Gift Boxes for Crafty Friends

Hey stampers, Anni here!

A few month ago we had a big get together of german cardmaker. We met at a former monastery, which is now a hostel! You can't imagine how much fun we had.
And of course there was a exchange of small gifts in handcrafted bags od gift boxes. Today I want to show you the ones I gave away.

I started by die cutting Lawn Fawn's Goodie Bag 60 times (well, actually it wasn't me, I had help from my sweet heart) for 30 goodie bags. You need two parts for one bag.
I applied some white pigment ink through Newton Nook's Cloudy Sky Stencil before I assembled the bags.

For the decoration and as a little gift I created book marks. For that I stamped images from two Mama Elephant sets called Party Animals and Lil'Painters, coloured them with alcohol markers and fussy cut all of them.

I added sentiments from Altenew's Crafty Life and Crafty Friends. To the book mark I added a magnet to hold it on place.

Here you can see a lot of the boxes (not all of them because they wouldn't fit on a photo.)

Thanks for stopping by and have a crafty weekend.
Anni

            

   

Party Animals

Hey stampers, Anni here!

The cards I bring you today feature one of my favourite stamp set ever - Mama Elephants' Party Animals. This set is just so cute and I never made a card with this set I didn't like and that says something as we are often the most critical about our crafting, aren't we.
So whenever I seem to lacking with ideas and mojo I turn to this stamp set and it never failed me.

I started by stamping the sweet images - all of them in fact but I used just a few. For the colouring I chose alcohol marker as this is for me the fastest way to colour. Before I started colouring I decided which images I wanted to use together. That way I could go with matching colours.
Then I fussy cut out the images (there are coordinating dies available, too).

For the background I die cut a sky full of clouds using Lawn Fawn's Stitched Clouds Backdrop: both the Landscape and the Portrait one. These dies are so awesome, subtil but still eyecatching, so I had to buy both. I cut the rectangles a little bit smaller to fit my card.

I added just a little bit of ink blending to emphasize the cute critters. For the ground I die cut a hill for both cards using Mama Elephants' Landscape Trio. Keeping it simple I chose white card stock and added no colour at all.

Finally I heat embossed my sentiments in white on a stripe of black card stock. The sentiments are from Mama Elephants' Monster Jam.

Thanks for stopping by and have a crafty weekend.
Anni

            

Party Animals

Hello stampers, Anni here!

After I didn't feel like colouring last week it came back with a boom!
So for this week's card I created it my own colouring page! I inked up this super cute set called Party Animals by Mama Elephant.

I started by die cutting a scalloped rectangle from Mama Elephant's All Prettied Up die set. Then I did a lot of stamping and a lot of masking!
I coloured all the images and the background with alcohol markers. The scalloped edge of the rectangle I masked of with washi tape to keep a white frame around my image.

The sentiment I found in another Mama Elephant set called Monster Jam. I embossed it in white on a stripe of black cardstock and cut it into a banner shape.

Thanks for stopping by and have a crafty weekend.
Anni