Simon Says: Spring and/or Easter

 

Another challenge card, this time for the 

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Blog.

The theme is Spring and/or Easter.

This time it is a Spring birthday card.

Outside the bulbs are popping up and the birds sing their song.

I found some lovely bird design paper in my $$ store and

used it for this card in combination with 

Michael Strong's small hummingbird clingmount stamp.

I made this gatefold card. The squares on top of the card

open like a lock. One is fastened on the right side

and the other on the left side of the card.

This is the inside and here you see that on both sides there is a square.

The sentiment i used on the front and on the inside is from

Tim Holtz Crazy Talk CMS236.

This is how the cards stands and you can see how the lock works.

The little hummingbirds are embossed in white or gold

and colored with pencil.

Thank you for looking

and I hope you have a caffinated creative day!

Saturday card: Wedding Anniversary

The card for today is one for a friends

Wedding Anniversary.

It is a gatefold card,which means it opens 

in the middle.

For this card I used:

Michael Strong's large heart stamp

Michael Strong's number stamps

Stampin'Up! bird builder punch

Stampin'Up! heart stencil

small flower punch

Here you see how the card opens up.

The heart and the bird on the right side

keep the card closed.

The heart is embossed in white on red paper,

then gluesd to gold paper andcut with a small border.

The birds are punched out and embossed with

an embossing folder. The eye is a tiny sticky pearl.

On the background I used a heart stencil and gold

encore ink for coloring the hearts.

The leaves and flowers are also punched out of red 

and white paper. In the heart of the flowers you also

see a tiny red sticky pearl.

Inside the card you find a wish.

It is the Dutch word for congratulations.

Thanks very much for looking!

Have a wonderful day!

Club Scrap Blog Hop: Constellations

Where has the first month of 2015 gone?!

Here we are with anothe Club Scrap Blog Hop.

This month the name of the kit is:

CONSTELLATIONS

Hope you have arrived here from
Marya's Blog

and seen her wonderful project.

Just a note: if you happen to loose your way,

you find all the participants on the

Club Scrap Blog.

Here is my project:

It is a gatefold card with a surprise inside

For this card I started with a 8,5 x 11 inch piece of cardstock.

The finished card is 5,5 x 8,5 inch. Yes a large card.

The paper is  folded it outside in like this.

So when you close it, it looks like this.

For the inside of the card I cut two papers

of 5,25 x 8,25 inch

One of the two pieces can be a decorated piece of paper

and the other piece can be plain (black here).

The black paper needs to be scored at

0.25" and 4,25" leaving another 4"left.

Leave this on your table for later on,.

Now we are on to the decoration.

For decoration I used a calendar. Yes in January I alsways

make lots of calendar cards, this way my card is of use

for my friends the whole year round!

I found this free printable calendar here:

http://www.onlineprintablecalendar.com/blank-yearly-calendar-notes-landscape.html

The finished panel looks like this.

Behind the calendar I added a piece of

constellation paper colored with ink with a blending tool

and added some shiny dots that came with the kit

to give it some bling.

Now here you see the construction of the inside

of the card:

Yes: inside the card is an easel construction!

So the 0.25" part of the black paper is glued to the 

card and the other part is folded in half.

On the lower part of the black paper you glue

the panel with the calendar.

The othe side looks like this.

But you know an easel card stands up.

For this you make some decoration

underneath the bottom part of the card

and your card looks like this:

I used the "wish"stencil that also came with the kit

and stamped a birthday sentiment from 

the unmounted greetings rubber stamps.

To make the card stand up I tied a ribbon on the top

of the wish with a button from my stash.

Now the card can stand behind the button.

Now we are nearly finished.

We just need something to keep the card closed.

I made a beld around the card by using the black paper

again. The strip is 2 x 12 inch.Just fold it around the

card for size and glue ends together. I used this map

on top for decoration,but you could also add a sentiment

on top. Colored with inkpad and blending tool

and some dots for extra bling.

Before sending you off to the next blog, I just  have

to share this card with you:

This card just popped into my head,

remembering the stencil and stamps I have from 

the set "A girls night out" that go perfectly

with the Consellation stamp sentiment for a wonderful

Valentine card. The sparkly stars are made with 

another fun stencil from the Sparkle kit with

a sparkly dot in the middle.

I started out this card with the stenciled girl

in ash and the smaller girlis stamped. I love it

when i can combine some of my older stamps and stencils!!

Ok, this is enough for today.I have a scrap page nearly finished,

bu for that you have to come back another day.

Now you will be in for more inspiration on 

Lisa's Blog

Thank you for looking and I end with

my grandson's favourite quote:

Have a creative day!

Club Scrap Picnic Blog Hop

Here I am with the montly Club Scrap

Blog Hop to inspire you to make the most

 of  your stamps and papers.

Thanks for hopping here from Tricia's blog

with her always inventive ideas.

I absolutely love this new kit and truly,

Club Scrap always knows what we need!

Yes, indeed bbq paper was what I needed, because my dh

got a new bbq for Father's Day this month.

These scrapbook pages look like formula 5&6 from

the free ALSB instructions. I had to move it a bit

around to make it work for my photo's.

You find the ALSB instructions HERE.

Fot the bbq glove stamp I used the kissing technique,

for I did not liuke the glove to be just plain.

Not  familiar  with this technique?

Here is how you do it:

Take the glove stamp and a background stamp

and an inkpad.

Wet the glove stamp with ink.

Take the background stamp and gover the glove

with it (a few times) and take it off.

Now stamp the glove on the paper.

This is the result.

If  you don't get the result you want,

or if you don't like it. You can also stamp the glove

and take a background stamp and 

use  a darker color then the background

to stamp over the glove.

Cut the stamp and maybe color it a little

and this is the result. Ready for use.

(see also my post on the Technique Junkies Blog)

My next project is a card.

From the outside it looks quite simple.

Just some design paper and a cut apart.

But here is the inside:

and you see this is a pop up card

with the use of the great embossing folder

that cae with the kit.

Here you see where you can write your message.

Close up of the picnic basket.

How to make it?

This is the start of the picnic basket.

Paper is 3,25" x 3,5" and the fold line is 

0.75"from the top.

Emboss the basket upuntil the fold line vertical

or horizontal, whatever you like best.

And this is one of the finished baskets.

Another way is to stamp and coor the basket

and emboss the handles.

For the card you need two 5,5"x 11" pieces of

paper (decorated for the outside and plain for the inside)

Fold in half. For the plain inside you make two cuts

like you see above on the folded side.

Push the square towards the inside of the card.

This is where you glue the picnic basket.

And here my last card. This is a gatefold card,

with the use of decoated paper stamped with

a piece of melon for extra decoration.

One of the cut apparts is used for the center piece 

and the melon parts are from the digital version

of this kit (and I love using the images here)

On the seeds a drop of glossy accent is added.

Here you see where the ribbons are placed.

Underneath the middle panel and the right one.

The inside is decorated with the melon border from

the Art Nouveau stamps.

I used fuchsia and  leaf to color the stamp.

Thanks for stopping by. 

Hope I have given you some ideas,

but there is more. Visit Kay's Keepsakes 

to see what she has in store for you.

If you loose your way, you can always go to

the Club Scrap Create Blog

to see the full list of participants.

Have a creative day!