Sunday Scrap Page: Monkeys

Official Chineese New Year celebrations are 7-13th of Feburary

and marks the start of the Year of the Monkey. So Michael Strong

offeres a serie of free digital monkey stamps on his blog

for you to use for your cards or other projects.

You can find thes images for downloading HERE.

They sure are great fun if you want to make some

Chinese New Year cards. Thank you Michael Strong

for making these fun digital images.

I used themto make this scrapbook page about my

twin grandsons, they sure are two fun monkeys!

I used Club Scrap Celebrate paper.The monkeys I printed 

on the blue paper and colored them with pencil. Each monkey

is colored a little different. The bottle caps came also with this kit.

With a 1 inch circle punch I punched 3 circles out of a piece

of silver scrap paper I had left over from the cards the other day.

They fit exactly into the bottle cap. I added these sticker

numbers and put the sticky glass on top. Perfect embellishment

for the monkey to hold.

The sentiment is a quote I found on the internet and typed on 

the computer and then printed on the grey paper from

the Celebration kit. The tiny words you see on top

of the pictures are also stickers that were on the number sheet.

This sheet is fom one of my very old Club Scrap kits

from my stash of never used sticker sheets. Not a big fan of

stickers, but here they came in handy!

So hop over to Michael Strong's Blog

and get your own monkeys!

Have a creative day!

Saturday Sketch Challenge: painting with coffee

Today I combined a few things. Two challenges

and using my new stamps. Stamps that I won

with the Winter coffee blog hop.

This package arrived today from Create a Smile.

So then I searched for a sketch that I could use today

and I found this Cas Color and Sketch Blog

with this fun sketch.

Also I noticed another challenge on the

Splitcoaststamperes:

Painting with coffee!

Well, I just had to participate as you can imagine.

Just take some instant coffee, water and a brush

and stamp and color!

The coffee stamp is first stamped in chocolate chip

and by Michael Strong.

I also made a stmping pad with a paper towel.

You can see here all the different colors of coffee you can make

with adding more water and the card also smells delicious!

Thank you for looking!

Have a creative day!

Celebrate with a sketch

These cards I made for the sketch challenge on the 

Freshley Made Sketches Blog

When i noticed this sketch, I just new this month

Club Scrap Celebrate rubber stamps were perfect

for the challenge.

Here you see the set of stamps from this Celebrate kit.

Wonderful sentiments to be on up front on a card.

You find the stamps HERE.

After making one card,Ijust kepgoing,so here are 3 cards for this

challenge. The first card is a 5,5 x 5,5 inch card.

The sentiment is embossed in white on a white card.

Then sprayed mustered seed and abandoned coral distress spray.

When everything was drie, I stamped on thepanel

with Club Scrap fuchsia ink and a swirl stamp.

The flower and buttons are from my stash.

For card number two I started with stamping the base of the card 

with a black swirl all around. Then i stamped the sentiment in

black and added the same swirl stamp in Club Scrap neon orange.

Then I used some orange sequins from my stash

and matted the sentiment pannelto this  wonderful silver

cardstock that came with this kit.

Card number 3 was stamped with one of the circle stamps 

in fuchsia all around the baseof the card.

I choose some red paper from another kit (Coffee break)

that was left over fromanother card and perfect to stamp

the sentiment and emboss in white. All the dots around

the sentiment are made with the circle stencil that

came with this Celebrate kit. I added some bling

gemstones frommy stash. That shiny star on top came

with the kit!

Thank you for looking!

Have a creative day!

 

Coffee and sketch

Oh how I love my new 

Club Scrap Coffee Break kit

I had to make another card and the background paper

is absolutely delicious and feels like velvet.

So I looked for a sketch that I could use

and went to work.

I want to enter this card for the 

Tuesday Morning sketch Blog

#336

Inspiration Destination Blog: Anything goes

Simon Says Stamp: Anything goes

I stamped the cup in burgundy red

on kraft paper, the same as the base of the card.

