Make Your Mark at Addicted to Stamps and More!

Hello dear friends and followers!
It's time for Make Your Mark Challenge at Addicted to Stamps and More! It's one of our favorite challenges: anything goes with markers, pencils, crayons... Coloring medium of any kind! I used my favorite markers, Copics, to color in this pretty girl from Whimsy Stamps. Please click on the photo for closer look if you want! Behind my image I'm using designer paper from Lavanda Paperpack by Nicecrane Designs  -we are happy to have Nicecrane Designs as our sponsor once again! My card is quite embellished with layers, pearls, doily and punched flowers and leaves. Hope you like! There's plenty of DT inspiration in the challenge blog and you will find all the details for joining us there too. Happy crafting!

I'd like to enter my card to:
http://scrapbitzcopics.ning.com/group/cmccopicchallengegroup Anything Goes
http://blog.markerpop.com/2013/10/07/markerpop-challenge-32/ Anything Goes
http://creativecraftchallenges2.blogspot.fi/ Anything Goes

Anything Goes at Addicted to Stamps and More!

Hi friends! Time for everyone's favorite, Anything Goes, at Addicted to Stamps and More! We are glad to have Nicecrane Designs sponsoring us again and I've used an adorable image from Nicecrane collage sheet called Born to Be Wild. These images are so cute... And loved by adults and kids, I've tested! :) My card is pretty much a straightforward vintage card -the colors are not very muted though and maybe the twine adds a bit funkier touch than a traditional ribbon would have added. I try to avoid my vintage cards looking too much "grandma style"... But my faves -doilies and lace- are present of course. :)

Once again, the design team at ATSM has done fantastic projects for your inspiration -please head on over to the challenge blog for checking them out. Don't forget to read the challenge rules and details while you are there... And after that, do link your project! Happy crafting!

Anything Goes at Addicted to Stamps and More!

Hello friends!
We have our most popular challenge at Addicted to Stamps and More, Anything Goes! The design team has made fun inspiration pieces for you: check their cards and all the challenge details here. The Paper Nest Dolls is sponsoring us this time.

My card has Fresh Squeezed Stamps feathers as focal point and beautiful Nicecrane Lavanda papers to create the mood. I haven't been able to stay away from doilies and gems, I often add them! :) I heat embossed the feathers with black fine powder and something weird had happened to the powder, it's all clumpy and not at all convenient to use. Did anyone ever experience this? I hope you liked my card, thanks for popping by and have a great time today!

I'd like to enter the following challenges:
http://www.lovesrubberstampschallenges.com/ Anything Goes
http://cisforchallenge.blogspot.fi/ Lots of layers
http://seemacrafts.blogspot.co.uk/ Monochromatic
http://natalieandamy.blogspot.co.uk/ Embossing

Color Inspiration at House of Cards

Hi friends,
can you believe it, it's already September, autumn is officially here! House of Cards Challenge starts the fall with this beautiful color palette and as always, the first week of the month is reserved for cute and fun cards! My card is maybe a bit on the edge of shabby and not so fun in a humorous sense but my geisha is definitely super cute! If you are new to House of Cards, this is how the challenge works: We have the same inspiration photo for whole month -so this time it's that beautiful vintage hues pic you see above- and we make cards with different styles every week. Fun and Cute is the first, then comes Clean and Simple, next is Classic and Elegant and the fourth week is for Shabby and Vintage cards. I hope you'll join us in the fun! There's plenty of Fun and Cute inspiration cards in the challenge blog, use the link above to check them out.

In my card I've used a LOTV image and Lavanda digi paper from Nicecrane Designs. The paper I chose from the collection is perfect for our challenge colors I think! I colored my geisha with Copics, this was my first ever time coloring black hair and it was quite exciting... This is actually my second finished geisha -I decorated the first finished image with stamped swirls around it and that was a huuuge mistake -I didn't like it at all and ended up tearing up the poor geisha in fury! :) Well, I'm laughing about it now but it sure wasn't funny after hours of coloring practicing and a finished project in the bin. :) Have a fun day everyone!

I'd like to enter the following challenges:
http://liliofthevalleythursdaychallenge.blogspot.fi/ No flowers
http://just-add-ink.blogspot.fi/2013/08/jai-180-just-add-colouring.html Just add coloring
http://audsentimentschallengeblog.blogspot.fi/ Any Sentiment
http://happycamperscc.blogspot.co.uk/ Use a stamp
http://www.ladyanneschallenges.com/stamp-challenge.html Anything Goes

Dreamy Blues

Hiya!
Time for Addicted to Stamps and More! We are continuing our August challenges with a twist, there's 3 ways to play along. This is how you can enter:
1) enter a card inspired by a photo

2) enter by using a product from Nicecrane Designs
3) combine both ways: use a Nicecrane product and use the photo as your inspiration!

I chose alternative nr 2 and used this cute vintage girl from the Charming Children Illustrations by Nicecrane Designs. I did not want to use designer paper for a change and did my own background by embossing an Impression Obsession background stamp with clear powder and spraying the background with blue Stardust mist. It turned out beautiful! I tried to keep my design simple and let the background be seen so all the other elements are in the center of the card. The little flowers are punched with a Fiskars punch -I like them, they look a bit like starfish to me!

That's all from me now... Do head on over to the ATSM Challenge Blog: there's plenty of DT inspiration for you and all the challenge details and rules too. As you probably guessed, Nicecrane Designs is our generous sponsor! :) Happy crafting!

