous Jennifer's blog.

If you have been wanting stamp images suitable for teenage girls and women's cards, not just for young girls, well, you'll find them in this collection!

On my card I've used the beautiful image called Latte from the Sampler Edition #2 designed by Elisabeth Bell for SCACD, colored with prismacolor pencils and cut out with Nestabilities dies. The background paper is from a BasicGrey pad, Porcelain, and the dp for the heart is from the Bittersweet pad. Added a ribbon, Kaisercraft pearls, flowers, and on the heart I put Prima Say it in Pearls.

The stamps will be available in the shop at 9 AM EST, (3 PM CET).

The next stop and finish line for our blog hop is the store blog Follow Your Heart.

Thanks for joining us today!

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Here's the complete blog hop list:

Jennifer
Dianne
Suzanne
Carolyn
Susan
Anki
Lorelie
Danni
Me
Store blog Follow Your Heart

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TIOT # 43 ~ Winter

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It's a fabulous new Tuesday and the DT challenge at SCACD today is to create a scene for one of the images in the Victoria Case for SCACD Winter Wonderland collection!
I decided to use the cute stamp called Winter, and wanted to do some paper piecing to make a nice scenery, but it just wouldn't look like I wanted it to. So I decided to make a drawing in stead, first I stamped the image, and then I drew around it, then colored with my Prismacolor pencils. I put Crushed Velvet Flock on her collar, (it's now on sale at Susana's store!) The sentiment is a Susanament from the Special Edition Ornament Collection by Elisabeth Bell for SCACD.

On the company blog Follow Your Heart you can see all the wonderful cards by the rest of the DT ladies!

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On Thursday 12th you will get to see the brand new images that Elisabeth Bell has designed for SCACD! We're having a fun blog hop to showcase the fabulous new stamps!

And right now there's a great blog candy over at the store blog Follow Your Heart, check it out!

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Holiday Penguin

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First I'd like to give a big, warm hug to all of my visitors! So glad to have you stopping by, thanks a bunch!

Today I made a card with one of my favorite stamps, Holiday Penguin by Whipper Snapper Designs, he's just too cute!

When I was making this card I got to thinking; where would our card making hobby be without all the wonderful cutting devices that are available to us? On this card I used five different ones, QuicKutz leaves, Martha Stewart snowflake, Nellie Snellen flower, Cuttlebug border and Nestabilites label (cutting out the image), including my Fiskars paper cutter, it makes six.

When I look back at the cards I made in the beginning of my "card making career" - I like to think I have developed my skills, and of course I have, but without all these nice tools, my cards would have been pretty plain and dull, I think...

Have a wonderful Sunday now!

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PS!
For all you Elisabeth Bell lovers, there will be a new release
of fabulous fresh images
at the SCACD store this upcoming week!


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TIOT on a Friday!

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TIOT (Try It Out Tuesday) on a Friday! We were to make a card using the fab sketch provided by Suzanne, fun to do!
I used the cute Skater from the Victoria Case for SCACD - Winter Wonderland Collection, colored with Prismacolor pencils and cut out with Nestabilities dies. The sentiment is by Whipper Snapper Designs, and the swirl stamp is by Stempelglede.

On the company blog Follow Your Heart you can see all the wonderful cards by the rest of the DT ladies!

This is my second post for today - yes, I know, it's not 'normal' procedure for me! ☺
Please scroll down a bit to see my DT card for the Friday Sketchers blog.

Enjoy a wonderful weekend everyone!

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If you look closely on my card, you can see that I have played with my newest 'toys', floral punches with embossing 'punches' from Nellie Snellen. It's so much fun to see how the flowers turn out using these, it depends on the paper if they show a good embossing or not.

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