Easter is here!

Happy Sunday!

Hope you all have a wonderful start of your day.

We have a special Sunday tradition at Passover:

Matzoh with scrambled egg! It was what my father

used to do, but now that he is not here anymore,

we keep on doing it.

 I guess you also have all kinds of egg breakfasts

as it is Easter too and want to wish you all

a very Blessed Easter with this shaker card.

For my card I used:

the Michael Strong large egg stamp

Tim Holtz sentiment

Yupo alcohol ink backgrounbd.

I stamped the egg on an acrylic background

and embossed it with white embossing powder.

I did try several pieces of acrylic material before I

found some that did not change when heating up.

This sentiment is from Tim Holtz from the set

Crazy Talk CMS236.

The background is made with yupo, alcohol

ink (yellow, green and hot pink) and alcohol drops.

HERE you see more about how to play with yupo

and the alcohol inks.

I made these layers into a shaker cards

with some light brown sequins.

Thank you for looking and

have a creative day!

Club Scrap Blog Hop: Color Me Happy

Welcome to the first monthly Club Scrap Blog Hop in 2017.

I hope you have arrived here via

Jennifer's Blog

and seen her wonderful projects.

I have focust this time on my new scrapbook for 2017

and made a front page and the first entry.

For making pages I absolutely love the ALSB -

assembly line scrapbooking - formula.

You find a great instruction video by Tricia here:

For my page I used page 5&6 from the instructions.

The first pages in my book are about ringing in

the New Year at my daughter's house with 

champagne and fireworks. The eldest grandson

came out of bed and enjoyed seeing the 

beautiful firework and going to bed late!

I always make the pages first as they are from the instructions.

Once I add my photo's I make some changes that fit my

personal need, like on the middle strip there was another

text. I typed mine on the computer and printed it

to fit on the strip after cutting it out.

Also the left image I changed. I turned it around and 

the white side was beter for the journaling I wanted to add.

For writing I used the free Beacon font that 

you can  download here.

On the other page I had to adapt the right colomn for

picture, for I had two larger ones. It still gives the same

 impression. I added some journaling on an extra piece 

of paper.

I love the font that comes with this kit.

This is printed and colored with some ink around the borders.

Here again the first page. I am sure you want to know

a little more about how I made this. It is made in a 

few layers.

The first layer is the background on 12x12 inch turquoise paper.

For this background I used the dragonfly stencil

that came with this kit. I used dark blue ink

that shades the stencil perfectly on the paper.

The 2nd layer is the yupo paper that is also in this kit.

With alcohol ink you make a wonderful colored paper. 

All about the technique you find here.

The 3rd layer is the cut out year (with number dies from

Stampin'Up!). I stamped the leaves on top of the 

turquoise paper in black and colored it with green

pencils. The white dots are made with Ranger

white distress spray.

The sentiment is one of the cut aparts that came with 

this kit and I am sure 2017 has lots of moment that

we will smile about!

For mor inspiration, I hope you hop over to

Pam's Blog

and see what she has come up with.

In case you lose your way, go to the main

Club Scrap Blog 

and see all participants.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!

Mojo Monday #481

Today I share with you my card for  the

Mojo Monday Blog

with stamps and papers from the  Club Scrap

January kit Color Me Happy.

You find this weeks sketch HERE.

The background of this card is embossed with a flower

embossing folder. On the background circle there

you find a piece of yupo paper colored with alcohol ink.

The dragonfly is embossed with dark blue embossing

powder and colored with distress markers.

Hope to see you again tomorrow,

when we have our Club Scrap  monthly blog hop

and you can see what we do with a box of papers 

and rubber stamps.

Thanks for looking

and have a creative day!

Creative Chemistry Day 5: Alcohol Ink

Here my projects for day 5 of the Tim Holtz

online classes of Creative Chemistry 103.

All the techniques incorporate alchol ink and yupo paper.

So what to do when you have no yupo paper?

Well shop, you will say, but it would not be here in time,

so I just experimented a little.

I choose the resist technique.

I tryed on several papers if the technique as Tim shows it in his video

tutoral, but no paper i had worked. So with my card and tags

I cheated a little by finally using bleach to try and get the same effect.

Finally these were the best samples to use.

This green background is alcohol ink on ranger matte stamping paper.

I made an alcohol background and then i stamped the bottles

with bleach. Not the best result, but ok for the tag.

I finally stamped the bottles also in black on top of the background.

Also some die cut bottles from dample papers I used to

decorate the tag. The words creative chemistry are printed on

kraft paper with the computer. 103 is a die cut.

