Simon Says: Spring and/or Easter

 

Another challenge card, this time for the 

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Blog.

The theme is Spring and/or Easter.

This time it is a Spring birthday card.

Outside the bulbs are popping up and the birds sing their song.

I found some lovely bird design paper in my $$ store and

used it for this card in combination with 

Michael Strong's small hummingbird clingmount stamp.

I made this gatefold card. The squares on top of the card

open like a lock. One is fastened on the right side

and the other on the left side of the card.

This is the inside and here you see that on both sides there is a square.

The sentiment i used on the front and on the inside is from

Tim Holtz Crazy Talk CMS236.

This is how the cards stands and you can see how the lock works.

The little hummingbirds are embossed in white or gold

and colored with pencil.

Thank you for looking

and I hope you have a caffinated creative day!

Tuesday Morning Sketch #681 Bird

 Dear Crafty Friends,

It has been some time since I did a sketch

and today I felt like doing one.

I choose this sketch from

  Tuesday Morning Sketches.

As you can see besides the sketch, it also

needs a bird. For my card I used all

materials by Tim Holtz.

I used Tim Holtz mini blueprint cms170 stamps

and colored them with markers. Papers are from a 

8x8 inch paperpad Christmas #TH94085.

On the pumpkin I did some glossy accent as

well as on the eye.

Thank you for looking.

Have a creative day!

The Daily Marker day 25: Progressive challenge

Each month you receive a new image if you play

the progressive challenge from Limited Runs digital stamps.

It is such a sweet image, I had two cards ready in a jiffy.

You find the information about the 

Limited Runs Progressive 

Challenge HERE.

After printing the image, I colored one time with 

pencil and one time with stampin'blends.

Card #1 is colored with the stampin'blends

and cut with a cirle die and a matching scallop die.

The sentiment is from my stash and the background

 is design paper from a 6 x 6 inch block.

In the heart of the flower is a sticky gemstone.

Card #2 is colored with pencil

and some design paper in the background.

In the heart of the flower is a sticky pearl.

The sentiment is from this Tim Holtz

booklet with small talk stickers.

The grandchildren also had lots of fun with this new

image. They kloved to color it.

Of course my card is also for day 25 of

The Daily Marker Coloring Challenge.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!

New card and winner of the GIVEAWAY!

Here another card with  Michael Strong stamps.

You see:

-the small dove ornament,

the small Christmas tree

and the house rubber stamp

The sentiment is by Tim Holtz.

The trees are stamped with gold embossing powder

on gold paper. Great and very shiny effect.

The dove ornament is stamped with gold embossing

powder on white paper. The background is created with

a variety of Tim Holtz stencils, a blending tool and 

distress oxide inks.

I want to thank everyone for visiting my blog

and leave your comment for your

choice of the Christmas ornament.

and now......

drumroll ........

the winner of the GIVEWAY is:

Becca Yahrling said...

The snowman is my favorite, too! I adore snowmen and 

have a small collection of handmade snowmen. 

Your cards are all lovely, Hetty.

Congratulations, Becca,.

Please send me your private snailmail

so you can receive your prize.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!

Limited Runs Progressive Challenge

I played again for the 

Limited Runs digital stamp

progressive challenge.

This time you could use any of the stamps.

In the nick of time i made these cards

for the challenge was over September 13

and only now I have time to post them on

my blog.

I choose to use the brainbird image for my card.

I made the orange birthday card with the little birdies

peeping through the holes and some punched out

balloons and tree branches.

Then I made this totally digital image

in combination with images from

Create with TLC. 

I printed the images and made it into a card.

I printed it twice, so I could cut out the bird and added

it on top with foam tape.

This is the inside of the card with one of the left over

little birds and a Simon Says Stamp sentiment stamped.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!

SSS Spring challenge

Even though it is bitterly cold here in The Netherlands

this weekend, I know Spring is around the corner and

crafting and thinking about it keeps me warm.

I made this tag for the Monday Challenge

on the Simon Says Stamp blog

where the challenge is Spring/ Easter inspiration.

The background is a tag don in the direct to paper technique

with a variety of green and fosselized amber oxide

distress inks. The bird is a big die cut by Tim Holtz

and the flower is made out of a coffee filter.

