Das doppelte Lottchen #158

It's sunday, that means it's Lottie and Lisa time! 

Lottie and Lisa means Anni and I usually pick a stamp or stamp set or die that we both have (we nearly have the same taste!) and create a card with this product and another task.

Today Anni made a wish, and it is:

Rayer Die "Baby Elefant"

&

Wood Veneer

I had a word cut out from real wood in mind but when I put my first card together there was not enough space for it to be placed on the card. So I only cut a little "Hurra" (Means Hooray) from Balsa wood and made a second card for my prepared word. This way you get to see two completely different cards today:

1) The card on which I changed my mind:

Just add Ink - "E" (Elephant)

2) The second card with the stacked diecut piece ;)

CAS on sunday - Stencil it

Daring Cardmakers - Hand - Krafted Creations

I like both cards and I think they're fun for different occasions and recipients :)

Now hop over to Anni's blog to find her creation :) She'll knock your socks off ;)

Thanks for viisting!

Das doppelte Lottchen #152

It's sunday, that means it's Lottie and Lisa time! 

Lottie and Lisa means Anni and I usually pick a stamp or stamp set or die that we both have (we nearly have the same taste!) and create a card with this product and another task.

Today Anni made a wish, and it is:

Create A Smile - Snow Dance Kit

and

Ombre embossing paste /Texture paste

I thought I was done with Christmas cards for a while, but due to the break in December there are some challenges left that should have taken place before Christmas... so - who cares - nect Christmas is coming.

I've been Playing with watercolors today and again fell to one of my fav. combos: yellow, orange and pink. The blend in such a fabulous way - So I thought they'd make a great ombre look as well. When I has mixed all the paste I was like "Christine, for  a CHRISTMAS card - seriously?"

I've always loved untraditional cards so - why not?

This is the result :9

I had a hard time getting the colors righton the photo, but I think this is pretty close... The lowest snowflakes are kind of pink, but the light made capturing hard today.

Hope you don't hate me for posting another Christmas card ;)

Now hop over to Anni's blog to find her creation :) She'll knock your socks off ;)

Thanks for viisting!

Das doppelte Lottchen #141

It's sunday, that means it's Lottie and Lisa time!

That means Anni and I usually pick a stamp or stamp set or die that we both have (we nearly have the same taste!) and create a card with this product and another task.

Today I made a wish, and it is:

Stampotique - Stack of Birds

&

Crackle Paint

I am in love with crackling paint right now - I could use it on ton's of cards. Passing it through a stencil with a gradient distress-blended pattern woul look cool was what I thought. And for the German sentiment saying "Friends like you are priceless" I wanted to make one of the birds stand out - that's why I colored the others in warm grey tones. 

 

• Stamp the birds, color and funzzy cut them.
• blend Distress Inks in Cracked Pistachio and Twisted Citron trough a stencil. Keep the stencil in place and add crackling paint. Let it dry or (carefully!) dry it with your heat gun.
• Stamp the sentiment in Versafine Onyx Black Ink.
• Add the birds using foamsquares - this makes them stand out.
• use matching embossing powder on some wood veneer stars to embellish your card.
• ad a strip of washi to finish off the card.

Here's a close-up of the crackling paint. It was hard to capture and looks way better in real life:

• Crackling Paint adds a lot of texture to your card - keep the rest of your card simple to make the crackles shine.
• embossing powder is a great way to make your embellishments match your project.
• Make your sentiments and images say the same. This pulls your card together.

Simon Says Stamp - Anything goes

Now hop over to Anni's blog to find her creation :) 

Das doppelte Lottchen #131

It's sunday, that means it's Lottie and Lisa time!

That means Anni and I usually pick a stamp or stamp that that we both have (we nearly have the same taste!) and create a card with this set and another task.

Today I made a wish, and it is:

Create A Smile - Botanical Love

&

Foiling or metallic embossing

I have NO IDEA why I came up with this challenge because it is so far from my comfort zoone. I don't own foil and I don't do a lot of metallic embossing, because I'm not too much into elegant cards. Well, at least the set has the option to create something elegant.

I tried some gold embossing through a stencil and added a tiny strip of gold to the sentiment. The flower was colored with Distress Ink in Cracked Pistachio and Pine Needles (my fav combo!). I don't like the card a lot, but maybe you do?!

