Papertrey June Blog Hop Challenge

Welcome to the June PTI Blog Hop! The inspiration this month is a beautiful picture: 

I just couldn’t resist playing along with this challenge! What inspired me most is the colourful background. I decided to use inks as watercolours to paint my cardstock. When the background was dry I used a stamp from the Guide Lines set and white embossing powder to create my pattern. I finished off with chipboard letters accented with a touch of blue glitter to give each one a soft shine. Here is the result:

Be sure to visit Nichole's blog for the complete list of all participants!

Thank you for hopping by today, hope you have a great weekend!

Aga

Jane's Doodles blog hop!

Hello and welcome to the Jane's Doodles blog hop! I'm really honoured and very excited that Jane and Judith invited me to join along their awesome design team. 

Along the way, you are going to find amazing cards by some very talented ladies from the dt as well as from some very special guests playing along.  I can’t wait to see them all! One lucky commenter on any of the blogs along the hop will win 3 stamp sets. To be eligible for the prize, you will need to be a follower of Jane's Doodles!

Ok, let's get started! You should have arrived from Carly's blog, if not you can go HERE and start from the beginning.

Jane's Doodles has a brand new blog, new shop and is officially launching with brand new clear stamp sets and working with them is great fun and pleasure! Here are some cards I made using them:

My first card uses a bird stamp from “Garden Friends” set and also features the sentiment from “Noah’s Ark” set (both available to buy from Jane’s Doodles shop): 

The second card uses a cute “Noah’s Ark” stamp set: 

On this last card, I used the “Little Miss Mia” stamp set, which is available to buy from the Claudia & Company shop: 

Now your next hop is Emily and her lovely creations!

Here is also the full list of blogs in order:

Jane

Alice

Kelly

Mariana

Joy

Carly

--> Aga <--

Emily 

Chan

Cristina

Jennifer

Judith

Thanks for hopping by and have a great week! :)

Aga

congratuLations

The masculine cards are always quite big challenge for me. A masculine card for someone who’s just passed their driving test is even more difficult to make ;) Luckily the Chevron Chic Challenge over at Moxie Fab World inspired me to create this CAS (and quick) card:

The tyre track pattern is made from a “homemade decorative tape” :) After I’ve created and printed out the chevron stripes template, I’ve placed a strip of masking tape called “invisible tape” across the image, rubbed down precisely and then I’ve peeled up the tape gently. The ink from the image has adhered perfectly, and my decorative tape was ready to use. Unfortunately it works only with black ink, but I’m still quite happy with the result :)

Thank you for visiting today!

Aga

Hello!

I’ve been MIA lately with traveling and trying to get a handle on some personal things. Now when I’m back home I feel like I’m chasing my tail trying to catch up on everything what seems to be a never ending “to do” list! :)

Anyway, first thing first.

The winner of the Paper Crafts May/June 2011 issue!  Per random.org the winner is: 

comment no. 07 - cards by cara.  

Congrats! Please email me your info (just click on the ‘email me’ button in my sidebar), and I will get this issue (and some goodies) out to you!

My today’s card is inspired by this month's challenge at Hero Arts blog: Colored Pencil Techniques. I stamped pears from Engraved Fruits  set by Hero Arts with yellow ink (using a masking technique) and then colored it with regular pencils.  I wish I could draw like that!  ;) 

 

The background stamp is from Tattered Textures set by Tattered Angels & Heidi Swapp.

Thank you for taking the time to stop by today and I hope you have a great week!

Aga

M is for Mother

Have you seen the new Paper Crafts May/June 2011 issue yet?  

As always it's filled with great card ideas!  Today just quick popping in to share Mother’s Day card that was picked up as an online bonus project:

You can click HERE for supplies and instructions. 

If you didn't have a chance to get this issue, just leave me a comment (by Monday) that you would like to get one and I'll pick a random person to give it away to!

Thank you for stopping by today and have a great weekend!

Aga

Happy Easter!

Just quickly popping in to share my card I made for Anita for the Hero Arts spring and Easter Card Exchange:

All stamps are by Hero Arts:  Designer Woodgrain background and butterflies from Antique Engravings set. 

Happy Easter everyone! I hope you all have a wonderful long weekend!

Aga

My Core’dinations Creative Frenzy

While looking through blogland I came across Core’dinations blog and saw this DT call. I just thought this would be a great opportunity to use all that lovely cardstock in my stash and I'll give it a try! So here are my 3 entries:

Thank you for stopping by today and have a nice weekend!

Aga