Again with black ink on white paper

and cut of the lid from the white paper

and added it on the cup with foam tape.

For the sleeve I stamped on a starbuck sleeve and

cut it out. Attached it with the punched out

star and a brad.

The bottle cap came with the Celebrate January

kit, but fits perfectly here for and embellishment.

Here you see the Coffee Break papers.

You find fnd them here.

Here you see the UM Rubber stamps

for the Coffee Break kit.

Hope you have a latte day!

Thanks for looking.

Have a creative day!

i {heart} sketch challenge #136

I came across the 

i {heart} sketches blog

through a friend and loved this image,

so i bought it to play along the sketch challenge.

Here you see the sketch.

But i also want to enter this card for

Simon Says Stamp:Anything goes

and Ruby's Rainbow: Animal Magic

The cats are colored with pancil.

The heart in the background is cut with a spellbinder die.

The heart is embossed with a tiny heart embossing folder.

Design papers in the background and tiny sticky pearl

to finish it.

I printed the image twice and cut out the small kitty again

to layer it with foam tape for dimention.

And here is the sentiment,cut out

and a little red ink all around.

Thank you for looking.

Have a creative day!

Club Scrap Blog Hop: Celebrate with coffee and chocolate!

Yes, this is a special post for the

Club Scrap January Blog Hop.

It is a celebration for kit #200!

I am sure you came over here from 

the Blog of Josette

and her wonderful art with this special

Celebrate pizza box with it's wonderful papers,

embellishments, stencil and rubber stamps.

If you loose your way,you can always go back 

to the Club Scrap blog.

So I thought it would be the best way to celebrate

with Coffee and Cocolate!

As I am already a member of Club Scrap since 2003 and

I have seen and used many wonderful kits since then,

I had missed getting the Mocha Java kit.

So I kept begging Tricia for a new coffee kit. And many

coffee cards and pages later there was the Mocha Java remix

kit and I have used it all up. So new requests and just this month

the Coffee Break kit is here. That is how  this idea popped

into my head! You all now me as a coffee addict.

I had seen this coffee cup around,but never tried it

and so with a great video tutorial and my envelope

punch board I went to work. Here is the tutorial:

The instructions are very easy to follow.

The result is this cup.

Inside the cup you can also add some

sweets, or other present.

The sentiment is from Celebrate and the spoon is from

the Mocha Java UM stamps.

Inside the cup I made this tag.

It is a picture from my first Retreat in 2007

that I made when Tricia was having a cup of coffee.

The cup on the bottle cap is a stamp from the new

Coffee Break kit.

This is the background I created with 

stamps and stencil. Most of it is now covered,

a shame, so I  may do it again and make a card.

And now for the chocolate bags.

Also great for Valentine!!

In the left bag I added a window,so you can see the

coffee bean chocolatesthat are inside. In the right

bag there are chocolate hearts for Valentine's Day.

To make this bag you need:

a 12x12 inch cardstock

envelope punch board

Start with punching at 1,5 inch and score.

Turn your paper and punch at 3 inch and score.

Turn and punch and score at 1,5 inch and

turn and punch and score at 3 again.

Flip over your paper and start again with scoring at 1,5 inch

and score and do the same as above all around.

This is how your paper looks when finished.

Now for the cutting. The larger part is the front and the

vack of the box. Cut allong the lines until the crossing.

Alonf the smaller side you leave a flap for 

the double sided tape.

Put the tape on the front sideof the flap.

Glue everything together.

Three flaps will be folded inside the bag

and the one that is left will be folded over the front

and used to close the bag.

Try to fold the sides like this with

your fingers.

Now the box is ready for decorating.

Make holes through the flap and the  bag

to pull a ribbon through.

Here the Valentine box.

As you can see I had a lot of fun playing with my

Celebrate papers and stamps.

For more celebrations and project ideas go to 

Tricia's Blog

and have lots of fun!

(hope will share more coffee in the future xx)

Thanks Clu Scrap for all your wonderful kits!

Have a creative day!