Tim Holtz September tag: Coffee

 In the nick of time is here my

September tag for the TIM HOLTZ

12 tags of 2013 challenge.

 I had been waiting for the new

TH stencils,but this takes time to ship them

to The netherlands.

But luckily I have some other stencils from

Club Scrap, so this is my tag.

As a lover of coffe I got out

all kinds of coffee stamps,

stencil and matching distress stains.

 

If you click on the

photo's, you can see a close up

of the tag.

As within the stickers there is no

coffee or cup sticker I made up this:

"enjoy share some magic together" 

Having a cup together is the best thing.

I hope my Club Scrap friends recognize all the

Mocha Java stamps and the stencils

I have used.

 Have a creative day!

Hambo Hoedown: A Batty Sketch

The challange over at 

Hambo Hoedown 

this week

is a sketch challenge:

And this is my card with their fun image

Fat Bat

Oh my....I was picked as:

Thank you somuch Hambo!

Have a creative day!

Sunday Scrap page: Art

This week the theme is "Art" for

the Weekly Chronicles at the Club Scrap forum.

My page is about my visit

to the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.

I used Club Scrap tribal papers

and made my own washi paper.

I showed this before in another

tutorial here.

This time I used distress inks

to color the washi tape. 

For this page these are the 

colores I used.

 They are: 

Vintage Photo

Whild Honey

and Barn Door

With China black ink and 

Michael Strong's Octagon stamp

I stamped on the washi paper tape.

For these tapes I used the different sizes of the

Octagon stamps, to have them all look different.

Here the text of the page,

stuck down with some washi tape.

It gives it a casual look.

The sentiment came with the kit

and was so right for the page.

The building is a page out of 

the Rijksmuseum folder

and shows you part of the building.

When you come to Amsterdam it is

definitely worth to pay it a visit.

Have a creative day

!

Saturday card: Gigantic

My card today was inspired by last weeks

tutorial on Splitcoaststampers called:

modified tri-shutter card.

you find all the instructions and measurements

HERE.

I used some scrappapers and Michael Strongs

cloisonné elephant and the sentiment is by

Create with TLC.

Here you see the background of the card,

before all the other parts are added to it.

This is the center of the ard with a piece

of scrapbookpaper and a piece with the small

elephants embossed in silver.

When everything is stuck together,

you see that the middle part pops forward.

The large elephant is stamped in purple

and  embossed with clear embossing powder.

I colored the elephant with pencil and decorated

it with a few green sticky pearls.

Here a good view on the small elephants.

These are stamped in purple

and embossed with clear embossing powder.

Have a creative day!

Club Scrap Take Wing Blog Hop

Welcome to another fantastic

Club Scrap Blog Hop

This time you see the use of the September 

papers and stamps from the Take Wing kit.

Have you come over from Tricia's wonderful

blog with all her great ideas?

Well if you get lost, you can always find all the partipants

at the Club Scrap Creates Blog.

I also have a sidestep on the

Technique Junkies Design Blog

with a technique card:

Technique Design Junkies Blog

So here is my special project

 that I want to share with you.

It is not my own idea, it was a friend

that showed this booklet to me

and I knew right away I wanted to make

this booklet for my retreat memory book.

I will be at the October retreat and hope 

to meet up with many old and new Club Scrap friends.

This booklet is 5 inch by 6 inch and inside has

many pockets to put in memorablia.

The big stamp is from my first retreat.

The black letters are chipboard letters

fromthe Hopekit.

A view on the inside of the book:

5 pages each with 3 pockets.

The back of the book with a stamp we got

last year at the retreat.

A closer peak at the inside of the booklet.

A little stamping only for I wanted to leave

space to add all the items fromthe retreat.

For sure i will share this book again

when it is filled with wonderful memories

after the retreat.

Ok now you want to know how I made this:

The covers are 2x  5 1/4"x 61/4 chipboard

covered with the white printed 8x11 inch paper.

The spine of the book is green covered grunge paper.

Here you see the outside.The green spine is

glued 1/2 " over the front and the back cover.

The inside of the outside over.

The middle part is the bendable part.

Let is dry real good before you add the inside pages.

Now you want to know how tomake the inside pages:

You need to cut the paper down to 10 x 9 "

and this is the template:

in paper it look like this:

Folded in half you contruct the pocket.

When folded, you have two flaps on the

outside. You can use a border punch

if you like on these flaps for decoration.

These flaps should be on the left side of your page.

These flaps are used to put the book together.

Glue on top and bottom (use some red heavy tape

or a line of bookbind glue), so a pocket is constructed

on each page.

This is just to show you the front of the book

will be glued to the cover.......do this after you have 

covered this chipboard with design paper.

For the backside you need to cut an extra stripof

5x5 inch,fold in half (lengthwise) add the punch

border and glue to last page and cover (after decorated 

with design paper).

These are the tags that ore inside the pockets

with only a little decoration for now,

but it will be filled after the retreat with lots more.

Hope it all makes sense to you, but

you can always email me if you have questions.

Now let's hop on and see what

the ever creative Kay has for you

on her Keepsakes Blog.

Happy Hopping!

Have a creative day!

Hambo challenge: pop up

Here is my contribution to the

Hambo Hoedown 

with Wee Henrietta Popcorn

that you can find here.

The idea for this pop up card came in my mailbox.

It is the new tutorial on Splitcoaststampers and you can find it her:

http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/resources/tutorials/modifiedtri-shuttercard/

So not only the images pop up (using foam tape)

but the whole card is popping up.

Besides using background papers

and Tim Holtz filmstrip die for decoration,

I also used some washi tape

to make the background interesting.

When you fold the card it will look like this

and fits a regular 4x6 envelop.

 

Thanks Hambo for the fun image and 

fun challenge again! It always tickles

my creative mind.

Have a creative day!