Sunday Scrapping: Photo Frame

Time for a technique Challenge at the Club Scrap Blog:

an origami photo book.

All instructions can be found on the Blog and a video

tutorial here. It is very easy and fun to make.

I also found the matching design guide,

you can download that one here.

I did not really make a book, more a wall hanging.

Behind the most left photo I made this. I was  trying

to clear my papers and found allkinds of valentine papers.

The stamps and stickers are from the Fizz kit (folded hearts),

red paper from Study in Red, dark red paper from 

Dream in Color (folded frame) and a sentiment

from the 2005 Valentine's kit. Always good to have 

some old kits around!

The hearts are of course from Michael Strong.

This is Aiden on his first official "daycare"picture.

The folded heart is made in an origamy technique.

This is the folding template:

If you click on the photo, you see a larger version.

This is Owen,the eldest brother.

The sentiment is a combination of the text

with a stamped and in gold embossed heart.

And here is Colin, the first born of the twin.

With the same folded heart.

Hope this inspires to make your own photo book/frame

and link it to the Club Scrap Blog.

Have a creative day!

Holiday Gift idea

On the Club Scrap Blog you will find some

last minutes gift ideas. I knew about this Artist Team challenge

and also wanted to share my litte gifts for my collegues at work.

I made these before and you find all the folding instructions HERE.

Each package comes with a little card that 

fits just right in the pocket.

The papers I used are all from different Club Scrap kits.

Ilooked for the greens I had in my stash.

The stamped wish is from 

2013 Gnome for the Holidays

and finished off with a punched out star.

Here you see all that this package holds:

some Christmas chocolate, Winter tea melange

and the little card.

These fun folded packages are really made in

a short time and you have them ready in no time.

I think they would also look great on your dinner

table having the little card stickout with the name

of the person who will sit there.

Thank you for looking and

Springtime Challenge

This card is my entry for the Michael Strong Spring challenge.

The challenge is to make a card that includes flowers

and butterflies and whatever else you want to include.

But also for the **SPARKLE** challange over

tat the Club ScrapCreate Blog.

My idea for this card started when I saw the entry 

of Kay Williamson on the Club Scrap Create Blog HERE.

You also see there how to make the flowers

with photo instructions.

This kind of card is called a "Center Step Card"

and below you find a template,if you want to make

a card like this too.

Just save the template to your computer

with a right mouse click or clock on the

picture to see a larger version.

The sentiment is by CTMH and the label frame is

Stampers Anonymous.

The flowers are made with the cloisonné circle stamp

in combination with the small accent circle.

Here you see what was used to make the flowers.

I puched out bigger circles for the flowers and stamped 

them on one side with the circle stamp in green and on 

the other side in orange. Take a look on the Club Scrap

Create blog how the flower is constructed. 

All the papers I used and the leave stampsare all

fromthe Club Scrap March Trees kit.

Thanks for looking 

and i hope Spring has spung near you.

Have a creative day!

Hanukkah day 8

On the 8th and last day of Hanukkah I have some ATC's for you.

I have wrapped them in this nice folder.

You can find how to fold this in one of my earlier posts here:
 http://craftchaos.blogspot.com/2010/01/mapje-met-kalender-mini-booklet-with.html

 Because the ATC's are a bit bulky, I just sandwiched them
in the booklet. It is great to make a gift like this.

Thee booklet is made out of Tim Holtz Kraftresist
paper  (8,5 x 11 inch) and I used the technique as described on
The blog of Tim Holtz
with the 12 tags for Christmas.

 The stamps used on all the ATC's are
from Club Scrap, Create with TLC,
Stampin'Up! and techniques from the Blog of Tim Holtz.
as i enter this post for Grungy Monday,
who is celebrating Tim Holtz products.
And there are prizes to win from Simonsaysstamp.

 ATC 1: uses Gadget Gear die and tickets.
The Hanukkah wish on the ticket is a
digital stamp from Create with TLC.

