Random Stitching Projects

Hello everyone,

I am well aware that my last post was quite some time ago. However, I am ready to share some of my crafting projects again. 

Lately I have not done much paper crafting but I have been getting into stitching a couple of years ago. 

In this post I want to share a couple of random stitching projects with you. 

Random Objects
Some random objects to practise my stitching
Fox
I tried to make a fox…
Halloween Bat
Halloween Bat

I like both freehand stitching and cross stitching. Each holds its own merits. When I want to be more creative I choose freehand stitching and if I just want to recreate something I go with cross stitching. One is like painting with thread and the other is like colour by numbers. 

Cross Stitch Flower Border
I found a nice Flower Border online

Do you do needle work? If so what do you prefer? Freehand or cross stitching?

Cross Stitch Flower Border 2
this was my first try doing cross stitch
Cross Stitch Flower Border 1
Cross Stitch Flower Border

Next time I’ll share some projects from very cool cross stitch designers. 

Happy crafting!

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Happy Easter 2020!

Yes, it has been quite a while since my last post. However, due to having to stay home for so long, I decided it was about time!

So, today I want to share two very cute Easter cards with you.

One is with a cute chickie, the other one features an adorable little bunny.

Happy Easter 2020
Happy Easter 2020
Easter Chickie
Easter Chickie
Chickie
Chickie
Easter Bunny
Easter Bunny
Bunny
Bunny

Happy Easter & stay healthy!

See more Easter cards.

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Christmas Cards 2018

Hey Everyone!

it has been a very long time since my last post. I recently moved to a new apartment and as you might know, that is a lot of work and takes a long time. I am just now in the process of finishing to arrange and organize all my craft supplies. And I have to say that I am quite surprised about the amount I have accumulated over the years. You only see the amount when you have to pack it all away and then find a new arrangement for them in a new place. However, I am glad because this is also a good opportunity to find a better way to organize all my things. I have already found a few ways to store my stuff in a more efficient way.

But enough about that, I am writing this post to share with you all the Christmas & winter cards I made last year. I know I am very late but I hope you will enjoy them nonetheless. So here they are!

Winter Wonder Land
Winter Wonder Land
Snowflakes purple
Snowflakes purple
Christmas Pug blonde
Christmas Pug blonde
embossing
embossing
Penguin
Golden Retriever pink
Snowflakes green
Snowflakes green
Christmas Pug brown
Christmas Pug brown
Bunny
Bunny
Golden Retriever red
Golden Retriever red
Fox
Fox
Snowflakes blue
Snowflakes blue

This is the 2018 card I made for my work. My boss ordered 200 cards!

Clip Bear
Clip Bear

See also the Christmas cards from 2017!

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Autumn Leaves Cards

When the temperatures finally start to drop and it becomes easier to sleep at night it is time to make the first autumn cards!

Don’t get me wrong, I love summer but August has been crazy hot this year in Austria. It is quite a relief that the temperatures start dropping a little during the night. It makes sleeping a lot easier. And more sleep equals more creative energy that I can put into making cards.

Today I want to share 3 cards with you that feature autumn leaves.

The first two cards I made using masks, stenciling and ink blending. The masks I used are from a Stampedous stamp set with big autumn leaves. For the cards I only used the masks however, not the stamps. After I put down some ink blended background I took the masks and l laid a stencil over it to create the pattern. Then I reinforced the blending inside the masks to accentuate the leaf shapes.

Masking

Autum Leaf

Autum Leaf

Autumn Card

Autumn Card

The third card also features autumn leaves. Here I used two Memory Box dies and colored the leaves with ink blending. The card should portray a tree trunk with a hole inhabited by a cute owl. The owl stamp is from Lawn Fawn.

Autumn Leaves

Autumn Leaves

Cute Owl

Cute Owl

I wish you all a great start into Autumn!

If you still don’t want to let go of summer I have the perfect summer-post for you!

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Cute Elephant Card

A while back Simon Says Stamp came out with an adorable stamp set with an elephant, giraffe, lion and penguin. The set is called “Wild Cuddly Critters”.

So far, I used the set for two cards which I want to share with you today.

The first card is a baby card where the giraffe and the elephant hare holding a banner.

Elephant & Giraffe Baby Card

Elephant & Giraffe Baby Card

The second one is a birthday card I made for someone who loves elephants. I kept the design fairly simple but decided to make the elephant blue.

Blue Elephant

Blue Elephant

I mounted the panel on a colorful background patterned paper for some pop and called it done.

Blue Elephant Card

Blue Elephant Card

Elephants are just adorable, don’t you think!

 

Want to see more Adorable Critters? Read the post.

 

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Woodland creatures from my sketchbook

Hi everyone!

Today I want to share something a little different from the usual cards. Recently I got back into drawing – I was never any good but I really enjoy it. I have a tiny sketchbook that I started a couple of years ago but didn’t get very far with it.

Somewhere along the road I got really intimidated and had this crazy notion that everything I drew must be perfect. Which is really stupid – for so many reasons. One being that I never learned the basics. Also, what’s perfect anyways?

