Michael Strong Zoom Class: Animals

 

Welcome Crafty Friends,

Last night (for me, but morning in San Diego California)

tere was the monthly wonderful zoom class by 

Michael Strong.

You find all the stamps I used for this class here:

Stongstamps Catalogue.

Remember, I do not get a package of cards, but digital 

files with measurements and pictures. I use what i have in my stash.

This class was about 5 different animal stamps designed by

Michael strong himself.

Card #1 Giraffe

I stamped the giraf on white paper and scanned it.

This way I could manipulate the image in photoshop

(with the help of a collegue). Then I printed the

image on orange paper. The border is a picture I found

on internet.

The leaf is a stamp that comes with the giraffe stamp set.

Here the inside of the card.

Card #2 Seahorse

Here I stamped the seahorse on blue paper and colored them 

with pencils. The border is made with 2 different sizes of

punches, hologram stickers and blue gemstones.

Inside the card there is a piece of light blue paper.

Card #3 Pony

This stamp with black ink on white paper and colored with pencils.

Next I scanned the pony before cutting out.

I used a piece of a horizontal rectale and enlarged this to make

up the border.  The tiny beads are on a piece of wax thread with

nots to hold the beads in place.

I printed the border twice and used it also on the inside of the card.

Card #4 Panda

The size of this card is 4 x 7 inch.

The background panel si stamped with the bamboo stamp

from the panda set with red ink.

5 Pand's are glued to a accordeon folded strip

and are hidden behind this flap. The tssel pulls out the 

strip of panda's. I made the tassel with embroidery floss.

The decoration on the flap is 3 punched out flowers

and a circle stamp with chineese characters (embossed

in gold and by Club Scrap).

For the inside I used another stamp from the set.

A row of tiny panda's. Also great to use on the

envelop.

Card #5 Elephant

Of couse again started this card with stamping the elephant and

used pencils to color the image. After cutting out, I put it asside to

make the card. The size of the card is 5 1/2 x 5 1/2 inch.

Embossed pannel on the front with punched out flowers and a 

tiny golden gemstone.

Inside a small panel decorated with the flower that comes

with the stamp set and also colored with pencil.

Finishing the card with 3 flowers in the same colors as

on the front side of the card.

Thank you so much for looking and the next zoom class

will be purple cards on Saturday September 24th.

If you are interrested to take part in the class feel free

to email Michael Strong: stamper.strong@gmail.com

Have a creative day!

Fun with Distress

I keep on making my #stayathome cards

with the sentiments of 21 years of Club Scrap.

I have been watching all of the Tim Holtz

Facebook Live video's

and have been inspired a lot as well

as learning a lot.

Today I started with a few colors of distress 

Oxide spray for the background.

Next comes the texture paste through the holes

of the Fizz stencil (Club Scrap). When the stencil

is off, I sprinkled the paste with the new distress glaze.

Here you see  the background after the paste has dried

 and is heat embossed.

The sentiment is from Rhapsody (3/2007), a vintage

kit from Club Scrap as well as the background stamp.

Decoration with beats and a metal coin (with 

distress glaze). In the old days we got a little

box of beads and findings with the scrap kit.

Still have some left.

Thank you for looking,

stay safe

and keep crafting!

Club Scrap sentiment 3

Today I found this cute little

gift card box from way back.

I was thinking, schall I keep it 

or throw it out? NO!!

I will recreate it for today

and so here is the result!

I found this Club Scrap sentiment.

It came with a kit called Memoirs 07/2009

The papers and background stamps are from 

another kit called Henna 05/2009

The sticker decorations are from Welcome 04/2011.

Yes i love to mix and match my kits!

Here you see the closed box.

I decorated the box with flowers

and the sentiment is stmped with 

a clear alphabet from my stash.

I do have a template of this box for you HERE.

I have made these boxes before and you can 

see my other versions 

HERE and HERE.

On the top of the box I made a handle with

little beads on a piece of wire.

I guess now you want to see the inside:

For the flowers on the outside

and the little houses on the inside I have used 

paper punches, but you also see tiny houses 

made out of stickers. These came with the 

Welcome kit.

Well, that was it for today!

Hope you liked it.

Thanks for look,ng 

stay safe

and be creative!

