Mittwoch, 29. Juni 2011

Crafts and Me Challenge # 41 - Happy Birthday


Hi everyone, hope you all are doing fine. I almost am melting away here as we have so hot weather; today up to 34 degrees... sigh! What is better with so hot weather than to sit at the cool craft room and crafting... :o)). 

Well, today we have a new challenge over at Crafts and Me Challenges. Our theme for this week is

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Easy peasy, don't you? You can never have enough birthday cards, the next will come that's for sure. So join us and show us your creation. As always we have a fabulous prize to win. But to see what it is visit us at Crafts and Me Challenges. There you can also take a look at the other gorgeous DT creations.

For my card I used Poppy, a Digital Stamp available HERE at the Crafts and Me shop. Soon we have a new release of Digi Stamps there, as every 1st of a month. You can looking forward to them I tell you! They are amazing, you don't want to miss them. 

Btw, I coloured lovely Poppy with Copics, as I do all the Digis. 



Sonntag, 26. Juni 2011

We have another winner... and a new chance to win some Sweet Pea Love


Another week is gone, time flies so fast. I am sorry for the delay of announcing the winner of the last weeks Sweet Pea Stamps Candy. Wow, we already had our 20st week of the weekly candy draw. I love to give some Sweet Pea love out every week. The last weeks were sponsored by the wonderful Lynette, owner of Sweet Pea Stamps. And as I don't want to stop with it now and would love to keep it going on I decided to sponsor the next weeks by myself. I love to spread the fabulous Sweet Pea Stamps. So we can go on some more weeks... yay! Isn't that some good news?? Hope you enjoy as much as I do :o)

But now let's go to our next winner of my weekly candy and a new chance to win as well. Thank you so much again for your participation on my weekly blog candy.

The lucky winner this week is, drawn via random.org:

No.  17 -  Cyrillia


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

©ching-chou kuik's Silk Dance

This week you have the chance to win one another fabulous stamp of Sweet Pea Stamps. This time you can win this funny image 'Silk Dance', and is from the fabulous ching-chou kuik's Fantasy Art CollectionYou will love this stamp, 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

    This candy will run as usual until Friday midnight European time. Next draw of another lucky winner is Saturday the 2nd July. And if you don't want to miss you've won check back then to see if you are the lucky winner! 

  • Paper Sundaes Challenge # 75 - Sundae Bar

    Hi everyone and happy Sundae. We have soooo hot here, really too hot for me to be honest. Everything over 25 degrees is too hot for me. And next week it shoud be even warmer, up to 32 degrees... sigh!

    Well, today we have a new challenge over at Paper Sundaes. With a theme I love; we have a 

    SUNDAE BAR

    again, where you can chose from four things and have to use at least two of them. They are Purple, Gems, Wings and Paper Piercing. Fun, isn't it? Our sponsor this week is Stamp and Create. And hey, you even get a discount on Lacey's shop when you participate in our challenge. How generous. Thank you so much Lacey! 

    Well, for my card I used one of my all time loved Sweet Pea Stamps. It is called Purple Comfort. And I used Purple, Wings and Gems. Join the fun and show us what you pick from the Sundae Bar. To get some more inspiration check the other fabulous DT creations as well.



    With this card I want to join following challenges:

    Simply Create - Fly with us
    Little Darlings - Fave Color Combo
    Crafty Creations - Let it Shine
    Ruby's Rainbow - Flowers
    The House that Stamps Built - Watercolour
    CCEE - Pink
    Stampin for the Weekend - my favourite things (Sweet Pea Stamps, DP, punches)
    The Poodles Parlour - Come fly with my
    Lisa Sommerville - Things with wings
    Sweet Stampin - Something old (stamp), something new (Ribbon)
    Our creative corner - my style
    Deep Ocean Challenge - Flowers

    Totally Gorjuss Challenge # 86 - Ribbon and Lace

    Hi everyone, today we have a new challenge over at Totally Gorjuss. Our theme this week is

    RIBBON AND LACE

    Our sponsor this week is Fantastic Ribbon. So to get the chance to win, show us your creations you made with those mateials. Take a look at the other DT beautiful projects to get some more inspiration.



    With this card I want to join following challenges:

    Just Magnolia - Butterfly theme

    To the ones who wants to know who's the winner of my weekly candy... please be patient and come back on Sunday to check if it is you. Will announce the winner tomorrow. Sorry for the delay.

    Freitag, 24. Juni 2011

    Award - Thank you Sara

    Today I got an award from the lovely Sara, thank you so much sweetie! Sara haves so gorgeous creations on her blog, you need to take a look. As everyone she loves visitors :o).

