Limited Runs Progressive Challenge #31: Bears

Today it is Animal Day in The Netherlands.

So a great day to use an animal on my card

and as this month we were given this cute bear

for the Limited Runs Progressive Challenge,

I made these cards for today.

When I thought of what to do for a card, I had

so many ideas, that I ended up making 3 cards.

Card #1

When I looked at the bear-image, it looked like

he was dancing on his own, so I added some music

paper behind him and a Create with TLC sentiment.

I colored all the bears with my watercolor pastels.

I added some musical paper behind the bear and

a cute lace ribbon.

The sentiment is by Create with TLC.

If you click on the above image, you can see the bear dance!

I added an wobble behind the bear.

Card #2

It also looks like the bear can hold something.

How about a coffee cup?!

For this card I used:

Digital coffee paper I bought on Etsy

ribbon by DL.ART,

rubber stamp by Hero Arts

and the coffee rings are dies by Sizzix.

I just love that big cup in his hands.

I cut the hand to move the cup in

and added foam tape to make

it look like he drinks from the cup.

Card #3

As lots of babies are born in our family,

I came up with this cute baby card.

Bears are always cute on baby cards.

I had this cute baby image in my stash:

look at how the baby is also holding a tiny bear!

The sentyment is from an old SU! set.

Thank you for looking.

Be nice to your animals

and have a creative day!

Club Scrap October Kit

Here you see the new Club Scrap hybrid kit.

This time the theme is: You've Got Mail.

You find the hybrid kit HERE for only $ 4,95.

I scrapt a quick page with a picture I took just a few weeks ago,

not knowing this kit was coming, but how adorable does it all come together!

This page is made in photoshop.

For more ideas it is great to visit the Club Scrap Blog,

where you find new ideas every day!

Apple Picking

Today Owen, Raymond and I went apple picking. We have adopted

an apple tree in an orchard close by. We need apples for the

Jewish New Year that is starting tomorrow evening.

Why apples?

It is a custom to dip the apple in honey and wish each other

a very sweet New Year.

For my page I used Club Scrap Tapestry hybrid kit

in combination with the Orchard kit from last year September.

This page is made in Photoshop.

While I was busy with making this page,

I just had to try and make a card for

Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year) as well.

Thank you Club Scrap for always have 

the right kit at the right moment!

Thanks for looking

and have a creative day!

Sandsculptures

In Zandvoort. The Netherlands there is at the moment the

European Sandsculpture Championship. The theme of the

sculptures is Leonardo da Vinci. These pictures where taken

by the mother of my SIL, who happens to live in Zandvoort.

I made this digital scrap page with the July Sea Breeze

hybrid images by Club Scrap.

Thank you for looking 

and have a creative day!

I sea coffee!

You know by I love making coffee cards

and I try to make them with all the kits I get 

from Club Scrap. This months kit is

called Sea Breeze and here you see what I came up with.

The base of the card is paper from the Picnic kit July 214.

The lettering is done with thinlits as well as the cups.

The design papers are printed from the Sea Breeze

hybrid kit. You find the kit here.

The sea shells are stamped with the Sea Breeze rubber

stamps and colored with pencils.

The inside is also decorated.

Hope you come back on Wednesday, 

when there is the Club Scrap

linky party and share more ideas with you.

Thank you for looking and

have a creative day!

Create with TLC vintage pictures

On the Create with TLC blog there are

 a lot of vintage pictures and some of them are just great

for making cards.

Just print a few if the images, get some left over scrap paper,

a ribbon and a sentiment and you have a great card.

Here I added a cut out sentiment

and a golden butterfly.

No special techniques on these cards,

just adding the images.

This one is good for any occasion

with the flower image, a little butterfly

and a lace ribbon.

I enter these cards for the 

Crate with TLC challenge #21 HERE.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!

Club Scrap Firecracker: Wedding 2

So hear is page 2 of the wedding party lay out.

(Page 1 is here)

Here you see us and the cousins together with the bride.

Not the official pics, but luckily some brother took these!

Again these pages are made in photoshop 

with the help of the Club Scrap hybrid images

of this month: Firecracker.

The ribbon with the heartshape I found online

and was just perfect for this page.

