Happy Halloween!

Hope you all have a 

Frightfully Fun Halloween!

My card is made with:

Michael Strong Halloween Silhouette stamps

Michael Strong Halloween Confetti

Tim Holtz Sizzix rosette die

Tim Holtz Shatter Stencil (spiderweb)

Michael Strong Number stamps

Prickley & Pear sentiment stamp

Tim Holtz sentiment inside

Background for this card is torn

paper strips glued to a piece of

cardstock and cut to the desired size.

On top of the torn paper the stencil is used.

Inside the card.

Have a creative day!

Club ScrapLock & Key Blog Hop

Welcome to our monthly 

Club Scrap

Blog Hop to share with you

the artwork you can make with the monthly kit.

This month the kit is called Lock & Key.

I hope you have  arrived here from Tricia's Blog

with  her inspirational creativity. If you lose your way

you can always go back to the 

Club Scrap Create Blog

with all the participants.

As I have been away this month to the US

for the Club Scrap Retreat in Wisconsin,

I did not have time to make some elaborate projects,

but with Club Scrap's beautiful paper

that is not a problem.

So I made this simple scrapbook page for

the weekly chronicles (as I have fallen behind).

With this page I do not follow any theme,

but week 42 is all about the being at the Retreat!

If you care to ad the text,

please click on thepicture for a larger version.

I did however come up with a little project.

This is inspired by something I noticed

in the Botanic Gardenshop that I visited

on my last day in Chicago.

It is a necklace made out of paper rolls.

I can do this, I thought and here is 

my result:

I took 5 pieces of paper 2,5 x 2,5 inch,

bookbinding glue,a foam brush and

a brush with a handle that is not to thick

toroll the paper around.

Next you take one square of paper. First roll it a few

 times around the handle of the brush you choose.

Add a little glue at the end and roll it tight and close.

Do this with all pieces of paper.

Take a needle or something sharp to 

make a hole through the middle

of all the paper beads (not to thin).

Take some wire, make a loop in the midde of the wire first

and thread it through the paper beads. I then glued

the beads together. You can decorate it with some extra glass beads.

I use also a piece of the lace that came with the kit fordecoration.

Constructed the wire around the beads and added a key

at the bottom of the pendant.

I used a piece of leather to hang it from.

It came out pretty neat and it is fun to wear too.

I just tie it around my neck with a bow.

(Click on the picture for more detail)

Next you will be wonderfully surprised

with Kay's Keepsakes.

She always finds the cutes projects for you.

Hope to see you again for next month

blog hop when the Fire and Ice collection

is out and about.

Have fun hopping around!

Have a creative day!

Trick or Treat

Here another card to inspire you for Halloween.

This time I used Michael Strongs

Halloween Silhouettes.

You can find the stamps HERE.

As this card has a completely different

background as yesterday, i will share again

how i made this background with you.

First you cut a circle with a large punch

or use a spellbinder. Save the paper

you cut it from, you need it too.

I used 3 different colors of orange ink

and a sponge.

Start with the lightest color close to the circle

and make it darker towards the outside.

When finished with orange, take yellow ink

and the piece of paper you cut the circle from

to color the circle on the inside.

To make the earth under the moon use some

post it paper that you tear. You can either color

all of it black in one go, or

move the paper several times to have mire structure.

It is an old trick, but much loved.

Here you see the finished background before

the cat is stamped on the moon.

The bats are cut out with the

Halloween Confetti dies

and the sentiment on the card

is from Tim Holtz Simple Sayings set.

Hope I have given you some inspiration!

Have a creative day!

Scarry Jewel

I made this card for the Jewel Challenge

in the Michael Strong stampgroup.

Not only is there glimmer on the background,

thereare always jewel  on the spiders.

The sentiment I found on internet

and I share with you below.

Grab it with the righmouse click.

The hand is a Tim Holtz Sizzix die.

I want to share with you

how i made the background of the card.

First I used this spiderweb border punch

to punch out several borders.

With these borders I covered a white card.

I taped them down,so they would not move.

I used silver and black china glimmer mist

to spray over the spiderwebborders.I dried it

with my heat gun. When allwas drie I took away the 

punch borders and was left with a beautiful

glimmer background.

And the spiders are a die from

Michael Strong's Halloween Confetti set.

You find it HERE.

Have a creative day!

Tim Holtz October tag: Halloween and Fall

Here we go again for Tim Hotz's challenge

for the 12 tags. After reading the instructions

I started makeing the background for my tag and 

in a juffy i had 3 tags ready and I was having some

different ideas for making the tag.

One was more fall and another more Halloween,

so here I share with you the results of the tags

that I made:

The first one is the Halloween tag and I used

the same frame as on Tim's tag, but I did not

have the enbossing powder,so I only added

glossy accent. 

For the background of the tag I used some 

Tim Holtz stamps and some Michael Strong

stamps. The boo! stamp is a foam stamp

from an unknown manufacturer.

The bats and the birds are dies from Michael Strong.

You find the Michael Strong stamps and dies HERE.

Here is the finished tag,

the witch is stamped and embossed with black embossing

 powder. The animals are cut out of black paper and 

covered with glossy accent.

The next tag is the fall tag with cut out

leaves (thank you Marjie!!) I just love

how the leaves turned out with the spiderweb

stamped on them and some with a spider too. 

All leaves are covered with glossy accent.

Happy Fall is stamped with a tiny alphabet

I have from SU!.

For the last tag I suddenly had Movember

in my head. At the end of October one is already thinking

   of what to do in the next month. 

November is the month for  awareness for prostate cancer

and men are growing mustaches. I love using the

mustache stamp, for my dh always has one.

Thank you for looking and I always love it when you leave

a comment to my post. Have a wonderful Sunday!

                                       

Have a creative day!

Saturday Sketch: Pumpkin Latte

Here is my Saturday Sketch card for 

the Michael Strong Stampgroup.

As Halloween is close, I came up

with this idea after I had tasted

pumpkin latte for the first time in

my life when I was in the US last week.

You might frown,but then we do not celebrate

Halloween in The Netherlands and have not

everything pumpkin over here.

I think pumpkin latte is YUMMY!!!

For this card I used Michael Strongs coffee stamps.

I stamped the steam in versamark and embossed wih

clear embossing powder. After the heating I used

orange glimmer mist and 2 orange colors of distress stain.

When all was dry I took the stain stencil by Tim Holtz

and walnut stain ink with a blending tool to

finish the background.

The text i found on internet and printed out for

this card in a small size (2"x2")

and the cupis embossed with white glittery 

embossing powder. 

If you like to use this sentiment too, 

you can save it with the right mouse click

from below. Now I will hunt for

pumpkin latte in The Netherlands!

Have a creative day!

Pink Ribbon

October is Pink Ribbon month:

Breast Cancer awareness,

but there are so many other deseases

that need attention and cures,

so Paulette from Create with TLC

made a very clever digital image

that you can use with other 

colors of ribbons.

Below you see all kinds of colored

ribbons and the desease that goes with it,

is written underneath to give

you more ideas of the use of the 

sentiment. You find the sentiment

on the Create with TLC Blog.

I found an irisfolding template online:

http://irisfolding.blogspot.mx/2009/09/free-iris-folding-patterns.html

and thought this was great to use for 

my card, for you can also fold the ribbon

in any color you like.I used some plain pink and 

glitter pink paper.

Here is the template,

but know this is not mine but

from Melissa.If you like irisfolding

take another look on her blog for

 she has more free templates there.

Have a creative day!