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*~

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*~

My christmas-Stampin´Up!-workshops

I had my last Stampin´Up!-workshop last week. So now it´s time to rest and enjoy the christmas-time. And surely I´ll start to prepare the workshops for the beginning of 2009. But before I start this I´ll show you what I´ve done at my workshops in December. One thing was a christmas-card. I did this two examples:

Most people here in Germany like the traditional christmas-colors red, vanilla and green. That why I used those colors for the cards.But since I do christmas-workshops since the end of september I don´t wanna see this color-combination that much any more! I so love other colors too!!! :D So I did this little gift-box in purple. I know that a lot of people don´t like purple but I do! But to make everybody happy I always have other cardstock-colors with me for the workshops! Here´s my example:

I was really glad that everybody enjoyed the workshops!I wanted to do so many christmas-cards this year but I didn´t!

I´m really sad I don´t have enough cards for all the lovely people I wanted to send one. But I guess it´s too late now and so I guess I should start with my card-produktion for the birthdays in 2009. I wasn´t very successful with this in 2008 too. :o(

Hope you´ll have a great day!!!

SU!, Tilda & Co.

The last days were filled with a lot of action. But all this action was fun! :o)

Last thursday I´ve been to my sewing-class again. I spontanously decided to sew a small bag from my new book "Tildas winterworld" from Tone Finnanger. So I bought the fabric and started. Stupid me! I hadn´t bought enough fabric! So I decided to do the bag even smaller than I wanted to do it. When I was done the whole class laughed. Here´s my new bag. I put a stamp next to it so you can see the size.

Since I had some more fabric (just not for the bag I wanted) I sew another of the boxes like I´ve done before. It´s just a very small one too this time. But it´s perfect for some tissues! ;o)

On friday and saturday I did some Stampin´Up!-workshops again. We did little giftbags for x-mas (like I did at another workshop before). Here´s my example:

I´m really sorry I didn´t think of taking pics at every workshop I did this bag! We always had so different bags in the end! That´s something I really like! But I took one pic on saturday. We were just five people (many couldn´t come because they became ill) but we had fun! :o) Here´s our little gallery:

It´s great to see the different results! That´s something I really like about being a SU!-demo! There´s so much inspiration for me! :o)

Yesterday I´ve been to a crafters-convention in Lübeck. There wasn´t a lot for stampers or scrappers (I bought 3 paper-sheets, that´s it). But there´s a lot for those that sew. And since I´m a big fan of Tone Finnanger I bought some Things to sew more of her stuff:


The tan-tanned fabric is for a flying pig I want to do. It´ll (hopefully) look like the little wooden one I bought. I so love this pig! And yes: I´m trying to sew one of the Tilda-dolls. There´s everything I need for this in the box.

I´m going to a patchwork-workshop for christmas on the 1st of November. So I wanted some fabric for this too. And I was sooo happy when I found this patterns:


I really like pink/lightgreen for x-mas! I just bought some pp with these colors. I know lots of people prefere the classic red/green-combo. I like that too but I love pink/lightgreen! :o) Now I just need to decide what to sew! ;o)

So this past weekend was over in a rush and I can´t believe it´s already monday! But here it is and the new working-week has started! I wish the weekends were longer and the working part sooner done! ;o)

Whatever: have a great new week and a wonderful day!

All materials for the x-mas-giftbags are Stampin´Up!

Finally an update

Ok, I was a bad blogger lately - again! I blog often in german but when it comes to the english blog I´m often too lazy! SORRY! Now my friend Katarina reminded me that I need to update here more often too. Thanks! I guess I needed this! *hug*
I was thinking about putting both blogs in one but I guess that the posts are way to long this way. And honestly I don´t like to read blogs that have both languages (most of the times I read both languages and wonder why *lol*). So I guess I will "work" with both blogs again. I will not promise to updated way more often here! I did that before and didn´t do it. And I hate to promise something and don´t do it!!! But I´ll try, ok? ;o)
Ok, here are some cards I made lately. There´s a new Stampin´Up!-catty out and I need new examples with the great new stamp-sets. And to be honest: I´m really in love with the new stuff! :o) Great new stamps, pp and embellis. :o)


I hope you like my new cards! I would love to read which ons´s your favourite?!

Have a great day! I´ll hopefully be back soon! ;o)

Stampin´Up!-sneak No. 3

I´m sorry I´m late but I finally wanna show you the third sneak of new Stampin´Up!-stamps. here it is:

I hope you like it!