Simon Says: Add Some Red

Here a tag for 2 challenges:

1. Add Some Red on the

Simon Says Stamp Monday Blog.

2. Make a project with the 2012

paint resist technique in the

Tim Holtz Addict Facebook Group.

As i do not have the white paint (now I need it!!)

I used white embossing powder after I stamped

the hearts and the text with versamark.

After the embossing powder was heated I colored

my tag with candied apple red oxide distress ink.

The heart and the love are cut out with dies

by Stampin'Up!

Here you see the finished tag all done up.

I used the rosette and the Valentine tiny

envelop on top of the heart.

"YOU"was cut out one of the alphabet strips and

the borders were added with stapples to the tag.

In the middle if the strips I added waxed black thread

with some red glass beads between knots.

Thank you for looking and 

have a creative day!

Club Scrap January Artist Challenge: Faux Batik

Welcome to the Club Scrap January

Artist Team Challenge and

this month we share with you cards 

with a Faux Batik technique

I hope you have arrived here from
Pam's Blog
and see what wonderful projects she has
come up with.

There are various way of doing this technique
and I used one of the tutorials from
Splitcoaststampers here.

And here are my cards:

For this hop I made 4 cards in the same batik technique

with various stamps. 

This card is made with mostly this months papers

and stamps from the Color Me Happy kit,

but the pot and the sentiment are from

April 2009 Pure and Simple. I love using

distress inks for this way I could also sprinkle

some waterdrops and give the background

an even more batik look.

Here all papers and stamps from the January

Color Me Happy kit. The enamal dots are from

my stash.

The next two cards are made with the base

from the Office kit in combination with

the Color Me Happy kit. 

To be honest this was one of the first trials

of this technique and I almost discarded it. 

But then When I added the sentiment it looked

ready to use. The leather ribbon and beads

are from my Club Scrap stash. 

This card is made with one of my favorite

(vintage wooden) stamp, the tulips.

This was my contribution, but there is
more inspiration. Hop over to
Jennifer's Blog
and see her awesome artwork.

If you hapen to loose your way,
you can always go back to the
Club Scrap Blog
and see all the designer's link addresses.

Thank you for looking
and have a creative day!

Voor het raam/ At the window

Als we de kaarsen aansteken, staan ze altijd voor het raam. Deze stempel vind ik echt zo lief. Hij is van Stampa Rosa en heet Too amny potato Latkes. Aardappelkoekjes is speciaal een gerecht voor Chanoeka. De tekst en het papier is verder van Club Scrap. When we light the candles, we do this in front of the window. I think this stamp is just too sweet. He is from Stampa Rosa and is called Too many potato Latkes. Potato latkes is a special recipe we make for Hanukkah. Paper and sentiment are by Club Scrap.

TV Weekly

Ketting en armand....he.....kralen rijgen???!!! Ja, want nu is er op TV Weekly naast het programma op vrijdag een nieuw programma op woensdag en daar leer je van alles over kralen rijgen. En het ziet er zo makkelijk uit! Nu had ik gelukkig nog wat kralen in huis en die leuke hartjes en het slotje heb ik gevonden in een Nederlandse internetshop: CreaDream. Wil je alles goed van dichtbij bekijken? Klik dan op de foto!Necklace and bracelet..........oy......beading???!!! Yes! Now there is not only craft tv on Friday but also jewelery on Wednesday at TV Weekly. They make beading look so easy! Luckily I had some beads at home and over the internet I found CreaDream in the Netherlands bringing these neat silver hearts and lock to my home. If you want to see it all real close, click on the picture.

Stitch Bound Book Album

Vandaag ben ik begonnen aan mijn Club Scrap-vriendenboekje. Het wordt een boekje in een doosje zoals het beschreven staat in de Scrap Rap van September door Kay Williamson. Het is gemaakt met papier van Be Still en heeft een kralen binding aan de buitenkant. Het metalen doosje zat in de senior doos. Het boekje moet nog gevuld worden (maar niet meer vandaag) dus dat komt later nog voorbij.

Today I started my Club Scrap friends-booklet. For this I used the description by Kay Williamson in the Scrap Rap from September. Paper is from the Be Still kit and the binding of the booklet is done with beads. The metal tin was in de senior kit. I still have to finish the inside of the booklet (but not tonight) so that I will show another day.