Bookmark with little kitten

Hello everyone, let me show you the bookmark that I made for my friends who recently rescued a kitten. Two weeks after she was born, this kitten was separated from her mother. My friends had to feed her with kitten milk replacer for weeks. Now she is 7 weeks old and a completely healthy kitty.

And here is the tag.

What I used:

My Favorite Things, BB Sittin' Pretty stamp set

My Favorite Things, BB New Best Friend stamp set

My Favorite Things, Essential Sentiments stamp set

My Favorite Things, Stitched Traditional Tag Die-Namics

Copic Sketch markers

And here is the little one in my lap. Her name is Losange which means rhombus in English. Isn't she beautiful?

Slimline birthday card with Stacey Yacula critters

I needed some colouring, so I created a very colourful birthday card with Stacey Yacula images from MFT Stamps.

What I used:

MFT Stamps, Stacey Yacula Pawty Time

MFT Stamps, Stacey Yacula Hooray Kind Of Day

MFT Stamps, Stacey Yacula Scene Builder

MFT Stamps, Stacey Yacula Friendly Foxes

MFT Stamps, Slimline Starter Die-namics

Copic Sketch markers

Inkadinkado stamping mask

With my card, I would like to join the:

MFT Slimline challenge: Birthday Wishes

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Anything Goes

I hope you like it!!! Thank you for stopping by!!!

Christmas card with a little boy, a Christmas tree and an angel #2

Here is the pair of my earlier card. This one is for my other nephew, for the blond one.

I did some minor alterations from the earlier one because the boys insist on equality in every way :-)

You can find the supply list on the linked blogpost above. 

There's only one difference, here I used the MFT Snow Globe Sentiments stamp set and left out the Make Yourself At Home stamp set.

I hope you like it!!! Thank you for visiting my blog!!!

With this card, I would like to join the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: 'B' is for? - a boy

Christmas card with a little boy, a Christmas tree and an angel

I'm ready with the Christmas card for one of my nephews. My nephew, Zsiga, has brown hair, has a brown dog, a grey cat and in his family, the Angels bring the Christmas presents. I also wanted to imitate the tile floor in their living room :-)

Now, I have to finish my other nephew's card.

What I used:

MFT, Little Angels stamp set

MFT Birdie Brown, Little Buddies stamp set

MFT Birdie Brown, Secret Santa stamp set

MFT, Make Yourself At Home stamp set

Die-Namics, A2 Rectangles, Stax 1

Die-Namics, Squares, Stax 1

Die-Namics, Stitched Basic Edges 2

Copic Sketch markers

Card with Belgian flag, cat and globe

I was asked to make a card for my husband's colleague who is leaving for another job in Bruxelles.  

She likes Belgium (a lot), she has a grey cat and her job will be much about travelling in the future.

So I made this for her:

What I used:

Sizzix Thinlits die, Globe by Tim Holtz

Stampers Anonymous, Hashtags by Tim Holtz

Katzelkraft, Les chats russes

gold embossing powder

Ranger Archival ink, Jet Black

etc.

Thanks a lot for stopping by!!!

Quick card with dog and cat by MFT

Once at the Country View Challenges, we had a time challenge (30 minutes or under). That time it was a real challenge for me but when I learned the MFT had a time challenge too I wanted to try myself immediately using the old tricks I developed for this type of challenges.

So here are my 4 tricks:

1. Be ready for the design! You have to figure out the design in advance! Which colours you want to use? How you want to build the card? Which papers you want to use?

2. Be prepared! Put everything (all the dies, stamps, inks, papers) near you, near your hands on the desk!

3. Don't use difficult techniques and colouring! (I have to ignore the Copic and pencil colouring - these take time but the water colouring is okay for me)

4. Don't worry about the mess! You will have time to tidy up or repack everything after the project!

And yet, after all these preparations the time challenge is a real challenge! 20 minutes is very limited!

And now, here is my card for the 20 minutes challenge of the MFT Creative Olympics:

What I used:

MFT, Furever Friends stamp

MFT, Paw Background stamp

Die-Namics, Stitched Circles dies

Die-Namics, Square dies

Crafter's Companion, Neenah Desert Storm paper A4

Ranger Distress inks (Vintage Photo, Antique Linen)

Ranger Archival (Jet Black)

Canson watercolour paper 

Ranger Distress markers (Scattered Straw, Tea Dye, Vintage Photo, Hickory Smoke, Bundled Sage, Spun Sugar)

Here are some pics of the making:

As you can see, I finished my card at 17 minutes and 23 seconds.

