Das doppelte Lottchen #164

It's sunday, that means it's Lottie and Lisa time! 

Lottie and Lisa means Anni and I usually pick a stamp or stamp set or die that we both have (we nearly have the same taste!) and create a card with this product and another task.

Today Anni made a wish, and it is:

My favorite Things - Cool Day

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Gold

We've had a mostly cold and grey week over here inGermany and I am totally not in the mood for Christmas cards, so I struggeled with Anni's wich. And gold will never ever (in no way) be my fav. color. 

I thought I'd make a cool background with just a bit of gold embossed details, spend some time coloring and really liked how this turned out. Then I colored and fuzzy cut the bear  and realized that the background and the bear would be competing on one card, so I decided to make one card for each, but both only turned out "okay" for my taste.

 I would also like to share some more cards. I got a huge bunch of new dies yesterday and had to try some of them out. I also used watercolor on all of them :)

 Here are the results:

Inkspirational - Photo Inspiration

Allsorts - In the pink
Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes
Just Add Ink - "b" (Birds)

Cards und more - Use lots of color

Paper Players - Tic Tac Toe (Twine, Die cut, Girly)

Now hop over to Anni's blog to find her creation :) She'll knock your socks off ;)

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Watercoloring a large image

Hello everyone :)

Today I'd like to share this card using a HUGE image:

I'm happy to share this card as a

When I picked this stamp (Penny Black 40-429 Fab Friend) I knew it was totally different from the style that I usually tend to use but I think leaving your comfort zones in the best way to learn, grown and stretch your creativity. So I picked this super large image with two precious ladies :)

I thought it would be perfect for watercoloring, SO I pulled out my Schmincke watercolors (I really need practice!) and took my time to color. It was like meditation and I enjoyed it a lot!

I didn't wat to add a stamped sentiment that would interfere with the image, so I pulled out my hello die (Penny Black 51-104 Hello), cut it from the colored panel and carefull adhered it with some foam tape, to make it show up.

Everything else is pretty obvious :)

The card felt kind of unbalanced at first. I was colored nicely, has some sequins, an interesting layout, but it just felt incomplete. I then adhered that small panner from some patterned paper in a matching color and this little pice of paper really had a big impact. It pulled everything together and balanced the card. Sometimes it's worth to just add a super small element!

Hope you like the card - I think it turned out pretty cool, even if this is not my go-to-style :)

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Das doppelte Lottchen #163 (three of them)

It's sunday, that means it's Lottie and Lisa time! 

Lottie and Lisa means Anni and I usually pick a stamp or stamp set or die that we both have (we nearly have the same taste!) and create a card with this product and another task.

Today I made a wish, and it is:

Memory Box Large Circle Burst Die

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minimal coloring

Okay, I admit, I don't knoe what I was thinking when I came up with this challenge. I clearly had something in mind, but I just couldn't remember. So today I have three cards for you - from a very mininmal layout to a busy one, but all of them only have a little bit of coloring on them :)

 The first card is the most minimal one. I used the die to create a stencil and inked some white pigment ink onto my kraft cardstock. The fox got a tiny bit of Polychromos coloriing.

Not coloring as much as I normally would  - so not coloring the best I could - freaked me out and I wasn't too pleased with the result, so I decided to make another one:

The second card got a more interesting Layout, is still pretty CAS and only has a bit of coloring because these images only need very little color. I liked how this turned out but thought I might try again...

The third card is super busy with lot of diecutting and stamping Action. Is has lots of dimension, different Textures and still not too much coloring:

Hoewever, I feel like I colored to much oneach of the cards, so I think I cheated on my own challenge - so sorry! Hope you liked the cards anyway!

Now hop over to Anni's blog to find her creation :) She'll knock your socks off ;)

Thanks for viisting!

Das doppelte Lottchen #159

It's sunday, that means it's Lottie and Lisa time! 

