Happy Birthday to me!

Yeah, today is my birthday!

Here you see me many years ago when I was just 

a one year old having fun and had no idea what 

path was ahead of me.

Now so many years afterwards I am a happy,

married, creative grandma and besides needing more hours

in a day, am as happy as can be! Thanks to my hysband, children,

grandchildren and all my (creative) friends.

Love you all.

Ok, so I made myself a quick birthday card

with the wonderful new April Shibori hybrid kit from

Club Scrap. Can't wait to get my hands on the

real paper and stamps.

(The background is from the Jan. Surprise kit).

Thanks for looking

and have a creative day!

Club Scrap sketches

I love making sketches and today I share

with you the ones I made for the Club Scrap March challenge

made with my new Brewed Awekings Hybrid kit

by Club Scrap.

And here is my entry for the April Club Scrap Sketch

with the new April Shibori kit.

And this is the sketch.

You find lots of info about Club Scrap either on the

Club Scrap ite or on the Club Scrap Facebook group.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!

Club Scrap April kit: Shibori

Welcome to a new month of Club Scrap goodies.

This month the kit is called Shibori?

What?! you may say, so here a little explanation:

Shibori is a Japenese indigo fabric dying technique 

dating back to the 8th century.

There is more explanation on the Club Scrap Blog HERE.

For me this blue and white kit is perfect

to play with for my Jewish Holidays.

For my scrapbookpage, I snapped some quick

photo's of my grandsons, when they where here

for our annual matzo lunch.

(I won't show you how the floor looked afterwards!)

This kit is also great for cards

and because of the blue and white combo,

it combines great with other kits.

For this birthday card I used the cake from

the Club Scrap January Surprise kit.

Thanks for looking

and have a creative day!

Happy Easter!

With this card I want to wish all my friends 

a very Happy Easter!

I also want toenter my card to the

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Blog,

where this Wednesday it is Anything goes.

For my card I used papers from Club Scrap's 

March kit: Daffodils. The background of daffodils

and setiment is one of the cut outs that came with the kit.

The egg and the chicks are rubber stamps by

Michael Strong. The egg is stamped on dark brown

paper from the Club Scrap kit and embossed with 

copper kettle embossing powder. It looks so much

like real chocolate this way.

The chick is stamped with brown ink and cut out

and stuck behind the eggs. The ribbon is fron one of my

previous Club Scrap kits.

Hope you all have a wonderful time.

Thanks for looking and 

have a creative day!

Happy Passover!

Tonight is the start of the Jewish holiday Passover (for information

click HERE) and here you see a picture of some of the

ingredients for my cooking. All of the family will arrive tonight

and we will have a special meal called SEDER.

There are special food regulations and one thing is for a week 

we do not eat normal bread, but matzo (unleavened bread).

So it infolves quite a lot of preparations.

Of course I want to decorate the table 

and making some cards and name cards.

This card is made witha stamp from Zum Gali Gali

and shows a seder plate. On top and bottom

you see the pattern of matzo that i printed on copy paper.

Here is the small table card (3,5x 2,25 inch).

The sentiment is Stampin'Up! 

For the cards I made cute little envelops

from matzo paper with the envelope punchboard.

For this little envelope you need a piece of 5 x 5 inch .

I also made these flower wrapping to give

when everyone leaves.

Happy Passover to you all!

Club Scrap Daffodils linky party

Today I am showcasing all kinds of projects

with the wonderful Club Scrap Daffodils kit.

You find all the projects on the Club Scrap Blog.

The paper kit is wonderful and makes lots of great 

scrapbook pages. I had some wonderful pictures from

last year's visit to the Keukenhof with my Club Scrap

friend Jill. Perfect for these pages.

All elements are from the March Daffodils kit.

I also added some splatter papers I made

a few days ago with the bingo blast technique.

The flowers, wooden sentiment and fun velvet buttons

are all part of the March Daffodils kit.

For this project I used the Daffodils hybrid kit.

I had such a great picture of my eldest grandson and 

his school project, that he brought home yesterday, 

that I made a quick digital page in photoshop.

With some of the leftover pieces of paper from the 

splatter technique and cut ofs from the layout, I made these 

cards with weaving those strips and taping them to the card.

 For the first card I decorated the woven strips

of paper with a roset and this daffodil cut out that

cam with the paper kit. The sentiment is stamped

and the butterflies are punched out.

The second card is on this lovely decorated

paper with the last strips and another piece

of cut out from the kit, more butterflies

and sticky pearls. The word happy is typed

with the computer and cut out and glued to the 

green strip.

Thanks for looking

and have a creative day!

Limited Runs Preogressive Challenge: Chicken

Here is my card for the progressive challenge for

Limited Runs Digital Stamps. 

Every time you use the image, you get

a free image next time.

This time, after printing the image, I colored the chicken with pencil

and printed the sentiment with the computer.

The background is a piece of scrapbook paper.

You can play to by using this chicken image

that you find HERE.

Thanks for looking

and have a creative day!

Digital splatter technique for Club Scrap

Here another version of the Club Scrap technique of

the Month challenge: splatter technique. This time I used

the Daffodils Hybrid images.

For my splash technique I searched the internet for

png splas images, for I have no idea how to mnake

these myself. I downloaded yellow, orange and green

splashes and imported them in my photoshop program.

Playing around with all the layers and splashed made

this card.

And here is another version with the same images.

The eyelets and the ribbon are from the Brewed

Awekenings I downloaded this week here.

Thank you for looking and

have a creative day!

Blast from the past

This month there is a fun technique challenge on 

the Club Scrap Blog. 

It is to use a splatter technique. 

Mine is a favorite from old times BINGO BLAST.

It was introduced in 2009 by the Technique Junkies.

I have used it before like here.

I used the distress stains inks in several colors

of yellow/orange/green and this is the resultof

adding the inks to the paper. Perfect backgrounds

for my cards.

I wanted to make some Easter cards, so a bunny would

be fun to add to the card. For this I used the bunny

die from Tim Holtz with its matching bow.

All papers are from the Club Scrap Daffodils March  kit.

I had fun making the tail gor the bunny.

It came with the March kit: velvet buttons, just perfect!

As i do not have an Easter sentiment from Club Scrap,

I used the sentiment from one of my Tim Holtz sets.

You might have noticed I made two backgrounds.

I used the 2nd piece for this tag, that I added to the

chocolate treat for my grandsons.

Here a better view of the tag.

The wonderful chocolate colored ribbon

also came with the Club Scrap March Kit.

Thank you for looking and

have a creative day!

Digital scrapbooking

Club Scrap has a digital SALE for a short time.

Some older digital kits are available HERE.

I just had to get the Brewed Awakenings frrom 2012.

I was not very much into digital scrabooking back than.

This set also comes with two onderful templates,

 that are easy to use. But there is much more to

make your own pages.

As I am still in the learning curve for digital scrapbooking

I find using templates easy to make fun pages.

Here you see one of the twin boys making me coffee

and of course I love drinking coffee made by my grandson.

Thank you for looking

and have a latte great day!