Tim Holtz September tag: Autumn

I haven't played for two months,

but I am back and hope to add the two I missed as well.

I absolutely love this month's tag

and here is my version of

Tim Holtz September tag:

You find all about the techniques on Tim's

blog and even though my tag looks different, I have

 used all the techniques he has shown in his tutorials.

This is the base of the tag. The girls is a

stamp by a Dutch firm called Stampinback,

everything else I used is from Tim Holtz's line.

As I do not have the butterfly die,

I decided to use my leaves from the movers & shapers

for this tag. After coloring my glossy paper with alcohol

inks in Autumn colors

I stamped on top with one of the script stamps from Tim

and used black archival ink. Now the strip of paper is

ready to use in the big shot.

Her are the finished leaves.

And the leaves were folded in halv and glued

to the tag on top of the face.

From the left over bits and pieces I cut these 

letters and added them to the tag.

Thank you for stopping by

and creative greetings,

Saturday Card: Happy Birthday giraffe

Today I want to share with you how I made this

fun birthday card with

Michael Strong's clossoné giraffe stamp

and the free birthday subway art

from Create with TLC that you find HERE.

For the front of the card you need

your collection of washi tape to cover

the first panel of your card.

The pannel will look lik this on the back

 when you are finished.

Adhere the panel to a contrasting background pape

(not too heave paper) and to your card.

Take  circle punch (or any other punch

of your choice) and punch through all tree layers.

(that is why you do not use the too heavy papers).

Now you stamp the giraffe. I did not stamp on the inside

of the card for I was afraid that maybe the stamp and the hole

would not match up, so this is to be safe.

Cut out the image.

Color  the imaege with materials of your choice.

Now you can glue it to the inside of the card and make

sure the head pops out of the window.

I added an extra happy birthday on the inside

of the card. Hope you like the idea

and will give it a try.

Have a creative day!

Altered Playing Card #1 & #2

I am playing along with the 

Altered Palying card Project

on Claudine's Blog.

It has just started nd here

are my first 2 finished cards.

Card #1

with a dictionary stamped background.

The birds and the iron gate are dies

from the tim Holtz collection.

The sentiment is a stamp from my stash.

For all the details on the

techniques on the card you find

detailed instructions on

Claudine's Blog HERE.

Card #2

This card has a stamped background and 

an image that is colored with distress markers.

The image is from VeraLaneStudio on

Etsy and she has some wonderful images I just could not

resist buying to use on the card. They are easy to color 

and cut for using on my altered playing card.

The background of my card is stamped with 

some of my coffee stamps (and I have a few,

for this is one of my favourite themes!).

There is alsoa Facebookgroup for this if you

are interested:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1485077958407099/

Thanks for stopping by,

creative greetings,

Happy Birthday

I needed a couple of birthday cards

and as I wanted some easy cards, I asked Paulette

from Create with TLC for a birthday  subway art

sentiment and low and behold:

it was in my mailbox the next day.

I think that is awesome,so I wanted to share the link to her shop

with you, but she told me, that I could share the digital

stamp for free with you! Thank you very much,Paulette!

Just click on the digital image and save

it to your computer with the right mouse click.

And now for my card:

I have lots of backgrounds lying around that I made

with technique junkies technique and need to be used.

The background for this card is called Patchwork

Distress from the June/July 2014 newsletter.

And the stamps are from Club Scrap's  2010 Jubilee kit.

This is the inside of the card and as you see I have used up

every scrap that was there! The sentiment is from the 

same Club Scrap kit.

Just wrapped some ribbon around the background

and added 2 little rhinestones next to the word

celebrate to finish the card.

Here another sample with a 

Technique Junkie's background.

This is Pearly Gelatos Wash from April/May 2014.

A great way to use these background is to

use an embossing folder and add some ink

matching the color of the image.

I added an extra layer to this card with a piece of

designers paper. I have a lot of these blocks and

just have to make use of  it and this is a fun way.

A little star charm on the ribbon finishes the card.

Want to see another card? 

Well for this one you have to hop over to the 

Technique Junkies Blog.

Thanks for looking

and creative greetings,

Sunday Scrap Page: 5km run

Here is my Sunday Scrap page with pictures

of our 5km run from yesterday. It was special,

because it was the first time for Zora to participate.

She only started running 3 months ago.

I am very proud of her! xx

This page is made with

Club Scrap Spring Chorus papers

and Michael Strong's letters and flower stamps.

I stamped the letters on yellow paper and 

embossed them with blue embossing powder.

I put a little post it note on top of the letters

and used a blending tool and green ink

to color half of the letters,before adding them

to the page with foam tape.

On this picture you see I not only added a

ribbon,but also a flower. This is the mini cloisonné

flower by Michael Strong and stamped in  dark

geen ink and cut out. Fastned to the background

with a button and some wax thread.

Thanks for looking!

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!

Sunday Scrap Page: Balance

As you have seen i had a yoga lesson this week

and with my new sentiments from Create with TLC

I came up with this new scrap page for my

weekly chronicles.

I used Club Scrap's Tribal kit papers to 

make this page in combination also with Michael

Strongs Cloisonné Crane stamps.

For the top banner of the page I found some fun images

with google and made a whole row of yoga girls and

colored them with pencil. The sentiment at the end of the

banner, as well as as the sentiment on the picture

is by Create with TLC and you find it here.

The closisonné crane is stamped in ash

and colored around with a little topaz.

The text is printed with the computer.

I also used some DIY washi tape.

I did this before and you can see here

how you can do this too.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!

Saturday card: Giraffe

Welcome to 

Michael Strongs new 

cloisonné giraffe stamp!

You can find the stamp HERE.

It is such an awesome stamp.

And ilove it when things come together.

I tried to clean my desk and just found the

perfect pieces of scrap paper to use for

this giraffe card.

The background to this card is a piece

of cardstock decorated with my gelli plate.

A gelliplate makes a lot of fun backgrounds in a jiffy!

You find all info about this here:

http://www.gelliarts.com/

 I took my giraffe stamp and stamped

\on the background with versamark

and embossed the image with black

embossing powder. 

The leaves are embossed with green distress

embossing powder that goes wonderful with the background.

Finished of the card with a ribbon and taped

it all down to a yellow card.

Thanks for looking and soon more

giraffe cards.

Have a creative day!