Happy World Card Making Day!

Of course I have to make a card on World Card Making Day!

I hope you all have fun making your cards today.

I share with you this pumpkin card.

The pumpkin is a free digital image by Michael Strong

and you find it HERE.

You can download the image to your computer

and use in all kind of different sizes for your projects.

If you have no idea about how to use digital stamps

I found this site where they explain a lot about it:

http://rubberstamping.about.com/od/digitalstamps/a/DigitalStamps.htm

For this card I printed the pumpkin on white paper

and colored the image with distress markers.

The background of this card is done in the 

Colored Stone Silk technique by the Technique Junkies.

You find the tutorial for this technique in the 

August/ September 2014 newsletter.

BTW:

Have you taken the Michael Strong

Anniversary Blog Hop?

Did you leave a comment to win a stamp?

If not,you can still do so today.

Tomorrow I will announce the winner of the stamp.

Go here for the BLOG HOP.

Thanks for looking

and have a creative day!

Happy Birthday,Mike!

Today is Michael Strong's birthday,

so Happy Birthday Mike!!

Hope you have a wonderfulday.

Of course I  had to make a card today 

with one of Mike's images.

On his blog he has a free digital image

of a pumkin and you can download this 

to your computer to use as you want HERE.

I printed the pumkin on white paper ready to color.

To color the pumpkin I used bistre powder.

I also used the same powder to make the background 

with the pumpkin. The leaves are a die from Tim Holtz

and the bird is a die from Michael Strong.

When you open the card, you see that the card is an 

easel card with a little post it notebook inside.

The sentiment you see on this card, I found on internet

and just typed it up with my computer in word

and printed it to use on this card:

October time is

PUMPKIN TIME

the nicest time of year,

when all the pumpkins

light their eyes

and grin from ear to ear.

I added a fun sentiment on the first page of the post-it book.

I used the left over paper from the front background to stamp

the letters fall with copper embossing powder.

Hope you are inspired to download the pumpkin image

and have fun with it!

Have a creative day!

Technique Junkies Stencil CD Blog Hop

W*E*L*C*O*M*E
Here we are with another fun

Technique Junkies CD

full with tutorials.

This time it is all about stencils:
  SENSATIONAL STENCIL CD

I hope you came here from
Beth's Blog
and her wonderful ideas for inspiring you.

You see so many stencils these days

and there are a lot of fun techniques you

can do with them. A lot of people use the

stencils for art journalpages, but they are

perfect for cards to. This new cd has 40 tutorial

for you,that you can easily print and put on

your working table. With this blog hop we want to

 share some of the techniques for you to inspire you.

Of course you want to have some idea as what to
expect on the CD and HERE is the table of content.

I have chosen to share with you a technique called:

~Gelatos Wipe Technique~

This tchnique makes such beautifulbackgrounds,

you hardly want to cover them.. This stencil is from

The Crafters Workshop and the sentiment is by Create with TLC.

Here another sample of the same technique. The stencil i used here

is by Club Scrap and the image is a freebie by

Create with TLC.

I did not want to throw away the cut of and 

used it for the inside of the card, also

a sentiment of Create with TLC. The gost image

ismade with the owl punch by Stampin'Up!.

Odering the cd? Click below:

http://techniquejunkies.com/sensational-stencils-cd.html

Have you seen all the other CD's that we have?

You may want to add another specialty CD to your order

 of the Sensational Stencil CD. 

Here is a list of the various CDs available from Technique Junkie:

Artistic Effects CD $14.95 USD 
Bodacious Background Stamps CD $9.95 USD 
Designer Paper Perfection $14.95 USD 
Great Gifts CD $14.95 USD
Shimmer Glimmer Sparkle and Shine CD $14.95 USD 
3D and Fun Folds CD $17.95 USD 
Emboss or Die CD $17.95 USD 
Mini Album Mania CD $14.95 USD
Move It Shape It CD Combination $17.95 USD

Hope you want to see more and will hop on to see

what our wonderful Holly designed on her BLOG

for you.

Have a creative day!

Michael Strong group Anniversary Blog Hop

Welcome to our 

Michael Strong

Aniversary Blog Hop.

Six years ago I decided to start this group

and now we have over 500 members.

If you like the stamps Michael Strong

designs, you are welcome here:

enjoyMichaelStrongstampgroup

I hope you came over here from Laura's Blog

and her story about how she became a

member of this group.

This my story:

I loved watching TV Weekly

and one day Michael Strong showed a card

using his heart stamp. Here you can see

the video too (click on the arrow of the picture blow,

or go here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cni0c0nebdY)

I ordered the heart stamp right away,for I wanted to use 

it for making the wedding card for my daughter.

I did not want to copy Michael's card, so this

is the card that became her wedding card:

Now I use the heart stamp every year to make

an anniversary card for my DD and her DH:

A mini heart is being added, for they have a little son now.

The background of this card is made with bistre/bister powder.

The large hearts are stamped and embossed with white 

embossing powder. The little heart with red embossing powder.

In April  2008 I met Michael Strong in person at

a stamp show and helped him out at his booth.

As payment I received some of his stamps.

So what to do with all these stamps, besides stamping........

Yes, I decided to start a group and share 

all the fun ideas of these stamps and inspire

others to use the stamps.

At first I made a card every day for over a year,but than

a friend came up with the idea: Card Captain.

One member sharing a card from Monday to Friday.

We have been doing this ever since and Iam

very thankful for all of you who do this. 

This card is made with Michael's pot stamp

in combination with the Workof Art stamp set

by Stampin 'Up! and the bistre/ bister powder.

