Je ne regrette rien

Hello there!
How’ve you been?

I’ve been pretty productive the last days (only craft-wise, haha) and made my first five 12×12 scrapbook pages. They’re loaded with pictures from our vacation in South Africa and I am planning on making a whole album for my mom’s birthday. (I don’t think she’ll read this and in case she does, she already guessed that anyway ) Anyway, of course I can’t show them to you yet, but I promise to take pictures and post them at the beginning of October.

On Thursday I went to see “Religulous” with my friend Carola, I highly recommend it!
It’s very provocative of course, but sadly also very true. About Bill Mahers opinions expressed in the movie I have to say: If you know me, you’ll agree that there’s no need to preach to the converted (no pun intended) It’s very funny, I almost spit on the people in front of me several times So if it’s airing in a movie theater near you, go watch it!

Oooh look at these!
Are they from a secret admirer?
From a neighbourhood guy who has a crush on me?

Nope, they’re from my Mom She wanted to cheer me up and seriously, there aren’t many colours that I’d consider cheerier than this bright orange – isn’t she the best? *smooch*

Well, that’s about what I wanted to write to you, my pretend audience.
To finish off here’s a little card I made:

BTW this is not a stamp. I drew that with a white gel pen
Have a great week!

This Scene Is Dead

I’ve been visiting my mom for a week now, that’s why I’ve been missing in action.

On Thursday we had the most beautiful, hot summer day which we spent lying in the sun and swimming in a little lake near my hometown. We went to the cinema twice (one was 3D, really cool) and for Sunday Buck and I were invited to a garden party (I made our special cheese & onion bread).

I’m back now, went to work today, also went to the vet with Buck (he has a bit of a cold and therefore received an injection, but he was a good boy and didn’t cry ) and now I’m here to share a card I made – some Cosmo Cricket sweetness. Aren’t these bunnies just the cutest?!

It’s okay to love the way that something looks… Just be sure beneath it something hooks.

Hello everybody, I’m back with a card I just made (about half an hour ago!) for participating in Dawn McVey’s Colour Challenge for the first time. The colours we were to use are as follows:

Very girly, pretty much like most of the stuff Dawn makes And here’s what I created:

Dontcha just looove the bird? It’s from PRIMA and I think it is totally sweet.
BTW sorry for the blurry grey photo, you know how they say: “How do you recognize Germany on a satellite picture? – From the closed cloud cover.”

Anyhow, here are the details:

CS: PTI Rustic Cream, Stampin’ Up Raspberry Tart DSP
Ink: PTI Plum Pudding
Stamps: PRIMA Clear Stamp Birdy
Ribbon: Fancypants Designs All Fall Gingham
Button: from my local sewing shop
Other stuff: Elegant Eggplant Marker, Fiskars Scallop Sentiment punch, coloured pencil

As you can see, I threaded the button with purple paper (“faux thread”), a very smart trick I learned from Andrea Walford.
Well, I hope you like it and if you do, I’d love you to leave a comment!
Have a great day!

I’m fine but I hear those voices at night sometimes

Sounds kinda dark, doesn’t it
The song is great though.

So as promised here is the stuff I made the day I got those adorable Sweet Kawaii stamps from My Cute Stamps. All in all they’re 8 cards and in todays “photo shoot” I made pictures of 17 cards in total. Hee. Here are the eight cards I made with the Sweet Kawaii set:

The general design ideas came from the cards I saw on Krystie Lee’s blog. If you have any questions on material or technique, don’t hesitate to ask! While playing with the set I noticed some things which I wrote down and will try some time later, if it works you’ll get pictures.

Btw I also tried to set up my sewing machine. Oh nightmare! It seems this thing is made from massive lead or something.

Another random note: tonight I dreamt of Craig Ferguson, he was driving (we were in Scotland, but before that I was in Spain with my mom… hmm…) and I was in the backseat and we were talking and then we were suddenly walking in the woods and Christa Miller (Jordan from Scrubs) was running past us and asking us whether we’ve seen somebody she was desperately looking for – and she had a rifle
Yeah the guy who composes my dreams is actually on crack, you guessed it.

Anyway, gotta go. See yas!

P.S. I’m soon getting sweet sweet stuff in the mail, check it out @ Dana’s blog.
PPS.: The fabric in the pictures is from Heather Bailey’s Freshcut Collection.

I tried to do handstands for you

Hey everyone!
I’ve been off for over a week since I had a friend from my hometown visiting me. So for one whole week I was busy entertaining her But now I’m back, sharing with you some stuff I made over the next days.

First of all, here’s the card for my brothers b-day:

In diesem Sinne: Alles Gute, Großer!
{BTW this is a shameless CASE from Kristina Werners supercute card. Um, did I mention I dreamt of visiting her in the States the other night… yeah I know lol!}

Next up I got a Blog Award!! Dana gave it to me, so: Thanks, chickie!

Since it’s my second award, I might just have to open a new category

What you need to do when you receive this award:

* Accept the award, post it on your blog together with the name of the person who has granted the award, and his or her blog link.
* Pass the award to 15 other blogs that you have newly discovered. Remember to contact the bloggers to let them know they have been chosen for this award.

So in order to comply [a bit] with these rules, here are some newly-found blogs or other gems from blogland I’d like to tell you about (in no special order):

#1 Sandra aka Scrapperia – Talented and incredibly funny (if you happen to understand any German)

#2 Stephanie – Of course she had a blog before, but look! It’s all new

#3 Savitri – most of you will probably know her, she’ll soon move to Europe, yay

#4 Deanna Woodland – I’ve been a loyal follower of her blog for quite some time, go check it out!

#5 Clean and Simple – just as the name suggests

#6 Laura – Her creations are adorable! And she used to live in Germany!

#7 Alberto Cerriteño – That’s a different kind of blog, but that man is so awesome, I had to share.

#8 Danielle Layton – She used to be on the Cosmo Cricket DT, but not only her artwork, also her posts are way cool!

#9 Krystie Lee – She made me do it! She made me buy the supercute stamps! I ripped the package open and used them all the day they came! In my next post you’ll see what I did with them Hee.

Oh, so many smilies – see, I had to tell you about them since these blogs really make me smile!!
Anyway, have a great Monday!!