King Day

Today it is "Kingday"in The Netherlands and even

google knows about it. We celebrate the birthday of

our King Willem-Alexander.

It is a free day and all around the country there are

celebrations, flee markets and musical festivals.

With our national flag we have a special orange pennant,

that points to a celebration in the Royal Home.

The Roals are from The House of Orange, that is why

today everything is colored orange, even the flowers:

Our beautiful azalea is starting to bloom today!

So this gave me the idea to make some orange colored cards.

Here are the two cards I made.

I used a Stampin'Up! set called Just Because.

The background to my card is made with my

favorite technique: dirict to paper technique.

Add some colors to the craft sheet and add some

water. Now take the paper and get the color 

on your paper by putting the paper to the craft sheet.

Here the finished cards with the 

stamped image added to the orange background.

The image is colored with SU! blending pens

and splattered with a little orange ink.

The sentiment is from another SU! set called

Hello Cupcake.

Here you see the other card, with another

ribbon and image. These plants are so

versetile and easy to color. For some bling

I added little sticky gemstones to both cards.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!

King Day 2017

It is a special day today in TheNetherlands.

We are celebrating King Day:

The birthday of our King Willem-Alexander.

Out on the streets there is a big flee market and

people are all dressed up in  orange, for our king

is from The House of Orange.

Of course I have to show my American friend

around and have her dress up in orange too!

After a great part of the day outside, we end up

stamping in my craftroom.

On top you see a page I made with Club Scraps

digital Delft kit from March.

And here is a birthday card for the king

with Michael Strongs tulip stamps.

I started the card with stamping the small tulip

in orange in for the background.

The tulip i stamped on orange and green paper

and is embossed with white embossing powder.

Cutting the flower from the orange and using the

green leave part together on a gold background

cut with the matching metal tulip die.

Finishing of the card with an orange ribbon

and a bithday sentiment.

With some leftover pieces this 2nd card was made.

First I made the aquarel background with the direct to paper

technique. I used spiced marmalade distress ink. 

With the same inkpad I stamped the small tulip stamp

and added the bees . Then in black the sentiment

(by Penny Black) is added. I thjought there was too

much white and I look some bubble wrap and  the

same ink to spice up the background.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!

Sunday Scrap Page: Orange

After yesterday's  post, you must have seen this page coming!

I had so many beautiful pictures of King Day,

that I had this page in my head and made it in a jiffy.

In the background you see the ground plan of the

visit of the King. I had printed this yesterday to see what

was a good place to stand and wait. Well, we had a

perfect spot.

As I had explained to you yesterday why we use orange,

I had to use it for the scrappage too. I decorated the page with 

tulip stamps (large and small by Michael Strong).

The orange tulips are embossed with white

embossing power and the leaves are colored with green

distress ink.

The small tulip is stamped in neon orange

and also the leaves are colored with green

distress ink.

The sentiment is by Tim Holtz.

Thanks for looking,

Have a creative day!

King Day 2014

Today is a special day in The Netherlands.

We celebrate King WillemAlexander's birthday

and this is a free day in The Netherlands and

people are dressed up in orange, there are flee markets

 everywere and the King and his family visit some places 

in our country. This year one of the places was Amstelveen.

Amstelveen is next to were we live, so we took

our bicycles and went on our way this morning

to see the King. And we were lucky!!

My husband took some perfect pictures:

Beautiful flowers everywhere.

Picture while waiting for the Roayal Family to arrive.

Children singing for this event.

And here they are.

You see our former Queen Beatrix,

her son Willem Alexander, now our King

and his eldest daugter Princes Amalia.

In blue is our Queen Maxima.

After they spend an hour in town,looking at all

the activities, they went on their way again

and so did we.

We went to the old centre of town to have a look

 at the flee market and so did a few other people!

Oh yes and of course I made a card for today:

The focal point of this card is a Washi tape rosette

(one of the techniques of the latest newsletter

of the Technique Junkies) with the mini flower

by Michael Strong stamped in orange and

 embossed with clear embossing powder.

This is the inside of the card.

Why all this orange you may ask:

well, that is because the RoyalFamily is from

The House Of Orange!

....and even google knows it:

Have a creative day!