Altenew Colorpalooza 2024 (post 2)

And this is my daughter's second entry for the kid's coloring contes at the Altenew blog.

Have a wonderful day!

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Altenew Colorpalooza 2024

Hello there! I can't believe it's been over a year since my last post. It's not because I wouldn't be crafting (though I will admit that because of work I spend muuuuch less time crafting nowadays than I used too), but I just don't take time to take photos (because I usually do everything at the very last possible second) and/or if I do I don't take time to post them online. Even today I'm not here to share my work, but my daughter's. She really wanted to participate at the Altenew's kids coloring contest (Colorpalooza), so I printed out the images for her to colour. And ever since she's done it (mind you, it's been about a week) she's been nagging me about posting them online and enter her in the competition. So, here's her first entry ...

I am not sure why the photo looks a bit blurry, because it looks normal when I open it outside the blog. Hopefully it's still ok. But if any of you have any ideas on why this is happening, please let me know.

Wishing you all a wonderful day! xx

I'd like to enter these colouring pages to the following challenge:

Altenew's Colorpalooza 2024: Kids' coloring contest

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Beaded phone charm

Hello again! :)

Not too long ago my lil one received a set to create a beaded phone charm and this is what she made ...

I made the knot, but everything else is her work. I really like how colourful this is. Hope you like it too.

I'd like to enter this to:

Simon says: Kid's summer vacation challenge

Crafting with the lil one

Hello! It's been a while since I posted something here, but this doesn't mean I haven't been crafting. I have been, but I won't share any of my creations today. Today I want to share with you a card my lil one made for one of our family friends. 

Do you ever craft with your lil one(s)?

Have a beautiful day! xx

I'd like to enter this card to:

Simon says: Kid's summer vacation challenge

Eggstra special

Howdy! How's it going? Hope you are enjoying the warm sunny weather outside. :)

The other day I went through my folders on the computer and I realized that there are still plenty of cards that I never posted online, including the one I am about to show you. I don't make a whole lot of Easter cards, but every now and then I make one or two. And when I do, I usually go and ink up the super cute stamps from The greeting farm. Which is exactly what I did here.

After all of the images were stamped and coloured I cut them out using the matching dies. Then I used the images along with some die cuts to create a scene. I did the colouring with polychromos and the lovely papers used on this card are from My mind's eye. The only embellishment I used on this card are the two yellow enamel dots.

I used foam pads on parts of the card for some extra dimension.

Have a wonderful summer! xx

I'd like to enter my card to the following challenges:

Creative crafting uncles: Spring and/or Easter

Stamping sensations: Anything stamped with option wings and tails

We love stamping: Anything stamped opion spring is in the air

Park hopping, my happy place: Anything goes inspired by a theme park (inspired by the Easter Egg Hunt In Europa Park (Germany))

Papercraft challenges: Easter

Allsorts: Anything goes with option perfect pastels

Fa la la la la

Hey hey! I'm back with another card. :) This one was made for my guest designer position at the Caffeinated Christmas card challenge where the theme this month is "green". 

And the sponsor of this challenge is The Cat's Pajama's, which kindly donated a $25 gift code to the lucky winner.

I have to admit that green isn't really the colour I would often use on my cards, so it was quite a challenge for me to create a green card, but I jumped in with both feet and here is the result ...

It doesn't get much greener than this, does it? ;) It's no secret I loooove adding layers on top of layers on top of more layers :P on my cards, so I had lots of fun making this one. And when I was going through my stamp collection, looking for one that I could use on my card, I found Let is snow stamp set from The greeting farm and I knew immediately I wanted to use this adorable polar bear from the set on my card. I coloured the image with polychromos, fussy cut it and glued it on my card. The sentiment is from an old stamp set from Hobby Lobby. I embossed the sentiment with the gold embossing powder and I glued some die cuts around it to make the whole card more festive. At the end I just added some red crystals. Other embellishments that I used are a doily and a piece of pompom ribbon.

Here you can see the dimension and the lovely foiled paper I used on the card better ...

This is all from me for today. Have a beautiful day! xx

I'd like to enter my card to the following challenges:

A blog named Hero: Animal crackers

ABC Christmas challenge: D is for die cuts

Crafty animals: Anything goes (with an animal)

Critter crazy: Anything goes (with an animal)

Cute CAS card

Hello everybody! How's it going? I've been pretty busy lately, but I still managed to squeeze in some time to craft. 

I'm a guest designer at the Cut it out challenge blog and this time our challenge is CAS. 

As you know I've been really digging the CAS look lately, so I've really enjoyed making this card.

To create this card I started stenciling a pattern on a white card base. Then I went throguh my huge pile of scraps and chose a piece of patterned paper which I thought would look good on my card and create a pretty border using a border die cut. Then I chose a stamp; I decided to play with this super cute snowman from Stamping Bella. I coloured the image with polychromos, cut it out and glued it on my card with foam pads. I added the sentiment and then I die cut some snowflakes and put them randomly on a card. At the end I embellished the card with some gems and pearls.

So, that's all from me today. Have a beautiful day! :)

I'd like to enter my card to the following challenges:

NBUS: Challenge 47 (I've never used this stencil before)

Classic design challenge: Anything goes

Word art Wednesday: Anything goes

ABC Christmas challenge: D is for die cuts

Simon says stamp (Wednesday challenge): Anything goes

As you like it: Favourite stencil or freestyle background (I recently bought some new stencils and I really enjoy playing with them; the one I used on this card is one of my favourites, because I really like the pattern)