Birthday Challenge at the Male Room

 

Today I share with you my card for The Male Room Blog challenge. They are celebrating their 7th birthday isn't that wonderful? Congratulations to keep going! We sure do need more male card inspirtaion.So here is my card. It is another Z-fold card. I made it for my husband, who has a birthday on August 25th. At least i am ready now.For my card I used 2 sets of Stampin'Up! that are not available anymore, but I love to keep the older sets. I used Guy Greetings and Classic Convertibles (wooden set!).

My husband loves old card, he watches all these tv programs where the remake the antique cards beautiful again.  I colored all the images with my zig brush markers. See that man up front, he has a mustache, just like my husband.

Here you have a good view on the z-fold.

A peek on the inside of the card.

Here, on the back, is room for the the writing. It is decorated with some of the tools from the Guy Greetings stampset.

And of course I made a matching envelop for the card.Thank you for looking, stay safe and keep crafting!

Bugaboo New Release

Good Morning Crafty Friends!!

Hope you all had a great start of this new week.

I am here with another z-fold card with the new

set from 

The Catch the Bug Challenge Blog.

The new set is called Lily Ladybug set and aren't the images adorable?!

A folded z-fold card easily slips into a normal envelop.

HERE is a link to show you how you can make 

six z-fold cards in a jiffy.

I printed the images and took out my Stampin'Blends to

color all three images. After coloring i cut hem out.

The sentiment is also printed with the computer.

The red backgrounds are all embossed and then I addes

some white ink.

On the front I cut out some grass with a die and added also a few

flower stickers in the grass. These ladybug-girls are the cutest!!

Thank you for looking.

stay safe and

keep crafting!

A bunch of cards

Inspired by the formula of z-fold cards on the

Club Scrap Blog I made a few cards myself

with Club Scrap papers and Michael Strong's 

butterfly rubber stamp.

There are also some more instructions

with a video by Tricia HERE.

All the cards have Dutch sentiments this time. This one says:

Congratulations. The background papers are a sheet from 

the Papillon kit.

For the top two cards I used watercolor paper for the butterflies.

First I stamped and embossed the butterflies in gold.

Then i made a mix of distress ocide colors, added a few

drops of water and dipped the butterflies in the ink.

After cutting out the were glued to the cards with 

foam tape only on the body, leaving the wings loose.

Here you see the card colded in a z.

The are ease to send folded and fit into a normal envelop.

Thank you for looking,

stay safe and

keep crafting!

Bugaboo digital stamp: New Release

It is new realease day on the

Catch the Bug Challenge Blog.

Come and see all the wonderful cards 

by the design team here.

The new image is this cute little baby mouse.

BM Crawling.

I made a z-fold card.

Behing the panel of the mouse I added a panel

where you can write and congratulate

the new parents.

I used some cute colored design paper.

The mouse is colored with Stampin'Up! 

Stampin'Blend markers.

Thanks for looking

and have a creative day!

Simon Says: Warm Winter Wishes

It is "Warm Winter Wishes" on the 

Simon Says Monday Challenge Blog

and here is my entry.

It is a z-fold card. And below you can see how to make it:

You can make this with any size card, hardly any

measuring. For my card I used kraft cardstock

of 8.25 x 5.75 inch. and a strip of the same

cardstock of 8.25 x 1.5 inch.

Fold strip and card double like

you would do any card.

Last fold: take the top of the card and fold half

to the left again. This way you get a Z-fold.

Do the same with the strip.

Decorate as desired.

And this is the result. Papers, stamps, stencils all by Tim Holtz.

Here is a totally other version:

Papers are from the Tim Holtz 6x6 inch Christmas block.

These baubles are rubber stamps by Michael Strong.

After stamping and cutting, I glued them on gold

kraft paper and cut them out again.

The sentiments are by Tim Holtz as well as the

pointisettia stencil.

Close up of the sentiment on the strip.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!

Saturday sketch card: Mojo Monday 479

Happy Saturday!

Had fun playing with the Mojo Monday sketch for today.

It is going to be an owl post, for my friend Paulette

from Create with TLC

has send me this lovely word ard and I just had to use it

for I love owls.

For my card I used this sketch from the

Mojo Monday Blog.

For my card I used

Michael Strong's owl stamp

distress markers

versamark and white embossing powder

I started with printing the sentiment on white paper

anbd cutting it to the size I wanted. Next the owl

is stamped with versamark and embossed with white 

embossing powder. The image is ready for coloring.

I colored with the markers on my craft sheet and with 

a paintbrush I colored the owl. The white embossing

lines work as a resist.

The tree is a die from Tim Holtz.

In the background I used plain blue and scrap paper

with the feathers.  

A few leaves are in the place of the circle from

the sketch.

And here is another card that i made:

This is a z-fold card with an image I found on internet.

Here you see how I folded the card.

First double and then the front of the card double 

again towards the front.

The cute flowers are from my stash.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!