Techno Stamper Sketch #153

This is sketch #153 by the Techno Stamper

and here you see my contribution.

For this card I used a digital stamp by FireCracker Designs by Pamela.

This sweet snowman is a free digital stamp until 26th of December

and you can find it HERE. I colored it with Copic Markers.

The background is done with a snowflake folder trough the cuttlebug.

The sentiment I printed with the computer.

Hier nog een idee met de sneeuwman van FireCracker.

De sneeuwman zit in een Pocket Slide card en daar heb ik al eerder een lesje van laten zien. Alle instructie kun je HIER vinden.

Het paneel op deze kaart is gedaan met de Technique Junkie Techniek "Dubble Bugging" uit de nieuwsbrief van juni/juli 2009

Here another idea with the FireCracker snowman. You find him inside a pocket slide card. The instructions for this card can be found HERE.

The panel on this card is done with the Technique Junkie Technique that is called "Double Bugging" and can be found in the June/July 2009 newsletter.

Have a creative day!

Happy Thanksgiving

Deze kaart heb ik gemaakt om mijn Amerikaanse scrap-en stempelvrienden en vriendinnen een "Fijne Thanksgiving" te wensen. Ik heb hier digitale stempels gebruikt van Bonibleaux Digitals en de tekst is van FireCrackers Design.

This card is to wish all my American Scrap-and Stampfriends

a very HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

This card is made with Bonibleaux Digitals

and the sentiment is a clear stamp by FireCrackers Designs.

I hope you all have a wonderful time.

New digitals at FCD

Ik heb al vaker stempels laten zien van FireCracker Designs by Pamela. Helaas gaan de rubber stempels er uit en er is nu een sale van 75% korting op de rubber stempels die nog over zijn.

Wel gaat ze door met haar digitale stempels en daar zijn weer een set nieuwe van. Natuurlijk zijn die voor de winter en daar is deze Pinguin een van. Wil je alle nieuwe digitale stempels zien, neem dan een kijkje HIER.

More often I have shown ruber stamps by FireCracker Designs by Pamela. Unfortunately she is selling of the rubber stamps and the last ones are on sale for 75%.

She is however keeping the digital stamps and there are a bunch of new ones. The Penguin here is one of them. Would you like to see all the new ones? They are HERE and all of them are great for the winter season's cards.

Hier zien jullie wat ik gedaan heb met de pinguin. Gekleurd met copic markers en met de spellbinder cirkel uitgesneden. Ik heb er een kerstbal van gemaakt. Versierd met wat bloemen en een cuttlebug sneeuwvlok achtergrond. Ook binnenin heb ik de tekst en plaatjes aangepast.

Here you see my card and what has been done with the penguin. Colored with copic markers and cut out with a circle spellbinder it is made into a Christmas ball. Decorated with some flowers and glued to a background of snowflakes with the cuttlebug. Als inside the card is made fitting to the front.

Hope you have

 a creative day!

FCD Blog Hop winner

and the lucky duck goes to…. From Hetty’s blog post-lucky number 13!

Scrapycandy said…
…and I’m smiling! Thanks so much!

So hop over to  Pamela's blog and claim your prize your prize!

Last Blog Hop FireCracker: Goodbye

This card I made for Pamela of FireCracker by Design for this is the last time the design team will hold a Blog Hop. Pam stops selling rubber stamps and because of this all of her RUBBER STAMPS are on sale for 50% (the digital stamps will not be included in the sale).

The theme for this last blog hop is: goodbye and I found this wonderful Dr. Seuss quote, for I think that is what it was while it lasted: Fun to shop at FireCracker with a smile and I will be using the stamps for a long time after today. Especially Sally is one of my favourites and I have made some fun cards with her. Here I made a more romantic kind of card with in the background a Technique Junkie technique called Glimmer Lace.

Pam, I wish you all the best in your job, your life, your crafts, your love and may your dreams come true. Hope to see lots more of your digital stamps!

