Club Scrap Artist Team: Alphabet Stencils

On the last day of this short month

the Club Scrap

Artist Team has some stenciling for you.
All of us share with you ideas of how
you can make use of the letter stencils.
The start of the blog op is at the
Club Scrap Blog
and you can see there not only the
list of all the participants, but also
that the stenicls are 50% off!! YEAH!!
You find the stencils HERE.

 Lower Case

or Upper Case? Or both!

Hope you have arrived here from
Pam's Blog
and are now in for more ideas.

I have made a scrapbook page and a card for you.
For all my projects I used the Club Scrap
February kit Succulents that was still on
my table from the blog hop. Hope you had a
look at all those fabulous projects here.

The scrapbook page has pictures from last Sunday,

when it was my youngest daughter's birthday.

I used 3 colors of ink for my page: ruby, onyx\and moss.

With these 3 colors i colored the name of my daughter.

I used post it notes to comer other letters, so I would not

smidge the page on wrong spots.

This is how it looks after coloring all the letters.

And this is how it finally looks on the scrapbook page.

For the background on the page, I used some of the

cut apart strips and made this weave on the page.

I put tape only on the edges, so I could weave them in the middle.

Then I used one of the stencils to create a fun background.

And you see I did the number the same way as the name.

Do you notice the coincidence of the date and the age?

It can only happen once in a lifetime!

The cut aparts had also these fun 1" circles that I cut out

and used as a kind of flower and decorated with

 a few sticky gemstones.

I just love my Succulents kit and could

not resist ajusting my plants and make

a matching card. So how about one

with the alphabet stencil.

And this is my card idea:

creating a background with the letter stencils

by using the letters as a decorative element. 

Also on top using one of the succulents rubber

stamps. The outline is drawn with a black micron

marker, to make the text stand out.

These are some of my ideas, but there are many more

and Jennifer is sharing hers on her

The Scrape Side of Me Blog.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!

Cupcake Inspiration 396: Catz

As I had my cat stamps out for making the birthday card

for my daughter (see yesterday), I noticed the

challenge on the Cupcake Inspiration Blog

was cats, so here my card.

Cupcake Inspiration Blog with all the details

can be found here.

This time I made the background with an embossing folder

and added some pink ink to the raised parts of the 

embossed paper. It is a Happy Birthday embossing

folder. A birthday card is always good to have ready.

The balloons as well as the cats have been coloured

with aquarel pencils and a waterbrush.

For this card i used the larger Crazy Cats by

Tim Holtz, here colored chocolate brown.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!

Happy Birthday Zora

Today is the birthday of my youngest daughter Zora.

These are some early pictures of her.

She now is a wonderful young woman with lots

of ambitions in life and I wish her all the luck in the world.

May all her dreams come true.

Of course i made her a birthday card

and I used Tim Holtz mini crazy catz

for the card.

The background is colored with the use of afew

different stencils, a belnding tool and pink,

red and brown ink. On top the garland is drawn

by hand and than the fishes are stamped hanging

from the line. The sentiment is from the matching

word set from Tim Holtz called Crazy Talk.

The balloons come from the set Crazy Things.

The balloons as well as the cats are colored with

aquarel pencils and a waterbrush, then cut out and

added to the background with foam tape.

Why cats? Well these are my daughters cats: Droopy and Lucky.

I hope she will have a wonderful day!

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!

Saturday Sketch card: missing Stella

This card is made for Michael Strong,

because he had to put down his cat to sleep.

This ca was imortant, for she was the inspiration

for this lovely cat stamp.

I used the sketch of the 

Fresly Made Sketch Blog

as an inspiration for the card.

The car is embossed with silver embossing powder

and colored with aquarel pencils. Fisishing it of with 

a few sticky gemstones.

Here a few pictures of Mike's cat.

And here only a few od the card I made with this wonderful stamp.

I am sure Stella will be missed greatly.

Thanks you for looking

and have a creative day.

