Something New

My card today is for the

Die Cut Diva's Blog,

where the challenge is 

Do or Use Something New.

Well, I did both.

I became a member of a new group

for Oriental stamp art

and because of that I bought this

paper lantern die.

Here you see the die, it is not too large, so easy to use

on cards and wonderful to combine (here on the

sleeve of my coffee cup).

So those of you who visit my blog more often,

know my love for coffee, so here my first

oriental coffee card.

The backgroud is made in resist technique

with an Art Neko flower stamp.

The coffee cut is cut with the Stampin'Up!

coffee thinlits. The stamped sentiment

is by Stampin'Funn. The "hello"die cut

is from a Tim Holtz die.

The girl is an image I found on internet

and colored with zig markers.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day.

Ginkgo Leaf for Art Neko

Welcome to my post for Art Neko stamps.

I have a post on the Art Neko Blog to sharing 2 cards

and one card here on my own blog.

I use the Ginkgo Leaf stamp in various ways

and here is the result.

I made these 3 backgrounds like this:

1. (left) 4 colors of embossing powder

2. (middle) stamp embossed with vesamark and clear

embossing powder. Colord with lime green color burst

3. (right) 3 colors of distress oxide ink on the stamp made this background.

Then i loved the backgrounds so much, I wanted them to be

seen and kept as much as possible to see.

Two cards are over at the Art Neko blog and

here is the 3rd card:

The dragonfly out of gold paper is cut out with

 a Stampin'Up! die. The sentiment is also cut out with a die 

from my stash. Finishing of the card with a few sticky pearls.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!

Color Challenge

These beautiful colors on the

Sunday Stamps Blog

looked very appealing to me

and I just had to make a card with them.

Used stamps:

Stampin'Up! Beautiful You and Timeless Textures stampsets.

I started making the background with these 3 colors of 

distress oxide inks: fossilized Amber, spiced Marmelade

and Worn Lipstick. I used watercolor paper.

Addinkg the ink direct to my craft sheet and spraying

some water onto the ink and also on the watercolor paper.

Than getting the paper on the craftsheet and 

taking the ink on the paper.

So much ink was left, that I ended up with 2 pieces

of background paper.

After stamping the image to the background, I used the left

over ink from the craftsheet to color the image.

For the skirt i added some pink glitter glue.

Some of the left over paper I used to decorated the 

inside of the card.

The left over piece of watercolor paper I used 

to make my card for the Art Neko Blog today.

For this card I used two stamps: the big one in the middle that is 

embossed with silver embossing powder is the Circle Medallion

of Flowers on a bed of calligrapy. I decorated the circle

also with yellow sticky pearls.

On the border of the card I used the ginkgo leaf pair stamp

and finished off the card with an organza hot pink ribbon.

Matting the background to silver paper and to

the pink card I now have two cards for the color challenge.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!

Art Neko for Father's Day

I made this card for Father's Day with stamps from

the Art Neko Marine sheet2 and is also on the

Art Neko Blog. Here I share more detailed pictures

on how I made this card.

This is how I started the card. Take a regular card and from the inside

cut a strip of 1 inch away until the middle fold.

on the fron side of the card I cut only part of the 

1 inch strip. (I cut on both sides 1 inch).

Fold these strips towards the front of the card and make

it look like the collar of a shirt.

Next I took the shell stamp and walnut stain

oxide distress ink and stamped it on a piece

of orange cardstock.

I cut the cardtock in two and taped it to the

front of the shirt.

Next I took a piece of 3 x 3 inch copy paper and started

collage stamping on it and also colored it orange.

This is the finished piece of paper, now ready for folding into a tie.

Here you see the finished tie. I add also here the

folding template, that I found on the internet:

If you click on the picture, you can see a larger version.

Here on the detail, you see the tie added and the

collar fastned with 2 little orange brads.

You can add any sentiment to your liking.

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!

Distress oxide and tulips

Today I am enjoying Spring inside my craftroom.

Outside it is windy and lots of rain, so these 

tulips from Art Neko make my room look like Spring!

For each card I used just one color of the new

Ranger's distress oxide ink. So first I stamped the tulip

on cardstock and next I stamped it again on a post it

note and cut this image out.

I covered the tulip on the card with the post-it note.

Next I took a oriental text stamp from Art neko

and stampd it on top of the tulip to get a background

of characters.

When the post it note is removed it looks like

you stamp the tulip on top of the text.

Then layering the card on a matching color as the 

ink and a dark green background.

The gemstones on each card are colored with 

a distress marker in the same color as the ink of the inkpad.

These cards are for day 21 of the color challenge on

The Daily Marker blog.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!