New Challenge at Time Out!

Hi friends!

I'm here with a quick post to tell you about our new challenge at Time Out! For the next fortnight our theme is Alphabet Magnet Day.

Although traditionally, we might think of magnetic letters as a children’s toy, the first known magnetic letters were actually created for the space industry. Click HERE for a bit of history behind the magnetic letters that have been decorating the faces of refrigerators for 50 years.

For this challenge you can for example use letter dies, large word dies, patterned paper with writing as focal point, embossing folders with letters or large words... many possibilities! 

For my card I used supplies form our sponsor Altenew: JOY-die and coordinating stencils and Festive Greenery embossing folder. The embossing folder has coordinating stencils too, but to make my card front mimic a fridge door more, I left it white lol! 

I hope to see you playing along. In addition to the Altenew prize, our winner also gets called to guest design in the future. This time our guest is the very talented Carol from Saw it. Had to Make it.  She made two amazing cards for our inspiration! Don't miss Carol's card, more DT inspiration and all the challenge details, click HERE.

I'd like to join:

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge: Use Die Cuts

 

New Challenge at Inkspirational!

Hi friends!

I'm here with my DT card for Inkspirational! Our challenge for the next fortnight is "Seasonal". That means we want you to either choose an occasion related to a Season (like winter/Christmas) or use images specifically related to some season. 

I have chosen Summer as my season and sunflowers as my specific image. Sunflowers are wonderful in late summer... many Finns grow them all the way from seeds and yet they become huge and bloom amazing come July/August! 

. I colored in a Waffle Flower classic image, Sunflower Love, with Copics and Altenew pencils. I've die cut it with matching dies and created a card layout with patterned paper and some scraps from my scraps box. The white panel is heat embossed with a background stamp by the Ton with white pearl powder. I heat embossed a white sentiment (by Altenew) to the grey circle. I always get so happy when I'm able to use elements from my scraps box lol!

I'd like to join:

Beautiful Blossoms Challenge: Anything Floral Goes

Simon Says Stamp: Feminine

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: Feminine

 

New Challenge t Time Out!

Hi friends!

I'm here with a DT card for our new challenge at Time Out. For the next fortnight we have a photo challenge for you and this time it's an extra special one: we are inspired by a purse by Running Stitch Design and this purse will also be the prize for our winner! How fun is that! Running Stitch Design is owned by one of our former DT members Kim and we are very happy to collaborate with her in this challenge.  Our winner also gets called to guest design in a future challenge and this time it's the super talented Cornelia -do visit her amazing blog! 

My card might look very different from the purse with a quick glance, but I was actually inspired by the blue dots in the fabric (I used LOADS of them lol) and of the stripes of the brown fabric (have a look at my background paper, lots of stripes there!). 

The flower stamps and coordinating coloring stencils are by Altenew and so is the sentiment. 

The dot stencil for the background comes from Hero Arts. 

I'd like to join:

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday: Anything Goes

We Love Stamping: Spring/Anything Goes

Stamping Sensations: Anything Goes

Stencil Fun for April: Spring/Anything Goes

Thank you for popping by and I hope to see you joining us! 

 

New Challenge at Inkspirational!

Hi friends!

I'm here with my DT card for the new challenge at INKspirational!  This time we want you to be inspired by a very fun moodboard, here it is:

Here's my card:

I was inspired by "You are Cool" text and also of the flowers in the middle of the moodboard. I had received this patterned paper and card topper as a freebie with a crafty supplies order from a Finnish web shop... And I think they go perfectly with the moodboard! The flowers are Sunburst Azalea dies by Altenew. I chose the leaves from another Altenew flower set, Belllower, I like the shape of them better. :) The arched rectangle die is a new product for me, by Spellbinders... I've seen so much of this arches everywhere that I had to jump in and by a die for myself too. Love it!!

I'd like to join:

Snippets Playground Challenge #478: use scraps 

(flowers all all cut from scrap pieces of card stock)

Die Cut Divas: Spring

(spring is all about flowers, right!) 

Thank you for popping by and I hope to see you joining us! 

