Simon Says: Stencil It

 

For this week there is a stencil challenge on the 

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog.

This is what I came up with:

I had seen Tim Holtz Easter/ Spring inspiration You Tube,

but I did not have the raffia (which I thought looked like fn).

I looked through all my stuff and asked around, but nobody

had any. Then today I went shopping and suddenly it was 

there waiting for me, yeah!!

So I had to try to make the carrot:

Borring! So I got out my stencils and new dies

and this is the result:

This is what I used:

Bottlebrush Trees CMS455

Crazy Talk CMS236

Bunny Stitch Thinlits

Thatched stencil THS104

Distress oxide inks

green raffia

Thank you for looking

and I hope you have a wonderful

creative and caffinated day!

Simon Says: Spring and/or Easter

 

Another challenge card, this time for the 

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Blog.

The theme is Spring and/or Easter.

This time it is a Spring birthday card.

Outside the bulbs are popping up and the birds sing their song.

I found some lovely bird design paper in my $$ store and

used it for this card in combination with 

Michael Strong's small hummingbird clingmount stamp.

I made this gatefold card. The squares on top of the card

open like a lock. One is fastened on the right side

and the other on the left side of the card.

This is the inside and here you see that on both sides there is a square.

The sentiment i used on the front and on the inside is from

Tim Holtz Crazy Talk CMS236.

This is how the cards stands and you can see how the lock works.

The little hummingbirds are embossed in white or gold

and colored with pencil.

Thank you for looking

and I hope you have a caffinated creative day!

Simon Says: Easter/Spring

 

Good Morning fellow crafters!

Hope your day is going fine and Spring is here.

In my place - The Netherlands - it is cloudy and rainy.

Only from the flowers that are popping up in my garden 

I can see that Spring is here.

So my idea for the 

Simon Says Monday Challenge

is to make a fun and colorful card.

Got Tim's Crazy Catz out and some Easter colors

to make this fun card.

Here you can see the colors I used.

The egg stamp is from the set Mini Blueprints 2 CMS146 and

the sentiment is from Craze Talk CMS236.

I colored the images with copic ciao markers.

Thank you for looking

and wishing you a creative

and caffinated day!

Simon Says: Tag it!

Here I am with another card for Simon Says Stamp.

This time it is for the 

Wednesday Challenge

Tag it

and I also combined it with the 

Celebrate Spring 

    challenge on Instagram.   

For my card I used a #8 tag and colored it with

different green distress inks.

Next i die cut the honeycomb and used the same

distress colors a little on the honeycomb diecut.

Then I used stamps by Michael Strong

(the tulip and the bee) and colored the tulip with 

pencil on the kraft paper.

The sentiment is from Small Tag stickers from

Tim Holtz idea-ology.

Here is the finished tag.

The inspiration for this tag came when 

I saw the first tulip in my garden. 

Now I know for sure Spring is around the corner

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!

 

Simon Says: Emboss it

Slothy Coffee

Here is my entry for the emboss challenge on
The Simon Says Monday Blog Challenge.
The challenge is:  embossing it.

I used two embossing folders for this card: the beans and the spotches.
The sentiment is printed with the computer, the bowler hat is from the
Tim Holtz set Crazy Things CMS237 and the slothy is a stamp by my
friend Donna (who is working on a digital oinline shop).

For coloring I used ciao copic markers.

Thank you for looking
and have a caffinated fun day!

 

Hanukkah irisfolding

Hello Crafty Friends,

Tonight is the first night of the Jewish holiday Hanukkah.

Of course I made a card and for this I took out an old

irisfoldingtemplate and made this card:

and used this template:

Feel free to safe the template to your computure.

The papers I used are some old design papers by Stampin'Up!

and a sentiment from the set Happy Hanukkah Collection.

The gemsones are SU! Blue Adhesive - Backed Gemes.

Wishing you all a wonderful and Happy Hanukkah!

May the light give you peace and be happy with  your family.

Creative greetings!

 

December Coffee Card Christmas Challenge - Snowman

 

Hello Coffee and Crafty Friends,

Today I made the last card for this year for the

Caffinated Christmas Card Challenge..