    The rules for the award says I have to share 7 things about me, then I can pass it on to 8 other bloggers.


    1. I cannot have enough beautiful designer papers... who wonders... :o)
    2. beside of stamping and creating cards I love to knit and crochet
    3. I love to watch Thrillers
    4. I love to do crosswords puzzles and sudokus
    5. I love animals and could have a zoo around me
    6. I love my three cats Jeremy, Nino and Leilani
    7. I am so glad that I got to know such lovely peoples around the world through blogging!

    I want to forward this award to following peoples

    Gift of Winter

    Hi everyone, today it is my turn to show some inspiration over at Crafts and Me Stamps. So I want to show you the card I created here as well. 

    It is made with the beautiful image 'Gift of Winter' by the great artist 'Sara Burrier'. You can find this image HERE.  I love her images so much. They are great to work with. I wanted to make her in green and brown tones, so not that winterlike. She is more a gift of spring today. You know, I always chose the papers first before I start to make a card. And I thought she would fit perfect to this paper from K&C Company. It is an elder one I have in my stash for quite some time. The striped one is from Kaisercraft.




    With this card I want to join following challenges:

    Challenge up your life - circles
    Simply Create - Fly with us
    One Stitch at a time - Things with Wings
    Simon Says Stamp and Show - Metal
    Kreative Stempelfreunde - Geburtstag
    Deep Ocean Challenge - Flowers
    A Spoon full of Sugar - Ribbon and Bows
    Little Darlings - Fave Colour Combo
    Creative Belli - Embellies with 'G' (golden pearls)

    Well, thank you so much for your visit here. I always love when you take a look here and leave me some lines. Have a wonderful day everyone!

    Dienstag, 21. Juni 2011

    Paper Sundaes Challenge # 74 - Easel Card

    Hi my dear friends and visitors. With two days of delay I am able now to show you my card I made for the actual challenge over at Paper Sundaes. I had a computer break down on Sunday... arrrgggghh!!! A dear neighbour was so kind to help me and to get it fixed again. I hope it will stay this way and my computer will not break again.

    Well, here we go... our theme for this week is

    EASEL CARD

    Our sponsor this week is Simon Says Stamp. They offer a gift certificate of USD 15.-- to the winner. So get your goodies out and create an easel card, can be a twisted one as well. For getting some more inspiration go to see what the DT created. Here you can see mine:




    With my card I want to join following challenges:


    TOMIC - Summer
    Deep Ocean Challenge - Flowers
    Hooked on Craft - anything goes
    Karens Doodle - Flower Power
    Make it Monday - anything goes
    Sketchy Colors - Mint, creme and olive
    Kreative Stempelfreunde - Geburtstag
    Everybody Art - anything goes
    Cute Card Thursday - Birthstone (Peridot & Light Topas)
    Hanna and Friends - in the garden
    Whoopsy Daisy - Pile on those Flowers
    Picture and Scrap - Lace or Ribbon
    Crafts4Eternity - Embellishments with R (Roses)
    Stamp Something - Pretty Papers
    Crafty Catz - Fancy Fold
    Sew many cards - Punch it
    Totally Papercrafts - Die cut or punches
    Southern Girls - anything goes

    Samstag, 18. Juni 2011

    Winner of the weekly candy and new chance!!


    The time of the week you're waiting for... Yes, we have a new winner of my weekly candy and a new chance to win as well. But before I announce the name of the lucky lady I want to 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.

    And the lucky winner this week is, drawn via random.org:

    No.  4 -  Angelique

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

    ©Lisa Victoria's Baby Sweet Dreams

    This week you have the chance to win one another fabulous stamp of Sweet Pea Stamps. This time you can win this funny image 'Baby Sweet Dreams', and is from the fabulous Lisa Victoria Fantasy CollectionYou will love this stamp, 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

    This candy will run as usual until Friday midnight European time. Next draw of another lucky winner is Saturday the 25th June. And if you don't want to miss you've won check back then to see if you are the lucky winner! 



  • Music saves my soul


    I already saw this graphic several times and always thought to join in as well. As I find it a great idea to share the favourite music with other peoples. Me at least am curious to see and hear what music peoples listen their blogs I visit regularly. I want to share one of my fave song I like quite much since weeks. I definitely cannot stand still when I hear this song.



    If you have your fave song to share let me know and leave me a comment. I would love to listen to your song.

