I am in the Spotlight

Hi ladies,
today while bloghopping I couldn't believe when I saw it... I am in the spotlight today with one of my cards I made last winter over at Belles'n Whistles Stamps.

Wow, I am really honoured when I read the post Lynda wrote about my card. Thank you Lynda!

I have quite some cards to share with you the next few days. So come back to take a look if you like. Your visits and nice comments always makes me happy!

There will also be a blog hop at Crafts & Me, starting tomorrow 1st April... no April Fool :o) and will last two weeks. So don't miss it, there are lovely prices to win.

ABC Challenge - R is for Roses

Hi ladies, it is midweek, so time for another Challenge over at the ABC Challenge. We are at the letter R, and we chose as a theme

ROSES

I love this theme as I love flowers on my cards anyway. So below you can see my DT card. I used one of the newer gorgeous images called 'Forest Companion' from the ching-chou kuik's Fantasy Art Collection over at Sweet Pea Stamps. 

This week we are sponsored by Bunny Zoe's craft. Join us and get the chance to win a fabulous price. To get inspired take a look at all the wonderful DT creations over at ABC Challenge.

With this card I want to join following challenges:

Ambers Craft & Stuff - Flowers

Scrap Creations - Fairy Tales

Top Tip Tuesday - Nature Inspired

Tuesday Throwdown - Florals

Crafty Cardmakers - Special Friend

Kreative Stempelfreunde - Frühling

Cupcake Craft Challenge - Flowers for Mum

Creative Cowgirls - Spring or Easter

Creative Inspirations Paint - Flowers 

Gingerloft - Die Cuts or Punches

Let's Ink it up - Die Cuts or Punches

Scrappy Frogs - Flowers and Lace

Pile it on - Cute

Southern Girls - Add an Animal

Totally Papercrafts - Cuddly & Cute

Stamp  Somehting - Spring Something

Simply Create - Do it yourself

Sew Many - Spring Fling

Phindys Palace- All about Animals

Fairytale - Grün & Rosa

Fairy Fun - Oh so Spring

Delicious Doodles - Floral Fantasy 

Card Making Mamas - Animals

One Stop Craft - Angels or Fairies

CES - Die Cut Crazy

Allsorts - for a special Lady

Sparkles Forum - Springtime

Paper Sundaes Challenge # 62 - Foto Inspiration

Today we have a new challenge over at Paper Sundaes. We are sponsored by Michelle's Scrap.

The theme this time is a photo inspiration. Here is the photo:

I love this photo and feel quite inspired by those wonderful colours. Are you feeling the same? So don't wait and jump over to Paper Sundaes to get more inspiration by the DT.

And here you can see my card I made inspired by this photo. I made it with a stamp called 'Fantasy Easter Ocean' by Sweet Pea Stamps. It is from the wonderful chin-chou kuik's fantasy art collection.

Totally Gorjuss Challenge # 72 - Spring has Sprung

Hi everyone, today we have a new challenge over at Totally Gorjuss. We have a great theme this week:

SPRING HAS SPRUNG

I love this theme, not only because of the warm weather we get again. But there are so many possibilities to show spring. We are curious to see what springlike you will show us. We have a yummy price to win this week as well. Our sponsor this time is Happy Hippo. What are you waiting for... join us and take a look at all the other beautiful DT creations. 

Here you can see mine;

Sweet Pea Weekly Candy Winner & New Chance

Thank you so much again for your participation on my weekly blog candy which is sponsored by the wonderful Lynette, owner of Sweet Pea Stamps. 

This week as well there can only be one winner. But you get a new chance to win each week. Today we have another winner of my weekly blog candy, drawn by random.org. And the lucky winner this week is:

No. 11 - Kapree

Congratulations Kapree!! Please contact me at celtic.rose (at) bluewin.ch with your address till next Friday, so that I can get your stamp out.

This week you have the chance to win one another fabulous stamp of Sweet Pea Stamps. This time you can win this supercute image 'Baby Sweet Dreams' and is from the amazing Lisa Victoria Fantasy Collection. What a darling stamp, isn't it?? You will love it, as all the fabulous stamps of Sweet Pea Stamps. 

If you need some inspiration check out the blog of the Sweet Pea Stamps Design Team. There you will find plenty of inspirations. Don't miss your chance to win one of Sweet Peas wonderful stamps. And don't miss to take a look at Sweet Pea Stamps. There are many gorgeous images of different artist. And there will always be some on Sale.

