CS Fire & Ice Christmas inspiration

This time the Club Scrap Blog hop

Inspired me to make these cards today.

It was at Lisa's Blog that her

cards gave me the idea for these cards:

For these cards i used:

Club Scrap Fire & Ice papers

Michael Strong snow man

Club Scrap Ice stamp

TimHoltz star stencil

Tim Holtz label stamp

Michael Strong sentiment

Versamark watermark inkpad

white embossing powder

Ranger antiuities frosted embossing powder

white crayon

white inkpad and sponge

black,blue and red inkpads

Start with stamping your image with versamark

on a dark piece of cardstock and embos with white

embossing powder.

Stampimage again on post it note and cut out. Lay this on top

of your stamped image on the card.

You can ink up the snow stamp with versamark ink,

stampand emboss.

Use your heat gun on the embossing powder.

Place your stencil on top of the card and 

sponge white ink where you want the stars

to show.

Finish the card as desired.

As you might notice on this card

everything looks softer. That is because here

I did not emboss with the white ink,

but the new Ranger antiquities embossing

powder.This Is the TimHoltz schoolboard

technique and he explaines it here.

Thanks for looking

enjoy your weekend!

Have a creative day!

Thankful!

This tag is for my friend Laura, who has send me

some packages of instant pumpkin spice coffee!

And of course I had to try it and let my dh try too.

YUMMY!!

These packages contain powdered coffee

and you can add hot water or hot milk

to make a delicious cup of coffee.

The tag is made with stamps by Michael Strong

(the hand, the coffeecup and steam)

and sentument by Tim Holtz.

I now have the chalboard embossing powder

and just had to try this fun technique.

It is easy and has a great effect. You will see

more of this!

The pumpkin is made with punches

and the leaves I had left over from my

other tag and came in handy.

Hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving, 

while I light the 2nd candle on my Menorah.

 Have a creative day!

Club Scrap Blog Hop: Fire&Ice for Hanukkah

Here we are with our monthly
Club Scrap Blog Hop.

for the Fire & Ice kit:

For all participants you can always look

at the Club Scrap Create Blog,

but you just might have come here

after seeing Tricia's wonderful project.

At the Club Scrap Retreat the

envelope punch board waiting for me

to take home,so I just have to share something

with this wonderful tool with you.

Not only it makes great envelopes in any size you wish,

it also creates wonderful tabs for file folders

and this is what I have come up with for my scrap book

page, that I want to share with you today.

No pictures? Yes,sorry, they have to be made 

for tonight the Jewish Holiday of Hanukkah

starts with lighting the first candle. I will share
these pages again for sure with pictures!

But in my file folder I have already some Hanukkah recipes

(you can also use this for hidden journaling or

adding some extra pictures)

 and here is how it is made:

Start with a piece of cardstock 5,5 x 9,5 inch

(click on the picture for larger image)

On this template you see were to score the lines for folding

and which part you will cut away (green lines).

After you have prepared your cardstock like this you

will make the tab on the top with your envelope punch board:

Put the cardstock inside the punch on the left side 

for your firt cut.

 
Move your paper towards the left ( I stoped at 2 1/4)
and punched again. Now it looks like this.

Take a ruler and craft knife to cut away the right side

 of the paper (sorry for having my ruler upside down,

but there is no measuring involved).

Use the oter side of the punch to round the right

side of the file folder. 

Use small tape to stick the flaps to the back of the file

folder. This backside will be attached to your scrapbook lay out.

Then I cut some loose papers to go as recipe cards

inside the file folder.You can also use it for extra

pictures. The top of these cards is done in the

same way as the top of the file folder.

For decoration of the file folder and the rest of my pages

I used the old Hanukkah stamps from 2006 by Club Scrap.

Here a more close look at the left page with 

the file folder and I just had to add an envelope too!

They are so easy to make in any size. 

This is the right part of the lay out.

I have some images in my head that I want to shoot,

hopefully it all works out.

Finished file folder with text and punched out

stars of david.

The recipe's! Click on the picture

for a larger view.

Thanks for stopping by to look at my project,

but there is more,

yes more on the next blog.

Go and see what my friend

Kay has to show you this time.

Have a creative day!

Sunday Scrap page: Green

This week the theme was "green" at the

Club Scrap Weekly Chronicles.

I had no idea what to do and suddenly

I thought I will use green paper with my pictures.

So here is my scrap page about 

celebrating our 14th wedding anniversary.

For this page I used mainly  Club Scrap Wisteria green

papers and some other CS scraps I had left.

For the tag I used alsoa piece I had lying on my table

and colored just fine on this page.

I used Michael Strongs mini heart with little pearls on top

in combination with some Club Scrap word stamps.

Here I used Michael Strongs larger heart stamp

in combination with another Club Scrap

sentiment stamp.

The word stickers are from Club Scrap Generations

kit that also uses a lot of green papers.

Thank you for looking and your

comment is always much appreciated.

Have a creative day!

Coffee on Saturday

My card for today is inspired by Heidi's Thursday

technique card. It is a technique by the 

Technique Junkies called distressed colorblocking

(newsletter Feb 2011)

I used:

Michael Strong's large coffee stamp

3 colors of distress ink

(dried marigold, gathered twigs and frayed burlap)

a digital sentiment by Create with TLC

(it is still a freebie today!!)

Use the colors of inkpad directly to your

acrylic block to stamp the background.

Dry well before stamping the coffee cup

(I used my heat gun). 

The coffee cup is

stamped with versamark and embossed with

orient express powder on the dark brown card 

and with black embossing powder on the 

white card.

On this card i added a peace of ribbon that I

got as apresent, so not sure where it came from.

The back of my card is stamped with a

stamp that was especially made for me by Joanne

Have a creative day!

Wedding Anniversary

Today is our 14th wedding anniversary

and of course iIhad to make a card (or tag this time).

My husband has a suitcase full of my cards

and here is another one to add.

I wanted to make nit such a love card,

but something sweet.

So how about a Tim Holtz style

card  with a Michael Strong stamp

and a Create with TLC sentiment?

First i stamped the card with white ink and 

on another piece of black paper I stamped

the hand twice with versamark and embossed it

with white embossing powder.

Cut out the big hand and the smaller inside

hand and added themon the tag with foam tape.

Uese some chalk crayon around the border of the tag.

My dh is not the heart type,but a little gemstone in the 

middle is just enough to add a little love.

The sentiment by CTLC is printed with the

computer and stapled on the card with

black staples.

We had a wonderful dinner last night with

a movie afterwards. We went to see The Hunger Games 2 

and we both loved it esp.because we loved reading

the books too.

This morning we spend at the gym and a sauna

afterwards. now Ray is at work, but

you never know what is ahead .........

XXX