And for more inspiration and goodbye's please hop over to:

Lynn's Blog

This is a “circular blog hop” where the only beginning is wherever you start!!

Pamela will be choosing a random winner from a ‘Mystery’ Blog Hostess, so please make a comment on each stop if you would like a chance at a free red rubber sheet or 4 free digital images. The winner will be announced on Pamela’s blog on Tuesday.

TJ SKETCH BY DESIGN blog hop

Welcome to the Technique Junkie "SKETCH BY DESIGN" blog hop.

This blog hop starts at the Technique Junkies Blog, start there if you don't want to miss anything.

The sketch for this hop can be found HERE.

I have decided to take the term "eye candy" for real and chose to use

FireCracker Designs digital Candied Apples stamp to make this sketch.

The apples are colored with copic markers and on the apples I added

some Glossy Accent to make them look real yummy.

In the background you find one of the new techniques from the

TJ October/November newsletter called  Texture Duet.

The paper for this card is from the Paper Temptress.

This sketch will be a challenge for every TJ member who puts a Design Challenge card on the group or sends it to Pat Huntoon. October is Pat's anniversary month!

Happy Anniversary Pat!!! 

(8 wonderful years of new techniques) 

The prize will be TJ Subscriber for life, and all back issues/cds to fill in the collection of whoever wins prize will include things from the vendors.

You will need to leave comment on Pat's blog AND CREATE a card sharing the link to their project.

For more inspiration please hop over to

BETH's BLOG

And if in  the mean time you got hungry or wonder how to make candy apples

 I have found an easy recipe for you to try:

Sale at FireCrackers Design

Inventory blow has begun at FireCracker!!

All rubber and clear stamps are marked 50% off.

And here I have made a card with the wonderful "Tumbling Scarecrow" set

and the "Happy Everything" set.

Now as for this Fun Fold card, I guess you want to know how to fold it.

Well there is a tutorial for you HERE.

FireCracker also has digital stamps. Those are NOT on sale, but fun to work with.

Here a Halloween card with "Frankie Stein" in combination with the

"Happy Everything" set.

Halloween House for FireCrackers

I hope you arrived here from Shelly's Blog, welcome!

The theme of this FireCracker Designs by Pamela Blog Hop is:

No Place like Home! 

Well this time of the year you see all the halloween decoration,

so I made this Halloween Home.

I started making the house with my Cricut. I used ZooBalloo for this and cut the house and the roof.

The house I ran through the cuttlebug with the Tim Holtz Sizzix wall die and added some vintage dissress ink. For the roof I used a Cuttlebug die with firebrick desstress ink.

Behind the window I glued some yellow paper.

I glued the house to black cardstock (which I folded double) and cut with aquarter inch around it.

Now I have a front and a back for the card.

The cat you see in front of the fence (Martha Steward punch) is a digital stamp by FireCracker and can be found HERE.

For the inside of the card, I cut a strip of  10,5 inch x 2,75 inch and folded it in 4 parts, harmonicawize.

On each part glue some scrap paper in Halloween theme. On top of the paper there are some fun figures that are digital stamps. You find the witch HERE, the mummy HERE and Frankie is HERE.

I have colored them with copic markers.

The end result is here below. The strip of paper is glued to the front and the back of the card.

This could be a invitation to a Halloween Party.

The spiders you see around the house I drew by hand.

After Halloween I will do some cleaning!

The artist of these digi stamps is Boni and she has her own BLOG and more fun digital stamps..

It is worthwile to take a look there!

And thanks Boni for the honour to be on your blog!

At Fireckracker Designs by Pamela there are much more fun digital stamps for Halloween cards or projects. You might want to take another look HERE ans see them all.

Blog Hop Details:

This is a “circular blog hop” where the only beginning is wherever you start!! You don’t have to go to a ’starting blog’, or try to find your way to the ‘ending blog’. You will know you are at the end of the blog hop when you’ve come back to the blog you’ve started from! It’s not a huge circle…so it should be easy to remember where you started. :0)

BLOG CANDY!! (free 4×5 stamp set (my choice) OR you choose 4 free digis!!) One winner will be chosen from a mystery blog hostess…so you’ll want to leave a comment on EVERY blog so you don’t miss out! It’s like a treasure hunt inside a blog hop…he he he Please check back here on Tuesday for the winner results.

