Happy Hellos!


My name is Anna and I'm a Pole living recently in Airdrie (near Calgary in Canada), hopeless in love with paper. Usually sitting in my studio between 8pm and midnight, if my energy lasts that long after another day with a toddler Jakob and a baby Lisa. I love to share my crafts with you, please be my guest!

Sunday 28 February 2010

My inspiration is gone!/Weno wroc!

Hello,
lately I'm suffering from a lack of inspiration..... Probably I'm so busy in my thoughts to go back to work after my maternity leave that there is no space in my head to think about crafting.... Yesterday I spend 2 hours for chosing papers to make a card and there was no result.... Everything was wrong....

This time I show you a card, I have made before my inspirational down. The card is simple, but the picture of the rose is so rich, I did not want add more embellishments. My mom always says about cards in this style: "modest elegance".  The words: Carte Postale have also their story: the stamp is a favorite of my mom. When we made together cards (during her stay in Canada) and we didn't know what to put on the card, this 2 words always work for us!
This card is already on the way to Poland to my mom after she broke her leg. She loves roses and vintage look, but I wanted still keep this card bright and optimistic. By the way: we sent my mom 9 roses after she came back from hospital. I love internet for that, you just can do stuff like that without involving half of the family.

I wouldn't be Anna W. if I wouldn't play some challenges. This time combination of Simon Says Stamp challenge-Vintage with Flowers & Color challenge: Maroon Lemon Pink from BasicGrey challenges & Inspirational Card Sketches.

 

Now I have to go and prepare for the first day at work!

Take care,

kANNAdyjka
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Hallo,
ostatnio cierpie na chroniczny brak weny..... najprawdopodobniej jest to spowodowane tym, ze mam zajeta glowe myslami powrotu do pracvy po urlopie macierzynskim..... Wczoraj spedzilam 2 godziny siedzac i wybierajac papier do zrobienia kartki i niestety nie bylo zadnego wyniku.... Wszystko poprostu nie pasowalo....

Tym razem zobaczycie kartke, ktora przygotowalam zanim jeszcze mnie dopadl moj "dol inspiracyjny". Ta kartka jest prosta, ale obrazek rozy jest tak bogaty, ze nie chcialam dodawac za duzo dekoracji. Moja mama zawsze nazywa kartki w takim stylu "skromna elegancja".  Stempel Carte Postale jest ulubionym Eli i ma tez swoja historie:  gdy robilysmy razem kartki (w czasie jej pobytu w Kanadzie) i nie wiedzialysmy jaki napis dac na kartke, te 2 slowa spelnialy swoje zadanie! Bez Carte Postale ani rusz!
Ta kartka jest juz w drodze do Polski do mojej Mamy po jej zlamamniu nogi. Ona uwielbia roze i wintazowy styl, ale ja staralam sie stworzyc kartke jasna i optymistyczna. Apropos roz: Ela dostala od nas 9 roz po powrocie ze szpitala. Kocham za to internet, ze cos takiego jest mozliwe bez zawracania glowy polowie rodziny.


Nie bylabym Anna W. gdybym nie zagrala w jakis wyzwaniach. Tym razem kombinacja Simon Says Stamp challenge-Vintage z kwiatami & Color challenge: Maroon Lemon Pink z BasicGrey challenges & Inspirational Card Sketches.

Musze zmykac, bo trzeba sie przygotowac do 1. dnia w pracy!

Trzymajcie sie i do rychlego uslyszenia,
Wasza kANNAdyjka

Wednesday 24 February 2010

Quick hello!

Hello,
I have to apologize for my short posts lately. I hope, that the pictures of my cards will make up for that.

Bad news: my Mom-the poor Ela had broken her leg and she stays in the hospital.
I wanted to go to Poland, but due to the Olympics the prices of the tickets are horrendous and I also start my work on Monday after the mat leave.....
To make my Mom smile in this difficult time I sent her an imprint of her Jakob's foot. Of course as a card! I promise you to publish the card soon on my blog!

