Greetings, my friends! Today I have a special post for you. As a part of Do!ts Magazine team, I invite you to visit their page and have some fun with us. I made this cute and simple card out of products that are available in Croatia, and I made a short video tutorial.
You can visit this link to see the rest of the card and watch the tutorial. I would love to hear your comments, so that my future videos would be of more help to you.
Illustrations
Just around the corner
The snow has melted and we’ve had sunshine for two days in a row. I believe the spring is just around the corner. Unfortunately, I still can’t enjoy it since I do not feel very well. Maybe I just need a good rest. Anyway, yesterday you could have seen my new set of drawings at the Squiggle Fly Shop for the first time and today I updated my Etsy shop a bit. Maybe there will be some new spring and summer products this month in my shops. I want to thank you all for you support. By purchasing my drawings and cards you support the work of The Traveler organization. For the most part, with that money we finance many free workshops that I organize here in Croatia.
Today I made a card using this Tuesday Trigger. When I saw that bright and cute pattern it reminded me of a paper I have. I combined it with some canvas paper and did some stitching. It is a birthday card and I used my Croatian stamps for the sentiments.
I linked it over at the Moxie Fab World Tuesday Trigger. Since I am not working today, I have some more time to create additional projects for the next Paper Crafts Magazine Submission call. If they pick my work again, this will be a very happy year for me.
My New Squiggle Fly Digital Stamps
Hello there! I am stopping by to share some good news with you. You can find my new set of digital drawings at the Squiggle Fly Shop. I decided to have some fun with them and I have crated this CAS card using some special glossy paper that has texture like canvas.
I used a sketch from CASE this sketch Challenge and linked it also on Simon Says Stamp Challenge.
To color the digital drawing I played with some ink and q-tips.
Thank you for stopping by and for supporting The Traveler Organization by purchasing our cards and our stamps.
A new Card and a new Stamp set
Hello! Today I am posting a card I have made yesterday. I took the colors from the Moxie Fab World Tuesday Trigger (the inspirational photo is right under this text) and the sketch from the Case Study Challenge.
Lovely colors. And here is my card. I had fun adding some extra dimension to the flower and leaves.
For the sentiment (Happy Birthday) I used one of my new stamp sets in Croatian language. Here is the entire set for the first time. If by any chance you would like to have this set or any other that is still available, please send me an email. I know a couple of ladies that get pretty excited about them, just like me. Can you blame us? For now I did not find any stamps in our language but, thankfully, I can make my own and enjoy making projects in Croatian for the rest of the year.
Well, let me know if you want some stamps in Croatian language. Thank you for stopping by today!
Sponsoring DYSU Challenge #104
Greetings! I have a special card for today. I made it using one of my Illustrations from the Etsy Shop. It is made for the DYSU Challenge #104. If you want to have fun and maybe win some of my drawings, join in the challenge.
Thankful for your support
Today I decided not to share my card. Rather, I will share some informations and photos of cards other people made. I wanted to thank you all for your support. Thank you for all the purchases these days that allowed us in the Traveler organization to buy some gifts for the kids in a nearby kids home. A big thanks goes also to ‘Euroliber’ publishing house. They donated a big amount of their lovely calendars so we were able to give some gifts to the staff too. Me and a couple of my friends had a great time this last Sunday when we visited the kids and spent some time with them. We enjoyed a Christmas play, some pizza and I had a workshop. There are no pictures from the visit since it is not allowed to take photos there. I also had a workshop on Saturday and enjoyed it a lot.
Today I wanted to share two cards with you. These ladies bought some of my Illustrations in my Etsy shop and later they sent me some photos of the projects they made. It is great to see how other people enjoy these Illustrations. Thank you ladies for sharing these photos with us.
Margaret
You can get involved and help our work purchasing cards from this album or from my Woohoo store, purchasing some of my stamps designs, or Illustrations from my Etsy Shop or Squiggle Fly.
All white with a bit of grey
Yesterday I finally made a card. Somehow these days I do not make a lot of cards and I feel like my ideas are all gone. A lot of changes are happening in my life and maybe I am just trying to survive it all. I know that in one of my recent posts I wrote how I will make a card for the Spellbinders contest at the very end, but today I changed my mind. I was relaxing yesterday and made this white card with just a bit of grey colors. These are the Spellbinders products I have used: Scalloped Circles Large, Foliage, Labels 11 and M-bossabilities folder.