New Challenge at Time Out!

Hi friends!

At Time Out Challenges we are back with another fun challenge! For the next fortnight we challenge you to be "Striped".

I wish I would have had a zebra stamp or die, that would have been perfect!! I opted for some striped patterned paper instead and made a summery card with Honey Bee Stamps Lovely Layers Strawberry dies as the main star of my card. They were fun to cut out and ink up with various Altenew inks. The photo is a bit washed out, but I added some purple to the strawberries and leaves and it made them look a lot more realistic and beautiful. Love these dies!

I hope to see you playing along. Our winner recieves a $25 coupon to our fab sponsor Lawn Fawn... And also gets called to guest design in a future challenge. This time our talented GD is Karen Rodgers. Do not miss her wonderful card or any of the DT inspiration and challenge details... Click HERE!

I'd like to join:

Die Cut Divas: Anything Goes

The Crafter's Cafe: Food

Buzzworthy Challenges March Challenge (This is a Honey Bee challenge in Faccebook) 

 

New Challenge at Inkspirational!

Hi friends!

We have a new challenge for you at Inkspirational! This time our DT member Julia has chosen the theme and it's White on White. 

I decided to make a Christmas card, first one of 2024 I think! :) The background stamp (by Catherine Pooler) was heat embossed with white pearl powder and I absolutely love how it turned out... I had never used this powder on white card and was very surprised on the end result. The die cut bird and sentiment are magazine freebies. 

I'd like to join:

ABC Christmas Card Challenge: E is for Embossing

Thank you for popping by and I hope to see you joining us at Inkspirational!

 

Altenew Celebrating Parents Card Drive Blog Hop + Giveaway ($200 in Total Prizes!)

Hello friends!

Today I have the great joy to join Altenew's Celebrating Parents Card Drive Blog Hop! 

Before we go more into the Blog Hop details I'll let you know that with this hop we want to celebrate and to draw your attention to Celebrating Parents Card Drive that is running HERE. 

You can join the Card Drive by sending your handmade cards to Altenew. The cards will be sent to the the elderly living in nursing homes or shelters to brighten their day and to let them know they’re not forgotten. 

You can join the Card Drive by sending out your cards by April 19th and there's also prizes on offer for those who send out cards. All the Card Drive details HERE. Make sure to check it out and join in sharing joy during this season with Mother's and Father's Day approaching! 

Altenew is also donating $1 with every order from the Alcohol Markers collection from 2/26/2024 until 4/30/2024 to the Food Bank of Central New York to support seniors in need.

Now onto the Blog Hop Details!

In the end of this post you'll see a link tool with all the blogs joining this hop. Visit the blogs, leave comments to the designers and you can win one of the 7 prizes: 

There's $200 in total prizes!  Altenew is giving away a $50 gift certificate to 2 lucky winners and a $20 gift certificate to 5 winners! Please leave a comment on the Altenew Card Blog and/or each designer’s blog post on the blog hop list below by March 27, 2024 for a chance to win. Altenew will draw 7 random winners from the comments left on each stop of this blog hop and announce the winners on the Altenew Winners Page on March 29, 202403/18/.

My project for the Blog Hop: 

I decided to play with Craft Your Life Project Kit Meadow Breeze... This was my first card with it and I can tell you it won't be the last!! I absolutely love the cute background stamp image combined with the stunning large floral cluster... Such an unique look! I gold heat embossed the background on matt gold card and I also gold heat embossed the main image. I used the coloring stencils for coloring the image. The sentiment is from another CYLPK, Zero Waste Flowery Pattern. I heat embosssed it with white on the same gold matt card that I used for the background. I'm in love with this card and I hope you like it too! :)

Happy Hopping friends and don't forget to check out and join the Card Drive by sending out your handmade cards to Altenew for them to be distributed forward... You could totally brighten someone's day! 

A quick recap:

Click HERE to view the Card Drive post at Altenew Blog. 

Click HERE to view the Blog Hop post at Altenew Blog. 

And below are all the blogs joining in the hop, waiting for your comments! :) 

 

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