Happy Thanksgiving!

With this card I wish all my American friends a 

Happy Thanksgiving!

Even though we do not celebrate this in The Netherlands

I love making these cards for my friends.

For this card I used:

Michael Strong's digital pumpkin image

Michael Strong's alphabet stamps

leave stencil

rays stencil

Michael Strong's circle from the cloisonné accent stamps

CTMH sentiment stemps (inside)

On the front pannel I used some stencils and stamps

for the background of this card.

The word in a window is a Technique Junkie

technique from the Ocober/ November Newsletter.

The pumpkin imag I printed 4 times,cut out

and folded themin half and glued one half to the other

to have this dimentional pumpkin.

Here you see the inside of the card.

I added some sentiments and leaves (Club Scrap)

from the December 2013 Aspen kit.

Hope you all have a wonderful

and grateful Thanksgiving.

Have a creative day!

Saturday card for cat lovers

Meow...like cats?

I love them and here is one for a birthday girl

who loves cats too.I made this card with the

Technique Junkies border text technique that

you can find in the latest newsletter. One of those

fun and very easy techniques!

The cat stamp is a stampby Michael Strong and

embossed with copper embossing powder onto

a piece of gelli plate background scrappaper.

The word stampsare from different Stampin'Up! sets.

The border around the words are drawn with a pen.

The bow is made with the envelope punch bord.

I found the idea online and share with you one

of the many video tutorials, for those who have this

fun punch board.

Hope you give it a try,it is very easy when you

see how it is done!

Hope you all have a very creative day!

TJ Inka Gold technique

Hi stampers,

Here I am with another fun and easy technique

 from the June/July newsleter

by the Technique Junkies.

This technique is called Inka Gold Stamping

and is super easy to do!

For my card I used stampes by

Art Neko

And the suflowers is cut out

with spelbinder dies.

The sentiment is stamped on

the leaves of the flower and embossed

with gold embossing powder.

 Have a creative day!

TJ and CS for Football

The next three weeks it is football

on tv. The world cup in Brazil.

Tonight it is The Netherlands against Spain

and you know me...I have to make a card

for the occasion.

I used some Club Scrap stamps and 

a technique from the latest

Technique Junkies Newsletter:

Patchwork Distress

which is the online bonus technique.

The star is in the TJ Ombre Frames technique

(also from the latest newsletter.

The globe is from CS Bookshelves

and the sentiment is from CS Up, Up & Away.

So,let's play ball!

Have  a creative day!

TJ Ombre Frames

Today's technique can be found in the

Technique Junkies Newsletter

of June July 2014

and is called Ombre Frames.

The background of this card is embossed and 

colored with a white inkpad.

The stamps are by Art Neko.

Have a great day!

Club Scrap Picnick & Technique Junkies

This is the color scheme of the new June

Club Scrap Picnic kit.

I just love it and can hardly wait to get

my pizzabox full of papers and stamps.

So what to do while waiting..........

I downloaded the digital version, so I could

print some images and sentiments.

You find the digital kit  downloaded here

And with the new Technique Junkies newsletter

of June/July I made a background that feels like

the picknick paper. I used the Crincled Tissue

technique and some distress paints.

Also I found this Club Scrap Avant Garde stamp

that made me think of the Picknic paper.

This background paper looks a bit similar, 

but is done in the in the Technique Junkies

Tissued Watercolor technique with

the same Club Scrap Avant Garde stamp.

Now I printed the images I downloaded

and these are the finished cards.

The papers i used are from different Club  Scrapkits:

Navajo blue

Circles green

and Fizz pink

I love the look and feel of these finished cards.

Be sure to come back tomorrow, 

when I have more Picknick ideas.

Have a creative day!

TJ more GESSO resist

See, I made many more of these wonderful backgrounds 

with gesso and other mediums. I have a pile to share

more cards with you!

So today I took one of the "gesso resist" backgrounds

and an embossing folder. Had to try and see how this looked.

So I took this flower folder and embossed the paper.

The embossing folder is by Crafts-too-Dutch

 and I found it here.

With a blending tool I added alittle ink

to the raised flowers to make them pop.

And here you see the finished card:

The finished card is made with:

Club Scrap Navajo and Circles papers

Michael Strong butterly stamps

Tim Holtz sentiment

The butterflies are embossed with

copper embossing powder and colored

with distress ink and a blending tool.

The small butterfly is very dimentional.

Stamped twice and with a foam tape added together.

On both butterflies you find little sticky gemstones.

Have you had a look at all the cool techniques,that you

find on the Techniqu Junkies Artist Effects CD?

You find them all listed here with a sample card:

http://www.techniquejunkies.com/CD_indexes/1Artistic_Effects_Index.pdf

For ordering the CD go HERE.

 Have a creative day!

Saturday card: TJ Gesso resit again!

I am having so much fun with the new

Technique Junkies CD

Artist Effects.

Gesso resist is such an easy technique

I made a couple of backgrounds in a jiffy.

After I made ths background I used a

stencil on top to make the background.

The leaves and dragonflies are stamped

in black and colored with distress markers.

For this card I used:

Club Scrap Navajo papers 

Club Scrap Wisteria stencil

Club Scrap written word sentiment

Michael Strong mini dragonfly

Dyan Reaverly leaves stamp 

(Around the edge - DYR34421)

The sparkle is iced  stickles by Ranger

in the color gold ice.

Thank you for looking!

Have a creative day!

TJ Gesso and Goosebumps for men

Today I combined two techniques from the new

Technique Junkies

Artist Effects CD

the gesso resist and goosed stains techniques.

When I made the background it immediately made

me think of clouds and the sea,so I was thinking

this one is great for amen's card.

So I got out the Stampin'Up! set  The Open Sea,

which is a wonderful stampset for men's cards.

Paper and inside sentiment are by Club Scrap.

Thank you for looking.

Have a creative day!

TJ Distress Gesso Resist with an Italian twist

In honour of our new DT member at

Create with TLC,

Paulette designed this fun stamp set,

because Ileana is from Italy.

Welcome Ileana and we are looking forward to

see your artwork. You can have a look at her blog here:

http://sparklingpinktitta.blogspot.it/

This card is made with a background

from the new Technique Junkies

CD called Artisic effects and 

one of the Italian digital stamps.

Buona Fortuna means Good Luck

and of cource that is my wish for Ileana.

This is the Distress Gesso Resist background

and sometimes it comes out so nice that at first

you do not want to cover it. So I made a picture

and now I can reuse it. You can steel it from me

if you like it by saving it with a right

mouse click to your computer.

The banners are made with water color paper and 

just adding distress stain and flick some water drops

on it and dry with heat gun.

The focal image of the butterfly is colored with distress

markers. The butterfly is printed twice. The second 

butterfly is added to the first with a piece of

foam tape and finished with a layer of glitter glue.

Have a creative day!