New Challenge at Inkspirational!

Hi friends!

We have a new challenge for you at Inkspirational. This time it's the wonderful photo inspiration you see above. I chose to be inspired of earthy colors, word love and flowers. I made a smooshed DI background and used a Penny Black stamp which I heat embossed with white powder. The sentiment is stamped with Versafine and heat embossed with clear powder for glossy finish -it helps bringing the sentiment up from the dark bg. The sentiment is from a wonderful Simon Says Stamp set I received for Christmas from my fellow Ink DT member Pia! Thanks Pia! :)

Our guest designer this time is Kristina. Play along and you could guest design for us too! :) Thanks for popping by and I hope to see you at Inkspirational!

New Challenge at TIME OUT Challenges!

Hi friends!

We have a new challenge for you over at TIME OUT Challenges. It's a gorgeous photo inspiration -see the pic above. I was inspired by the Christmassy colors and the dots -I added white dots with gel pen to my stamped images (stamps by SSS). I adhered the stamped panel to a card base that I had covered with cute holly-themed patterned paper. Very simple and flat too, easy to mail! :)

I'd love to see you joining us at TIME OUT. Do visit our DT members and also our talented guest designer Sonja, her card for this challenge is absolutely stunning! Happy crafting everyone.. Take some TIME OUT and make those last-minute Christmas cards! :)

New Challenge at One Layer Christmas Card Challenges!

Hi guys!

Yesterday I returned to blogland after a two months break and today I'm here again! :) Above is my DT card for One Layer Christmas Card Challenge 9 which has just begun. Our challenges are anything one layer goes, but if you want to have a chance to win a prize, do use the twist: Angels. Plenty of DT inspiration in the challenge blog!

I went through my Christmas stamps and found 2 stamps with angels... But when I tried to make a card with them the results were not pretty! I decided to abandon the twist then and took out one of my favorite sets from last Christmas. My card is super simple: some two-tone stamping, little inking on the edges, a Finnish Christmas sentiment and Wink of Stella on all the leaves. 

Please click here for all the challenge details and prize info. I hope to see you playing along!

"Sprinkle" at Inkspirational!

Hi friends!

I hope to see you all joining our new challenge at Inkspirational! It's a word prompt: Sprinkle. My take on the challenge is very literal: I sprinkled some sequins on top of my heat embossed, stenciled leaf. The stencil is by Simon Says Stamp. The embossing powder I used is Copper Regular by WOW. It has a beautiful, metallic shine to it. 

As always the Ink DT ladies have made very inspirational cards for you to admire. I hope you'll check them out. This time our guest designer is Stempelomis. Play along and you could guest design too. Happy crafting! 

New Sketch Challenge at STAMPlorations!

HI guys!

You are looking at my DT card for the second sketch challenge of January at STAMPlorations! Click here for stunning inspiration from our DT members and guest designer Maria ... And then think how you'll want to use the sketch! I decided to flip it: I wanted to use the so so so cute macarones from Sugar Rush and make a Valentine's Day card with them. I've colored the macarones with Copics. The hearts are sponged through a stencil. Only one embellishment: a die cut heart ! :)

The winner of this sketch challenge will receive 3 STAMPlorations digi stamps and a possibility to guest design in a future challenge. We will also choose 2 top picks and they have a chance to guest design too... So it's really worth playing along! Read all the details about  the prizes from the challenge post.

I hope to see you playing along!

"Ombre" at Inkspirational!

HI friends!

Here's my DT card for the current Inkspirational Challenge: Ombre. The challenge was chosen by the talented DT member Pia. I'd love you to take a look how our DT members created their ombre looks so do head on our to our challenge blog! In case you are not familiar with the concept of ombre, here's a clarification: 

"Ombré is when the colour is graduated in tone eg. a colour that fades from dark grey to light grey."

I chose to work with blues in my card. The center panel is first sponged with 3 shades of blue DI:s and then water stamped with a Simon Says Stamp stencil. The flowers (Altenew) are colored in with Copics. The sentiment is from the same set. 

I  hope you'll join me, the DT and our guest designer Deepti in this fun challenge! 

Guest Designing at CASology!

Hi guys!

I'm very honored to guest design at CASology today. CASology is one of the coolest challenge blogs around and I can't believe I won there a couple of weeks ago. Thank you so much Melissa for inviting me to join this week's challenge and Happy 2015 to everyone in CASology design team!

I wanted to have a go with stenciling in my card. I used a bold patterned Simon Says Stamp stencil I hadn't had a chance to use yet -my goal was to try to make the big patterns work in my CAS design. I figured that if I use the patterns sparingly and stick to a simple color palette I might make it work!

