Welcome to the Just Add Sweets Blog Hop with myStamp BOX today!

If you have just happened upon my blog today, you may want to head to the start of the blog hop today, the myStamp BOX blog.

Here is our Just Add Sweets Blog Hop schedule just in case you missed anyone:
- Tracey Taylor
- Tina McDonald
- Virginie Delbecq
- Marci Knecht
- Allison Cope
- Cherie Nymeyer
- Gudrun Loennecken
- Liz Jacob
- Ellen Sosnoski
- Kim Sonksen
- Nathalie Kalbach
- Jolene Johnston
- Elisa Kammerdiener

The design team’s challenge was to take the theme of our blog hop and apply the colours of white, pink and orange to their creations. Here is my card:

For participating in the blog hop by leaving a comment on each and every participating myStamp BOX designer’s blog, you have a chance to win a set of brand new stamps sets being released this month! So leave a comment on all the blog posts and then return to the mSB blog and tell us what you favourite project was along the way for a chance to win! Have fun!

Please hop along to the next designer Jolene to check out her sweet work!

So in Love by the new paperlines that Studio Calico came out with. Here is a layout I created with the new Anthology line.

Ich bin total verschossen in die neuen Papierkollektionen von Studio Calico. Hier ist ein Layout, dass ich mit der neuen Anthology Kollektion kreiert habe.

*French Cooking Class*

Picures from our French Cooking Class this January.

supplies: Studio Calico Anthology Papers, Stickers, Notepad, Tattered Angels: Swirl Stamps and Glimmer Glam

see this? After Jan had me bringing him one over I wanted it badly- so here is a brad made with the paper and the I Top Brad Maker- soooo cool!!!! You can even use fabric with it and make your own brads.

Seht Ihr das? Nachdem Jan mich gebeten hatte ihm so ein Werkzeug mitzubringen, MUSSTE ich das haben - einen Brad-Macher (hehehe klingt schön) mit dem Papier und dem  I Top Brad Maker - so genial!!! Man kann sogar Stoff damit verwenden und seine eigenen Brads herstellen.

Wishing you a gorgeous day!

I told you that one of my many favorite new products at CHA has been the g.c.d Chip Art designed by Melody Ross. I hadn’t had time to do the Make and Take there and was totally thrilled then Melody gave me a stampset, tool and chipboard pieces at lunch.

Ich hatte ja schon erzählt, dass meine neuen Lieblingsprodukte bei der CHA die g.c.d Chip Art Kollektion designt von Melody Ross waren. Leider hatte ich keine Zeit das Make and Take zu machen und habe mich dann super gefreut, als Melody mir beim gemeinsamen Mittagessen eines der Stempelsets, das dazugehörige Werkzeug und ein paar Chipboard Stücke gab.

And so it comes that I tried my very first piece of jewlery two days ago. Now keep in mind I said FIRST piece…LOL - I by no means think this is perfect- but it was fun, I love it and I’ve fallen even more in Love with the Chip Art Products

Und so kommt es, dass ich vor zwei Tagen mein allererstes Schmuckstück angefertigt habe. Nun…ich sagte ERSTES Stück, vergesst das bitte nicht …LOL - heißt ich weiß, dass es nicht perfekt ist - aber es hat Spaß gemacht, ich liebe es und ich finde die Chip Art Produkte jetzt noch cooler

Supplies: g.c.d. Chip Art Pendant, Chip Art Stamps, Golden Acrylic Paints, Glimmer Mist, Glimmer Glam, Crafty Secrets Fairy Sheet, Creative Charms Vintage Brad. Ranger Liquid Pearl, Ranger Glossy Accent

you can see the rose engraved in the chipboard much better in real life- it is really cool. I wish I had more of those pendants - I’m ready and wish to create more

Die in den Karton eingestanzte Rose kann man in Echt viel besser sehen - sieht voll cool aus. Ich wünschte ich hätte mehr dieser Anhänger - ich würde so gerne mehr kreieren

Have a good one

My sweet and supertalented friend Vicki Chrisman had the idea for this shadow box Die Cut which was then produced by AccuCut. So I was really honored when she handed me a cuple of those boxes at CHA and asked me to create something with them. I did my first one and I love love love it.

