Club Scrap Steamworks linky party

This week I received the perfect picture to make a scrap page

for the linky party of Febuary's Club Scrap Steamworks images.

I used the digital Steamworks kit and photoshop to make this page. 

My grandson was in a museum with his other grandparents.

We share pictures in a family group and when I saw this,

I knew I had found the right picture for this month.

I am getting better using layers in Photoshop, now I need to learn

more about effects. I learned to color the background, but

would love to have a more gradient border. Step by step it is

getting better, but not as good as some I see around.......one day!

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!

Happy Birthday, Zora!

Happy Birthday to my youngest daughter Zora!

We had a wonderful celebration at her house yesterday.

Wishing you a wonderful year full of love, great work, happiness

and wonderful party's!

As my daughter has two very sweet cats, I dug out some

old Maryse Carier stamps, perfect for this occasion.

Stamped and embossed in black and colored with my zig markers.

Inside the card I made acute envelope to hide the money.

Made the envelope with the envelope punch board.

Have a great birthday, Zora!

Thanks for looking

and have a creative day!

Cupcake Inspirations #440

Happy Sunday!

Today my card is for a white color challenge.

As I have been having the flu for over a week

and not touched any coffee, I could resist making 

a coffee card.

My card is for this color challenge on the

Cupcake Inspiration Blog.

For my card I started out making the background

with 2 embossing folders. On top of the panel I used

the coffee bean folder. The words you see are stickers

out of a Tim Holtz sticker book.

At the bottom of the card I used the new Sizzix

coffee ring folder. The ribbon is from my favorite

DL.ART store from my friend Diana Larson.

The cup is cut out of white paper with thinlits

from Stampin'Up! and decorated with paper flowers

and a button in the heart of the flower.

I used a little fossilized amber oxide distress in

around the back panel and the cup, kind of

cake color.

Thanks for looking

and have a creative day!

Year of the Dog

The Chinese New Year has started and this time it is the Year of the Dog.

As I do not have many people to send cards to, I decided to make a

birthday card for dog lovers and I enter my card for the challenge on the

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge Blog.

And Simon says:

Add a die.

See all the samples HERE.

For my card I used a FREE dog image, that you can find on the

blog of Michael Strong HERE. For the background I 

used several washi tapes on a scrap piece of paper 

and cut it out with a circle die. Then I used the matching

scallop die for the black circle. Before adding the circle

to the card I adde the pendant washi tape to the card 

and matched up the circle.

When the circle was on the card I stamped the dog bones,

the food bowl and sentiment (all by Tim Holtz).

The dog and the bowl are colored with pencil

and the bones are colored with a white gel pen.

Thank you so much for looking

and have a creative New Year!

Valentine's

Besidews making a card for my wonderful husband,

I also make cards for my 2 daughters.

Here is the first one for my eldest.

Lately we share a love for coffee and so I made

her this coffee card.

I also want to enter this card for the Paper Players

color challenge.

Background made with direct to paper technique and

a stencil. The cup is a die from Stampin'Up! as well

as the paper I used for the sleeve of the cup.

The heart is covered with glossy accent.

Do you see the cute little silver spoon next to the cup?

I composed the sentiment with Tim Holtz stickers

a stamp for the & and a Verve die for coffee.

Here the inside of the card with a leftover

strip from the front panel, some hearts

and a sentiment (both Tim Holtz)

and my favorite Club Scrap coffee ring stamp.

The second card is for my youngest daughter

and made with Club Scrap Valentine's stamps (2008).

On top of the card I did the faux postage technique

and the hearts are colored with a red marker and

on top glossy accent (I seem to use this a lot lately!).

I also made some cards with my grandson yesterday.

He made his kisses so colorful

and even added the names of his brothers.

Colorful closing of the envelop.

In The Netherlands we had free postage on Valentine cards

if you add  a lipstick kiss. So here you see Owen

kissing the enveloppes and make them ready for sending.

And here they go!

Hope you all have a wonderful Valentine's Day

and thanks for looking!

Happy

I just can't stop making Valentine cards.

Today I had to use some gold material for

on the Olympic Games The Netherlands won gold

in woman speed skating. This woman for it for the 4th

time in 4 Olympics she has participated. So cool!!

I used the sketch from the

Case this sketch blog.

The word  "happy" is cut out of  gold glitter foam

with a Stampin'Up! thinlit from the set Hello You.

You also see a variety of hearts on a watercolored background.

The die cut heart is from the set Sunshine Hello from SU!

The heart with you+me is from Club Scrap

and the red and pink hearts are from Michael Strong.

Thank you very much for looking

and have a creative day!

Cupcake Inspiration for Valentine

Today my card is inspired by a picture on the

Cupcake Inspiration blog.

Don't these cupcakes look delicious!

I also use the sketch from February from the

Club Scrap forum.

My card is made with the direct to paper technique

and used thes tree colors of oxide distress inks and

a few drops of water.

Add the ink to the craft sheet, spray water and

pick up the paint with the white paper.

When the ink is dry it is ready for stamping.

The background stamp is an old wooden stamp 

from Club Scrap.

I think it is from the Fizz kit 2007. The sentiment is

from the matching unmounted rubber sheet.

I also colored some of the circles with the stamping ink

with a waterbrush. Finishing off the card with

a few white sequins.

Thanks for looking

and have a creative day!

Sketch and CTLC freebie

Here my sketch card for the Freshly Made Sketch of this week.

Papers are all Stampin Up!

You find the sketch and more samples

on the Freshly Made Sketches blog.

Love is cut with a SU! thinlit (from the set Sunshine Wishes), 

but the coffee ring in the background is cut with a failry new

 sizzix coffee ring thinlit.

The sentiment is a combination of various stamps made

into this sentiment.The cup is SU! and the hear

is cut out with a paperpunch out of glitter foam.

With some of the leftover papers, a stencil, a stamp

and a vintage Valentine picture I made this 2nd card.

The vintage image is from the  Create with TLC blog.

There are many digital freebies over there for

quick Valentine cards.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!

Valentine for CTD479

Getting my Valentine cards ready

and using a color challenge for this card today.

I used this weeks color challenge on the

Color Throwdown Blog.

These heart stamps are by Michael Strong

They are stamped in red and pink on red and pink

paper and than added clear embossing powder.

Next I stamped Mike's penguin stamp in hickory smoke

and embossed it also with clear embossing powder.

Blushing cheeks and red schoes colored with

zig marker.

The sentiment is by Club Scrap (Valentine's Feb 2008).

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!