I sprayed the filter with fosselized amber distress spray

and cut the flowers with a punch. Inside I added a stem and 

glued all the layers together. The stem end went through

the tag and taped to the back of the tag.

The background rays ar made with a stamp 

and fosselized oxide ink.

Yhe birds nest is another stamp. First I stamped it

on the tag and next on a piece of white paper.

Then colored the nest with a brown distress marker

and cut out the nest and added it with foam tape to the tag. 

The words are from Tm Holtz ideology small talk stickers.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!

Club Scrap Blog Hop: Notes from Paris Flea Market

Welcome to the 

Club Scrap Blog Hop

with the

Paris Flea Market kit from March

I hope you arrived here from

Jennifer's Blog

and left some love for her beautiful artwork.

Nowit is my turn.I was so lucky to have a great find

in the dollar stor. This wooden model for

a memo board project that I want to share with you:

You see it is totally ready to be altered.

And this is  the result,but I am quite sure you 

want to know how I came to the end result.

I started with taking a piece of black 12 x 12 inch paper

from the box and puth the bord on top and drwing aline

around it and cut out the shape with a knife and ruler.

Then I took the bottle of Club Scrap bookbinding glue and 

added this to the woodboard and put the paper on top.

With a bottle of black soot acrylic distress paint

I painted the sides black.

Next cover the black paper with the pink design

paper that is cut 1/2 and inch shorter on all sides

and colored the border also with black sooth

distress paint. On top a piece of the gray design

border cut from the grey design paper.

Here you see the finished board with all

it's details and a noteblock in the middle.

Here you see how it looks form behind.

It is best to glue this piece in the holes,

otherwise it might drop out all the time.

A little more about the details.The bird is a die from

Tim Holtz that I used for cutting and I mixed and matched 

the colors fromthe kit.The lovely birdcage charm came

with the kit. The tag on the right started being white and 

I used a few different stamps from the unmounted rubber

stamps that also came with this kit. The pink circle I cut out

from another piece of white paper and added with foam

tape to the tag.

You also see the notepad decorated with a strip from the 

cut aparts. A punched out flower (SU!) with a brad from 

an older kit,but perfect here again! The word notes is

 stamped with a clear alphabet from my stash,

On the left and right of the notepad I added some flowers

cut from the black design paper.

It is also a Tim Holtz die. The flower is fastned to the board 

with a button that came also with the kit. The pink leaves

are cut with a Joy Craft die. Behind the notepad I added

aribbon fromthe kit before glueing the pad to the background.

Here another one of the tags fro the kit. First stamped 

with the french UM rubber stamp and the corner is made

with the stencil that cae with the kit. I tiny pink pearl

from my stash completes this corner.

On the bottem right another bird with in the background

3 of the tiny tags from the kit. I stamped the word notes several

times and here decorated with more sticky pearls.

And here my scrappage for today.

I found this wonderful sketch that inspired me to use for

these wonderful pictures my DD took of the boys dressed

up for Easter.

It is from the 

Scrapping Everyday Miracles blog.

It had to be a masculine look,so I did not add the pink paper,

but with black,grey and white I think I did pretty well.

I used the TumHoltz bird and flower dies. Also more of the 

tagsthat came with the kit. The added white floweris from my stash.

You see her printed "Pasen 2016" which is the Dutch

word for Easter. After printing I added it to one of the

tags and used a fleur the lis stamp from the UM stamps

around it as a border.

The birdcage is from the Tim

Holtz die and decoraed with a piece of paper lace inked

with black ink. The background is a complete

paper lace sheet that comes with the Paris Flea Market kit

and is so much fun to use in so many different ways. 

I hope you looked at all the artwork from 

the Artist Team technique challenge and saw all

the paper lace possibilities.If not, you can still do

so from HERE.

And for more inspiration,please head over to 

Pam's Blog

and she what she has to show you to inspire

you to use the wonderful Paris Flea Market kit.

If you happen to lose your way, you can always go back to

the Club Scrap Blog and see all the Team players.

Thank you for looking!

Have a creative day!