Meine süße und unglaublich talentierte Freundin Vicki Chrisman hatte die Idee für diese Objektrahmen Stanzer, die sodann von AccuCut hergestellt wurden. Ich habe mich sehr gefreut, als sie mir einige Ausgestanzte Objektrahmen bei der CHA gab und mich fragte, ob ich nicht was damit kreieren könnte. Ich habe gerad mein erstes kreiert und ich liebe es total.

*Valentine Shadow Box*

Supplies: Vicki Chrisman Shadow Box, Crafty Secrets Altered Fairy Scraps, Crafty Secrets Cotton Swaps,Music Sheet, Prima Pearls and Rhinestones, Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist, Glimmer Glaze and Glimmer Glam

I’m also so in Love with the Crafty Secrets Products- those Cotton Swaps and the Fairy Scrap Sheets are the sweetest to work with.  Every Vintage-Loving heart just beats a nodge higher with those products

Ich habe mich auch total in die Produkte von Crafty Secrets verliebt - diese Baumwoll-Swaps und der Fairy Scrap Bogen sind so superknuffig. Jedes Vintage-liebende Herz schlägt da gleich ein wenig schneller

Our Lake Alster it frozen. This happens really rarely - about every ten years- last time 13 years ago - and it is a huge event here in Hamburg. Here are some pictures of the fun. If I would only know where my ice skates are …I haven’t seen them since the last move - lol

Unsere Alster ist gefroren. Das passiert ungefähr alle zehn Jahre - zuletzt vor 13 Jahren - und es ist ein Riesenereignis hier in Hamburg.  Hier sind einige Photos vom Spaß. Ich wünschte nur, ich wüßte, wo meine Schlittschuhe sind…mmmh ich habe sie seit dem letzten Umzug nicht mehr gesehen - LOL.

Here is a picture of how the lake looks like in summer from the air - the upper part is frozen - the so called  - Outer-Alster

Hier ist ein Bild wie die Alster im Sommer von der Luft aus aussieht - der obere Teil ist gefroren - die sogenannte AußenAlster.

And that is how it looks now:

Sliding fun

The most right steeple you see is our city hall

about 40.000 were on the lake. This is nothing - if the lake will be frozen even more they add little cabins on the lake and have a little “Party” - then there will be hundreds of thousands.

Finally back together with my hubby

and I so loved this little snowman family

Oh and before I forget :

Can’t believe it is February already- how did this happen? I love February It is starting to get warmer ( well in theory- LOL) and one of my godsons has his birthday. Ich kann es kaum glauben, dass er bereits 10 Jahre alt wird - wow!

Ich kann es kaum glauben, dass jetzt schon der Februar da ist - wie ist das passiert? Ich liebe den Februar :)Es wird langsam wärmer (na ja…theoretisch- LOL) und eines meiner Patenkinder hat Geburtstag I can’t believe he is turning ten - wow!

I didn’t show you my Tattered Angels Layout “Nature” which I created also for the booth at CHA.

Ich habe Euch noch gar nicht mein Tattered Angels Layout “Nature” gezeigt, welches ich ebenfalls für den Stand bei der CHA kreiert habe.

*Nature*

I used the Tattered Angels Nature Line with this- the backgrond was created with Golden Gesso. I layered the Leave Chipboards into the still wet Gesso and let it dry. When I used some of the new Glimmer Mists and heated it. I also heated the Glimmer Glass Butterflies to give them dimension bending them.

Wishing you a gorgous start into the week!

Wünsche Euch einen tollen Wochenanfang

One of my friends just had her winter birthday. I know her taste is sometimes funky and I also know that she being a Mom to a little one year old boy and is working so she has not much time to do something for herself. So I had the idea of giving her a small funky journal in which she could write her thoughts and so spent some “me”-time. The Frosty Memories Window Album was just perfect to work with!

I used the Rose Moka Grunge Papers which are a perfect fit for the Glimmer Mists and Tattered Angels Stamps. On the left side I attached the paper and sprayed and stamped and the right side I usually used the Journaling stamp from the Notes from the Garden Stampset.

Supplies: Tattered Angels: Frosty Memories Window Album, Notes from the Garden Stampset, Glimmer Mist, Nature Field Notes Stampset, Nature In Flight Stampset, Nature Graceful Journey Stampset, Tattered Traveler Compass Stampset, Regal Alpha Framed Fonts, Nature Butterfly Framed Fonts, Frosty Memories Glimmer Glass, Elegant Emblems Glimmer Screens.

