Mother's Day

Hello Crafty Friends!

Wishing all the Mother's a very happy Mother's Day!

Here I am sharing the card I made for my mom.

Even though she is in a care home, she enjoys getting

flowers and a card from me.

For this card I used:

   Falling Hearts stencil,

She is Fierce clear stamp set.

Hello Gorgeous set for the sentiment

and the rosed are from

Blooming Wreath.

I notice that it is very hard for me to stay to one set ;-)

The background is colored with Kitch Flamingo 

distress oxide ink, All the other images are 

painted with water coloring.

Of course there is a rose on the backside of the card!

I want to enter mu card for this weeks

Cupcake inspiration challenge #518.

and also for the Feminine Challenge

on the Simon Says Wednesday Blog.

Thank you for looking,

stay safe and keep crafting!

 

Back again!

 Hello my Crafty Friends,

You must have noticed I haven´t been blogging 

much these past few weeks.

Well, I had an operation and I am healing now, 

stamping was just to much.

Instead I have done some crochet 

and did some watercoloring.

I love my Funky Fossil Design stamps and

 one of the designers also gives

online classes: Ann Corbiere Scott. 

So by watching and playing along, I opened a new art journal and

this is my first page:

The background circles are painted with watercolor

and inspired by Wasilly Kandinsky.

The sentiment is printed with the computer,

but the brush and the paint tubes are clear stamps

designed by Ann Corbiere Scott: Artsy stamp set.

And here is a birthday card I did with 

a printable flower sheet by Ann.

It was supposed to be a tag, but I used

it for a 5 x 7 inch card.

Here the inside of the card with a

strip left over from the background paper 

of the front of the card.

Here a close up of the flowers and the sentiment.

All is colored with watercolor paint.

I will try blogging a little more,

but I am still recovering, so it won't be every day.

Thank you for looking today,

stay safe and keep crafting.

Freshly Made Sketches #443

Here is the new sketch of

Freshly Made Sketches

that inspired me to play with my new

stamps and stencils by

Funky Fossils Design. 

For the background of this card I used a stencil

called Elegant Foliage and peeled paind distress oxide ink.

With some post it notes I marked the right place for the stencil.

The butterfly is from the set Geo Bugs and is colored with 

watercolor ink and cut out by hand. I used a tiny piece of foam

tape to add the butterfly to the card, leavi g the wings free.

Thank you for looking,

stay safe and 

keep crafting.

Limited Runs Progressive Challenge #31: Bears

Today it is Animal Day in The Netherlands.

So a great day to use an animal on my card

and as this month we were given this cute bear

for the Limited Runs Progressive Challenge,

I made these cards for today.

When I thought of what to do for a card, I had

so many ideas, that I ended up making 3 cards.

Card #1

When I looked at the bear-image, it looked like

he was dancing on his own, so I added some music

paper behind him and a Create with TLC sentiment.

I colored all the bears with my watercolor pastels.

I added some musical paper behind the bear and

a cute lace ribbon.

The sentiment is by Create with TLC.

If you click on the above image, you can see the bear dance!

I added an wobble behind the bear.

Card #2

It also looks like the bear can hold something.

How about a coffee cup?!

For this card I used:

Digital coffee paper I bought on Etsy

ribbon by DL.ART,

rubber stamp by Hero Arts

and the coffee rings are dies by Sizzix.

I just love that big cup in his hands.

I cut the hand to move the cup in

and added foam tape to make

it look like he drinks from the cup.

Card #3

As lots of babies are born in our family,

I came up with this cute baby card.

Bears are always cute on baby cards.

I had this cute baby image in my stash:

look at how the baby is also holding a tiny bear!

The sentyment is from an old SU! set.

Thank you for looking.

Be nice to your animals

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!

Birthday Giveaway

Because April is my birthday month, I have a give away

for you. This Michael Strong stamp set and 

as extra a mini egg stamp.

Ofcource you get this card too!

I made this fun Easter card with all

Michael Strong Stamps.

I started to make the background panel

with the direct to paper technique.

Add distress ink to your craft sheet, spray water

and dab your paper on your craft sheet.

I used wild honey yellow distress ink.

You can do it several times and use the heat gun

inbetween until you have the color you want.

Next i used the tulip stamp and a watercolor

technique. I colored the stamp with zig markers

and then sprayed a little water on top of the stamp.

Next you stamp and have a watercolor impression.

Repeat for more flowers. Then cut out the flowers.

The eggs and the vase are both stamped with

versamark and embossed and cut out.

Then everything is assembled and glued to the

card with foam tape.

 

Would you like to win my birthday giveaway:

the stamps and the card?

Please follow my blog and leave a comment

here before April 15.

And the winner (chosen by random.org) is:

 Shell B. said...

Beautiful card, knew it was Michael Strong’s stamps right away! Love those tulips!
Sending Birthday wishes your way!

Thanks for looking

and have a creative day!

Color Challenge

These beautiful colors on the

Sunday Stamps Blog

looked very appealing to me

and I just had to make a card with them.

Used stamps:

Stampin'Up! Beautiful You and Timeless Textures stampsets.

I started making the background with these 3 colors of 

distress oxide inks: fossilized Amber, spiced Marmelade

and Worn Lipstick. I used watercolor paper.

Addinkg the ink direct to my craft sheet and spraying

some water onto the ink and also on the watercolor paper.

Than getting the paper on the craftsheet and 

taking the ink on the paper.

So much ink was left, that I ended up with 2 pieces

of background paper.

After stamping the image to the background, I used the left

over ink from the craftsheet to color the image.

For the skirt i added some pink glitter glue.

Some of the left over paper I used to decorated the 

inside of the card.

The left over piece of watercolor paper I used 

to make my card for the Art Neko Blog today.

For this card I used two stamps: the big one in the middle that is 

embossed with silver embossing powder is the Circle Medallion

of Flowers on a bed of calligrapy. I decorated the circle

also with yellow sticky pearls.

On the border of the card I used the ginkgo leaf pair stamp

and finished off the card with an organza hot pink ribbon.

Matting the background to silver paper and to

the pink card I now have two cards for the color challenge.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!