Life In Technicolor

When this post goes live, I'll be a bit more excited than the day before since it'll be only two days until our wedding! Anyway, I still had to produce a thank you card for a dear colleague of mine who'd leave us by the end of the month. On the top of that I won't be here when they give it to him... oh, well. So I wanted to create something pretty - in a masculine way. And since nowadays the RIC challenges inspire me a LOT (thanks to Jennifer), I decided to go with this weeks photo.

Well, I couldn't imagine myself wearing this dress but I admit it's a pretty one. :-) So here goes my card to it.

Just like in the inspirational photo, there's a lot of stripes going on here, eh? It almost feels like a Julie Ebersole card for me. I said almost. There's a long way to go for me till I get there. LOL

By the way, my colleague loves his black bike, so to highlight it I put shiny glossy accent on it.
I'm also entering this card into the latest Lawnscaping Challenge - Dust 'em Off as I haven't used those ties in ages!

Thanks for stopping by and please think of me on Saturday so that I won't fall over on the church steps like Jennifer Garner did at the Oscar's! :-D
Wonder where the title of this post comes from? Here you go.

Cinnamon Bag + Some Get Well Wishes For My Godfather

I got this for my bday from D. He gave a coupon to me because he couldn't decide amongst them (hehe). And then we went together to the shop. I love it so much. It's compact enough so that I won't walk like a grumpy old woman in the end of the day. If I have more stuff, I'll put them into one of my textil bags. Perrrfect.

And this one is a mini card I created for my godfather. He got into the hospital a week ago. And it seems that he and us will have to be very patient, it can take at least a month till he'll be okay from every aspects. :-/ I'm so sorry for him, I know how much he wanted to be at my wedding... and he's not even old or something, only 53 this year.

So I created  a mini card for him (with brushes since he's a painter) so that it fit on his tiny table or into one of its drawers or maybe as a bookmark. The main thing is that it's small and he can have a peek at it any time. There's also a little smile in the lower right corner of the card in pale tomato, which I forgot to take a pic of...

And since it's Anything Goes at PaperSmooches again, I'm entering it into that challenge.

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Temperly London

Is the name of the current challenge at RIC's. And I went along with this picture.

I got new markers, so I combined Copics and Promarkers with some PaperSmooches stamps here. I have to say I'm more satisfied with Promarkers currently (not only because they're somewhat cheaper).

The idea of the washi tape background for the sentiment came in in the end. I wanted it to pop out, since it'll be for some other newly weds. ;-)

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Singing Hippo

For this card I used a piece of scrap from my previous card - I love the way the green paint turned out. :-)

I used some nay HA dye ink with some water to create a background for the hippo, and then white embossed it.

As it will be a thank you card for the girl who is the leader of the church orchestre at our wedding in 2 weeks, I reached for a note chipboard, coloured it with a brand new Promaerker (Sunburnt Pink - love it!) and put the final touch with some Glossy Accent on it.

Have you noticed the background? Yes? It's the cover of a Rolling Stones live record from the 70s and belongs to my future-father-in-law who's rather a classical music person. :-)) Well, you never know!

Challenge: PaperSmooches - Anything Goes

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Experimenting

...with the help of a new challenge on the horizon, called Cure For The Monday Blues.

This was the original inspirational photo, see that green pompom thingy in the top right corner?

 I tried using Gesso and then some acrylic paint with the help of a mini spritzer and a heat gun. 

I also put some Stickles on my butterfly and made fake stitches with a gold pen around the sentiment. Oh and have I told you I'm still in love with pastels? ;-)

It surely needed a bow so I'm also entering it into this week's Simon Says Stamp Challenge - Anything Goes with Twine or String.

Right, off to a jazz gig with my fiancé with the tickets I got from him for Xmas. :-)

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Double-stenciled

Yay, I got mentioned on Paper Smooches again! :-) Besides this, I hope also my next card proves that I'm on a roll ... maybe a sign for bigger plans? Hehehe. Once we're done with this wedding thingy. ;–) Anyway, the main idea came from last week's CASE Study no. 157 card by Donna Mikasa.

But I've always been in love with pastels and looks like it's gonna be super-trendy this year again, so this might be my year of card trends. LOL Oh, and stencils! I bought a pack of basics one last summer in Maastricht as I wanted to learn this technique...and then I hardly used them. And now they are back in fashion, as well. :-) I used a striped stencil with inks and one with hearts and heat embossing here.

And I shouldn't forget about the tissue paper and thread thingy either. Perhaps I use the word 'thingy' in this post a lot, eh? But I couldn't resist using some enamel dots thingy either to balance things out in the lower right corner.

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A Gorgeous Dress

This dress is the most beautiful one I've seen in a while. It is gorgeous! I would so love to wear it (without the fur of course). So I instantly wanted to make a card based on this inspirational photo of RIC's 52 challenge. And this is what it turned out to be:

If you look closely there are smaller yellow dots in the bacground of this cool springy patterned paper (one of my favourites) but I also wanted to highlight the thing that caught my eyes for the first time I looked at this dress: the feather-like splatters. Sooo I fuzzy cut a feather from a sheet of gold paper.

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Leafy Birthday

This card was inspired by this one from Debby Hughes and this one from Aimes mainly,  but I've seen similar ones all over blogland, just check out Pinterest. :) I did change a few things and I like it a lot. Anyway, it's for the 60th of my future mother-in-law. It's an A5-sized card, I know, a huge one! The background's made from the scraps from our future wedding album.

Challenges:
Paper Smooches Sparks - Anything Goes 
Simon Says Stamp - Emboss It

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Maastricht > Köln

Elkészült a 2. nagyon egyszerű minialbumom is, a tavalyihoz hasonlóan szintén nyári élményekkel. Mivel már nagyon készülök az esküvői albumra, ezt használtam gyakorlóterepnek néhány számomra még új, izgalmasabb technikához. Bár a legelső oldal még nincs kész (hiányzik az útitársainkkal készült közös kép), néhányat megmutatok.

I've finished my 2nd very simple mini album made from our summer memories, just like the one from last year. As I'm trying to prepare for our wedding album, I've also used it as a test opportunity for more exciting techniques that I haven't tried. Although the very first page is still not finished (waiting for an additional photo with our travelling mates), I'm showing you some of the pages.

Hurray

I've just won this calendar kit from Pippi. It's full of goodies as I imagine that I will looooove. Thanks Pippi, thanks 2014! Now back to our wedding preps...

PS: I have finished our summer holiday album and will begin to prepare a full-sized wedding album that I'll do with the help of the first online scrapbooking course I've ever attented. I should also create something super-special for D's mom till February. Busy bee days!