London Olympics

 My friend Paulette, from Create with TLC

has a wonderful Olympic Subway FREEBIE

on her blog today and I just had to play with it.

 I googled a vintage Olympic image for the background

of this card. Made some Brittish pennants to the size

of my SU! pennant punch. Cut out a Florish Floral with

a tim Holtz die and completed the card with a few

flowers with the Olympic rings on top.

When I start playing I always get more ideas.

With the 5 colors of the Olympic rings in acrylic paint

and the lid of my water bottle I made this Olympic

background by stamping with the lid on my card.

 Left the middle part unstamped for the embellishment.

 Here is the finished card.

Now back to the television, for I don't want to miss

seeing just Justin Bolt running.

 Have a creative day!

Watercolor Crayon Technique

 Every  month I have a new technique challenge on the 

Club Scrap forum. This month I chose for the

watercolor crayons. You can use them to make great quick

and easy backgrounds. Also for stamping. 

Here a quick tutorial.

1. (Above) Start with coloring around your card with

a few colors of watercolor crayons.

2. Take a cup of water and a brush.

Dip your brush in water and paint over the watercolor

crayons. This way you make a wonderful background

for your card.

 3. Here is the finished card, for which I used

Club Scrap Wild Flowes stamps an papers.

 4. Ok, now I just had to make another coffee card.

For this I chose my background with more 

coffee colored watercolor crayons.

 5. As I stated above, you can also color your

stamp with the crayon. For this you dip the crayon

in your cup of water and then color your stamp with it.

6. Here the result of the stamping.

Another background ready for a card.

This technique is real fun and easy.

7. And this is the finished card.

I used Club Scrap Mocha Java card paper

and ring stamp. Sentiment and cup are from the

Brewed Awakenings kit.

 Not only is this a wonderful technique for cards, but
it is also great to make your own scrapbook page
background. You do not have to add color only to
the border, but you can make doodles with the crayond
and add water to color the complete page.

Here is the finished page with hearts of
Michael Strong and

a sentiment by Create with TLC.

 Have a creative day!

More coffee

 

On going with my coffee card addiction!

Here is another card made with the 

following stamps:

Create with TLC digital background

Club Scrap coffee rings

Michael Strong mini coffee cup

Here are a few details of how the card was made:

I started with printing the digital coffee background

on kraft paper. Cut it to size and stamped the rings on the border 

of the card. Disstressed the border and used vintage photo

distress ink and a blending tool to color the border of the  card.

Stamping the mini coffee cups on dark brown paper with

versamark and embossed them with creamy coffee

embossing powder. Yes, there is coffee scented 

embossing powder, I googled it and found some HERE.

 The cups were cut out and added to the background

with foam tape. On the clock there are Time Holtz ideology

gadget gears to make the clock look more real.

On top of the card there are 3 sticky pearls.

 I also decorated the inside of the card.

The sentiment and the picture areby Create with TLC 

and on the border I used the coffe rings by Club Scrap.

If you love coffee as much as |i do,

please come back soon, for I have more projects

in the making.

Have a creative day!

Michael Strong SUMMER blog hop and CANDY!!

 

welcome to the Michael Strong

 

Blog Hop!

Here is another inspirational blog hop

with Michael Strong Stamps.

The theme of the blog hop is SUMMER.

Many of us make lots of colorful pictures in 

the summer and thse are perfect for scrap cards 

and embellish these cards with your stamps.

In this post I have 3 cards to share with you.

For the first card I used Mike's mini butterfly stamps

and  the metalic butterfly die that goes with it.

 

The reason is I noticed many people asked me 

how these dies are used, so I have made a turorial for you.

 

You need:

 butterfly mini stamp

and butterfly die

cardstock and parchment paper

versamark, gold embossing powder

heatgun

cuttlebug or other same sort machine

1. Start with stamping your stamp with versamark

on the parchment paper, sprinke gold embossingpowder

on top and use heat gun.

2. take cardstock and butterfly die

and make the right sandwich for

the cuttlebug.

3.Run the sandwich through the cuttlebug.

4. Take the butterfly out of the shape

and put aside for later.

What is left is a template you want to use.

5. Lay the template on top of your stamped

and emossed butterfly on parchment paper.

Take a pen to mark the dots next to the image.

6. Take the template of the parchment

and you see those marked dots.

7. Take your die again and put this on top

of the stamped image.

Make sure the dots are underneath 

the circles of the die.

When you do not want the die to move

you can secure it with a piece of tape.

8. Make the sandwich and run everything

through your machine.

9. You should have a perfect cut butterfly

ready for use.

10.Fold the wings of the butterfly

on both sides.

11. Take a piece of double sided foam tape

and adhere this to the body of the

butterfly.

12. Take the cut out cardstock butterfly

and stick the parchment in its place.

Now it looks like there are real butterflies on your card.

Here a close u. The sentiment is by Club Scrap.

Now for the goodies!

I also have some blog candy for you.

The new hexagon stamp,
that is so wonderful for multiple use. 

You can cut it and make all kinds

of wonderful decorations 
with it on your card.

Today of course I share how
 to make it into a sun with a lovely 
embellisment in the middle.

If you become a follower of my blog.

take a tour around the blog hop

and leave comment everywhere

it can be YOU who will win this new

Michael Strong cloisonné Hexagon stamp!

For the inside I also used dies to make

the shapes next to the sentiment (Club Scrap)

 

This is the heart of the sun, click on the 

photo and you see an even larger version.

And this is my card for Mike's Fun in the Sun

challenge on the Michael Strong Stampgroup.

To create the sun I used Mike's cloisonné circle

and leaves stamps. I embossed gold on gold paper.

In the heart of the sun I added a few gemstones.

Also I used the Alphabet stamps to create 

summer fun outside and inside the card.

Dragonflies are also associated with summer 

and I stamped one on the inside.

Well I think I have given you enough inspiration

and there is much more for you.

So please hop along all these other blogs

and leave some appreciation.

Here is the list of all the blogs you can visit:

Michael Strong

http://www.blog.strongstamps.com/

Rosie Guiher

http://gramig05-playtime.blogspot.nl/2012/07/michael-strong-blog-hop.html

Shelly Schmidt

http://shellymc2.blogspot.com

Deborah Bertholin

http://www.simplesite.com/HomemadeCards/105874866

Hetty Sanders -----> you are here!

http://craftchaos.blogspot.com

Inge Postma

 http://inges-creatie.blogspot.nl

Joanna Mackintosh

http://www.craftyjo.org.uk/

Lola Radnoti

http://raevon59.wordpress.com/2012/07/31/blog-hop-fun-in-the-sun/

  Happy Hopping!

 

Have a creative day!