Lottie and Lisa means Anni and I usually pick a stamp or stamp set or die that we both have (we nearly have the same taste!) and create a card with this product and another task.

Today Anni made a wish, and it is:

Stampotique - Grumpy Koala

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be inspired by the other one's card that's older that 3 years

Anni has always been my muse, so being inspired by her cards is just easy peasy. I picked this card, that has so many fun details - the paper piecing, the parchment paper, Staples, the sketch - so much to love!

I didn't mean to case this card, but I ended up creating a card that is super close to the original. I didn't have parchment paper, so I used some tissues :)

The sentiment says "Against it!" - if you wonder what occasoins would ask for a card like this - I am thinking of leaving team-members and such ;)

Addicted to Stamps and more - anything goes

I would also like to share a second card with you- If you're interested in how this background was created - I shared a short video on the Create A Smile instagram account (@creasteasmilestamps) which just hit 10.000 followers last night - woot woot!

After taking the photos I realized that I had totally forgotten about a sentiment, but decided to keep it this way - It's a multi-occasion card now :)

My time to craft - girlie

Now hop over to Anni's blog to find her creation :) She'll knock your socks off ;)

Thanks for viisting!

Das doppelte Lottchen #158

It's sunday, that means it's Lottie and Lisa time! 

Lottie and Lisa means Anni and I usually pick a stamp or stamp set or die that we both have (we nearly have the same taste!) and create a card with this product and another task.

Today Anni made a wish, and it is:

Rayer Die "Baby Elefant"

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Wood Veneer

I had a word cut out from real wood in mind but when I put my first card together there was not enough space for it to be placed on the card. So I only cut a little "Hurra" (Means Hooray) from Balsa wood and made a second card for my prepared word. This way you get to see two completely different cards today:

1) The card on which I changed my mind:

Just add Ink - "E" (Elephant)

2) The second card with the stacked diecut piece ;)

CAS on sunday - Stencil it

Daring Cardmakers - Hand - Krafted Creations

I like both cards and I think they're fun for different occasions and recipients :)

Now hop over to Anni's blog to find her creation :) She'll knock your socks off ;)

Thanks for viisting!

Penny Black and the Coffee Lovers Blog Hop

Hello everyone, happy wednesday!

I have a new card for you - yay!

I'm back with a new post as a proud

I guess you all know about the Coffee Lovers Blog Hop (by the way - Create A Smile is sponsoring a 20€ gift card.... ;) ) - wehre it's all about coffee AND about spring!

I just got a new coffee themed die set by Penny Black - so I knew I wanted to use it. And I also had those new flowers which are perfect to make it a really spring-y project :)

• Diecut the mug from different colors of cardstock and assemble
• Die Cut the Flowers from the same yellow cardstock as the heart and color them with Copics, leaving some party yellow (having the exact same color pulls it all together.)
• Cut a Clouds panel, adhere you flowers to the back of it and use dimensional adhesive to add your floery panel to your white cardbase.
• Use dimensionals to also adhere your mug to that panel.
• yellow/orange emboss your sentiment onto some vellum, fold a baner shape and adhere it over your mug.
• To finish off the card add some grey sprinkles to the background, repeating the color of the mug's cap.

• Sometimes a card just won't look finished. Some ink sprinkles can make a HUGE difference!
• repeating colors pulls your project together. and the 3:2:3-"rule" for colors (3 parts of your main color, 2 parts of your second color and only a little hint of your third color) can help to balance out your card

Stamps:

Dies: Penny Black Flower Bunch,  Penny Black Love Cup

Stamps: Penny Black Special Thoughts

Cardstock: Color Copy, Faltkarten (Hellgrau, Altgold, Vellum)

Ink: Versamark, Distress Ink (Hickory Smoke)

Embossingpowder: Zing! (Apricot)

stickers: Kaiser Kraft Tiny Alpha Stickers

Addicted To CAS - Delicate

Thanks for stoppin' by - hope this was somehow inspirational :)