STAMPlorations Love Theme

Here is my entry for the STAMPlorations 

Love/Spring theme linky party 

with some wonderful free downloads.

You see all the different images below that you can choose from.

And yes....there even is a coffee image and I did not

pick it this time!

For my cupcake card, I started out with the background

of this card with the direct to paper technique

with pink worn lipstick oxide distress ink.

Just add some ink on your craft sheet a few

drops of water and pick this up with you paper.

I dried it with my heat gun.

Next I used two different Tim Holtz stencils.

The heart stencil with the same worn lipstick 

oxide distress ink and the alphabet stencil with

brushed corduroy oxide distress ink.

Then I colored the printed image I downloaded

from the STAMPlorations site. I used

blending markers to color the rose and the cupcake.

The background is colored with the worn lipstick 

oxide ink. After  finishing the coloring and 

matting the image, I added some string and 

sticky pearls to finish the card.

Thanks for looking

and have a creative day!

Color challenge CCT18

I found this fun color challenge

and had to play again with my new Coffee Addict

clear stamps from Love Cynthia.

This is the color challenge 

and you find all the details on the

Christmas Card Throwdown Blog.

The image is colored with markers

and the background is stamped with worn lipstick

oxide distress ink.

Thank you for looking

and have a latte great day!

Art Neko Birthday Card

Today my card is for the color challenge on 

the Cupcake Inspiration Blog.

Here you see the inspiration for the card.

For my card I used Art Neko stamps

Forget Me Not background stamp

Love Birds stamp

Happy Birthday sentiment

The background is stamped on white paper with versamark and

embossed with clear embossing. Next the red color is added

and the embossing powder works as a resist. With a soft cloth

I cleaned off the ink from the flowers.

Next I stamped the Love Birds in black on a seperate piece 

of paper and added the sentiment. Then I cut it out and glued it to

a piece of black paper and cut it out again with a border.

After adding the ribbon around the background, the birds 

were added with foam tape on top.

After making the card for the challenge, I made some other card

and noticed I still used the same colors. It is a wonderful

color combination.

Thanks for looking

and have a creative day!

Sending Love

Here is a card with the combination of a sketch

challenge and a color challenge.

With Valentine so close, you will see a lot of

Valentine ideas in the coming days.

You find the sketch challenge on the

Freshly made Sketch Blog

And the color challenge is on the 

Color Q Blog

So for this card I used

an SU! heart embossing folderin the background

with some red ink on the raised hearts.

The senter heart is a die from Memory Box called

"Tender Heart". In the open hear spaces i added some

tiny sticky pearls.

A red ribbon and a banner with the sentiment 

finish of the card.

Thank you for looking.

Have a creative day!

Bladeren/ Leaves

Op deze kaart zie je behalve een cuttlebug achtergrond en de vaas stempel van Michael Strong ook groene bladeren. Hoe je deze bladeren maakt, zie je op het BLOG van Michael Strong.
De vaas is gekleurd met kleurpotlood en daarna een laagje clear embossing poeder er op. On this card you see a cuttlebug background and the vase stamp by Michael Strong. But also some green leaves. This is a tutorial on the BLOG of Michael Strong. The vase is colored with pencil and on top a layer of clear embossing powder.

GC08 April Color Challenge

Ik heb weer een leuk blog met uitdagingen gevonden: Gingersnap Creations en daarvoor heb ik meegedaan aan de kleur uitdaging van de maand april. Hiervoor heb ik een nieuwe technique van de Technique Junkies gebruikt: Bingo Blast en stempels van Michael Strong. I just found my way to another interesting challenge blog: Gingersnap Creations. They had a color challenge and for this I just a new Technique Junkie technique called Bingo Blast. Stamps are by Michael Strong.