Crafts & Me Challenge - Anything Goes

Hello everyone and welcome to a new challenge at Crafts & Me Challenges. We have an easy theme for you as we want to see

ANYTHING GOES

if you like we also have an option for you: make a Christmas decoration

Well, my project is a tag. I just love them as you can use them either as decoration and as a card as well. And they are fun to make. I used one of the newest images by Robin Pushay 'Snowflake Angel'.

I coloured the image with Copics and addes some Stickles to her wings and the Snowflakes, what you can see a bit better on the close up below...

Now we hope you will join us, we look very much forward to see what you create.

Hugs, Karina

Dream Time by Sweet Pea Stamps

Hi everyone, today I want to show you another creation I made with one of the fabulous images by Marlon Teunissen available at Sweet Pea Stamps. This one is called 'Dream Time' and is available on Plate # 231 together with three other amazing images and as single stamp as well.

I coloured the image with Copics. And the papers I used are Prima Printery. And I think the Tim Holtz clock die is perfect to this image. I distressed it and added some crackle paint on it to give it a vintage touch. I also added some metal parts to my creation.

Have a wonderful day now! Thank you so much for your visit.
Hugs, Karina

Winner of the Whiff of Joy Advent Calendar Day 3

Hello everyone, wow... so many of you joined our Advent Calender so far which is just great. Thank you so much for. Now I want to announce the happy winner of Day 3.... drumm rolls...

No. 60 - Ivy

Congratulations Yvy for winning the sweet Stamp from Whiff of Joy 'In Front of Christmas Chimney'. Please mail me at celtic.rose (at) bluewin (point) ch and forward me your address, so that we can get out your prize.

Check the Whiff of Joy World of Idea Blog every day as we open a new window daily until the 24th December. So much more chances for everyone who wasn't lucky so far.

Hugs, Karina

Whiff of Joy Advent Calendar Day # 3

 

Hi everyone! Hope you're doing fine and spent a wonderful 1st Advent. We go onto Christmas with big steps now. Everyone is busy getting ready for the Season and is preparing this and that. To make this time even nicer we have an Advent Calendar at Whiff of Joy.

For 24 days, an Advent Calendar window will open on one of our Designers’ blogs and you will have the opportunity to win a special Whiff of Joy prize. Every day from December 1st to December 24th, go to the Whiff of Joy World of Ideas blog and look for the Advent Calendar posting for that day. You will be directed to the blog posting of the Designer who is opening the window that day. Go to that blog posting and leave a comment and you will be eligible to win the prize for that day! Please help us spread the news by grabbing this logo and linking it to the Whiff of Joy World of Ideas blog  and placing it in your side-bar!

And I am honoured to open the third window for you. And of course I am doing this with showing you a card I made with one of the cute Henry stamps. This one is 'In Front of Christmas Chimney'. The sentiment I used is from Whiff of Joy as well.

Do you fancy to win this sweet stamp? I am offering this one as prize today. Just enter the linky thing below to get the chance to win. And if you like you can leave me a comment as well, who doesn't love comments :o) I will announce the winner on the day after, the 4th December.

Have a wonderful day!
Hugs, Karina

Simply Magnolia Challenge - Christmas

Hello and good morning everyone, first of all I wish you a peaceful 1st Advent! Hope you will be able to spend a wonderful day today.

We have a new challenge for you over at Simply Magnolia. And an easy theme as well.... we want to see

CHRISTMAS

on your projects... As if someone is creating anything else than Christmas projects at the moment... ;o))

Well, here is my card I made for our challenge... it haves two watermarks on the photo. I already prepared those pics before I got to know that someone have stolen my coloured images. So I added a second one over the image. I don't like it that way to be honest, but I don't want this happen again.

And here a close up of the image, coloured with Copics. The sentiment is from Whiff of Joy.

With this card I want to join following challenges;

Sweet Stampin - Ribbons and Snowflakes
The Dutch Magnolia Chickies - Christmas Card
Ribbon Girl - Christmas Project
No Matter Which - Christmas
Fab'n Funky - Three of Something (three die cutted trees)
Stempel-Magie - alles geht
Scraphouse - White Christmas
Tildas Town - Celebrate Christmas
Magnolia Mania - Tilda with an Animal
Lovely Hänglar Sweet Magnolia - Winter Wonderland
Cute Card Thursday - Snowflakes

Hugs, Karina

Overwhelmed and measures

Hello my dear friends and fellow crafters, I want to thank you all for your great support and all the reactions to my last post about stealing coloured images. I am really overwhelmed. You're simply the best!! And it is so great that we hold together when it comes to such thing happen. I still feel very angry about this, and sad as well, still cannot understand how someone can have fun to create something with stolen colourations. This even would never come to my mind.

Well, some asked me if I wrote to this person. Yes, I did few days ago, and I requested her to delete that post with the card she used my colouration. She still haven't and so I see no other way as to reveal WHO this person is. Also to give others the possibility to look if she did the same to them as well. I wrote Ruth again today and requested a second and last time to delete the posts where she violate the copyright. When she isn't reacting I will make an information about this misuse of the law to blogger.com.

Thank you so much for listening again. Keep on safe us from thieves of our talents, of our time we spend with colouring, of our creativity.

And at least... this would never keep me apart from being creative, from crafting, having fun in doing what I do... NEVER... but I have to take consequences in saving me from such happenings in future. I will do this in putting a watermark over the image, or a part of the image. It is a pity as I really wanted this to be clear, but there is no other way than doing this.

Have a wonderful weekend everyone and a peaceful 1st advent!
Hugs, Karina

Thieves of coloured images... can you believe?

Hello everyone, yesterday I couldn't believe my eyes when I got a message from a fellow crafter and blog friend who informed me that she saw one of my coloured images on a card of another person. I thought... what? Oh my... am I in the wrong movie or what?

I visited then this blog and really was shocked, sad, disappointed, angry altogether. Look by yourself... this is a part of the card R. from I. made...

and this is my colouration from THIS card...

What do you say.... there is no doubt... it is MY colouring she have stolen from my blog, copied it and integrated it onto her own card.

But this isn't enough.... she did the same to several other crafters... below two other 'victims'... Look by yourself....

 ... here another one she copied...

below original colouration by Debbie Eastman ... watch the parts of the stars on the ground of the image... no doubt a copy of the original.

And next...

Below the original colouration from Iris Wiechmann like you can see very clear on the photo below... no one would colour this image in absoloutely the same colours on each part of it, and watch the shadings, ... so no doubt...

Someone asked her how she colours her images. And she lied said she would colour with silk painting colours... and would ironing a clear foil over the image to get the glossy effect. Oh my....

I am really speechless now...

Well, I see no other way as to put the watermark over the image in future, or over a part of it, to avoid this happens in future. 

I still am confused and cannot understand someone is doing something like this. How can someone have fun to play with stolen coloured images and give them out as their own. How can someone be satisfied by such kind of creativity.

Thank you for listening! Would be interested to read what you think about this.
Hugs, Karina