With my card, I would like to join the MFT Creative Olympics  Speed Cardmaking event.

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Birthday card - girl with cats

A few days ago I posted a birthday card with MFT Furever Friends stamps that was made for my daughter. Now this card is made for my daughter's friend.

Let me share you some interesting details about this friendship: my daughter's name is Eszter and her friend is Estelle. Estelle was born on 15 January and my daughter on 16 January. And I love coincidences like these!

What I used:

MFT, Birdie Brown New Best Friend

MFT Once Upon a Time

MFT Farm Friends

MFT Die-Namics, A2 Stitched Rectangles, STAX 1

Zig Clean and Ranger Distress markers

Ranger Archival ink (Jet Black)

Since I used the colours that were recommended in the Color Challenge 85 of the MFT Card Challenges, I would like to join this challenge.

I hope you like it! Happy crafting!

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Birthday card with blue cat

Hello everybody, here I am again with another MFT card that was made for my daughter's birthday. Eszter (my daughter) is a huge manga fan, and she also loves the Japanese cartoons. So the blue cat (and the white too) is one of the heroes of the Fairy Tail manga cartoon, this is why I had to colour the cat blue.

What I used:

My Favorite Things stamp set, BB New Best Friend

My Favorite Things stamp set, Once Upon A Time 

My Favorite Things, Die-Namics die, A2 Stitched Rectangles

My Favorite Things, Die-Namics die, Puffy Clouds

Copic Sketch markers

Tsukineko Memento ink, Tuxedo Black

With my card, I would like to join the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: Winter Blues

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Halloween card with Jack O'Lantern and black cat

I love vintage postcards! Actually I am a collector, mainly of the Christmas cards. Lately I have found on internet some  gorgeous Halloween cards. My eyes caught on two of them, because they were lovely and because I have found inspiring elements in them what I could do myself. 

So here are the vintage postcards:

On the first one the gold embossed stars and the text were inspiring to me, and on the second postcard I liked the scene and immediately imagined it with Tim's dies.

And voilà my card:

What I used:

Sizzix Bigz Die, Jack-O-Lanterns by Tim Holtz (660964)

Sizzix Bigz Die, Raven&Scaredy Cat by Tim Holtz (656928)

Sizzix Bigz Die, Crescent Moon&Stars by Tim Holtz (658716)

Stampers Anonymous, Crazy Talk (CMS236)

Ranger Embossing Powder, Princess Gold 

Ranger Ink Pads (Iced Spruce, Bundled Sage, Hickory Smoke, Faded Jenas, Fossilized Amber, Squeezed Lemonade, Walnut Stain)



With my card I would like to enter the Monday Challenge of the Simon Says Stamp blog: Powder Power.

And I would like to join Brenda Brown's Give Away at Bumblebees and Butterflies too. 

Wooden box with Tim Holtz Crazy Cats and Mini Crazy Bird

This morning I could picked up my parcel from the post office and I was so happy because the Crazy Cats and the Mini Crazy Birds stamps were in it! As soon as I got home I started to make a box with them.

I can show you two pictures of the making.

If you need a tutorial, you can have it here.

Painted wooden box with stamped cats

Boite en bois avec les chats russes de Katzelkraft

This box was made one of my nephews. I don't know who this box will belong to but I'm sure that soon I have to make another one to avoid the fighting :-)

I chose cats for the box because around the house the boys have plenty of cats and yes, they have ginger cats too.

The stamps are "Les chats russes" from the Katzelkraft (KTZ152).

I painted white the lid of a big round box with acrylic paints. I put two layers. The diameter of the box is 20 cm.

After I stamped the images with Ranger Archival ink (Jet Black).

I made this ginger colours with mixing two colours (Sienna, Mandarine) of Marabu paint. Can you see that lazy cat who is watching the mouse with one eye?  Funny, isn't it?

In the following picture you can see that I painted grey the mouse and I coloured the tongues too.

With DecoArt chalky finish paint (a kind of grayish blue) I painted the lid. I know that I could put masking paper on the cats but I was too lazy to cut around perfectly four cats and a little mouse, so instead I was just careful around the images :-)