What you have to do to get the chance to win;

• Become a follower of my blog if you aren't already.
• Add my banner of my weekly Sweet Pea Stamps candy on the sidebar of your blog (I will check this). Spread the word about my weekly candy to win some Sweet Pea love.
• Add your name below till next Friday the latest
• If you like leave a comment

 Next draw of another lucky winner is next Saturday 2nd April.

Precious Flutters

First I wanted to create a black and white card. I had already the papers ready and started to colour up the image. Then I had the inspiration that this adorable fairy called 'Flutters' from the Terra Bidlespachers Art Collection at Sweet Pea Stamps have to wear a bit of pink as well. And so it was. 

I distressed the vellum paper with white felt flowers on with some pink Distress Inks. And I found those pink edges on my stack as well. And so this card was born. The papers are all from local stores, and so the ribbon as well. The flowers I used are from Wild Orchid.

You can find this fabulous stamp here on plate 103 together with tree more gorgeous images. 'Flutters' is available as single stamp as well.

Thank you for watching. Have a wonderful day. And check out the two other sheets of the great artist Terra Bidlespacher. You won't miss those lovely images of her.

With this card I want to join following challenges:

Artful Impressions - Water Colour

Charisma Cardz - Birthday for a Teen

Delightful Challenge - Pastel and Ribbon

Dutch Dare - Celebration

Ambers Craft and Stuff - use Die Cuts

Creative Cottage - Spring has Sprung

Flutter by Wednesday - open theme, but use a butterfly

Freshly Brewed - use 2 or more embellies

Little Red Wagon - Butterflies

Simon Says Stamp - Mother's day / Girly

Wild Orchid - Dieing to punch it out

Bearly Mine - Mother's Day

Papertake Weekly - It's a mom thing

Craft your Passion - show your apprechiation

Crafty Cardmakers - Special Birthday

Creative Stempelfreunde - Frühling

Ohlala Creations - Mother's Day / Special Friend

Stamp with Fun - Frühling

Stamping Scrapping Challenge Central - Pastel

Stamps R Us - Spring

Woodware USA- Black, White and one more

Hugs, Karina

Crafts & Me Challenge # 27 - anything goes

Over at Crafts and Me Challenges we have a big change!  We are now going to run the challenges weekly and we also have a brand new digital team too!  I got the big honour to be one of the Dynamite Digi team as I already posted few days ago. We are hosting this week and the Rockin Rubbah team will be hosting next week.  

For our challenge just to get us warmed up we'd like to see

ANYTHING GOES

anything handmade papercrafted at all. We'll be showcasing some of the fantastic digital stamps available at Crafts & Me for your inspiration, you can of course use anything but we'd also LOVE to see any of the Crafts & Me range; digi or rubbah!

Crafts & Me will be sponsoring this challenge and Teresa is giving the lucky winner a £10 Voucher to spend in the store.


The challenge will close at Midnight (GMT) on Weds 30th and winners will be announced at start of next DIGI team challenge.

Here you can see my creation I did for the very first Digi Challenge over at Crafts and Me Challenges. For my card I used Ladybug Love. When I made it I felt quite inspired by the carnival going on over here to that time. So I gave her an extraordinary make up and gave her an oriental touch. And... since few days I have my whole Copic Ciao collection... yay!! So you'll see some Copic coloured creations from me in future. Pop over to the challenge blog to see all the other fabulous cards the DT made. 

With this card I want to join following challenges:

A Spoon full of Sugar - Ribbon, Pearls and Flowers

Everybody Art Challenge - Happy Birthday

Crafty Card Makers - Special Birthday

The Shabby Tearoom - Bingo

The Crafty Pad - Use a Digi

Creative Cowgirls - Monochromatic

Phyndis Palace - Hot Stuff, Warm Colours, Sunshine

Ladybug Craft Inks - Monochromatic

Papertake Weekly - It's a mom thing

Wild Orchid - Dieing to punch it out

Simon Says Stamps - Mothers day

New Releases at Sweet Pea Stamps

On this first card I want to show you 'Moon Fairie' from the very talented artist Karen Middleton. You can find her whole cute collection here. This cute fairie comes together with another sweet image. Shipping will start on the 24th March.

On this second card I show you 'Skater Boy'. This cute boy is from Karen Middleton's Rag Doll Designs as well and only available at Sweet Pea Stamps. He comes on a plate together with three more sweet boy images. 

Take a look at Sweet Pea Stamps. There are so many new and fabulous images and there is a big sale  going on as well, with many overstocked images. Check it out, the best time to let your your collection grow.

