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Christmas in March – CPS 157


I have come across a website where I can see what other crazies like me do when it’s not exactly Christmas time – they make Christmas cards! This must be heaven 🙂 … and such a relief that others share my addiction… Anyway, it’s Christmas Cards All Year Round. How will I survive may almost one-month vacation starting March 27, traveling and not being able to make cards?! I guess I just have to be strong 😉 The March challenge on Christmas Cards All Year Round is to create five Christmas cards in mainly green that feature a snowman. The first one I made for that also fits the CPS sketch #157 – only that it’s not square. But I will pass on making square cards for the time being just because the postage for them is so incredibly expensive in Germany. Here’s the result:

Supplies:
Cardstock: Artoz
Papers: unknown origin
3D images: Kars
Glitter: Stickles Glitter Glue

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Get well soon – CPS 156

I have to say I was downright exhausted after two intense weeks of being a couch potato watching whatever Olympic competition would only remotely fit my 40-hour work week. Coming down from that adrenaline high of the hockey final probably did its part in doing me in. So at the beginning of the week I didn’t think I’d be participating in any challenge. And now there’s two! Well, there’s this week’s CPS sketch (to the left) and then there’s Delia. Delia is not a challenge – that is: I doubt it or at least I can’t decide on that as I’ve never met her 😉 – but she’s a girl who fell sick with Acute Myeloid Leukemia and has a friend who wanted her to be inundated with get well wishes from all over the place: Dustin Pike. I realize I’m awfully late with this as it was started about a month ago but decided „So what!“… Cards are always welcome. And I just loved the owls he created for this particular purpose as Delia loves owls! If there’s anybody out there who hasn’t found them by now, you can download them here. But now here’s the card:

Supplies:
Cardstock: Paper Source
Patterned papers: BasicGrey lemonade paper pad
Digi stamp: Dustin Pike
Coloring: Copic markers
all else: of unknown origin

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Get well soon bunny – CPS 155, part 2

While the ladies‘ cross country relay competition is going on, let me quickly post a second entry into this week’s CPS competetion. Then I have to return to keeping my fingers crossed for the German team 🙂

I just have to find a better place where to take pictures of my cards…

Supplies:
Cardstock: Paper Source
Other papers: of unkown origin
3D image: from „Kreativ mit Karten“ magazine
Brads: no-name product
Stamp: is not a stamp but a simple print-out

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Spring bunny – CPS 155

I thought this was going to be soooo easy! I loved the sketch when I first saw it and had a zillion ideas what to do with it… and then nothing worked out the way I’d imagined it. This sketch has been driving me crazy this week! I can’t say it kept me up all night because that part was aready achieved by the Olympics (still recovering from the Swedish hockey team losing against Slovakia…). Anyway. I ended up producing a handful of different cards, the bunny being the preferred motif in all of of them. So here’s my first entry into this week’s competition:

Supplies:
Cardstock: Paper Source
Other papers: unknown origin
3D-image: from „Kreativ mit Karten“ magazine
Flower: no-name product

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Green Wedding – CPS 154

Here’s this week’s challenge! And as the readers of my blog are just as new to this challenge as I am I’ve included the sketch. And this is how it works: the sketch is posted and gives you a basic idea of what your card should look like – which elements it should include. I’ve found this to be a rather complicated one as there are so many overlapping layers and again I think I stuck too close to the sketch but anyway.
I had a friend over for a weekend of watching the Olympics at night (due to the different time zone we get to see it all in prime time :-)) and as we were out taking a walk in the snow during the day we got into talking about how hard it is to find nice wedding cards in stores. I guess it’s a matter of taste but still: we agreed that most are just too kitschy and way overpriced. That stuck with me somehow so I decided to make a wedding card! The hearts need no explanation but there’s a lot of green… that’s because an actual wedding is called a green wedding here – don’t ask me why, I guess it’s got something to do with green being fresh and also the color of hope (for a good life together?). Here’s the result:

Supplies
Cardstock: Clairefontaine Pollen
Papers: all kinds of leftovers of unknown origin
Hearts: cut out of wrapping paper of unknown origin
Brad and greeting: no-name products

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Mummy – CPS 153

Okay, now it’s official: I got hooked… There are tons of firsts that went into this week’s card creation: first square card I ever made, first „baby card“, first-time use of brads… getting there. It made for a relaxing Sunday afternoon!

Supplies
Card: Max Bringmann KG
Paper: BasicGrey lemonade paper pad (green), no-name (pink)
3D image: courtesy of „Kreativ mit Karten“ fall 2009
Brads: no-name
Ribbon: from a box of chocolates (you can tell: I’m into recycling)
Punch: Westcott
Glitter: Stickles (magenta)

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CPS 152

Here goes… As some of you have realized, I’ve been getting more and more into paper crafts, mainly the creation of cards. I follow a few blogs on the subject regularly (read: daily) and have started testing new techniques as well. A couple of days ago I came across what I believe to be a recurring challenge by CPS – Card Positioning Systems. They give you a sketch which sort of outlines the basic set-up your card is supposed to have and lets your imagination run wild along these lines. I found no „rules“ anywhere but… I decided to participate with an entry… I have wondered all along just HOW creative these people have to be who basically come up with a new idea every day. I find it hard to be creative on schedule so my intention with this was to just get it done – be inspired enough to create something that I wouldn’t be completely embarrassed to see posted on my blog. Mission accoplished.

I realize that everybody always tells people what materials they used. Well…
Cardstock: Clairefontaine Pollen
Papers: BasicGrey Eva paper pad
Flowers: no-name products
Ribbons: no-name products