This tag is just bleach on dark brown paper. That seemed to 

work best, but no alcohol ink. I loved the background,

so I had to finish this and make it into a tag.

Here i used the alcohol ink on some funny shiny paper that was

lying in my stash. No not photo paper. After adding the alcohol ink

was added, I stamped the bottles with bleach. The lines did not stay

were straight, but gave a nice look, so I stamped the teacher on top

and gave him also some bottles make his potions. Is it Tim mixing

the creative chemistry? 

Anyway, not the real technique, but I had fun playing.

Thanks for looking.

Have a creative day.

Happy Easter 2016

Wishing all my friends a very 

Happy and Blessed Easter!

My card today was inspired by the

Color Challenge on the

MHK Design Blog

is perfect for Easter cards.

Want to know how I made this faux

chocolate bunny?

I think I seen this last year (or the year before on

the blog of Tim Holtz). Cut out a bunny with a

die from cardboard. Then take a piece of alu foil

and a bottle of raspberry alcohol ink. Use a blender tool to

add the ink to the foil.

Cut the foil with a seam around the bunny

ald fold it over.

And here you see part of the finished card.

All papers are Club Scrap Paris Fleamarket.

The sentiment is by Stampin Up!

The cup and the egg stamp are by 

Michael Strong,both embossed in silver.

The ribbon and the paper lace are also by Club Scrap. 

Nothing is thrown away,the other part of the 

egg decorates the inside of the card.

Thanks for looking.

Have a creative day!

Sunday Scrap page: Pumpkin Latte

Sorry! one more coffee page!

It comes with a story:

A few years ago i was in the US around this time

and I tasted pumpkin latte for the first time in my life.

In the Netherlands we don't have this coffee flavour.

Can you believe it?

Well Halloween is not so big here either.

So I have been trying to find this coffee here. Now that we

also have the Starbucks coffee shop, I thought last year let's try,

but no they did not have it.

I was very disappointed and my good friend Laura send me some 

packages from the US, yum! I still have a few.

So last Monday, my husband came home and invited me to

have coffee at Schiphol Airport after dinner.

He had found out that this year they did have the pumpkin latte!

Thanks for the special treat, Raymond.

I love you!!

 

So I made this page with

  Club Scrap paper

Michael Strong pumpkin stamp

and Tim Holtz coffee cup die by sizzix

I stamped the pumpkin on a copper colored paper

and embossed it in gold. Adding some green gemstones

for decoration.

If you like the pumpkin and need it quick, you can also use

Mike's digital image. it is free and you find it here:

http://strongstamps.blogspot.nl/2014/09/blog-candy.html

I cut the cup with the die and stamped with the pumpkin

stamp on the cup with orange ink for decoration.

The mustache is in honor of my husband.

The background is again done with alcohol ink,

a splatter embossing folder and Club Scrap coffee

ring stamp.

So,I think I am done now with the coffee cards and

projets for this week. Let's move on to some other celebrations.

See you soon!

Thanks for looking and leaving your comments.

Have a creative day!

Owl be making cards!

Welcome to my blog on this special day

of card making.

Of course I had to have something here to share with you.

After a week of making coffee cards, I had to set my mind

to something else. I found a great challenge on the

Create with TLC Blog

There was this owl image as a FREEBIE.

You can grab it too, it is

HERE.

Now there is a catch to it:

if you use it on a card and link it up to

the post on Create with TLC you rceive another

freebie in your email and..........

your card willalsobe entered in a drawing for

a $ 10,- certificae in the CTlc store!

For the background see below.

The image is coloredwit pencil and I used

the woodgrain stencil to make the background

to the image.

I made these backgrounds with alcohol ink.

You put a few drops of ink on your craft sheet

and add a few drops of alcohol blending solutions too.

Then with glossy paper you pickup these colors and 

have a beautiful coloredbackground.

The twopapers on the left i run through the big shot with

an embossing folder with a tree image.

For the right paper I took a stencil and added

some texture paste on top, let it air dry and

colored it with expresso ground distress ink.

So with the first image,my theme was set: owls!

this card is made with the owl stamp

by Michael Strong. The sentiment is from Club Scrap

It's a Hoot kit. The owl is stamped on some

paper I had lying around and embossed with silver. 

Little yellow gemstones for the eyes. The tree

branch is  a die by Tim Holtz.

And the last card, is my first Christmas card for this year.

I found this cute owl set on Create with TLC and just had to have it!

The image is colored with distress markers.

You find it HERE.

Have a creative day!