Pinspiration: Christmas

Today I share a card with you that is inspired by a card

I saw on Pinterest.  And I love  the endresult, for I am

sure I am going to make a few more of these. I am a fan

of  kraft look.

For the background I stamped the semtiment with

vintage distress ink . Then I stamped the sentiment 

on a seperate piece of kraft paper  in black.

Next  a piece of musical paper (SU!) is cut of 2,5"x 5,5"

and glued to the background.

On a piece of white paper Michael Strongs middle size

Christmas Tree is stamped with peeled paint distress

ink and cut out with an oval die.

Then I cut a piece of vellum with a slightly larger

oval die and used a snow embossingfolder.

First i taped the christmas trees on the card

and next the piece of vellum on top.

The kast thing i added was the sentiment.

This sentiment is one of my favorites.

It is from an old SU! set called Sassy Salutations

(not available anymore :-( ).

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!

Day 7: Coffee Candle

Welcome to another coffee project on day 7 of the

Coffee Blog Hop.

So many sponsors, so many prizes to win, so don't forget 

to add your card and have a chance to win some goodies.

Here are some more decorated candles.

This time with totally different images.

These are from:

Inkadinkdo - coffee and friends (not available anymore)

Inky Antics - cafeine sentiment

JavaJoanne - Java Great Day

When i bought the candles, they came like this.

These are scented candles.

I colored the images with pencil

and cut them out with a shaped spellbinder die.

To have the second layer, I traced the die

with pencil on the gold paper and cut this out

by hand so i could layer it with the image.

Tiny prima flowers were added with tiny brads

and the ribbons are the beautiful hand dyed 

ribbons by Diana Larson.

So my grandson also plays along this time. 

He drew two cups of coffee: one for me and one for him.

I played with his drawing, using a stencil

some stamps and direct to paper ink

method to make it into this card.

The sentiment is by Tim Holtz.

Well, just one more day and the hop

is over. Hope you find some time to 

come back tomorrow.

Thanks for looking and

have a latte creative day!

Mojo Monday 445: round version

Happy Saturday!

While I was making the square version of the

sketch, I already had an idea for the circle version!

You find all the details of this sketch challenge on

the Mojo Monday Blog.

For my card I used:

circle and scalloped die by spellbinder

sizzix coffee bean embossing folder

coffee ring scrap paper by Moxxie

coffee cup rubber stamp by Michael Strong

and sentiment by Create with TLC

On the sentiment I added a tiny silver spoon with glossy accent.

It was a little carm,but i cut off the ring on top.

Thank you for looking.

Have a creative day!

Happy Passover

Today is the first day of Passover.

A Jewish holiday always starts the night before.

Today it is also Shabbat, so two celebrations in one.

So here yet another Passover card with a 

sentiment by Create with TLC

and the cloisonné nesting square stamp 

by Michael Strong.

For the background I started with making

a color burst background. With turquoise and 

chartreuse  spritzt on the background and sprayed

with water you get this wonderful colored background.

While the other piece is drying,I took a piece

of turquoise paper and stamped with the square 

stamprandom around the border with ground expresso 

distress ink.

Now the color burst background is dry,I stamped 

the square stamp on it and embossed it with silver

embossing powder.

Here a close up.

The sentiment is cut with a spellbinder die

and around the sides dipped in versamark and also

embossed with silver embossing powder.

The sentiment is fastened to the background with a silver ribbon

and the border has a little more bling with  a few

gemstones and pearls for decoration.

Thanks for looking.

Happy Passover and Shabbat Shalom.

A sketch and Valentine inspiration

Oh yes,here I am with another set of coffee/tea cards.

I found this wonderful sketch at the

Sketch Saturday Blog

that was perfect to make some easy cards.

I wanted to use these lovely and fun images

for a few non traditional Valentine cards.

This set of images is called Celebrate Coffee!

and is by Paulette from Create with TLC.

You find the set in her shop here.

The whole set of images for only $3,25

I colored the image with watercolor crayons from SU!. Just use a 

brush and some whater for coloring.I love the soft way the

image is colored this way. Oval die and scallop matching die

are from Spellbinders. Background paper is from an SU!

design paper block.

This image is also colored with watercolor crayons.

Another fun background paper from another dsp block.

On top of the cup I added glossy accent to make

the cup look like real glass.

And here is the last card. Design paper in the

background  This time I just printed the image

and die cutted it. I just stamped the little

hearts and the coffee rings.

Hope you have some inspiration.

Check out my blog again for more tomorrow.

Have a creative day!

I {heart} sketch #137

Her is my sketch card for the

I {heart}sketch Blog

When you played along last month

you received this free digital stamp set

and if you play this month you get one free for next month.

You can purchase this set for $ 1,- HERE.

 Now this is the sketch:

I could have made the background with lots of layers of paper

(I have enough!!), but i decided to use a fun stamping technique

that makes it look like layers.

Get out your masking tape!

I taped down a piece of white cardstock and

left the space of the slanted line for the background.

With a blending tool and red ink

I colored the white space red.

On top of the red line i stamped these

cups with stamps from Newton's Nook Designs

called Newton loves coffee. I colored the line

with a white signo pen and the coffee with a tea dye 

distress marker.

When you take away the masking tape

it looks like this.

Now i put the masking tape on top of the red line

to stamp the snowflakes on the background.

This is an old stampfromStampin'Up!.

Here you see the finished background.

The snowman image is colored with pencil.

The heart is cut with a Spellbinders die and added a tiny 

white pearl heart on top.

The printed sentiment is cut out with a punch

and tiny sticky pearlslook like it is fastened

with brads.

Thank you for looking!

Have a creative day!