Hope you got some inspiration to use your

hybrid kit, have fun.

Thanks for looking 

and have a creative day!

Club Scrap June kit: Firecracker

Sharing with you the new hybrid kit by

Club Scrap for June: 

FIRECRACKER.

It is a very patriotic kit and 

absolutely great for 4th of July

celebrations. But as you know 

I live in The Netherlands and so we

do not have this celebration, but I came up

with another great use of this kit.

I used the background papers and images to make this

wedding lay-out. It is why I went to Israel.

The Firecracker papers fit the theme wonderfully.

Working on some more pages, that I will share with you 

in the next couple of days.

I used photoshop to make this page

and on the Club Scrap website

you can find some tutorial as how to use

 the program and make your own pages HERE,

Sharon and Pinchas,

I hope your 4ever after will be 

so happy and wonderful.

It was such a pleasure to 

be at your wedding.

Thanks for looking

and have a creative day!

Club Scrap Lavender Linky party

Welcome to the 

Club Scrap linky party

where you see all kinds of projects

made with the Club Scrap Lavendar May

paper, stamp or hybrit kit.

As I was on vacation last week,

I had my eye on plants that fitted this kit.

So here I share my scrap page with flowers

from Israel.

I made this page with the Lavender Hybrid kit:

You can find this kit HERE.

With photoshop I created the scrap page. Each month

I try to teach myself something new in this program.

If you need some lessons in photoshop, 

Club Scrap has created some tutoials for you HERE.

I look at these over and over again to get the hang

of things. It takes me a long time to learn, but

I get it working more and more.

Hope to see you around with the new June kit soon.

Thanks for looking

and have a creative day!

Club Scrap April kit: Shibori

Welcome to a new month of Club Scrap goodies.

This month the kit is called Shibori?

What?! you may say, so here a little explanation:

Shibori is a Japenese indigo fabric dying technique 

dating back to the 8th century.

There is more explanation on the Club Scrap Blog HERE.

For me this blue and white kit is perfect

to play with for my Jewish Holidays.

For my scrapbookpage, I snapped some quick

photo's of my grandsons, when they where here

for our annual matzo lunch.

(I won't show you how the floor looked afterwards!)

This kit is also great for cards

and because of the blue and white combo,

it combines great with other kits.

For this birthday card I used the cake from

the Club Scrap January Surprise kit.

Thanks for looking

and have a creative day!

Club Scrap Surprise Color Blocking

Welcome to my post for the 

Club Scrap Blog

Januari Surprise Linky Party.

Here my contribution with this month's technique

Color Blocking. You find the original post about

this technique HERE. 

Mt cards are made with the digital Surprise kit

and my stash of Club Scrap papers.

Form my color blocking cards I printed these 

backgrounds from the Surprise Hybrid kit.

Got out some papers from my stash to be 

cards and background panels.

Then I stacked the printed papers and 

cut them all three together.

Next I divided the papers over the 3 panels

and realized these 3 color blocking backgrounds.

With each background I created a different card.

Card #1

The sentiments you see on the cards

came with the digital kit and were printed

on heavy white paper. Ribbon from my

CS stash (I think it might be from the 

Greece kit) and the balloons are punched

out from the many scraps I have saved.

On top of the balloons there are some white

circles stamped, like there are in the 

background paper.

Card #2

Same background, different sentiment

and hemp thread. The party hat is a punch

as well as the muffin. 

The muffin is made with a punch builder

from Stampin'Up! and Club Scrap paper scraps.

Card #3

For this card yet again a different sentiment

and ribbon. To emphasize the confetti

I added some sequins in different

colors to the card.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!

Surprise New Year!

Clearing my craft table is not so easy as you think!

All the time nice peaces of scraps come along

and they say: please make me into a card!

So today I found some leftover already folded 

for a card Club Scrap Scandanavian green paper,

a sentiment from Create with TLC and a background

from Club Scrap's Surprise kit.

These items where perfect for a New Year card.

I have a box of left over cards from the last Holiday's

and here I will add this one too for the

upcomming Holiday's. 

One can never start early enough, right?!

Only a ribbon from my stash and some glitter

holographic stickers and the cardis ready.

I still have some other Holiday items on my table,

let's see what I can wip up this weekend.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!