Sketch challenge and more

Hope you all enjoy your Saturday!

Thanks for taking the time to seemy card for today.

It is a card for:

1.Michael Strong Yahoo Group:  #72 sketch challenge

2. Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Furry Friends

3. Cuttlebugmania Blog: tic tac toe 

(die cut flowers-ribbon-birthday

4.Sister Act: Anything goes

Here you see the sketch that i have used.

It is a fun and easy sketch (I think).

In stead of a circle I used this square shape

that I liked more for the card.

Michael Strong's cat shape is stamped on

a pice of paper that was on my table with some paint

prints on it and fitted the cat theme perfect. The cat itself

is embossed with black embossing powder.

The background paper with the leaves is from 

a scrap block and all the other papers are from

the Club Scrap London kit.

The birthday sentiment is printed with the computer.

The flowers are a Marianne Design die and the leaves a punch.

I added tiny buttons to fasten the flowers to the card.

Have a creative day!

Challenge Time

A challenge with coffee and a technique.

How can I restrain myself?! NOT!

On the Club Scrap Blog there is technique challenge

called "watercolor frame technique".

All info about the technique is HERE.

On the Simon Says Stamp Blog

there is a "Coffee or Tea?" challenge.

Great combination for me.

I got out my Club Scrap Tribal papers and 

my Club Scrap coffee stamps from various kits.

The cups are cut out with a Tim Holtz die.

On the first card and on this one the sentiment is 

a digital sentiment. I printed it on the paper

before I started stamping.

You can find these words HERE.

They are by Create with TLC.

Thank you for looking!

Have a creative day!

Mini Book Part 3

As part of the Club Scrap technique challenge in 

June i shared with you my version of this mini book.

It is about my daughters pegnancy. 

Now that the babies have  been born, I can finish the

book and here you can see the last paes and

the tag in the middle of the book.

For the contruction of this mini book

go HERE,

For the first pages of this book 

go HERE.

First here are the last two pages:

Papers and stamps are all Club Scrap.

The papers are from the May kit  The Blues.

The stamps are from Club Scrap various kits.

My daughter made some beautiful pregnancy

pictures inspired by pictures she noticed on

Pinterest. These are her versions.

I always love black and white pictures

and this one came out absolutely wonderful

and i found a great matching sentiment.

It is from the 2014 August Cinema kit.

In the middle of the book a pocket was

created when folding it. Here I added a tag

and knew I was going to add the babies in there.

This the front of the tag.

My DD's first selfie with the babies.

I love this sentiment from 

2006 It's a Boy/ It's a Girl.

And on the back of the tag it's me,

proud grandma! Sentiment is from 

the same stampset as above and the baby

stamp is from Stampin'up!

The sentiments are stamped in black and

ebossed with clear embossing powder.

Thank you for looking!

Have a creative day!

Sunday Summer challenge card

Today i share with you my card for the Summer Challenge

on the Michael Strong Yahoo group.

The theme is a Lazy Summer Day.

My card is inspired by these flowers.

I just love it when the weather is nice and I can sit in the garden

reading a book.That is a super lazy Summer day.

Here I share with you how I made the background for this card:

I used a leave stencil and 2 green distress inks.

Just tapped the ink on the stencil.

Then I layed the white paper on top of the stencil and 

pressed it with my hand to the stencil.

After pressing, I carefully turned the stencil with 

the paper around,so the stencil is now on top.

Leaving the stencil in place I sprayed

with silver perfect pearl and left it to dry.

Here is the finished background.

While the background was drying I started stamping the 

flowers with yellow and embossed them with clear embossing

powder. When they were al finished I cut them out.

 

In the heart of the flower I added a shiny gold circle sticker

 and on top of that a sticky pearl.

The sentiment is printed with the computer.

Thanks for looking.

Have a creative day!

Happy 4th of July!

Happy 4th of July to all my American Friends!

When looking for some inspiration I came

across these images:

so I knew I had to get out my new Tim Holtz coffee cup die

(that my friend brought me from the US, because it is not available her,

lucky me and thank you friend!)

Also I still had Tim Holtz June tag in my mind,

so go there to see his tag.

So I get to work and take my tag and

first used some burlap distress ink to color the tag direct to paper.

Then I made my own stencil, for I do not have any striped stencil.

With a blending tool and red ink I added

the stripes on the left side of the tag.

This is how it looks when i was done

and you can also see the stencil I made.

On top right some blue ink

and with picket fence white acrylig paint

and the star stencil I finished the background.

Does it look like the US flag, or what?!

Sometimes I do mind to cover

a good looking background, don't you?

Now for the coffee cup:

I cut it out of white paper and colored the borders

with distress ink coffee colored.

The cup holder is cut with dotted blue paper.

On top there is a dotted red rosette with a Michael Strong

star on top. The top of the cup is done the 

same way as you can see on Tim Holtz Blog here.

The spoon for the bird I made myself in photoshop

and you are free to safe the template to your computer

for your own use.

Here you see the bird from Tim's Crazy birds stamp set.

It is colored red andd blue. For the spoon I  made

a tiny slit on top and under the wing to slip the spoon through.

To finish of the tag I colored a ribbon red, and blue,

leaving the middle white and made it into a bow on

top of the tag.

Hope you all have a GREAT day!

Thanks for looking.

Have a creative day!

Wecome little ones!

We are overjoyed to meet this new addition to our family!

They arrived, yesterday June 30 2015.

And of course I had to make a card to welcome them:

These crazy bird stamps by Tim Holtz in

 combination with his baby stamps are just perfect.

For rhe background i used two kinds of stencils

and on the birds another stenil with thee spots

to make themmore interrested to look at.

Fot the baby boys I added some blue flowers

to give it amore cute look.

The sentiment is from my stash

by an unknown company.

I added glossy accent to the baby bottle and the rattle.

Bothe colored with a brush and distress ink with water

from my craft sheet.

We are going to have a lot of fun!!

Have a creative day!