CAS color challenge #211

Here I am again with the Beautiful You set

from Stampin'Up!.

I used this CAS Color challenge 

and all the details are here.

The paper in the background is from an older

Stampin'Up! design paper block and perfect

for this challenge. The center image is cut with 

the new stitched framelits from SU!. The flower

and brad are from my stash.

The ruched ribbon in peekaboo peach was first

tied around the backpanel and then the sentiment

was added. it was cut with the smalles oval shape

of the stitched frames.

Thank you for looking 

and have a creative day!

Twin card

This card is made with a digital image called

little boy by Limited Runs digital stamps.

It is for a progressive challenge.

The sentiment is by Create with TLC.

Right away when I saw this little boy it

made me think of the twins (my grandchildren of 1,5y).

So they are the inspiration for my card.

I colored the image with photoshop and printed 4 little boys.

2 I used for more dimention. I cut out the hat and the pj's

and added it with foam tape to the card.

The background is a piece of design paper from

my stash. The card is finished off with a ribbon

and some sticky pearls.

And here is the inside of the card with another 

Create with TLC sentiment and printed little

boys and a left over piece of design paper.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!

Club Scrap Febuary Blog Hop: Succulents

Welcome to our monthly blog hop

and I hope you have arrived here from 

Jennifers Blog

and seen her wonderful eye candy.

If you loose your way in the hop, you

can always find all the participants on the

Club Scrap's Blog.

The kit for Febuary is called Succulents:

Here you see the colors of the kit and how many 

scrapbook pages you can make out of it if you

use the ALSB (assemblyline scrapbook) method.

Online you can download all the instructions and

cut as is written there to get all the pages.

So here is one of the pages (if you look at the 

instructions it is layout 3). My dh and I went to a spa

2 weeks ago. We got this as a present from his work.

He worked there for 40 years. We had a great time!

I handlettered this on the paper and it says exactly

how we felt. 

Not only is the paper great for scrapbook pages,

it is also wonderful for making cards. The kit

also comes with a great set of rubber stamps.

Visit the Club Scrap store and have a look at the

Jumbo, Art Nouveau and Greetings unmounted

rubber stamps.

For my card I used the Jumbo stamps. This kind of

card is called a center step card and there are instructions

all over the web. I do have the template here for you:

Cut and fold as the template shows and you get

this free standing card with a platform in the

center that is perfect for decorations.

As this kit is ful of plants, of cource this card

gets a pot with one of the succulents and when 

you pull the plant out of the pot it has a sentiment

stamped on the card inside the pot.

And now for my cutest project:

If you have been following my blog, you

might have seen these food jars also for 

Valentine. I was inspired after seeing

this project on the blog of Tim Holtz.

I made love jars for my daughters and my husband,

but the suddenly I got this idea with the 

succulent inside the jar.

And with some perfect pictures of 

the twins I got to work.  

So cleaning the jar, spraying the lid gold

and having a handy husband to make the

hole in the lid and find the right hardware

in the garage (he alsways has the right stuff I need).

Inside the jar I made a tiny flowerpot with

the dark red paper. Inside there is some quick

drying clay in wich  I added the succulent

(it is not a real one). Around it I added a few 

tiny grey stones for balance. Around the jar

I added one of the cutaparts that I stamped

with red and the word love. I used double sided

tape to glue this strip to the jar.

For my card I used one of the photo mats

that came with the kit and folded it in half.

For decoration I used parts from the

cutaparts that also come with the kit

as well as a bag of buttons.

You find the cut aparts here.

Here is the card from the inside.

All the sentiments are just perfect. Club scrap

always knows what I need!

And finally I have a box for you.

I found a video tutorial and

thought this is perfect for this paper.

I love the shape! Great gift box.

You need your envelop punchboard./

You find the turorial here:

It is a great box for a little sweet gift.

So, enough ideas...no...want more?!
Well, hop over to

Pam's Blog.
and see what she has come up with.

Thank you for looking
and have a creative day!