Getting lucky…

Happy Sunday!

I’ve been playing in my scrap room today just for fun. So love that!!! Might be a sign of me getting back on track when comes to crafting. I’m keeping my fingers crossed for that one!

And since I was playing for fun, I dug up my mists and a new (or rather never used) template and totally made a mess of me, my desk and my phone… 

I’ve been planning on using these stamps from Skipping Stones Design but haven’t dared to use them until now. But the soon to be 45 year old who will receive this will take it good. And he deserves it… :)

I’m playing along with CAS-ual Fridays this week.

Thanks for stopping by!

Tesa

Favorite layout and a Valentines CAS card

Hi! Here is a layout I’ve been working on a few days now. It’s a new favorite of mine, cause it was super fun to make and I love the photos of my boy and my mom playing games and having a great time together. I used all scraps for this, all the papers and embellies are from old kits from 2011. I was sooooo inspired by Julie and her work with her stash!!!

I used this fab sketch from Scrapbook.com:

Every week I plan to play along with CAS-ual Fridays, but seldom do. But wohooo, this week I did!!! I used my Grunge 2  stamps from Skipping Stones Design and stamped away. Super easy. I’m just sorry that , the red I love you ended up really wonky on the photo. It’s a brighter red, like the twine, irl.

Thanks for stopping by!!!

Tesa

Skipping Stones Thank You Blog Hop

Hi!!! Today we are having a blog hop to say a huge Thank You to Heather, the owner of Skipping Stones Design. She is taking a hiatus from designing stamps and scaling down her business. As a good bye and thank you for the all she has done past and present Design Team members are having this blog hop. Play along and leave comments along the way and some super fun Skipping Stones Design stamps could be yours!

If you follow the hop, you should have arrived here from Cyndi Bundy’s blog The Scrappy Chick. If not you can start from the beginning over at Skipping Stones Design Blog.

Now over to my card. I used two of my favorite SSD sets: Funny Coffee vol. 1 and Grunge.

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To continue, hop over to Vanessa Menhorn’s blog Wings of a Butterfly. She will have something gorgeous in store for you!

Thanks for playing with us and make this hop special for Heather!!!

Tesa

Thanks and a BOM layout

Hi! Happy Sunday!

I have both a card and a layout to share today. First is a thank you card, I always need a bunch of these.

It started as a lift but somewhere on the way, I strayed and the only thing left are the rounded corner… Oh well. Sometimes it’s fun to just keep adding things…

And since I did, and have 1 flower, 6 rhinestones, 2 metal charms, 1 button, 1 pin and 1 angel I can enter this in Use 10 Embellishments Challenge in the Moxie Fab World.

My layout is about a life changing moment in life. I’ve been thinking about a hasty decision I made 17 years ago that is the starting point for the life I live today. I’m so happy I was so frustrated and irritated about my job, my boss and co workers that instead of deciding to stay and study in the town where I had family, friends and an apartment, I accepted a spot at a university in a town I’d never visited three hours away. Just like that. Thank God!

So love these Studio Calico papers!

Thanks for stopping by!

Tesa

Life

Happy Saturday!

I’m here to share a card for Skipping Stones Design. The Design Team challenge the last two months was to use our favorite sets. So I inked up Breathtaking Butterflies. It is sooooo beautiful! :)

It ended up a true CAS card. I tried to decorate it, but whatever I did, it shadowed the butterfly and sentiment. So it ended up really clean. And I like it. :)

Heather has the entire store on sale ala the infamous PMS sale or Purchase More Stamps!  The more you buy, the more you save!

• Buy ONE set: Enter PMS1 for 5% off!
• Buy TWO sets: Enter PMS2 for 10 % off!
• Buy THREE sets: Enter PMS3 for 15% off!
• Buy FOUR sets: Enter PMS4 for 20% off!
• Buy FIVE sets: Enter PMS5 for 25% off!
• Buy SIX or MORE sets: Enter PMS6 for 30% off!

All info can be found HERE.

The card is based on this beautiful sketch by Tarynne Wise for Scrapbook.com Card Sketch Challenge.

 

Thanks for stopping by and have a fab Saturday!

Tesa

Smile Layout

Hi! Happy Sunday! Hope your weekend has been a good one. Mine has been great. I’ve got tons of Christmas preparations done. Been shopping Christmas presents today, and I’m almost done and it feels great. Usually I sweat among all the other desperate procrastinators the day before Christmas. But not this year. Not ever again! :)

I have a Skipping Stones Design project to share today. It’s one of my last as a Design Team member of this wonderful company. Heather – the owner – will take a break. Here are her own words:

“I am thinking of this break as a 7th inning stretch of sorts and here’s what this means to you:

Effective this month, we will be discontinuing our weekly sketch challenges. We will honor all previous sketch winners through the end of December. As part of this hiatus, I am also suspending release of new designs.

