Happy Mother's Day with Simon Says Stamp card kit

Here my card for Mother's Day!

To be completely honest: this card is the card I wish I would

get from one of my daughters :-)

When I noticed the this wonderful card kit on Simon Says Stamp,

I ordered it for myself and planned to make cards for the

Coffee hop, but it turned out differently.

Have a look at the kit:

I could not pass on this and all the stamps are great for

many occasions. So I made a card for a special Lady: myself!

This is the challange on

The Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge blog.

I used the stencil and the stamps to make this card

and made some pictures in the garden. With all the

bushes in bloom it was hard to choose which picture to use.

I started with stamping the coffee cup once on the card

and once on a post-it note. I cut out the one on the post-it

note and covered the image on the card, before using the stencil

and oxide distress inks candy apple and meowed lawn.

Next I added the sentiment.

On top of the heart and the roses I added some gold wink of stella.

This is very hard to catch on the picture, but shiny in real life.

Hope all you (creative) moms have a wonderful day!

Thanks for looking

and have a latte creative day!

Happy Mother's Day!

On this wonderful day for mothers, grandmothers

and mothers-to-be I had to make cards

with the lovely Club Scrap Lavender Fields kit.

Cards for the Mother's and a little gift (besides a bunch of flowers).

This card is made partly with the hybrid kit

and partly with the rubber stamps.

I started out making the background with the

lavender stamps. I colored the stamps with my zig markers

and alternately using the larger and the smaller flower.

When finished stamping I splattered some purple 

splashes on the background with my watercolor brush.

The center part of the card is layered with a green

rosette, a purple circle die cut and a centiment in a 

circle of lavender. This circle is an image from the

Lavender Fields hybrid kit as well as te sentiment.

I added the typed up Mom in the Tox Typewriter font.

And with a ribbon and 3 sticky pearls the card is finished.

And here is one with a green background. 

The background is made with the direct

to paper technique and green ink

(rubbing ink on your craftsheet, adding

a splash of water to it and pick op the ink

with your background paper).

Also i made this little gift. It is a sparkling lavender

bath tablet by Kneipp.

I wrapped some burlap around it, tied it with a piece of hemp.

As the lavender is not in the garden yet, I added this fake

lavender (from the dollar store) and another printed

Mother's Day circle sentiment ( a little smaller then the card)

as a tag on the hemp. Could also be a cute teacher's gift!

 Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!

More chocolates for Mother's Day

Here you see our gift for my Mother-in-law: a plant

a box of chocolate (oh and she gets a bottle too).

I want to share with you how I made the chocolate box.

I found a nice video on youtube here.

The chocolate box is made out of two parts.

The inside with the chocolates and the cover.

For the box you need a piece of cardstock

measuring 9 x 6,5 inch and the cover meausres

6 5/8 x 4 1/16 inch.

Scoring for the box: @ 1inch and @2 inch on all sides

(for cutting see the video).

Scoring for cover: 1/5 - 2 - 2 9/16 - 5 1/19

and this is how I decorated the cover:

Using the honeycomb stencil again and 3 colors of ink.

Leave a part of the top center empty (better for glueing

the paper on top).

I used these left over parts of stamping for decoration.

It is the Lily stamp by Michael Strong stamped and 

embossed with white embossing powder. Then it was 

colored and the embossed parts serve as a resist.

Out of the dark red piece I cut a 3 7/8 x 1 2/8 inch

and out of the dark brown a 4 x 1 3/8 inch piece.

These are taped down on the center of the box.

I used the little lilly stamp from Hannah's Busy Bee

stampset on top of the honeycomb stencil.

Out of the lighter red piece I cut a lilly and with a 

Stampin'Up! sentiment and a dragonfly pinched

out the cover of the box is finished.

It looks way more complicated than it is. 

A tip for a quick box is to use decorated paper around the box.

And of course you need a little card

for the plant. I used the same technique

as for the cover of the box with

a honeycomb stencil and there was another flower

on the paper left that I could cut out.

The butterfly is a thinlit from Stampin'Up!

Hope all you  creative moms will be spoilt!

Thanks for looking

and have a creative day!

ATC's and chocolates for Mom

I am over at the Art Neko Blog

with these ATC's, but I want to share them on my own blog too.

These 3 little cards belong together, because together they make

the word MOM.

I created a serie of atc’s for Mother’s Day with some of the images from the Chikanobu Collage Sheet 3. I cut them to the size of 2 x 3 inch so i could use them on the atc’s in combination with some other images. After mounting the iimages to the background (black paper) and an atc card (green, blue and yellow 3,5 x 2,5 inch), I started stamping the teacups, the dragonfly medallion and the Oda Nobunaga Family Crest. All the stamping is embossed with black or gold embossing powder.

The letters that make MOM are die cuts from a Tim Holtz die and glued to the cards after I added a little ink all around each letter. Below you can see them more close up. especially if you click on the picture.

Now what is a card without a little gift on Mother's Day?!

So I added a little decorated chocolate box.

The sentiment is from Stampin'Up!

and the teapot and cups from Art Neko

as well as the ribbon. 

The template for the box is NOT my own

and I wanted to share the link to where I found it,

Unfortunately I cannot find the website anymore.

After cutting the template and adding double sided tape

I added the cocolate before closing the box.

I should have stamped the sentiment before closing the box,

but now I stamped it on paper. The word MOM is done by hand.

The ribbon is folded around the box and taped with red - strong - tape.

The teapot is embossed with blue embossing powder.

An easy project is you need a quick (late) idea.

Tomorrow I have another chocolate box!

Thanks for looking and 

have a creative day!

Flower cards

Here are two flower cards. You can use them

for any occasion.

I used Club Scrap flower stamps

and

Michael Strong stamps for the vases.

And of course i share with you how I did this:

I started with cutting a shap out of

a piece of scrap paper of the same size

as the front panel of the card.

I use this to color the shape on the card.

And also for stamping to stay within the shape.

After the stamping you can take of the mask.

Here is how it looks so far.

Now for some coloring. I used my pensils on top of 

the ink and here is the result.

To finish the card I used part of Michael Strong's 

pot stamp embossed in gold on orange paper.

Here a totally different version with other flowers

and part of Mike's vase stamp to give you

another idea.

Thanks for looking

and have a creative day!

Vintage Mother's Day cards

Here another version of cards,

that I made with one of the sentiments from

Create with TLC

You find this Mother's Day set of 

digitalimages HERE for only $2,00.

For my cards I found some vintage flower pictures online

and added the sentiment to these pictures in photoshop.

I am not good with photoshop,but I have been taught how

to add a sentiment to a picture! Of course I cannot make just a

digital card and had to add a little stamping (on the small tag) 

and a ribbon on a piee of die cut paper (sizzix -Tim Holtz thinlit).

Here another vintage picture. The sentiment is the same, just 

changed the color of the lettering (yeah! I can do that too!!)

Here I added a precut doily, some musical washi tape ,

a ribbon and 2 ready made roses. 

Thanks for looking

and have a creative day!