Whiff of Joy - Guest Designer Call

Hi everyone, one last card for today which I want to share with you. I tried it already several times without success and will give it one last try this month... over at Whiff of Joy every second month is a call for 1 - 4 guest designers to be for two months. I would really love to be chosen for this famous Swiss stamp company. It would be a big honour for me. So here is my card I want to apply with. Katharina of Whiff of Joy is asking to create a card with those lovely selfmade flowers   she is showing a tutorial here.

With this card I want to join the Whiff of Joy Challenge - Anything goes as well

Keep your fingers crossed for me :o)

Paper Sundaes Challenge # 61 - Embossing

Hi everyone and happy Sunday. It's time again for another challenge over at Paper Sundaes. The theme for this week is

Embossing

This can be either dry or wet. It's up to you.

Our sponsor for this weeks challenge is Simon Says Stamp. So come on and join the fun. Here's my DT card. Take a look at the other fabulous DT creations over at Paper Sundaes.

With this card I want to join following challenges:

Just Magnolia - Favourite Color Combo

Magnolia Down Under - Sketch

Stampin Royalty - Embossing

Simon Says Stamp - Happy Birthday

Pixie Cottage - Green

Fab'n Funky - All things green

Creative Card Crew - Green

Crafty Creations - Mothers Day

Pixie Dust Studio - Go Green

Paper Play - Embossing

Moving along with the Time - Good Luck

Delightful Challenges - Green

Stamp with the Dragon - Bring on Spring

Crafty Catz - Mothers Day

Craft your days away - for mum or a special lady

Sentimental Sunday - let's get sentimental

Creative Craft Challenge - Lace

Creataliscious - Two tones colours

Wild Orchid - Dieing to punch out

Great News

Hi everyone and glad you're here! Your visits on my blog are always so much apprechiated and I love every comment you're writing me. On that point thank you all so much for that!

Today I have some great news to share with you. I know it since a while but had to wait to tell... I wanted to post yesterday but a bad migraine kicked me off the last two days...

Well, I've been chosen for the new Digi Team over at Crafts and Me!!! How cool is that!! I am so happy and still over the moon about this. 

Yesterday I was in the spotlight at the Crafts an Me blog, if you like to take a look. I wrote a bit about me and showed my first card I made for my new DT position, which I want to show you here as well. I made my card with this oh so pretty digital stamp called 'Noon'. When I saw her first time I fell in love with her. She is so adorable and so nice to work with. You can find her here.

With this card I want to join following challenges:

Card Makin Mamas - Animals

Fashionista Friday - Aquamarine

Simply Create - Monochrome

Stamp Something - something sweet

Stamping for the Weekend - for mum

Crafty Sentiments - Animals

Digi Doodles - Anything goes

Do you stack up - add a bow

Paper Crafting Journey - up in the air

Southern Girls - use flowers

Crafty Creations - Mothers Day

Creative Cottage - Spring has Sprung

Simon Says Stamp - Happy Birthday

Creataliscious - Two Tones Colours

Bearly Mine - Mothersday

Creative Craft Challenge - Lace

Digital Tuesday - it's a magical world

Scrap Creations - anything goes

Sweet Stamps - Think Spring

Top Tip Tuesday - Happy Birthday

Tuesday Throwdown - Lace

Magical Monday - Spring Colours

Winner of the weekly candy and new chance!!

first of all, thank you so much to all of you for your participation on my weekly blog candy which is sponsored by the wonderful Lynette, owner of Sweet Pea Stamps. 

There can only be one winner. But you get a new chance to win each week. Today have another winner of my weekly blog candy, drawn by random.org. And the lucky winner this week is:

No. 29 - Lorraine

Congratulations Lorraine!! Please contact me at celtic.rose (at) bluewin.ch with your address till next Friday, so that I can get your stamp out.

This week you have the chance to win one another fabulous stamp of Sweet Pea Stamps. This time you can win the beautiful stamp 'Fly Dandelions' and is from the amazing ching chou kuik's Fantasy Art Collection. Isn't she so beautiful?? You will love her, as all the fabulous stamps of Sweet Pea Stamps. 

If you need some inspiration check out the blog of the Sweet Pea Stamps Design Team. There you will find plenty of inspirations. Don't miss your chance to win one of Sweet Peas wonderful stamps. And don't miss to take a look at Sweet Pea Stamps. There are many gorgeous images of different artist. And there will always be some on Sale.