Starting today through the end of January, the entire store is on sale, AND the more you buy, the more you save. That’s right, we are having our famous (or infamous) Purchase More Stamps (PMS) sale to help me reduce inventory.

Buy ONE set: Enter PMS1 for 5% off!
Buy TWO sets: Enter PMS2 for 10 % off!
Buy THREE sets: Enter PMS3 for 15% off!
Buy FOUR sets: Enter PMS4 for 20% off!
Buy FIVE sets: Enter PMS5 for 25% off!
Buy SIX or MORE sets: Enter PMS6 for 30% off!

If you have any challenges with the discount codes, please email me directly at madebyme33 (at) hotmail (dot) com. I will turn around an invoice that reflects your savings.”

I love this company. The stamp sets are out of this world fun to work with. Hilarious! And beautiful! And like the set I’m featuring today, Grunge 2, so great to do all types of projects with. I’ll miss it. But I’ll have my stamps! :)

The photo is from our Vacation this summer. The boy is playing in the medieval ruins of a church and he had so much fun. He was a gigantic smile. :) I used the Grunge 2 set for the stamped part. Love the text stamps in this set, so fun and great font!

Thanks for stopping by!

Tesa

Skipping Stones Design November Blog Hop

Hi! Happy Tuesday! We are celebrating the release of a new SSD stamp set – the Victorian Christmas. It’s a beauty!

You should come here from Karen Baker’s blog The Bald Dragonfly. If you didn’t you want to start from the beginning at Skipping Stones Designs’ blog.

Here is my tag using the Christmas Song set (cause the new set took a detour on it’s way to Sweden…) and beautiful Riddersholm Design papers – A Christmas Story.

We are all making tags this time around, cause we have THE most gorgeous tag sketch made by Kelly Schirmer in this week’s sketch challenge – SSD 156. Check it out!


To continue the hop, go over to the amazing Glenda Wyatt, she will have a beauty in store for you!
Hope you will play along with the sketch challenge this week!
Thanks for stopping by!
Tesa

SSD Sketch Challenge

Hi! Tuesday means a new sketch from Skipping Stones Design! We are playing with retro sketches this month and this oldie but goldie was made by Jen Del Muro.

And here is my card:

I pulled out my favorite set for the background panel: Grunge. I stamped the fab wood grain on a Kraft cardstock with Walnut stain and inked the edges with Vintage photo. Love how it goes with the patterned paper from Echo Park. The wine glass and sentiment is from the hilarious set Grapeful. I went for a glass look by adding some stickles for wine and then go over the whole glass with glossy accent.

Hope you want to play with us! All info about the challenge can be found HERE on the Skipping Stones Design Blog. You do not have to use SSD stamps.

Thanks for stopping by!!!

Tesa

SSD Sketch #150

We are playing with retro sketches all month long over at Skipping Stones Design. And this week it’s a really fun and versatile one by Heidi Van Laar.

The whole team is playing with the goodie set Fangs and Fur, specially made for all you Twilight lovers out there…

So many fun sentiments on this one!!! :)

Here is my take. I’m more of a Team Edward kind of gal, but the recipient is NOT! You know who you are!!! :) I think this will suit her!

Papers from Crate.

Soooo, hope to see you play along this week! You do not have to have any SSD stamps. All info about the challenge can be found on the Skipping Stones Design Blog.

Thanks for stopping by!

Tesa

Take Two…

What a fantastic weekend I’ve had. I’ve spent it with the people I love the most in a beautiful 16th century mansion with fantastic food, good wines, live music and lots and lots of laughs. :) And I got a great start too, a very happy mail from Ms Opel landed in my mailbox  Friday night. YAY! I’ll have a card in Card Creations: volume 11!!! Happy dance! :)

I started on a second take on the Try Stampin’ on Tuesday and thought I’d share the result.

The paper is from American Crafts, stamps are from the beautiful Heartsong set from Skipping Stones Design. I covered the bird and notes and the stitched border first with some Scrap Happy Glue and then You’re So Fine Glitter.

It sparkles. :)

Here is the sketch, again… But I did change it a bit this time around…

I’m off to make dinner. Thanks for stopping by!

Tesa

Skipping Stones Design Sketch #148

Hi!

Happy Tuesday!

Tuesday means a new sketch challenge over at Skipping Stones Design. We are working with retro sketches this month and we have some great ones in store for you! This week’s sketch is by Pamela Young and I loved working with it.

I decided to go with some paper pleating for the striped design element. I used some old but fab (been hoarding) Pink Paislee papers.

Do you see the tone in tone stamped background? The background stamp is from the Timeless Texture set which I adore! The feather is from Victorian Summer set and the sentiment is from Heartsong.

Hope to see you play this week – all info about the challenge can be found HERE!!!

