Progressive challenge Limited Runs

Here in The Netherlands it is a wonderful

hot and humid Summer day. A day to have coffee

outside in the garden and read a good book

under a parasol.

I have been making my card for the 

Limited Runs Progressive challenge

on Facebook. Every time we get a new

image to play with. This time it was 

a wonderful cupcake.

In the back i started with the Tim Holtz star stencil

and red and blue ink. Pieces of washi tape are also

for decoration and the finishing touch on the

background panel.

The coffee cup is a Stampin'Up! die and

Club Scrap Firecracker paper. The star on the

cup is an old SU! paperpunch.

And here is the cupcake. I colored it in photoshop

and printed the image 3 times  to make a 3d version

with foam tape in between and little sticky pearls

in the heart of the flowers.

The digital sentiment is by Verve Stamps. 

So sad that this shop has closed. 

I enter my card on the linky of the

Coffeelovingcardmaker's blog,

for I used one of the sponsors images.

Limited Runs stamps also always provides a freebie

at the blog hops that are held.

Back to my coffee in the garden!

Thanks for looking 

and have a creative day!

Club Scrap Artist Team Challenge: Bouquet

Hello!

Here we are with anothe Club Scrap Artist Team challenge.

This month all of us received a sheet of unmounted rubber stamps

to play with:

The 2016 Reatreat stamps called Bouquet

and you find them here.

The start of the blog hop is on the

Club Scrap Blog

or did you come here from Pam's Blog

and enjoyed seeing her projects. 

A few weeks ago I played in a color challenge. As I am not

very good in coloring, I came across this fun and easy technique

that I want to share with you. Works great with these beautiful

flower stamps. One can have never enough flower cards, for

they are great for any occasion.

1. Start with coloring your panel with a color ink.

I used Club Scrap lagoon.

2. Pick a stamp and start covering your panel fully

with this stamp. Do not stamp full inkted, but stamp

it off on a piece of paper befor you stamp on the panel.

3. A second time use the stamp fully inkted on the panel.

Cover all of the panel.

4. Dry the panel after stamping, maybe use a emboss budy.

Now you stamp the flower with versamark and emboss

the flower with white embossing powder. Stamp as

many flowers as you want. I stamped a horizontal line of flowers.

5. Now the flower is colored with a blue aquarel pencil.

Color heavy around the lines and next take a waterbrush

to fully color the flower.

6.  Stamp the flower on a piece of post-it and

cut it out with scissors.

7. Cover the embossed and colored flower with the cut

out post-it note. 

8. Take a flower stamp with a stem and with black

ink you stamp this over the flower.

9. After stamping it looks like this. Remove

the post-it note and put it on the next flower and repeat.

10. And this is how it looks after all the flowers have

a stem. Now it is time to finish of the card.

Here a version in red (fuchsia ink) and red pencil.

And a version in sandstone ink and yellow pencil.

For more ideas with these wonderful Bouquet stamps

go to Jennifers Blog

and see what wonderful inspiration she has for you.

Thanks for looking

and have a creative day!

Club Scrap Artist Challenge: Masculine

Welcome to another 

Club Scrap Artist TeamChallenge
You find all participants on the Club Scrap Blog

but I hope you arrived here from 

Pam's Blog

and got some great ideas.

Here is my contribution to the
masculine card and scrapbook ideas
with faux metal additions to it.

Starting with a scrappage I made of my DH love for cars

and especially police cars in the USA (he has themof all states

in miniature size!). So everywhere we went he took pictures

of any police car he noticed! That is pretty amazing, right!

That is a stamp from the rubber stamps that go with the Creative License

kit as all the papers do too. I samped the image after coloring it

with a red and blue marker. Nezt i rubbed versamark watermark ink on top

and embossedit with clear embossing powder.

I made this faux metal gear border with Tim Holtz

sizzix gear die.I cut the gears from various colors

of papers and used the various sizes on this border

in the carpet tape technique.

So you start with a piece of cardstock and stick

the carpet tape on it. Now remove the other layer

and place the gear on the sticky tape. When all

done I used gold embossing powder and a heat gun.

When this was all done I added some metal brads and 

some  TimHoltz metal gears. I fastened these with

a piece of wire.

And now for some cards. I did some experimenting

and have quite some pieces to finish,but this is what 

I used for these cards. Mostly I colored some backgrounds

and embossed them for futher use. The sentiment is

a cut apart from the scrapbook kit  and the car is a 

rubber stamp from the Cruisin' kit from August 2008.

I love this combination of green,blue,gold and silver.

I embossed it with the rivited metal embossing folder

by Sizzix (Tim Holtz).

After the embossing I added black ink to the

raised parts before using it on the card.

For this card I used two embossed papers on top of

each other. The grea one in the background is embossed with

the gadged gears Tim Holtz embossing folder

and the top one was used first to cut out some gears

( for the scrap page) and then I embossed it with these

tiny gears and adding black ink. The sentiment

is from the Cape Cod rubber stamp setand the car

is from the Creative License digital kit.

For this last card I  also used  a piece of paper

that was first used to cut out the gears, but the left over 

piece is also perfect for a picture frame, so how about this

for a birthday card for my man? His birthday is not to

far off , so I am ready!

Well, this was it for today fro me.

In for some more ideas?

Well, hop over to

Jennifer's Blog.

Thanks for looking.

Have a creative day!

Passover celebrations

So here is my page of the Passover celebrations at home.

It was the first time for the twin and they had a little

bite of the matzah. Not sure of they really liked it.

I used Club Scrap Random Doorways papers and

sentiment at the bottom of the page.

Tomake the matzah frame around the pictures,I printed a piece

of matzah of the same size as the picture.

I used this:

With a ruler I cut out the middle part, 

leaving half an inch border.

The star on the pageis made with the triangle stamp

by Michael Strong. 

I stamped the image twice on the middle part that 

I cut out of the frame and embossed it with

copper colored embossing powder.

In the background you see again the stencil,

that i also used on the card here. The sentiment

here is by Create with TLC and the round

matzah is cut out with a punch.

We had such a wonderful evening,

yes, new memories where made.

Thanks for looking.

Have a creative day!

Happy Birthday

Happy Sunday everyone!

Today my wonderful eldest daughter Yael has her birthday,

so she is the main subject of my scrapbook page.

Al papers are by Club Scrap.

The blac and the sentiment stamps are from the

January kit and the red is from the Coffee Break kit.

On this part of the page you also see the large heart stamp

by Michael Strong embossed with silver embossing

powder. The smaller siler heart are cut out with a die from 

Michael Strong's smaller heart that maches the smaller stamp.

The sentiment is stamped in fuchsia red ink from Club Scrap.

Here papers and stamps are layered. Red circle, black printed

circle and silver embossed stamp,with a sticky pearl in the

heart of the stamp. The sentiment is from the Celebrate kit.

The B&W pictures are transformed in picasa. I chose

the option of pencil sketch before I printed the pictures.

It gives a lovely contrast with the color picture.

Yael, wishing you

and have a magical day!