Closing this blog

I´m sad to say it but I decided to close this blog. I was thinking about it for a long time. I always wanted to make it easier to read my blog so I did this one in english. But it´s hard to keep two blogs up to date and this blog hasn´t that many visitors.
I would be very happy if you still like to read about me on my "main" blog. I know it´s german but I added a google-translation tool. I don´t like to keep it bi-langual because I think that´s hard to read in my oppinion. And I would also be happy if those of you that have linked this blog now will link to my other blog!

You can now find me here: Conibaer´s creative desk

Hope to see you there! :o) ~*Coni*~

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*~

More Pink Cat Studio

I did another card with those cute Lily & Billy-stamps by Pink Cat Studio. And I used the paperscraps that where still left on my desk for the winterbox. I just love that I didn´t have to clean the desk and instead create something new! ;o)

I still love to work with pale-pink, pale-blue and brown. And I still love glitter and flowers! Looks like I´m still a girl! *wink*

Right now I have another unfinished card on my desk and I hope to finish it today. Next I want to do a LO again. I´m way behind my goal to do two LOs a week. It´s time to get back on track!

Have a great day! ~*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*~

Winter fun

I was surfing through serveral creative blogs when I found images that I fell in love with immidiatly. I was so lucky that there was a hint that the cute image was made by "Pink Cat Studio". So I went there and ordered right away. Just one week later I got my stamps from Canda! *yeah* The shop-service was just awesome too! I couldn´t resist to make a card with one of the stamps right away. ;o)


I wanted to add some more dimension so I didn´t clue the complete swirls down and used some chipboards:


Isn´t that image cute? Just look at the adorable dog! I´m in love!

Since I didn´t feel that well I haven´t done much creative stuff last weekend.I just hope to feel better really soon! I hate to not being able to do what I want! :*(

Have a great new week! ~*Coni*~

Yummy! :o)

Last weekend Andi and I baked some cupcakes and cookies. We never before tried to put some icing to cake ourselves! But we had lots of fun and enjoyed to do it! Here´s what we did:

And they were all yummy! I can tell you! *lol*

When we were finished I wanted to do a small bag for a freind to give cookies too. We just recieved new stamps for the Stempelzoo and I wanted to use them. They were from CC Stamps and we got them as a new addition to the shop. I was in love when I saw the little angels at once. So I choose one of them and did this:

First I didn´t know who to give it too but now I know! And I guess she´ll like it: she loves cookies, pink and CC stamps! :D

Have a great day! - ~*Coni*~

Reindeer-Trekking

Andi, my sister Carola and I went to met some reindeers last saturday. We had a date with them to go for a walk. Andi and I got coupons for it and he was so excited to actually see the animals and spend the afternoon with them! And I have to admit: it was AWESOME! The weather was great and even though it was cold we weren´t freezing. The walk through the forest kept us warm. ;o) And aren´t reindeers beautiful?


Just look at these dark eyes! *lol*

Every reindeer was led by two of us. They are pretty strong and you´ll never know what they´ll do next so this is the safest way.

As a scrapbooker I took lots of pictures! ;o) And of corse I needed a pic of Andi, me and a reindeer. Unfortunatly I haven´t one with the three of us (including my sister). What you don´t see on the next pic is that the reindeer stood with one of his legs on my foot! I´m so glad that doesn´t hurt. It´s not like it would be when a horse does it!


We really had tons of fun and I´m already looking forward to scrap those pics!

Have a great day! I´ll be back soon with a LO I finally finished yesterday! - ~*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*~

Happy Mail

A few minutes ago the doorbell rang and the postman brought a great surprise! It was a package from my dear friend Joy from the States! She just send it a few days ago and it´s already here! *woohoo* It came just perfect because I have a big cold since yesterday and don´t feel well. But now I´m feeling better! *lol* Here´s what she send:


Cool, isn´t it? and since our night at the movies is cancelled because of my cold I guess I´ll play with my new stuff now! ;o)

I did a new card for my Stampin´Up!-workshops to show to the guest. There´s not much stamping included but I finally used the cute papers and the "Pretties Kit".


