Designing for Amuse Studio; Penguins; Warm Wishes

Hi Everyone!
I'm here to share a new card as October Guest Designer for A muse Studio.

Make sure to pop over to the A muse Studio Blog for lots of wonderful inspiration!


Supplies I used for this card:

Stamps:

pining for you - stamp set and dies 

season's tweetings - stamp set and dies

Peace - new word die 

very merry add-ons stamp set and dies

redwood background

https://www.amusestudio.com/products/redwood-background


Other:

Card stock
Copic Markers
Tombow adhesive tape runner
Foam Adhesive
Memento Ink


You can shop your A-Muse Studio products HERE


I also share my cards and watercolors here:  My Instagram and  in my PINTEREST FOLDER

Have a great day, hugs, Karin 

PS Pep Rally Blog Hop - Let's Chill Snowman

PS DT Blog Hop
It's Pep Rally week and we are here today to share a sampling of the NEW Paper Smooches DECEMBER 2017 release with you!  TWO new stamp sets and FOUR new dies will be available to purchase at 8:00pm PT on November 30th.  You will find our new products HERE once they go live.  

To add extra fun to our blog hop...we are offering up a prize! 

The prize - a $25. gift code to choose what you like at the PS online store.

Here are the details:

• FOUR winners will be chosen at RANDOM from any of the design team blogs and the PS Blog to win the $25. prize.
• Just leave a comment on any of the design team blogs listed below or the PS blog for your chance to win!  (you do not need to comment on all blogs to qualify but it will increase your chances) 
• Deadline: You have until midnight PT on Sunday, December 3rd to leave a comment. 
• Please check the Paper Smooches blog on Monday, December 4th to see if you are one of the FOUR lucky winners.  

 

Alice Wertz

Jill Hawkins

Karin Akesdotter

Laurie Schmidlin

Michele Boyer

Savannah O' Gwynn

Teri Anderson

To increase your chances of winning:

• Tell us that you Facebooked about our blog hop
• Tell us that you Tweeted about our hop
• Tell us that you posted on your blog about our blog hop

(which means that you have up to three extra chances to win on each blog)

  

 

 

 

Paper Smooches supplies :

Let's Chill Snowman
Let's chill die





Here is where you'll find the Paper Smooches online store!

I also share my cards and watercolors here:  My Instagram and  in my  Paper Smooches PINTEREST FOLDER

Have a great day, hugs, Karin 

Sunday Watercolor : Pet Portrait - cat

Meet

I use Winsor Newtons Artists' watercolors and Daniel Smith's extra fine watercolors. The paper I use is 140lb 300 grams Arches rough or fine.
I also share my watercolors and cards here:  My Instagram
If you want to see more of my watercolors, you can view them HERE or in my PINTEREST FOLDER

Have a great day, hugs, Karin

ps. yes, I do paint pet portraits on comission - e-mail me for more info.

GIVE-A-WAY Technique Tuesday

Hi Everyone!

 

Today I have something special for you ! A fantastic GIVE-A-WAY featuring stamps from Technique Tuesdays Greenhouse Society stamps and dies- just by commenting below you can win this wonderful stamp called Magnolia Branch + coordinating die from Teqhnique Tueasday (Worth 24 usd ) or Another set of stamps + dies of your choice - info below!

 

If you like watercolors as much as I do this stamp is absolutely perfect to use with the no line coloring technique - it looks just like I've drawn and painted it myself - but didn't have to do any of the hard work of sketching and drawing!!!!

I also have to share this super sweet owl designed by Tam Hess - Isn't it just the CUTEST!!!!!

 Here’s how to play along with the give-a-way:

1. Take a peek at the Greenhouse Society category here: https://www.techniquetuesday.com/greenhouse-society-stamp-sets-matching-crafting-dies.html

2. Choose your favorite stamp and matching die

3. Comment below with your choice

4. The 5th of December I’ll draw a winner!

Good Luck!!!!

You don't have to be a follower to play!

I also share my cards and watercolors here:  My Instagram 

 
Have a great day, hugs, Karin 

 

Paper Smooche's November release #4 Hello birds

Hi Everyone!

Welcome to a new post with Paper Smooche's  latest release! I just love everything about it! For this post I have played with the super fun Layered Hello die, Deco Edge Dies  and the awesome and super sweet Baby Birds :   

 

Paper Smooches supplies :

Layered Hello die 

Baby Birds :   

Deco Edge Dies


Here is where you'll find the Paper Smooches online store!

