Birthday cards

For some birthday cards, I played with one of my favorite

Club Scrap Stamps: The tulip rubber stamp.

It is an oldie and not available anymore, but there are

tons of other wonderful stamps.

This is the stamp and for the first card I used two color:

red for the flowers and green for the leaves and the stem.

I used this sketch:

from the CAS(E) this Sketch! Blog.

Happy is a die by SU! and birthday part of a Club Scrap stamp.

While I had this stamp out, I decided to make some more cards.

For the 2nd cards I stamped and embossed the tulips

with white  embossing powder on a white panel.

Next I added two colors of color burst

powder and sprayed it with water, so the color

spread all over the panel, but staued away from 

the embossed tulips.

Some baker's twine and a wish stamped on a seperate

piece of paper. I cut up the wish and used foam tape

to add the wish to the card.

For the 3rd card I started also with embossing the tulips

 with white embossing powder. Here  Icolored the background with distress

oxide colors and a blending tool. A much softer look.

Which one do you like best?

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!

Sketch challenge #342 and Coffee

With Michael Strong's new cup 

rubber stamp I enter my cards in 

the sketch challenge from the

CAS Colors & Sketches Blog #342.

In this first card I followed the sketch exactly.

I love the new cup, which has two handles.

This way you can choose if you want it on the right

side or on the left.

The sentiment is by Graciellie Design

and the paisly background is also by Michael Strong.

I found it while clearing a pile of papers on my desk.

The dotted paper is a piece of scrap design paper.

Cup and paisley background are embossed

and the cups are colored with a white pencil and

decorated with a sticky pearl.

It is so much fun to try and use up the papers that are on 

one's desk, so here another card. I found the gold

rosette ready cut (sizzix) as wel as the coffee ring

(yse, I had a gret pile and more will follow).

The sentiment are Tim Holtz stickers.

More coffee cards soon for there

will be another:

2019 FALL/ WINTER Coffee Lovers Blog Hop

Friday, November 1 - Friday, November 8

Thanks for looking

and have a creative day!

Simon Says: Think Pink

This week I received a new stamp by

Michael Strong and just could not wait 

to make some cards with it. The stamp is

available in Michael's Shop soon.

I colored the image with my watercolor crayons

and cut out the Nutcracker. The background is a

piece of scrap paper and a DL.ART home dyed ribbon.

A paper flower with the heart of the snowflake stamp

and some punched out gold leaves decorate the card.

My card is for the Think Pink challenge on the

Simon Says Wednesday Blog here.

This is the inside of the card with a sentiment by

Stampin'Up!.

I used the left over part of the snowflake

for decoration.

This is the stamp that with be soon available.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!

Simon Says: Lets Get Ready For Christmas

Here my first Christmas card for the Season.

I combined the theme of the 

Monday Simon Says Stamp Blog

with the Just Add Ink sketch.

I have a great sneakpeek for you with a new

stamp by Michael Strong that is coming out soon: 

The Nutcracker and snowflake.

The green background is a piece of scrap paper-

The red part is made with distress oxide ink in

candied apple and the snowflake stamp in the

same color.Tiny pearls are added to match the 

white dots of the design paper. 

The sentiment is a stamps from my stash.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!

Limited Runs Progressive Challenge #31: Bears

Today it is Animal Day in The Netherlands.

So a great day to use an animal on my card

and as this month we were given this cute bear

for the Limited Runs Progressive Challenge,

I made these cards for today.

When I thought of what to do for a card, I had

so many ideas, that I ended up making 3 cards.

Card #1

When I looked at the bear-image, it looked like

he was dancing on his own, so I added some music

paper behind him and a Create with TLC sentiment.

I colored all the bears with my watercolor pastels.

I added some musical paper behind the bear and

a cute lace ribbon.

The sentiment is by Create with TLC.

If you click on the above image, you can see the bear dance!

I added an wobble behind the bear.

Card #2

It also looks like the bear can hold something.

How about a coffee cup?!

For this card I used:

Digital coffee paper I bought on Etsy

ribbon by DL.ART,

rubber stamp by Hero Arts

and the coffee rings are dies by Sizzix.

I just love that big cup in his hands.

I cut the hand to move the cup in

and added foam tape to make

it look like he drinks from the cup.

Card #3

As lots of babies are born in our family,

I came up with this cute baby card.

Bears are always cute on baby cards.

I had this cute baby image in my stash:

look at how the baby is also holding a tiny bear!

The sentyment is from an old SU! set.

Thank you for looking.

Be nice to your animals

and have a creative day!

Happy Rosh Hashanah 2

As we celebrate Rosh Hashanah for 2 days,

I made some more cards and today I share 

my last 2 for this year.

This card is made with a direct to paper 

mermaid distress oxide in and gold deco foil.

The golden circles are thinlits by Stampin'Up!

and sentiment by Zum Gali Gali Rubber Stamps.

The iside of the circles where 

perfect to make apples inside the card.

Iadded some glossy accent on the apple

of the sentiment to make it stand out more.

For card #2 I also used a Zum Gali Gali 

Rubber Stamp as a focal point. 

First I made the direct to paper background and stamped

the stamp with the darkest of the blue ink.

The focal point is embossed with silver.

The cut off strips of paper were glued inside the card.

Shanah Tova

and may it be a creative year!