K1-1388 - Lotus und Danke

K1-1388 - Lotus und Danke - closer look

Heute ist der 03.10.2020! Der 30. Jahrestag der deutschen Wiedervereinigung!

Today it's 3rd of October 2020! The 30th Anniversary of the German Reunification!

Dekoration zum Tag der Deutschen Einheit
Decoration for the German Unity Day
(Potsdam, 2020/09-07)

 

Allein schon das, ein guter Grund, dankbar zu sein, oder?

This is for itself already a good reason to be thankful, right?

Es gibt noch einige mehr Gründe für mich, dankbar zu sein! 

Dankbar dafür, dass ich heute überhaupt hier leben kann, wo ich lebe (als gebürtiger Schwabe in Brandenburg, vor den Toren von Berlin).
Dankbar, dass ich vor ziemlich genau 20 Jahren nach Berlin umzog, wo ich Jahre später dann meinen Mann kennen gelernt habe (noch so ein ausgewanderter Schwabe).

But there are some more reasons for me, to be thankful!

Thankful for the option to live here today, where I do (a born Swabian in the federal country of Brandenburg, directly outside of Berlin).

Thankful for the fact I moved to Berlin just 20 years ago, where I met my husband some years later (also an emigrated Swabian who moved here).

Dankbar dafür, dass heute vor genau 4 Jahren Milo nach einem schweren Start ins Leben und fast 7 langen Wochen im Krankenhaus endlich das erste Mal mit uns nach hause fahren durfte (unsere ganz private Vereinigung)!

Er war noch winzig klein (trug gerade mal Kleidergröße 42!) - aber unendlich süß! 😍

Thankful for the very first coming home for Milo after an arduous start in his life and almost 7 long weeks in hospital exactly 4 years ago (our very private union)!

He was so tiny (has worn clothes just about size 42 cm!) - but so endless cute! 😍

Und ich gedenke heute hier auch meiner Omi Doris, die heute vor genau einem Jahr verstorben ist... - Danke für die vielen schönen Jahre mit dir! 

Ruhe weiter in Frieden, wieder vereint mit deinem geliebten Mann. 💕
And I commemorate my Granny Doris today, she died exactly one year ago... - Thanks for all the good years together with you!

Rest in peace, united with your beloved husband again. 💕

So viele Dankes-Gründe - und nun ein dazu passendes Kärtchen!

So many reasons for thanks - and here is a suitable little card! 

The German sentiment "Danke" is "Thanks" in English.

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K1-1388 - Lotus und Danke

K1-1388 - Lotus und Danke

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Als ich anfing, diese Karte zu basteln, hab ich diese Stanzen von Birch Press in ganz vielen verschiedenen Farben ausgestanzt und anschließend zu ganz unterschiedlichen Blüten zusammengesetzt. Hier hab ich noch Nuvo Drops in 3 Farben zugefügt.

Diese frische, weiße Lotusblüte auf den unterschiedlichen Grüntönen strahlen Hoffnung und Friede aus. In Kombination mit dem Wort Danke gefällt mir das sehr gut!

When I started to make this card, I cut out these Bir Press Dies with many different colours and combined them to different looks. Here I added Nuvo Drops in three colours.

This fresh white Lotus-Flower on the different shades of green has a great charisma of hope and peace. Combined with the sentiment Danke = Thanks I like it very much!

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Used Materials:
Create A Smile: Dies: Cherry - Uppercase ABC & lowercase abc /

Birch Press: Dies: Lotus Flower - Layer A + C /

Lawn Fawn: Dies: small cross-stitched Rectangle Stackables /

Colours & other stuff:
Cardstock - white, light green, dark green / white paper (→ inside) /

Tonic Studios: Nuvo Crystal Drops gloss - woodland green, apple green & Nuvo Jewel Drops - key lime /

Ranger: Multi medium matte / Kleberoller clear / 3D Tape 2mm /

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Dankbare Grüße von Wiebke
Thankful greetings from Wiebke

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K1-1416 - embossed Thank You / Uniko Challenge #61 Reminder

Can you believe it? It's already October now and it's time for the Reminder Post for the current Uniko-Challenge  #61! It's an Anything Goes Challenge with the optional twist "Thanks".

I hope, every one of you has a reason to say thanks right now! Thanks to someone who was or still is there for you, to take care, to talk when you feel bad, to encourage or inspire you, to make you laugh or just to feel needed!

If there isn't anybody special, use the season to be inspired! It's harvest time, the time for beeing thankful! 

To see all the inspirational cards of the other Uniko Brand Ambassadors and our Guest Designer Ishani, please hop to the Reminder post on the Uniko-Blog.

The challenge will end on Friday, 23rd October 2020 (7.00pm EDT) so there is still lots of time to craft a bit,share your art with us and maybe win one of 6 great prizes!

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K1-1416 - Thank You

K1-1416 - Detail of colourful embossing powder

K1-1416 - Detail of the doubled embossing technique

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The technique I used for this card I've seen some weeks before in a YouTube video of Jennifer McGuire. She called it "embossed impressions" I think. 

It was a bit tricky and needed some tries until I was almost happy with the result, but these heat embossed thin lines on the die-embossed paper look great, don't they?

Yes, you read it correct! 

First I impressed the paper with a cutting die (and a silicone matte) with VersaMark on the cutting-edges (just there and nowhere else!), then I put embossing powder over it and heat embossed this to melt into the impressed lines. How cool is this?

For my card I used a left-over colourful mix of embossing powders (all from Zing!) I also heat embossed the sentiment and some little punched circles with the same powder.
To get a bit of "real" colour I put a strip of red paper beneath the cut out sentiment and cut it again.

I combined rough and smooth papers, white and (very) colourful pieces, outlined flowers and a bold sentiment, impressed areas and raised ones, glossy dots and matte paper ... 

So many contraries but in the result it is a simple and unagitated (stress-free) CAS card!

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Uniko-Challenge #61

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Used Materials:
Uniko Stamps: Dies: Kindness Blooms Dies & Stamps: All Occasion Sentiments #3 /

Colours & other stuff:
Cardbase A6 - white / Hahnemühle: thick Watercolour paper (300 g/m²) / Cardstock (scraps) - smooth white, red / 

Tsukineko: VersaMark Ink / American Crafts: Zing! Embossing Powders (DIY-Mix) / 

Ranger: Multi Medium matte & Glossy Accents / Kleberoller / 3D Pads - 2 mm & 3 mm /

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Thankful greetings from Wiebke

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