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!

Text Color Trends Challenge

This is my 2nd blog post today - and you can see I´m really hooked on challenges now!

The challenge of the Embellish Blog is:
http://embellishmagazine.com/blog/2011/05/text-color-trends-challenge/

"Got Text? We know you do! Please join us for this challenge sponsored by Hero Arts! Think of creative ways to use text in your projects and take on this fun challenge."

Now, let me share my project with you - it´s another one of my "babies" :-) ... a sticky-note-booklet!
All stamps used are from the sponsor Hero Arts ("Flower Lady", "Type") .

... the back ...

... and the inside... (unfortunately I had no grey sticky notes, so I had to use the "normal" yellow ones")

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Thanks for visiting me twice today :-)

Have a nice day everyone!

Challenge-time again!

It´s challenge-time again and I´d like to choin in the fun of 2 challenges with this card:

... this time I was a good girl and also embellished the inside!

These are the challenges:

1) there is a CASE Competition over at the Waltzingmouse Makes Blog. 

http://waltzingmouse.blogspot.com/2011/06/june-soap-day-4-rewind-to-free-spirit.html 

I "cased" this card from Tosha Leyendekker and used the"Frame It" stamp set from Waltzing Mouse Stamps... 

http://stamptalkwithtosh.blogspot.com/2011/06/waltzingmouses-june-soap-day-4.html

EDIT: I won the challenge - THANK YOU!

Claire said:

I love the way that Ulina framed her cupcake and the fun papers she used. Those pearl accents are a great touch to top off this fabulous project. 

2) Tuesday Trigger at the Moxie Fab World

http://www.moxiefabworld.com/2011/06/tuesday-trigger-cosmopolitan-neopolitan.html

Thanks for visiting me today!

Free Digital Supplies

Hi all!

for those of you, who like to use digital products in their projects - I´ve a quick tip:

when I started digital Scrapbooking 3 years ago, the first company I found was "Scrap Girls" - and I love them!
If you don´t know them by now, check them out - they´ve awesome freebies every day - and I love to read their newsletter every day!
AND - there´s a new digital kit for FREE on their site!

Here are the links:

http://store.scrapgirls.com/product/22444/1-Scrap-Girls-A-Narrative-Collection  ... free kit

http://store.scrapgirls.com/category/21/Freebies   ... freebies site

Enjoy!

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!!

Pipilonias Mai-Challenge

... ist einen Namen zu erklären und Paperpiecing... http://pipilonia.blogspot.com/2011/04/challenge-5-wort-oder-namensbedeutung.html
 
Bis jetzt war ich der Meinung, dass mein Name aus dem Russischen kommt - diese Challenge hat mich veranlasst, im Internet genauer nachzuforschen...

Ich habe sehr wenig gefunden... zwar gab es Hinweise darauf, dass es in Russland Frauen mit diesem Namen gibt, aber ich hab auch Hinweise bekommen, dass es diesen Namen im Polnischen und auch Tschechischen gibt... ich fand sogar einen Hinweis, dass es im Finnischen ein Wort ulina geben soll, das "heulen" (engl. howling) bedeutet...

Den deutlichsten Hinweis aber hab ich auf meinem Projekt verewigt: Ulina soll im Tschechischen eine Koseform von Ulrike sein und eine Bedeutungszusammensetzung von "Heimat" und "Herrscherin" sein...
Na dann!
 
Hier ist mein Projekt: ein Buch-Cover... ich möchte es mit der Bind-it-all zu einem persönlichen Notizbuch für mich binden... demnächst... wenn alle dringenden Arbeiten rund um Haus u. Garten erledigt sind... man glaubt ja nicht, was da im Frühjahr so alles an Arbeit anfällt! 

Das Paperpiecing findet ihr übrigens im Schmetterling!

Vielen Dank für euren Besuch bei mir!

EDIT: Vielen Dank für den großartigen Gewinn, Sindra!

 

... is to explain a name and to paper-piece...
 
Until now I thought, that Ulina is a Russian name - this challenge was the reason to search the Internet for more information....

I didn´t find lots of information... there were hints, that there are women with this name in Russia, but also in Poland and the Czech Republik... I even found a hint, that there is a Finnish word ulina that means "howling" (Is that true, Annemaritta?)

The best hint was from a list of names for females - and I used this one for my project: Ulina is a term of endearment for "Ulrike" and is a composition of the meanings "home country" and "ruler/regent".
Well!
 
This is my project: it´s a book cover... I´ll bind it with the Bind-it-all as soon as possible... days are very busy now for me because of all the things that have to be done around the house and in the garden!

Thanks for stopping by today! 

EDIT: Thanks for that gorgeous prize, Sindra!

1st time

It´s my 1st time being published!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


At the end of 2010 I deliberated what my artsy goals for 2011 may be... and I thought by myself that it would be REALLY nice to see one of my cards in a magazine... ok... said... done.... I started submitting and - I got an acceptance notification even in December 2010!


I couldn´t wait to see my card there and I couldn´t imagine that I would be able to wait till May  :-)

But - time flies - now we have May and I got my specimen copy last week!

I´d like to share my joy with you!

 I share page 145 with the very talented Julia Stainton:

... aaaand *drumrooooll* ... here´s my card :

Thanks for sharing my happiness with me today!

I´ll link it to these challenges:

http://thecraftypad.blogspot.com/   ...holes

http://robynsfetishchallengeblog.blogspot.com/  ... lace and ribbon

Waltzingmouse Stamps Sketch Challenge #45

Just a quick post today - I made this Sticky Note Booklet for the challenge over at:
http://waltzingmousesketchchallenge.blogspot.com/2011/04/challenge-45april-30-2011.html

Have a fabulous weekend everybody!

Black/White/Yellow

It seems, that CAS cards are my favourite cards right now... AND striking color-combinations!
I used the same design as on my last card - obviously a good recipe :-) (see last post)

 I needed a Thank-you-card for this notebook, that I created as a gift a while ago:

You can see more pictures here if you like:
http://apricotbubbles.blogspot.com/2010/10/keine-inspiration-keine-energie-no.html%20

And this is the matching card ...

I´d like to enter this card here into the Less-is-more-challenge: http://simplylessismoore.blogspot.com/2011/04/week-13-lucky-dip-thank-you-or.html

Thanks for dropping by and have a nice day/evening,