Beatrix, thank you!

 

Today is the day of the abdication of

 Queen Beatrix. Now she has left the country

 in the hands of her son Willem Alexander.

 

Of course I had to make a card

to thank prinses Beatrix for all the

33 years of her being our Queen.

This card is made with a text that one

could send to a special address for thanking Beatrix,

but i thought the card needs something extra.

So I glued the text to a new background.

The stars and stripes are washi paper strips.

The royal owl is made with the owl punch

by Stampin'Up! The eyes and the heart

are gemstones. Now my card is ready for sending!

 

Have a creative day!

 

 

 

Tim Holtz April Tag: King

Here is my April tag for Tim Holtz

12 tags of 2013.

Of course I gave it my own twist,

but using Tim's creative ideas

and techniques.

If you have been following my blog,

you know we have a special day tomorrow

in The Netherlands: the inauguration

of the new King Willem-Alexander.

A very big happening for our country.

So I gave the tag an orange metallic look.

Yes orange is the main color you will see

tomorrow. Everyone will be dressed

in orange tshirts,coats, hats, shawl, jeans.

It will be a colorful day!

So my tag is titled:

Time to be the King

On top you see the clock and the hand of the

clock is pointing towards the "W"coin

on the ribbon. The "W" is the first letter

of the new King's name.

The lions on both sides are stamped on

transparant plastic,so I could flip the

lion on the other side. The are both staples

to the tag (covered by the clock.

The 2 is on of Tim's metal numbers

c0vered with bronze, rusty hinges and

mustered seed distress paint.

The word is stamped on kraft paper

and made into a tag.

The crown is out of grunge paper,

covered with the same distress paint as

the tag and added  a little mahogany.

On top a few sticky orange gemstones.

Underneath the crown I used a few

tiles from a scrabble game

painted with distress gold paint.

For all the technique instructions

on how to work with the distress paint,

take a look at Tim's blog:

http://timholtz.com/12-tags-of-2013-april/

Have a creative day!



Sunday Scrap page: Reading

Theme for this weeks chronicles is: reading

and I could not resist to use

my favourite subject!

 

One cannot start young enough

to make children love reading.

 

For this page I used Club Scraps's

Spring Chorus and Michael Strong's

hexagon stamp.

I stamped the hexagon stamp with versamark

on yellow paper and embossed the stamp

with baby blue embossing powder.

 

I decorated the stamp with blue dots from

the Viva Decor blue pearl pen.

Only in the middle of the star I used a

sticky blue gemstone.

 

Have a creative day!

 

I Love Holland

The Netherlands is in a very festive mood

this weekend until Tuesday.

Today is the birthday of our crown prince Willem-Alexander

and he will be inaugurated as the new King on Tuesday.

So you can imagine all the orange

gadgets that can be found and

all the orange flags that are hanging everywhere.

Yes, orange is our national color,

 next to the Dutch red white and blue.
This is because the Queens is

from The House of Orange.

 These cards are made with a Technique Junkies technique

called Designer Paper Starbust

and is from the April/May 201 newsletter.

I used Michael Strong's  tulips and the mini heart stamps

with some scrapbook paper in the back.

The stamps are embossed in white on colored paper.

On both cards i used a few sticky gemstones to give the

cards some extra bling.

Have a creative day!

 

 

 

Club Scrap Spring Chorus Blog Hop

Here we are again with our monthly

CLUB SCRAP

blog hop and this time it is

Spring Chorus, the April kit.

I hope you came her after seeing

the beautiful craft of Tricia

on her blog HERE.

If you lose your way, you can always go back to

the Club Scrap Create Blog

where all the blogs are listed.

I have an explosion box for you this time.

Spring usually is an explosion of

flowers, only this year it is still very

cold and all flowers are late.

So thanks for paper flowers!!

When you take of the lid of this box, you see layers of

paper, where you can add photo's amd i want to share

with you how to make this box.

You need 3 layers of paper:

1. 12x12 inch

2. 10,5 x 10,5 inch

3. 9 x 9 inch

and this is the lid made out of 8 x 8 inch paper.