Today following cards:
-combination of Color challenge #21 at JUG & MMSC 42



-for SKETCH FOR YOU TO TRY




Cheers,
kANNAdyjka

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Hi,
ale jestem ostatnio niepoprawna, ze moje posty sa takie krotkie, ale mam nadzieje, ze karteczki rekompensuja Wam moje bla bla bla.

Zle nowiny: moja biedna Mama-Elunia zlamala noge i lezy teraz w szpitalu. Bylam gotowa leciec do Polski, ale po pierwsze trwa olimpiada, a wiec bilety sa nie do zaplacenia =(((( a po drugie w poniedzialek zaczynam prace po moim urlopie macierzynskim....
Na poprawe samopoczucia wyslalam jej odbita na papierze stopke jej ukochanego wnusia  Kubusia. Oczywiscie w odpowiedniej oprawie;)  Niedlugo ta kartke zobaczycie na blogu-obiecuje!

Pozdrowka,
kANNAdyjka

Friday 19 February 2010

Oriental touch/Orientalne klimaty

Hello everyone,

this time two cards with the oriental touch. I just love the oriental lanterns! With these cards I play the BasicGrey challenge week 13 and Simon Says Stamp challenge (3 types of embellishments/2 patterned papers/1 image).


My favorite papers (Basic Grey) are perfect for the oriental theme! I have chosen this kind of topic, because lately I miss my belly dancing classes. I stopped to go to the classes when I was 28th week pregnant - I couldn't move that fast like other girls. But now that would be a good work out for me after the pregnancy =)

Take care,
kANNAdyjka

Tuesday 16 February 2010

So many challenges, so less time/Tyle wyzwan, a tak malo czasu!

Hello,

lately I'm obsessed with challenges... Let me explain why: March 1st I will start working again after my mat leave and I'm very afraid that I will not have so much time in the evenings like right now. So I try to find 1 or 2 challenges which I plan to play every week. But there are soooo many in the blogland.... For example these two: Sketchy Colors & iheart2stamp. I combined them and you can see a result below.


Thanks for your feedback!

From Jakob's world: he really likes our new vacuum cleaner. He was sitting next to it and was kissing the vacuum cleaner. When I started to use it, he was crying, I'm taking him the big "toy" away.... I hope, also in the future they are friends, when Jakob has to clean his room..... Somehow I can see it already....The friendship would be over....

I'm gone for the evening: I have two books, which I want to finish to read: The Shanghai Girls and The Zookeeper's wife. Books-my second obsession =)

Hugs,
kANNAdyjka

P.S. Also thanks for many comments on my last post-you made me smile!
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Hallo,

Ostanio szaleje z wyzwaniami....Juz tlumacze dlaczego sie tak dzieje: 1-ego marca wracam do pracy po urlopie macierzynskim i troche sie obawiam, ze nie bede miala tyle czasu wieczorami jak teraz. Dlatego probuje znalezc 1-2 wyzwania, w ktorych chcialabym uczestniczyc raz na tydzien. A wyzwan w bloglandzie jest miliony. Tym razem wybralam: Sketchy Colors & iheart2stamp. Polaczylam je i wynik moze ogladac na zalaczonym obrazku.

Dziekuje za Wasze komentarze!

W swiecie Kubusia: on naprawde lubi nasz nowy odkurzacz.  Maly siedzi obok niego i daje mu caluski. Kiedy zaczelam odkurzac, Kubus zaczal plakac, ze zabieram mu jego wielka zabawke..... Mam nadzieje, ze Kubus i odkurzacz beda takze przyjaciolmi w przyszlosci, kiedy to Jakob bedzie musial sprzatac swoj pokoj samodzielnie..... Jakos moge sobie to juz wyobrazic....Prawdopodnie ta przyjazn nie potrwa dlugo...


A teraz zmykam, bo czekaja na mnie dwie fajowe ksiazeczki: The Shanghai Girls i The Zookeeper's wife. Well, ksiazki-moja nastepna obsesja =)


Pozdrowka,
Wasza kANNAdyjka


P.S. Dziekuje za Wasze liczne komentarze do mojego ostatniego posta-buzia smiala mi sie na widok kazdego kolejnego!

