Anna's Handmade Cards: Alota Rubber Stamps

It's the TGIF season! After the whole week at school and at my Studio I feel really tired. Now I have an excuse to sit in silence and craft a little LOL

Friday always starts well, because it starts with a brand new challenge at

and this week's theme is a little bit school related

BOOKMARKS

We all have those laptops, notebooks, netbooks, airbooks, but NOTHING is like sitting with a good book and feel the paper. A beautiful bookmark is very useful then.

Anyway, we have a sponsor of course, and it's

with their cute stamps.

I made a traditional bookmark, because it's my second bookmark I've ever made.

As a background I used some old books pages (English, German and Russian), which have been torn (I can't believe I did it) and distressed with blue and brown distress ink.

The image comes from our sponsor's stamp set and you can find it HERE. It is colored with promarkers and placed on a 3D foam.

For the rest of the bookmark I used some scraps and die cutted pieces from my stash, which were supposed to be used somewhere, but I've changed my mind.

This shaggy wool is from my Mum's stash.

Thank you for visiting my blog! Please hop to the rest of Crafty Catz DT blogs, where you will find some really interesting bookmarks! You girls rule!

I am entering the following challenges:

http://bearlymine-challenges.blogspot.com/2013/09/challenge-102-anything-goes.html

http://cinspirations.blogspot.com/2013/09/challenge-230-favourite-colour-combo.html blue & brown

http://pennyschallenges.blogspot.com/2013/09/welcome-to-pennys-challenge-143.html lace & wool

http://4craftychicks.blogspot.com/2013/09/4-crafty-chicks-158-lace-and-guest.html

http://charismacardz.blogspot.com/2013/09/challenge-35-fancy-flourishes.html

http://simplycreatetoo.blogspot.com/2013/08/challenge-45-vintage-or-old.html

http://pictureandscrap.blogspot.com/2013/09/utfordring-60-bruk-dies.html

http://lexiscreations.blogspot.com/2013/09/challenge-98-and-winners-of-97.html

Happy Woman's Day to every woman in the world! Especially the crafty one!

In Poland we celebrate the Woman's Day on 8th March, do you?

Well, to celebrate that, here's another fancy challenge at

which is

STITCHED UP

use some stitches on your creation (real or faux... I mean stitches real or faux, not the creation... LOL)

The sponsor for this challenge gives a wonderful prize:

Isn't it fantastic?

I planned to make a totally different card, but the CAS style is chasing me lately, so I gave up. Here's my GDT CAS card for this challenge

I am using the sponsor's image Valentine Girl Rose Hat. It was too obvious to color her pink & red, and I don't like to make things obvious while crafting. So I went blue & white. I used promarkers and an ordinary marker to make the faux stitches.