February Card Chain Challenge

Hi friends!

This card is my entry to the Card Chain Challenge. It is my second time playing along and I was not a good participant this time: I know I sent my card too late and today is the reveal day and my card can't be in it's destination yet -I have very little faith to Mr. Postie right now, he has misbehaved lately!! So my apologies to Kristina who will get this card hopefully tomorrow or the day after that. I received a wonderful, wonderful card from Jo. I really loved it. Jo makes fantastic cards -please visit her blog for admiring her work. 

I chose the colors of the February CCC Challenge as my starting point and then played with my Cuttlebug when making this card. The feather die is a magazine freebie and the embossing folder is by Spellbinders. The sentiment is heat embossed with white powder on vellum and it comes from STAMPlorations:

Hashtag Authentic Stamp Set

I hope you like my card and so sorry again Kristina that you didn't receive this on time! 

CASEing Kylie at TIME OUT!

Hi friends!

We have a new challenge for you at TIME OUT Challenges: we are CASEing (with your own twist) the fabulous Kylie. Kylie is known from several blogs: her own blog Kylie is Addicted to Stamps and More and her challenge blogs Addicted to CAS, Addicted to Stamps and More and Happy Stampers. Kylie also designs watermarks and blog headers -she did mine! :) I'd love you to head on over to TIME OUT blog and have a look how our DT members and GD Sarah from Sazzle Dazzle Crafts CASEd Kylie and what kind of own twists they used!

I decided to make a floral card like Kylie but left my stamps in peace... I created this with a new ARTPlorations stencil called Bold Florals, available at STAMPlorations store here. I used mini ink blending tool and some memento inks for sponging the flowers. I wanted to bring dry embossing to my card to follow Kylie's design and used a die as embossing "plate" with my Cuttlebug. That worked really nicely, I love the texture and yet the card is not very bulky. The sentiment strip covers the line between sponging and embossing making the card look nice and tidy. :) Hope you like and hope to see you taking TIME OUT and CASEing Kylie!

January Card Chain Challenge Reveal

Hi friends!

During Christmas hols I had time to browse blogs all over blogland: something I haven't done much before the hols or after either... If you wonder why you don't receive comments from me lately it's due to lack of time and lack of energy -so much to do, so little time! Anyways, I found a blog called Society of Stampaholics where blog owner Deborah organizes Card Chain Challenges: after signing up and making your card you actually SEND it to another participant and also receive one yourself. A very nice, a little bit different challenge. I believe Deborah is revealing all the cards sent and received in her blog today so maybe you'll want to head on over and see what everyone made!

My card is a simple tag card. The color palette is chosen from the challenge. I used a stencil for water stamping the bg (the tag was first sponged with DI:s) and colored the Altenew flower with Copics. The swirl and the sentiment come from the same stamp set.

Thanks Deborah for this cool challenge! Have a nice day everyone and see you later today with a new DT card for STAMPlorations. 

First Ever One Layer Christmas Cards Challenge!

Looking for my CASology GD card? Scroll down or click here.

Hi friends! 

This is already my second post for today... Busy day at Runaway Cards! :)

You might have noticed the new DT badge on my sidebar: I'm very happy to be part of the design team of a new challenge blog called One Layer Christmas Card Challenge! We have 2 challenges for you every month. The challenges are always anything goes with an optional twist -this time it's "red". If you follow the twist you have a chance to win a prize that's drawn once a month!  

I created the ornament in my card by first sponging pink ink through a die cut aperture. I then placed a Simon Says Stencil on top of the sponged ornament (my die cut mask still in place) and stenciled flowers with darker red ink. The string and bow are stamped with stamps by Papertery Ink... And the sentiment (heat embossed with Ranger Liquid Platinum) comes from STAMPlorations set Christmas Flower. Several of One Layer Christmas DT girls used this flower in their cards by the way, don't forget to check them out here! I'm very excited to be in this new design team with all these talented ladies. I hope to see you joining us and playing along!