    Totally Gorjuss Challenge # 85 - Pearls and Swirls

    Hi everyone and happy weekend. Today we have a new challenge over at Totally Gorjuss. And we have a great theme as always;

    PEARLS AND SWIRLS

    Do you love those embellishments so much as I do? I think they are a great addition to each card. Our sponsor this week is Simon Says Stamp. You have the chance to win a USD 10.00 voucher. So take your pearls and swirls out and play. 

    For some more inspiration take a look at the other DT cards on the challenge blog. Here you can see what I created:



    With this card I want to join following challenges:

    Whiff of Joy - Strawberry and Cream
    Timbroscrapmania - in the Garden
    Crafts4Eternity - Embellishment with 'R' - I used Roses
    Stamp Something - Pretty Papers
    Totally Papercrafts - Die Cuts or Punches
    Delightful Challenges - anything goes
    Southern Girls - anything goes
    Stampin Royalty - Foto Inspiration
    Paper Shelter - Punches and Dies
    Card and Scrap - Ribbon and Lace
    By the cute and girly - in the Garden
    Stamp with fun - Perlen und Blumen
    Simon Says Stamp and Show - Distressed / Thorn Edges
    Anything Challenge - here comes summer
    Cute Card Thursday - Birthstones (Agate & Pearl)
    CES - Lots of sparkly colours

    Mittwoch, 15. Juni 2011

    Guest Designer at Bunny Zoe's Craft

    Hello and welcome everybody, I'm so proud that I got the opportunity to create a card as a guest designer for the Bunny Zoe's Craft challenge. The theme is

    FAIRIES

    I had so much fun to make this card. I got this sweet stamp from Bunny Zoe to work with which is so generous. Thank you so much again, Nikki! I tried out to add some white acrylic paint to my card for the first time. And I must say that i quite like the result. 





    With this card I want to enter following challenge:

    BnW Challenge - Ribbon or Lace or both

    Crafts and Me Challenge # 39 - Bling it on

    Hi dear craft and stamping friends out there. Today we have a new challenge over at Crafts and Me Challenges. An easy theme this time...

    BLING IT ON


    So get your diamonds, gems and glitters out and play. Head over to the challenge blog to see the other awesome DT creations as well.


    Dienstag, 14. Juni 2011

    Mirror, Mirror

    Hi Sweet Pea friends out there, and everyone else who is visiting my blog today. I was working on something special the last few weeks. And finally today I can show you. I wanted for once making a bigger project than a card had the idea to decorate one of those simple mirrors available at the big Swedish furniture mart. I saw this a while ago when I visited friends. They have such a mirror in their apartment, with a painting on it. I loved it and knew I have to create something like this as well. So here it is:

    I painted the wide wooden frame with acrylic pain, a mix of purple, blue and green.


    To decorate the mirror I chose two of the amazing Sweet Pea Stamps  images from the ching-chou kuik's Fantasy Art Collection. The first one is Nocturnal Spirit.



    Both are on the same plate # 124, but are available as single stamps as well. I coloured them with Distress Inks on heavy watercolour paper and glued them to the frame.



    Then I added some more effects to the frame; I punched some stars out and layed them to the frame. I painted some white fabric paint over them, let it dry and surrounded them with stickles for a lovely shine. I added more fabric paint to the images and added some flowers and beads as well. To finish off I glued some cord around the inside of the mirror and as a hanger.


    The saying with the lovely celtic border is a cut out from a sheet of paper from the 'once upon a time' stack by DCWV... love it!

    Well, I hope you like what I made and perhaps you feel inspired to make your own mirror. If so let me know, I would LOVE to see.

    Thank you so much for your visit. Always so much appreciated.

    Hugs, Karina

    Sonntag, 12. Juni 2011

    Paper Sundaes Challenge # 73 Girly Girl

    Hi everyone and happy Sunday! Today we have a new challenge over at Paper Sundaes. Our theme for this weeke is

    GIRLY GIRL

    I think quite an easy one, isn't it? Our sponsor for this week is My Favourite Things. Here is the card I made for this challenge. For once a bit a different style to what I make else. Check the other DT creations as well and if you like leave them some love. 


    With this card I want to enter following challenges:

    Cupcake Craft - Things with Tail

    Samstag, 11. Juni 2011

    Winner of the weekly candy and new chance!!


    The time of the week you're waiting for... Yes, we have a new winner of my weekly candy and a new chance to win as well. But before I announce the name of the lucky lady I want to 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.