I also used some of my new sentiments in Croatian language. These years I used mostly simple Croatian sentiments and I believe that it is time for some change. The second stamp set I showed recently had some text dividers and the third set that I will show today has some big and complex sentiments (for this card I have used a part of the fourth set too). I played a bit more with them to show you some of the things you can make with them.
Well I hope you like the card and this new stamp set in Croatian language. Thank you for stopping by today.
The card is linked at the following challenges: Crafty Friends and Spellbinders Contest.
A simple masculine card
Today, while I am patiently waiting for some happy email from The Paper Craft’s Team, I will share a card that did not make it in one of their Submission calls. I used my TCM set (Ladies and Gents) and I have created the sentiment. It is simple and quite masculine. Somehow I like it (and, believe it or not, I do not like all the cards I have made).
Speaking of masculine cards… Have you read those articles in new Do!ts about masculine side of Christmas and the advices about gift shopping for your ladies? Those articles are so funny. I was reading it in the train and laughed so much that people started to look at me funny.
Oh, and let me also remind you about the news I had yesterday.
“Now, as for my news… The Traveler organization (that I support with my crafting) is gathering money to buy some gifts for the kids in a nearby children’s home. Now, for the next two weeks all the sales from the stamps, Illustrations (eather from Etsy or Squiggle Fly) and my cards will be used for that purpose. So, please, spread the word and get involved if you can. We will also have a workshop there in the weeks to come, so pray that everything will be great.”
Thank you for stopping by today!
Preparing for December/Pripreme za prosinac
Greetings! Today I have a Christmas card and again some news. But, this time I need your help. So, let me start again with my card. It is a simple card inspired by: Case Study Challenge, Ribbon Reel Challenge and I have linked it to a December Gallery Challenge over at the Paper Craft Connection. Btw., today I have submitted three projects for the Paper Crafted Cards and Gifts Magazine. I wish I had more time for this one. Now I can only patiently wait for that happy mail from miss. Susan Opel. I just love when she sends me emails.
[Lijepi pozdrav svima! Danas imam jednu blagdansku čestitku i još malo novosti. No, ovoga puta novost je malo drugačija i potrebna mi je vaša pomoć. Prvo, dozvolite da postam današnju kartu. Postavila sam ju na sljedeće izazove: Case Study Challenge, Ribbon Reel Challenge i December Gallery Challenge (Paper Craft Connection). Usput, danas sam brzinski predala tri projekta za nadolazeći časopis Paper Crafted Cards and Gifts. Da sam barem imala malo više vremena. Sada mi samo preostaje strpljivo čekati veseli email gospođe Susan Opel. Zaista volim kad mi piše.]
Now, as for my news… The Traveler organization (that I support with my crafting) is gathering money to buy some gifts for the kids in a nearby children’s home. Now, for the next two weeks all the sales from the stamps, Illustrations (eather from Etsy or Squiggle Fly) and my cards will be used for that purpose. So, please, spread the word and get involved if you can. We will also have a workshop there in the weeks to come, so pray that everything will be great.
[A sada što se tiče one novosti… Udruga PUTNIK (koju podupirem svojim kraftanjem) sakuplja novac za poklone djeci u Dječjem domu u Laduču. U naredna dva tjedna, sav novac zarađen od prodaje štambilja, crteža (bilo s Etsy Shopa ili Squiggle Flya) ili čestitki, koristit ćemo u tu svrhu. Stoga apeliram da proširite ovu vijest (npr. tako da podijeliti ovaj album na Facebooku) i, ukoliko možete, uključite se u akciju. Također ćemo održati i radionicu u narednim tjednima za djecu, stoga možete moliti da sve prođe dobro.]
Christmas Cards and new Illustrations
Today I have made two cards (two different styles) and I have a new information to share. So, let me start with the cards. The first one is inspired by these challenges: Waltzingmouse Sketch Challenge and Paper Play Challenge.
The second one is a CAS Christmas card inspired by: The Play Date Cafe and Case This Sketch Challenge.
Well, I had fun making them. And now, before I leave, I wanted to tell you that there is another place where you can buy my Illustrations (besides my Etshy Shop). Starting today, Squiggle Fly is selling some of my drawings. I wanted to thank you all for your love and support. By selling my drawings, stamps and cards I am able to support some of the projects The Traveler organization is doing.
Elizabeta Kushner 