Monochromatic

Hello and morning blogcreatures,

What is your favorite color?  I like more than just one. Grey, olive green, turqoise and pink. You can use any color you like to play with us for the new challenge over at Stampotique Designers challenge. The new theme is: monochromatic.

 Today for my creation, I used sepia tones to create a mini card. Really love the effect of sepia or black and white. The stamp is from Stampotique Originals called: Happy Rat, Dejected cat. If you want to play along with us, you are welcome to share your creation over at SDC.

Below is a funny picture shoot of me and my nephew. He's 7... I'm 24 , can you tell?

 ( My nephew - he loves taking pictures....But I can not be the model for others....*laugh*)

Include a heart

Hello blogcreatures,

Hope you had a wonderful Valentine's day with your partner. In Romania we have our own  Valentine's day but it's a bit different. Our tradtion it's called : Dragobete, celebrated on February, the 24th.

The day is particularly known as "the day when the birds are betrothed". It is around this time that the birds begin to build their nests and mate. On this day, considered locally the first day of spring, boys and girls gather vernal flowers and sing together. Maidens used to collect the snow that still lies on the ground in many villages and then melt it, using the water in magic potions throughout the rest of the year. Those who take part in Dragobete customs are supposed to be protected from illness, especially fevers, for the rest of the year. If the weather allows, girls and boys pick snowdrops or other early spring plants for the person they are courting. In Romania, Dragobete is known as a day for lovers, rather like Valentine's Day. ( Wikipedia)

Today over at Lia Stampz we have a new challenge called: Include a heart. That's so easy! You must check our design team and you also must come and play along with us! The cute image is from Lia Stampz called Whistle.

Below you can find a quick tutorial on how to make a vellum envelope. This is really easy and much better than using a scoring board. You must work really gently with the vellum paper.

Challenges:
Kit and Clowder

Homemade heart candles for Valentine's day

Hello blogcreatures,

I'm not into Valentine's day, but this is a great excuse to make homemade heart candles. I love candles even if my dad makes fun of me and says that we aren't at the cemetery. If you want to make your own candles, then please read the written tutorial.

To make homemade candles you will need:

• old candles
• silicone mold
• twine
• essential oil
• pan
• water
• stove
• scissors
• tweezers

I used two old candles: white and pink, but you can use any candle you have.

  Fill a large pan with about 3 inches of water. Heat to a simmer. Place your candle jar inside the pan and let it melt completely. If your candle doesn't come with the jar , use a thick jar and put the candle inside. To make your own wicks, use the twine and dip it into the hot wax, using tweezers. Repeat the process two or three times. If you want your candles to smell good, add some essential oil. Pour the hot wax into your mold and add the wick. Let it set for a few hours.

Quick tip: If you want to make ombre candles , let the first layer cool down for about 30 minutes and then add the second layer and repeat the process.

Perfect Pairs

Morning blogcreatures,

I must say the Spring is almost here and this makes me really happy. It's Wednesday and you should know that today we have a new challenge over at Stampotique Designer's Challenge. The new challenge is really amazing if you like to add layers to your project. Let's see what I made for Perfect pairs new challenge.

I used the Flying Monkey stamp from Stampotique. That's my main focal point for the perfect pairs. If you like this new challenge, come and play along with us. Untill next time , have a great day!

Steampunk Necklace

Hello blogcreatures,

Let's do something new, something different today. I love jewlery, mostly rings and earrings. But today I have a ''steampunk necklace''. I put the '' because I really don't have much jewlery supplies and I think it's time for me to get some new supplies and create interesting things. Until then you can enjoy this new handmade necklace I made.

I wanted to create a butterfly using charms. So I used the wing charms from the Box of Charms- wings set to create the butterfly shape. I also used two keys from the Box of charm - Keys set , both sets from Whiff of Joy.
Hope you enjoy this creation. Thanks for stopping by! Have a wonderful day!