I die cut the tag out of a bigger piece of card I had previously sponged with 3 red inks (combo of DI:s and Mementos) and water stamped with the same stencil. That turned out nice! The silhouette stamp in my card is from the Ever After set by STAMPlorations and the sentiment is from a PTI set.

In the card base I masked a strip from the edge and sponged the stenciled design with black Memento ink. The tag is attached with 3d foam stickers for dimension. I only added a piece of ribbon to keep the embellies at minimum.

I hope you think I succeeded in making the bold patterns work for CAS... And I can't wait to see the different interpretations on the DATE- cue card! Thanks again Melissa and CASology DT for having me!

Merry Christmas!

Hi friends!

Here's a set of cards I made and sent to some of my DT buddies using a stamp set Simon Says Stamp -I think this might be a stamp set I used most this year along with my favorite Christmas stamp sets by STAMPlorations. I hope the girls have received these by now! 

I'd like to use this opportunity to thank my followers and all visitors for your support and lovely comments here at Korttikarkuri- Runaway cards during 2014. 

Have a very Merry Christmas and All the Best for 2015! 

"Christmas is Love with All the Trimmings" at TIME OUT

Hi friends!
It's time for the last challenge of 2014 at TIME OUT. We have one of our Inspired by Words challenges for you and this time the words are "Christmas is Love with All the Trimmings". Remember you could be inspired of the whole sentiment or choose just one word like "Love". Our DT cas created beautiful samples for your inspiration and we have a guest designer too: Shirley Bee, a FAB, creative stamper and stamp designer. Welcome to TIME OUT Shirley!

My card is super CAS but I like the design I came up with! I bought this deer stamp already last year but didn't quite find a way to make it work (it's rather small) but now I think I found at least one use for it! That made me happy because it's a beautiful stamp. I've simply stamped the image and sentiment to my base card with black Versafine and then stamped the image on another piece of card with green ink... Cut the green image with a circle punch and placed it over the black image with 3 d tape. I also used a Wink of Stella pen to add glitter to the green trees.

By the way, how I was inspired by our sentiment... Obviously I was inspired by the Christmas theme in general... But also the word "Trimmings". Trim the tree! :) I hope you like! Have a good rest of the week and thanks for popping by!

I'd like to enter:
http://casology.blogspot.fi/ Snow (I quite like the way my snowbank is 3d!)
http://inkychicks.blogspot.co.uk/ Winter Wonderland
http://lovetoscrapchallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/ Nature
http://musecardclub.blogspot.fi/ Inspiration card (below) I was inspired by the layout and "something popping up"!

New Challenge at Inkspirational!

HI friends!

There's a new challenge for you at Inkspirational: Christmas with the optional twist of no red or green. If you choose the twist you could win this prize:

£10 Gift Card Uniko Studios

Bo Bunny die cuts

Bo Bunny rub-ons

Bo Bunny dimensional stickers

A TCW(The Crafters Workshop) stencil

3 different ribbons

I'd say it's definitely worth twisting! :) Our guest designer this week is Janet. Welcome to Inkspirational, Janet!

My DT card today is super simple but I do like it a lot. I stamped a branch image from Simon Says Stamp with black Versafine and embellished it with rhinestones that I had tinted a bit with W5 Copic -that way they went better with my embossing powder (Ranger) I used for the sentiment. The sentiment is from the same stamp set. I love the dramatic look of the designer paper I stamped on! This could maybe be a masculine Christmas card? There's glitter though... I added it with Wink of Stella pen to the stamped branch.

If you need more inspiration on Christmas cards -maybe without red or green- head on over to Inkspirational for more DT cards. The Ink girls never fail to inspire so enjoy! Happy crafting! 

Pinecones... Leaves... And a TIME OUT Reminder!

Hi guys!

I have two simple Christmas cards for you today, both stamped with the same Simon Says Stamp Holly Berries stamp set. I tried this stamp set from Milla and nowadays also have it in my own collections -what a beautiful and versatile set! And no one paid me to say this. :)

My first card is inspired our current Home Sweet Home Photo Inspiration Challenge at TIME OUT here. The photo has so many elements to be inspired by and this time I chose only the pinocones and went to a different direction with the color palette. I hope you'll join us, there's still about a week to play along! I've used a pretty large sentiment stamp in Finnish in both of my cards today -it says "Warm Christmas Wishes and Happy New Year".  I'd like to enter this card to CASology: Festive.

Here's the TIME OUT inspiration photo:

Then my second card! No pinocones or frozen branches now but leaves and berries in a very traditional colored Christmas card. The inspiration comes from the photo at Festive Friday: my leaves and berries mimic the wreath in the photo. 

Festive Friday inspiration photo:

Thanks for popping by everyone, I hope you liked my cards today!