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 CAS-ual Fridays: Create a project inspired by your blog header

What a nice idea!

So, here it is:

 

Just Black and White

Heute möchte ich gerne bei einer österreichischen Challenge mitmachen: Schwarz/Weiß bei Vienna Impressions.
Zuerst dachte ich "Das wird fad, so ganz ohne Farbe", aber nun bin ich mit meinem Ergebnis recht zufrieden - natürlich konnte ich nicht umhin, die Karte ordentlich mit Strass aufzupeppen! :-)
Da Cath von The Moxie Fab World die Einreichfrist für die Postage Challenge verlängert hat, möchte ich mit dieser Karte gern auch dort mitmachen.

Today I´d like to participate in an Austrian challenge: Black&White at Vienna Impressions.
My first thought was, that this might become a boring card - without any colour, but now I´m quite satisfied how it turned out - of course I jazzed it up with lots of bling! :-)
Since Cath from the Moxie Fab World extended the deadline for her Postage Challenge, I´d like to join there. too.

Bei der Arbeit daran ist mir ein ärgerlicher Fehler passiert: ich hab die Karte irrtümlich auf ein offenes Stempelkissen gelegt - so ein Mist! - da es aber die Rückseite war, dachte ich, ich mach einfach eine Signatur daraus...

When working on this card, I made an annoying mistake: I laid the card onto an open ink pad -  what a bummer! - but since it was only the back of the card, I decided to turn it into a signature...

Allen ein schönes Wochenende und vielen Dank für´s Vorbeischauen!

Have a nice weekend everyone and thanks for stopping by today!

Just a quick post to be in time for the Papertrey Ink Challenge Day 9:


BEAUTIFUL BUTTERFLIES AND LOVELY LEAVES

(Sentiment =PTI)

This card reminded me a little bit of our favourite café located in the ancient inner city of Zadar in Croatia: hubby and I love to sit outside in the sun and read an exciting book or a magazine … it´s very pretty inside, too (LOVE the red chandelier!), but the icing on the cake is the very old inner part of the house…

Thanks for visiting – have a nice day!

Playing with cutting dies

Did you know, that a cutting die isn´t just a cutting die - but can also be an embossing tool?!

Though I knew it, I never tried it myself - until now....

1) For today´s project I cut red cirlce-strips with a border die and adhered it to my card. 

2) Then I put my silicone shim UNDER my card so that the die would not cut through the card but only leave an impression... you have to play a little with the correct thickness of your stack of plates and shims depending on what embossing machine you have.

And this is my result:

An aunt of mine will need a surgery in about 2 weeks and I need a card to ensure her, that we think of her and care about her....

She was the one who taught me to sew, when I was a child - so every time I think of her, I have a sewing or seamstress theme in mind...

This is what I came up with:

I´d like to participate in these challenges with my card:

Moxie Fab Word Die Cutting Challenge

Papertrey Ink´s Make it Monday Challenge (using border dies for creating a background)

Thanks for visiting me today!

PTI challenges and The I'm Sew Excited! Challenge

....again a combination of 3 challenges...

This time it´s the Make it Monday #18-challenge at http://nicholeheady.typepad.com/capture_the_moment/2011/06/make-it-monday-18-adding-texture-with-tissue-paper.html , where we´re challenged to use tissue paper, wich I used on the left side of my card as a distressed and vintage-looking background.

The 2nd challenge is from the ladies at A Passion for Papertrey http://apassionforpapertrey.blogspot.com/2011/05/challenge-recipe-for-fun.html .

• A dollop of colour (3 colours - plus neutrals if required, e.g black/white)
• A sprinkling of buttons (2 buttons)
• A pinch of ribbon (1 Ribbon)

The 3rd challenge is The I'm Sew Excited! Challenge of th Moxie Fab World
http://www.moxiefabworld.com/2011/06/im-sew-excited-challenge.html

So, here´s my take on these challenges:

Thanks for stopping by today - have a great week everybody!

Two in One

2 in 1:

 

"A Passion for Papertrey"  http://apassionforpapertrey.blogspot.com/2011/05/challenge-inspired-by-song.html wants us to be inspired by a song... I thought of Dionne Warwick´s "That's What Friends are For" ... and Cath wants to see moxie fab cards with the Chevron pattern... http://www.moxiefabworld.com/2011/05/chevron-chic-challenge.html so I combined these 2 in this 1 card!

I had not enough daylight inside of the house, so I decided to take my picture out in the garden ...

Thanks for stopping by today!

EDIT: A Passion for Papertrey liked my card - I´m a TOP 3 Passionista again! Thanks! 

They said:

Ulina chose the song 'That's what Friends are for' for her fabulous friend-themed CAS card. So on trend with those chevrons right now!

Papertrey May Blog Hop Challenge

Just a quick card for today´s blog hop!
http://nicholeheady.typepad.com/capture_the_moment/2011/05/may-2011-blog-hop.html

Thanks for your visit!!