Ginkgo Leaf for Art Neko

Welcome to my post for Art Neko stamps.

I have a post on the Art Neko Blog to sharing 2 cards

and one card here on my own blog.

I use the Ginkgo Leaf stamp in various ways

and here is the result.

I made these 3 backgrounds like this:

1. (left) 4 colors of embossing powder

2. (middle) stamp embossed with vesamark and clear

embossing powder. Colord with lime green color burst

3. (right) 3 colors of distress oxide ink on the stamp made this background.

Then i loved the backgrounds so much, I wanted them to be

seen and kept as much as possible to see.

Two cards are over at the Art Neko blog and

here is the 3rd card:

The dragonfly out of gold paper is cut out with

 a Stampin'Up! die. The sentiment is also cut out with a die 

from my stash. Finishing of the card with a few sticky pearls.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!

Club Scrap Blog Hop: Lagoon

Welcome to the montly Club Scrap Blog Hop.

This month the theme of the kit is Lagoon

and is such fabulous blues papers and

great stamps for wonderful pages, cards and projects.

I hope you have come over here from 

Pam's blog

and seen her wonderful inspiration.

I had a totally different project in mind and then we went to

the Sealife aquarium in The Hague/ The Netherlands.

So perfect to scrap with these papers!

I used two of the ALSB pages for it and added my own touches.

The left page is a general page with the entry

of the aquarium, the fishes and owen getting

his pirate diploma.

I added some silver embossed sea stars to the page

and teal jewel stickers from the kit.

Also on the cut out fishes strip I added some jewel stickers.

I love using the cut aparts, they look perfect in place.

And here the righ page. My daughter took this awseome picture of

Owen kissing the seahorse lamp in the aquarium. 

On the ALSB discription there are 3 coins on the squares, 

but I needed those for something else, so I used

the small sea star stamp to take the place of the coins.

I just love looking at this picture and the sentiment is just 

made for my page!

So here is the project that I wanted to make and 

couldn't resit making it anyway.

After googling Lagoon projects on Pinterest, I had many

ideas and made a lot of them come true in this

garden light/decoration project.

I wanted to paint a glas pot, but when I looked in t garage 

for a fitting pot, I came across this perfectly colored jar.

With hemp and my macramé skills from some early days

I covered the pot. When arriving at the bottom, I took

all the ropes together and bound it with an extra piece.

To make the pot hang  adding 2x4 ropes and made some knotting

the other way so I could tie the jar to a hook in our

gazebo and added a candle inside.

For decorating I stamped, embossed and colored

the sea star, the sea horse, and printed the mermaids tail.

All were cut out and glued to the jar in between

the netting. 

On pinterest I saw all these wooden beach signs

and i wanted those as well. I made it out of  paint

stir bars. Fist a layer of gesso and next some acylic paint.

When all was dry I stamped the sentiments on top.

As I did not want too many pictures on my blog post

so i made some collages so you can see the jar from

all sides. I added alse some stickers on the pot.

When the light is on in the dark it has a wonderuleffect.

Sorry, I could not make a good picture in the dark.

Underneath the jar the ropes are also decorated.

Here I added the coins, glued the shiny sea stars that

came with the kit, added more stamed woodsies,

a few real shells and a mermaids tail.

Well, that was it for this month. Hope you will go on

the see what 

Jennifer

has come up with on her blog.

If you loose your way, you can always go to the

Club Scrap Blog

where all the participants are linked

and where you can also link your own project.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!

Mermaid

Have you seen the

  Club Scrap Lagoon Kit?

Beautiful blues and great stamps of mermaids

 and fishes and matching sentiments?

You have nbo idea what to do with it?

Well, tomorrow is the monthly blog hop

and the arist team has come up with some

wonderful cards, scrapbookpages and project.

Hope to see you again tomorrow.

To wet your appetite I made this mermaid card.

The mermaid's tail is from the digital kit and so beautifully

colored, I just added some glitterglue and the sea star

is also from the digital kit. The sentiment is one of the real

rubber stamps and embossed with silver embossing powder.

