It´s the Thought that Counts

Hello my Crafty Friends!

Today I have a card for you with the 

sentiment as a focal point for

The Sisterhood of Crafters Blog.

For my card I used a set called

Beautiful Braided by Stampin´Up!

Unfortunately this set is not available anymore,

but I got it 2nd hand.

For the background I used the ginko leave stamp

embossed in gold and colored with Zig Markers.

The focal sentiment is stamped on a seperate piece of paper

and matted with yellow and black paper.

In the background a gold ribbon and a few sequins.

I love these gingo leaves already for quite some time

and now I have a tree of my own in my new garden!

These trees are very special and old.

You can read about the ginko tree here.

Just by accident I recently found this lovely ginko leave candle light.

Perfect for my new home!

Thank you for looking.

stay safe and

keep crafting!

 

 

Happy Passover

With this card, I want to wish my family and (crafty) Jewish friends

a very Happy Passover. May you have a lovely seider with all

those you love around you.

FYI my card is made with a background of mermaid lagoon 

distress oxide spray and the seiderplaite stamps is by

Zum Gali Gali rubber stamps.

The sentiment is by Stampin'Up!

The leaves behind the seider plate are made with 

a thinlit from a set of flower dies by Tim Holtz

(Sizzix) from the set Wildflower stems #2 .

You also see some shiny sequins in the background.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!

Washy Watercolor

Yesterday my new Club Scrap April stamps arrived and I just had to get them ready for the wonderful Technique challenge on the Club Scrap Blog: Washy Watercolor. On the BLOG, you find a video tutorial and detailed explanations by the wonderful Julie Heyer.

If you wonder what I used to make my stamps stick to an acrylic block: it is Mount-It adhesive

from Club Scrap, just perfect for unmounted rubber stamps.

Both cards are made with the wonderful

April In Bloom rubber stamps and papers from my

Club Scrap stash.

The background of the card is made with the hyacint stamp

from the set with dusty concord and broken china

distress oxide inks. The green I used is mowed lawn.

"Hello" is cut out with a thinlit and added with some drops

of glue to the backgound.

On this card I used the same colors. The hyacint stam

is also stamped on a seperate piece of paper and stamped in

two colors and with a watercolor brush colored after stamping.

As you can see, the inspiration came from the garden!

Thanks for looking

and have a creative day!

Coffee Lovers Blog Hop: day 7

I am having fun making cards for the 

Coffee Lovers Blog Hop.

Don't forget to check out this blog and add

your cards for this way you can win some

fantasyic prizes!

Today I have two cards to share. I found this fun sentiment

on puinterest and just came up with these cards.

For card #1 I made the background with two

Tim Holtz stencils and distress oxide inks (fossilized amber

and cracked pistachio). The coffee cup with the bird is a die.

Here is the sentiment, you might want to use it too.

I found it on pinterest.

For the second card I made this direct to paper

background with walnut stain ink and then embossing

it with the coffee cups. The coffee cup is a die from

Stamping Up!. The ribbon is colored with fossilized

 amber distress oxide ink. For the extra bling I added

a few orange sequins.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!

Cupcake Inspiration for Valentine

Today my card is inspired by a picture on the

Cupcake Inspiration blog.

Don't these cupcakes look delicious!

I also use the sketch from February from the

Club Scrap forum.

My card is made with the direct to paper technique

and used thes tree colors of oxide distress inks and

a few drops of water.

Add the ink to the craft sheet, spray water and

pick up the paint with the white paper.

When the ink is dry it is ready for stamping.

The background stamp is an old wooden stamp 

from Club Scrap.

I think it is from the Fizz kit 2007. The sentiment is

from the matching unmounted rubber sheet.

I also colored some of the circles with the stamping ink

with a waterbrush. Finishing off the card with

a few white sequins.

Thanks for looking

and have a creative day!

Club Scrap Surprise Color Blocking

Welcome to my post for the 

Club Scrap Blog

Januari Surprise Linky Party.

Here my contribution with this month's technique

Color Blocking. You find the original post about

this technique HERE. 

Mt cards are made with the digital Surprise kit

and my stash of Club Scrap papers.

Form my color blocking cards I printed these 

backgrounds from the Surprise Hybrid kit.

Got out some papers from my stash to be 

cards and background panels.

Then I stacked the printed papers and 

cut them all three together.

Next I divided the papers over the 3 panels

and realized these 3 color blocking backgrounds.

With each background I created a different card.

Card #1

The sentiments you see on the cards

came with the digital kit and were printed

on heavy white paper. Ribbon from my

CS stash (I think it might be from the 

Greece kit) and the balloons are punched

out from the many scraps I have saved.

On top of the balloons there are some white

circles stamped, like there are in the 

background paper.

Card #2

Same background, different sentiment

and hemp thread. The party hat is a punch

as well as the muffin. 

The muffin is made with a punch builder

from Stampin'Up! and Club Scrap paper scraps.

Card #3

For this card yet again a different sentiment

and ribbon. To emphasize the confetti

I added some sequins in different

colors to the card.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!

Cupcake and Valentine

Many of my friends have wedding anniversaries on 

Valentine's Day and so I created this card with digital

images from Create with TLC and Photoshop.

I used the colors of this week's 

color inspiration on the

Cupcake Inspiration Blog.

First I created the middle panel with the vintage heart and

the background paper, changing the colors in photoshop

matching the color challenge. The paper in the

background is from a designer paper block.

The "love you" sentiment is a FREEBIE on the 

Create with TLC blog HERE. The black paper is cut with

a vintage photo border scissor. and Finally I added some 

SU! sticky sequins.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!