I'd like to join these challenges:

http://virginiasviewchallenge.blogspot.ca/  Clean Slate

http://dreamvalleychallenges.blogspot.ca/ Christmas

Thank You Card for Sarah!

Hi friends!
Here's a thank you- card I made for Sarah, one of my teammates at TIME OUT Challenges. If you don't know Sarah, do visit her blog Funky Fossil Designs -she makes super stylish cards! Sarah very kindly sent me the tag die I used in this card as Christmas present (along with a Wink of Stella pen and some beautiful sequins!) so I wanted to send her a card as thank you, using the fun die. :) I used stamps by Avocado Art and Simon Says Stamp falling snow stencil with embossing paste in my tag. The sky is inked with DI and my penguin is colored in with Copics. I opted for a very simple layout.

I'd like to enter these challenges:

http://showcasechallenge.blogspot.fi/2014/12/showcase-your-style-challenge-5-theme.html Use a die cut



http://houseofcardschallenge.blogspot.fi/2015/01/january-challenge-use-glitter-andor.html Colors of the inspiration photo

5 Cards with Die Cuts!

Hi friends!

Five cards in one post, I know what you are thinking... Me getting the Cuttlebug has turned me into a card-making maniac! Truth being told I needed last-minute cards for friends who we are visiting during the holidays and playing with my new toy motivated me to make these. Let's get started!

Card one:

This is made for CAS-Colours and Sketches Challenge. The challenge was to choose a previous double challenge (containing both inspiration colours and a sketch) and I went for Challenge #40. Very inspirational DT makes in the blog. I used a large snowflake die from PTI I've got as a gift from Sandie along with small snowflakes I've cut with a die I got to borrow from Marika. Thanks friends!! The blue card has shimmer on it and the white snowflakeS are covered with Versamark and heat embossed with WOW clear sparkle embossing powder. Gems and sentiment from SSS finish this card.  

Card two:

This one started with the half snowflake I had as leftovers from the first card. The colors are a bit wild with blue, red AND green but I do like the layout! I love these big snowflakes -I can use them as doilies and everyone knows I love doilies. :) The poinsettia and leaf are gifts I got last year from Loll. I used all the poinsettias I had left in the next 3 cards. They are truly beautiful, thank you Loll for giving these to me! 

Card three:

Another one with Loll's poinsettia and leaf swirl. This time I was able to throW in a doily. ;) I quite like how easy it is to combine die-cuts with patterned paper. I have loads of paper waiting to be used! 

Card four:

Poinsettia, leaf and patterned paper again... This time combined with another large die cut snowflake from PTI. White and red always look very fresh together I think. 

Card five:

My last card has two ornaments cut with a die I bought second hand for 4,50 euros... I think it was a good price for two different ornaments (only one used here).  Surprisingly there's a doily and some gems in this card... Not repeating myself am I... But there's a fun heat embossed panel, stamped with an Impression Obsession background stamp. This is a bit too busy for my taste... But it's growing on me. 

Well done if you made it all the way here! Thanks for reading this very long and photo-heavy post. I hope you are all enjoying Christmas preparations. 

Silver at CASology

Hi guys!

Here's my almost last minute entry to CASology: silver that I created with die cut baubles. The baubles are cut from a regular white cardstock and then heat embossed with WOW embossing glitter Vintage Amethyst. That stuff looks stunning!! I added some foil paper to the back of the baubles and all the shine and glittering made this card a nightmare to photograph... But I hope you get the idea. The sentiment is Finnish for Merry Christmas. I added some silver string and red gems for extra festive look! :) 

Since this is a Christmas card I'd also like to enter this to Kylie's Christmas Card Challenge where there is fab DT inspiration and beautiful cards in the gallery! Join before 21st of December!  

STAMPlorations is sponsoring CASology this week and the layout of my card is actually a very simplified version of the sketch we are currently playing with at STAMPlorations. I've added the the sketch below and you can check out our sketch challenge post here. I'd love to see you all playing along! 

Thanks for popping by and I hope you like my card. I'm quite pleased with it but very disappointed with the photos! Have a good week everyone!