Thanks for stoppin' by, please check out Anni's blog to see how she was inspired by this challenge :)

Das doppelte Lottchen #125

It's Lottie and Lisa time!

That means Anni and I usually pick a stamp or stamp that that we both have (we nearly have the same taste!) and create a card with this set and another task.

Today I made a wish, and it is:

Sweet Stamp Shop - Hedgehog Kiss

und

Translucent embossing past

Es ist wieder Lottchenzeit! 

Hier einigen die wunderbare Anni und ich uns üblicherweise auf einen Stempel oder ein Stempelset , dass wir beide besitzen und gestalten (unser Geschmack ist sehr ähnlich!) mit diesem und einer Zusatzaufgabe eine Karte. 

Heute durfte ich wünschen und heraus kam:

Sweet Stamp Shop - Hedgehog Kiss

und

Translucent embossing paste

I kept my card pretty simple - blended some Distress ink over a heart-stencil and on the backgroun piece, added the embossing paste on top of the stencil and that's pretty much it. Stamping, coloring, fuzzy cutting, assembling - done!

Ich habe meine Karte recht schlicht gehalten - habe nur etwas Distress Ink mit einem Stencil aufgetragen und auch auf dem Hintergrund und habe dann noch die Embossing Paste über den Stencil aufgetragen - das war's auch schon fast. Stempeln, colorieren, ausschneiden, zusammenkleben - fertig!

Now hop over to see Anni's wonderful creation! Thanks for your visit!

Finally - a new video :)

Happy new year!

Hope you all had a good start to 2015 - i dure did. (We had a friend with us, played games (Carcassonne) and ate Raclette (is that a internationally known thing? I have no idea...). It was wonderful.
Well, I'll never be a fa of fireworks, I think they're useless and mean to all the poor creatures outside, but dispite that I really enjoyed the night.

I also made a video that I finished this morning - so I can finally share anotehr video with you. (I feel bad I am not able to make a video for each tuesday at the moment... boo!)

I created this male Valentine's card:

I had not made a watercolor card for quite a while now and thought they would make a nice background for the large chipboard letters. I badly wanted to use those ;)

Stamps: Create A Smile - Balance

Chipboards: Create A Smile - Alphabet

Die: Simon Says Stamp Circ e Border

Embossing Powder: Wow Clear Gloss ultra fine, Hero Arts white

Ink: Versamark

• Using the blending tool with Versamark ink adds more options to partial heat-embossing.
• A regularly patterned washi tape makes it easy to mask off the edges correctly and even
• Add layers of watercolor to control the amount of color
• use your heat gut to move the watercolor on your paper

Hope you enjoyed the video - maybe I'll have another one on sunday.. I'll try ;)

Stay tunes and follow the Create A Smile Blog to see all the fun things coming up this year. The new release is coming up NEXT WEEK!.. Woohoo!

Challenges:
Simon Says stamp - anything goes
House of cards - Photo inspiration:

Das doppelte Lottchen #119

It's Lottie and Lisa time!

That means Anni and I usually pick a stamp or stamp that that we both have (we nearly have the same taste!) and create a card with this set and another task.

Today Anni made a wish, and it is:

Sweet Stamp Shop - Fishy

and

Create A Scene

Es ist wieder Lottchenzeit! 

Hier einigen die wunderbare Anni und ich uns üblicherweise auf einen Stempel oder ein Stempelset , dass wir beide besitzen und gestalten (unser Geschmack ist sehr ähnlich!) mit diesem und einer Zusatzaufgabe eine Karte. 

Anni durfte wünschen, und heraus kam:

Sweet Stamp Shop - Fishy

und

gestalte eine Szene

I used the starfish for my card,s tamped is a few times and added some fancy stuff from the "Too Hip" stamp set. The background was created with Distress inks to create a underwater-scene. 

Party like a STARfish - any questions? ;)

Ich habe für meine Karte den Seestern mehrmals gestempelt und ihn mit Accessoires aus "too Hip" cersehen. Den Hintergrund habe ich mit Distress Inks gemacht um eine unter-Wasser-Szene zu kreieren.

Party like a STARfish - noch irgendwelche Fragen? ;)

Hop over to Anni's blog so see what she created for this challenge!

TAWS December Blog Hop

Hey there, it's that time again: Time for the TAWS Release Blog Hop - you have a bunch of chances to win THREE stamp sets!

