Christmas card giveway at Scrapcollector's!

Yenni Natalia (Scrapcollector) is giving away some of the Christmas cards she has created lately and today I won one of her gorgeous cards!

This one:

Yenni Natalia's card at Scrapcollector

Isn't it gorgeous?? She used a Penny Black stamp that she colored with distress inks in a monochromatic way. I love the result. This is very unusual for a snowman but as I said to Yenni, this gives the scene a warm feeling, as if it takes place at the end of a sunny winter day.

Thank you Yenni! I will be happy to give a new home to this cute snowman... Moreover snow is not far over here... and I faaaarrr better like the snow on this card than the one that there will be in the streets!! :-/

Make sure to check Yenni's blog on a regular basis if you don't want to miss her next cards giveways!

Blog candy at Wee Memories!

Run to Jenny's blog "Wee Memories" before November 30 to make sure you sign up to have a chance to win her fab blog candy!
Thank you so much, Jenny!

Fluffles in action!

This is a birthday card I made for a friend using one of my favorite cat stamps: Fluffles by Stampendous. This fluffly ball is always shown in comic situations or with a comic look upon his face.

Detail of the gift. I've added Frosted Lace Stickles on it + a ribbon and raised it with 3D adhesives.

By the way...I think I'm on the right path to collect all Fluffles stamps...... No comment! :-p

Stamps: Fluffles Gift (Stampendous), Happy Birthday sentiment (Cupcakes by Hero Arts)

Yenni Natalia's blog candy

To celebrate her birthday, Yenni Natalia has a blog candy at her blog Scrapcollector. Make sure to go there and add your name to have a chance to win before Dec. 10th!

Thank you Natalia!

Sympathy cards

Here are several cards I made for a coworker. The goal was to make several cards and submit them to my other coworkers who would choose the one we would send her.

This is the first time I made a sympathy card and it's not easy to stay very simple, not too dark and not too cheery as well. They chose this one:

The other ones...

I don't really like this purple one. I think this looks more like a communion card than a sympathy one.

This one was my fav:

Stamps: Silhouette Fern (Hero Arts), Friend definition (Hero Arts), All I have seen (Stampin' Up)

Happy Halloween!

No card today but something far better... 

 

Click on the picture to view full video clip of Michael Jackson's 'Thriller'

Thank you and birthday cards + an ATC + a calendar

One of my online friends, Michelle from Sri Lanka, had her birthday lately. Here are a few things I sent her lately, both for her birthday and also to thank her for the fabulous prize I won on her blog in June.

Here is the thank-you card. You will probably recognize Betsy Bluebell from Penny Black.

I colored the stamped image with Promarkers and added a real tag to the bouquet.

Now, this is the birthday card I made using the pumpkin Nestabilities, embossed with a Cuttlebug embossing folder, and Marianne D dies for the leaves. As Michelle's birthday was on Oct. 24th I gave it a little (a big!) Halloweeny feeling...

The pumpkin bear is a digital stamp by Dustin Pike (DoodleDragons) colored with Promarkers. The sentiment is by Hero Arts and belongs to the Cupcake clear set I won on Michelle's blog.

Then I made an Atc, still Halloween theme, inspired my the card I made a few weeks ago:

 The ghost, the spider and spiderweb are from the Owl-oween clear set by Hero Arts. The spider doesn't show very well even though there's some Glossy Accents on it. The background is made with alcohol inks.

To complete this, I made a little calendar for "dates to remember", using my Bind-it-all:

Again, the owl is a digi stamp by Dustin Pike. I really love his drawings. The clouds are from Hero Arts. I clear embossed the stamp and heat it with blue embossing powder with my heat-gun. I run the green paper through my Cuttlebug to make the grass.

The printable calendar is a freebie I found on the PaperCrafts Inspirations blog.

Thanks for looking!

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Voici quelques petites choses que j'ai envoyées à Michelle (du Sri Lanka) pour son anniversaire dernièrement et aussi pour la remercier du "blog candy" que j'ai gagné sur son site en juin dernier.

Sur la carte de remerciements, j'ai utilisé le tampon transparent "Betsy Bluebell" de Penny Black et ai ajouté une "vraie" étiquette au bouquet.

La carte d'anniversaire est très marquée "Halloween" puisque l'anniversaire de Michelle tombe le 24 octobre. La citrouille est une Nestabilities, embossée avec la Cuttlebug. Les feuilles sont des dies de Marianne D. A l'intérieur, l'ours habillé en citrouille est un digi stamp de Dustin Pike. Le sentiment est de Hero Arts.

J'ai ajouté à ça une Atc faites avec des tampons du set Owl-oween de Hero Arts, inspirée de la carte que j'avais faite il y a quelques temps.

Et pour finir, j'ai fait un petit calendrier perpetuel pour noter les dates à retenir. La chouette est aussi un digi stamp de Dustin Pike (que j'ai retournée et un peu effacée pour la faire de dos). Les nuages sont un tampon Hero Art et l'herbe est faite avec la Cuttlebug.

A la prochaine !

PS : t'as vu Laurence, j'ai pensé à la traduction ;-)