Baby announcement

 a few trials ...

and here's the final result !

This is a baby announcement card that I've made for my sister's third baby boy.

I can finally show it on my blog now, since her son Simen was born on the 18th of February and everyone should have received the announcement by now ;-)

It was a bit of a challenge to come up with something original and it was quite a relief to hear that many people liked the result :).

Thanks for looking and have a lovely day,

xoxo,
Connie

"C" for Cats and Cozy Moments

There's a Cool Challenge over at Meljen's blog this week, use elements on your card that begin with the  letter of your first name, in my Case it's a "C" :).

The "C" stands for Cats and Cozy moments in my Cards :

The digital image I used is "Mother Cat" from Meljen's shop. Such a cutie, isn't it ??

I made three cards in total and here's some more pictures of them :

Well, that was all for today ... I hope to be back soon with another post :)

Have a wonderful day !! Love & hugs and wishing you lots of Cozy Moments !!!
xxx
Connie

Snail mail tags

Hello again,

Here's my second post for today ...

These are some snail mail tags I've created and colored last night.
























I would like to participate with them in Meljen's current challenge - Tag You're it.

I used three of my favorite Meljen's digital images, because they are all related with 'mail' ;-)
(Mailed With Love, Snail Mail & Birds Little Letter)

I created them in Artboard, printed them out and then colored them with coloring crayons...

I guess most of you know that I am also into pen palling, so the tags will be very useful :D

I wonder what you think of them ?

Have a wonderful weekend and take care !!!

Love & hugs,
Connie

Owl bookmarks

Hello fellow bloggers !!

I hope you are all doing fine today !! :)

Today I wanted to show you some owl bookmarks I've made a few days ago !!

I found some inspiration on Pinterest and then tried to make my own version of it ... I think they turned out to be pretty cute ...

I like to enclose them in a letter to my pen friends abroad, 'cause there are many book lovers amongst them ;-).

And here's what they look like when they are attached to a page :

Well, that was all for today folks ;-)

Always looking forward to any feedback, which makes my day !!!

Have a wonderful weekend all of you !!

hugs, xxx
Connie

Opposites attract

Opposites attract....that's the new challenge at Meljen's Designs and I also believe there's a lot of truth in that :) - how about you ??

I've made.....oh yes.....another birthday card, cause that's the kind of cards I need the most in my collection. I really had so much fun today, while creating the card. I recently bought a book about cutting patterns in (origami) or other folding paper. I remember having done this in my childhood years as well, cutting folded paper with 'random' patterns at that time ;-). It is really so cool to do this again and it makes for cute elements that can be used on cards (think of leaves, flowers, borders, and so on) !!

I used a few of those elements on my current card and used the digi called 'cup of sunshine' - I really think this one is gonna be one of my favorites to use on cards !! I colored it with some of my copics and added some pearls to add a little bit of 'bling' to the card.

I used the opposite colors Red & Green of the color wheel :

Below is the book I was talking about, which holds hundreds of beautiful cutting patterns that can be used for many different purposes (home decoration, birthday & other parties, all kinds of craft projects, ..). The original title of the book is "Lady Boutique Series No. 3346" and the author is Akiko Murooka. Maybe it can inspire some of you for future craft projects ?

Have a wonderful day and happy crafting !

hugs xxx

Connie

Other challenges :

AnMaCreatief challenge 21 - birthday card

KIC - challenge 9

Eerst en vooral wil ik Diana (van Just a Note) van harte welkom heten op mijn blog, ik hoop dat ik je hier af en toe wat leuks zal kunnen laten zien :).

Afgelopen week heb ik voor de allereerste keer enkele kaartjes gemaakt als gastdesigner (KIC blog - challenge 9). De bedoeling was om een kaart (of iets anders) te maken met hoofdzakelijk de kleuren blauw en bruin. Dat was voor mij ongelooflijk spannend en ik voelde me eerlijk gezegd wel behoorlijk onzeker. Eigenlijk was één kaartje meer dan voldoende, maar aangezien ik van geen enkele creatie zelf echt overtuigd was, heb ik er maar 3 verschillende opgestuurd...Dit zijn ze uiteindelijk geworden. Ben wel es benieuwd wat jullie er van vinden eigenlijk :)

Groetjes en tot een volgend berichtje,
Connie

Meljen's Design Challenge # 162 : Color Challenge

Hello fellow bloggers :),

So...I think I only have a few hours left to participate in the current challenge at Meljen's Design Blog and here's the card I made for that occasion. So I'm gonna keep my text rather short this time around ;-).

I've decided to make another Birthday card, this time with the cute "Fancy Gift Box" digi that I bought in her shop a few days ago :). I like to make cards based on color combo's and/or sketches.

I hope the colors used for my card match the colors of the picture below well enough ;-)

Wishing all of you a great week with lots of sunshine !!!

hugs xxx

Connie

This was the picture and the color samples we were supposed to use for the card :)

bye bye for now,
Connie