Working on Christmas cards

Hello Crafty Friends,

Today I am working on my Tim Holtz Christmas cards.

I was in a way inspired by one of the live tutorials by Tim on Facebook.

If you have missed them, you can see all the tutorials on

Tim's Blog.

I started with making my own splatterbox for

the backgrounds of my cards.

I made my backgrounds with speckled egg and 

cracked pistachio.

Here you see the finished and dried  backgrounds.

On top I used several of Tim Holtz stencils

with distress ink. Here I used the new eustic wildernes

and here i used speckled egg distress oxide ink.

On top of the stenciled background I stamped a

sentiment for Christmas (Handwritten Holidays 1 and

mini handwritten Holidays)

and a tiny cardinal, that I colored with zig markers.

When all done I added  walnutstain distress oxide

all around the panel.

The panel is finished of with red and white baker's twine.

Or with yellow and white baker's twine.

Thank you Tim Holtz for all your inspiration.

Thanks for looking,

stay safe and'

keep crafting!

 

Bugaboo Christmas in July Day 6

Good Morning!

Today it is a photo challenge on the 

Catch the Bug Challenge Blog

Christmas in July week.

Don't forget to hop ofver to the main blog and

see what you can do to win some prizes.

Here is the photo for inspiration to make a card.

Today a CAS card.

Background is a piece of card for scrapbooking and

 I used AKV Santa Ho Ho Ho.

The image is colored with markers 

and the sentiment is from my stash.

The red and white baker's twine finishes off the card.

Thank you for looking,

stay safe and

keep crafting!

Gnomes in the Coffeehouse

Today I combined the new Club Scrap Coffeehouse hybrid kit

with the 2013 Gnome for the Holidays.

So I startedwith stamping the gnomes

and coloring them with zig markers.

After coloring the gnomes were cut out for

further use.

Card #1

For this card I made the coffeering background 

with photoshop and the Coffeehouse hybrid kit.

the other images I printed and cut out to use for this card.

The tag is added with bakers twine to the cup

and for extra dimention sticky pearls are added.

Even gnomes need coffee, right?!

Card #2

For this card the sentiment is also from the

Gnome rubber stampset (unfortunately not available anymore).

For this card I used the same coffeering background.

This gnome is having a warm coffee bath.

It looks like he is enjoying warm feet.

So there are two gnomes left for

more cards. See you soon!

Thanks for looking

and have a latte creative day!

Bugaboo Bingo Challenge

Over at the Bugaboo blog

Catch The Bug Challenge Blog

it is BINGO time!

Here my card with:

a sentiment, a sparkle abd a Bugaboo image.

For my card I used the Bugaboo Brat School - Apple

image for my card. I changes the big apple into a pumpkin.

The image is colored with pencil.

Behind the image you see some printed (Club Scrap)

design paper and green/gold baker's twine.

The sparkle are a few sticky gemstones.

The sentiment is a digital sentiment printed by

the computer by Create with TLC.

Suddenly I had an idea for a coffee variation

(just could not resist ;-) )

The cup is a Lawn Fawn die

and the apple is a paper punch by SU!

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!

Bugaboo Christmas in July 7

Here is my last card for this weeks

Christmas in July at the

Bugaboo Challenge Blog.

For my card i used the freebie image

that you can find HERE.

This is the challenge for today:

Colors and the movie Rudolph the Rednose Reindeer.

You find all details HERE and see all the 

beautiful artwork by the design team.

I colored the image with SU! Stampin'Blends and

for the background i used some design paper from

my stash, baker's twine and green sticky pearls.

Thanks for looking

and have a creative day!

Brentwood dressing up!

I absolutely adore this image of Brentwood by JessicaLynn.

She made many freebies for the Coffee Lover's Blog Hop

and now she dressed him up for the 4th of July.

This image is a digital stamp, you download it to  your computer

and can use it any size you want. Print it and color and use on your card.

You can find Brentwood Owl 4th of July in 

JessicaLynn's digital stamp shop here.

I colored the image of Brentwood with Stampin'blends and 

cut out the image. The background is made with  candied apple

and mermaid lagoon distress oxide inks in the direct to paper

technique. On top i stamped some stars in the same color.

The sentiment is by Tim Holtz. After wrapping the baker's 

twine around the panel, i added Brentwood with a piece of foam

tape on top of the baker's twine.

For the 2nd card I started making the background with the

stars embossing folder. I added the ink to the embossing

folder and a little water before running the folder and the paper

through the big shot. The ribbons aew hand dyed ribbons

by DL.ART and the sentiment is by Create with TLC.

(if you enter 4th of July in the search box there are more

sentiments!)

The image and sentiment are colored with pencils.

Ok, I just had to make one with coffee!!

I made the background with several Tim Holtz stencils

and the same distress oxide inks as above.

I stamped some beans from my stash as well

as the cup. Everithing is colored with SU! stampin'blends.

The sentiment is made up with part of a STAMPlorations

stamp and a Tim Holtz stamp.

The stars are sequins and hard to photograph the bling.

This image was made in Photoshop with a background 

and sentiments by Create with TLC.

Brendwood Owl is also colored in Photoshop.

Hope I have given you some ideas for this wonderful stamp.

Do shop at JessicaLynnOriginals.

She has an offer now: buy one and get one free!

Thanks for looking

and have a creative day!

Last Christmas cards for Limited Runs Progressive Challenge #22

So here are my last Christmas cards!

Here is the first card with the fun elf and his candy cane.

So happy I had some candy cane paper for the 

background. 

I hadto use this fun elf for the progressive

challeng on the Limited Runs Facebookgroup

to get a new image for the next challenge.

My 2nd card was inspired by a card I

found on Pinterest, i just changed it to my way to use.

You find the card and video HERE.

The elf is colored with pencil on both cards.

The candycane paper and the sentiment are 

both by Stampin'Up!.

You can lift the sentiment from behand the

baker's twine and this way the card opens up.

Now you can write your message on the card.

it is fun to leave the message behind the image.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!

 

Be nice or else....!

Here my card for the progressive challengeon the

Faceook group of Limited Runs digital stamps.

I colored and added the sentiment with photoshop.

Next I prented the image and added red background paper.

The scrap paper in the background is from a Tim Holtz

 Halloween paper block.

 Finished the card with black and white baker's twine.

Thank you for looking

amd have a creative day!