Are you in for some more inspiration?

Hop over to Anita's Blog.

Rosh Hashana 2010: Happy New Year

Vandaag begint het Joodse Jaar 5771 en daarom wil ik met deze kaarten al mijn Joodse vrienden een gezond en creatief jaar toewensen:  L'Sjanah Tova.

Op deze kaarten zie je veel appels en honing. Het is een gebruik om dit te eten en elkaar een zoet jaar toe te wensen.

Today is the first day of the Jewish Year 5771 and that is why I want to wish all my Jewish creative friends a very healthy and creative New Year: L'Shanah Tovah with these cards. On the cards you see lots of apples and honey. It is a custom to eat this to wish one another a very sweet year.

De kaart hierboven is gemaakt met een digitale freebie van FireCracker Designs by Pamela en ingekleurd met copics. De tekst heb ik met de computer geprint. De techniek van "wisped frame" is van de Technique Junkie nieuwsbrief van feb/mrt 2001.

The card above is made with a digital freebie by FireCracker Designs by Pamela and colored with copic markers. The text is printed with the computer. The technique of  "wisped frame" is from the Feb/March 2010 newsletter by the Technique Junkies.

En deze kaart is een zig-zag accordeon kaart uit de laatste TJ niewsbrief augustus/september 2010, waarbij ik dezelfde digitale stempel heb gebruikt, maar op verschillende formaten heb afgedrukt. De honing en de appel heb ik zelf getekend.

And this is a zig-zag accodian card from the latest Aug/Sept 2010 TJ Newsletter. Here I printed the same digital stamp in different sizes and the honey and the apple I drew myself.

It's time for TJ CD8 – Have YOU ordered yours yet?

Each year the Technique Junkie Newsletter tutorials are compiled onto a CD with 10 additional bonus techniques. They are reformatted as pdfs for easy printing and screen reading. The Eighth edition CD has 100 tutorials on it!

Here is an example of what the tutorials on the CD look like:

http://techniquejunkies.com/Washed_Colors_Tutorial.pdf

100 tutorials in that format – to access, view and/or print whenever you want. It’s a great value!

The 8th Edition CD is available right now for pre-order for $19.95 for non-subscriber US residents (Canadian and overseas, add postage). The CD is $14.95 for Subscribers ($15.95 for Canadians, and $16.905 for overseas residents).

Want to subscribe or renew? One year subscription or renewal with the CD is $29.95. A one year subscription is $16.95 ($18.95 Canadian, $22.95 Overseas). Prices valid through 12-01-10.

Simply email me for an invoice or send a check to me to the address below. Thank you!!

Pat Huntoon
http://www.techniquejunkies.com/
PO Box 16547
Stamford CT 06905

Wacky Wednesday at FireCracker

Wacky Wednesday at Firecracker by Designs means that another set is at 50% sale for 24 hours. This time it is the set "Oh Holey Night" (see picture below) and some inspiration can be seen here:

Pamela's Blog

Cat's Blog

Bonni's Blog

Chrissy's Blog and more here, here and here

and because I do not have this set, I have something else to show you for inspiration.

Here is my oh so favourite template for the number card. This time the 2011 template is here for you.

Use your right mouse click to save the template to your computer, so you can print it any size you want.

2011 Christmas/New Year card

I have made these card for several years and you can see some others for inspiration here:
http://craftchaos.blogspot.com/2009/12/staande-kalender-kaart-standing.html

For the background of this card I used a tecnique from the August Technique Junkie Newsletter called

Worn Wallpaper. The images are all digital images by FireCracker by Designs( I want Christmas & Floppy Bunny and colored with copic markers. I have printed them in different sizes to make this scenery on the numbers.