I was inspired combining Tim Holtz dies and thinlits after

seeing his Sizzix Holiday Remix last Saturday. You can see

the rewind HERE.

This is the coffee and snowman card I came up with:

So here is the litst of the materials I used:

Fresh Brewed Bigz Die (for the cup)

Christmas Cutouts (for the sentiment)

Snowman Papercut Christmas

Holiday Greens mini (greens on top of the cup)

Design paper from my stash.

And for the inside I stamped a sentiment from the

set Bold Tidings - mini.

Thanks for looking and

caffinated crafty greetings,

Postcodeloterij Christmas cards

 

Hello Crafty Friends,

December is here and a festive month.

 So here are some Christmascards. I made them with wrapping material.

I got these ceremic Dutch Houses (with a tea light inside) from

the Postcodeloterij (that is a Dutch Lottery). These houses came in 

boxes with the house printed on the outside. So I cut these out and used them

to make cards. Here are a few samples:

Here you see the box and the first two cards.

Card #1

Just an easy card to start. Design paper in the background,

ribbon around the cut out Dutch house and finished.

Card #2

Design paper in the background (Action)

and the stars are cut out with thinlits.

The sentiment is a stamp by Tim Holtz.

Card #3

Design paper in the background and the tree was insired

after seeing the Tim Holtz Holiday Hoopla last week.

You can see it HERE too.

The tree is from the set Bottlebush Trees CMS455.

The Dutch sentiment says: Happy Holidays.

Card #4

This card is also a little inspired by Tim's Holiday Hoopla.

Background design paper and snowman is from Tim's

Sizzix set Papercut Christmas 2 and the circle is 

from the set Vintage Labels.

Here the Dutch sentiment says Happy Holidays and 

Happy New Year.

Card #5

Now I came up with an easel card fully decorated with a

star background (stencil), more bottlebush trees

and cute hand cut gingerbread men. The stamped 

santa head is from my stash.

This is how the card looks sideways.

Now I have tree houses left to use for more cards.

Hope to see you soon again!

Thank you for looking

and have a wonderful crafty day.

Coffee Lovers Blog Hop - last day!

Hello Caffinated Crafty Friends,

Today is the last day of the

Coffee Loving Cardmakers Blog Hop.

Do not forget to go to the main blog

and see how you can win prizes!!

Today is also Black Friday and so these

cards came into my mind:

The sentiment was first and I made it on the computer.

The stamps are from The Greeting Farm

and the background paper is from my stash.

The girl is colored with copic ciao markers

and the coffee cups are stamped on black paper

and embossed with white embossing powder

For this card i used stamps by Concord & 9. 

Hope you all have a wonderful Black Friday

and do not buy too much :-)

Thanks for looking

and have a caffinated creative day!

Coffee Lovers Blog Hop - Day 5, 6 and 7

 

Hello caffinated creative friends,

Here another day of the Coffee Lovers Blog Hop.

For my American friends it is Thanksgiving today,

but here in The Netherlands it is a cold and rainy

normal Thursday.

These are the cards I made for the last few days. Two I have posted to 

my instagram account - 4hetty - for I had no time to post here.

Instagram is quick and easy.

This is #457 on the linky party

and I used papers and dies from Funky Fossil Designs.

The snowflakes are dies from Stampin'Up! and the

gingerbreadman is a stamp from my stash from the dollar store.

This is card #539 in the linky party and used the Tim Holtz

coffee cup die with Funky Fossil Designs papers.

The stamps are from the Nordic Noel stampset.

And now for today's card:

The background of this card #636 is made with a pumpkin embossing

folder with a touch of orange ink on the pumpkins.

The girl is a stamp from the set She is fierce by

Funky Fossil Designs, as well as the cup from the

Layering Cup die set.

The sentiment is made with the computer.

The gold embossed pumpkin stamp is by Michael Strong.

When you open the gold ribbon on the handle of the cup,

 there is the wish for a  Happy Thanksgiving.

Thank you for looking

and I hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving

with your family and/or friends.