CAS/Anything Goes with Nicecrane Designs at Addictd to Stamps and More!

Hi guys!
Another fun week at Addicted to Stamps and More! As last week we have a twist this week too, there's 3 ways to enter:

1) Make a CAS (Clean and Simple) card/project
2) Make a card/project using products from Nicecrane
3) Make a card/project that is CAS and uses products from Nicecrane.

Wonderful design team of ATSM has made inspirational pieces from all the alternatives, do check them out!

I chose the second alternative, I'm sure you'll agree that these cards have never seen CAS! I made these fun and colorful vintage cards with my mum when she was visiting a couple of weeks ago. We used Charming Children Illustration from Nicecrane. Mum helped me punching squares out of scrap papers and we formed them into two cards -mum's is the first and mine is the second. I must say I like mum's colors better, well done mum! :) It's a fun and cheerful card and I helped only with choosing embellishments. I was very happy that mum liked our little crafting session and loved the cards so much that she sent them to friends right away.

Now it's your turn, I can't wait to see what you make! So friends: We want to see either CAS, Nicecrane, or both!

Color Inspiration at Addicted to Stamps and More

Hi all!
I'm loving our color trio at Addicted to Stamps and More this week! It's so dramatic but can be used for fun cards too -think of cards with bees for example! I love English language: These Bee Happy- greetings in a Bee card or "You are Sew Special"- sentiments in a sewing themed cards + many similar wordplays are really fun -Finnish isn't quite flexible enough for that! My sentiment this time is in Finnish though: "Tervehdys" is one way of saying Hi in Finnish -quite an old-fashioned one actually. Terve, Hei or Moi would be less formal! Anyways, the lovely ladies in ATSM DT have made wonderful cards once again: click here and be inspired! You'll find all the challenge details there too.

We are proud to have Nicecrane as our sponsor at ATSM and the challenge has a twist too: you do not have to follow the color theme IF you use Nicecrane products in your project. So Anything Goes with Nicecrane products! You can of course do both, follow the color theme and use Nicecrane products: that's what I've done, the beautiful floral image is from a Nicecrane set, you'll find it here.

I've been thinking a lot about my card making style lately. The thing is I love so many styles: CAS, vintage, fun cards with cute, detailed, hand-colored images... Making own backgrounds and learning creative techniques... But I don't have (and especially during this coming autumn will not have) enough time to make cards in all of those different styles. That's why I've been thinking I should try to find my own "fusion-style" (that sounds trendy, doesn't it!) where I would bring together elements from different styles and try to make it work. I think I managed quite well with that in this card: a hand-colored image- quite simple layout, not too frilly- my favorite embellishments (lace and pearls, only my beloved doilies are missing!) and since that heart-paper is more of a cute style, the card doesn't look too formal or grandma-style. :) I would love to know what you think -is this mismatch or did I create something pretty? I'm secretly pretty pleased with myself, I like the card. :) Please leave a comment if you have the time and thank you for visiting me -I hope to see you soon again!

Sure Was Good!

Hi guys!
As my regular visitors and followers maybe remember, I recently started in a design team of House of Cards. HOC is a very fun and a bit different challenge, this is what the blog owners tell us about the concept:

Here is how our challenge blog works--we will have a monthly color palette or sketch and then each week we'd like to see a different card making style using those parameters.  If there is a 5th Monday in the month, we will have a photo inspiration and you can create using any card making style you'd like!  We'll also have a super fun photo inspiration challenge/blog hop that will happen at the beginning of December 2013.  The challenge will run from December 1st through December 15th and will also be a blog hop with a chance to win a prize package.  If at that point you feel so inclined, we'd love to have you enter our DT call that will be running at the same time!

The different card making styles are Fun & Cute (my DT group!), Clean & Simple, Classic and Elegant + this weeks style, Vintage & Shabby. The inspiration photo is seen below my card -I used two reds, the greyish white + blue as my accent color. The sweet vintage image is from Nicecrane -if I remember right, the collage sheet set is called "Born To Be Wild". Totally cute!

My sketch inspiration comes from Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge -I altered it a bit so I totally understand if I'm removed from the linky -I just had to leave the whole doily to the card, I couldn't cut part of it off! :) That's it from me now, I hope you enjoyed my card and thanks for popping by!

Blog Hop At Addicted To Stamps And More!

Welcome to the first ever Blog Hop at Addicted To Stamps And More! We have the most wonderful sponsor -Nicecrane Designs- and there's 8 amazing prizes to be won!

For the chance to win fabulous Nicecrane products all you have to do is leave a comment to our challenge blog and to the 7 DT blogs participating in the blog hop. We have all used Nicecrane products and I promise you'll be stunned of the projects! Here's the list of all the DT blogs that you must visit:

Kylie

Florence

Sandie

Caz

Nonni (you are here)

Deepti

Danielle

So, you should have come from the wonderful blog of Caz. If you have lost your way, that's ok because you can start back at the ATSM blog here and work your way through. 

In my blog you have a chance to win this cute and adorable set called Born To Be Wild:

I just loved working with these images and I hope you'll like my card as much as I do! The quality in these images is awesome and they are really easy to print out and use. I punched some flowers and leaves for my embellishments, added a gold doily behind the image and finished the card with some ribbon and sentiment from WOJ. Aren't those babies just too cute to be true?!?

So, next on the blog hop list to visit is the amazing Deepti. Don't forget that you must visit all the links to be in the running for the prize. There's a prize for crabs on every blog! Have fun!