Family and Friends März Challenge: Farbenfroh und geprägt in den Frühling

Hi everyone! Another month - another time to share my project for another Family and Friends challenge! This time it's all about embossing! The march challenge is called:

jump colorful and embossed into spring :) 

Hallo ihr Lieben! 

Ein neuer Monat und eine neue Challenge bei Family and Friends! Das Motto des Monats lautet:

farbenfroh und geprägt in den Frühling.

Also nichts wie ran an all die bunten Papiere und Farben die ihr habt, und legt los :)

I decided to craft a cute spring card. The background is embossed with two different embossing-folders and I stamped and punched out the butterflies with my Martha Steward puncher.

Den Hintergrund habe ich mit zwei verschiedenen Präge-Foldern geprägt und mit etwas Distress Ink akzentuiert. Die Schmetterlinge habe ich zuerst mit verschiedenen Farben gestempelt und dann mit meinem Martha Steward Stanzer ausgestanzt :)

My flower is made out of fabric-circels.

Thank you for stopping by! :) 

Meine Blüte habe ich aus Stoff-Kreisen zusammengeklebt und mit einer Perle verziert. Der kleine Schmetterling sitzt dann noch ganz frühlingshaft auf der Blüte oben auf. Der Frühling kann kommen!

Danke fürs Vorbeischauen ihr Lieben und ein schönes Wochenende! 

Family and Friends February - Birthday Calendar

Hallo ihr Bastler! 

Hi Crafters! 

Entschuldigt bitte diesen total verspäteten Post, ich hatte ihn erstellt aber nur gespeichert und nicht veröffentlicht. Hier ist er nun aber! Meine Version des Geburtstagskalenders für die FaF Februar Challenge. Ich habe mich hier für ein doppelseitiges Layout entschieden, welches ich an die Wand gehängt habe. 

I'm sorry for the late post for this challenge, but somehow I saved the post but didn't publish it. Anyway, here it is! The monthly theme from the Family and Friends February Challenge is a Birthday Calendar. I decided to create a doublesided layout with small tab-folders on it. 

Auf dem neutralen Hintergrund kommen die bunten aber aufeinander abgestimmten Farben gut zur Geltung. Meine Silhouette kam hier sehr viel zum Einsatz: zuerst habe ich 12 kleine Ordner aus doppelseitig gemustertem Scrappapier geplottet. Danach habe ich aus weißem Fotokarton den Titel und die einzelnen Monate aufgeklebt. Um die kleinen Ordner noch besser vom Hintergrund abzuheben, habe ich mit etwas Gesso und einem hellblauen Gelato gearbeitet. 

I took a neutral background to make the colors of the folders more pop. For this project I used my Silhouette Cameo a lot. The title and all the months are cut out with it. I played with some gesso and a light blue gelato on the background, to create a subtle background behind the small folders.

Die einzelnen Ordner habe ich dann noch mit ein paar Embellies verziert und kleine Fotohalter mit Brads angebracht, um die Ordner an der Wand geschlossen zu halten.

I embellished some of the folders with wood veneers and used tiny photo holders and brads to keep them closed. 

Und jetzt kommt der Clue: die Geburtstage selbst habe ich auf kleine Fähnchen aufgebracht. Der Name besteht aus kleinen Alphas, und das Datum (Monat + Tag) sind oben aufgestempelt. Die einzelnen Fähnchen bewahre ich dann im entsprechenden Monatsordner auf. Und damit man den aktuellen Geburtstag auch immer vor Augen hat, ist dieser ebenfalls mit einem Brad oben am Layout hinter dem Titel angebracht. Hier kann man gleich alle Fähnchen eines Monats übereinander anbringen, sodass man diese nur noch verschieben muss. Die Fähnchen werden dann monatlich gewechselt. 

And here's the thing with the birthdays: I cut out a lot of banners, where I wrote all the names with some alphas. I stamped the month and the day of birthday on the banners, too. The birthday-banners are all in the correct month-folder. Next to the title there's a tiny brad which holds the banner of the next birthday. This way, you can see the next important birthday all the time and you can change the banners monthly.

Hier noch eine kleine Nahaufnahme meiner Fähnchen.

Here you can see a little close-up of the banners I created:

Ich hoffe meine Kreation gefällt euch! Danke fürs Vorbeischauen!

I hope you like it an thank you for stopping by!

Let's get Sketchy Part 3!

Hi Scrappers! I joined the last sketch challenge for January by Let's Get Sketchy. It's getting really cold outside and I wanted to create a very fresh and springlike layout. Take a look:

The background paper is from the Prima art journal pad.  I spritzed it a lot with different shades of green and yellow glimmer mists, used some green Gelatos and some golden distress paints for a mixed media look.

You can see the stitched lines for my journaling and some lace ribbon.

I punched out these butterflies out from light chipboard and heat embossed them with my patina powder. Besides I added some dots with stickles.

This was the sketch I used: 

Thank you for stopping by!

Frosty December

Hi Scrappers! During the weekend I finished another layout for a sketch from Let's Get Sketchy, but I just hadn't the time to upload it. So here it comes! It's from the January Week 1 sketch.

I took this photo during one of our hiking trips. The forest floor just draw my attention to all its frosted leafs and foliage. I thought I'd be a great picture :) I wanted to create a vintage mixed media background and added a lot of subtle texture to it. First of all I used mask with small dots behind the layered photo. After that I misted the masking with different darker shades of glimmer mist and wiped away the excess for the dots.