I´m not creative at the moment. My mojo is gone again. When I´m not at home or don´t have any time I have ideas in my head. But as soon as I sit down and have a little time my head is just blank! :o( I just hope my mojo will be back soon! I have soooo many new stamps and so much new cute stuff to play with! So wish me luck!

My weekend

Before I start talking about last weekend I wanna tell you that I finally did my first christmas-card! *whoohoo* It took a while before I could finish it but finally I´m done. I always have problems with my first card and it´s not easy doing christmas-stuff when it´s sunny and warm outside! ;o) But here it is: *tadaaa*


Ok, and now about the weekend. ;o) It started with another Stampin´Up!-workshop I did. the hostess asked me to do tags so I give everybody these ideas:


I love to do home decor and I think a decorated candle like the one I did is easy and quick to do but looks beautiful. It´s an idea for a small gift too. I was lucky that everybody liked my ideas!

I was home really late but had to get up really early. My sister Carola and I went to the "Stempelmekka". It´s Germanys biggest convention for stampers.

It was soooo much fun!!! I met so many people - some of them I haven´t seen for month and some of them I just know through internet. And they all were so nice and I wished I would have had more times to chat. But there were sooo many of them! I was there to shop too but it took several hours before I got the first change to see some stuff without being distracted. ;o)

My favorite booth was from Magnolia. I like their stamps and I think their booth was so cute! They had their rubber in little baskets and tags on it to show the image. And they had some AWESOME cards there. Great inspiration!

And are those woodcut Tildas sweet???


I just could have stand there and look for a long time! *lol*

Ok, but I wanted to use my time to do some shopping too. This is what I bought:

I was a little sorry that there wasn´t more scrapbooking-stuff. I didn´t like most of the papers they had. But I could have bought way more stamps! ;o) And I would have never guessed that I was going to buy a scor-pal. I always think and siad that I don´t need a tool just to score. Ok but then Gisi demonstrated it and I was done. *lol* I´ll see how much I´m going to use it!!!

Before I close this post I wanted to show you the next sneak of upcoming Stampin´Up!-stuff. What do you think?

Have a great day! - Coni

Best wishes & first SU!-sneak

My dear friend Nicole celebrated her birthday last weekend. She likes Sarah Kay a lot so I made this card for her. I´m happy she liked it! :o)


I colored the image with my new Stampin´Up!-markers. It´s my first try and I´m really happy about the result! Those markers are AWESOME! I just used the soft tones so far but I´m sure I´ll soon buy the other sets too! ;o) Here´s a close-up of the image:


I promised a first sneak of the new Stampin´Up!-stuff. I know I´m late but life was busy again. :o( But here it finally is:


Doesn´t that look great??? I know there are several people waiting for this stamp-set and I´m happy it´ll be availible in Europe soon! I´ll post another sneak soon. There´s more new great stuff! ;o)

Have a great day!

You make me happy

As I wrote into my last post: right now it´s easier for me to create at home. I did this in my space and I like the result. :o) I colored the image at my last crop and put the card together at home. I just searched through my stash and looked for whatever I could use. :o) I really like the result. Using the paper-leaves AND the punched leaves together turns into a great look I think. I´ll definatly do this again!

Here´s a close-up:


Right now I´m so curious about the new german Stampin´Up-catty! The retired lists shows that ALL the great papers are leaving. I really love the patternd papers from SU! like this one I used here. Luckily I still have some more and just stocked everything up with last month sale. It´s sad that they won´t be availible any more but I´m sure there will be a lot of new great papers I wanna buy!

I got a sneak-peak of some new stuff from Stampin´Up! and I plan to show something here this weekend! :o) The first stuff looks just AWESOME!!! So if you are curious too come back! *lol*

Have a great day! - Hugs, Coni

Starting with cards...

I did some cards last weekend. The first one I did with one of my new "Sarah kay"-stamps. We sell them in Andis online-shop and I think they are really cute! I love that the lines where so fine!


The papers are from Stampin´Up USA. I wanted to use papers that don´t take the viewer away from the image. And I just LOVE those papers! :o)

The second one I did because I wanted to do something that looks like summer. For a few days now it has become REALLY hot in Germany. And I wanted to use the stamp because I bought itr and never used it. I know there are some more unused stamps in m stash but I plan to use one after another now. And it´s the same with the papers, cardstock etc.!




I did a Stampin´Up!-workshop last weekend too. So I wanted to do a small Make & Take for the ladies. I came up with this tag and I´m glad that everybody liked it a lot!

I didn´t do anything creative since sunday. To be honest I´m just tired. All I wanna do is sleeping and I feel like everything I need to do (even the everyday stuff) is way to much. I guess it´s that I need to rest to relax from our move. I just hope to be back on track soon!