Sunday 14 February 2010

Bunch of challenges

Hi,
this time post without a story, sorry! Somehow I found really interesting challenges and I couldn't pass! I love to combine them-it's FUN!

I prepared two cards for several challenges. This card is for:
-365 Cards: stacked up
-Color Throwndown #79: blush blossom, riding hoodred and sage shade
-MMSC41: see the sketch

The second card is for a technique challenge from JUGs #20-I forgot about this technique and gives such a interesting results! You have to forgive me the poor picture, because the shiny stuff is so difficult to work with. I also can blame the lack of light: rainy days lately in the Okanagan =(((( I will practice to take good pictures-I promise!


Take care,
kANNAdyjka

Saturday 13 February 2010

Fun with new stuff/Zabawa z nowymi nabytkami (Think INK 13 & MMSC 40)!

Hello,
yesterday evening I decided to play with my new stuff and I created two cards in my favorite colors! The first one is meant for someone in my family, who I have seen yet, but I would love to see. It's for this person's birthday! What do you think about the stamp? It's new in my collection and I know for sure, I will have a lot of fun with that and you will see many creation with the vintage nibs.Also I would like to enter this card for the challenge from Think INK #13


Other card is also with one of my new stamps...with a dragonfly! Once I got a B'Day card from a friend and with exactly this motif. I was hunting for this stamp a long time, because this person didn't know, where the stamp comes from. And one day BINGO:  Look for it and you will find it!



I followed the sketch from Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge #40: I'm happy with the result. Sometimes it's difficult to work with such a big stamps, because you don't have a lot of area left to decorate the card.
News from Jakob: the second tooth is coming and the poor fellow is suffering, but we have our tricks to forget the pain ;) Tonight we are going to a hockey game! Go Vees Go!

Cheers,
kANNAdyjka
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Witajcie,
wczoraj wieczorem zdecydowalam wyprobowac nowe nabytki i tak powstaly dwie kartki.w moim ulubionym kolorze! Pierwsza jest przeznaczona dla pewnej osoby z mojej rodziny, ktorek jeszcze nigdy nie spotkalam, ale bardzo bym chciala. to bedzie kartka na urodziny tej osoby!
Co myslicie na temat mojego nowego stempla? Jest z mojej nowej kolekcji i juz teraz wiem, ze bedzie z niego dobry uzytek i zobaczycie jeszcze wiele kreacji z motywem tych archaicznych stalowek. Ta kartka bierze udzial w wyzwaniu Think INK #13.

Nastepna kartka jest takze zrobiona przy uzyciu nowego nabytku! Ktoregos razu dostalam kartka na urodziny od znajomej, dokladnie z tym motywem. Polowalam na ten stepel dlugo, bo ososba dajaca mi ta kartke, nie wiedziala niestety skad pochodzi ten stempel. Jednego pieknego dnia BINGO:  Szukaj a znajdziesz!

Ta kartke zrobilam na wzor Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge #40: Jestem dosc zadowolona z rezultatu. Nieraz jest trudno cokolwiek zrobic z takim duzym stemplem, poniewaz nie pozostaje zbyt duzo miejsca na dekorowanie kartki.
Pare nowinek od Kubusia: Pokazal sie drugi zabek i biedaczek cierpi, ale my mamy nasze triki aby zapomniec bol ;) Dzis wieczorem idziemy na mecz hokejowy! Go Vees Go!

Wasza kANNAdyjka



Thursday 11 February 2010

Just Us Girls challenge and my Ladies Night Out!

Hi there,

this time you can see a card meant for the Just Us Girls challenge. I play with them the first time and already love  it! The name of the blog is awesome.... I have to think about my new-moms-group,  I join recently: we meet every week for a walk (to take care of our figure after the pregnancy=) ), we also meet that our babies can play with each other and once a month we are going out in the evening, which it's so much FUN! Can you imagine 7 women at one table laughing their heads off? Yesterday we laughed so hard that my belly muscles are sore today-I love this kind of pain!

