Happy Birthday America!

Here is my tag for the challenge

on the Simon Says Wednesday Blog:

Stars and/or Stripes.

For my card I used

rubberstamps and a stencil by Tim Holtz

and the colored ribbons are by DL. ART.

Wishing all my American friends a 

wonderful celebration.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!

Progressive challenge Limited Runs

Here in The Netherlands it is a wonderful

hot and humid Summer day. A day to have coffee

outside in the garden and read a good book

under a parasol.

I have been making my card for the 

Limited Runs Progressive challenge

on Facebook. Every time we get a new

image to play with. This time it was 

a wonderful cupcake.

In the back i started with the Tim Holtz star stencil

and red and blue ink. Pieces of washi tape are also

for decoration and the finishing touch on the

background panel.

The coffee cup is a Stampin'Up! die and

Club Scrap Firecracker paper. The star on the

cup is an old SU! paperpunch.

And here is the cupcake. I colored it in photoshop

and printed the image 3 times  to make a 3d version

with foam tape in between and little sticky pearls

in the heart of the flowers.

The digital sentiment is by Verve Stamps. 

So sad that this shop has closed. 

I enter my card on the linky of the

Coffeelovingcardmaker's blog,

for I used one of the sponsors images.

Limited Runs stamps also always provides a freebie

at the blog hops that are held.

Back to my coffee in the garden!

Thanks for looking 

and have a creative day!

Happy 4th of July!

With this card I wish everyone in the

USA a very Happy 4th of July  celebration.

I used the Club Scrap July sketch

and the June Firecracker hybrid kit.

Made this card in photoshop.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!

Happy 4th of July

With this card  want to wish all my American friends:

This card is also for the 65th card sketch

in the Michael Strong Yahoogroup.

For the background of this card I used

the Michael Strong honeycomb template

with red and blue distress ink. I only slightly

used the color to have a soft touch.

For the focalimage i used the large cloisonné star

that you can find here. I stamped in black and embossed it black

on watercolor paper.I used the same red and blue distress inks for coloring. 

You press the inkpad to your craftsheet and spritz some water on it.

Now you have ink for coloring.

Some extra touches of glitterglue gold to make it more festive.

The sentiment is a Hero Arts stamp.

Thanks for looking

and have a creative day!

4th of July inspiration 4

After seeing the freebie on Create with TLC

I just had to make this tag.

You find the free image here:

http://createwithtlc-createwithtlc.blogspot.nl/2013/07/red-white-and-blue.html

Here is how I made this tag:

Start with a white tag and

distress stains in red and blue.

Now we do a technique called Bingo Blast by

Technique Junkies

 Apr/May 2009

What you do is you sort of throw the

top of the bottle on the tag to make the splash.

Cover all of the tag with red and blue

splashes.

Here a close up.

Click on the picture for an even closer look.

In combination with the splashes

I stamp a little star all over in black

archival ink

and the word happy  to make a background.

See the close up.

With red and blue distress ink

the border is colored.

Here the finished background.

One side blue and one side red ink.

For the ribbon first you stamp the star

in black archival. Then use the red and blue

ink with leaving some white in between.

Dry with heatgun.

The ribbon on the tag.

I cut out a red and a blue star

with my spellbinders, printed the 

Create with TLC image

and colored this with distress markers.

Behind the larger red star, I put some red white and

blue organza ribbons with a piece of tape.

Here the finished colored image and

the stars behind it.

Have a creative day!

4th of July inspiration 3

Today I have two things for you:

a tag with digital images

and a button bracelet.

Let's start with the tag:

I made the tag out of pre embossed paper

from Tim Holtz called seasonal impressions.

If you want to know what die I use,

it is a Tim Holtz for Sizzix

and you can find it HERE.

I used strips of post it notes to cover parts of the tag

that i want to give another color.

Of course the tag will be red and blue.

With fired brick distress ink I colored the word 

freedom with a blending tool.

covering the red, now I use salty ocean for other

parts of the tag. Move the paper, every time you

want to color part of the tag.

This is how the tag looks after two colors.

And this is how it looks after finishing

with all the colors.

Finishing the tag with the distress tool

and vintage photo distress ink. 

I love the use of the washi tape, so here I add

a piece of white tape with blue stars.

Using Tim's idea of coloring the ribbon for the 

tag. I stamped the ribbon with black stars before

coloring it with red and blue distress stain.

Even though the background is great (as usual)

 I want to use some images on top.

These are digital images from

Create with TLC, that are printed

and colored with the distress markers.

Here a close up of the top of the tag:

a little star charm on the ribbon.

If you click on the photo you can see

 an even larger version.

And now for the bracelet:

get out your red, white and blue buttons

and a piece of ribbon (any of these 3 colors,

i used a white organza ribbon)

You find perfect easy instructions

in this youtube tutorial:

I am ready for the 4th of July

and you??

Have a creative day!