Caffeinated Christmas Card Challenge June 24

Hello my caffeinated creative friends!

Here is my card for the June challenge of the

Caffeinated Christmas Card Challenge Blog.

A masculine Christmas coffee design.

All stamps I used are by Tim Holtz.

For the background stamping i used distress inks

and the images are colored with copic ciao markers.

Thank you for looking

and have a caffinated creative day!

 

Simon Says: Tag it!

Here I am with another card for Simon Says Stamp.

This time it is for the 

Wednesday Challenge

Tag it

and I also combined it with the 

Celebrate Spring 

    challenge on Instagram.   

For my card I used a #8 tag and colored it with

different green distress inks.

Next i die cut the honeycomb and used the same

distress colors a little on the honeycomb diecut.

Then I used stamps by Michael Strong

(the tulip and the bee) and colored the tulip with 

pencil on the kraft paper.

The sentiment is from Small Tag stickers from

Tim Holtz idea-ology.

Here is the finished tag.

The inspiration for this tag came when 

I saw the first tulip in my garden. 

Now I know for sure Spring is around the corner

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!

 

Tag Book

Good Morning Crafty Friends!

Been some time since I post, but then again I have something for you. 

I made a tag book and that is for real 12 tags all together!

Nearly all the materials I have used to make this book are by:

Funky Fossil Designs: 

stamps, stencils, washi tape, papers, brushes and dies.

I started my project by cutting these colorful tags with a 

Bigz tag die by Sizzix/Tim Holtz.

Next I used washi tape on the front and the back

to tape two tags togeter. You find  the washi tape

HERE.

Some tags i decorated with the colorful kaleidoscope

paper that you find HERE.

Then I went ahea by using distress inks,

stencils and the Funky Fossil brushes.

This stencil is called Make Art.

and the brushes can be found HERE.

The stencil here is called Make Your Mark III.

Here you can see all the tags I made

and maybe you are inspired.

Here the back of the card.

This is the front of the book before

I bound it all together.

And now a little about how I bound

them together: The easiest way!

I stacked all the two by two tags

and sew them together with the colorful floss.

In the heart of the book I made a not.

I used some colored floss I found in my stash.

To bind all the pages together I have a long piece

of floss towards the outside and just wrap

it around the book and tie it with a not and a bow.

I added this ring to the front ribbon.

You find all the stamps and other

materials here:

Funky Fossil Designs.

Thank you for looking,

stay safe and

keep crafting!

 

Coffee Lovers Blog Hop - Day 3

Hello Coffee Crafty Friends,

Another fun day and new artwork for the

Coffee Lovers Blog Hop.

Today i share with you two cards with my favorite sentiment.

It is by Create with TLC, but I have it on my blog

 as a freebie HERE (scroll down to the end!).

So I printed the sentiment twice (large and a liitle smaller).

For the first card I used the largest print.

I cut the print to the size of my card and with the

coffee ring stamp by Club Scrap and my own

handcarved bean stamp I decorated

 the background using distress oxide inks.

On e seperate piece of paper I stamped these cups

(handcarved by me) and cut them out.

One is on the front and the other 3 inside

for i need lots of coffee today to come up 

with some more cards for the rest of the week!

I love how I can make  my own design on the back.

Card 2 is with the smaller printed sentiment.

I started with using the Funky Fossil Designs

Coffee Bean Background stencil and distress

oxide ink.

On the border side I used more pressure 

with the ink. Around the sentiment only a littlte.

The little sloth critter is a stamp by

Clearly Bestotted Stamps (one of my

winnings from the last hop).

Thank you so much for looking!

Stay safe, keep crafting

and enjoy your coffee!

Carehome Cards

Hello Crafty Friends,

The past two weeks I have been making cards for the 

carehome where my mother is staying. They sell the cards

and the money is used for activities in the home. They also sell

2nd hand clothing, 2nd hand things for in the house etc.

For the cards they want cards with no text, so they can use

it for all kinds of occasions.

For my cards I use:

unfinished backgrounds,

stencils,

stamps and distress inks,

punched out figures,

paper flowers,

die cut flowers,

printed image from Create with TLC

pencils for coloring

and more.

So I take one unfinished background.

matching daffodil image and stencil and stamp.

Here you see what I did with the background.

And here is the finished card and a matching envelop.

The butterfly is an old stamp by Stampin Up!

The pictures are all greebies by Create with TLC.

You find them on the Facebookgroup:

Printables for  your Junk Journals with TLC.

The flower dies are by Tim Holtz.

Here the background is made with a few  pieces

of scrap paper that I found on my table and some washi tape.

Matched paper flowers with those on the picture.

Hope my cards have inspired you

and thanks for looking.

Stay safe, and keep crafting!