Simon Says: Stars and Stripes

Here is my entry for the challenge on:

Simon Says Monday Blog:

Stars and Stripes.

The American flag is a stamp by Tim Holtz

and done in two colors of distress oxide ink.

The sentiment is printed with the computer.

These coffee cups are a rubber stamp by

Michael Strong and colored with a waterbrush

and candied apple and broken china distress oxide ink.

The golden stars are cut out with a paper punch.

The background of this card is made with a stars 

embossing folder. I added the red and the blue ink

to the folder with a splash of water before adding 

the paper in the embossing folder. Gives a great

result after running it through the big shot.

The ribbon is by DL. ART (hand dyed ribbons)

and the sentiment is by Tim Holtz.

Thanks for looking

and have a creative day!

Twin Birthday

Today thes two boy have the big 4 birthday!

It means they go to school after the Summer Vacation.

A new part of their lives will start.

Of course I made them cards:

All materials are by Stampin'Up!

The beautiful dino-papers, the letter and number thinlits

and also the pendant thinlits.

Thank you for looing

and have a creative day!

Limited Runs Progressive Challenge #28

Here is my card for the

Limited Runs Digital Stamps

progressive challenge #28

For my card i printed the image and used a thin

black and red marker to color the card and add

some lines here and there.

Thanks for looking

and have a creative day!

Getting in the mood for the 4th of July

Here is my card for 

Anything Goes on

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Blog.

This card started with my grandson.

"Oma", he said, "I want to do ping ping like

you with these." And he grabbed my blending

tool and made dabbing movements with it.

So I grabbed a piece of white paper and 

a stencil I had close by and this is

the result:

I only had the cut this beautiful background to sice

and added my colored pug in the cup.

"cafe americano" I printed with the computer.

I used the stamp set Pugs and Hugs by

Funky Fossils Design and the

Bubbles stencil is also by Funky Fossils.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!

Pugs and Hugs part 2

So here are some new cards with my new Hugs and Pugs 

stamp set from Funky Fossil Designs.

Just trying some various techniques with the stencils

and stamps I got.

I used some post it roll paper to pask off part of the card.

On top I laid the bubbles stencil and colored

part of the background with wild honey oxide

distress ink.

This is how the card looks after the post-it paper

is removed.

Here is another version with the bean stencil.

Love how the eayes and the sticky pears come together.

Thank you for lookin and

have a creative day!

Pugs and Hugs

I cannot stop playing with the new stamp set

Pugs and Hugs by Funky Fossil Designs.

The also have a lot of wonderful stencils you should check out HERE.

For the first card I used a combination of two stencils.

I laid the coffee cup on top of the bubbles

and used a post-it note to mask the lid of the cup

(that I later colored yellow by putting the post-it 

on the other side)..

The pug in the cup is colored with stampin'blends by SU!.

For this card, I used the inside of the cup to go on the

card and on top I laid the bubbles stencil. When done

coloring I sprayed the ink with a few drops of water.

When all was dry, I took the other stencil of the coffee cup

and put it on top of the white cup. Masking of the lid again

and took out the coffee bean stemcil to color the inside

of the mug. The pug is again colored with the SU!

stampin'blends.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!

I was a winner!

I was a winner at the Coffee Lovers Spring/Summer

Blog Hop and the prize was a gift card from the

Funky Fossil Designs.

Today my prize arrived and was so happy,

I just could not wait to play.

So here is my first card:

I just love the bean heart stencil and used it right away

with vintage photo oxide distress ink and a blending tool.

Next i stamped the sweet pug in the cup and colored it

with my SU! stampin'blends. The image is cut out and

added with foam tape to the card. Ain't it sweet?!

Thanks for looking

and have a creative day!

Color Trowdown #548

Goodmorning! Happy Summer to all of you!

Wishing lots of great days enjoying the outdoors.

Today I played with the colors of  this weeks

Color Throwdow Challenge.

So, while sipping my coffee in the garden first,

I was inspired to make this birthday card.

I took out all the right colors and stamps.

I used all kinds of Stampin'Up! supplies.

The stamp sets I used are:

Summer Silhouettes

and Birthday Blossom (for the sentiment)

And here are the colors:

Cool Caribbean

Blushing Bride

Minti Macaron

Wisteria Wonder

Finishing of the card with sticky white pearls in the

heart of the flower and a lavender ribbon at the bottom.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!

Club Scrap June Sketch

Today i made some digital cards in photoshop.

For this I used the

Full of Scrap Hybrit kit by Club Scrap.

It is their special 20th Anniversary kit.

There is also a paper version if you are interrested.

You find it HERE.

This is the sketch challenge that I used.

You can find the Club Scrap Chat group on Facebook.

I made the image in photoshop by starting with the black

starry background and filling it with the other images.

Only the ribbon is an image from my stash of other

digital images.

After greating it digital, I printed the card on cardstock

an folded the paper to make a real card.

As i ad some room left on my A4 size cardstock for one

more image, but not a complete card. This I cut of and 

mounted on a blue piece of Club Scrap cardstock.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!

Father's Day

Happy Father's Day to all those Dads out there!

Mine has a moustasche, so I got out some 

Tim Holtz stamp to make my card.

The sentiment I made and printed with the computer

and attached them to the wooden planks I made with 

wooden paper and a wooden embossing folder.

This is the inside of the card.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!