I cut the title with my Cameo and added some white distress glitter on top (I couldn't catch the glitter with my camera :( ) Underneath the picture I stitched a chevron pattern with blue floss to the paper, and added my journaling above the floss.

I stamped a few doilies with embossing ink and heat-embossed them with this great patina-embossing powder by WOW. In between I added a few glitter brads and sequins.

I covered the snowflake with distress glitter to create this frosted and layered look. You can see it better than on the "December" title, but I'm still not super-happy with the result of the photo. I guess I'll need to buy a macro lens for my camera... :)

And this was the sketch I used: 

Thank you for stopping by, I hope you like my newest creation :)

Let's get sketchy! :)

Hi everyone! It's time for another challenge and some bold colors. Today I chose a sketch by Let's Get Sketchy. The pictures are from a day in a theme park near where we live on our second anniversary. A great day :)

I used my new Gelatos for a little bit of shading on the background 

(well I just couldn't resist to buy them.... :-) ) 

The doodles are made free hand with Liquid Pearls.

I made the title with my label maker from the SMASH collection by K&Company. 

And that's their sketch: 

Thank you for stopping by! :) 

Underwater Mixed Media Layout

Hi Scrappers! Do you know 13arts? It's a polish blog and shop, and they are just aaaawesome! If you're like me a Mixed Media lover, you seriously have to check them out. They provide you with beautiful inspirational layouts and art, and they sell great stuff! Indeed I have to admit that I love the Polish scrapper-girls style a lot.

Anyway this is my first layout for one of their challenges. This project is for the 13arts challenge #14.
It's about using their sketch, at least one medium and the word "time" in your title. This is my interpretation:

I used white cardstock for the background and altered it with different glimmer mists, ink sprays, silver modeling paste and some perfect pearls powder. The mask I used is a fishnet mask by Jenny Bowlin, and matches perfectly with my underwater theme and all these teal and turquoise colors. 

Behind the picture I glued some real fishnet down and the die cut looks like a coral :)

I stamped a compass and some watches on glossy stamping paper and dry embossed them with an embossing pen from the back. 

I distressed all the edges of my scraps and crumpled them a little bit 

This was the sketch I used: 

Thank you for stopping by and have a great day! :)

A sketch and a color challenge

Hi Scrappers! Scrapfriends brought out  their new color-challenge today. Quiet funny that these are very similar colors to a layout I created just some days ago for the Life. Paper. Scrapbook sketch challenge :D This time I used a sketch provided by Scrap& Music. The pictures are from the Dec. 31. 2013. We decided to spend a relaxed new year's eve and travelled to the highest mountain in Germany, where we did some hiking trips.

This is the mood board for the color challenge # 21 by Scrapfriends: 

I wanted to submit this layout for the Scrap&Music sketch challenge #19, but I forgot to use a piece of their chosen song as title for my layout.... So.... anyway, this is the sketch I used: 

Thank you for stopping by! :) 

Creative Scrappers sketch #259

Hi everyone! I created another "clean" layout - well, at least I tried - this time for CreativeScrappers.
That's their awesome sketch and what I created with it. I played around with my new Silhouette Cameo as you'll see :)

Two pictures from one of my hiking trips with my friends! I just love nature and this is a great way to spend time with your friends and being active. We had a great day! All the paper I used is from DCWV, it's from the "Vintage Collector" collection which comes in great bright colors! I used withe cardstock for the Silhouette Cuts, and a little bit of yarn. That's it!  

I hope you like my creation! Thank you for stopping by <3 

A appreciate all comments :)

January Challenge by Life. Paper. Scrapbook

TGIF Scrappers! I found another great sketch challenge to work on, this time by Life. Paper. Scrapbook. They have a quiet simple sketch for January, but I really LOVE this one. Usually I prefer sketches with lots of details instead of some clean and simple ones, but when I saw their sketch, I knew I had to create a layout with it! I knew I had a picture in stash, which matches perfect to the sketch. It's from a travel to Prague in 2011, where we visited the John Lennon Wall. Love the colors!  

For me it's really hard to create a simple layout and although this one looks quiet clean, it has a lot of small details I added. The grid is stitched with pink floss and there's some stencil work behind the picture and in the lower left corner. I cut out my title with my NEW SILHOUETTE CAMEO (thank you honey for this AWESOME Christmas present :)) and added some Candis on the picture.

I cut out the hearts from a 12 by 12 paper and surrounded them with faux stitching. Little spritzes of Glimmer mist add some shine to the layout.

And that's the sketch for the challenge: 

Thank you so much for stopping by and have a great weekend out there. 

Hugs!

ScrapFriends sketch challenge #21

I'm so in the mood to scrap! I finished another sunny layout, which was inspired by a sketch challenge. It's the January challenge from Scrapfriends and it was a lot of fun to finish it. Just as some weeks ago I used bright yellows and greens for this layout. We had some nice sunshine today, maybe that's the reason why I wanted to use these colors :) The picture is from 2011, when I did my first hiking-tour with my best friend. We had a great day together and since this time, I really enjoy hiking and exploring nature! Besides, there isn't any missing "e" in my title, it's just the German word for nature ;) 

I used different techniques for the background: water-coloring, misting, masking with modeling paste and masking with distress ink. On two spots I stitched a circle with baker's twine and the frames behind the picture are made out of different ribbons.

This is their cool sketch for January:

Thanks for reading and wishing you a fabulous week :)