Caffeinated Christmas Card Challenge: August

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Hello my caffeinated friends,

Here is my card for the August challenge on the
Caffeinated Christmas Card Challenge Blog

                                                    The theme is: Coffee and Cute Critters.

I treated myself to some new Penny Black stamps:

Brew-Tea-Ful set and

Overflowing

The cat and the sentiment are stamps i already have 

for a very long time.

The stamp of the cat is a cat in the box. 

So I stamped and embossed the cat and cut it out

after coloring. He is so comfy on the cup!

I embossed the sentiment in gold, really pretty on the card,

but hard to photograph.

I just love these new cups!

All the images are colored with the Tim Holtz distress crayons.

Thank you for looking and hope you

have a lovely and caffeinated day.

 

CTS #383

Here the sketch from the 

CAS(e) this SKETCH blog

that i used for my card today.

I made a card for someone who loves frogs.

I have these cute stamps from Penny Black

already for years, but you can always use them.

I colored the frog with Stampin'Blends.

The flowers are from my stash and I added the cute tiny button

with waxed floss.

The sentiment is from a Strampin'Up! set from last year:

Beautifully Braided.

Finishing off the card with a heart gemstone for 

some extra bling.

Thank you for looking,

stay safe and

keep crafting!

Coffee Loving Cardmakers: Day 6

Hello fellow Coffeelovers!

As i move on with creating some order in my chaos,

I came across a sweet image, that I am going to use for my

day 6 card of the

Coffee Loving Cardmakers Blog Hop.

This is a wooden rubber stamp by Penny Black colored

with watercolor and the cup is a little die I had lying around, 

not knowing from which set it belongs too.

The sentiment is by The Cat's Pajamas Paper Arts.

On the blog they have a wonderful freebie for the coffee hop.

This sentiment i have already for a very long time!

The paper in the background is from de Spring catalogue

from Stampin'Up!

Thank you for looking,

stay safe, enjoy your coffee

and keep crafting!

Cards and Walk

In this crisis of covid19, I have time to clean my

craft room. I realize how many backgrounds I have

lying around  and how many unfinished images,

and I just could not throw them away!

So I had an idea: I make them all into cards and 

when I do my walk for the day, I put those cards

in the letterboxes around my neighberhood.

At least people will look at it, maybe have a smile

and than throwit away of keep it a few days.

You never know.

So I got to work and added a little Dutch poem

inside: 

"when normal things

are suddenly not so normal

you realize how special

normal things are"

On the envelope and on the card I added the 

word "zomaar" which meand something like

"just for fun" or  "no reason".

Not sure exactly how to translate.

So here are some of the cards I made.

No special technique, just add the paper

I had and an image (colored with stampin'blends)

and the sentiment.

Of course some had to be coffee themed.

I made over 150 and had fun dropping them around

the neighberhood.

Hope you all stay safe and healthy

and thanks for looking.

Be creative!

Simon Says: black & white plus one other color

Here another Simon Says Stamp Challenge.

There is one on Monday and one on Wednesday.

I love the do them, they are always so much fun.

For today's Wednesday Challenge it is black and white

and add one other color.

As I was clearing my craftroom I noticed my Penny Black rubber stamps.

I did not use them long time, so foir this challenge I got them out

(and you will see more of them). Once I started coloring i had two

fun cards in a jiffy!

For this card I used Whiskers & Fur 2883J.

The background to this stamp is made with

an embossing folder impressed in black paper

and colored with white ink.

The image is colored with Stampin'blends in differend

shades of blue. The birthday sentiment is from my

stash ( I think it is SU! but I am not sure).

The ribbon is crinkled handpainted ribbon from

DL.ART. 

Here is the other version with a lighter background.

I thouched the embossed background with

tumbled glass oxide distress inks.

It is day 17 on the 

Daily Marker Coloring Challenge.

Love it when I can combine challenges.

Thanks for looking

and have a creative day!

Card Captain day 1: Art with a heart

This week you will see a lot of Michael Strong stamps on my

cards, for I am card captain on the Enjoy Michael Strong group.

This means I will share 5 cards for inspiration. One card a 

day until Friday.

I will try to make some simple cards you all can  case

with any stamp and not to much materials.

For this card you start making the red stripe

by using two post-it notes and leaving a

2 inch gap.

With candied apple oxide distress ink I colored the

2 inch gap between the post-it notes.

Before removing the post-it notes I added 

a couple of drops of water.

Dab the drops with a paper towel.

The sentiment (by Penny Black) is added on

the strip with my misty, to make sure it is on straight.

With Mike's mini heart stamp embossed 

with gold embossing powder the card is finished.

Thanks for looking

and have a creative day!