I also share my cards and watercolors here:  My Instagram and  in my  Paper Smooches PINTEREST FOLDER

Have a great day, hugs, Karin 

A Muse Studio Guest Designer: peace (wood)

Hi Everyone!
I'm here to share a new card as October Guest Designer for A muse Studio.

Make sure to pop over to the A muse Studio Blog for lots of wonderful inspiration!


Supplies I used for this card:

Stamps:

pining for you - stamp set and dies 

season's tweetings - stamp set and dies

Peace - new word die 

very merry add-ons stamp set and dies

redwood background

https://www.amusestudio.com/products/redwood-background


Other:

Card stock
Copic Markers
Tombow adhesive tape runner
Foam Adhesive
Memento Ink


You can shop your A-Muse Studio products HERE


I also share my cards and watercolors here:  My Instagram and  in my PINTEREST FOLDER

Have a great day, hugs, Karin 

LawnFawnatics Color Inspiration Challenge

Hi Everyone!
I'm here to share a card for the new Lawn Fawnatics Challenge. This time Jenn has put together some wonderful pictures and colors to inspire us and this is my take:

You can use the colors or the pictures or both as your inspiration. I was inspired by the Christmas feeling in the pictures and the colors of the hearts! I used copic coloring and combined two new favorite sets: Here-we-go-a-waddling and Winter Village

Make sure to pop over to the Lawn Fawnatics blog for lots of wonderful inspiration from my talented teamies and of course to play along for your chance to win 25 $ to the Lawn Fawn Store!


Supplies I used for this card:

Stamps:
Winter Village
Here-we-go-a-waddling

Other:
Memento Ink
Scotch foam tape
Tombow adhesive tape

You can shop your Lawn Fawn products HERE
I also share my cards and watercolors here:  My Instagram and  in my PINTEREST FOLDER

Have a great day, hugs, Karin 

PCS - Gingerbread Houses

Hi Everyone!

It is Saturday so I'm here to share a published card again. This card was published in the  HOLIDAY cards issue of CardMaker 2016.

CardMaker is a fantastic Magazine and they share lots of  wonderful inspiration on their blog.

You can view more of my Projects here: My Instagram and My Pinterest

Have a great day! hugs, Karin

Paper Smooches November Release #3 Heartfelt Condolences

Hi Everyone!
Welcome to a new post with Paper Smooche's  latest release! For today's post I have played with the Beautiful  Sympathy sampler set:   

 

Paper Smooches supplies :

Sympathy Sampler

Polka Dot border dies

Single Rose die




Here is where you'll find the Paper Smooches online store!

I also share my cards and watercolors here:  My Instagram and  in my  Paper Smooches PINTEREST FOLDER

Have a great day, hugs, Karin 

Fawny Holiday Inspiration Week

 

Hi Everyone!

 

I'm so excited to be part of the Lawn Fawn Fawny Holiday Inspiration Week. I have a card made with one of their super adorable new set: Winter Village . I wanted the windows to light up so I added some light and a battery and then used the awesome intercative set called  Push Here .

 

 

 

 

Pop over to the Lawn Fawn blog for some awesome inspiration from my super talented teamies!

 

Have a great day!

Hugs, Karin

 

I also share my cards and watercolors here:  My Instagram and  in my PINTEREST FOLDER

 

25 days of Christmas tags! For Lawn Fawn

Hi Everyone!! I'm so excited to be taking part in Tracey McNeeley's 25 Days of Christmas Tags this year too! Today is Lawn Fawn day, so you'll definitely want to stop over there and check out all the amazing Lawn Fawn projects!

For my tags, I used the super adorable new For You deer stamps and dies. These tags can easily be removed and used as either tags or bookmarks.

By hopping along you will be inspired but also make sure to comment on each post, all throughout the 25 days, because there are lots of great sponsors and awesome prizes every day! Check out Tracey's blog for all the details.

I also share my cards and watercolors here:  My Instagram and  in my PINTEREST FOLDER

Have a great day!

Hugs, Karin 

Sunday Watercolor: Mice in Snow

I use Winsor Newtons Artists' watercolors and Daniel Smith's extra fine watercolors. The paper I use is 140lb 300 grams Arches rough or fine.
I also share my watercolors and cards here:  My Instagram
If you want to see more of my watercolors, you can view them HERE or in my PINTEREST FOLDER

Have a great day, hugs, Karin

ps. yes, I do paint pet portraits on comission - e-mail me for more info.