Basteltraum's Challenge #108: One Layer Card

 

Good morning everyone!

Only 10 days left until Christmas, whew! Time flies, especially at the end of the year, isn't it!

So today is a new challenge starting over at Bastel-Traum's blog with the theme "one layer card" so I went for a super quick and easy design that is perfect for mass producing - in case you need some more last minute cards :-)

The ornaments are stamped and heat emossed with white embossing powder, also the sentiment but with red sparkling embossing powder. A few white guache color spritzes finished this speedy card - there you go!

I hope to see you soon over on Bastel-Traum's blog with a creation of your own!

Happy crafting and merry Christmas!!

Products I used for this quick and simple card:

Create a Smile " Zu Weihnachten"

Create A Smile "Delicate Decorations"

(both retired, but you might find a similar one for sure!)

Ranger Ink Embossing Powder "super fine detail white"

Ranger Ink Embossing Powder "Red Tinsel"

Versamark Watermark Stamp Pad

Craft UK Kraft cards

Basteltraum's Challgenge #106 Christmas

 

Hello and welcome again!

How are you? Already in the mood for Christmas crafting getting started? Yes? Great! No? Well, maybe I can inspire you to do so :-)

The latest Bastel-Traum Challenge is all about Christmas, so let's dive in!

The card I created is not that typically Christmas-y. I went for a classy sentiment, but the image is rather a winter one than I have to think of Christmas at first. But! The mood image with its beautiful northern lights on it made me grabbing for this adorable yeti. He is just the perfect pal waving a merry Christmas to its recipient :-)

I colored first everything with watercolors. Then I went over with colored pencils for the details. I gave the yeti a furry texture and the trees some extra depth. the background is brushed with just three oxide inks. I started with the lightest one and went through the darkest at the end. Then I put some distress glaze over the whole panel and then flicked some white watercolor ink over it to imitate a starry sky. The Distress Glaze (same as micro glaze from other brands) really helps that the white ink stays white after drying. Otherwise it would soak into the panel and the distress oxide reacts with it and stains it blueish, greenish, etc. A super tiny paint brush helped me to draw in that star with rays.

I found a tiny scrap piece of glittered cardstock for my snowy hill, cannot remember what brand it was :-). The sentiment is diecut from a piece of extra thick fun foam. 

At the end I just had to adhere all pieces and voilà - there you have this cute northern lights scene :-)

I hope you will play along with us - see you there!

Happy crafting!

Products I used:

Lawn Fawn / Yeti, Set, Go

Distress Oxide / Chipped Sapphire

Distress Oxide / Cracked Pistachio

Distress Oxide / Wilted Violet

Distress Glaze

Watercolor Cardstock (Canson XL Aquarelle 300g/m2)

Schmincke icy watercolours

Colored pencils (Polychromos/FaberCastell)

White gelly pen

White liquid watercolor ink (Ecoline)

Basteltraum's Challenge #105: Watercolors

 

Hello crafty friends

phew - here we are again - in the fall season!!

I don't know about you, but for me, this is my favorite season when it comes to colors. All the pretty leaves and golden woods, I love it!! (only the fog can stay away, ew!! :-) )

So this month's challenge hosted by bastel-traum.ch is all about watercolors!

My inspiration for you is a bunch of adorable images by Lawn Fawn (you will find the product links down below) that I colored with regular watercolors out of a pan. Then I fussy cut them (yes, by hand, no plotter involved! Sometimes I really prefer cutting by hand, it is still the prettiest cut, although not the fastest :-))

For the background, I embossed a white paper with a woven basket pattern. A few spritzes of liquid watercolor for are adding more interest to it.

Then I diecut some leaves out of watercolor cardstock and sponged different distress oxides on it (Mustard Seed, Spiced Marmalade, Candied Apple and Rustic Wilderness) and at the end I spritzed again some liquid watercolor for even more texture on the leaves.

I had a feeling my images needed a ground to stand somewhere. So I cut a piece of kraft cardstock for this purpose.

An now it came to "puzzling" :-D by that, I mean making an arrangement on my card panel. Sometimes it can be tricky! But what is always helping me, is taking a photo of the different steps and at the end when I take away all elements for glueing them. This way I can cheat on the photo to see how the arrangement has going to go. Smart, eh? :-)

The sentiment (I got a few pre-cuts of these by a friend, I guess it is by Mama Elephant) with its sparkling gold cardstock was the perfect one for this fall themed card. And voilà, here we have my inspiration for you!

I cannot wait seeing your project on bastel-traum's blog website - see you over there!

Crafty hugs,

Lawn Fawn / Let's go Nuts

Lawn Fawn  / Thanks a Bushel

Lawn Fawn / So Thankful for you (retired)

Lawn Fawn / Small Stitched Leaves

Lawn Fawn / Stitched Leaves

Distress Oxide / Candied Apple

Distress Oxide / Spiced Marmalade

Distress Oxide / Mustard Seed

Distress Oxide / Rustic Wilderness

Altenew Watercolor Palette

Embossing Folder "Woven Basket" (retired)

Basteltraum's Challenge #104 Plants

 

Hello everyone!

