Happy New Year, A Review and A Freebie for You

*** HAPPY NEW YEAR ***
 to all my lovely blog readers


Wishing you all a super start into the year 2010 and hope it will be full of health, success and joy for everyone!!!



Here's my personal crafty review of 2009 - A Year In Cards

credits:
Limitless - Daydreamer collab by TDC Designers
Date It Tabs by Michelle Batton
2009 In Review: Month by Month by Designs by Arisu
 
 and now onto the freebie ;-)

 

The Digi Chick 
Bring in the New Year Blog Train
finally arrived at my station  


hop over to my scrap blog to grab your freebie

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Merry Christmas

Wishing all my dear blogging friends and readers a wonderful, peaceful Christmas time.

Hope you enjoy the time with your family and/or friends

{hugs}

(photo: Copyright by Sylvia Blum - All Rights Reserved)

4x4 desktop calendar as a last minute christmas gift

I made this easy to create 4x4 desktop calendar as a last minute christmas gift for a dear friend - hope she will like it

credits:
Herbarium by ViVa Artistry
Doodled Calendar 2010 by Pamela Donnis
TKSmartyPants Font by TK Whimsy

other supplies/tools:
Bind It All (Zutter)
Cover It All (Zutter)
brown OWire (1/2'')

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The Pink Elephant #46

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The Pink Elephant have a wonderful sketch this week and so I tried to get my hands on a card following it...
The card looks so pretty IRL but I could not get a good shot of it :(


And here's a close-up to show you all the glitter the flowers are colored with


BTW I made another card using the gorgeous papers from the 'Blakely' kit!
You can find it HERE



stamps:
day-dreams by Penny Black

credits:
Blakely by Karla Dudley

other supplies:
dark grey cardstock (Dani Peuss)
scalloped border punch (Fiskars)
paper flowers (Prima Marketing)
ribbon (Rico Design)
crystal gemstones (Mark Richards)
clear glitter gel pen (Sakura)
white gel pen (Inkssentials by Ranger)
paper piecing tool

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I totally forgot...

.... to show you some things I created recently *oops*

First of all here's a non-christmas card using not only a stamp but also a digital kit 'Handle with Care' designed by Roben-Marie Smith
I also created this little scrap card for a card template challenge over at ScrapMatters
It's almost anything from the digi kit 'Season of Giving' by Sahlin Studio, but I did a lot of inking and also some faux stitching (did you know I love this technique? *giggle*)
And last but not least here's a tag I made using a beautiful collab 'Snow Peeps' by Amanda Heimann and SuzyQ Scraps (I've shown this on my scrap blog already)

and here are some additional close-ups (it was lots of cutting work .. maybe you can see it here?! *lol*)

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'Friends' card
stamp:
Vision by Paperbag Studios

credits:
Handle with Care by Roben-Marie Designs

other supplies:
cardstock (Dani Peuss)
paper flowers (Prima Marketing)
spacer and mini brad (Poppicrafts)


'Merry Christmas' scrap card
credits:
Season of Giving by Sahlin Studio

other supplies:
cardstock (from stash)
paper piecing tool (from stash)
white gel pen (Inkssentials by Ranger)
clear selfadhesive gemstones (HeroArts)
Distress inks in Vintage Photo (Ranger)


'Frosty Snowmen' tag
credits:
Snow Peeps by Amanda Heimann and SuzyQ Scraps

other supplies:
white, blue, turquois cardstock
swiss dots embossing folder (cuttlebug)
nestabilities label 8 (spellbinders)
platinum glitter glue (stickles by ranger)
snowflake punch (martha stewart and unknown)
silver fibre
broken china distress inks (ranger)
blue satin ribbon (poppicrafts)
pop dots


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Holiday Treat Bag - The Hybridchick + Crazy4Challenges

Hey y'all! Hope you are having a peaceful 4th Advent! Over here the snow is falling, everything is so calm and quite.. it begins a lot to look like Christmas is soon here :) I have a 'last minute' holiday gift - a super cute and easy to make treat bag! It's also my very first posting over at The Hybridchick (even though I'm a Hybrid Chickie for some months now *lol*) .. but now I was brave enough to write my first post ;) It would be great if you will hop on over and take a look (and maybe leave a comment ;) )

And last but not least 'Crazy4Challenges' are also looking for treat packages - so here you go *g*

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stamps:
holiday clear stamp set (Inkadinkado)

credits:
Treat Bag: Scalloped (template) by Kelleigh Ratzlaff Designs
Snow Much Fun (kit) by Mari Koegelenberg Creation

other supplies/tools:
neutral cardstock
paper piecing tool
Distress inks ‘Broken China’ (Ranger)
white gel pen (’Inkssentials’ by Ranger)
ornament stamp (Inkadinkado)
Nestabilities die cut ‘classic circles large’ (Spellbinders)
Paper Flowers
Mini Brads
Spacers
Metal charm ‘Snowflake’
Red satin ribbon
Glitter glue (Stickles ‘Platinum’ by Ranger)
pop dots

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CPS and Quixotic Challenges

I followed this weeks sketch #146 over at CPS to create this card and I also put some lace on the card to fit the challenge over at Quixotic Challenges this week :)
credits:
Vintage Christmas by WM[squared]
font is JH Josh by Jeni Hopewell

other supplies/tools:
grey cardstock (Dani Peuss)
paper piecing tool
white gel pen (Inkssentials by Ranger)
lace (from stash)
crystal gemstones (Hero Arts)
platinum glitter glue (Stickles by Ranger)


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some more last minute christmas cards

I just finished some more christmas goodies *phew*

This is a card in a stocking shape :) I followed Kristina Werners 'Finally Friday Video' over at Two Peas to create this (but instead doing a tag, like she did, I made a card):

This is a 5x5'' card, I made using the beautiful new kit by Roben-Marie - Seasons of Magic.
I also added some real stuff and looooooots of glitter to it :)
I used the same digi kit to create this cute little gift - an altered matchbox:


and last but not least I was 'brave' enough to get my hands on my very first easel card *lol*
I used the wonderful new digital kit 'Snow Much Fun' by Mari Koegelenberg Creations to create this




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Another Card for Christmas

I'm a huge fan of Roben-Maries digital designs (and rubber stamps)! I adore her vintage, slightly shabby and artsy looking goodies so much! So I used her brand new 'Winterfresh' kit to create this christmas card. I also added lots and lots of gold glitter - thought it just matches the 'vintage' style very good in this case... so this is also an entry for this weeks 'STAMP SOMETHING' challenge :)

(I also did a LO using the 'Winterfresh' kit - you can see it on my scrap blog >>here<< )

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stamps:
Inkadinkado

design papers:
'Winterfesh' by Roben-Marie Designs

other supplies/tools:
Nestabilities Label8 (Spellbinders)
paper distressing tool (Ranger)
gold stickles (Ranger)
brown cardstock (Dani Peuss)
dark brown ink (Adirondack by Ranger)

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Gift Card Purse

I'm always in love with the gorgeous, soft and subtle patterned and colored papers, Mari comes up with. And now she did it again :) Here's a brand new, wonderful paper pack, called 'All Spice - A Paper Pack'. I create this gift card purse using her papers and some other stuff like flowers, brads, glitter etc

And this is what it looks when you open it up (inside of the purse):

stamps:
flowers (QuicKutz )

design papers:
'All Spice - A Paper Pack' by MKC

other supplies/tools:
Nestabilities Label 8 (Spellbinders)
platinum glitter glue (Stickles by Ranger)
ribbon (Poppicrafts)
paper flowers (Prima Marketing)
pear brad (Dovecraft)

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