Christmas Card inspiration

Today I have been making Christmas cards.

I was totally inspired after I had seen

Tim Holtz's blog post

yesterday with his Christmas cards.

It gave me an instan idea on how to use my new TH stamps,

paper and all those ribbons I have lying around.

 

Last weekend I got these stamps:

Already I had the Chritmas paper:

and with some basic card paper this is what

I came up with:

 

 

I cut the Christmas paper to fit as a panel on the

front of the card, fastned a ribbon with a tiny staple.

The image on the card is stamped with versamark and

embossed with black embossing powder.

On the inside and on the envelop I stamped

the image with black ink.

All images are colored with watercolor crayons.

On each card you find a little gemstone as

an extra accent.

 

 

Only the snowflake is embossed in white

 and stamped with blue ink to make it more fitting.

 

Hope you like my version of Tim's cards.

 

Have a creative day!

 



 

 

TH November tag

 

Here is my November tag for the 12 tags of 2012

challenge from Tim Holtzs's Blog.

If you go over there you can see all

about the techniques and how

to do them.

I just bought all the new colors of distress

stains and I just had to use them on this tag.

In the Netherland we do not celebrate Thanksgiving

so  I made my tag into a birthday tag using the buterfly stamp

and some of the word stamps.

For the tag I did all the techniques that

are shown on Tim's blog, just used

different colors, stamps and

dies.

In the border I stamped birthday wish

and gave it a little white accent

to stand out.

 

For the flowers at the bottom of the tag I used

Tim's tatterd florals by Sizzix

and some kraft core paper from these small packages.

Thanks for looking and

have a creative day!

Pimp your (free) calendar

Every year I receive these free

calendars from our garage and they

are wonderful to decorate to your

own liking.

(if you don't get them, you can also

buy them rather cheap in the bookstore)

 

The calendar part usually is pnly fastened

to the back with 2 stapels. So after opening

these, you can take this part of and

put away until the end.

(Just don't forget to keep the holes!)

The back of the calendar is now ready for decorating.

You can paint it, decorate it with one

piece of (scrap)paper or like I did with a

few pieces of decorated paper.

When i had them all gluied to the cardboard

I used a little gesso over the top, to soften the color

and to make it easier to stamp on.

Around the border I added some vintage distress ink.

 

For the top of the calendar I used the Stampin'Up!

pendant punch, an oval punch

and Michael Strong's oval Numbers

and Cloisonné Cranes

and a word stamp.

You can see I embossed all the stamps on different papers

and cut or punched them out before arranging

it on the back pannel.

I went on by stamping a little

on the background using some Tim holtz stamps

and a circle stencil to give it an overal look

like it was one piece of paper.

On the bottom iI added a strip of one of the

long tim holtz die cuts.

 

Then I stamped Michael Strong's new little elephant stamps

a few times on dark grey paper to have them on the bottom

underneath the calendar. I also stamped one large elephant

to be the head of the heard.

 

I did not like to have just something on the top and bottom, so

leaves were stamped, embossed and cut out to go

along the calendar.

After aranging everything like I wanted it,

I glued everything to the cardboard

and it was time to add the calendar again.

Open the stapels real straight and

have them go through the holed front to back.

Close the staples on the back with plyers or screwdriver.

Now your calendar is finished and just have to

wait a month to hang it and start using it.

 

A close up to the bottom with the elephants.

A close up to the leaves and the flowers I  added.

 

Hope i have giving you some inspiration.

Have fun playing!

 

 

Have a creative day!

 

 



 



Thanksgiving 2012

Just couldn't resist making another

keep calm poster on:

http://www.keepcalmandposters.com/

I wanted to be thankful for all my scrap and stamp friends,

who just come back to take a look at my blog.

Thank you for following me!

This card is made with  the frame and the circle

stamp by Michael Strong. I am so thankful he is my friend

and I can use his beautiful stamps and share my cards

with you all.

The frame stamp is embossed in copper.

The circle is embossed in orange and I used an

oval punch to punch out 3 ovals to make the

pumpkin. On top I used half the flowe from

the middle pannel of the frame and the green

is punched out of a border punch.

I hope you and your families have a wonderful

and joyful Thanksgiving.

Technique of the month: GESSO

Today I am featured on the Club Scrap blog 

on how to create this GESSO background:

http://clubscrapcreates.blogspot.nl/2012/11/november-technique-gesso.html

Gesso is the technique of the month over

at the Club Scrap forum.

Have a creative day!

Sunday Scrap Page

Here another of my

weekly chronicle pages for the

Club Scrap forum.

Paper is from the Club Scrap Peacock kit from October '12

and the apple was made with Michael Strong's cloissoné

circle stamp embossed in silver embossing powder.

Have a creative day!

Distress Stains

OMG more wonderful new distress stain colors.

I just love using thes stains. When the gold,

bronze and silver was here I bought them right away.

Now all of these will be on my wishlist.

 

I can still remember about a year ago, when I

purchased the first set of colors±

http://craftchaos.blogspot.nl/2011/03/spelen-met-inkt-palying-with-ink.html

and followed some of Tim´s video tutorials

and I  keep on using them.

 

 

Here a current card with

Michael Strong´s house stamp and mini tree

and Tim Holtz sentiment and stars.

Here i show you how I made the background for the card.

Added a few drops of stain in different colors to my

craftsheet and picked this up with my tag.

 

 Then dried it with my heat gun and picked up some more

colors. You can do this a few times to get the depth

of color you want.

You can stamp and emboss in white

 before you swipe the color to your paper

( did this for the house)

or you can stamp and emboss afterwards

(as I did for the tree).

 On top of the background I embossed the stars in silver

and the sentiment was added with a piece

of double sided foam tape)

 Have a creative day!