I am back with a pretty simple, yet pretty card for you :-) This month's theme on bastel-traum's challenge blog is all about plants. I decided to make some super quick and easy cards for your inspiration. All you need is water color paper,  any type of watercolors (I used liquid ones), some greenery diecuts, some hemp cord and a pretty sentiment of your choice.

First, I cut a panel in european DIN A6 size (this is more or less the same as the american A2 size) and taped it down onto my glass surface. Then I got them a wash of clear water and then came in with the watercolor by spreading it around until I was happy. A few splatters completed the look. Then I set both panels aside to dry (this did not take a long time, I think about 15 min). I prefer drying by itself then with a heat gun, it looks so different afterwards!

In the meantime, I diecut the greenery. I used some random pieces, I even cannot remember the brand. But I picked an alternative down below for you in case you might buy some plant diecuts for yourself :-)

Afer the panels got completely dry, I stamped the sentiment with black pigment ink and embossed it on top with clear embossing powder. This is optional, but I love the raised letters and the shine of the heat embossing process!

After that, I just had to arrange and adhere my greenery on the panel. I wrapped a few times a hemp cord around the panel to give my card a "ground". (I felt like my plants were floating there). Now I just had to glue the panel onto a base - here we go! These two cards took me about 45 min, which is super fast for me, what do you think? :-)

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day! I can't wait to see your creations over at basteltraum's challenge blog!

Happy crafting!

Products I used:

Lawn Fawn's Tropical Leaves as an alternative

Distress reinker "rustic wilderness"

Distress reinker "chipped sapphire"

Lawn Fawn's  Glow in the dark cord

Basteltraum's Challenge #103: Rainbow

 

Hello crafty friends

Here's to another round of a challenge hosted by Bastel-Traum!

This theme is one of my favorites... Rainbows!!! Is there anything better than a rainbow themed card?! Nope, lol :-)

So I used a ton of different Lawn Fawn products to create this colorful card. First, I scribbled a few Karin Brush Markers onto a piece of watercolor cardstock and spritzed it with water. The colors immediately began to blur. I used some tissue paper and a heat gun to stop the colors from running... then you need to be a bit patient until the paper has completely dried. Then I cut out the big sentiment "big hugs" from this panel. I used a chalk marker to enhance the letters a bit more.

The background panel is brushed with distress oxide and after that I used a star stencil over it and brushed again some more distress oxide from the same color.

The bottom and top part are also dicuts from Lawnfawn and colored with distress oxides, too.

I used some colored pencils to color in this adorable image, it's the cutest, don't you think?!

Down below you will find the links to the products I used.

So I hope you will play along in this fun and happy challenge!

Thank you for hanging out with me - and happy crafting!

Lawn Fawn / Sending Big Hugs Die

Lawn Fawn / Happy Hugs Stamp Set

Lawn Fawn / Shadow Box Card Park Add On Dies

Lawn Fawn / Grassy Hillside Borders 

Karin Brush Marker Pro 60

Distress Oxide Salvaged Patina

Distress Oxide Mowed Lawn

Basteltraum's Challenge #102: Animals

 

Hello crafty friends

I am back with another inspirational card for the new challenge over at bastel-traum's blog and it is all about animals this time.

I went with a stamp by colorado craft company called "Lots of Love" and I am so in love with Anita Jeram's images! I am pretty sure you all know her children's books that took the world by storm. I am so happy I discovered this company that creates stamps of her adorable images!

I decided to color this image with the no-line technique. For this, you stamp the image in a very light hue and color then without creating harsh outlines. I really love the soft look you can achieve with this technique.

Then I decided to stamp the sentiment with embossing ink and emboss it with superfine white embossing powder (this one is perfect for tiny/small detailed images or sentiments). Then I brushed some pigment ink (it's an old ink pad by Mama Elephant; unfortunately it's discontinued... but any light blue pigment ink will work!) over the sky and voilà - there you have an adorable animal card :-)

So I hope you will share your creation with us over at bastel-traum's blog!

Happy crafting!

Hugs, 

Basteltraum's Challenge #101: Water

 

Hello everyone!

We are in the middle of May already and spring is in its full bloom! This already lets me think of summer, sun, beach and sea... I think that's probably why I got inspired for my card for this month's challenge over at Bastel-Traum's blog - a colorful underwater scene with a swarm of fishies, yay!

I colored my fishies with chameleon pens. I love these markers because you only need a handful to achieve a beautiful blend between the colors! After coloring, I fussy cut (yes, I truly did :-)) all the fishes on its outlines.

For the background, I heat embossed first my sentiment with white embossing powder and brushed a bunch of distress oxides onto a watercolor cardstock panel (the heat embossed sentiment is resistent to the oxides, it won't get stained). I used Cracked Pistachio Blueprint Sketch and Chipped Sapphire. For the finish, I used some Distress Micro glaze to make the surface permanent and sealed against water or new layers of moist color. I waited a while to make sure the glaze had absorbed a bit. 

