Tuesday Morning Sketches #557

Good Morning!

Today I share with you my card for the

Tuesday Morning Sketches Blog.

Each Tuessday there is a new sketch

and you can use all the materials and stamps you have.

For my card I used some design papers from a block

of Making Memories from my stash. A big scallop 

square punch, golden leaves from SU! and a flower stamp

from Michael Strong Rubber Stamps. Inside the flower

I used a flower punch and a brad for fastening it to the background.

 The sentiment is a stamp is by Club Scrap.

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: Think Pink

This week I received a new stamp by

Michael Strong and just could not wait 

to make some cards with it. The stamp is

available in Michael's Shop soon.

I colored the image with my watercolor crayons

and cut out the Nutcracker. The background is a

piece of scrap paper and a DL.ART home dyed ribbon.

A paper flower with the heart of the snowflake stamp

and some punched out gold leaves decorate the card.

My card is for the Think Pink challenge on the

Simon Says Wednesday Blog here.

This is the inside of the card with a sentiment by

Stampin'Up!.

I used the left over part of the snowflake

for decoration.

This is the stamp that with be soon available.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!

Color Throwdown #544

I just can't stop having ideas for this embroidery on

a cup. This time I made my card for

The latest challenge on the

Color Throwdown Blog.

Materials used:

Design papers from my stash

sentiment from Your Next Stamp

Coffee Mug Die from Marianne Design

Cross Stitch die from Marianne Design

paper punch for the hearts

paper flowers from my stash

crincle ribbon from DL.ART.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!

Saturday card: Happy New Year

For the end of the year I choose to do a color challenge.

It is the one from the

Cupcake Inspiration Blog.

For this card i started with the background of the card. I stamped

the square stamp of Michael Strong in versamark and embossed it

with gold embossing powder. Next I took a piece of gold cardstock

and with some number dies from Stampin'Up! I cut out the 

number of the coming year. The cardstock is added to the background

with tiny red brads.

The snetiment and the stars is from another Stampin'Up! set called

It's a Celebration. Finishing of the cards with 2 gemstones.

Now I want to wish you all, wherever you are

a wonderful, happy, healthy, energetic

and creative New Year!

Thank you for always leaving your wonderful compliments

and coming to look at my projects!

Club Scrap Blog Hop tomorrow

Just want to remind you that tomorrow we

have our montly Club Scrap blog hop tomorrow.

The name of the kit is

Shades of Winter,

This is a really beautiful kit

and I love the stamps that came with it.

Here a card that was inspired

while I was walking this morning.

I came across these braches with the

purple berries and so when I came home 

I made this card:

Started out with the branch. I used my misty for the

stamping and markers for the color. This way you

can stamp again and again on the same spot until

you are satisfied with the color.

The silver star also came with the kit

and i added it with a tiny brad. On top of the brad

I added a gemstone.

Thanks for looking and hope you

come again tomorrow to see all the 

different projects I came up with.

Thanks for looking and

have a creative day!

Club Scrap October Team Challenge: Gift ideas

Welcome to a Club Scrap Team challenge.

We know that soon you are thinking GIFTS,

so today in our blog hop we hope to inspire

you with our DIY gift making.

The hop starts on the Club Scrap Blog

(where you find all the disigners)

but I hope you came here from 

Pam's Blog

and enjoyed her idea for a gift.

So here is my gift idea.

In the last hop I shared with you a gift idea for 

TEA (you can still find it here), 

so today I have something for coffee lovers.

A gift box with coffee and chocolate and

even a pocket for a gift card.

Of course you want to have some instructions,

so let's start with the template for the cover,

the inside  and the chocolate box

Do click on the photo, so you have a larger version

and read all the measurements.

For the papers of this gift box I used Crewel and

Unusual papers from the 2016 Febuary kit.

This is the start of the inside of the giftbx "book".

For decoration I leave the creativity

up to you. I stamped some papers or I used decorated

paper (helps making it faster!)

After contructing the box for chocolates,

I advise you to use some read strong tape (the red version!)

This is ribbons and brads from the kit and perfect to make

the bands that hold the coffee sachets.

The ribbons are 7,5 inch long and taped down

in the back.

On the other  side I added sugar sachets, a spoon and a 

gift card (but you can also add a sweet card in the

pocket with a wish. The coffee cup is made with

a Tim holtz die and stamps from 2008 Gift Tag set (Club Scrap).

Here used 4 inch long ribbon and made a slit

half way to tuck in the ribbon. of course the ribbon is

taped down in the back.

Here a template of the pocket.

Click on the photo to see the larger version

to read all the sizes better.

Everything taped to the box

and now filled with delicious goodies.

On the spine of the book-box I added the text

with a vintage alphabet from 2007 Fizz ( one

of my favourites).

To decorat the outside cover I made these tags with

cupes. They are die cuts from Tim Holtz.

The tags I stamped with my Mocha Java stamps.

al papers are still from

the Crewel and Unusal kit.

Well, this was my contribution, but there is so much more.

The next gift ideayou find on

Jennifers Blog

so do go and have a look.

If you lose your way,

go back to the Club Scrap Blog

for all the details and links.

Thank you very much for looking

and wishing you a creative day!

Irisfolding Dragon

Today I have made this card with an irisfolded dragon.

Irisfolding is such a great technique and really easy, even though

it looks so complicated. You just need a few strips of

folded paper, some cellotape and a template.

I have a friend who makes the most wonderful irisfolding

templates. You find the dragon template HERE,

If you never tried this technique but would, then I have a turorial

and an easy template for you HERE.

I used different shades of gold for the dragon

and a brad for the eye.

The background paper was first embossed, before 

I cut out the shape of the dragon.

The sentiment added to this card is by

Art Neko and is the Birthday sentiment with kanji

and you can find it HERE.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!

Sunday Scrap Page: Orange

Today i share with you another

orange project. This page is for week 17

of the Weekly Chronicles over at the

Club Scrap forum.

 

You see my DD and her son and me all ready in our

outfit for Queens Day, which was so special this year.

 

I used papers by Club Scrap from

the Bold Blooms kit and the blue is from

Spring Chorus.

On top I have 3 tulips in gold embossed on the

colors of our Dutch flag: red, white and blue.

The tulip is a stamp by Michael Strong.

I decorated the flower brads with

 red, white and blue gemstones.

The striped ribbon is also from the Club Scrap

Bold Blooms kit as well as the brads.

 

I end up with this very patriotic card.

Not only did we have Queen's Day this week,

we also had some special day's this weekend.

 

On May 4th we have Remembrance Day

of the Dead and on May 5th we celebrate the

nations liberation fromn the Germans after WOII.

You find all info about this HERE.

 

This card is made with a piece of scrap paper

from my stash in the background and

Michael Strong's mini cloisonné heart.

 

Have a creative day!