If you want to be that winner, all you have to do is follow the Rafflecopter instructions below!

You can pick and choose which ones you want to do, but the more you comment, the more chances you have to win!

You have until Tonight at 9:00PM TAWS time!

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Plus....

This super fun Mini Set, Starburst, is FREE when you spend $40.00 

or more during the month of December.

And we aren't done yet!!!

If you spend $90.00 in December, you will get this set, too!

How much fun is Oinkers?!?!?!

It will automatically be added to your order, so shop away!

AND....

TAWS is running a special promotion! From December 1-12, 2014, enter in the code SPARKLE&SHINE at checkout to get 20% off!

My card was created using the "with wondering AWE" set - so many cute critters! I picked the rooster for my card:

Here's the hop order, in case you got lost ;)

Alison
Anni
Anna
Chrissie
Christine
Dana
Jen
Kasia
Lisa
N@ Ali
Tanja
Sabine
Tracy

Das doppelte Lottchen #118

That means Anni and I usually pick a stamp or stamp that that we both have (we nearly have the same taste!) and create a card with this set and another task.
Today Anni made a wish, and it is:

Lawn Fawn - Winter Bunnd

and

Torn Paper

Es ist wieder Lottchenzeit! 

Hier einigen die wunderbare Anni und ich uns üblicherweise auf einen Stempel oder ein Stempelset , dass wir beide besitzen und gestalten (unser Geschmack ist sehr ähnlich!) mit diesem und einer Zusatzaufgabe eine Karte. 

Anni durfte wünschen, und heraus kam:

Lawn Fawn - Winter Bunny

und

gerissenes Papier

This card took quite a while. I die-cut, stamped, colored, stenciled, ewmbossed, distressed... A wild mix of techniques. Something you can't se on the picture: the Cloud-pattern is glittery embossing powder by WOW - it look even cooler in real life.

Die Karte hat ein Weilchen gebraucht. Ich habe gestanzt, gestempelt, koloriert, schabloniert, embosst, distreet.... ein wilder Mix aus Techniken. Etwas, das ihr auf den bildern leider nicht sehen könnt: Das muster auf den Wolken ist glitzerned Embossing Puder von WOW! - das sieht in real noch cooler aus.

Detail: 

Don't forget to Hop over to Anni's Blog to see what she came up with!

Create A Smile cards that I haven't shared over here

Hi there,

I have a bunch of Create A Smile cards that i totally forgot to share over here (I got a new planner, so I'm much more organized from now on ... promise!)

Lets get the parade started:


1) liebste Grüße (loveliest greetings)

I used the heart-speech-bubble from Perfect Tune and colored it up 13 times. I am a sucker for rainbow, so I really really love how this turned out!

Challenges: 

Addicted to Stamps and more - make your mark

 2) Flying by to say Happy birthday
I think the Hypnotize Background really gives some movement to that little Penguin from Penguin Party. I blue. embossed it and used some stormy sky Distress ink for some emboss-resist.

3) Sonnenschein - na endlich.
This was my "try-out" card when I created the clouds-stencil for our store - and I jumped up and down when I saw how this turned out. (They are probably my fav stencils in my drawers). The sentiment was made using the "Sonnenschein"-chipboards and a sentiment from "Für Alle Fälle". It says "Sunshine - finally".

Challenges:
Friday Mashup - It's all about the weather 

4) My fav image.. little Mr. Beaver (I think he should have a name.. although "Mr. Beaver" sounds nice!) And some printed digital papers - Pretty simple!

5) Hola
Did you see that Perfect Tune has sentiments in different languages? French, Spanish, English, German. So this little cockatoo (from Jungle Fever) might be a spanish guy. I also used the "Say it!" Stencil - looove all the speech bubbles!

Challenges:
Citycrafter Clannge - ONE Word
Allsort Challenge - No design papers
Crazy for challenges - Hello

6) Frohes Fest
Last is a pretty elegant card using stars from Whimsical Wheels and the Hypnotize background with glittery embossing powder. (WOW! Clear Sparkle) I cut the sentiment (saying Merry Christmas) from some real wood paper using my Silhouette...  I should do this more often!

See the glitter?

Challenges:
Inkspirational: Christmas without red or green
Just us girls - photo inspiration:


Thanks for stopping by, I hope you enjoyed this bunch :)


Oh, and don't forget - you have until tomorrow to apply for the Create A Smile Design Team!