What you have to do to get the chance to win;

• Become a follower of my blog if you aren't already.
• Add my banner of my weekly Sweet Pea Stamps candy on the sidebar of your blog (I will check this). Spread the word about my weekly candy to win some Sweet Pea love.
• Add your name below till next Friday the latest
• If you like leave a comment

 Next draw of another lucky winner is next Saturday 25th March.

ABC Challenge - Q is for Quote

Hi everyone! Great to see you here, always so much apprechiated. Today it is the turn of the A Team of  ABC Challenge where I belong to. Our theme is 

Q is for Quote

We want to see a quote or a sentiment somewhere on your card or project.

We are sponsored by the wonderful Lacey and her store Stamp and Create.

Here's my DT card for this challenge. So check the other fabulous DT creations as well to get inspired. And play along for the chance to win.

Totally Gorjuss Challenge # 71 - Pearls and Lace & DT CALL

Like every Saturday we have another challenge for you over at Totally Gorjuss. This week we have one of my fave themes:

PEARLS and LACE

As each week we have another sweet price to win for you. So take your craft supplies out and join our challenge. To get some inspiration pop over to see the wonderful DT creations.

Here comes mine. As it is such wonderful, warm and sunny weather over here I was totally in the mood to make it in spring colour and with this supersweet image from Sweet Pea Stamps. It is called 'Tender Cuddle' and is from one of the newest images of the fabulous ching chou kuik's Fantasy Art Collection.  I LOVE this image and it fits perfect right in time for Easter.

And we have a DT call over at Totally Gorjuss. Would you like to come and play with us Gorjussettes? There are spots for Guest Gorjusettes to catch. It is easy to apply - drop an e-mail to Net to totallygorjuss (at) gmail (point) com. Tell her a bit about yourself. Call closes on 21th March 2011.

With my card I want to join following challenges:

SSD Challenge - Spring has Sprung

Bunny Zoe's Craft - Spring - Flowers everywhere

Fairytale - Children

Delicious Doodles - use green

Paperplay - Shades of green

Papercrafting Journey - things with wings

Digidoodles Best - Pearls

Delightful Challenges - Butterflies

Simon Says - anything goes

Scrapbook sisters - Easter Animal

Pixie Cottage - Easter

Paper Pretties - Ribbon

Creative Belli - Animals

Rubber Cafe - Favourite Spellbinder Die

Southern Girls - use Flowers

Wild Orchid - anything goes

We have another winner...

... and a new chance to win one of the fabulous Sweet Pea Stamps!

first of all, thank you so much to all of you for your participation on my weekly blog candy which is sponsored by the wonderful Lynette, owner of Sweet Pea Stamps. 

There can only be one winner. But you get a new chance to win each week. Today have another winner of my weekly blog candy, drawn by random.org. And the lucky winner this week is:

No. 24 - Miranda

Congratulations Miranda!! Please contact me at celtic.rose (at) bluewin.ch with your address till next Friday, so that I can get your stamp out.

This week you have the chance to win one another fabulous stamp of Sweet Pea Stamps. As we have so wonderful springklike weather over here right now I thought I chose a springlike stamp to give away this week. It is called 'Radiant Butterfly' and is from the amazing ching chou kuik's Fantasy Art Collection. Isn't she so beautiful?? You will love her, as all the fabulous stamps of Sweet Pea Stamps. 

If you need some inspiration check out the blog of the Sweet Pea Stamps Design Team. There you will find plenty of inspirations. Don't miss your chance to win one of Sweet Peas wonderful stamps. And don't miss to take a look at Sweet Pea Stamps. There are many gorgeous images of different artist. And there will always be some on Sale.

What you have to do to get the chance to win;

• Become a follower of my blog if you aren't already.
• Add my banner of my weekly Sweet Pea Stamps candy on the sidebar of your blog (I will check this). Spread the word about my weekly candy to win some Sweet Pea love.
• Add your name below till next Friday the latest
• If you like leave a comment

 Next draw of another lucky winner is next Saturday 19th March.

a different card for once

Hi everyone, I had to make a sympathy card as my boyfriends aunt passed away last week. Tomorrow the funeral will held. I didn't wanted to make it in black, as Valerie was so full of joie de vivre. So I chose copper as the main colour combined with some darkbrown, creme and black. The stamped rose and the sentiment is wet embossed with copper as well. The sentiment is written by hand. 

It was a bit different to take a picture as the background paper with the swirls on it is glossy.

Have a wonderful and sunny day today!

Karina x

Lily of the Valley

Hello and happy day! The sun is shining today and so I want to share a springlike card with you. 

