January Sisterhood

Hi there,

have I told you that I'm a part of a wonderful group of ladies who swap cards every month? And while swapping we grew to a group of friends who support each other in all situation of life. I just love you ladies!!!

But anyways ... we are taking turns by hosting the swap each month and for January my friend Michelle chose the theme "All about you"- create a card that is inspired by e.g. your birthstone, birthflower, the color of your "birth month" ... - Miche, did I explain that correctly???

Well, I'm born in August: peridot, poppy or Gladiola, lion, .... I saw a wonderful poppy stamp from hero art but it was released Jan 8th - too late for me :-(. So I went with the color of the peridot and created this card.

I stamped the flowers from Taylor's "Discover your wings" set with white craft ink onto DP and embossed it with white embossing powder. Then I distressed the edges with a distressing tool and then matted it with very vanilla cardstock.

Another attribute of my birth month is Happiness - so I went ahead and sewed happy-ly on my cards. I tried a couple of different stitches but I like the regular one the best.

Added a sentiment from the same set in old olive ink - glued it on certainly celery card stock, threw in some rhinestone stickers and punched out butterfly .... et voilà!

I hope the ladies will like the card even though my sewing went a bit crazy *smile*

Thank you for visiting me today and for your support through my journey of trials and errors here.

Special hugs

Tanja

Recipe:

stamp: "Discover your wings" Taylored Expression

ink: whisper white craft, old olive

paper: certainly celery, very vanilla, Bali Breeze DP SU, Teh Crafter's Stack from DCWV

others: white EP, sewing machine, threat, rhinestone stickers, MS butterfly punch

Sisterhood December

Hi there,

I hate it when I can't keep promise .... Sorry for not posting for a week even though I told you I would. But after my inlaws flew back home we had 2 day for cleaning and relaxing and then we went to Disney World for 2 days. I can tell you .... we were really busy ;-)

Back to business.

I wanna show you a card I made for the most wonderful group of swapping-ladies called "Sisterhood of the travelling card". We swap together every month but most of the time we share good and bad news and just support each other in everything, right ladies?

This month Miss Fay is the hostess and challenged us to create a winter scene on our card.

I had this wonderful idea but finally I'm not impressed with what I came up with .... but well - 'tis is the season where everybody is busy and I really haven't had the time to redo 6 of this cards :-( I hope somebody will like it .... (sorry for the dark photo, the light outside isn't enough during bad weather, hm?)

Thank you for stopping by and watch out for the next post pretty soon :-))

Hugs Tanja

Recipe:

stamp: Tree and sentiment is from Verve and snow man from Inkadinkado

ink: basic black

paper: whisper white, Wintergreen DP SU,

others: clear EP and heat gun, precision scissor, liquid appliqué, stardust stickles, dimensionals, paperpiercing tool, sticky tape, snow from Walmart (christmas aisle)

September Sisterhood

Good morning friends!

Sorry for being mia for a couple days - we just enjoyed the nice summer weather and spent most of the days in the pool! But nevertheless I finished my cards for the Sisterhood for September ... yeah!!!

My dear friend Roxane aka 2CuteCats over at SCS challenged us to make a fall-card (not a Thanksgiving or a Halloween-card). I didn't wanna use the typical fall-colors and images so I pulled our these beautiful set from the last Holiday mini-catalog and used the rubber boots for the first time. Since we brought back some gorgeous ones for the boys from Germany I'm totally hooked on these shoes. Sounds crazy, hm?

And I wanted to try my Sizzix dies on some other materials than paper. And I absolutely love how it turned out on the kork (cork/ corc ???) Everything else is quite straight and clean. I hope my sistahs will like it.

Thank you for popping in today - hope to see you soon

Hugs Tanja

Recipe:

stamps: "Scene in a garden" SU 

ink: basic black

paper: kraft, real rust, choc chip, natural white, Autumn vine DP SU

others: kork, Top Note die, BigShot, more mustard brads, dimensionals, organza ribbon, Jute twine, watercolor pencils, Aqua painter, corner rounder punch

Augst Friendships

Good morning!

I think I mentioned before that I'm part of a group of the most wonderful ladies who swap together every month and share good things and not so good things and just chat and ....

Every month one lady of the group is hosting the swap and provide the monthly theme. For August my friend Gael wanted us to create a card with a moving part. I chose to make this flip-flop one and absolutely love the technique.

But after chosing the technique I had a hard time to put the paper and stamps and embellies together. Finally I ended up with this

version.

This is the back of the swing part. I decided to keep it in friendship mood and used my great friend stamp set from SU.

The new in-colors work great together and so I kept the combo easy and kinda fall-ish.

Thank y'all for stopping by today

Have a good day

Hugs Tanja

Deets:

stamps: Inspired by Nature, Great Friends, Snow Burst all SU; "Remember" from Stampology by Autumn Leaves

ink: whisper white, moonshine white Brilliance, Kiwi Kiss,

paper: soft suede, crushed curry textured, rich razzleberry,whisper white, Razzlebery Lemonade DP

others: MS butterfly punch, pearl sticker, satin ribbon, paper piercing tools, dimesionals, white gel pen, Label 3 nesties