    And the lucky winner this week is, drawn via random.org:

    No.  11 -  Mapowska



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

    And I have a second winner today, as I had to make a redraw of my candy from two weeks ago; following GORGEOUS stamp:
    ©ching-chou kuik's Dance of Butterfly

    And our second winner is:

    No.  19 -  Anne


    Congratulations Anne!! Please contact me at celtic.rose (at) bluewin.ch with your address till next Friday as well, 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 funny image 'Holly Night', and is from the fabulous ching-chou kuik's Fantasy Art CollectionYou will love this stamp, as all the fabulous stamps of Sweet Pea Stamps.

    ching chou kuik's Holly Night

    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


  • This candy will run as usual until Friday midnight European time. Next draw of another lucky winner is Saturday the 18th June. And if you don't want to miss you've won check back then to see if you are the lucky winner! 


      Totally Gorjuss Challenge # 84 - Flower Power

      Hi my dear friends and visitors. This time you had to be patient for seeing a new creation from me. Well, I started with a new job on monday, so quite some new informations and full time concentration on my new work made me quite tired in the evenings. 

      But here we go again... as we have a new challenge over at Totally Gorjuss I want to introduce our new theme for this week. A wonderful one, you will love it just as I do

      FLOWER POWER

      As each week we also have a wonderful prize for grabs this week. Our sponsor is Crafters Companions

      Here is what I made... for more inspiration check the other fabulous DT creations as well.


      With this card I want to join following challenges:

      TOMIC - Happy Birthday
      Magnolia Stamp Lovers - anything goes
      Deep Ocean Challenge - anything goes
      Do you stack up - Birthday
      Dutch Dare - Receipe

      Sonntag, 5. Juni 2011

      Paper Sundaes Challenge # 72 - Get Sentimental

      Hi everyone and happy Sunday. Today we have a new challenge over at Paper Sundaes. Our theme for this week is

      GET SENTIMENTAL

      Our sponsor for this week is Whiff of Joy. So you really have to join, don't you? And here you can see what I created. For more inspiration hop over to Paper Sundaes to see the other amazing DT creations.


      Samstag, 4. Juni 2011

      Crafty Calendar Challenge - Things with Wings

      Today as well the new monthly challenge over at Crafts Calendar Challenge started with the theme

      THINGS WITH WINGS

      Our sponsor this month is Whimsy Stamps. One lucky person will receive 5 digis of the winners choice.

      When I think on this theme I first think on fairies, angels, dragons, birds, Insects... But hey, aerplanes have wings, too... so I made this card with those sweet Magnolia images. To see some more inspiration hurry over to the challenge blog to see all the other fabulous DT creations.



      With this card I want to join following challenges:

      Charisma Cardz -Something that Fly
      My Mum's Craftshop - Things with Wings
      Oldie but a Goodie - Lots of Layers

      Totally Gorjuss Challenge # 83 - Sketch

      Hi dear craft friends out there. After we made our second nightshift stamping I'm still quite tired. Together with my sister and a dear friend and neighbour, both stamping and card making addicts as well, we started our nightshift at about 7 p.m. and made until 5.30 a.m. We had lots of fun :o)

      Well, so I am a bit late today with announcing you the new challenges started today. Over at Totally Gorjuss we have a new sketch for you.


      Our sponsor this week is  Joanna Sheen The lucky winner will receive GBP 10 to spend in her fabulous online store.
      And this is what I created for our challenge. I used this beautiful image by Sweet Pea Stamps called 'Moonlight Fairy' from the Caron Vinsons Art Collection.  To get more inspiration see the other beautiful DT creations as well.



      With this card I want to join following challenges:

      One Stop Craft - Texture
      Charisma Cardz - Something that fly
      Flutter by Wednesday - open theme
      My Mum's Craftshop - Things with Wings
      Oldie but a Goodie - Lots of Layers

      Winner of the weekly candy and new chance!!


      HThe time of the week you're waiting for... Yes, we have a new winner of my weekly candy and a new chance to win as well. But before I announce the name of the lucky lady I want to 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

      And the lucky winner this week is, drawn via random.org:

      No.  21 -  Marlies

      Congratulations Marlies!! Please contact me at celtic.rose (at) bluewin.ch with your address till next Friday, so that I can get your stamp out.
      ©Linda Biggs's Bad Bunny
      This week you have the chance to win one another fabulous stamp of Sweet Pea Stamps. This time you can win this funny image 'Bad Bunny', and is from the fabulous Linda Biggs Art CollectionYou will love this stamp, 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

      This candy will run as usual until Friday midnight European time. Next draw of another lucky winner is Saturday the 11th June. Don't forget to check back then to see if you are the lucky winner! 

      And hey, when you didn't were one of the lucky girls, don't give up to try your luck. It could be you next week!!