Girl

As I mentioned in my last post I had an unfinished card on my desk. Now it´s done and I can show it. It´s an Elzybells-image that I have for a while and finally used it.


The sentiment is by Elzybells too and I think it fits perfect! :o)

And like I wanted I have done another LO. I still done like to do "straight" LOs son I choose the stamp-looking paper. It´s a picture of me when I was 4 years old and the LO talks about that often peaople thought that I was a boy when I was a child. I had short hair most of the time. ButI love this pic because it shows that I´m definatly a girl! ;o)

I used grungeboard for the wings and coloured it with acylic paint and glittered it. I just love doing girly stuff! :D

I´m going to spend the weekend with my inlaws in Düsseldorf. Tomorrow there will a Stampin´Up!-workshop and if possible I want to visit a nearby stampin- & scrapping-shop. I love to see the stuff irl. And it´s hard to have nothing nearby! I´m sure I´ll have a fun weekend! Hope yours will be great too! - ~*Coni*~

Stampin´Up!-cards and Winter-Box

Last saturday has been a Kick off-Event for the german Stampin´Up!-Demos. It was really great and I had a lot of fun! The demos did a card swap so I did 3x 10 cards to swap with the others. Here´s waht I did:

I changed almost all my cards and got rellay great cards from the others! Now I have some different examples for my guests to show! The whole event was inspiring and I´m looking forward to my next workshop next weekend.

Yesterday I did this box. After several days where I didn´t find the time to do anything creative I decided it was time to change this. So after the cleaning was done I let all the other stuff that had to be done undone and created.


I like the colour-combination and the glitter. :o) It makes my heart happy! And that´s what I needed! I was in pain for the last weeks again and there was so much on the calendar. I really try to stay positive but with pains all day long and the dizziness of the pain-reliever it´s sometimes hard. I´m just tired and feel overwealmed all the time... Ok, but let´s stop venting and try to be positive and healthy again!

Have a great day! - ~*Coni*~

Lucky

I have been creative lately - not as much as I would have loved to be but I got some stuff done. :o) First I did a LO about my still favorite subject Andi! I´m just so happy to have him in my life! So I try to celebrate it in my scrapbooks too.

Here´s a close-up:

I love shaped LOs at the moment. I found this shape in the internet and loved it at once. So I asked Andi if he could do it for me so I could cut it with my Cricut. And he surely did! :o) And I used my new Martha Steward border-punch again. I just love the look of it!

Since I took down all the christmas-decorations I wanted to do something romantic. So I bought some stuff and decorated our home in a new way. It was so much fun. I think I had forgotten how much I love to decorate our home! Here is something I did:


Here´s a closer look:


I think the green berries look like they have ice on them so it still looks like winter. ;o) For my desk I found this beautiful frame at IKEA. When I saw it I new I wanted to put a decorated picture of our wedding inside.


Yes, I used my Martha Stewart pounch again. *lol* And I just love this pic! We both laugh while we are on our way and I think this is like it should be: walking happy together in our lifes. :D

Last saturday I went to a sewing workshop again. The theme was "Purses" and I sew this shoulderbag:



It´s about 17 inches wide and rellay works well for all thr stuff I always carry with me. The pattern, the fabric and the ribbon too are "Tilda". I´m still a big fan of this stuff!

And before I finally close this post for today I´ll introduce you to Curtis:

Andi sew this little guy for me. Isn´t he adorable? All I had to do was the nose. But that´s nothing to the sewing my lovely dh did! How can I NOT love this wonderful man???

That´s it for today again! I hope to be back soon! I promised my friend Michele to do two LOs till saturday (last week...). The second one is still on my desk because I´m still not that satisfied. I hope you don´t mind Michele! I hope to do more soon!

Have a great day! ~*Coni*~

Romantic stuff

Don´t ask me why but at the moment I like to do things that have a romantic touch. Just creating them makes me happy and I like the results so I guess I´m going to do more of it! *lol*

Here´s a box I made:


I still love the color combination of pink and brown. :o)

Another thing I did was a card for a swap. The theme was snowman. Before I joined the swap I wanted to try my idea. I didn´t wanted to join and then don´t have something I like. It took some time but after a while I was satisfied with my card and signed in. :o) Here it is:


Here´s another pic to show that I´ve tried to bring more dimension in it:


I just hope my partner will like this card.

Have a great day! ~*Coni*~

Back to Scrapbooking!

Yeah! I finally found my way back to do a LO again! *woohoo* Don´t ask me how long it took but I just can say it was waaaay longer than I usually need. And I´m a slowly scrapper! ;o) I used some pics of christmas eve. Fresh pics are a great start!


When I was finally done I just started the next one and finished it the other day. It´s with an actual christmas-pic too. Ok, honestly I use those new pics because I *NEED* to sort through the older ones first. They are all just waiting in a box... But I´ve plans to sort them soon because I need more pics to scrap. I don´t wanna pause for such a long time again!

Here´s the second LO:


And here´s a close-up because I couldn´t take one good pic of the LO:


If you have any tipps for me how to take better pics of 12x12´´ LOs they would be more than welcome. I really don´t like my photos. I think my LOs look different (in my oppinion better) in real life than on those pics.

I hope you all have a great time! - Hugs, Coni

Patchwork and a LO

I sew a lot lately! I guess it´s my new addicition. Not that I don´t have another addiction and way too much time! *lol* But it´s so much fun!!!



