Something New

My card today is for the

Die Cut Diva's Blog,

where the challenge is 

Do or Use Something New.

Well, I did both.

I became a member of a new group

for Oriental stamp art

and because of that I bought this

paper lantern die.

Here you see the die, it is not too large, so easy to use

on cards and wonderful to combine (here on the

sleeve of my coffee cup).

So those of you who visit my blog more often,

know my love for coffee, so here my first

oriental coffee card.

The backgroud is made in resist technique

with an Art Neko flower stamp.

The coffee cut is cut with the Stampin'Up!

coffee thinlits. The stamped sentiment

is by Stampin'Funn. The "hello"die cut

is from a Tim Holtz die.

The girl is an image I found on internet

and colored with zig markers.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day.

Art Neko New Year card

As today I am also blogging on the Art Neko Blog

I will explain a little more about the paper lanterns I used

on my card in pictures.

To make the paper lanterns, I started out with stamping

the Art Neko snowflake background stamp on white paper.

I embossed it with white embossing powder. This will

work as a resist when add coloring.

I took 3 shades of blue distress ink for the coloring.

Wit a blending tool I added these on top of the embossed

snowflakes. When done you can use a paper towel

to clean the white snowflakes.

To make the shapes of the paper lanterns I used

a circle and an oval die to cut out the shape.

Next i used my crimper to run the shapes through

and give them the real paper lantern look.

Tiny strips of paperin the same colors as the paper lantern

where cut for the top and the bottom of the lanterns.

The tassels that I used where from my stash and premade

and came in very handy. The background is a snow

embossing folder from Stampin'Up!

The sentiment is also from Art Neko and belongs to 

a Holiday Greeting set.

Even though it looks like it is a grey card, in real

life it is silver paper (which is not seen in  the photo).

Here is another card done in the same technique.

Just used a paper circle punch for the lanterns.

Also silver card and snowy embossed background.

On this card I added some bling gemstone decoration

to the lanterns.

Thank you for looking and I hope you all

have a wonderful healthy, loving and

creaive New Year!

Art Neko: Panda Thank You

Today not only do I make card 10 for the

color challenge, I am also featured on the 

Art Neko Blog.

You find all the details of the color challenge

on The Daily Marker Blog.

I colored my card with distress ink and a blending tool.

The bottom with green and the top with blue.

Next I took this bamboo stencil and colored it

with the same green ink.

Now I had this scene ready for my panda stamp.

The Walking Panda stamp by Art Neko was perfect 

for this bamboo bush. 

After stamping it looks like this.

But panda's are white you will say. True!

So I stamped the panda twice again and

cut out one complete panda and from the 2nd image

I only cut of the head. With foam tape, I added the

panda to the card.

The finished card has a Thank You sentiment also

from Art neko and I used the stencil and the green ink

again to make the same background. The gemstones

are also Art Neko.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!

Art Neko Design Team

Some time ago I told you that I was asked to be in the

design team of 

Art Neko Rubber Stamps

and as of this month you will see ssome changes going to

happen at the Art neko website and will get to know

the design team. All ofus will post regularly on the design blog

and on our own blogs.

I want to start this month with the Art Neko mascot

stamp: the good luck cat. You find the stamp here.

You can read all about the meaning of this

Maneki-neko here.

I stamped the image with versamark and embossed

iy with gold embossing powder. Then I colored the

image with red brick and vintage photo distress ink.

I cut out the image to add it to the background.

When i had everything taped down to the card

I added a few drops of glossy accent to the pendant of the cat.

Here you see the little charm that I added to the card.

The Dutch colors and a little birdie.

Behind the cat image, upiu see some oriental characters.

When I knew I was going to be in  the Art Neko

design team I found this book with orental characters

(I have no idea if it is Chinese or Japanese) and

this is great to use for cards.

I wish the new design team good luck,

inspiration and lots of creativity.

Thanks for looking.

Orientaals/ Oriental

Veel orientaalse stempels heb ik niet, maar als er bij Michael Strong yahoogroep een uitdaging me dat thema is, dan moet ik toch wat. In combinatie met (lang bewaarde) 3d plaatjes en stempels van Michael Strong heb ik deze kaarten gemaakt.

I do not have a collection of oriental stamps, but if there is a challenge on Michael Strong's yahoogroup, than I need to come up with something. So in combination with (long save) 3d pictures and some of Michael Strongs stamps I came up with these cards.