Masculine Birthday Card

Hi Scrappers, 

I'd like to share a masculine and rather simple card with you today. I created it for the birthday of my friend Sven. 

I used textured cardstock (faux leather) for base of the card. The label was cut with my silhouette and the edges were inked with Distress ink in Vintage Photo. Then I took five different coordinating and masculine paper scraps to create the candles. I just rolled them up and glued a piece of yarn in the middle of the paper roll. To finish the card, I added a handwritten sentiment with two screw brads and and bakers twine in copper for a completed look. 

Thank you for stopping by, I hope you liked it! 

New Art Journal Pages

Here are some of my latest Art Journal pages I'd like to share with you! I created them over the last weeks piece by piece. The journal is almost done now, there are only a few clean pages left. I was watching a lot of mixed media and art journal videos on YouTube recently, and I got a lot of inspiration from there. So here we go...! All the pages were covered with gesso before I worked on them. 

Background: 

Dylusions Ink Spray in various colors, brick wall mask by Crafters Workshop, Speckles mask by Tim Holtz, Wow Embossing Powder in Verdigris and clear, different stamps by 7Gypsie, Archival Ink in black.

Butterflies: 

rubber stamp by Papermania and some cutouts from kraft resist paper by Tim Holtz

Flower:

 cutout from DCWV Ciao Bella Collection

Background:

Acrylic Paint in yellow, Dylusions ink sprays, Dylusions mask small squares, Crafters Workshop Mask, stamps from Kaisercraft "Hello Paris", different paper scraps in green and brown colors

Photo: 

made during a hike on a mountain in Switzerland

Butterflies: 

cut with a die from Sizzix

Background:

Acrylic paint in different blue shades, different masks by Prima Marketing and Tim Holtz, drippings made with distress paint in gold

Fishes: 

Cut out from photos I made during our holiday in Egypt

Air bubbles:

painted with gesso and Gelatos

Background: 

Paper by Prima Marketing "Art Pad collection", different spray inks by 13arts, Prima Marketing stamps and Archival Ink, masks by Prima Marketing, the swirls and butterflies are rub-ons; the scalloped circles were die-cut and the edges were distressed with Distress Inks. 

This page is one of my favorites. It is my first collage with cutouts from a magazine. The background is created with Gelatos in different pinks, red and orange, with a technique I saw in a video by Donna Downey (click here to see the video). 

Thank you for stopping by, I would be happy if you leave a comment :) 

Layout with Finnabair

Hey everyone! 

I made this layout in during my last workshop with Finnabair, so it's a little bit older. I just finally uploaded it to share it with you :) 

The papers are from her collection for the 7dots studio,  the stamps on the background and all the embellishment are from her collection for Prima Marketing. We used a lot of glimmer sprays to create this soft and flowing colors. 

Here's one of her famous "clusters" of embellishment. They were covered with the glimmer spray, too.

Thanks for stopping by! 

Clean and Simple - Pink and Lime

Hey Scrappers!

Today I'd like to share with you a quick blog post. I created a clean and simple layout in white, pink and lime. I was inspired by a layout I found on Pinterest and wanted to try this color combo. And this is what I came up with:

All the paper scraps, washi tapes and stickers are from the MME Up & Away collection. I created the little heart-pin by myself with a punch and some glitter. 

A few spritzers lime, a few sprinkles in pink and some matte gel on the background - that's pretty much it! Thank's for stopping by! 

Scrap & Music #30 - Suspicious Minds

Hi everyone! 

It's been a while since I've posted a new blog post - I've been busy with work and I was in the US for more than a month. I crafted almost every week, but I just hadn't the time to take good pictures and to upload them. Anyway, here I am back with a layout for the Scrap&Music blog :)

I love the color-combo of grey and aqua-tones (I saw a great layout on Pinterest and was inspired by that). I used two pictures from a holiday in Switzerland because the colors are quite matching, and the title fit, too. 

I used a few of my new chalk sprays by 13arts for my background. I used a mask with tiny stars and some moulding paste to create a little bit of texture. Here and there I used Stickles in matching colors.

Thanks for stopping by! 

Hopefully I'm going to find a little bit more time in the coming weeks for a few more posts :)

This was the sketch I used for my layout:

Sketchabilities #113 DT Reveal - the mountain calls!

Hi everyone! It's my last DT-project for the actual Sketchabilities Team. It's sketch #113! Check it out on the sketchabilities blog and participate with us! We have a great sponsor this month, all you have to do is submit a layout based on sketch #113! Creative Embellishments is offering up a $20.00 gift card to their online store.

This is my project: 

We took the pictures during our holiday in the mountains of switzerland. You can see the height above sea level on the watch, it's 2165m! :) 

And that's the sketch! 

Thank you for stopping by and hope to see your creations on the sketchabilities blog :)

Sketchabilities #112 DT reveal

Hi everyone! 

It's time for the Sketchabilities #112 DT-reveal! 

I came up with a Bambi-LO :) 

For the background I used a paper by DCWV (lace stack). 

My title is made out of grunge-board and painted it with metallic distress paint. I used two different colors of liquid pearls to create some flourishes around the title and around my canvas flowers.

The flowers are from Prima and made of resist canvas. I sprayed them with different Glimmer Mists to color them and added a huge metallic brad in the center of each. Underneath, I applied a tiny bit of glitter Washi tape.

To highlight the tags, I used a little bit of Inka Gold and rubbed it on with my fingers. You can see a bit of the background stamping in that picture, too. 

Another close-up of my background work.

Thank you for stopping by and it would be great, if you'll join is this month by creating a layout with this beautiful sketch! 

New Art Journal Pages!

Hi everyone, 

I just wanted to share a few new mixed media art journal pages I created during the last weeks. I used different sprays, inks, stencils and gel medium on all the pages. I hope you like it! 

Thanks for stopping by! :)

Sketchabilities #111 DT-Reveal

Hey Scrappers! 

It's just time for another beautiful sketch by Sketchabilities :) 

Here's my take on the sketch #111:

I took some photos of one of our last Florida holiday, where we were in a Lion's  Safari Park. You could feed some of the birds there by hand :) 

This time I created a rather dark and cool layout with a lot of masking and stamping on the background. 

At the first step I used glossy medium to create a subtle brick wall with one of my Prima masks. To emphasize it, it stamped with a brick wall stamp, too. I stamped the honeycombs and used another honeycomb mask with black gesso for more structure. 

After that, I used a lot different sprays and inks for more shine.

 In order to catch the eye I added a few colorful and some metallic embellishments. You can see the overlapped masks on the background of that picture. 

Then I glued down some pieces of masure tape, masking tape and the title.

And a geotag on top! 

This is the sketch for the latest challenge:

I hope to see some of you working on that sketch, too! :) 

Thank you all who participated the last time and have fun creating a new layout for us.

Thanks for stopping by! 

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!