And this table-coth was my first "real" patchwork-work:


I epecially love the fabrics from Tilda and Amy Butler. That´s why I went shopping last week and bought these:


I can´t wait to use these fabrics! I already started sewing the bag with the Amy Butler-fabrics. But I guess it´ll take some time before I´ll be posting them here.

Last week I started working on the Big Picture-class again. I´m waaaay behind but it´s so great to scrap again! Can somebody please send some time? I soo need it to do all the projects I have in mind! *lol*

This LO is about our visit in Austria this spring. I´m so sorry I couldn´t show a better pic but whatever I did the quality doesn´t change. :o( In real life the colors where really bright and warm!


Maybe you could see the colors better on here?


Right now it´s really hard to dicide what to do in my free time: stampin´, scrappin´or sewin´? Oh, and did I ever mention that I love to play "World of Warcraft" and there´s a new add on to that game out? I guess everybody else palying that game is playing instead of doing crafts! *lol* Whatever! I will not find more time so I should just enjoy whatever I do right?

Have a great day! - Coni

Lots of new stuff

I haven´t updated this blog lately. I posted on my german blog but was too lazy to blog here too. Sorry! The problem is that the english part often takes more time. And time was something I didn´t had the last weeks. I was sick again and had been to the hospital (nothing serious!) and I had to deal with a lot of stuff like the info that I´ll need to change my job soon. :o( I know this was about to happen but now that´s here I don´t want it! I will still work for the government but I have to change to another department. I love my colleagues here! :o( Ok, we´ll see what exactly will happen. I guess I´ll know till the end of September. And with the health problems, laundry, cleaning, Stampin´Up!-workshops and all the other "usual day-stuff" I couldn´t get me up to keep you all updated here.

But I did some stampin´and scrappin! ;o) And that´s what I wanna show you now! So here´s a LO I did:

Close up:

The pic is from my niece Lina. I really love this photo of her! And when I saw the overlay I knew I wanted to use this pic!

And here are some stamped cards I did. The first one is one where I tried a folded card again.


I really love to "age" my stuff right now! I just love the colors! And I put some small flowers that I did with my Stampin´Up!-punch in my prima-flowers for the first time. I really love that and I guess I´m hooked now. Because with the next card I did it again! ;o) I made it for a Sarah Kay-group for a swap. The theme was "pink/green".


Another swap I did was about foil-cards. My partner asked for the color-combination "black/light brown". And since she´s one of my friends I tried it. It was hard at first but then I had more and more fun.


I´m sure I´ll use this color-combination again! It´s so elegant!

I did a starbook with our wedding-pics too. I´ll upload the photos soon. And I hope to be back here more often again!

Have a great day! Hugs, Coni

Winter

It took a while but I´m finally back with something creative. I couldn´t find my mojo and didn´t feel well (yes again... I know). But I just thought I should start with some stuff I love and try to scrap. It needed much more time than I usually do but it got me going and so here´s my new LO:


Here´s a close-up. I put some stickles on the title to make it look like a frosty winterday.


I know it´s summer right now and it´s really hot here in germany lately but when I saw the pics I took in January I just wanted to use them. And I wanted to use these colors! And since scrapping should be all about fun (especially to get my mojo back) I just did it!

I hope you´ll like the LO!

Have a great evening! - Coni

Weekend-LOs

I really love Pagemaps! So when I saw there´s a book coming out I immidiatly knew that I wanted it! It finally arrives last week and I can say that I love the book too! I wanted to do one of the sketches at once and that´s what I did:


The journaling is written as a border. I really love that idea! It´s about that I like this picture of me because I was so relaxed and happy that moment. Here´s a close-up of the title. It says "happy":


Actually it´s not just that I used the sketch. I scraplifted an example for the sketch! :D

When I wanted to do another sketch I came across this paper from Bo Bunny. And suddenly I started to do something different and did this LO for our wedding-album:


Here are some close-ups (I really love the beautiful flower!):


I haven´t done much on the second LO but I think there doesn´t need to be more. :o)

Have a great day! - Coni

bag and baby-card

As I wrote before I LOVE playing with my Cricut! Andi found so much fun stuff for me and I couldn´t wait to play with all of them! He found some cool gift-bags too. So I cut this bag from a 12x12´´ cardstock.


Isn´t this cute? :o) It´s just small so I decided to use a small stamped image. I´m still a fan of Elzybells so I used one of those. Right now I don´t know who´ll get this bag but I´m sure there will be an opportunity to give it away! ;o)

This card is one of the Make & Takes at the last Scrap-a-Ganza. I really like the giraffe-papers and think that this card doesn´t need any more embellishments:


Have a great day! - Coni

Scraplove-Guest-Design team part 2

Here´s the second part of what I did for the guest-design-team at Scraplove. When I saw the awesome Create Paper-papers and the cute Heidi Swapp-words I knew at once that I wanted to do a LO with our new nephew Louis.


Isn´t he the cutest??? We love it when we get new pics of him and his sister Lina by mail and we really hope to see him in real life soon. It´s so sad they life so far away!

I don´t just wanted to do LOs with the wonderful stuff I got. So I decided to do a new box for my Tombows:


Here´s a close-up of the tag:


Those cute plastic flowers and the cool chipboard-letters are from the Scraplove-store too. You should really check out the awesome Scraplove-website! The forum is full of sweet people, the gallery rocks and the store is great too! I love being part of this great community!

Have a great day! - Coni