This lovely little fairy is called 'Lily of the Valley' and is from the Rachel Andersons Collection at Sweet Pea Stamps. Isn't she so cute?  I love this image so much. She is so fun to colour. 

She comes as a single stamp or on a plate together with three more fabulous images. And there are even more cute images of the Rachel Andersons Collection. Check them out. You won't miss them.

With this card I want to join following challenges;

Simon Says Stamp - Receipe

Bunny Zoe's - Spring - flowers everywhere

Magical Monday - Spring Colours

Gingerloft - use those flowers

Challenge up your life - Fairytales

Easy craft projects - Green

Little Claire Design - Flowers

Card Making Mamas - Something green

Crafty Ann - Birthday card

Crafty Catz - Special Birthday

Fairytale Challenge - children

Simply Create - Flowers

Stampin for the Weekend - Springtime

DYSU - Just green it

Flutter by Wednesday - anything goes

Fab'n Funky - Spring into action

Cute Card Thursday - Signs of Spring 

Totally Papercrafts - Pearls and Lace

Sassy Studio Design - Green as main colour

Delightful sketchers - Springtime

Paper Variety - Green

Scrapbook Sisters - Spring

Paper Sundaes Challenge # 59 - Stripes

Hi everyone and happy Sunday! We are back with a new challenge at Paper Sundaes. For this week we have quite an easy theme, but a cool one... I for myself love it;

STRIPES

Our sponsor this week is Tiddly Inks. A company who sells cute digital stamps. The Design Team used some of their lovely images to make our DT cards. Here you can see mine:

With this card I want to join following challenges:

Allsorts Challenge - for a teenager

Challenge up your life - fairytale

Stamp something - use a digi

Crafty Sentiments - birthdays

Do you stack up - something green in it

Bling it on - anything goes with charms

Bearly Mine - Birthday card

Simon Says Stamp - Receipe 

Tiddly Ink - Colours

Top Tip Tuesday - Favourites

Craft your Passion - Girly

Paper Playtime - Digi anything goes

Stamps R Us - for the girls

One Stitch at a time - use a charm

Wild Orchid - anything goes

Totally Gorjuss Challenge # 70 - Sketch

Hi ladies, today we have a new challenge at Totally Gorjuss. So what's the challenge this week? Well its the first week of the month so its a sketch! Easy naturally... Again we're kindly sponsored by Joanna Sheen the lucky winner will receive £10 to spend in her online super store!

Take a look at the DT wonderful creations and let yourself inspire. Here you can see my DT card. I used one of the wonderful images of Sweet Pea Stamps. It is called Inner Tender and is from the great artist ching-chou kuik's Fantasy Art Collection.

With this card I want to join following challenges:

Dutch Dare Challenges - Who's who in the zoo

Charisma Cardz - Four legged friends

Challenge up your life - Fairytales

Make it colourful - Colour with Shine

Sweet Pea Stamps Spring Design Artist Challenge

I would like to invite you to participate in a month long challenge! The winner of the challenge will receive a $50 gift card to the Sweet Pea Stamps Store!  Don't miss it!

For more details go here!

Winner and new chance to win a Sweet Pea Stamp

Hi everyone,

thank you so much to all of you for your participation on my weekly blog candy which is sponsored by the wonderful Lynette, owner of Sweet Pea Stamps. Thank you so much Lynette!

There can only be one winner. But you get a new chance to win each week. Today have another winner of my weekly blog candy, drawn by random.org. And the lucky winner this week is:

No. 16 - coops

Congratulations Nic!! Please contact me at celtic.rose (at) bluewin.ch with your address till next Friday, so that I can get your stamp out.

This week you have the chance to win one another fabulous stamp of Sweet Pea Stamps. It is called 'Japanese Fairy' and is from the amazing Meredith Dillmann Art Collection. Isn't she so beautiful?? You will love her.

If you need some inspiration check out the blog of the Sweet Pea Stamps Design Team. There you will find plenty of inspirations. Don't miss your chance to win one of Sweet Peas wonderful stamps. And don't miss to take a look at Sweet Pea Stamps. There are many gorgeous images of different artist. And there will always be some on Sale.

What you have to do to get the chance to win;

• Become a follower of my blog if you aren't already.
• Add my banner of my weekly Sweet Pea Stamps candy on the sidebar of your blog (I will check this). Spread the word about my weekly candy to win some Sweet Pea love.
• Add your name below till next Friday the latest
• If you like leave a comment

 Next draw of another lucky winner is next Saturday 12th March.