Thanks for stopping by!

Tesa

Feature Friday–You’re amazing

Hi! Let me just say T.G.I.F!!!! :)

I’m sharing a card for Skipping Stones Design’s Feature Friday today. I pulled out the ah-mazing Victorian Summer set and stamped away. I simply adore this flower. It’s so full of details and was super fun to work with.

The flower and butterfly are heat embossed and layered. And I added some pearls for some extra flair.

All the papers are from Riddersholm Design, the new line A Christmas Story.  The polka dot paper is one of my favorites!

I used this lovely sketch from Sunday Sketch and Stamp.

Thank you all for the sweet comments on my Heartfelt post from yesterday. It warmed my heart and sure made my day!!! You are the best! ♥♥♥

And thank you for stopping by today! Have a fantastic Friday!!!!!

Tesa

Cheers! It’s a Skipping Stones Design Blog Hop!

Hi!!!

We are celebrating the new release Cheers! with a Blog Hop showing off this fab set that is soooo funny but also elegant and oh so versatile. I’ll go with the more elegant theme today, but be sure to find some hilarious sentiments if you hop with us!!! (I’ll use them later…).

If you came from Rochelle’s blog you’re right on track, if not you might want to start from the beginning over at Skipping Stones Design.

Ok, so, here is my card. I love Martinis. I can’t drink them anymore due to my migraine, but I remember the taste, the feel of luxury (being a student everything except an occasional beer was luxury!) and the olives. Yummy!!! And I had a partner in crime when came to martinis. And she is a lucky duck cause she can still enjoy them… And in two weeks when she receives this, she can also enjoy this. :)

I cut out the martini glass from the background stamp, mounted it on a glittery Prima Chip Board with some 3D foam and added a ribbon and a Spellbinders die (it’s new, got it last week, loooove it!).

I stamped the background stamp on the inside of the card, masking off parts of it. Hope she gets the message!

And here is the sketch of the week, designed by our amazing guest Kim Kesti!!! Hope you will play with us! All info on the Skipping Stones Design Blog!

Next stop on the hop is Kim Kesti herself!!! She will have something fantastic in store for you!

Thanks for stopping by!!!!

Tesa

You are the music in me…

Hi!

Skipping Stones Design has a new fab sketch up today, by the amazing Kim Kesti.

Here is my take on it:

I used the beautiful Heartsong 2 set. I inked up smooth white cardstock with distress inks in cotton candy and peeled paint and stamped and heat embossed the roses while the inks were still wet. That gives a beautiful glass surface (though totally impossible to photograph in a good way).

Hope you will play with us! You don’t need to use SSD stamps!!! You find the challenge and amazing samples from the Guest Designers and the Team HERE.

Thanks for stopping by!

Tesa

A dog’s philosophy…

Hi! Happy Saturday!!!

Hope you are enjoying a good weekend! I am so far. I started it with a long walk to reboot my brain after a super crazy week. I saw two roe deer on a field where the fairies were dancing. A magic moment. I love early mornings this time a year with all the fog and high air and bright colors. ♥♥♥

The crazy week explains my lack of blogging, blog hopping and card making… But I intend to catch this weekend. :)

Yesterday was happy mail day! I got new FAB stamps from Skipping Stones Design and I spent the morning after my walk with inking them up. So much fun! Here is a first using Dogs vol. 1. My co worker is getting a puppy later this month, a French Bulldog (I ADORE them!!!) and I thought I’d remember him what awaits… :) :) :)

Skipping Stones Design is having a Buy 3 get 1 Free promotional week until Friday 14th… just saying… :)

I used this great sketch from Freshly Made Sketches:

I’ll head back to my craft room. Thanks for stopping by!

Tesa

You’re an inspiration

Hi! Happy Wednesday!

If you are looking for my Rubber Café Blog Hop Post you find it HERE!

If you want a chance to win my favorite stamps and dies you can enter my give away HERE!

I’m in the middle of a CRAZY week. University started Monday and the whole place is turned upside down. I met our new students and they are amazingly young… and nice! :) And young! :) I got home last night and was totally wired up so I went down to my scrap room and practiced some card making therapy.

The papers are from Riddersholm Design – Fleamarket. Love them, they are in my favorite colors!!!

And check out my new butterflies stamps and die from Prickley Pear!!! They are called Mini Butterflies Clear Stamps Set and Mini Butterflies Die. ♥♥♥

You will see a lot of these babies in the future. :)

I have some exciting news too!!!!

II was accepted on Skipping Stones Design’s new Design Team! Wohoo!!! I’m super thrilled and so honored!!! The girls on the team are AMAZING – check it out HERE and the stamps – oh boy! So much fun and cleverness AND beauty, I can’t wait to start playing!!! :):):)

Got to go, a couple of hour work awaits. Thanks for stopping by!!!

Tesa