A Fall/Autumn Gnome Easel Card

 

Today I am showing you a gnome easel card that I made as a guest designer for the challenge over at Kaartjes Inspiratie Challenges. The theme is to use leaves on your card so head on over to join in at this wonderful challenge.

So I choose to make an easel card. I used digital designer papers from Nitwit Collections. I added some a piece of beautiful brown ribbon. It is satin with a gold ege and organze. Very pretty and I have every color that was available. The gnome is from Globeland. He is racking up all the fallen leaves and took a pose for this lovely card. I added a tree as well. I inked up most of the leaves to give them a more realistic look. I die cut the large THANKS sentiment out of copper metallic cardstock. And for the finishing touch some golden brown pearls.

I will be adding this to the following challenges:
4 Season Swap - Moodboard
Inspired By - Leaves
Crafty Calendar - Lots Of Layers
Daisy Chain #100 - More Then 1 Fold
The Paper Funday #80 - Changing Of The Seasons
Aud Sentiments #329 - Tags And/Or Thank You
Inspiration Station #77 - Inspirational Photo
The Four Seasons September 2025 - Fall Season
Allsorts #832 - Trees, Leaves and Plants
Penny's Paper Crafty #605 - Anything Goes Using Paper
Paper Rocks Scissors #8 - Anything Goes Using Paper or Scissors
Mix It Up #79 - Anything Goes Optional Fancy Folds

Till next time
Renate

A Poinsettia Circle Christmas Card

Today I am showing you a quick Christmas card I made yesterday.

I took a kraft card base. I also cut another square in kraft and I splattered some paint. I die cut a couple of poinsettia flowers with the centers. I added a bit of pink ink to the centers of the flowers and then added the little yellow center on top of the flowers I die cut various leaves in different tones of green. I compositioned everything and then glued it down.
Now here is the tricky bit that I really should have done before glueing everything down. I still had to stamp the sentiment in the middle so I just kept my fingers crossed and hoped it would turn out ok and it did. However next time I will remember to do this first.

Till next time
Renate

A Floral Christmas Card

 

Hi today I am showing you a floral christmas card. It turned out better then I initially intended so that is realy good.

I used a poppy red base card and put a piece of digital paper on that from the Christmas Romance collection of Nitwit Collections. I love the backgrounds from them so much and use them a lot in my cards. So I don't remember all the brands of the dies I used so lets skip that for now.
I die cut a nesting panel with a lovely lace edge in poppy red. On that I added a white oval panel and I stamped the sentiment on that with black ink. I then cut out a whole bunch of leaves and poinsettias. I inked up some of the leaves and I then made the poinsettias. I die cut the flowers twice in 3 sizes so each of the flower has a double layer. I added the Festive Berries Distress Oxide Ink in the middle of the flowers and added a touch of black on the points. I then sprayed a bit of water on them and shaped the leaves. I added some red stamens to each of the flowers. I used tacky glue to added it all together. I then started to composition everything onto the oval panel and I used quite a bit of foam to add dimension. It is a bit bulky but really beautiful so I think I will hand gift this one instead of mailing this. I decorated the inside to match the front as well.

I will be adding this to the following challenges:
The Holly And Ivy Christmas #191 - Anything Christmas Goes
Sparkles Christmas #176 - Let's See Some Holly
CD Sunday Plus #167 - Anything Digitals Goes
Krafty Chicks #785 - Christmas

Till next time

Renate

A Lemon Get Well Card

 

Today I am showing you a get well or encouragement card with a lovely die set from Spellbinders.

I took a white base card. On that I added a digital paper from the Freshly Squeezed collection of Nitwit Collection. I pierced a border and then stitched it with white crochet yarn. I die cut 2 panels of an arch nestabilities set and I die cut the larger panel of vellum and the smaller panel out of white cardstock. I die cut all the parts of the Lemon Spritz by Spellbinders. I inked up the leaves, lemons and flowers with different tones of Distress Oxide Ink. I added foam tape to give all the pieces a dimensional touch. The sentiment is homemade.

I will be adding this to the following challenges:
Carlin's Kaartenparadijs #86 - Opkikkertje/Beterschap
CD Sunday Plus #166 - Anything Digital Goes

Till next time 
Renate

A Postage Collage Mushroom Card

 

Today I am showing you a postage collage card. I don't make them nearly enough so I just had to do one today.

I used the Waffle Flower Postage Collage die to cut the postage panel. I used the stencil to cover the edges and then added Distress Oxide Inks in the colors Kitsch Flamingo, Scattered Straw and Peeled Paint. I saw on the Waffle Flower Instagram a sample that used this color combination and black silhouette stamps. I needed mushrooms because I am entering this into a challenge but I don't have any mushroom silhouette stamps so I figured why not used dies cut out in black. So I went throught my stash and came up with some grass, mushrooms and butterflies suitable to use as silhouettes. I think it looks better then I expected. I then added some postage detail stamps also from Waffle Flower. I then added it onto a kraft panel and I used a pink base card. The sentiment is homemade.

I will be adding this to the following challenges:
Color Dare #667 - Pastel Colors
Hobby Vision #150 - Paddestoelen
Stencil Fun September 2025 - Anything Goes Using A Stencil
Make My Monday #260 - Fun With Stencils

Till next time

Renate