Fun with Distress

I keep on making my #stayathome cards

with the sentiments of 21 years of Club Scrap.

I have been watching all of the Tim Holtz

Facebook Live video's

and have been inspired a lot as well

as learning a lot.

Today I started with a few colors of distress 

Oxide spray for the background.

Next comes the texture paste through the holes

of the Fizz stencil (Club Scrap). When the stencil

is off, I sprinkled the paste with the new distress glaze.

Here you see  the background after the paste has dried

 and is heat embossed.

The sentiment is from Rhapsody (3/2007), a vintage

kit from Club Scrap as well as the background stamp.

Decoration with beats and a metal coin (with 

distress glaze). In the old days we got a little

box of beads and findings with the scrap kit.

Still have some left.

Thank you for looking,

stay safe

and keep crafting!

Final Day of the Coffee Loving Cardmakers Blog Hop

Good morning Coffee Lovers,

This is the last day of the 

Coffee Loving Cardmakers Blog Hop

where you can add your coffee, tea, cocoa cards

and win fantastic prizes.

y cards for today are inspired by the tutorials

on the blog of Tim Holtz.

With a Tim Holtz stencil and distress oxide inks

I made two backgrounds.

The thing is you spay with the in you get a backgrouns

as on the right side, then you put the prayd inked stencil

on another piece of cardstock and you get like you

see on the left side. With these two backgrounds 

I made the cards.

For the cards I used Club Scrap coffee stamps.

Here you also see some empheria by Tim Holtz.

While creating, I of course had my coffee!

Here I used the new distress glaze embossing powder

on the coffee cups.

I also enter my cards for the 

Simon Says Monday Challenge:

The challenge is: Going around in Circles.

Well. lots of coffee circles here!

Thanks to everyone who commented on my

blog in the past week, It was all so nice to read.

Thanks for looking,

stay safe, enjoy your coffee

and keep crafting.

Simon Says: Stamp it!

No problem with stamping for the

Simon Says Wednesday Blog

this week with my new mermaid stamps by

Michael Strong Rubber stamps.

After I printed the sentiment on my card,

I sprayd two colors of distress ink on my

craft sheet and dabbed the card into the ink.

Drying with my heat gun and another layer

until satisfied with the result.

This is how it looked after everything was dry.

I made the sentiment with the computer

and feel free to use it too!

Next I used the green ink to stamp the seaweed. This is a

stamp from the turtle set.

Next the mermaid was colored with these 

oxide distress inks and a watercolor brush.

For the finished card I added a few holografic

sticky dots for some bubble effect.

Don't forget to take a look at my instagram 

mermaid stampset GIVEAWAY, winner is announced tomorrow:

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https://www.instagram.com/p/B1y6sAwCnaf/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

You can find the mermaid stamps and more here:

strongstamps.com.

Thanks for looking

and have a creative day!

Simon Says: Feminine/Girly

Here is my journal page for the challenge on the

Simon Says Stamp Monday Blog.

The challenge is Feminine/Girly.

Here is how I made the page:

I started this page with 2 Tim Holtz stencils.

I used thick gesso and a credit card on the

scribbels stencil.

Next I sprayed some distress oxide ink on top of

the gesso in the color picked raspberry.

On top of the roses I added red distress crayon.

Now it is time for the hearts and red and pink

oxide distress ink.

I added walnut stain oxide distress ink and 

musical washi tape.

I printed some vintage papers and a sentiment from

  Create with TLC

and colored this image with aquarel paint.

A little stamping with the butterflies from the

Papillon set by Tim Holtz and the page is finished.

Hope you like the end result.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!

Card Captain day 4: Turtle

Welcome for day 4 of me being the card captain for

the Enjoy Michael Strong Stampgroup.

On Thursday we always share a technique.

This is no special technique, but I want to

show you how I build this background panel.

This is what I used:

turtle stamps by Michael Strong

sentiment from stash (not sure of brand)

stencil

various colors distress oxide inks

gesso

acrylic distress paint

distress crayons

distress spray

black versafine stamping pad

First I cut a white piece of cardstock 4x5 inch.

Next I took this sea bubble stencil from my stash 

and randomly added the white gesso with a brush.

After taking the stencil of you see the bubbles here and there.

Now leave this to dry of use heat gun.

Next  adding a few drops of light blue acrylic

(distress) paint and smear it out with your fingers

on a few places.

Then i added 2 colors of distress crayons (but I am sure

watercolor crayons or oil pastel crayons also have a 

great effect). Smear it out with your fingers.

Just a few places not all over the card.

Next spray broken china distress spray on the card

and let it dry.

With a paper towel rub over the dots you made 

with the gesso, this way the show more.

Take the stencil again and a darker blue ink

to make some more bubbles.

See here the result of all the layers.

On top of all these layers you stamp the seaweed

that comes with the turtle stamp with black ink.

Now your back panel is finished.

Stamp the turtle with dark green in (forrest moss)

and also use it for coloring the turtle.

For the shield I also used cracked pistachio ink.

Then i cut the turtle with scissors and added a 

few pieces of foam tape to the back.

The sentiment was stamped on a seperate piece of

paper and colored with the same inks and crayons.

Of course I added a little bubbles with the stencil.

In the end iIadded a little blue glitter glue

to the shield of the turtle, but you do not

see that well enough on the picture.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!