Pop-up Card

Morning blogcreatures,

 How are you doing today? It's my turn to share a creation for I Am Roses. I really love the Pop-up card box from  Splicoaststampers. So I made my own using the tutorial. I must say I will do this creation again and make it a lot better. But for now this is what I came up with.

Pretty simple, right? Oh well if you want to watch a short video of me , making this creation please click here. I used three different flowers design : GP2 / R19 / S10 from I Am Roses.

Challenges:
DP2 Challenge
Whiff of Joy 
Simon Says Stamp 

Vintage Girls Release blog hop

Hello blogcreatures,

Welcome to our special Vintage Girls Release blog hop!!!!

We have 4 Brand new images to share with you today created by the Lovely Lia Stampz.

All Whimsy Stamps digital images are 300dpi for high print quality. You can re-size, flip, or rotate to fit your own project .To find all of today's new releases please visit the Whimsy Stamps Store.

I love cupcakes and muffins. Wait....they must be the same thing! Anyways, I used this gorgeous new design called: Sugar girl. JUST BEAUTIFUL!!!

Don't forget to leave comments along the way as there will be 4 mystery DT Members who will each be choosing a winner from the comments left on their hop posts!

These winners will each win a Vintage Girl digital image of their choice. The Grand Prize winner of the hop will be chosen from the very last stop, which is Lia.

This winner will receive all 4 of the brand new Vintage Girl digital stamps of their choice from the Whimsy Stamps Store

The hop will run for 1 week and end on Friday 14th February at 12 Noon EST, when the lucky winners will be announced over on the Whimsy Inspirations Blog

Below is a complete list of the hop in case you get lost along the way.

Valou

Nancy

Audrey

Charlene

Shirl

Morgyn

Cely

Suzi

Véronique

Andrea

Maria -----------YOU ARE HERE!!!!!!

Judith

Marianne

Ruza

Erum

Michelle

Lisa

Lia Visirin

GOOD LUCK AND ENJOY THIS AWSOME BLOG HOP!!!!

Heart in your Art

Morning blogcreatures,

What a lazy morning ' yawn'!  How are you doing today? It's Wednesday , which means a new challenge over at Stampotique Designer's Challenge. Do you like hearts and Valentine's day? Well if you do, then you gonna love this new challenge called: Heart in your art. 

 

To play along with us, you must include a heart or more hearts and make sure you use Stampotique stamps, if you want to win a great prize. For this challenge I made a heart tag. Very easy and quick make.  I used Olive Rose stamp from Stampotique. You know I love this stamp! 

Challenges:

The Pink Elephant

Anything but a card

Craft-Dee Bowz

Sugar Creek Hollow

Everybody-Art-Challenge

Bearly-Mine Challenge

Vintage utfordring

The happiest

Morning blogcreatures,

Who doesn't love feathers? They are just beautiful. My auntie has a peacock. What a beauty! I got inspired to create a clean and simple card for Whiff of Joy.  I must say that CAS cards can be really stunning and I really love this card.

I think I will continue making this type of cards. What do you think?  I used: Feathers stamps , Birthday Phrases Set of 8  and Tiny Hearts pocket Page Die- light , all from Whiff of Joy shop.

Challenges:
CASE Study
Sentimental Sundays
My mum's Craft Shop
Challenges 4 Everybody
Catch the bug Challenge

Yellow and Pink

Hello blogcreatures,

I don't know where you live , but we have way too much snow in my country. I just can not wait for spring to come. But since we can't have warm weather now, I had to create something to make my day better. I really enjoyed making a bright , fun ,beautiful card for the new challenge: Yellow and Pink , from I Am Roses.

The new challenge is so beautiful. You must use yellow and pink flowers , lace or ribbon, paper etc to create something beautiful. Feel free to join our challenge to win a great prize. For more details, please check out the IAR blog.

For my card I used flowers from IAR:  LY1- 99 and S10. Hope you like the card and thanks for stoping by.