Have a great day! - Coni

Thank you

How can shopping be so hard??? You should know that I LOVE shopping. But today after a day full of it I´m just tired! We are moving next month and just got the keys to our new appartment on thursday. So we searched for the paint and some furniture today. It was fun to decide what to buy but now my feet hurt and I don´t wanna do anything! I didn´t expect that! ;o) We decided to take the evening off and just relax. Tomorrow we´ll be going to start painting the walls. I guess I will be tired again in the evening! *lol*

I did this Stampin´Up!-card a few days ago. I really love the cardstock and the punches!


I saw a card on an US-blog and wanted to do that one but while I was doing it I changed more and more and now I think that it´s totally different! But that´s something I really like about creativity! You start with an idea and often end with something you didn´t except! And there are no rules so this is just ok! Ah, what a relaxing hobby in the world full of rules! ;o) Do you feel the same?

Have a great evening! - Coni

Merci

I wanted to try to make a card long old again. I had tried this several times now and so far everything went in the waste right away. :D This time I like the result.


I aged the papers using my edge-distresser and colouring the papers brown . Here´s a close-up:


All materials (exept brads and ribbon) are from Stampin´Up! I stamped the background papers myself here too. I don´t do that often and to be honest I love patternd papers way to much to do it much more often! ;o) But I guess I´ll try that again. The more I try the better I´ll get (at least I hope so *lol*)!

Have a great day! - Coni

Cards, cards, cards

I´ve done a lot of cards lately. I was in the mood to stamp so everytime I had the time I just did it (I just wish I would have had more time!). So here are the cards I did.

This reindeer is so funny! I just love the way it looks and it does exactly what I love to do to relax: comfort place, legs up, something hot to drink (for me a steamer with coconut-flavour *yummy*) and a cupcake with a lot of frosting! Perfect!!!


The next one I made for a swap. We should use the initial of our recipients name. My card was for Domi so I came up with this idea when I was searching my stamps for the image. I´m glad she really like it!


This card I did just for fun. I wanted to do it like a card for a little girl - since there is this cute little girl on it. So I used a lot of bling and pastell colours.

To make the card even more I coloured it with my Twinklings H2Os and put some stickles on the little hearts. Here´s a close up so you can see it (hopefully!):

There are some Stampin´Up-workshops on my calendar. So I need to do some more examples. And I had this beautiful background-stamp for a while now and finally wanted to use it. I think it´s so beautiful!!! I thought it doesn´t need a lot besides it:

This is another just for fun card. When I saw the image of this cute hÄnglar & stÄnglar-stamp I immidiatly thought: "Oh, she´s soo sweet!". So when I looked for the sentiment and came across the "Sweet one"-stamp by Stampin Up! I knew I wanted to do this:

Close up:

Right now I have a new project laying on my desk. I hope to finish it today. And it´s NOT a crad! *lol* I´m thinking about updating my english blog as often as my german one in the future I hope you like to read more from me! ;o)

Have a great day! - Coni

Lots of new stuff!

I´ve been creative lately and I just LOVE LOVE LOVE it that way! :o)))

I started with a mini-album. I bought the mini-album-kit last August at a convention. I really love the patterns of Amy Butler so I couldn´t resist this kit. Now I finally used it and also took the smaller wedding-pics that I had on hand.

I had some scraps of the papers left and I had this hÄnglar-image. I already started colouring it and so I did this card:


The next day I wanted to do some LOs. I wanted to do more of the challenges at Scraplove. I like them as a starting point. The first challenge I did was to make the paper edgy. So I grabed my Stampin´Up-punches and did this:

I really like the look of the scalloped papers I did with my SU!-corner rounder and the notebook-effect with the spiral-punch!

The second challenge I did was to do something about a long-life-love. I knew at once what I wanna scrap about!!!


This teddybear spend (almost) my whole life with me! I got it for x-mas when I was 3 month old. Since then it was always there! I slept every night with him besides me when I was a kid and I told him everything! He was there for me when times got hard in my childhood (and there were ones that were really hard :o( ... ). He was my first love and I´m sure I will love him my whole life! :o)

Today the cyber-crop at Scraplove will start. *woohoo* I can´t wait to get started! Unfortunatly it starts really late tonight because of the time differences. And I´m still waiting for the second part of my kit. But hopefully it´ll come today so I´ll be prepard. Whatever: I´m sure I´ll have lots of fun! And best of all: dh said I don´t need to do anything but scrapping! Isn´t he the best??? Love him!

Have a great day! - Coni