I share a card with the group every Saturday

and a scrapbookpage every Sunday.

Hope I can go on doing this group,

with your help,for many more years.

Now here is the list of all participants:

1.Michael Strong

2. Shelly

3. Heidi

4. Yael

5. Herma

6.Rosie

7. Lori

8. Joanna

9. Jill

10. Laura

11. Hetty - you are here!

And now on to the inspiration of

the master himself.

Please hop over to

Michael Strong's Blog

ps. if you leave a comment to my blog

you might win one of Michael's stamps!

Thanks for looking and

have a creative day!

Saturday card: seahorse

This week on the Michael Strong stampgroup

we had a card captain (that is one of the members

who shares a card from Monday to Friday)

who showed a card each day with  a theme:

a Michael Strong stamp in combination  with the

Stampin'Up! set Work of Art.

As I have this set too, I decided to follow her

idea and here is my card. The background for this

card is made with bistre/ bister (a fun powder

that is used in combination with water for coloring).

The sentiment is a stamp by JavaJoanne

The seahorse is also colored with bistre.

When the colored powder is on a palet

and you add water,you can use this to color

your image with a brush.

Hope you will come back again tomorrow

when we have a Michael Strong Blog Hop

with 11 blogs participating and stamps to win!!

Thanks for stopping by.

Have a creative day!

Club Scrap BLUEPRINT Blog Hop

Welcome to Club Scrap's monthly Blog Hop.

This month the name of the kit is BLUEPRINT.

Hope you have arrived here from Tricia's blog

and if not,you can find all the blogs

that participate on the main

Club Scrap Blog here.

I decided to make some cards this time

I really need. As we have some people

moving house I need a few of those and

some tags for the flowers I am  going to give.

Also I made some matching evelopes with

that wonderful stencil that came with the kit:

The stencil  measures 8 x8 inch and is perfect for

a normal size card. So I lay down the stencil,

took the 4 matching colors of the kit

(Topaz,Leaf, Earth and Saphire) 

and with a blending tool I colored the paper.

Took out my envelope punch board and started making

envelopes according the instructions on the board.

Here the finished envelope with the card.

To make it easy on myself I have made some quick

and fun backgrounds using the gelli plate with

matching acrylpaint colors to the kit.

You wil notice that the text I have used on all my cards

are not on the stamp sheets. I needed some other sentiments

this time,so I downloaded the matching

fonts to this kit and printed my own sentiments.

This mont's fonts are

Draftsman Regular and pwscratchedfont

The houses you see in the background are a 

Tim Holtz die and is perfect for these

kind of cards.

The heart on this tag is a stamp

by Michael Strong.

Here the sentiment is a stamp

from the kit.

Not only do I need some moving cards,

I also need some cards for the 

Jewish New Year

which is starting tomorrow.

For these cards I also made the background

with the gelli plateand matching acrylic paints.

I have cut out a pommegranate from paper 

and added this to the paper to get the shape.

Using some stencils on top for fun effects.

Here are the finished cards. The hebrew text is from my stash and 

is the hebrew for Happy New year.The colors of the kit

were just perfect. The golden paper has the color of honey that we

eat on the apple to wish each other a very sweet year.

Here are two tags I made for the flowers. The pommegranate

is cut out and added with some foam tape to the tag

and little red rhinestones are the pips in this fruit.

Wishing all my Jewish craft friends a very happy,

healthy, crafty New Year and let's hope

for a little more Peace to the world.

Now on to the next blog and see what 

Kay has for great ideas for you

in her Keepsakes Blog.

Thanks for looking

and thanks for leaving your comments.

Altered Playing Cards #3

Here are my altered playing cards for week #3.

You find all the information about this project on 

Claudine's Blog HERE.

These are the backgrounds of my cards.

For the letters I used 

Michael Strong's Alphabet stamps.

They are stamped with versamarkand embossed with

black embossing powder. Then I colored themin 

a few Autumn colors. I covered a third of the

lettersand added the color with a blending tool.

Moving the yellow post it note I added a second color

and then a third.

This is the finished card.

The bird is embossed with clear embossing powder

and the leaves and twig are from the long die

from Tim Holtz called Autumn Gatherings.

For the other card I used the 

Tim Holtz clock stencil.

On the finished card you see a Tim Holtz stamp

and  the Gadget Gear die.  The little clock

is an embellishment from my stash.

Thanks for looking.

Have a creative day!

Sunday Scrap page: Fruits of Autumn

At this moment the trees are loaded with 

all their Autumn fruits: rosebuds, chesnuts etc.

The pictures fit beautiful on the new Blueprint

Club Scrap paper.

For the lettering I used Michael Strong's 

cloisonné Alphabet stamps. I stamped them in

different autumn colors and punch them out with 

an ovalpunch. With foam tape i taped them to the fpage.

TheAutumn leave stamp is fromanother of the

Michael Strong's sets.  This one is called

Cloisonné Cameos. I colored the stamped

image with distress inks and water.

The large photo corner comes with the Club Scrap kit 

and is absulete a fun acent on the page.

Thanks for looking and have a great Sunday!

Saturday Sketch: Tell your story

I belong to a group called:

AlteredTatteredandTimeworn

(formerly knon as All Things Tim)

and this is the sketch for September.

This is the card I made with the inkpot and quil

movers and shapers. The background of the card

is one of the Tim Holtz papers from a 8x8 inch block.

I took some musicalpaper and embossed it with

the script embossing folder. After embossing I added

vintage photo distress ink to the embossed script.

The sentiment is from the set  Simple Sayings.

I had to cut the feathers into smaller ones

to make themfil to the card.

Thanks for looking.

Creative greetings,