And as an extra I created a gift tag

I used some Ranger Crackle Glossy Accents on the embossed parts of the Chip Tile - I love the effect.

Wishing you a wonderful day!

Finally sharing my last pictures of CHA It was such an exciting and crazy day!

My first stop was at the Prima Booth to do my Make ‘n Takes. We made those little Flowers with Prima Paintables and Watersoluble Crayons.

Here is my example layout I made *Composed Focus* to show how you can use the flowers.

It was so fun to see how much the people liked the watersoluble crayons!

Before the doors opened for the public Noell from Paperclipping came by and did an interview with me. I was really scared of the huge camera- LOL but they were both making me forget it was there- so that was good

The time went by fast and I had so many loveley people coming by!

Here are a super few pictures of the display - Prima had a “NO Photographs” Sign on their booth and I wasn’t sure if I should just snapp a lot of photos even though I’m with them at CHA - LOL

And here is Donna Downey doing Make and Takes with her new beautiful foamstamps and canvas pages.

Then I had a short time slot before lunch with the Stampington Editors and Melody Ross and Lucy Edson - so I hurried back to the Hambly booth. I so so so love Hambly and Allison is such a sweet Person!!!! I wish Hambly was easier to get in Germany!

After lunch I headed back to the Tattered Angels Booth to do my Make ‘n Takes there. Actually the first photo is from the day before where I demoed the Resist technique with the new Glimmer Glaze.

I was filmed again for a Craft TV Show - it was really fun…but I wish I would have had the time to look into the mirror and make myself “lively” again- LOL.

When we cleaned until the lights were shut off and Vicki Chrisman, Catherine Matthews Scanlon and I finally got together with Sandy from Crafty Secret for dinner. We had so much fun!

you can tell we are scrapbookers as we snap photos of our desert- LOL

I love my two friends - so so so happy to have finally been able to meet them.

That was it - I fell into my bed and slept like a stone

What a day! Started that I wanted to eat cereals in my hotel room before rushing out and realizing the milk in the fridge was frozen solid rock. Then I rushed out - the line at Starbucks a hundred miles long - I only could grab my coffee and rush out, realizing that I lost my favorite necklace on the way. I thought that would be the worst day ever- LOL - but it wasn’t. I went to the myStampBox Table and helped Bettina out for two hours.

Here is the display of the work of our Designteam.

Then I rushed to an exciting meeting with Jana Holstein, Vanessa Spencer and Jennifer Jackson - Editors at Stampington - and they had planned to video tape me while doing a Challenge Layout. We went to the press room where they have a little extra box with a table and chair where you can have private press meetings and I got some materials I had no clue I would get and I had 20 minutes time for this.

I had only a scissor - no paper trimmer or cutter- so just ripped the papers apart - LOL

Here is Jana filming- she is sooo sweet. I’m so glad I finally got to meet her - it was like we have known each other from all our email contacts.

I couldn’t believe I did this in 20 minutes- because usually I take 3-5 hours for a layout- LOL. We hadn’t had a picture and the cut out one of me on a published Layout in Somerset Memories(too funny)

I used Glimmer Glaze and Glimmer Glam with it also - our new Tattered Angels products - so that was fun!

I couldn’t snap a better picture - they took it with them to be photographed professionally. The journaling by the way is: NO - Why do I always forget to pack the right shoes? CHA Winter 2010.

Here are Vanessa Spencer, Jana Holstein and me together

It was so awesome! I will let you know when it goes life online.

On my way to the Tattered Angels Booth I snapped a photo of Julie doing awesome Make ‘n Takes at the Sakura Booth.

Here are some photos of the Tattered Angels Booth

Here is Celine demoing

And Heidi Swapp

Heidi is the sweetest person in the world! She looked at me at the private Tattered Angels Room and must have seen that I look hungry- LOL - and gave me her sandwich. She literally saved my life as this was in the afternoon my very first meal.

I did my Demos - I have no photos of it - but Sascha and Maria were there and snapped a lot- can’t wait to see them. It ws pretty fun to get to play with the new products and tell the people how they work (while figuring it out- LOL).

Afterwards I went to the hotel room…or I should say crawled  - my feet there swollen. Bettina and I had dinner with the Canadian Scrapbooker  Magazine Crew.

