Create with TLC: Collage Fun

So we are kept busy by Paulette of

Create with TLC.

She has a wonderful facebook page HERE

if you like to make junk journals or

use the images for card or mixed media.

First I made this spool card.

I love all the images we got and I printed them

and quickly cut them up to make this card.

Here you see the collage sheet we got.

Hope you come to the Facebook page and 

enjoy the images snd sentiments as I do.

Oh, but there is more!

As we all sit at home, we also started to clean

our houses, start in the garden and of course

I needed to clean my craft room.

Low and behold I found some unfinished projects.

Today I decorated a mini book that I found finished

as book, but no decoration inside.

So here is the book that I decorated today.

It is 4 x 4 inches

It is an easy book to make. Two hardboard covers

decorated with design paper.

And as you can see the back of the book is a harmonica 

folded strip of paper.

On the inside  on each  fold is glued a page

of the book. All these pages were blank,

but not anymore!

Here I am sharing all the pages.

The images are resized for a smaller booklet.

On page two I used this left over torn paper strip

from yesterday's images.

For each page I also cut some of white paper

of 3,5 x 3,5 inch and added walnut stain ink

around the border.

The green strip looks like washi tape in this mini book.

No words are added for I am not sure what theme

I will make this book.

It is so much fun to use all the images on one page.

More torn paper ideas.

Left over cuts can't go wasted!

And here the last page with the last roses  printed

in smaller size. Now the booklet is finished

and ready for pictures (can be on the left side and

beautiful words on the right size pages.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!

ATC's and chocolates for Mom

I am over at the Art Neko Blog

with these ATC's, but I want to share them on my own blog too.

These 3 little cards belong together, because together they make

the word MOM.

I created a serie of atc’s for Mother’s Day with some of the images from the Chikanobu Collage Sheet 3. I cut them to the size of 2 x 3 inch so i could use them on the atc’s in combination with some other images. After mounting the iimages to the background (black paper) and an atc card (green, blue and yellow 3,5 x 2,5 inch), I started stamping the teacups, the dragonfly medallion and the Oda Nobunaga Family Crest. All the stamping is embossed with black or gold embossing powder.

The letters that make MOM are die cuts from a Tim Holtz die and glued to the cards after I added a little ink all around each letter. Below you can see them more close up. especially if you click on the picture.

Now what is a card without a little gift on Mother's Day?!

So I added a little decorated chocolate box.

The sentiment is from Stampin'Up!

and the teapot and cups from Art Neko

as well as the ribbon. 

The template for the box is NOT my own

and I wanted to share the link to where I found it,

Unfortunately I cannot find the website anymore.

After cutting the template and adding double sided tape

I added the cocolate before closing the box.

I should have stamped the sentiment before closing the box,

but now I stamped it on paper. The word MOM is done by hand.

The ribbon is folded around the box and taped with red - strong - tape.

The teapot is embossed with blue embossing powder.

An easy project is you need a quick (late) idea.

Tomorrow I have another chocolate box!

Thanks for looking and 

have a creative day!

Art Neko Tea Party

Today it is my turn at the Art Neko design team

to share with you some art with Art Neko stamps.

So how about a tea party?

I found this wonderful tea set in the shop here

and it is perfect for stamping a background

and to have it up front. I embossed it with red

embossing powder. The sentinet with the kanji

can be found here.

The flowers are punched out of white paper

and then colored with a little red ink on the outside.

The inside of the flower is also a paper punch

and toped of with a red sticky pearl.

For this card i used the same tea stamp and sentiment.

The girl with the teacup is from a paper collage sheet

that can be seen here.

The flowers are made with two different flower punches

that are from Stampin'Up! and the background is created

with a orinetal flower embossing folder colored with green

and pink distress ink. All finished of with some thin

organza ribbeon.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!