Bugaboo Digital Stamps: Tuesday New Release

Good Morning Crafty Friends,

Today there is a wonderful new sentiment on the

Catch the Bug Challenge Blog.

On the blog you fins more inspiration made

by the Design Team.

Here is my card:

Don't ask me how I made the background.

I found it in my stash and was perfect for this card.

As Iam packing my craft room I find all kinds of half

finished papers, that i try to use these weeks to make

finished cards.

A ribbon and a paper flower was all it needed to finish the card.

Thank you for looking,

stay safe and

keep crafting.

 

Club Scrap Sentiment

As I still work from home, I am going on making 

one card a day with a Club Scrap sentiment.

Because it is by now card #72 , I decided to make

a Pinterest album with all the cards in one

place for you to see: https://pin.it/4AsYnHa

This is my card for today:

I used a rubber stamp from the set

Expedition and that set is still available HERE.

I started out with stencil #1 to color the house.

Then I used stencil #2 #3 and #4 to create the 

card. After all the stenciling I used the stamps.

The heart and the swirls is from Ivory Elegance

(from 12/2006).

I also use a little gemstone in the middle of the heart.

I share all my cards on instagram.

If you want to follow me, I am 4hetty.

Thank you for looking,

stay safe and

keep crafting!

Coffee Loving Cardmakers Blog Hop - Club Scrap Sentiment of the Day

Here another card today for the 

Coffee Loving Cardmakers Blog Hop.

Since over a month ago I am making one card a day

with one of the Club Scrap stamps that I think is 

appropriate for these stay at home days. This is card #39.

You can see them all on instagram (@4hetty).

So when at home I guess a lot of coffee is being consumed!

For my card I used a stencil that came with the Brewed Awakenings

kit in 2012 (yes, I am a long time member and love to use the oldies).

With 3 colors of distress oxide inks I colored the background

of the card. The cup and the coffee ring are from an even older kit:

 Mocha Java 2002. I embossed the coffee cup with a scented 

emossing powder (creamy coffee). The sentiment is embossed with 

copper embossing powder.

How about the cute little spoon, did you notice that?!

The spoon was stamped on shrinky dinky and before

shrinking it, I added the hole at the top.

I guess this week there will be more coffee choises

for the coffee hop. Don't forget to take a look THERE,

for there are a lot of prizes to win!

Thank you for looking.

Stay safe, drink coffee

and keep crafting!

Dutch commemoration of the War

In the Netherlands we commemorate the victims of the War.

At 20.00 we are silent for 2 minutes all over the country.

This year that is a strange commemorations, for we all

are at home watching tv and standing outside at 20.00 o'clock.

It is 75 years ago and special memorials were planned,

but they are all cancelled or without public.

For today I found a very special sentiment by Club Scrap

from the kit Steppin'Out 11/04.

Not only we miss those who did not come back from

the war, but today we also miss those we cannot go to.

All materials are Club Scrap.

For my card I used the Dutch colors of acryl paint,

a 4x6 inch gelli plate and various Club Scrap stencils.

When playing with the gelli plate you end up with

quite a few wonderful papers to play with.

So here is another card and I made the globe with

a stencil belonging to Club Scrap Bookshelves 03/13.

Thanks for looking,

stay safe,

stay free

and keep crafting.

Club Scrap sentiments

Club Scrap is one of my favorite 

stamps and scrap companies. 

They are family!

I was looking through my stamps

(yes, to organize them aain)

and i noticed some great stamps

for these strange "stay at home" times.

So I made this card, added it to the 

Club Scrap Chat forum

and started a challenge!

This sentiment is from the kit

Orchard September 2017.

All other papers are also Club Scrap

and the flower embellishments

 are from my stash.

Of course I found more and could not stop

making cards. This sentiment is from the kit

Retro September 2006. All papers and other

stamps are Club Scrap too.

This sentiment is from the Club Scrap Bistro kit

from September 2007. The pink paper is from

the Fizz kit and I used some paper punches here.

And here the last one for today with a sentiment

from the Down to Earth kit April 2005.

All papers are Club Scrap.

Thank you for looking,

stay at home

and keep crafting!

Easy cards with Cats and Dogs

I am trying to use up more of my stash

and here are some easy and fun cards.

This is what you do: pick some background paper.

Mine are out of a magazine called Take Ten and Flow.

Use up all the stamped images you have lying around,

and I found these cats and dogs stamped images by

Tim Holtz. I colored them with my stampin'blends.

Then I take out my word stickers by Tim Holtz

and look at all the cards I ended up with!

Sorry, needed a drink in between making

these cards and my coffee was finished.

Cheers! I hope I have given you some 

quick and easy ideas.

Thanks for looking,

stay safe and

stay creative!

Bugaboo Holiday Critter Chaos Challenge - Day 1

And here is the last entry for the Bugaboo Holiday Challenge.

It was fun to work my way backwards :-).

You find all the details on the

Bugaboo Challenge Blog

and there is still time to enter your card

or cards until December 31.

So here we go for the day 1 card

with a critter and some snow.

On my card I used 

Candy Cane Bear and colored him

with markers. The sentiment is a rubber stamp

by Tim Holtz and the background is a piece of

design paper from a block of papers.

The snow is made with white cardstock,

torn and colored with a little blue ink on the edges.

Thank you very much for looking

and have a creative Holiday Season!

The Artistic Stamper Christmas Challenge

Today I made a card for the 

Artistic Stamper's Blog.

The challenge is Christmas.

I love seeing all the Christmas decoration outside.

So how about stamping Michael Strong's house

stamp on red paper with versamark and emboss

it with white embossing powder. Next I cut out

the house.

The background is created with 2 stencils , a blending

tool and 3 colors of distress oxide inks.

The sentiment is by Tim Holtz.

In front of the house the trees are also by Michael Strong.

It is the smallest sice out of the package of 3.

Also embossed with white embossing powder and

decoratd with tiny sticky pearls as baubles.

Don't forget my GIVEAWAY here:

https://craftchaos.blogspot.com/2018/12/inspiration-for-christmas-with-michael.html

and win one of the Michael Strong ornament stamps.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative Christmas!

Sunday color challenge: Fly

Today I have worked on a color challenge using

Michael Strong's large and mini butterfly rubber stamp

and a sentiment by Penny Black from the set Happy Thoughts.

You find other samples and the details on the

Color Trowdown Blog.

Starting the background panel with the large butterfly.

I embossed it with clear embossing powder after stamping

the butterfly random at the paper.

Next taking worn lipstick and fossilized amber oxide

distress inks to color the paper. The clear embossing

works as a resist and makes the butterflies pop up.

The sentiment is embossed with silver embossing 

powder and cut out with an oval die and for the

silver paper I used the matching scallop die.

The mini butterflies have also been embossen

with silver embossing powder, but on yellow

and pink paper. The have yellow and pink gemstones

on top, but yellow on the pink and pink on

the yellow butterfly.

For the inside of the card i used all the left overs.

(I stamped a few extra butterflies in case I

did not cut them out nicely ;-).

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!