Easy cards with Cats and Dogs

I am trying to use up more of my stash

and here are some easy and fun cards.

This is what you do: pick some background paper.

Mine are out of a magazine called Take Ten and Flow.

Use up all the stamped images you have lying around,

and I found these cats and dogs stamped images by

Tim Holtz. I colored them with my stampin'blends.

Then I take out my word stickers by Tim Holtz

and look at all the cards I ended up with!

Sorry, needed a drink in between making

these cards and my coffee was finished.

Cheers! I hope I have given you some 

quick and easy ideas.

Thanks for looking,

stay safe and

stay creative!

Club Scrap July Linky Party: Sea Breeze

Welcome to the 

Club Scrap Linky Party!

I share with you some card ideas

made with the CS July Sea Breeze kit

in paper and digital.

I start with the paper cards I created with craft paper

and digital printed paper and reral rubber stamps.

Here you see the hybrid Sea Breeze papers I printed 

and the wonderful rubber stamps.

Card #1 has a border from the pebble paper

and images stamped on a separate piece of craft paper

and colored with pencil.

Light colors of pencil do it perfectly on kraft paper.

The shells are added with foam tape and a little

silver glitter glue on top.

The sand is made by hand with a white gel pen

and some sticky white pearls.

For the bottle I added some glossy accent after coloring

to have the glass effect.

Card #2 is created with the pebble paper 

and a cut out panel.

For the letters I used thes Stampin'Up! thinlits.

I taped them down with washi tape, so they do

not move when I run them through the bigshot.

So behind the cut out letters I glued the pebble paper

on the card and used some foam tape between this paper

and the kraft paper.

Some more cut out shells and a starfish decorate the 

stamped birthday greetings.

Card #3 and #4 are beth made with the

Sea Breeze hybrid kit and photoshop

on the computer.

If you like these cards and are not very good

with photoshop, I don't mind if you save them on 

your computer for future use. I did not put my watermark 

on it, so you can pretend you made it ;-)!

Here a sample of what you can do.

I just printed the images, cut and folded them into a card.

Then added some bakers twine and some left over

shells from my previous paper cards.

On the shells I added silver glitter glue.

Thank you again for looking

and have a creative Summer day!

Some favorites from 2017 - 2

Today I share some projects from May - August 2017

from various of my favorite companies.

You see Club Scrap, Stampin'Up!, Michael Strong stamps.

Art Neko, Create with TLC and of course Tim Holtz.

Looking forward to what they all have 

in store for us for 2018.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!

Some favorites from 2017 -1

Before I start to create for this year, I looked back to all the creations

I made last year. It was so hard to pick some favorite, so here 

are some I picked from the first 4 month of 2017.

There are cards, projects and scrapbook pages.

There will be more tomorrow.

It gives me a few days to clean my craftroom!

I guess some of you can relate!!

Thanks for looking

and have a creative day!

Club Scrap Blog Hop: Pattern Play

Welcome to the monthly blog hop of 

Club Scrap

where we show you the kit of the month June

and this kit is called Pattern Play.

I hope you have arrived here from

Pam's Blog

and seen how she has played with her kit.

I was a little unlucky this month for my box

only arrived last Saturday, so I had to come

up with a quick project. As I also play in the

Summer Coffeelovers Blog Hop, it has to 

be something coffee related. I guess some of you

 know I can turn any kit into something coffee!

I made this coffee/card gift box.

For the box I used the Stationer's Box that Tricia made with

us at the Retreat in 2013. And for a period of one

month you can download the instructions here.

And there are even an instruction about 

how to assemble the box:

video instruction is here.

Stationer's Box Part 1 from Club Scrap on Vimeo.

In the original box there are only cards, but I noticed that 

where there can be the little cards, it also holds 2 times

4 Nespresso cups and that was just perfect.

The box comes with a lid with a window.

After I followed all the instructions, I had the bottom and

the lid. I assembled the bottom and made the dividers.

For the lid I did some stamping for decoration, before

folding and glueing everything together. I used tone

of the pattern stamps from the kit. You find the stamps here.

Around the box I just the silver ribbon from the kit.

The tag is one of the cut apparts from this kit and

I decorated it with this cute coffee die using some

left over paper (red from stash). On the back you can 

write a wish or stamp a sentiment.

Here a look at the inside. On the left the cups

and on the right there are 4 cards.

I took the cards out to show them to you.

Here are the cards. You see they are all coffee related.

For my cards I used dies from Tim Hotz.

The coffee cup to go is die cut out of the

patterned papers from the kit. The flower

is punched out and decorated with one of the cute

enameled dots that were also in the box.

Sentiment from the stampsheet.

Ok, so one card for the tea lovers too!

Ribbon from the kit.

Here I stamped on the cup with white ink.

I cut up one of the stamped sentiments

and made it fit my card. Enameled dots posing

as a little milk in the coffee.

Background embossed with coffee beans and

cut with a thinlit and now showing the

green of the card through. Some gesso

was added to the embossed part of the panel.

For this card I embossed the background

with a tim Holtz embossing folder and added

white gesso for a little more effect.

Cup is stamped with green ink and a decorative

pattern. Sentiment is also from the kit and tag

is made up out of a left over piece.

Here a little info about the Coffeelovers hop:

Welcome to another card on day 6 of the 

Coffee Blog Hop.

So many sponsors, so many prizes to win, so don't forget 

to add your card and have a chance to win some goodies.

And now it is time to hop over to

Jennifer's Blog

and she what totally different project she has come up with.

If you happen to loose your way, you can always 

go to the Club Scrap Blog where

you find all the participants of the blog hop.

Thank you very much for looking

and have a creative day!

Baby and coffee

Last day of baby cards! I have to move on, but I could not resist

using the tiny feet for a last time. Wanted to make some 

non-conventional cards in totally different colors.

Then my new stamps, papers and dies arrived. Yes, coffee theme

from Stampin Up! out of the new catalogue. A set called Coffee

Cafe, that comes with wonderful papers and ribbons. I wanted

them so I was ready for the Summer Coffee Lovers Blog

Hop dat is real soon.

 

Here is an impression of all the new goodies.

I must order more paper, that is just way too cute and lovely!

So how about a card within the baby theme?

The sentiment is from another new set called

In the City.

Here a close up of the coffee cup.

Yes, behind the cup I used the sizzix coffee bean

embossing folder.

Thanks for looking

and have a creative day!