Wacky Wednesday at Fireckrackers

Some people make Christmas cards all year round. Some people start in July and this is also the month that vendors have sales. So I guess you will not be surprised that FireCracker Designs also has a lovely Christmas stamp sale. Today's special set is Christmas Ornaments2. You see the set below and there is a lovely sample card in FireCrackers home page. To find the sale Christmas sets, please go HERE. All are 50% off and lovely sets for your collection. So please come by every Wednesday in July for more Christmas inspiration and wonderful sales.

My sample for today is made with the digital poinsettia stamp of the FireCracker collection. I printed the stamp twice and and colored them with copic markers. One picture is the base and from the other I cut out the middle flower and used some foam tape. The folded frame is a tutorial  I did in March, so if you click HERE you can see how to finish this card. Of course by adding some gem stones and a ribbon it made it a real Christmas card. By the time July is finished my Christmas cards are half done!

FCD May Mayhem blog hop

Hello to all you blog hoppers,

This month we have some very grungy art for you in our Firecracker Designs By Pamela May Mayhem BLOG HOP.

The word grunge is believed to be a back-formation from the US slang adjective grungy, which originated in about 1965 as a slang term for "dirty" or "filthy".

It's basically the kind of stuff Tim Holtz creates: rough edges, sanding, crumpling, tea/walnut stains, aged, etc.

For my card I used a combination of digital and rubber stamps ( rubber: Sally Says, Chicory and dots distress and the digital "give my heart wings"). Now I guess you are interrested in how I made this grungy background. it is done with alcohol ink and there is a tutorial HERE that you can print.

As usual the blog hop candy winner will be chosen from a mystery blog hostess that we don’t even know who it will be until the hop is over…so that’s why you’ll want to leave a comment on EVERY blog, so you don’t miss out!

**To find out if you’ve won… you will be contacted by Pamela via e-mail (so be sure to leave it with your comment.) and you can also find out on Pamela’s blog after the blog hop ends on Mon, at 8:00 PM (EST).**

Now, to continue the circle, you will need to hop on over to CAT's blog for more inspiration and keep going until you’ve come back to where you’ve started! Thanks so much for playing along with us and we hope you have a great time!

Attention all digital design artists! FCD is looking to start our very first Digi Design Team!! If you are interested in applying please read this blog post for details! Hurry! Applications must be in by May 25th! Midnight EST! (DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MAY 25)

Free digital stamp at FireCracker

Soms is het ook leuk om met een digitale stempel te werken in combinatie met rubber, zoals ik op deze kaart heb gedaan. De digitale stempels is deze week een freebie bij FireCrackerDesign by Pamela en je vindt hem HIER. De bloemen op de achtergrond en de tekst zijn rubber stempels ook van FireCrackerDesign by Pamela. De achtergrond heb ik gedaan met een Technique Junkie techniek: witte inkt met chalk er over heen (geweldig om op zwart papier te gebruiken!). Voor de kaart heb ik me laten inspireren door de schets in haar gallery.

It is nice also to use some digital stamps in combination with rubber stamps as I did on this card. I used a digital freebie by FireCrackerDesign by Pamela and you can find it HERE. The flowers and the sentiment are rubber stamps by FireCrackerDesign by Pamela. The background I did with a Technique Junkie technique. I stamped the flowers with white ink and used some chalk over it for color (great technique on dark paper!).
For the card I was insired by the latest sketch in the gallery.

Vrolijk Pasen/ Happy Easter

Vrolijk Pasen allemaal!

Deze kaart is gemaakt met een digitale stempel van FireCracker Designs by Pamela, mini eggs by Michael Strong and glossy emboss technique from the Technique Junkie.

Happy Easter everyone!

Tis card is made with a digital stamp by FireCracker Designs by Pamela,, mini eggs from Michael Strong and glossy emboss from the Technique Junkie.

