11 Dec

Framed Stars

Good morning,

Hope your day has started with good vibes and happy thoughts. My mornings have been this way for some time now and that’s what I wish everyone.

Now onto the topic, this card is kind of a simple one. I wanted some stars, some dots and a season’s greeting as the sentiment. For those new in the crafting world, sentiments are either wishes, scripts or words written or stamped onto the card. I love handwriting and ofcourse I love my many types of pens! And my entire collection that continuously grows! So, I also enjoy using them on cards sometimes.

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10 Dec

50 #Christmas cards

Hello, everyone!

Here I am with the promised post about my 50 #Christmas cards. This has been a lovely job as I turned it in a challenge of making the cards different from each other. Not entirely different but adding or making tiny or bigger changes. I have used a lot of stamp sets, inks, papers, cards, twine, sequins, markers, pens, watercolour pencils and ideas. The products I used are recycled, recyclable and earth-friendly. For some of the cards I found inspiration in one of my favourite magazines Docrafts Creativity, for others I got inspired by the creations of famous craft makers I admire and follow (Keren Baker, K. Werner, Julia Altermann). Then, of course, for most of them I had the ideas ready to roll for some time and this was just the right moment to make them come true.

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For today, I chose to post a few photos with most of the cards together. And for the following days, there will be articles with those ones that use the same products but make a different card or cards. Read more

25 Nov

Sharing kindness

Hello, everyone!

This post is about sharing kindness and saying thank you in a crafty way. I’ve been pretty busy lately trying to finish my Christmas crafts and projects. The one today is part of this and my part in the art & craft #sharehandmadekindness campaign inspired and launched by Jennifer McGuire. She is a very talented craft maker whose work I admire very much. As I haven’t got the kindness stamp set yet, I went on and used some of my recently acquired stamps.

Some of them are digital stamps created by Gerda Steiner and I must tell you that I adore them.

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11 Nov

Digital November

Hello, dear fans!

This November I go for a newly found addiction called digital stamps. I have no idea why I haven’t tried them before! So, let me tell you a bit more about this. Through another passionate crafter ,that I admire profoundly, Julia Altermann from just-one-more-card.com, I found out about the cool digital stamps created by awesome Gerda Steiner. So, I went there and got some and then gave them a try.

The first one is with the birthday bear. The next ones are going to be all Christmas-y. Yes- yes … it’s that time of the year, I know. We, craft makers, all go in the holiday mode.

But first, I have other news to share with you. I’ve got a cool stamp, thanks to a dear and close family member. What do you think? Pretty cool, isn’t it?

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Now, here is the card using the digital stamp. I went with a very clean and simple idea. No sentiments, no sequins. Nothing but the stamp, coloured in with Promarkers. Hope you like it.

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Many thanks for the visit on my blog and look forward to be back here soon!

Best wishes.

 

Congratulations
08 Oct

Congratulations Card

Hi there, everyone!

Today, I’d like to show you a congratulations card I have recently made for someone close to my heart, a dear friend of mine. She made some changes in her professional life and we are very proud of her. So, a great reason once more to make her something special. Something that will accompany our wishes.

With this card I used a different technique for the background. I’ve got a very nice floral stencil, the 6” x 6″ Doily Flower made by Heidi Swapp, from one of my favourite shops in UK. Set it on a watercolour paper and sprayed it with green and blue ink. Trimmed it to fit the card base and the first layer of the cover which was a pink card I chose from my craft stash.

I added 2 strips of card, one pink and one cream, onto the bottom part of the cover. Then, I went for some nice pastel blue organza ribbon to give a soft and elegant look. The ‘Congratulations’ sentiment was stamped with Artiste pigment ink – pearlescent dusky rose on a watercolour tag. I also tied the ribbon into a bow to add a bit of extra dimension.

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Some pink and pearl gems were added too, to give a little sparkle and to complete the dimension of the card.

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Hope you like it and many thanks in advance for your comments.

Photo credit: Cristian Istrate

Gorjuss
02 Oct

Rain Full of Love

Well, who would have thought that a rain full of love is so powerful and filled with so much positive energy? I guess a Gorjuss girl is always welcome into bringing good vibes and sending the best wishes to a birthday girl.

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Ride
28 Sep

A Birthday Ride

Hello to you, all!

Today, I have a special card: A Birthday Ride. It’s special ’cause I know him pretty well and it’s hard to come up with something that could gather all my ideas, wishes and thoughts for him. And we all know that’s quite a ride to get something done when it comes to male cards.

So, I thought about what he enjoys much (besides me, of course), since he’s a sporty fellow: his BIKE. He also enjoys other sports, though his favourite seems to be cycling. Read more

26 Sep

Pastel Flowers

Hello, everyone!

My card today has some beautiful pastel flowers, delicate leaves and a handwritten sentiment. It is the first one that went to a dear friend, whom I haven’t seen in a while. We had a lovely time enjoying some tea and coffee and talking about so many things… that we didn’t feel the time passed by. Read more

21 Sep

Cupcakes, anyone?

Hi, there!

It’s been quite a long time since I posted here last! Been busy planning & sketching birthday cards and many Christmas cards, gifts and of course the 2016 calendars. So, cupcakes, anyone?

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Long story, short, as a friend would say, here’s what I came up with using Papermania’s Cupcake Mini’s clear stamps. Read more

31 Jul

Flowers – Wild Roses

Hi everyone! Hope you are all having a great summer! And maybe you enjoy cooler temperatures than ours.

I have a beautiful flowers’ card today made using a kind of a not so new technique for me: watercolouring. Technique, I haven’t used quite in a long time (since highschool).

So, first I stamped the DoCrafts Papermania Botanicals’ Wild Rose in black pigment ink on watercolour paper. The next step was the colouring part. I usually go for markers or inks, but after I tried my Promarkers I thought I’d like a softer look and went on trying my Papermania watercolour pencils. Here’s a look at my trial cover for the card. A bit messy, isn’t it? Or not.

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10 Jul

Wedding. Soft colours.

As the wedding season is in full bloom, I think some inspiration would be more than welcome.

Reviewing the posts, the pending drafts that await to be posted for a while, I went on finishing and scheduling some of them. For some people this job seems to be easy and believe it’s done in a few minutes. Actually it takes quite some time to make sure that the draft you came up with is the one you want. That the pictures are the right ones and that are watermarked, properly sized and uploaded and so on. I guess that one of the reasons I love doing this is the fact that it takes time and there’s no pressure. 😉

Now, back to the wedding topic. I posted here some of the wedding invitation samples I made a while ago. As I am creating some new ones and planning to add some wedding favor ideas too, I want to upload all the previous ones I have made so far.

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For these ones I went with softer colours like buttercup, lilac and soft green. There are different techniques I used for each one. Read more

23 May

Gentleman Birthday Card

A bit later than it should have been, here comes a post about a fine gentleman birthday card I made back in March.

The starting point and inspiration has been a card I made back in December. For this one I used the following: an embossing folder from XCut to make the card’s background, I cut out some flags from Heritage Press papers, added some bakers’ twine tied up in a ribbon just enough to hold a button. Simple and clean.

Hope you like it! 🙂

Photo credit Cristian Istrate

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