I Think it turns out cute. Tell me what you think about it! I know there aren´t lots of people reading this blog but I know some people do! ;o)

Have a great weekend!
~*Coni*~

Happy new year!

I hope you started the new year with a lot of fun! Have a great new year! Stay healthy and may some of your dreams come true!

I made some resolutions for 2009. I know, I know: most resolutions fail in the first month. But I wanna try it though! ;o) I signed up for the Big Picture-class "A life well crafted" with Kolette and Jason Hall. The class started yesterday and so far I love it! And I think it´ll help me to make some of my resolutions work! :o) My most important goal right now is to become healthy. I had lots of healthy problems during the last month (as I mentioned before). To reach this goal I want to have less stress and do some sports again. So I decided to spend one hour of "me-time" each and every day. I´ll be creative just for fun, watch TV, read or do wantever is on my mind at the moment. And I´ll definatly spend some precious time with Andi! Our little family is the most important thing in my life and I wanna enjoy it! The other thing I´m going to do is to exercise every other day for 30 minutes. I hope that these first little steps will help me to rech my goal!

I sew a flying pig and finished it on new years eve. I think it´s a great lucky charm for 2009. It´s hanging by my desk now. This way it´s a constant reminder for the luck in my life too: my family and friends, our safe home, my job and so much more. I wanted to share it with you:


Here´s it´s nice smile in the portrait! *lol*


It was fun to sew it but I guess I need to exercise some more with sewing ears or legs to a body! *lol* But I like the result! The pattern is from Tone Finnanger. I still love her Tilda-stuff! My friend Katarina bought some crafting stuff from Tilda for me and I just adore it!!! Thanks Katarina! *hug* I´m sure I´ll use it soon!

Have a great day!

~*Coni*~

The year comes to an end...

I first thought that I would be happy to leave 2008 behind. But after I thought about it a little more I think 2008 was ok. I had a lot of problems with my health but I´m sure they will not suddenly vanish because it´s 2009 now! ;o) And I had some great times in 2008 too! We went on our honeymoon, moved in a great new home, I made lots of new friends (even international!) and enjoyed some great time being creative. And best of all: I spend precious time with my family and friends! Thanks to all of you that have been at my side this year! *hugs*

Surely I can´t finish my blogyear without something creative! :o) Here´s a new kind of box I did. I saw something like it here. But be carefully if you go there! Danielle has some really gorgeous stuff on her blog! Tons of inspiration! Here´s my box:


I think the mini-hÄnglar & stÄnglars are just perfect for this kind of box! :o)


Ok, that´s it for 2008! Enjoy new years eve and have fun tonight! Hope to see you in 2009 again! - 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

Christmas and some snowflakes

I hope you all had a great chistmas-time! I enjoyed the time with my family. We celebrated christmas eve with my mom, her dh and my sister here at home (if you don´t know: we celebrate christmas eve here and get the gifts then here in Germany). Above you can see our tree. :o)

The next days we went to my inlaws in Düsseldorf and celebrated with Andis family. It was so much fun to see almost everybody of our family for the holidays!

Before christmas I needed some more cards for some friends. I saw a snowflake-shaped card on the internet and wanted to try this too. So I cut some with my Cricut and when I seached for the images to use I thought that the sitting kids from Magnolia and hÄnglar & stÄnglar work just perfect. I´m glad every girl liked her snowflake! :o) Here they are (with some close-ups):


As I said we had a great time celebrating the holidays. The only thing I missed was snow! We had just one small snow-shower so far and that was a while ago. And it didn´t last long. So I decided today to do a snow-card with one of my loved Elzybells-stamps. These stamps are just too cute! :o)


I really like the color-combination. I think it works perfect for the winter-themes! :o)

I got some new stuff to play with for christmas. Now I "just" have to decide what to use first! But since I haven´t scrapped that much in a long time I wanna start with this hobby first. So I cleaned my scrap-space today and now I´m starting with a LO. We´ll see how long it´ll take! :o)

Have a great day! Hugs, Coni