Since I used the orange and red patterned paper I wanted to color in the butterflies with similar colors. I used my ZIG markers (52, 23) trying to let the colors fade to the lighter orange, mixing the red and yellow color on an acrylic block before applying it.
I also received these white pearl stickers. Some time ago I watched a YouTube video (unfortunately, I can't remember who did it) showing how to change them to your needs using Sharpies or any other permanent markers. So I went ahead and colored a few of them orange and red to match the colors that I've already used on my card.


To finish off my scrap card I adhered the butterflies with little glue dots only along the body of the butterfly. This way the wings are not attached and you can pop them up a little bit to give them a bit of dimension. I also used glue dots to attached the pearl stickers.


Thank you for stopping by and have fun hopping along. The next stop is Birka!

I used a small circle die to cut from a piece of patterned paper from the "Snow Dance Kit" from Create A Smile. I actually did some partial die cutting so I wouldn't get a whole circle. This way it looks like the penguin would be fishing at an ice hole. Currently you aren't able to buy the paper individually but I hope they will make it available at some point. I liked the snowflake patterned paper and used it as a background. Using a small circle die I cut out a circle from the background panel and adhered some acetate behind it.


Using fun foam I created the needed dimension for the shaker material. For the background of the fishing hole I used a scrap paper of mix media paper and applied Tumbled Glass Distress Ink.
To assemble the card I cut a slightly larger piece of the red-and-white striped patterend paper from the same kit by Create A Smile which was slightly larger than the snowflake piece. I adhered the distressed cardstock to it, placed the fish shaker material on top of it and glued the snowflake piece on top. I adhered some fish on the top left side of the fishing hole with some glue dots and the penguin to the right side using 3D foam squares. To finish off the card I applied some Glossy Accents to the beak and feed of the penguin.

Hello crafty friends, this time I want to show you a card that I made for the first day of school. Actually, it was for my fater. Because he can't work in his previous field anymore (which was construction worker) due to health issues he recently started a professional re-training as an IT system manager. For that reason I wanted to make this card and I thought it would be funny to make a card that you would usually give to a child on it's first day of school.


I started off die cutting a large circle from scrap paper to use as a mask because I wanted to stamp random numbers in a circle shaped area. I used two different blue colors and stamped them in the center of the card. I also stamped an owl from a Lawn Fawn set (which is kind of an inside joke because my father reminds us all of an owl... who knows why) with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and colored it in with Spectrum Noir markers (TN7, TN8, EB5; EB2, GB8, GB10; OR1, OR2).


I then went ahead and die cut the words "Alles Gute zum" (all the best for) from dark blue cardstock. I also die cut the little glasses from Create A Smile which had the perfect size for the owl. I used the rest of the blue cardstock to cut rectangles and stamp the individual letters that I needed for the word "Schulanfang" (first day of school) with VersaMark which I embossed with white embossing powder.
I assembled the card by adhering the glasses to the owl and appling a layer of Glossing Accents which would then kind of look like "real" glass. I attached the different rectangles and the owl with glue dots and the word die cuts with liquid glue.