My Favorite Things - Release Countdown Day 4

Hello and welcome to Day 4 of Release Countdown Week with MFT. I am so excited about today's post and I think you know why - today we are featuring two new sets by Torico - I know you will LOOOOVE these sets as much as I do  I just can't stop playing with them (-: I honestly had a very hard time choosing which of my many cards to show first (-: 

The cat set is called bb-i-knead-you and has 7 super adorable cats and lots of extra images - so fun to play with! 

And the dog set; bb-you-make-my-tail-wag equally fun and cute!!! I smile every time I look at this little guy! The brick bg is created with a new large bg stamp and I know I will come back to this one over and over again!

Supplies:

die-namics-i-knead-you

die-namics-you-make-my-tail-wag

die-namics stitched speechbubble 

die-namics-window

bb-you-make-my-tail-wag

bb-i-knead-you

bg-small-brick-background

Get ready! From March 2 - March 6, we’ll be celebrating your constant companions! From furry to feathered to friendly to faithful, your pets are an important part of the family. There will be fun ways to participate on both Facebook and Instagram (@mftstamps) with photos and stories. And of COURSE there will be crafty prizes for you AND even a little something for your pet! In addition to all of THAT, My Favorite Things owner Kim van der Sanden will be donating $100 to a pet charity each day. ‪#‎mftpets‬

I am finally on Instagram: Follow me there (-:

As always, complete product details, videos and links to all designers playing along with today's featured products can be found at the MFT Blog. 

Hope to see you back here tomorrow when I'm sharing more new, amazing MFT products!

Enjoy your day, hugs, Karin

My Favorite Things: Release Countdown Day 5

Hi Everyone,

It's Day 5 of MFT Release Countdown Week, and I've had lots of fun with some new dies and stamps called die-namics-circle-scribble-flowers, die-namics-scribbles and ljd-circle-scribble-flowers;

As you will see in my upcoming release posts I am absolutely IN LOVE with the die-namics-inside-and-out-stitched-rounded-square-stax - so beautiful and so perfect for so many projects. 

You can make these flowers as elaborate or as simple as you want - endless possibilities. For my flowers here I simply diecut, stamped and inked my flowers using inkblenders. The dots in the center  of my flowers were created with the small dot dies in the candy jar dienamics set. I colored them and then added glossy accent to create my own dot accents. 

Complete product details, videos and links to all designers playing along with today's featured products can be found at the MFT Blog.

I hope you're enjoying all of the sneak peeks of these great new products that will be available on Tuesday!

Supplies:

die-namics-inside-and-out-stitched-rounded-square-stax

die-namics-circle-scribble-flowers

die-namics-television

die-namics-scribbles

die-namics-happy-trio

lld-stay-tuned

ljd-circle-scribble-flowers

Have a great Friday, hugs, Karin

Tokyo and a new MFT card!

I'm just popping in here to explain why I've been so quiet lately and why I have been so crappy at returning comments. Sorry - but we have spent a little more than a week in Tokyo, Japan and I never found time to blog. Today I thought I'd share some pictures from our trip. We had a fantastic time and saw and did so many things. I fell head over heels in love with this amazing city.

 

The famous Shibuya crossing.

 

How I miss to pop in to get some yummy pieces of sushi for lunch - usually just a dollar per piece...

... and this is what I Think I miss the most -  the view from our hotel - Grand Pacific Daiba. We stayed on the 27th floor where every evening there was cocktail hours between 6 and 8 - with panoramic windows and this view. It was amzing and I felt like I was part in "Lost in Translation" every night (-:

 

The Imperial Palace (photo - Ted Nömm)

 

The Sensoji Shrine

 

 Akibura - Electronic city and Odaiba ferris wheel

Toyota Showroom - Ted got to drive across his favorite part of Tokyo - The Rainbow Bridge and then the Statue of Liberty (!)

 

Our breakfast view of Mount Fuji

 

and Ted's birthday present - a visit to Tokyo DisneyLand!

And as promised in the headline I also have a new MFT card to share:

For it I used the super fun speech bubble and heart from Die-namics Photo Booth Props - I just love that the bubble has an outline too - it creates such great detail - especially when you make window cards like this. The sentiment is from the fun Friends stampset.

Die-namics Photo Booth Props
Friends stampset
Adhesive Sheets

Have a great Tuesday everyone, hugs, Karin

Sew Stylish - Inspiration Emporium

Hi!
I'm here today with another card for Inspiration Journal where I and my super talened Inspiration Emporium teamies share  inspiration. If you haven't been already make sure to visit right away  - lots of amazing and inspiring projects !

For my project today I used some old but wonderful stamps from Hero Arts called Sew Stylish (that you can still get at Inspiration Emporium!!!
I stamped the ladies' dresses som smallpatterned fabric and fabric pieced (-: I think it came out quite nice! I had fun anyway (-:

Supplies;

Most of the supplies I used for this card can be found at my favorite craft supply store ;  Inspiration Emporium.