However, one of my new year’s resolutions was to draw more. And I am not talking about great pieces of art but I needed to start somewhere. So, in February this year I decided to get on with it and do a 30-day drawing/doodling challenge.

When I finished the challenge, I felt a lot better about my drawing skills – not that they have improved a lot, but I felt comfortable to just put pen to paper and just create.

I even feel comfortable enough to share some of my drawings with you! So, here is a series of cute woodland creatures….

I started sketching out an idea I had with a cute fox on printer paper and really liked it. So, I used my light box and transferred it to better quality paper with my Staedtler pigment liners. Then I used some watercolor and watercolor pencils to color the image in.

Fox

Fox

I was so happy with the result that I created 4 more similar drawings featuring adorable woodland creatures. Some of them are nestled into half-wreathes and some feature cute mushrooms.

Here are the sketches of the Woodland creatures-series.

Sketches

Sketches

Beside the fox I also drew a rabbit, an owl, a fawn and a squirrel.

Rabbit

Rabbit

Owl

Owl

Fawn

Fawn

Squirrel

Squirrel

I hope to keep it up and draw more in the future.

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World Bee Day

Hi everyone,

Did you know, today is the first World Bee Day? According to the official website  “Slovenia proposed that the United Nations (UN) proclaim 20 May as World Bee Day. On 20 December 2017, following three years of efforts at the international level, the UN Member States unanimously approved Slovenia’s proposal, thus proclaiming 20 May as World Bee Day” (www.worldbeeday.org/en/about/the-project).

Coincidentally I started reading a book about Bees just two days ago, “The History of Bees” by Maja Lunde. So, when I learned about World Bee Day, it just felt right to create something around this topic and honor those incredible animals with a card.

I have this cute Bee stamp that I used as a starting point. Everything else came together after that.

card preperation

card preperation

For the background I decided to go with a green leaves-pattern which I created with my Misti.

greenery background

greenery background

gold embossed bee

gold embossed bee

finished card

finished card

inspiration

inspiration

Happy World Bee Day!

Want to see more Adorable Critters?

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Watercolor Lavender for Mother’s Day

Hi lovely people!

Since tomorrow is Mother’s Day I want to share with you the card for the Woman who lovingly is filling it for the job.

Every year her children and me gift her something for her garden. This year I’ll give her some beautiful bell flowers and lavender. And with the flowers she will receive a matching card – of course.

This card is however a little different than my other cards: I drew the flowers myself. Now, I am not that good at drawing but I thought I’ll give it a shot.

 

Watercolor Lavender

I opted for a very loose style of lavender stalks that were easy enough to pull off. I started with the stems and then started to paint the flower petals with watercolor.

Watercolor Lavender

Watercolor Lavender

Lavender

Lavender

When the watercolor was dry I went over the image with a black fine liner. Then I stamped my greeting and drew a black line around the card to tie everything together. Lastly, I mounted the panel on a violet card base and voilà.

finished card

finished card

Watercolor Lavender

Watercolor Lavender

I sure hope she’ll like it!

Bell flowers & Lavender

Bell Flowers & Lavender

Happy Mother’s Day to all of you!

For more Flower – inspiration check out my post “Ready for Florals?” 

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Floral Bliss

Hi everyone,

Now that we are a bit closer to spring I want to share some Floral Bliss with you. In the July 2017 Simon Says Stamp Card Kit was a cute stamp set called Floral Bliss which I used to make two cards. For both cards I used the main image – the flower bouquet and stamped it in a light color. One I colored with copics, the other one with colored pencils.

I used the same colors for both images, so pink and yellow flowers. But with the copics I was able to get a vibrant effect and the colored pencils made the image really soft.

I personally like both variations though I feel more confident with the copics. I am not very practiced in blending colored pencils.

Floral Bliss Colored Pencil

Floral Bliss Colored Pencil

Floral Bliss Copics

Floral Bliss Copics

Which one do you prefer?

Want to see more floral cards? Check out my blog post Springtime Florals from a couple of years ago!

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The Easter bunny was here

Hi everyone!

I hope you all had a very nice holiday and a visit from a hard-working Easter bunny!

Easter Sunday was a bit windy and cold in Austria, nonetheless the Easter bunny hid all the sweets & eggs in the garden for the children.

Anyways, today I want to share this year’s Easter cards with you. I used the Simon Says Stamp Card Kit “Choose Joy” for the cards. The stamp images are just so cute: the adorable Easter bunny and the planted rain boots were my favorites from the beginning.

And so I stamped away. I made two cards with kraft card stock and colored pencils; I adore the effect you can achieve with that technique.

white Easter bunny in progress

white bunny in progress

white Easter bunny

white Easter bunny

Don’t you think that the white dots on the boots make the image pop?

in progress

in progress

Easter bunny & boots

Easter bunny & boots

After that I also made some cards on white paper. I really wanted to color the cute images with copics.

stamping

stamping

chicks

chicks

I made two cards with the adorable chick image and another one with the rain boots that are planted with spring flowers.

chicks cards

chicks cards

planted boot

planted boot

I hope you have a great start into spring!

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