Club Scrap January Artist Challenge: Faux Batik

Welcome to the Club Scrap January

Artist Team Challenge and

this month we share with you cards 

with a Faux Batik technique

I hope you have arrived here from
Pam's Blog
and see what wonderful projects she has
come up with.

There are various way of doing this technique
and I used one of the tutorials from
Splitcoaststampers here.

And here are my cards:

For this hop I made 4 cards in the same batik technique

with various stamps. 

This card is made with mostly this months papers

and stamps from the Color Me Happy kit,

but the pot and the sentiment are from

April 2009 Pure and Simple. I love using

distress inks for this way I could also sprinkle

some waterdrops and give the background

an even more batik look.

Here all papers and stamps from the January

Color Me Happy kit. The enamal dots are from

my stash.

The next two cards are made with the base

from the Office kit in combination with

the Color Me Happy kit. 

To be honest this was one of the first trials

of this technique and I almost discarded it. 

But then When I added the sentiment it looked

ready to use. The leather ribbon and beads

are from my Club Scrap stash. 

This card is made with one of my favorite

(vintage wooden) stamp, the tulips.

This was my contribution, but there is
more inspiration. Hop over to
Jennifer's Blog
and see her awesome artwork.

If you hapen to loose your way,
you can always go back to the
Club Scrap Blog
and see all the designer's link addresses.

Thank you for looking
and have a creative day!

Happy Chinese New Year!

As today a lot of people celebrate the Chinese

New Year, I want to wish you all a very happy

and healthy Year of the Rooster.

On Michael Strongs Blog I found

this free digital image HERE and after downloading

I coloured it in photoshop and 

printed it several times.

The first layer is cut out with 

an oval stitched die from Stampin' Up!

and then I cut the next images with

scissors to give it more dimension.

The layers are taped together with 

foam tape.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!

Saturday Sketch Card: Love

With Valentine coming soon, I thought

it was time for some love cards.

I used the Sketch Saturday Blog

for inspiration. And the heart stamp

is by Michael Strong.

Background paper byStampin' Up! (not available anymore)

and the sentiment is by Create with TLC.

The key is one of the metal ideology findings

from Tim Holtz. I decorated the top with a 

large sticky gemstone.

When I noticed the pearl challenge on the

Cupcake Inspiration Blog

I wanted to enter my card there too.

The heart is stamped with versamark and embossed

with red embossing powder. The pink colouring is 

with distress markers and water.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!

CAS sketch challenge 207

Here is my sketch for the challenge on the 

CAS Sketches Blog.

I still had my Club Scrap Color Me Happy rubber 

stamps on my table and came up with this idea.

For the wavy border I first stamped a few of the flowers

on a sticky post it note, so that I could use those

for masking. After stamping the border and the

sentiment, I coloured the flowers with distress

markers. With distress spray broken china I made

the spots you see in the background. I also added some

of the metallic dots that came with this kit.

You find the CAS Colors & Sketches Blog

HERE. And can see more samples of this

fun and wavy sketch.

I had so much fun with the flowers and I had a 

background left over from my card yesterday,

thad I created another card. So you first stamp

2 flowers, put a post it note cut out flower on top

and you can stamp more flowers. Also distress 

markers have been used to color the flowers.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!

Year of the Rooster

Today I have another post for Art Neko

with the Year of the Rooster stamp.

As the Chinese New Year is on Sunday January 28, 

here an idea for some quick cards.

For both cards I used the Year of the Rooster stamp

and the acryl block technique.

For this technique, you need red ink. I used 2 red distress inks.

Also a spray bottle with water, aquarel paper and

black ink for stamping.

Add the ink direct to the block, spritz some water 

on the inkted block. Lay the block on the table

with the ink on the top side. Lay your paper

on top of the inkted block, rub with your hand

(or use a brayer) on top of the paper. 

Carefully lift the paper of the block and see here

the result. Every time you do this it will look

different. Now you take the rooster stamp and 

stamp all over the paper. Stamp the sentiment

and add some spots with black ink.

The brass rooster is added with foam tape.

For this card, I also made the same background.

Here I only stamped the rooster one time

in the center and a sentiment underneath.

It is one of the Holiday Greetings.

The coin is from my stash.

Wishing you all a wonderful celebration.

Thanks for looking and

have a creative day!

