Bookmark

Today not a card, I wanted to do something different.

I love reading (just finished the new Harry Potter!)

and I am always looking for my bookmark.

Today I made 3 new ones.

I was with a friend and found these great

bookmark stamps in her stash

(we just don't know what firm made them).

I started with stamping on a piece of scrap paper

with black ink.

I also stamped with a script stamp on the dress

and than i took out my pecils for coloring.

Next i took out the small dragonfly stamp and die

by Michael Strong. After stamping

and embossing the dragonfly I colored it with 

distress ink from my craft sheet. 

Then  I took the mask of the die and put it over the 

stamped image, marked the dots and....

took the mask off and added the metal die.

A little piece of tape keeps the die in place.

Now the dragonflies are ready to add to the bookmark.

This bookmark has used the same stamp, but here

I embossed the image in gold on the same green paper.

Image collored and the dragonflies embossed

and cut with the die.

The 4rd bookmark is a more Asian background

with Michael Strong's small cloisonné crane stamps.

The background is stamped on a more pink piece of

scrap paper with black ink. The flowers are colored with

pencil. The craines are embossed with black embossing

powder and cut with scissors. Decorated with tiny sticky pearls.

Yhank you for looking,

have a creative day!

Saturday Sketch Card: Christmas in July

I love the idea of Christmas in July,

so when I noticed this sketch on the 

Just Add Ink Blog

I had a Christmas card idea

and while I was at it, it became 3 cards

in a jiffy. Great start for this years cards.

This is the sketch to follow,

fun and easy.

The focal point of the cards is the 

snowman bauble stamp by Michael Strong.

The stamp isstamped with versamark and embossed in silver.

The background is colored with broken china distress ink

and splashed with a little water.The sentiment is

by Stampin'Up! The background paper

is from one of those paper blocks.

Card #2 is done on a plain white folded card

with silver cut out at the bottom (thinlits from

SU!)  and the snowman stamped and embossed in white

and colored with broken china distress ink.

Finally the 3rd  card where the snowman bauble

is stamped and embossed in silver and leaving the

white paper uncolored. 

Each of the baubles is decorated with a snowflake

and a sticky pearl.

Thank you for looking,

have a creative day!

Sunday scrap page: open house

Happy Sunday to you all!

My scrap page today is about an open house I gave last week.

I flyered around the neighborhood and hoped people

would be interested in learning about the stamping technique.

I did this for two days and a few people came. Will doit again 

in September and hopefully some more people will come.

For my page I used Club Scrap papers

and Michael Strong stamps.

OK, there is a little coffee in the background,

that is because of the title I gave the open house: Coffee & Card.

I used the coffee steam stamp for decoration.

Here you seeme ready just before and it gives you a

little view of my craft room.

I thought the  Scrap hypno paper was fun to use as a background.

And because it is an open house, Mike's house stamp

was perfect tu use here. On all the doors you see in the page

I added a little pearly doorknob.

On the journaling part,there is the house again and here

the door opens and inside you read "welcome".

Thank you very much for looking

and have a wonderful and creative week!

From the Heart: FREE stamp of the month and sketch challenge

This  card is made for the sketch challenge on the

FromThe Heart Blog

and is made with the free stamp of the month.

If you like this digitl stamp set and want to play too

you can  find it here. This set is called Time to Bloom.

So I did the twist with the patterned paper too.

It gives the card lots of colors. I used the flowers

and the butterflies from this set. Printed them out and  

colored the images with SU! markers and cut themout.

The butterflies are in two layers. The head is a red sticky pearl

and the antennea are those you can also use for flowerstems.

The sentiment is cut out with a die and colored around

the edges with red ink and the corners decorated with 

green sticky pearls.

Thank you for looking!

Have a creative day!

Cupcake Inspiration 348

Here is my card for the 

Cupcake Inspiration Blog.

For this card I used some stamps

and dies by Stampin'Up! called a

A Nice Cuppa.

The background is an embossing folder

by Sizzix and the sentiment is typed with my computer.

Here a close up of the card zo you see the comboof the 

coffee beans and the tea bags in the bakground.

The card is for my friend whois more into tea,

so we always drink coffee and tea together!

Thanks for looking.

Sending Love

Here is a card with the combination of a sketch

challenge and a color challenge.

With Valentine so close, you will see a lot of

Valentine ideas in the coming days.

You find the sketch challenge on the

Freshly made Sketch Blog

And the color challenge is on the 

Color Q Blog

So for this card I used

an SU! heart embossing folderin the background

with some red ink on the raised hearts.

The senter heart is a die from Memory Box called

"Tender Heart". In the open hear spaces i added some

tiny sticky pearls.

A red ribbon and a banner with the sentiment 

finish of the card.

Thank you for looking.

Have a creative day!