Technique by Design April Blog Hop

Hello Junkies,

Welcome to the April Blog Hop revealing some new techniques from the April/ May Technique Junkie Newsletter. We have another sketch challenge for you in the April issue and we would LOVE for you to participate. All the details can be found in the Technique Junkie April/ May issue online (for this you must be a subsciber), but here is the sketch if you like to try.

While starting to make the card, I happen to make two. On both cards I have jused a digital stamp on top by FireCracker by Designs by Pamela, colored with water color crayons. Papers are by Club Scrap and what techniques did I use you may wonder. On the pink one you see Faux Velvet ( a wonderful new technique with baby wipes?!) and double metal emboss. On the orange one you see Animal Spots and Glimmering waves.

To make sure you miss none of the fun, you'll want to start at the very beginning!

There is a challenge and a prize to be had so, make sure to play by the rules:
Use the sketch from above and check out the link from above with all dimentions.
1. Follow the sketch...you MUST use at least one Junkie technique :)
2. Post a link to Pat's Blog
3. The deadline to the challenge is MAY 15

Now if you want to see more, and of course you do!!!

 please see what Jane has for you in store.

FCD Presents Digital D'Illusions!

Dit is mijn eerste kennismaking met digitale stempels. Ze zijn van FireCracker Designs by Pamela en het is toch wel heel erg leuk om eens te proberen. Natuurlijk heb ik er ook rubber stempels bijgebruikt.

Het voordeel van digitale stempels is dat je zelf het formaat van het plaatje kan bepalen en ook in spiegelbeeld kan gebruken.

Nu is er een wedstrijd bij Firecrackers voor het maken van een kaart met het gebruik van haar digitale stempels met het thema: Optical illusions (denk aan schaduw, spiegel ed). Het zijn natuurlijk digitale stempels die je kan winnen.

Voor meer informatie, kijk hier: http://www.pamelasgallery.com/digital-designs

Ga voor de bloghop naar:  http://chrissyd723.blogspot.com/2010/03/digital-dillusions-and-bloggers.html

This is my first try at digital stamps.They are by FireCracker Designs by Pamela and I must confess it is fun to have a go at this. Of course I have also added my rubber stamps.The advantage of digital stamps is that you can use them in any size you want and can also mirror them.

Now over at FireCraker there is a challenge to win some stamps. Create artwork with the theme: Optical Illusions. More information can be found here: http://www.pamelasgallery.com/digital-designs. There are digital stamps to win.

Voor meer inspiratie neem een kijkje op het blog van Chris:

For more inspiration take a look at the blog of Chris:

http://www.chrissyd723.blogspot.com/

Cadeau idee/ Gift idea

Voor dit leuke cadeau idee heb je het volgende nodig: een plastic fotolijstje (10x15 cm), een post-it blokje of een mini schoolbordje (bij de Action).

To make this fun gift idea you need a plastic photo frame (4x6 inch), a post-it block and/or a mini blackboard.

Vervolgens heb je papier nodig om of een tekening, een foto of een stempelkaart achter het frame te maken. Het post-it bloke wordt op maat gesneden (6x6 cm, of de maat die jij wil) en het knijpertje wordt verwijderd achter het schoolbordje.

Next you need some paper or a drawing or a photo or a stamped card to put behind the frame. The post-it block is cut to 2,5"x 2,5 " (or any size you want) and take the peg of the backside of the mini chalkboard.

Voor het post-it blokje heb ik met een nestability een achtergrondje gesneden van zwart papier.

Achter het schoolbordje heb ik dubbelzijdig plakbank gedaan.

Behind the post-it block I cut a fitting nestabillity shape and behind the mini chalkboard I added some double side tape.

Dan schuif je je kunstwerkje achter het frame en op het plastic lijstje plak je of je post-it blokje of je schoolbordje. Leuk voor bij de telefoon of je computer.

Now slip your artwork behind the frame and stick your post-it block or the mini chalkboard on top of the plastic frame. Nice to put next to your phone or computer.

Alle stempels zijn van FireCracker Designs By Pamela.

All stamps are by FireCracker Designs By Pamela.