How to get the stamp on the ticket?
First I resized it to the size of the ticket
and printed it on a normal piece of print paper.
Than I fastened the ticked with masking tape on
top of the print paper and reentered the paper
in the printer and now it printed the image
on the right place on the ticket.
The image is colored with pencil.

 ATC 2:
Swntiment by Create with TLC,
Menorah by Club Scrap,
embellishment by Tim Holtz.
The background of the tag is like is described
with tag 8 by Tim.

 ATC 3: here I wrapped an old
slide frame in the tissue paper and
rubbed some distress stickles on it like
on tag 12 by Tim. Inside the image by
Create with TLC  as the menorah should
be lighted in front of a window.

This is the back of the ATC's that I made
digitally and colored with pencil and rubbed
some walnut distrss ink around the border.

Have a creative Hanukkah!

Kerstboom/Christmas Tree

Are you having a wonderful Christmas?

Need some craft to play with the children?

How about folding some Christmas trees......

You can add them to a card or have the children stick them on some white drawing paper

and make some nice drawings around the tree.

Supplies:

decorated paper

cardstock or white drawing paper

glue

maybe some stamps

crayons

scissors

Start with cutting some squares:

 3"'x3", 2 1/2"x 2 1/2", 2"x2" and 1,5"x 1,5" out of the decorated paper.

Fold them according the instructions above ( or when you

rather watch a video tutorial, I found you one HERE) and

 you end up with 4 different size pieces like you see here:

Then you stack them from large to small

and stick them on a card.

Take a look at my cards for inspiration.

Stamps by Michael Strong.

Have a creative day!

Penny Black challenge

Hier heb ik weer een leuk gevouwen kaart voor je. Deze keer is het thema Halloween en Penny Black. Wil je weten hoe je deze kaart moet maken? Kijk dan voor een lesje HIER Deze kaart heb ik gemaakt voor de volgende uitdaging:

1. Caardvarks: decorated inside and out

2. Penny Black Saturday Challenge: Spooky Nights

Deze kaart heb ik gemaakt met o.a. stempels van Penny Black en verschillende ponsen (hek, vleermuis). Gekleurd heb ik met copic markers en het huis heb ik eerst getekend en daarna uitgeknipt. Misschien wil je het ook gebruiken en daarom heb ik het patroon van het huis hieronderaan erbij gezet.

Here I have another fun folded card for you. This time the theme is Halloween and Penny Black. Do you want to know how to make this card? Well, I have a tutorial for you HERE. I made this card for two challenges:

1. Caardvarks: inside and out

and 2. Penny Black Saturday challenge: Spooky Nights

This card is made with some Penny Black rubber stamps and punches (iron fence, bats). The coloring is done with copic markers. The haunted house is first sketched and than cut out. I have added the sketch for you if you would like to use it too (see below).

 I used a mirror stamp to have the cat look the other side.

Detail of the inside. The pumpkin is a silver charm.

 This is the back of the card.

Haunted House sketch.

Wacky Wednesday at Fireckrackers

Some people make Christmas cards all year round. Some people start in July and this is also the month that vendors have sales. So I guess you will not be surprised that FireCracker Designs also has a lovely Christmas stamp sale. Today's special set is Christmas Ornaments2. You see the set below and there is a lovely sample card in FireCrackers home page. To find the sale Christmas sets, please go HERE. All are 50% off and lovely sets for your collection. So please come by every Wednesday in July for more Christmas inspiration and wonderful sales.

My sample for today is made with the digital poinsettia stamp of the FireCracker collection. I printed the stamp twice and and colored them with copic markers. One picture is the base and from the other I cut out the middle flower and used some foam tape. The folded frame is a tutorial  I did in March, so if you click HERE you can see how to finish this card. Of course by adding some gem stones and a ribbon it made it a real Christmas card. By the time July is finished my Christmas cards are half done!