Santas little helper

Santa's Little helper is a card I made with Pion papers and at first I had the idea I was never going to use brown paper for a Christmas card. But then I decided to do it in vintage style and now I kind of love it. For the stamp I used little Edwin as Santa's helper

Magnolia EDWIN ON CHRISTMAS EVE Rubber Stamp Sweet Dreams 2011

 and kept the colors also a bit vintage and coordinated with the brown paper. For the first time I used UTEE, ultra thick enamel powder (as seen in the tutorial on this blog). Fun to do and I like the result.

The flowers I did with a new die from Die Namics. You can make flowers (roses) and also pine- or fir cone with this die.
After all I don't regret to have played with the dark brown paper and here you can see the result:

Challenges:

Tilda's Town: Merry Christmas

Crealing Challenge 6 - Zelfgemaakte bloemen

Shopping list for this card:

Bazzill white for the base

Pion patterned paper for the rest and also for the roses.

Magnolia Stamp Edwin on Christmas Eve Sweet Dreams 2011

Marianne Design LR0240-Large Ovals Petra

Die Namics die for the roses

Cheery Linn dies for the leaves

Walnut stain distress inkpad

A bit of white acrylic paint  Fleur

Pearls and twine from my stash.

Hope you like it and thanks for visiting!

Gr. Riet

Halloween - Verjaardagskaart - popup

Halloween!!!
A card not too scary but fun for a little boy's birthday, as I plan to use it for.
It's a combination of Halloween and Birhday as you can see at the sentiments.
Will take part a few challenges as you can see at the bottom of this post.
There will also be a list of used items, but first the pictures of my card:

It's a pop-up card but here it is still flat together with a tag that can be hidden inside.

Here is the pop-up pumpkin with edwin and black bird

flat again and another pic of the tag

List of used items:

Craft cardstock Bazzill

Patterned paper from a set I bought a few weeks ago at Lidl

Magnolia stamp (oldie) Edwin with chicken

Sentiment stamp: Forever Friends

Pumpkin Stamp bargain from Hobbystunter
Marianne Design die (stamp with spider)

Spider, bat and black bird (SP design) I printed on aquarel paper and hand colored with distress ink

Ribbon: Tilda Panduro

Pumpkin and Edwin colored with distress markers and re-inkers Ranger

Challenge: Dutch Magnolia Lovers # 41 - Halloween - Verjaardagskaart
Challenge: Hooked on Crafts - Halloween
Challenge: Magnolia Stamp Lovers Challengeblog: BOO 2 YOU http://magnoliastamplovers.blogspot.nl/2012/09/boo-2-younew-challenge.html

Hope you like the card and thanks for visiting!

Riet