Club Scrap Blog Hop: Color Me Happy

Welcome to the first monthly Club Scrap Blog Hop in 2017.

I hope you have arrived here via

Jennifer's Blog

and seen her wonderful projects.

I have focust this time on my new scrapbook for 2017

and made a front page and the first entry.

For making pages I absolutely love the ALSB -

assembly line scrapbooking - formula.

You find a great instruction video by Tricia here:

For my page I used page 5&6 from the instructions.

The first pages in my book are about ringing in

the New Year at my daughter's house with 

champagne and fireworks. The eldest grandson

came out of bed and enjoyed seeing the 

beautiful firework and going to bed late!

I always make the pages first as they are from the instructions.

Once I add my photo's I make some changes that fit my

personal need, like on the middle strip there was another

text. I typed mine on the computer and printed it

to fit on the strip after cutting it out.

Also the left image I changed. I turned it around and 

the white side was beter for the journaling I wanted to add.

For writing I used the free Beacon font that 

you can  download here.

On the other page I had to adapt the right colomn for

picture, for I had two larger ones. It still gives the same

 impression. I added some journaling on an extra piece 

of paper.

I love the font that comes with this kit.

This is printed and colored with some ink around the borders.

Here again the first page. I am sure you want to know

a little more about how I made this. It is made in a 

few layers.

The first layer is the background on 12x12 inch turquoise paper.

For this background I used the dragonfly stencil

that came with this kit. I used dark blue ink

that shades the stencil perfectly on the paper.

The 2nd layer is the yupo paper that is also in this kit.

With alcohol ink you make a wonderful colored paper. 

All about the technique you find here.

The 3rd layer is the cut out year (with number dies from

Stampin'Up!). I stamped the leaves on top of the 

turquoise paper in black and colored it with green

pencils. The white dots are made with Ranger

white distress spray.

The sentiment is one of the cut aparts that came with 

this kit and I am sure 2017 has lots of moment that

we will smile about!

For mor inspiration, I hope you hop over to

Pam's Blog

and see what she has come up with.

In case you lose your way, go to the main

Club Scrap Blog 

and see all participants.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!

Mojo Monday #481

Today I share with you my card for  the

Mojo Monday Blog

with stamps and papers from the  Club Scrap

January kit Color Me Happy.

You find this weeks sketch HERE.

The background of this card is embossed with a flower

embossing folder. On the background circle there

you find a piece of yupo paper colored with alcohol ink.

The dragonfly is embossed with dark blue embossing

powder and colored with distress markers.

Hope to see you again tomorrow,

when we have our Club Scrap  monthly blog hop

and you can see what we do with a box of papers 

and rubber stamps.

Thanks for looking

and have a creative day!

Club Scrap and FMS 271 sketch

As I am working on my project for the

montly Club Scrap Blog Hop

on Wednesday 25th of January

I noticed a sketch and had to make these card,

The paper of the

Color Me Happy kit is so beautiful,

that these cards were ready in no time.

The sketch is from the

Freshly Made Sketches Blog

that I absolutely love for the easy to

follow sketches and I very often make more

than one card with the sketch, just like today.

I made these 2 cards out of one of the 8 1/2 x 11 inch

pieces of wonderful design paper. I cut it into half

and folded it for two cards.  De decoration on top

is made with the cut aparts that come with the kit

and the birthday stamp.

on this cut apart the happy was printed and

the word birthday is stamped on one of the

scrap pieces that I have left from my project

amd added with foam tape to the strip.

Here I just stamped the birthday sentiment on

a puce of white paper and the grean is a piece

left over from a photo mat. I love the sticky

metal dots in various sizes. They realy belong

to the background.

Thank you for looking and 

have a creative day!

Saturday sketch card: Penguin

Have you seen the new stamp on Michael Strong's 

Facebook page? Unfortunately it is not available

yet, but I am experimenting with a digital version.

I used the image for this sketch, a sketch from a Dutch

stampgroup. We have a new sketch every month.

I printed the penguins twice. The second set I used

to cut out and made the penguins 3d with foam tape.

The beak and the shoes of the penguin are colored

with a red pencil. The black scalloped background is 

made with a die and the backround paper is from

a design paper block called Stacked with Love

 from Stampin'Up! (not available anymore).

The sentiment is from Create with TLC

and cut out with an oval punch and matching

oval scallop punch. The red dots are two

sticky pearls.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!