Birthday Pizza

Today I share a card with you  that I made for a sketch

challenge and is a great male card for a birthday.

I used the stamps and papers from Club Scrap's

Trattoiria November kit.

You find the stamps HERE and HERE.

I colored the pizza with my zig waterbrush markers.

The red background is a panel I had left over from

printing the digital backgrounds and was perfect to use here.

The baker's twine is from my stash and makes all the colors

together so Italian.

This is the sketch I used from the

Just Add Ink Blog.

Don't you love this sentiment?!

And here is the inside of the card with some left over

pizza parts and a hand drawn line around the border.

The sentiment comes with the stamps.

Thank you for looking

and have a delicious creative day!

Scrapbook sketch

For the first time I tried to do a complete digital scrapbook page.

I used the November Trattoria images by Club Scrap.

You find the digital kit HERE. 

The pictures you see here are from a vacation in Italy and

fit perfectly in the theme of this month.

(click on the picture for a better and larger version).

Here you see the original sketch from

the Stuck Sketches blog.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!

Owl I want for Christmas is .....

Just in the nick of time I made my card for

the progressive challenge on 

the Limited Runs Facebook group.

I was inspired by the sketch challenge

on the Saturday Sketch Blog.

On the front of the cardI used the owl image of the progressive challenge

and some lovely Christmas design paper. The branches are thinlit dies

by Tim Holtz and the sentiment is printed with the computer.

Not only did I decorate the outside,

I also made an owl for the inside!

Both owls are colored in photoshop and cut out

after printing.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!

Sketch Sunday: FMS #312

Today I go for the sketch on the FMS blog

and this one is so much fun I made two cards!

You find all the details and more inspiration on the

Freshly Made Sketches Blog here.

For my cards I used some design paper blocks

( I try not to buy any new ones this year) 

and Michael Strong rubber stamps.

The sentiments from both cards are from 

the Words & Phrases set and on this card

I also used the Snow Pals rubber stamp.

The snowman is colored with markers and 

cut out by hand with scissors.

For this card I used the middle size tree of the

Cloisonné Christmas Tree set. I used versamark

ink and embossed the tree in white. Then using the matching

metal die to cut the tree. The tree is decorated with

red sticky gemstones.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!

11 November: St. Martin's treats

Today we have a special childrens festival in The Netherlands

that is called St. Martin's Day and you find all info about it HERE.

It is a bit like Halloween, kids go with paper lanterns 

and sing after knocking  at the doors in the neighberhood and get 

candy treats. So this is what I came up with for this year:

Two kinds of packes.

The first one is a cover for a lollypop.

It starts with a strip of cardstock of 9 x 2 inch of your color choice.

Then score the long side on: 3 5/8 - 4 3/8 - 8 1/8 - 8 1/4"

On the top you make a little whole between the two thin

lines for the sticks. Next I stamped the circle of Michael Strong

in red on blue paper. Next cut it with a circle die.

For decoration i found an image of paper lanterns on 

google and printed it on copy paper and cut it to size 

to glue to the front and the back of the treat bag.

To finish the paper lanterns I glued tiny black strips

on top and bottom, made a whole in the top for a piece

of backers twine,

Here you see the finished paper lanterns that go on

the treat bag with a piece of foam tape.

Finished bags with lollypops inside. 

On top the message says Happy St. Martin's Day.

Side view!

One more side view.

These are the other bags I made . It is a 6x6 inch piece

of designers cardstock just folded into a square package

with candy inside and tese cute Love Cynthia digital

images on the front. I have printed them and cut out.

The moon is made with a circle punch.

In the corner of the pouch I made a whole to put a ribbon

through with either a wish attached or a bat.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!

Pizza Box arrival and sketch card

Yes, my real papers and stamps have arrived today!

This November kit is a lot of pizza and is called Trattoria.

You find all the papers and stamps here in Club Scrap's Shop.

For this card I combined the digital kit and 

the real papers and stamp.

I used the sketch  from the Sketch Saturday Blog.

Thank you for looking

amd have a creative day!

Freshly Made sketches 311

Here another Christmas card that is very easy to do. 

No special technique needed, just some stamping and embossing..

I used some design paper for the back,

stamped the woodgrain with a Stampin'Up! Stamp

and the bauble is by Michael Strong and you find it here.

It is a set of a large and a small stamp and for this card I used the

small stamp and embossed it with white embossing powder.

You find the sketch, all the details

and more samples on the

Freshly Made Sketches Blog.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!

Club Scrap Trattoria for November

Let me intriduce you to the new Club Scrap Kit for November:

Trattoria: all about pizza.

And as i wait for the papers and stamps to arrive, I have played with

the digital images. For only $ 4,95 you can download it here.

Here you get an impression of all the images that

come with the digital kit.

I found the perfect sketch to play.

The sketch fron the CAS(E) this Sketch Blog.

And also this wonderful color challenge

on the Color my heart - color dare blog.

The card  is made with Photoshop and printed

on Club Scrap paper and with several 

papers from other kits glued togeter as a real card.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!

Penguin for the Holidays

Are you already planning your cards for the Holidays?

I have started to make some, so I am not in a rush at the

end of the month. I fou d this wonderful snowflake die

and was thinking how this could be a background for

many (even different kinds) of holiday cards. So here is

the first of more to follow soon!

So I started to cut out the snowflakes and backed it up with

a piece of light blue cardstock. In the middle of each 

snowflake I hadded a holographic silver sticker.

The penguin is from the Penguin Pals by Michael Strong.

Stamped with versamark on black paper and embossed with

white embossing powder, then cut out by hand.

The hat is from an old Stampin'Up set and stamped in red,

cut out by hand and added with foam tape.

Tghe sentiment is from one of my Club Scrap sets.

This one is called Aspen (2013).

Thank you for looking and have a creative day!

Simon Says Stamp Challenges

So when I noticed the Monday Challenge on 

the Simon Says Stamp blog and started

thinking what to make, I noticed the

Wednesday challenge today and came up 

with a combination of the two.

Simon Says Stamp on Monday:

All creatures great and small.

Simon Says Stamp on Wednesday:

Christmas gift tag.

I started out with red and green colors for a

Christmas background in the direct to paper technique.

Next I got out my new Tim Holtz stencil

and vintage photo ink to add some more 

dimention to the tag.

Oh and don't forget some cup rings with my

club scrap ring stamp.

Then some teacups cut out and a cat and hat

stamped and colored with watercolor zig markers.

And so it all comes together on the tag!

With a sentiment stamped on the bottom

and a real tea label from my last cuppa!

Thanks for looking

and have a creative day!