well, kind of… my blog is moving to a new place. You can find it here:

http://aqyera.blogspot.com/

I hope you’ll come and visit me at my new home. I’ll have a blog candy for you starting tomorrow January 10. Come and check out our Paper Sundae blog hop too - there are LOTS of prizes/blog candy to win.

This Sunday , Paper Sundaes is having a blog hop to kick off our new challenge blog!  There will be lots of prizes along the way, so I hope you come and join in the fun! I will also officially move my blog to a new home on that date, so come and check it out.

We hope that you’ll be able to join us on Sunday the 10th, and that we’ll see you back again on the 17th for our first Challenge! Can’t wait!

Today’s challenge on Ildi Co’s Creative Challenges is Scrap & Metal. When I first read the title/description of the challenge I imagined something tough and masculine, but then I thought - metal doesn’t have to be tough… and look what I came up with - a baby card.
I used Ildi Co’s Cuddles Kuma Plushie image, cut of the Christmas tag and colored him with Prisma pencils. For scraps I used scraps from BG Bittersweet paper. Metal is represented by Silver circle clip, silver dew drops - I also used silver ribbon and all the pieces are outlined with silver marker.

My new Flourishes stamps arrived just in time to put them under the Christmas tree. I couldn’t wait to ink them up and create with them For this card I stamped the Waterlily on a watercolor paper and colored it with SU markers and aquapainter. The middle part of the flower is popped up (hard to see). The Cardstock is Rich Razzleberry and DP is Cottage wall from SU.

Second picture is a detail from the inside of the card. Sentiment is stamped with really light purple Memento ink.

This is my first card made with Sweet Pea mermaid stamp. Aren’t they beautiful? and so much fun to color. This one is called Dragonfly Fantasy.

The image is colored with Prismacolor pencils. Cardstock is Old Olive & Bermuda Bay, DP is from Dovecraft and the ribbon from my Secret Sister Shana. I kept the layout simple to keep the focus on the mermaid. You’ll be seeing more of them here -  that’s for sure.

I’m sooo bad, I didn’t post anything in a looong time. Not that I didn’t create - just didn’t have time to sit down and post. So here we come. These 2 are the last holiday cards I made this year. I used Cuddles Kuma Shepard image from Ildi Co. It makes me feel peaceful, so that was the theme of these cards.

They are both easel cards (I fell in love with this kind of cards this season ) and I used Basic Grey Wassail papers and stickers for both of them. Buttons and the ribbon is from Basic Grey too. Which one do you like?

Another Flourishes release is here and with it another challenge. This one was to be inspired by our garden - by our favorite flowers, colors, anything we love in our garden.

We just moved to our house this summer and it has no garden to speak of - just grass. We were to busy with moving, settling in and other stuff this year to do more than just move the lawn. BUT next year I’m planning to work on it - and I would love love LOVE to have a garden with fruit trees, bushes and plants - apples, peaches, blueberies, strawberries… so my card is inspired by my dream garden. I used an image from Cherries and Peaches set and colored it with Prisma pencils.

The background panel is embossed and sprayed with Garden Fairy Glimmer Mist. Edges are distressed and inked with Peeled Paint distress ink.

Stamp shoppe is having a fun blog hop where you not only check out the DT’s blogs but also play in their challenges.

First stop on the hop was Melyssa’s blog. She challenges us to create a Christmas card using a non-christmas Magnolia image. I used Tilda blowing hearts which is from a Valentine collection (I think) and combined her with really sparkly Christmas papers

Next stop was Jeanette’s blog and her challenge for us was to create an easel card. I planned to try it for some time and I finally did it - it’s easy, fun and great for Christmas displays. I used my Silent Night Tilda with BG Eskimo Kisses papers and created another Christmas card.

Next I hopped to Carla’s blog where I found another amazing card and the next challenge - a sketch this time. I don’t have a circle die that would be big enough for the card and  couldn’t find a circle thing in the right size to cut out and trace so I used 2 smaller circles instead of one big one. I hope I’ll be forgiven

I used Tilda with Peaches and BG Lemonade papers - can you see Basic Grey is one of my favorites? LOL

The fourth blog to visit was Heidi’s and she challenged us to create “something fun, but not really a card” so I came up with this capuccino/hot chocolate bag holder. I combined Chef Tilda with a cup image from Flourishes (Coffee with friends). If you would like to make one too, you can find the tutorial here.

After finishing the blog hop I visited the DT Gallery and scraplifted this card. I used the same image and color combo and changed the card size, layout and embelishments. And here is the result:

Yay! I got my first blog award today!! I received this Kreativ Blogger award from my online friend Jenny. Her blog is always full of great ideas and  cool projects. Thanks a lot Jenny!

Here is what you need to do when you receive this award:

1. thank the person who nominated you.
2. copy the logo and place it on your blog.
3. Link to the person who nominated you for this award.
4. name 7 things abut yourself that people might find interesting
5. nominate 7 kreativ bloggers
6. post links to the 7 blogs you nominate
7. leave a comment on each of the blogs, letting them know they have been nominated

So here are my nominees: Shanna, Danielle, Blankiefinder, Lenocka, Joanne, Vicki, Sara

now the 7 interesting things - hmm, this is the hardest part:

1. My favorite colors are turquoise and teal
2. I have an unbelievable sweet tooth - especially for cookies and pastries - that’s why I learned to bake
3. I have to split my craft time between 2 hobbies - cardmaking/papercrafting and cross-stitching and it’s hard (need more time)
4. I love to read, but don’t give me anything hard - I prefer historical and adventure/treasure hunting fiction
5. I love opera and ballet, I even worked at the opera, but I’m tone deaf and can’t sing anything more complicated then Jingle Bells
6. I’m still a kid at heart - love fairies, mermaids and animated kids movies that I watch with my kids
7. I’m an introvert who secretly wishes to be an extrovert

I was baking gingerbread cookies with my kids this weekend and that inspired me to make some kind of gift box for them. I used the Time for Take out template from Timeless Templates (PTI). It’s pretty easy to put together and it’s a good size for couple of cookies. I decorated it with snowflakes from SU Snow swirled set and CHristmas Cocoa DP. I printed a small Gingerbread Girl, colored it with markers, cut it out and adhered it to the front of the box. And since I had all the papers out and more images printed I made a matching card with Ildi Co’s Gingerbread Reindeer. I used a rotated sketch from Sketch Saturday challenge blog.

Ingredients:

Paper: Kraft, Real Red, White CS, SU Christmas Cocoa DP,   Images and Stamps: Ildico - Gingerbread girl, reindeer, SU Snow swirled, SU Christmas greeting,  Ink: Ruby Red,    Tools: Nestabilities Labels, Snowflake border punch, Other: markers, red glitter rhinestoones, ribbon, chocolate brown pearls