May tag Tim Holtz

As I am with my arm in a sling

and I am pretty sure I will not get

a tag done this month, so I like to submit my

Mother's Day tag for this month.

I cannot wait to try the flowers in 

my melting pot. It looks absolutely beautiful.

Thank you
Tim for the fabulous idea.

Yeah, my graduation apron arrived this week.

It will stay clean for a while.

Hope it will not be to far away befote I can use it.

Have a creative day!

Goodbye Robin Gibb

Thank you, Robin Gibb for

all your wonderful hours of music.

 

Now that I cannot stamp or scrap, I give

the digital way a try. 

This is paper and sentiment by Create with Tlc,

yesterdays freebie. 

 Ribbon by Club Scrap.

Border found on internet.

 Be creative, keep on dancing!

 

No stampin and scapping

Hello everyone,

I have some sad news. I have brokken my

upper left arm yesterday and no I  cannot

stamp or scrap for a while.

 Here are some pictures from the hospital.

As my arm is broken just under the shoulder,

they cannot use plaster, but I have to keep my 

arm in a sling.

You may wonder what happened:

  I wanted to step of a boat and got tangled in the ropes.

Someone helped me off and this way my arm got twisted 

and I heard the snap of the bone breaking. 

Hopefully it will not take too long,

but in the meantime I will enjoy looking

at everyone elses artwork and

be inspired to write down my own ideas.

Have a creative day!

TSSC 221

My new stamps from Michael Strong

have arrived. Of course I had to play

with them. It is a set of four stamps,

Two large stamps and two smaller stamps.

The set is called:

The little House set by Michael Strong

I also used the stamps for my 

Techno Stamper's Sketch card.

The centre stamp is one of the smal stamps.

Stamped in Versamark and embossed

with white embossing powder.

The bird is punched out with a punch

from Stampin'Up! and decorated with

Michael Strong's Paisley stamp.

Have a creative day!

String Art

This month it is all about strings

in the Technique Challenge

at the Club Scrap forum.

Every month I choose a technique to explore for a month.

This month I was inspired by Kay Williamson's

blog with her String Art boat

and wonderful technique explanation

at Kay's Keepsakes Blog.

 For my samples I used some of the Club Scrap

wooden stamps from a older kit called Rhapsody.

Perfect for punching holes and using some string

to make art.

For this one i used a circle of holes to embroider

some string in and out of the card and punched out some

butterflies on top.

 Here another card with a little more bling bling.

This time I used a stamp from

the Gratitude kit.

The embroidery thread I used is a lot thinner

than on the first card. It is a kind of silvery blue.

 Adding some beads to the string gives a wonderful

elegant look to the card. In the heart a brad with a gemstone.

 

This is the other corner ad the card with a kind

of spirograph way of adding my thread. I remember

doing this with a pen and some cirles when I was young.

 

Hope you give this technique a try too!

Have a creative day!

Scrapping Mother's Day

 Here is my scrappage about Mothers Day.

It is made with the new Club Scrap kit

"Wild Flowers

which is absolutely beautiful

and so right for scrapping about the mom's.

 Here are some of the details of the page.

The flower is the mini cloiconné flower

by Michael Strong.

 Some cross stitches with baker's twine.

 I make this page for the ongoing challenge

of Weekly Chronicles at the Club Scrap forum.

The letters are done with the cloisonné alphabet

stamps by Michael Strong.

 

Have a creative day!

Happy Mother's Day!

I typed "subway art mother" in google

and found all these nice projects,

that are just wonderful to print and frame

or use on a card.

Hope you are all wonderfully spoiled by your children!

 

 And for my daughter:

you just have to wait for the next Mother's Day!

Have a creative day!

Mother's Day inspiration

 Here is some Mothers Day inspiration.

First I share with you a tag I made

with dies of the ideology line by Tim Holtz.

 The background is embossed with a sizzix folder

that I painted with vintage photo distress stain before

embossing. Than I also added some new distress inked

squeezed lemonade and copper perfect pearl mist.

I cut the body with sewing sewing room,

embossed it, added some versamark and 

sprinkled a little white embossing poder on it

and used my heat gun.

The body is decorated with a Michael Strong

mini cloisonné flower embossed in cold and 

a button from the sewing room die.

Also I cut scissor and button with sizzix sewing edge

out of grunge board. Colored the scissor with

weathered wood distress stain and rock candy

stickles on top. Fastend it with a brad on the tag.

Banners decorated with a printed sentiment and

stapled to the tag.

All completed with ribbons on top and 

a cute little wooden spool and asewing

machine charm.

Here is an  another card. This can easily be

used as a gift card and is very easy to make.

I found this as a free printable card here:

http://www.ellinee.com/mothers-day-gift-card/

 If you go for easy and quick,

you follow the instructions on the link above 

and you have a quick card.

I had to make it a little more personal and

used again the Michael Strong mini cloisonné flower.

After cutting out the card, you have 4 corners left of

the backside paper and this is perfect to stamp

the 4 flowers.

 I ambossed them in white, gold, copper and black.

The heart is a gemstone,

Here you see the inside of the card and

also here the flower stamp is used. With vintage photo

I distressed the border of the card and stamped

the flower all around.

 This is the backside of the card.

Hope all your Mom's have a wonderful day!

Have a creative day!