You also see teal jewel stickers looking like air bubbles

all over the card.

The bottom is a combination of a metal diecut

and the jewel stickers. Behind the die cut I added

the light teal paper for contrast and also some glitter glue

to make the bubbles shine.

See you tomorrow!

Thanks for looking and

have a creative day.

Sunday color challenge: Fly

Today I have worked on a color challenge using

Michael Strong's large and mini butterfly rubber stamp

and a sentiment by Penny Black from the set Happy Thoughts.

You find other samples and the details on the

Color Trowdown Blog.

Starting the background panel with the large butterfly.

I embossed it with clear embossing powder after stamping

the butterfly random at the paper.

Next taking worn lipstick and fossilized amber oxide

distress inks to color the paper. The clear embossing

works as a resist and makes the butterflies pop up.

The sentiment is embossed with silver embossing 

powder and cut out with an oval die and for the

silver paper I used the matching scallop die.

The mini butterflies have also been embossen

with silver embossing powder, but on yellow

and pink paper. The have yellow and pink gemstones

on top, but yellow on the pink and pink on

the yellow butterfly.

For the inside of the card i used all the left overs.

(I stamped a few extra butterflies in case I

did not cut them out nicely ;-).

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!

Saturday sketch card: Tea

Even though I make a lot of coffee cards, it is time for tea today.

I love Michael Strong's tea pot stamp and do not use it often enough.

For my card i used this weeks sketch from the

CAS(E) this sketch! Blog.

For the background of this card I used some designers

paper from a paper block I have by Stampin'Up!

that goes with the A Nice Cuppa stamp set. From

this set i used the tea bag stamp to stamp with versamark

on the blue base of the card. 

The teapot is stamped on grean and embossed with silver

embossing powder. From a piece of scrap I cut one

teabag to add to the teapot.

The cup is also embossed in silver and the sentiment 

(from close to my heart) is embossed in white.

Yhank you for looking 

and have a creative day!

Happy Birthday to my Husband

How time flies!

A wondeful year has gone by and my dear husband has another

birthday. Wishing you a wonderful day and another year of health

and happiness. Love you lots. Raymond xx

Of course i made him a birthday card. As he is still

doing 2 days of work at the Airport, I thought this was an 

apropriate card. The stampset and the background embossing folder

are by Stampin'Up! The stampset is called 

The Sky is the Limit and was a Sale-a-bration set.

The clouds are done with some dies from my stash.

After embossing the world map I colored it with 

walnut stain oxide ink. The airplain is colored with 

pencil and cut out with scissors.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!

Club Scrap Artist Team Challenge: Pinterest

Welcome to the Club Scrap

Artist Team Challenge.

Don't you love Pinterest? We all do!

So we made it a challenge. Choose a pin

from the Club Scrap Pinterest Board.

You can see the start of the hop on the

Club Scrap Blog

find all the details and all the participants.

Now I hope you came over here from

Jennifer's Blog

and see her choice and wonderful project.

I needed a quick and easy project, for I had not much time

so I choose Tricia's businesscard holder 

(wanted to makes it when I saw it before)

and you find Tricia's tutorial here.

It is such an easy project, that I made 3!

It is perfect for some of the wonderful paperpieces

I still have lying around from precious Club Scrap kits.

For one cardholder you need a piece of 4 3/4 x 10 inch.

I Cut up these papers and grabbed my scoreboard.

After scoring you need to do some cutting:

And to fold and glue is easy peasy!

Now for some decorating!

Looking through my boxes for ribbons and sentiments.

My businesscards fit perfectly!

Here a little different box. I made two of the same paper. 

One of the boxes I cut the flapp off and glued it to the one

with the flap. This way you have two compartments, great if you

want to take your personal card and your business card.

Or you can use it to hise some choclate, like I did here.

Great for a gift!

Now there is more to see, so hop over to

Pam's Blog

and see what she has in store for you.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!