Saturday card: Photo & Stamp

Today I share with you some cards I made for a friend.

She sends me pictures,that she wants me to turn into a card.

The first one is with an owl picture

and Michael Strong's owl stamp.

The owlis colored and sprayed with a glimmer mist.

You cannot see it up front,but holding it 

sideways you do:

The leaves are a cut with a die.

The second one is a turtlepicture.

Here I use stamps from Mark's Finest.

For this card I used Michael Strong'sgecko stamp.

The smallest in the background and the large one up front.

My friend also makes watercolors.

For this card I used a leaved background paper

and the feathers are a stamp and die from Stampin'Up!

Here another card with a watercolor painting

framedin a Michael Strong frame stamp

and the smaller flower stamp at the bottom.

Hope you are inspired to use 

your pictures to make cards.

Have a creative day!

Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop: Final

Good Morning!

Today is the last day of the Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop.

I hope you have  had as much fun with this

Coffee Blog Hop as I did.

If this is the first time you come over here, you may want 

see the original email and you find it HERE.

My card for today is also for the 

Spring Challenge on the Michael Strong group.

The challenge is to use punched flowers on your card.

Here you see the finished card

with the Michael Strong coffee cup stamp.

I started out using Tim Holtz rays stencil,

to give the card a sunshine feeling.

Then I punched out some leaves and flowers

out of a few scraps I still had on my table.

Glued the coffee cup to the card and stamped

the steam stamp that comes with the set.

After arranging the leaves and the flowers,

I used a prick pen to make holes for the  brads

that will be the heart of the flower.

The quote is typed with the computer and printed

on a little more heavier paper then what comes

 usually out of the printer. I love searching the internet 

for fitting quotes. This time i just typed coffee and flower

and quote into google and that is how i found this one.

The quote is by Matt Beringer.

Thank you Amy Tsuruta for organizing this hop

and a week of wonderful new coffee card inspiration.

Well, thank you for visiting  my blog

each day and leaving all your wonderful comments.

Greetings from

ps. don't forget to have a creative day!

Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop: LIKE

Another day in coffe blog hop land!

Have you added your card to the hop to win some awesome prizes?

Well,you find all info HERE.

Today for my card I was inspired by the card I noticed on

The Beau Monde Design Blog.

She made an awesome card with real coffee.

So I made some instant coffee and decided to use this for

the background of my card.

Here is the finished card

and this is how I did it:

I used watercolor paper

and sprayed water on top of it and then

I splashed some instant coffee on it.

I dried it with the heat gun and splashed some more 

drops on the coffee stain.

One of my favourite stamps is this coffee ring

stamp from Club Scrap and I randomley  used it

on this background.

This is a great set i allready have for along time.

It is Coffee Shoppe by CTMH and I love the lettering.

Stamping the cup:

first stamp with the outline stamp

then take the bold stampand before stamping

stamp first on a stencil and then on the paper.

This way you get a pattern on the cup.

So what is not to like?

I like the coffee stain

I like the Club Scrap Stamp

I like the coffee lettering

I like COFFEE!

Hope you like it too!

and be  creative!

Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop: Tim Hotz June tag

For the Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop

I have another entry to share with you.

You find all the information of this hop HERE.

For his monthly tags Tim Holtz has a coffee tag

this month, so today I share my version .

You find Tim's tage and all the information

of the techniques HERE.

I absolutely love Tim's tag,but unfortunately

the coffee cup die is not available in The Netherlands,

so I came up with my own version with things

I do have.

With this line stencil and two coffee colors of 

distress ink I created the plaid background.

It is so much fun and so easy to do this,that 

two tags were done in a jiffy.

I have the smaller coffe stamps and I stamped them on 

watercolor paper and colored themwith the

distress markers and water.

The embellishment on topis the coffee bean stamp

stamped on shrink plastic.

Here is the other tag I made using the mug stamp

and colored it the same way.

I hope to see you again tomorrow.

Have a creative day!

Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop: digital coffee

Yeah!

Another day Summer Coffee Blog Hop

and I just love it to play.

Today I share again a card with the use of

a digitalimage by Create with TLC.

You can purchase the image HERE.

And it is only $ 2.66

I want to give you an idea what you can do with these images.

First you open your word programon your computer

and import the images you want to use. 

Decide the size of your image (yes, with digital images

you can use any size you want)

Than print the image and sentiment on paper.

I use a heaver kind of paper 120 gr.

On top of the cup I lay a piece of vellumand trace the cup.

Then cut out the inside out of the vellum.

On top of the velum I lay a stencil

and color with a blending tool.

When the stencilos of I color the rest of the cup.

For the handle and the top I use the distress markes.

I cut the image with an oval die.

Also i color the outside after cutting,

this gives the image more dimention.

For the background i use the same colors as

the cup,but a different stencil by Tim Holtz.

Now it is time to finishe the card and glue

all the elements together.

I glaze the cutpwith Glossy Accent and let the

card dry before taking the finished picture.

So you see there are some fun ways to use your digital images.

I made another kind with the same technique,

but here you see two cups and they are a little

smaller and opposite each other. That is an advantage of

using digital stamps.

Thanks for looking and see you tomorrow!

Have a creative day!