Simon Says: Frame it!

So I learned that Hero Arts Rubber stamps is celebrating

45th anniversary and I looked at my stamps and found some real nice

ones I still have from the beginning when I started stamping.

I shared them on my instagram and heared a lot of comment on the

lady with the hat stamp, so why not use it again to make a card?!

So I used the stamps for the Frame it challenge on the

Simon Says Stamp Monday Blog.

With a die and several layers of paper I created a frame

around the lady with the hat.

I chose the colors of the 

Color Throwdown Challenge

of this week.

 I added some tiny paper flowers to the hat 

in the right colors matching the papers.

In the corners some holographic purple stickers for some bling.

These are the stamps:

C2919 Take Time

E2490 Hat with big bow

both by Hero Arts.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!

You are framed by the Club Scrap Artist team

Today the Club Scrap Artist Team

is being framed and

will share with you all kinds of "framed" cards.

I hope you have arrived here from

Jennifer's Blog

and seen what she has framed.

I remembered these fun fold frame cards

and I made a few to share here.

For my cards I used the Club Scrap 

Vintage  Botany papers and stamps.

For the frames I used a piece of paper 4 1/4 x 4 1/4 inch.

How to make the frame is easy and there is this perfect

tutorial on Splitcoaststampers here

and I just could not have made better pictures.

Now these frames are perfect for  the center attention

of a stamp, a sentiment and even for a picture.

I made a sample of each of these ideas.

For this card I used one of the Vintage Botany rubber 

stamp. The rose is so wonderful. I stamped and embossed 

it with black embossing powder and colored it with watercolor ink.

The sentiment - also from the Vintage Botany stamps - was

stamped on one of the cut out borders and than made to the 

right size of the card. Don't you love that ribbon lace.

Yes, also with this kit!

For this card the sentiment is the center of attention.

It is also one of the rubber stamps.

In the background and for the sun I used a metal die.

And on the sun I punched out a flower with a 1 inch punch.

At the righthand corner there are some butterflies

that were punched out, glued to the background and 

with a gemstone for the bling of this card.

And here is the third card with a picture of my

twin grandsons. These frames are also wonderful

for scrapbooking!

The backpanel is embossed with tiny hearts. And the sentiment

is a cut up boarder from the kit. The tiny sticky pearls and

 the yellow ribbon (from my stash) complete this card.

Now for some other frame ideas, you can hop on to

Pam's Blog

and see what she has framed for you.

Thank you so much for looking

and have a creative day!

Sunday Scrap Page: #60 Party

Here another page of my birthday celebration.

Ray and I took the kids and grandkids for a long

weekend to a fun park here in the Netherlands,called the Efteling.

We also rented a bungalow for all of us and we had a fantastic time.

For my page I used Club Scrap Lock & Key papers

and Michael Strong alphabet and frame stamps.

The ribbon and the gold flower are also from the

Club Scrap kit.

The frame stamp is embossed in copper on the red paper

and cut into several parts to connect all the photo's

with the same kind of elements.

The letters are embossed in white and punched out

with a handheld punch. The white flower is

frommy stash with inside the flower fromthe

frame stamp.

Thank you for looking.

Have a creative day!

Sunday Scrap Page: A little birdie.....

Here is another of my weekly scrap pages

for the Club Scrap

weekly chronicles and this time

the theme is:

A little birdie told me....

Well, the little birdie told me it is Spring!

And here are ome of the picture I took in my

garden and around my house.

I use Club Scrap's Trees papers and sentiment.

The birdie is a punch by Stampin'Up!

The text i printed with the computer

and the font I used is called  CliveBarker,

which you can find free at dafont.

The squares I have used is also a new stamp

by Michael Strong and is called

Cloisonné Nesting Squares and are perfect 

for framing pictures in your scrapbook.

I stamped them with versamark ink and embossed

 them with light green embossing powder.

Also  adding little silver sticky pearls

on some of the circles on the frame.

The ribbon and the sentiment is from the 

Cliub Scrap Trees kit.

Thanks very much for looking.

Have a creative day!

Valentine inspiration 2014

In the coming days I will share some old and new 

Valentine ideas.

This is a frame I made for my DH some time agoo

with the use of some old Club Scrap

Valentine papers and stamps.

For this project I used an old frame I had lying 

around. It is quite small: each frame is 3,5"x 3,5".

I sanded the frames and painted themwith red acrylic paint.

For decoration I used,beads and ribbons and a heart shaped

paper clip. Also I stamped some texts on shrink plastic

and meated it with a heat gun to make it shrink.

The text and images inside the frame are stamped

on greay paper and embossed with 

white embossing powder.

Or how about a cute card with your box of choclates?

This one is made with digital images from

Create with TLC and you can fint it here

and here.

The picture is colored with copic markes.

Well enough inspiration for today.

More tomorrow!!

Have a creative day!