Carving stamps

The last days I started carving stamps again. A perfect occupation while watching less interesting soccer games. ;) Are you following the world cup too? :)

A simple design, but the first feather stamp I've carved. :)



Great for embellishing envelopes.



A corn rose stamp. I used it for a birthday card today.



And a camera stamp. The perfect size for small tags. :)



So what did you carve lately? :) I would love to hear about it!

Lately...

Busy, busy, busy. And away this weekend. :) :)

What I've been doing lately....







Wish you all a wonderful weekend! :)

Purple snail mail and doily stamps

Finally I had the time to create a little snail mail for Blanca. I chose the color theme purple, as I know Blanca likes this color. :)



I carved two doily stamps with a simple design. But still a nice way to embellish a gift or a mail. :)




Different papers in the color scheme, flowery sticky notes, a bracelet, washi tape samples and stickers.



Everything wrapped up and ready to be sent out!




I like creating mails with a certain color scheme. In this way the entire mail looks as a whole. ♥

Thank you, Mum!

April We ♥ Mail - Easter swap

Due to unfortunate changes in our project, I had to send out the April snail mail later as planned and to another person than originally decided. So my April mail with the theme "easter" - not a surprise - was sent to Sharon living in UK. :)

I decided to weave an easter basket to hold all the little things I've prepared with brown craft paper. I made the basket flat and the handle movable, so it would fit into a parcel. :)



Again I carved a theme-related stamp: An easter egg I've already shown you on my journal page. I used it for cards and tags.



To fold some origami bunnies, I picked this lovely video tutorial to make super cute bunny bags. Perfect to hold tasty treats! :)



I always like to add stickers embellished with self-carved stamps, as well as some journaling cards and bunny stickers. :)



A little easter cookie recipe for Sharon to bake her own tasty treats and some crocheted egg ornaments.



Even it's a little belated, I still hope you'll enjoy the mail, Sharon! :)

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I also received my April mail from Kim from the Netherlands.
She's sent me such a cute package! I loved the decoration of the parcel so much! :D

A cute letter, a Dutch recipe...



...tasty sweets, ribbons in the typical Dutch colors, ink for dyeing eggs...



...and beautiful stationary: A card, pretty journaling cards, lovely tags and cute selfmade stickers for snail mailing!



Thank you, Kim! ♥ I enjoyed opening and exploring your cute snail mail so much! :)

Mandala stamp ideas

There are a lot of things you can use mandala stamps for. Here are some ideas. :)

Wrapping paper.



Tags.



Little cards.



Envelopes.



And pattern stickers.



Wish you all a good start into the easter weekend! :)

April week I + Hema order

This is how the first week of April turned out.



As I love to doodle mandalas lately, I carved two mandala stamps. It was not that easy, but I'm sure with a little practice I will get better. :)



And a little tip for my German readers. A German Hema online shop opened up and till May 11th they don't charge you for shipping if your order value exceeds 15 EUR. :)



Wish you all a lovely and sunny weekend! ♥

Regional and cooking swap

I did a regional and cooking swap with Cristina: Tell the other one something about where she lives and exchange a recipe. :)

So this is the lovely mail I received a couple of weeks ago:



Cristina's sent me green chile dip powder with a recipe, chili and cooking tags, a "howdy" (that's what they say in Texas ;)) card and magnet, postcards from Texas, a bandana, cute selfmade post cards with a super cute armadillo and some facts about Texas. :D
I loved reading about her home state and I enjoyed every piece of the beautiful package!

I sent Cristina a German recipe for potato pancakes, a Berlin tv tower DIY card, a topographic map of Germany...



...facts about Germany, a cupcake paper clip, some kitchenware sticky notes, ...



...and cooking cards for recipes and stickers. :)



Preparing the swap was so much fun! Thanks again for the great swap, Cristina! :)

Little words and little stamps

Do you know the website Just little things? I love browsing through the collection of little things and life's simple pleasures we should appreciate more.

This week I especially appreciated this one:



Without asking, without wondering, just accepting. :)

I carved some kitchenware stamps for a swap, which I've already shown you before. I made every tool a separate stamp and arranged them on an acrylic block.



It wasn't that easy to find the perfect arrangement. :) I tried out a lot...



So this was my favourite choice. Perfect for recipe cards! ♥



The stamps were inspired by Rikes beautiful recipe stamp. Check out her blog! She's amazing in designing stamps! She's in fact the person who inspired me starting with stamp carving. :)

Wish you all a wonderful and sunny Sunday!

March week III + random things

This was week III of March with a pink design.



Some kitchen/cooking stamps I carved for a recent swap which I'm going to show you soon.



Mandala doodling during the flight. :)



My current washi tape collection, stored in a teabox (idea by a friend of mine).



A last minute birthday card I made with the Tinkerbell stamp. :)



Wish you all a lovely week! :)

March "We ♥ Mail": Fairy tales

I loved the March theme of our We ♥ Mail project so much: Fairy tales! :D I've always loved fairy tales and still love to read them. So working on this theme was so much fun for me! I gave the entire theme a modern approach, so this is what I've sent to Juliana (Portugal).

I've bound everything to a little book (as I love doodling mandalas, one on front of the cover), so there are quite many pictures coming, as I had to take pictures of every page separately.



A letter for Juliana and some sticky notes I thought would perfectly fit into the theme.



One of three stamps I've carved for this theme: Little Red Riding Hood (stamped on tags).



Two washi tape samples I associate to fairy tales: A corny, pink and pretty lace pattern and a romantic, blue and winter pattern.



The second stamp I've carved: Mary Poppins with the lovely quote "Don't you know that everybody's got a fairyland of their own?"



A bunch of snippets, stickers, mini tags, origami paper...




The last stamp I've carved: Tinkerbell, one of my favourite fairy tale characters!



An instruction for making stars and some glow-in-the-dark star origami paper.



The happy end. :D



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And that's what I've received from dear Sara! Such a beautiful package full of lovely things.



Lovely quotes written on her typewriter, a wolf mask, a beautiful book with a lovely story she's written.



Beautiful tags, a bookmark and beautifully stitched butterfly tags.



This month's theme was so much fun and I'm looking forward to the next month with the theme "easter" or "tasty treats". :D