Sunday, May 24, 2020

Coffee Loving Cardmakers Blog hop - Day 3



Day 3 of the
is here and I have 4 cards today.
I received these cards from my husbands daughter
who works for Jura coffeemachines
{already some time ago, but found them again}.
I think the are perfect for a remake!

These are the cards before I remade them.

Here are the finished cards.


Card #1
all stamps by Stampin'Up!
set: Espress Yourself.

Card #2
stamps by Verve Stamps
digital stamps for one of the
previous blog hops.

Card #3
all stamps by Club Scrap
set: Coffeebreak 2016
#sentimentoftheday

Card #4
stamps by Stampin'Up!
two different sets: Coffee Cafe and Perfect Blend.

Thank you for looking.
Stay safe, enjoy your coffee
and keep crafting!

Saturday, May 23, 2020

Coffee Loving Cardmakers Blog Hop - Club Scrap Sentiment of the Day


Here another card today for the 

Since over a month ago I am making one card a day
with one of the Club Scrap stamps that I think is 
appropriate for these stay at home days. This is card #39.
You can see them all on instagram (@4hetty).
So when at home I guess a lot of coffee is being consumed!

For my card I used a stencil that came with the Brewed Awakenings
kit in 2012 (yes, I am a long time member and love to use the oldies).
With 3 colors of distress oxide inks I colored the background
of the card. The cup and the coffee ring are from an even older kit:
 Mocha Java 2002. I embossed the coffee cup with a scented 
emossing powder (creamy coffee). The sentiment is embossed with 
copper embossing powder.

How about the cute little spoon, did you notice that?!
The spoon was stamped on shrinky dinky and before
shrinking it, I added the hole at the top.

I guess this week there will be more coffee choises
for the coffee hop. Don't forget to take a look THERE,
for there are a lot of prizes to win!

Thank you for looking.
Stay safe, drink coffee
and keep crafting!



Coffee Loving Cardmakers Blog Hop - Day 2



Welcome to day 2 of the 

Today i share with you an image by
Bugaboo Digital Stamps for their
Weekly Saturday Challenge on the



This week it is a color challenge with this picture.

Here is my card featering:
The image is colored with Stampin'Blends.

For the background I used these colors of Colorburst.
I added some drops of powder on the card
and sprayed some water on top.
Next I took another piece of card and pressed
it on top and this is the result.

Thank you for looking.
Stay safe, drink coffee
and keep crafting!




Friday, May 22, 2020

Coffee Loving Cardmakers Blog Hop - Day 1

I hope you do, for a week long we are in for a lot of
coffee projects for the coffee blog hop on the

You have to go there and read about it, for there are many
prizes to win by commenting and sharing your own artwork.

Here is my easel card for the first day:
I used some digital stamps from Graciellie Design 
and the paper and the sentiment are by Echo Park.
It is from their 6x6 inch  coffee design papers.


I colored the images with distress oxides and 
a blending tool. Then I cut the cup and the 
wooden heart out with scissors.

Here you see the easel card standing up against the sentiment
that is fastened on the inside of the card.
You see a doily behind the cup, that is a metal die from
my stash and the coffee bean ribbon is also from my stash.

Here you see the card sideways and how easy it is too make.
For a tutorial on the easel card, check my blog HERE.

Hope to see your artwork too!
Thank you for looking.
Stay safe
and keep crafting.









Tuesday, May 19, 2020

Tuesday morning Sketch #555


Today I have some coffee news!!
Yes, there will be another coffee blog hop
organized by the wonderful Amy Tsuruta on the

So as today is Tuesday and I design for the 
Tuesday Morning Sketches,
I wanted you to get in the mood for coffee.
I always am, you know that by now ;-)
Here is sketch #555 and you find all the other
samples of the design team on the
For my card, I turned the sketch upside down
for I wanted to use this cute coffee cups die.

I layered 3 colors of cups on top oc each other,
behind the cute cat from Newton's Nook Design
stamp set called Newton Loves Coffee.

Hope you are inspired to play in the coffee blog hop
for there are many wonderful prizes to win.

Thank you for looking,
stay safe
and keep crafting!





Wednesday, May 13, 2020

Bugaboo Digital Stamps: Humour me Wednesday & Sketch

Good Morning!
Hope I can give you a smile today.
Here my card with Bugaboo Digital stamp

For this card I used Nurse Margaret kiss butt
for yesterday it was International Nurse Day.
But I think these days it is always nurse day.
Thank you for all they do!

I colored the image with Stampin'Blends
and used a digital design paper for the background.
The flowers are fastned with brads and the red cross
is punched out of some left over design paper
 and glued to the brad.

Not only is my card for the Catch the Bug challenge blog,
but I used also the Saturday Sketch #609

Thank you for looking,
stay safe
and keep crafting!



Sunday, May 10, 2020

Happy Mother´s Day!

These are strange times and visiting my Mother
in the care home for Mother´s Day is still a no go.
So my brother and i went on Friday to bring my Mom
a card and flowers. We had to stay behind the glass
 and she was inside (hard for her to understand).

So here my card, for I do hope we soon can have a cup of
tea together and not behind glass!
I also made this card with some of the left overs from
papers I made with my gelli plate for the challenge on the
Club Scrap Chat on Facebook.

Here my cut out for the card.

I started making the background with the teabag stamp
from Club Scrap special kit Infusion (2014) and 
white embossing powder for a resist technique.

Coloring the paper with walnut stain distress oxide ink.

Here the finished background pannel.
The white teabags came out beautiful.

So this is my sentiment of the day
in good hope that we soon can do this again.

Happy Mother's Day to all
mother's, grandmothers and great grandmothers!

Thanks for looking,
stay safe
and keep crafting!






Tuesday, May 5, 2020

Tuesday Morning Sketch #553



Good Morning Stamping Friends,
I have been asked as a Design Member of the
So today I share with you the first sketch.

For my card I used some design paper,
the new release image by Bugaboo from last week
and a sentiment by Create with TLC.
The circles in the backgroud are die cutted with
some circle dies from my stash.

I also used the cute Boo Teddy Bear image
for the inside of the card. It is colored with
stampin'blends by Stampin'Up!

Thank for looking,
 stay safe
and keep crafting!



Monday, May 4, 2020

Dutch commemoration of the War


In the Netherlands we commemorate the victims of the War.
At 20.00 we are silent for 2 minutes all over the country.
This year that is a strange commemorations, for we all
are at home watching tv and standing outside at 20.00 o'clock.
It is 75 years ago and special memorials were planned,
but they are all cancelled or without public.

For today I found a very special sentiment by Club Scrap
from the kit Steppin'Out 11/04.

Not only we miss those who did not come back from
the war, but today we also miss those we cannot go to.
All materials are Club Scrap.

For my card I used the Dutch colors of acryl paint,
a 4x6 inch gelli plate and various Club Scrap stencils.

When playing with the gelli plate you end up with
quite a few wonderful papers to play with.

So here is another card and I made the globe with
a stencil belonging to Club Scrap Bookshelves 03/13.


Thanks for looking,
stay safe,
stay free
and keep crafting.