Sending you....

Finally, I've made another card! At the moment we have two little guests (a brother and sister of 9 and 7 years old) who are staying with us for 2,5 weeks. It is organised by Europa Kinderhulp (Europe Children Aid). We've got a great time together, but I have to admit it costs a lot of energy. My craft room has been transferred into a guestroom although the little girl prefers sleeping in the same room as her brother. All her stuff is still in my craft room. But this morning I organised it a bit, took my stuff and created a card under supervision of the two children who had never seen something like that! Next week I will stamp some cards with them, so they can bring them home for their mother and family.

This card is made with This & That - Echo Park. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink and I distressed the label a bit with tea dye. I've seen many beautiful cards with this colour and I love it! So I ordered finally one myself! I made a frame by stitching (unfortunately a bit crooked). I added a small lace border as the card was still a bit empty. It was the perfect finishing touch.

By the way, for everyone who supported me during my tests in June: I passed all of them. So happy as you can imagine! 

Hopefully, the breaks on this blog will be a bit smaller in the coming period. I hope to find some time for participating in the jubilee challenges of the Lift Challenge Blog. Congrats on the first year, ladies! 

Thank you for coming by!

Back in town - Passion for PTI

Back in town after a wonderful holiday! We travelled through Romania and Hungary, visited well known places and friends and explored new cities and areas! A good mix and lovely weather! And now enjoying our own house and bed, own stuff and spoiling Saar and Pien  a bit who had missed us a lot...

I'm not really in a full swing of making cards and other craft as I have made a start of painting my craft room. Next week it will be a guestroom for a little girl, so I have to be in a hurry.

But I can show you a card, made with Echo Park and PTI stamps (Fillable frames 3 and sentiment from the 'Up,up and away' set) . With this card I take part in this challenge of Passion for Papertrey.

Okay, the quality of the pictures could be better! I'm sorry, but I have posted this card already, so no other possibility to make a better one...

 

This post is just a little break in my summer break (or shall I say 'autumn' break LOL). I try to read your blogs as soon as possible, but the list is long....

Thanks for coming by! 

Gift card holder

A new week has started. Time flies!  The sun is shining brightly here and I'm looking forward to sitting in the sun for a few moments this afternoon! Need some vitamins sunshine...

Today I'd like to show you a gift card holder I made for my friend who celebrated her birthday on Saturday. I found a nice idea on the world wide web for making a holder and it worked out pretty well. I used This & That Graceful from Echo park. I've got many small buttons and that gave me the clever idea to use them the little flowers. Great effect. And she got also a bag with fudges.

And when we came home after the birthday party I found a package in my postbox filled with PTI goodies!! Guess what I will do the coming days... Show you  the first results soon!

Have a nice week!

You can find the tutorial here:  http://www.craftingwithamy.com/2012/05/birthday-gift-card-holder.html

Papertrey April Blog Hop Challenge

Yesterday I saw the challenge at the blog of Nichole Heady / Papertrey ink and I had to play with it. Nichole gave a picture and challenged us to find some inspiration in the picture (see the PTI blog). As I don't have any papers with the colour combination as shown in the pictures I found my inspiration in the patterns as polka dots, flowers and damask. And I'm sorry for my regular blog readers, but I used again Echo Park This & That - Graceful ( I promis next card is with other papers!) I used PTI Fillable frames #3.

So this is my card:

Thanks for hopping by and enjoy this PTI bloghop! 

Happy birthday to my mom!

Today it is my mother's birthday. Of course I made her a card! I used Echo Park This & That - graceful. I combined some papers, a journaling card and a rosette. The sentiment is a Papertrey Filiable stamp + frame. The edges are inked with Ditress 'vintage photo'.

This morning I ordered a couple of stamp sets from Papertrey Ink! As you will understand I'm looking forward to receiving them!! It was a hard choice to find out what sets I'd like to have, because they have so many gorgeous sets.  I ordered some older sets I fall in love with the very first moment they were released.  (Hanging out and Garden Variety) and some newer sets (Rosie Posie and Birthday tags 2012). Hopefully the order will be shipped soon! 

Thanks for hopping by!

Just a note

I'm so proud of myself... smile! I cleaned this week my whole craftroom! It was just a mess and I noticed that I didn't like to sit down at my desk and produce something anymore. Time for work! I have thrown away many things I didn't use the last years and selected other stuff. I organised it in a better way and created some more storage room by using boxes more effectively. And now the room is almost empty and the cupboards organised. The room has to be painted somewhere in the coming months and it needs new curtains. After that I will decorate the room a bit more. Now it isn't the most cosy room. But empty spaces works so much better! Hopefully I can keep it this way... When it is finished I will make some pictures!

And yesterday afternoon the papers of EP This and That - Graceful were calling: please, use us! So, I made this card! I've made it for my ex-collegues at the school where I had a replacement job for a couple of months. I finished this job last month. I'd like to let them know I've got a new job as teacher of English! It will start in August at the beginning of the new school year. I'm looking forward to it! The coming months are hopefully a bit relaxed and I will study and do some painting and crafting and so on.

Now diving into my kitchen to prepare something for lunch! Thank you for hopping by! 

Dance, love, sing, play

I really didn't have any inspiration for the last week. I lost it somewhere (the cards I showed you in the previous post were made before). So yesterday evening, I obliged myself to sit down in my little craft room and I just played a bit with the papers. And while playing I found the joy and inspiration a bit back. And I'm glad with the result. When I ordered the Echo Park Graceful papers, I ordered the sticker sheet and journaling cards as well. For me it is always a bit difficult how to use chipboards, journalings and stickers. But looking on other blogs will definitily help a lot! The left side was a bit empty, that's why I decided to stamp a couple of doilies.

I hope to find some more time today for paper crafting! Thanks for stopping here!

Hip hip hooray!

Again my favorite sketch for today! Love this so much :) The used paperline is Echo park's This and That - Graceful. I made the ruler-border just by cutting a strip of the ruler design paper. The flower design is so pretty, isn't it? Sentiment is by PTI.

Have a very nice weekend! 

Echo park - van harte

Just a very quick post before leaving for my lectures tonight. Have to leave at 3pm. Back at 11.30pm. That makes it a long night, but I still like my studies a lot!
I warned you for the tissue paper flowers in my previous post :)  Here is another one! For this card I used Echo Park - This and That Graceful. Some papers and the journalings. Great stuff to work with! I stamped dots with PTI Polka Dots to give a bit more to the background paper.

Thanks for coming by!