Back to Just Us Girls, this is my entry for their challenge:

I love this DP with roses! Well, who does not like roses, right? I have a weakness for those flowers...In our town we have a Rose Garden. When we came to Canada, I was going there very often to write letters (not emails) to my friends in Poland and Germany. I will never forget it! I still love to go there and admire the blossoms, which are as big as my hand, not my fist. Pity,  in my garden the blossoms are tiny =(
I promise you a card related to the topic my garden soon...I think, I can't wait for spring and finally to work  there (now I have even a helper-Jakob=))) My garden is a tricky one, but details about that later!

Have a great rest of the week,
kANNAdyjka
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Czesc Wam,
tym razem prezentuje Wam kartke, ktora jest przeznaczona na wyzwanie Just Us Girls. Uczestnicze w ich blogu pierwszy raz i naprawde podoba mi sie ich wyzwanie. Nazwa tego blogu mnie tez skusila do gry......  Moze dlatego, ze przypomina mi moja grupe swiezo-upieczonych-mamusiek, z ktorymi sie ostatnio spotykam:  co tydzien spacerujemy szybkim krokiem (po ciazy trzeba troche zadbac o figure, nieprawdaz?),  od czasu do czasu nasze dzieci bawia sie ze soba, a raz w miesiacu wieczorem idziemy (bez dzieci ma sie rozumiec!) do restauracji, co jest wileka przyjemnoscia! Mozecie sobie wyobrazic 7 kobitek przy jednym stole, smiejacych sie do lez? Wczoraj na przyklad tak sie usmialysmy, ze dzis mam zakwasy w miesniach brzucha-bardzo lubie ten rodzaj bolu!

Co do Just Us Girls, powyzej mozecie zerknac na kartka na ich wyzwanie.

Poprostu uwielbiam ten papier z rozami, mimo ze jest niebieski! No ale kto nie lubi roz, chyba wszyscy? Ja mam szczegolna slabosc do tych kwiatow... W naszym miescie mamy Ogrod Rozany. Kiedy przyjechalismy do Kanady, chodzilam tam bardzo czesto pisac listy (nie emaile!) do przyjaciol z Polski i Niemiec. Nigdy tego nie zapomne! Nadal uwielbiam tam chodzic i podziwiac kwitnace roze, ktorych kwiaty sa wielkosci  dloni, nie piesci. Szkoda, ze w moim ogrodzie roze sa malutkie =(
Niedlugo obiecuje Wam kartke zwiazana z ogrodem... Wydaje mi sie, ze teskni mi sie za wiosna i zeby w koncu popracowac w ziemi (teraz mam nawet pomocnika-Kubusia) Moj ogrod jest troche skomplikowany, ale o tym niedlugo!

Zycze przyjemnego konca tygodnia,
Wasza  kANNAdyjka

Monday 8 February 2010

Meska sprawa-masculine matter

Greetings,
 I just say: the Valentine's craziness is everywhere!!! I was very happy to find a challenge from Our Creative Corner (OCC), which is a little bit different than others: male Valentine's card. Because of tones of pink and red hearts and other sweetness related to Valentine's day, I decided to participate in this challenge. The idea for this challenge comes from the OCC February hostess Linda Coughlin.
This card is also meant for the following challenges:
Crazy4Challenges- Be my Valentine
CCEE Stampers-card/project using hearts and a charm



Bad Valentine's Day news for me: I have to spend the Valentine's day without my significant person, because he is on business trip. But thanks to the today's technology, we will see each other via Skype! At least something!

 (inside)

Cheers,
kANNAdyjka
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Dziendoberek,
Powiem tak: walentynkowe szalenstwo nas osaczylo!!! Szczesliwym trafem znalazlam wyzwanie Our Creative Corner (OCC), ktore jest troche inne jak wszystkie: MESKA kartka walentynkowa. Postanowilam uczestniczyc w tym wlasnie wyzwaniu, poniewaz  chce zrobic cos innego niz standartowy przeslodzony styl walentynkowy. Pomysl pochodzi od hostessy na miesiac luty Linda Coughlin.
Uzyje tej kartki takze w innych wyzwaniach:
Crazy4Challenges- Be my Valentine
CCEE Stampers-card/project using hearts and a charm

Zle wiadomosci walentynkowe dla mnie: jestem zmuszona ten dzien spedzic bez mojej drugiej polowy. Maik jest na wyjezdzie sluzbowym. No ale dzieki dzisiejszej technologii, zobaczymy sie na skypie-chociaz cos!