I wanted to add some sunrays that breaks into the water from above. For that, I used some white pigment ink and sunray stencil. I slightly dabbed some ink over the glazed panel (the glaze will prevent that the white ink will stain with the distress oxide color when applying!)

After that, I glued all my fishies onto the panel with Nuvo Deluxe Adhesive (it's my favorite liquid glue, I like it even more than Tombo Mono Multi glue!). Voilà, there you have a colorful underwater scene! :-)

I hope you got inspired and will play along with us - see you there over at Bastel-Traum's blog!

Happy crafting,

Basteltraum's Challenge #100 Surprise!

 

Hi everyone!

Can you believe it?! It is the hundredth challenge of basteltraum - woohooo! Appropriately to this anniversary we have a super cool theme: surprise!!

I went for the extra mile this time: I created an interactive card with two different mechanisms. The little dragon is made with a "Let's toast pull tab Add-On" and the sun is rising and hiding with that super cool "Swish'n'pop pull tab".

Lawn Fawn always makes great video tutorials and in case you don't know how to assemble these interactive sets, you will find the "Let's toast pull tab Add-On" HERE and the Swish'n' pop pull tab HERE.

First, I wanted to add a bigger sun but I realized it will be too big for the cute dragon image. So I decided to go for the small sun that is included in this die set "Outside In Stitched Sun" . The background panel (sky and grass) is sponged with Distress Oxides  and some watercolor splatters and the rainbow as well as the dragon image is colored with Copic markers.

The name is made with the "Oliver's Stitched ABC's" and the number is from the same line called  "Oliver's Stitched 123's", also colored with Copic markers.

I always like to color in everything first, cut out all needed pieces and then start assembling my card.

I hope this inspired you a bit for trying an interactive surprise card, too! Maybe you never tried an interactive one, so that might be a good opportunity!

Yay! Let's have some fun and create something awesome!

Have a great day and stay crafty!

Hugs,

Basteltraum's Challenge #99: Butterflies

 

Hi crafty friends!

A new month, a new challenge over on bastel-traum's blog! This time it is all about butterflies! For this occasion, I dusted off a pretty old but still very beloved die from Memory box (I think this die has been retired, unfortunately). It is a shape of a heart, built by lots of butterflies of different sizes. The die only cuts the wings, but not the body... so the butterflies will stay put in the paper and shape. Just just have to bend the wings a bit and voilà - there you have a pretty, dimensional eye catcher! :-)

I colored the butterflies with regular watercolors in kind of a rainbow order.

A german sentiment that means "I am thinking of you" finishes off my card design. The card base is a light pastel violet.

Quick and simple - sometimes a card just needs simplicity, right?

I hope you will play along with us - butterfly themed card are so versatile! I am excited to see your creations!

Thank you for stopping by and have a great day!

Basteltraum's Challenge #98 Birthday

 

Hello, my crafty friends!

This month's challenge over at Bastel-Traum's blog is all about birthdays, yay! There is a special reason why - Bastel-Traum turns 7!! Wohoo, congratulations! And here's to many more successful years of spreading joy in the crafting community!! 🎉​🎉​🎉​

So my inspriation for you got inspired by someone else - Nichol Spohr. I adore her talent for years now and watch here and then her cardmaking videos on YouTube. For this card, I tried her technique with stencil layering, which I really love! You might check her video if you are interested in.

The background is stenciled with Distress inks (wilted violet, picked raspberry, dried marigold, squeezed lemonade, mowed lawn and tumbled glass) and a curved border stencil. After that I went over it with a second stencil with stars. I love love love how this turned out! 

I used a big sentiment die by Mama Elephant and cut it out of my background panel. Then I diecut two extra pieces out of white cardstock to raise up the whole sentiment and glued layer by layer back into the spot.

Then I stamped the cats and dogs (these are two older sets by Mama Elephant called "Playful pups" and "Purrfect Pair") with Versafine ink and colored them with Karin Brushmarkers and its blender. I love how easily they are to work with!! I arranged the images first and figured out how they should be arranged until I was happy and it was pleasing to my eye (yes, this can take half an hour, lol :-)) )

Then I glued some teeny tiny stars onto the background for the extra cute bling.

A grey card base was the appropriate color to frame my card - voilà. I hope you like it as much as I do!

Thank you for stopping by and have a great day!

Crafty hugs,

Basteltraum's Challenge #97 love

 

Hello my friends!

I hope you hopped over into the new year without any incidents, so welcome to the new year!! The first challenge hosted by Bastel-Traum is all about love. Oh the possibilities!! But I went for a pretty simple design, lots of diecutting but no coloring involved. I diecut a panel with the heart backdrop and glued it onto a blue card base. Then I dicut the candy hearts  from different pastel cardstock and glued a solid white one behind it. Then I stacked the hearts onto the panel, some with foam tape for more dimension and some just with regular glue. The "sending" diecut piece and the stamped "love" finished off this quick and cute card :-) Who wouln't get a card like that for Valentine's Day?! ;-))

I hope you will play along with us over at Bastel-Traum's blog, see you there!

Crafty hugs,