The lid is scored all around at 2 inch.

And you can see where to cut, so you can

glue the border to make the lid fit the box.

Now how to score the papers:

1. score around at 4 inch

2. score at 3,5 inch

3. score at 3 inch

As you can see on the picture you have to cute out

 4 of the square corner pieces.

Now you can start decorating:

This is the outside paper.

I used the stencil and light green acrylic paint.

I also stamped on it with white ink

and the musical notes UM stamp.

On the other side I made triangular pockets

out of the square corners I cut out of the

2nd layer.

The 2nd layer is decorated paper

and leav it like this for photo's.

The 3rd layer is stamped with 3 colors

of green and a sentiment.

When all layers are on top of each other,

the last layer is the one with the flowers.

For this you need a square of 2,75 x 2,75 inch.

For the flowers you need a transparent

plastic sheet: 4x 0.5 x 3,75 inch.

Fold half an inch on both ends. on top one way

and on the bottom the other way.

Make 4 slits with an exacto knife in the paper

square. Through these holes you fit the four

stems of the flowers.

For the flowers I used the cut outs that  came

with the kit. I samped musical notes on the

flowers with blue ink and yellow around the border.

The gemstones in the heart of the flower

also came with the kit.

Here a close up of the lid of the box.

The text is one of the stickers that came with the box.

Around the lid there are the ribbons and the jute.

Here you see the layers of the box.

The squares that were cut of the 3rd layer

are used as tags in the corner pockets.

Thanks so much for visiting my blog.

Hope you found some inspiration.

As this is a hop, I think it is time to move on

to Kay, who as onther great keepsake for you:

http://kayskeepsakes.blogspot.nl/

Have a creative day!

Sneak peak Club Scrap Blog Hop

 

 

Hope you stop by tomorrow for

the big Club Scrap

Blog Hop.

 

Here a spoiler to wet your appetite!

 

 

You can start at the Club Scrap Create Blog:

http://clubscrapcreates.blogspot.nl/

 

Creative greetings,

 

 

 

 

Royal Cards

In The Netherlands we are in for a special day

on April 30 2013.

Normally this is our Queen's Day.

We celebrate the birthday of  Queen Beatrix.

This year it is a total different day.

It will be Crowning Day.

Queen Beatrix will abdicate and

her son Willem-Alexander will be

our new King. 

So I wrote to Paulette from Create with TLC

if she had an appropriate digital image.

And see what a wonderful

images she has HERE

I am totally in love with all these images

and you will see more of it!.

 Here are the first two cards I made today.

This first card is colored with distress markers

and the crown is colored with gold stickles.

 The card is finished of with an orange ribbon

and an orange flower.

Yes, orange is the Dutch color, because the Royal family

is from the House of Orange.

Here is the 2nd card and I just love 

the sentiment.

This card is colored with pencil.

The crown is colored with a gold glitter pen.

Around the lion you see sticky gold and

blue gemstones.

THANK YOU

so much, Paulette,

for the wonderful images!

Have a creative day!

Sunday Scrap Page: Spring Cleaning

This weeks theme for

Club Scraps Weekly Chronicles

is: Spring Cleaning.

As we just pained our living room,

I think that count for a spring cleaning.

All papers are by Club Scrap

and they are from the Serenity Kit

September 2012.

The stamps I have used are the

tulips by Michael Strong.

I stamped them in versamark

and embossed it with

pearlescent ivory embossing powder.

For coloring the tulips I used two colors of distress ink:

 shabby shuttersand musterd seed.

The tulips looked so nice,

so I made some more and used

them for the April cardsketch

in the EnjoyMichaelStrong Stamp group.

The sentiment on the card is by Club Scrap.

I cut out the tulips with the

matching metal die cut.

Want to know how to use the dies?

Take a look HERE for

a picture tutorial.

The tulips are decorated with yellow

gemstones. I used glossy accent

to glue them on.

Have a creative day!