Dutch commemoration of the War

In the Netherlands we commemorate the victims of the War.

At 20.00 we are silent for 2 minutes all over the country.

This year that is a strange commemorations, for we all

are at home watching tv and standing outside at 20.00 o'clock.

It is 75 years ago and special memorials were planned,

but they are all cancelled or without public.

For today I found a very special sentiment by Club Scrap

from the kit Steppin'Out 11/04.

Not only we miss those who did not come back from

the war, but today we also miss those we cannot go to.

All materials are Club Scrap.

For my card I used the Dutch colors of acryl paint,

a 4x6 inch gelli plate and various Club Scrap stencils.

When playing with the gelli plate you end up with

quite a few wonderful papers to play with.

So here is another card and I made the globe with

a stencil belonging to Club Scrap Bookshelves 03/13.

Thanks for looking,

stay safe,

stay free

and keep crafting.

Saturday card: Giraffe

Welcome to 

Michael Strongs new 

cloisonné giraffe stamp!

You can find the stamp HERE.

It is such an awesome stamp.

And ilove it when things come together.

I tried to clean my desk and just found the

perfect pieces of scrap paper to use for

this giraffe card.

The background to this card is a piece

of cardstock decorated with my gelli plate.

A gelliplate makes a lot of fun backgrounds in a jiffy!

You find all info about this here:

http://www.gelliarts.com/

 I took my giraffe stamp and stamped

\on the background with versamark

and embossed the image with black

embossing powder. 

The leaves are embossed with green distress

embossing powder that goes wonderful with the background.

Finished of the card with a ribbon and taped

it all down to a yellow card.

Thanks for looking and soon more

giraffe cards.

Have a creative day!

Saturday Card: Horsing around

Here I am with a new stamp by Michael Strong

the Cloisonné Pony

and it galloped into my house two days ago,

so I just had to play.

For these cards I used a gelli plate background

I still had lying around:

It is just perfect for the horse.

I took the stampand stamped with black on the 

background and used clear embossing powder.

I colored the horse partly with

a tea dye distress marker. It now

looks to me like the sun shines on his head.

The sentiment is by Create with TLC.

With the piece of background that was still left over

I made this card in combination with some 

Club Scrap

stamps from the Wild Wild West kit.

I only stamped the horse partly like he was 

saying something.

This is the inside of the card.

Do you like this new stamp?

Would you like to win it?

Share a card with at least one Michael Strong stamp

(whatever stamp you have) on it

with the use of the Mr linky below.

You can enter as many cards as you want.

You will have until  May 30 to enter your card and on the

1st of June I will announce the  winner 

the Cloisonné Pony stamp.

Now what to do if you have NO Michael Strong stamps??

Go to Mike's blog and use one of the 

digital images for your card. You find them here:

http://strongstamps.blogspot.nl/2013/03/new-digital-stamps-black-white-grid.html

http://strongstamps.blogspot.nl/2013/02/happy-new-year.html

As somepeople could not workout the uploading,I will add their cards here:

card 8 by Deborah Bertolin,with Octagon stamp.

card 9 by Deborah Bertolin with

kimono and fan stamp

card 10 by Dorley Weitzen

all details on her blog here:

http://modernadesignsart.blogspot.co.il/2014/05/wise-owl-and-leaves-card.html

card 11 by Carla vd Mei with the

seahorse stampmand gelli plate background

card 12 by Jill P with the little elephants

card 13 by Yvonne Sambeek with

the use of the background stamps.

card 14 by Jan Castle

using the kimono die

Thanks everyone for sending the cards 

and taking part in this challenge.

The winner is:

3.Wendy Carr

Congratulations!

Create with TLC: Dear Food

So when Paulette from

Create with TLC

gives you digital stamps....

you start making a card!

And when those stamps contain something with coffee

I am unstoppable!

The set is called

"Dear Food" and you find it

HERE in the shop.

I get out my gelli plate

and my coffe bean embossing folder

and see what happend:

I have a 6x6 gelli plate, some acrylic paints,

a coffee bean embossing folder and a brayer.

Take a piece of cardstock and use your

embossingfolder to have some raised

beabs on your paper.

After rolling out the paint on your plate,

you press the beans into the paint.

The right piece is the embossed paper with paint

and the left paper is the paper that was pressed

on the gelli plate.

After about 10 minutes I had severalpieces

of wonderful background  paper to make a coffee card.

Also I roll my brayer in my art jounal and

have to pages for some coffee journaling ready.

With this Club Scrap stencil I added some lettering to

the background with walnut stain distress ink.

This is the finished background paper.

 And here is the finished card with

the coffee can and sentiment by

Create with TLCand papers

from various Club Scrapkits.

 If you clickon the photo,you can see

a close up of everything.

The advantage of digital stamps is you

can easily make the picture larger

or smaller and even flipthe image.

This is the inside of the card.

Dear God:

thank you for Paulette's digital stamps!

Have a creative day!

Saturday Sketch card: Cat

Here is the sketch for the September

sketch challenge at the

Michael Strong Stampgroup

on yahoo you find it here:

http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/enjoyMichaelStrongstamps/info

on facebook you find it here:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/EnjoyMichaelStrongstamps/

This is the finished card.

The background is done with a stencil very lightly

walnut stain distress ink and a blender tool.

I used

Michael Strong's cloisonné cat stamp

and colored it with distress markers and water.

Sticky gemstones are used to embellish the cat

and give it a little bling.

The sentiment on the card is a digital sentimentby

Create with TLC printed with the computer.

The banner strip is made with a gelli plate,

acrylic paint and a paw embossing folder.

Here you see some samples I made.

This is the paper i used. I have some left for another card.

It is really fun to use the embossing folders for the gelli plate.

I found out about it on the sizzix blog HERE..

You are welcome to print my page and use it too.

Have a creative day!

Gelli plate and New Year cards

Now that I have a Gelli Plate

my first project is to make my 

Jewish New Year cards with them,

So I share with you a little how 

I did them:

I started with cutting two pomegranates

On the second night of Rosh Hashanah, we eat a "new fruit" – meaning, a fruit that has recently come into season but that we have not yet had the opportunity to eat. When we eat this new fruit, we say the shehechiyanu blessing thanking God for keeping us alive and bringing us to this season. This ritual reminds us to appreciate the fruits of the earth and being alive to enjoy them.

A pomegranate is often used as this new fruit. In the Bible, the Land of Israel is praised for its pomegranates. It is also said that this fruit contains 613 seeds just as there are 613 mitzvot. Another reason given for blessing and eating pomegranate on Rosh HaShanah is that we wish that our good deeds in the ensuing year will be as plentiful as the seeds of the pomegranate.

Now it is time to get the gelli plate, the acrylic paint

and the stencils to make some cards.

Starting with the first layer here iuse the

honeycomb stencil.

Honey on a sweet apple is eaten to symbolize a very

sweet New year.

Here you see the building up of layers on the card.

When I had a lot of cards done, I took out

some rubber stamps and a Jewish sentiment in

 Hebrew saying Happy New Year.

Here you see my cards lying on the table to dry.

I have quite a lot of cards in a short time.

 

 A few close up shots here.

 Click on them and you see a larger version.

Now I need to make them all into cards.

Come back tomorrow to see the finished cards!

Have a creative day!