Pozdrowienia,
Wasza kANNAdyjka

Saturday 6 February 2010

Caardvarks's challenge-Wedding card/Slubne wyzwanie z Caardvarks

Hello,

Valentine's day is coming! Therefore this time something romantic: a wedding card.
Other inspiration for this card: After a long while I contacted a good friend through Skype, who is getting married in May. I had to know all the details-I'm sooooo happy for her! I also have to mention that it will be a mixed marriage: Polish-Italian-very nice combination, don't you think? I would love to be able to make to her wedding, but it's not possible. My friend Magda and one more friend Karolina came to my female bachelor party (I don't like to use the expression "hen night") from Warsaw to Slupsk (6 hours by train) and stayed for several hours to celebrate with us. I was touched, how much effort they made it to be there!
There is also another wedding coming in April! Also mixed marriage: dutch-iranian!
We got married in April too (almost 5 years ago!!!!) I remember, it was 8 degrees Celsius and we had a photo shooting outside. I was freezing! But on the pictures you can not see the red noses-a good picture editing program was used =)
By happy coincidence Caardvarks's  challenge this time is to create .... a wedding card! The winning entry will be published in Scrapbook Trends CARDS Magazine's July 2010 issue. Very tempting, isn't it???

And look inside: initials of the bride and groom:
A usual some news about Jakob: he got his first tooth!!! That explains a lot: his appetite and mood lately weren't that great!

Thanks for your visit,
kANNAdyjka

P.S.The card is also meant for the CPS Sketch 153.

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Hello,
Walentykowe swieto juz niedlugo! Dlatego tez tym razem przygotowalam cosik romatycznego: slubna kartke. Oprocz tego jeszcze jedna inspiracja: Po dlugim czasie skontaktowalam sie przez Skypa z dobra kolezanka, o ktorej doszly mnie sluchy, ze wychodzi za maz w maju. Musialam oczywiscie dowiedziec sie wszystkich szczegol-ciesze sie jej szczesciem! Musze takze dodac, iz bedzie to mieszane malzenstwo: polskie-wloskie-bardzo ladna kombinacja, nieprawdaz? Tak bardzo chcialabym byc na jej slubie (zaproszenie jest w drodze do mnie), ale niestety nie da rady. Moja wyzej wymieniona kolazanka Magda i jeszcze jedna kolaeznka Karolina byly na moim wieczorze panienskim , przyjechaly z Warszawy do Slupska (6 godz. pociagiem) zostaly pare godzin zeby z nami swietowac. Bylam wzruszona, jaka droge pokonaly, aby byc ze mna w ten dzien.
Mamy jeszcze jeden slub w zanadrzu, w kwietniu, tym razem mieszanka holendersko-iranska.
Nasz slub byl takze w kwietniu (prawie 5 lat temu!!!!) Pamietam, ze bylo 8 stopni Celsiusa i mielismy sesje zdjeciowa na powietrzu. Bardzo wtedy zmarzlam! Na zdjeciach nie widac czerwonych nosow-ktos sie naprawde zna na edytowaniu zdjec.
Szczesliwy przypadek chcial, ze Caardvarks's  oglosil wyzwanie na... slubna kartke! Zwycieska kartka bedzie opublikowana w czerwcowym wydaniu Scrapbook Trends CARDS Magazine. Kuszace wyzwanie, nie sadzicie???

Jak zawsze na koniec pare nowinek o Kubusiu: pojawil sie pierwszy zabek!!! To wyjasnia wszystko: Kubus nie mial ostatnio za dobrego apetytu i humoru.


Dziekuje za Wasza wizyte,
Wasza kANNAdyjka

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