Follow the links below and use my code peppermint to save 10% .

Paper:  OA
Stamps:  Hero Arts Clear 
Ink; Distress Ink and Archival Jet Black  Hero Arts
Tools; Rangers Inkblenders
Paints or markers; Winsor Newton water colors    Gelly Roll Glitter
Adhesive; Plus Glue tape  Glue Dots   Foam adhesive; EK tools
Stencil: Tim Holtz

I also want to point out that US shipping is always just $5 and international shipping is ONLY $10! I just LOVE that!!!!

Have a great day, hugs, Karin

Sunday Watercolors: Coastal scene from Skåne

Today I'm sharing a little summer scene from Skåne - I've been practising waves and wanted to make a painting with some, of course they turn out better on the sketches than on the real painting, but that's how it is with this medium (-;

If you want to see more of my watercolors you can either click the "My Watercolors" button in the top list or in my Watercolors file on Pinterest; http://www.pinterest.com/peppermint42/watercolors


 (OBS - the paintings there are not only by me, though I wish because I've collected some favorites)

Have a great Sunday, hugs, Karin

My Favorite Things - Dienamics Design : WORD DIES

Hi and welcome to February's Dienamics Design Challenge. This time we are playing with word dies and I had so much fun with the latest LOVE and FRIEND die-namics.

Make sure you pop over to the MFT blog for links to my teamies and more inspiring projects. Hope we've inspired you to take out your worddies and try something new!
Hugs, Karin


Supplies:

bb-you-have-my-heart

die-namics-love

die-namics-stitched-jumbo-fishtail-banner-stax

Inspiration Emporium ; Thinking of You!

Today's card was made for the Inspiration Journal where I and my super talened teamies share  inspiration. If you haven't been already make sure to visit right away  - lots of amazing and inspiring projects !

For this card I embossed the flower dor bg stamp on patterned paper using distress embossing powder from Rangers. I just LOVE that rough, sandy touch to it. I embossed some butterflies on vellum and added some pearls for extra dimension.

Supplies;

Most of the supplies I used for this card can be found at my favorite craft supply store ;  Inspiration Emporium.

Follow the links below and use my code peppermint to save 10% .

Dies:  Hero Arts
Stamps:  Hero Arts Clear  Antique Engravings
Ink; Distress Ink and Distress embossing ink
Embossing Powder ; Rangers
Vellum
Tools; Rangers Inkblenders
Embellies; Pearls Kaiser Kraft
Adhesive; Plus Glue tape  Glue Dots   Foam adhesive; EK tools

I also want to point out that US shipping is always just $5 and international shipping is ONLY $10! I just LOVE that!!!!

 

I am also entering this card for the Nature challenge at Hero Arts;

Have a great day, hugs, Karin

My Favorite things; Creative Challenge: EASTER

Hi!

It's time for MFT Hop into Action Creative Challenge! This time we focus on Easter projects so be prepared for lots of cuteness from my teamies. Here are my projects;

For links to the rest of the MFT team please visit MFT blog


I used some wonderful products from MFT's two latest releases;

die-namics-stitched-rectangle-frames

die-namics-somebunny

die-namics-stitched-jumbo-fishtail-banner-stax

die-namics-candy-jars

bb-somebunny

candy-jar-companions

Die-namics LJD Peek-a-Boo Circle Windows

The sentiment on the first card was typed on the compter using a free font called DYMO. It can be downloaded here at dafont.

Have a great day, hugs, Karin

Lawnscaping Challenge #100 - Birthdays

Hi Everyone!

I'm here to introduce a new challenge at Lawnscaping. This time it a Birthday Challenge!!!

 
And not just any birthday - It is our 100th challenge if you can believe it! We are all so excited and wanted to celebrate in an extra special way. So each of us on the Design Team invited a special party guest to play along with us today! I am so happy to tell you that my special party guest is no other than Miriam Prantner ( Sooner rather than Later ). You probably already know her, but if not; Miriam is SUPER talented, has won more challenges than I can count to -she designs the coolest stamps and I just LOVE her fun and clever carddesigns! Isn't this just the cutest birthday card?

Now be sure to head on over to the  Lawnscaping Blog where you can see ALL of the Design Team projects as well as ALL of our special party guest projects.

For my card I used stamps from these wonderful Lawn Fawn sets: Hello Baby and Pa-rum-pa-pum-pum and dies called : cole's ABCs and Hello Baby

And our fabulous sponsor; Lawn Fawn!!! You can win a set of your choice YEAH!!!

Pop over to Lawnscaping for all the info you need and to join the challenge!

Have a great day, hugs, Karin