The Daily Marker day 26: Happy Birthday ZORA

Today is the birthday of my youngest daughter

and ofcourse I made her a card! 

Zora, you are strong and active and trying to overcome

things that happen in your life. YOU can do it!

This is going to be a great your for you. 

Enjoy it all!!

Here my card with a sentiment that is typically you!

The sentiment is from the set Way with Words CMS165

by Tim Holtz.

The background is created with Tim Holtz stencils

snd worn lipstick and hickory smoke distress oxide inks.

The flowers are from the set Mini Bouquets CMS269.

The girl is from Love Cynthia and 

colored with stampin'blends.

Of course there is a matching envelope.

And here is the inside of the card with the same stencils and inks

and the sentiment from the set Handwritten Sentiments CMS219.

Of course my card is for day 26 of 

The Daily Marker Coloring Challenge.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!

The Daily Marker day 11

On the 11 of 

The Daily Marker Coloring Challenge

I used a sketch for my card.

This is the sketch

and you find it at the

TGIF Challenges Blog.

Here my card: oeps another coffee themed card!

To be honest I had some other hearts in mind,

but I am still  also cleaning my craft room

and could not find my Michael Strong hearts

( I am sure they are around...maybe i do another card soon!).

I started making the background with worn lipstick

and candied apple oxide distress ink in combination with 

mica distress spray antique bronze. it looks wonderful

in person, really!!

On top of the background I added images

with two Tim Holtz stencils and the 

candied apple distress ink (THMS040/ THS075).

The image and sentiment are by

Love Cynthia and the set of clear stamps 

is called Coffee Addict.

The heart is a die from spellbinder with matching scallop.

Here a close up on the background.

if you click on the photo you do see the mica spray.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!

The Daily Marker day 9

For day 9 of 

The Daily Marker coloring challange

I made this cute card

with a die I have for some time

but never used.

I love this ABC die, but did not have any good ideas for using it.

Today I had this LOVE idea by cutting the die twice.

In combination wit he 

Love Cynthia clear stampset

called Make Happiness A Habbit.

Behind the die I added a piece of  design paper

with splashes from Club Scrap and added

a few heart stamps in the center of some of

the letters.

The little girl stamp is colord with Stampin'Blends

by Stampinup.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!

Cupcake Inspiration Challenge: Pink & White

Great find, these Club ScrapValentine stamps from 2009

(Heart to Heart) in my stash and combining it with

a Love Cynthia stamp is a perfect combination.

I made this card for the pink & white color challenge

on the Cupcake Inspiration Blog.

I started out gathering various shades of pink

stamp inkpads to make the background.

The "be mine heart stamp"is stamped on a seperate

piee of paper as well as the little girl stamp.

The heart is stamped in pink and colored the

heart with a blending tool, leaving the words white

to stamd out.

The girl is colored with blending markers by SU!

and cut out. Added to the card with  foam tape.

This is the inside of the card.

Club Scrap sentiment and more hearts.

Of course a matching envelope

and some sticky pink pearls for extra bling.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!

Happy St. Patrick's Day

With this card I want to wish you all a very 

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

I made my card for the 

Coffee Loving Cardmakers Blog.

This picture is the inspiration.

And I made it for the monochrome challenge on

the Die Cut Diva's Blog.

On the coffee cup (dies from Stampin'Up!) I added

this clover, that is made with the mini heart stamps

from Michael Strong and in the middle a sticky gemstone.

The sentiment is made up of stickers by Tim Holtz.

The cirl is a stamp by Love Cynthia from the 

Coffee Addict stamp set. The image is colored

with my zig markers.

Here a close up on the ribbon.  It is one from Tim Holtz's

ideology serie and is colored with a green marker on

the outside of the ribbon.

Thank you very much for looking

and have a creative day!

Coffee Calendar Card

Happy Sunday!

After finishing 3 more Christmas cards that were on my table

and put away for the next holidays, I found this cute mini

calendar and some other goodies to make this card.

I think it will be on myu table for a year of coffee fun

for each month is stamped with the Club Scrap coffee ring

(that stamp is always on my table!).

The sentiment is a digital sentiment by Create with TLC.

The coffee background paper is from a piece of scrapbook

paper, but unfortunately the brand is cut of. Only some

small scraps left.

This sweet girl in the cup is a clear stamp by

Love Cynthia and is colored with zig markers.

On the cup and the heart I added glossy accent.

The ribbon behind the calendar is the wonderful

hand dyed crincle ribbon by Diana Larson.

Thanks for looking

and have a creative day!

11 November: St. Martin's treats

Today we have a special childrens festival in The Netherlands

that is called St. Martin's Day and you find all info about it HERE.

It is a bit like Halloween, kids go with paper lanterns 

and sing after knocking  at the doors in the neighberhood and get 

candy treats. So this is what I came up with for this year:

Two kinds of packes.

The first one is a cover for a lollypop.

It starts with a strip of cardstock of 9 x 2 inch of your color choice.

Then score the long side on: 3 5/8 - 4 3/8 - 8 1/8 - 8 1/4"

On the top you make a little whole between the two thin

lines for the sticks. Next I stamped the circle of Michael Strong

in red on blue paper. Next cut it with a circle die.

For decoration i found an image of paper lanterns on 

google and printed it on copy paper and cut it to size 

to glue to the front and the back of the treat bag.

To finish the paper lanterns I glued tiny black strips

on top and bottom, made a whole in the top for a piece

of backers twine,

Here you see the finished paper lanterns that go on

the treat bag with a piece of foam tape.

Finished bags with lollypops inside. 

On top the message says Happy St. Martin's Day.

Side view!

One more side view.

These are the other bags I made . It is a 6x6 inch piece

of designers cardstock just folded into a square package

with candy inside and tese cute Love Cynthia digital

images on the front. I have printed them and cut out.

The moon is made with a circle punch.

In the corner of the pouch I made a whole to put a ribbon

through with either a wish attached or a bat.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!

Happy Halloween!

It is Halloween today

and even though we do not celebrate

this in the Netherlands I made this little

treatbag for my grandsons:

I found some free printable pillowboxes online

through a google search

and printed those to decorate with these cute

Love Cynthia digital Halloween images.

I printed several images and cut them out with scissors.

The moon was cut with a spelbinder die.

I used the various images on the different boxes.

The sentiment is from Tim Holtz and stamped.

And here the third box.

These are the boys.

I made some pictures last week before

I cut the pumpkin to make soup from.

Thank you for looking

and 

have a creative day too!