Krumspring Stamps 1 year anniversary

Hi guys!

Can you believe it - Krumspring Stamps is celebrating its first anniversary!! Yayyy, congrats to Maria and her awesome little business! And there are 8 amazing new stamp sets available!!

For this occasion, we prepared a blog hop for you. If you're already hopping, you come from Amy Yang's fabulous blog :-) So be sure to hop along and leave comments on every participating blog, there are amazing prizes!!

But first, let me show you the card I created for your inspriation and showcasing the brandnew set called "Bloom".

Isn't it gooorgeous?? It's actually a Magnolia blossom and it is huge! So that means you have a lot of space to put color on :-D

First I stamped the image with Versamark ink and heat embossed it with silver embossing powder.  Heat embossed lines are raised and this is quite helpful while watercoloring ;-)

I mixed traditional watercolors with peerless watercolors and colored pencils. This way you will achieve lots of depth on your image. Here  you can see what I used:

The Happy Birthday is from the set "The Necessary One" which I heat embossed with a kind of caramel colored embossing powder. To finish off the card, I adhered my panel onto a soft pink card base. Voilà! :-D

So beside those 15% off, you get the chance to win a 10$ gift certificate to the Krumspring shop!!
Leave a comment on each step on the way of the blog hop for 16 chances to win a 10$ gift certificate OR the grand prize - which is a prize package containing lots of Krumpspring Stamps!

Giveaway ends August 23 at 12 pm Central European Time. Winners will be announced on Krumspring Blog on August 23.

So here are all blog hop participants:

Krumspring Blog (Maria)

Vera Rhuhay

Michelle Short

Amy Yang

Tina Krauer <-- you are here!

Niki Bee

Jessica Frost-Ballas

Anna Kossakovskaya

Kathy Racoosin

Amy Lee

Natalie Elphinstone

Mayline Jung

Keeway Tsao

Amy Kolling

Birka Reinitz

Dana Gong

Thank you so much for celebrating with us!! Good luck and happy hopping!

Hugs,

Guest designing for Simon Says Stamp flickr challenge

Hi guys!

I am tickled pink that I was asked to be guest designing for the Simon Says Stamp flickr challenge #78, yay!

This time it is all about dots and/or stripes, such a fun and easy one!! :-)

I created two cards for your inspiriation - let's start with the first one!

I love this set called "Coffee and Tea"! I wanted to create a cozy and homy feeling so I grabbed lots of different patterned papers out of my stash. I combined a red gingham patterned paper with some wooden patterns. And of course I had to create a coffee cup with dots! This is also stamped onto patterned paper. I just added shadows in different shades of blue Copic markers. Then I diecut that beyond adorable coffee mug out of white cardstock and added a piece of the same dotted patterned paper as a sleeve and added some shades to it, too. Eyes and mouth are colored with Copics as well. Then I glued the arms onto the sleeve and added a full heart diecut (it is separate since the one of the dicut won't be a full one). I love how those teeny tiny arms are holding that heart :-D

To give my red and white striped gingham tablecloth a special something something, I added a white scalloped border diecut. I think at least such details make the difference! The sentiment is heat embossed twice (make sure the first embossing is cooled down well before starting the second layer!) with white embossing powder. To finish off my design, I added a little bunting with the same gingham paper.

I really like how it turned out, I hope you like it too!



My second card is a complete different style, using lots and lots of layers of Distress Oxides and regular Distress ink:

This stamp set called "Look for the miracles" is so versatile and gorgeous! The design of the flowers and leaves allows a lot of different techniques.

First, I heat embossed all pieces (flowers and leaves) and the sentiment with white embossing powder. Then I added Distress ink over the entire images with a finger dauber (mowed lawn and twisted citron for the leaves and fossilized amber and picked raspberry for the flowers) and just added some dots and details to the flower petals with a Stabilo marker. Now I fussy cut all images and left a small border around each image.

The main panel is a blend of Distress Oxides (fossilized amber and spiced marmalade) and regular Distress ink (fired brick) . I love the heat embossed resist technique (the color won't stay onto the white heat embossed parts), you can create easily outstanding backgrounds!

So now I could start assembling my bits and pieces onto the panel. I always take my time for a nice composition; I try to create a well balanced design so that the eye is a kind of guided when looking at the card.

Then I stamped the dots cluster (also included in the stamp set) with white pigment ink between the free spots on the panel. This makes such a difference!

I hope you got inspired and you will play along with us on the Simon Says Stamp flickr challenge! 

And thanks again to Simon for having me!

Have an amazing day!

Hugs,

Basteltraum's challenge #56: Anything goes

It is the 15th of the month again and this means a new fun challenge is starting over at Basteltraum's blog!

And this time you are TOTALLY free of what you come up with because anything goes!!! YAY!

I definitely did my doctorate with this card, lol. Well, I blame myself because I could have done it way easier... but let's begin from scratch :-)

Lawn Fawn released this year an amazing diecut set called "Magic Color Slider". It is a huge set which allows you to create beautiful color slider cards. All pieces you need for it are included in this diecut set. Lawn Fawn has a nice intro tutorial where you can see a step by step tutorial how the mechanism has to be assembled. So... I did my magic color slider card with the adorable pirate set, also by Lawn Fawn. I stamped and masked a little scene onto a piece of cardstock and stamped the exact same scene on a piece of acetate again (including masking! this was quite a bit tricky :-)) ). Then I colored the scene with colored pencils and assembled the whole mechanism together. So when you are now pulling the kraft cardstock slider, the color will be revealed like magic because the acetate and the colored piece are layered on top of each other. How cool is that?! I barely could stop playing :-))

Then I stamped the sentiment on a banner stamp and embellished it with several flowers and leaves. A little anchor diecut out of my stash and a piece of red and white striped patterned paper finished off my design. As the interactive part is super cool, the card itself doesn't need a lot of additional embellishments.

This kind of card might be a bit more time consuming - but trust me, totally worth it! Color slider cards are SO MUCH FUN!! :-)

I hope you will play along - you have to - because anything goes! :-)

See you there and happy crafting!

Hugs,