The food was delish yummie (am I talking too much about me being hungry? LOL).

It was sooooo much fun - I laughed so hard ….my belly hurt- LOL. Leica Forest is such a funny Sweet heart - I’m so happy we finally got to meet.  Here is the whole fun crew

Canadian Scrapbooker Team Jackie Ludlage and Katharina Doyle with Connie Nichols and Heather Starosielski. Barb from Scraptivity and myStamp BOX team Leica Forrest, Bettina von Gross and me.

Alrighty - off to another day and unfortunatley last day at CHA for me.

Good morning- I’m up and I think my feet are reatached for another day As promised some more photos from yesterday:

Ranger-Booth - yum yum

Isn’t it awesome!!!!

Here is Bettina early in the morning at the myStampBox Table. Later when I went by there were a lot of people around!

Hambly- I need to get back there and snapp more photos- such yummie product!

And here is a photo of Sally Lynn Mc Donald, Julie Fei Fan Balzer and me at the end of the show.

No more photos of the part where Julie, Lucy and I hang out in the hotel room, feet up in the air and order Pizza and Salad to call it a day. (it would have been funny pictures though )

OK - off to the next CHA day - catch you later

I’m sooooo tired- so - my German friends- please forgive me I’m not do a translated posting -I will maybe do it later.

Such an awesome day! After a nice breakfast with Julie Fei Fan Balzer and Lucy Edson the three of us walked the floor - from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

We started at the knitting section - those knitted animals were the coolest in the world!

We saw Cat doing Make and Takes for EK-Success and I got to spent a couple minutes with her

Those ATC’s are actually by Cat. I so loved all the details and Love that was visible in all booths.

I love this K&Company products- definetly the fevers!

My favorite was this manufacturer: Vintaj (spoken Vintage) - so awesome!!!

and look at all the artwork they had in their booth - I wanted to stay there forever!

Another company I loved and I loved their new tools was GCD

Their ChipArt Tools are the coolest thing in the world- not only the tool itself with which you can make marks into chipboard but also the packaging is cute!

Here is Lucy with one of the Designer’s beautiful book - I love how the Chipboard Cover look leathery!

You can do awesome borders on chipboard

And those are some of the chipboards for the ChipArt

And their beautiful paper

And of course 7Gypsies- ahhha- awesome- especially the artwork too

The Studio Calico Paper and Fabric Stripes - OOHhhh I love it!

And again EcoGreen - as said- I love the concept- we need more of this!

Look how much fun it was at the Doodlebug Design Booth - seriously I laughed really hard

Julie shooting pictures and making sure she got all I love her to pieces

And finally - because I can’t stay up any longer - my eyes are closing while writing  - last picture from midday where we had a fun lunch with Dina Wakley and Kerry Lynn Yeary. So much fun to meet up with them and talk a bit !

More pics maybe tomorrow morning before I leave for the second day of CHA - good night…or good morning to Europe

Yesterday I had a nice day meeting lot’s of people and strolling around at the Craft Supershow again. I saw my sweet heart Vicki again while she was doing Make and Takes - and look what she did

I took some photos of this new company Eco Green Crafts which was there too - I can’t wait to see them at the Trade show- I love their concept of going green with the acrylic paints and the other products they have. Those are the only photos again - I definetly have to think of taking pictures.

I am still mad of me that I didn’t get one of those torsos!

For breakfast I met two Germans - Maria and Sascha - very nice couple and fun to be around! I had a short visit at the Tattered Angels Booth in the CHA Trade Hall where I got some nice sneaks of the stuff that will be going on today. Awesome! It is so amazing to see how they all set up their booths- all the work that goes into it and the details. And it is HUUUUGGEEEE! I can’t wait when CHA starts today!

Oh and here is a picture I just got sent from Sweetheart Julie Tucker who I met at the Supershow- so fun - and unexpected at that moment.

I had lunch and dinner with my friend Cat I finally met. It was so cool over years and years we emailed and skyped but we never saw each other in real life. It was so fun.

I also met up with Bettina, the owner of myStampBox and we had a great time laughing and chatting at a CHA Reception we went to. I’m now getting ready and off to meet Julie Fei Fan Balzer and Lucy Edson for breakfast before we go to walk the floor!