Surprise Blog Hop for Paulette

All of us at the Design Team of 

Create with TLC

have come up with a surprise Blog Hop for

Paulette,because she needs our hugs 

and yours as well to have a speedy recovery

from her unfotunate fall.

You can read what has happened to here HERE.

She has these wonderful freebies on her blog

every day for us to use on our creations.

Now we can do something back for her.

With all these cards I hope she recovers

soon and hope they all plant a smile on her face.

Thank you for everything, Paulette!

With my first card I want to give you a big HUG, Paulette,

and do hope it makes you feel so much better.

I have bunches of blocks of cute background

papers for cards, but never seem to use them.

I tried to use them on these cards.

For the hug card I  made these cute little hands and 

have added the template for you.

Just click on the image and  save it to your

computer. You can print it any size you need.

The heart on the finger is a sticky gemstone

and the bracelets are made by washi tape.

Those of you who visit my blog regulary

know that I have a speciallove for coffee cards,

so i had to make one for Paulette.

The coffee cup is by Michael Strong and 

stamped with versamark on red paper

and embossed with white embossing powder.

For my last card I used this cute ice cream paper by SU!

(I have it in my stash for quite some time) and think

with the sentiment it makes a cute card.

I printed the sentiment on pistache colored paper

and made this scoop around it and added a scoop

of chocolate too. I added another template here for you.

Here you find all the participants of 

the blog hop:

1. Candy - PurpleCard Lady

2. Desire - DoingLife 

3. Karen - Creative Inspirations byKaren

4. Carla -  Carla'sStamping Spot

5. Ileana - Sparkling Pink

6. Edwina -Edwina's Creations

7. Lynne - Her Craftiness

8. Cynthia - Stampin' in Alaska

9. Vicky - CraftingVicky

10. Jennifer - Just Coffee Please...

11. Hetty - Craft Chaos -You are here

12. Jo Ann - J. Atterbury Creations

We ask you if you can also add a card to the hop,

by making a card with one of Paulettes creations and 

add this card to the link of the 

Create with TLC Blog,
this way she will feel all all your love

and good wishes.

Thank you!

Have a creative day!

TH June tag: Coffee

Here is my version of the June tag

as seen on the Tim Holtz Blog

d there you also find the tutorials on how

 to make your own tag.

I choose to make a coffee tag

with the splatter stencil.

This is the background that I made

with vintage photo,spiced marmalade and 

mustered seed distress ink pad.

As tag I choose a kraft tag and stamped

the border with Club Scrap coffee stains.

How you make the bow is also explained on Tim's blog.

The coffee cups and steam are 

stamps by Michael Strong

and you find the here.

The coffee time clock is a clock plate from my stash

and those spoons are stamps from Club Scrap

stamped on shrink plastic.

The sentiment is by TimHoltz 

(Stampers Anonymous Good Thoughts

CMS085).

I did make some more backgrounds,

but you find out about those soon enough.

Have  a creative day!

TJ Inka Gold technique

Hi stampers,

Here I am with another fun and easy technique

 from the June/July newsleter

by the Technique Junkies.

This technique is called Inka Gold Stamping

and is super easy to do!

For my card I used stampes by

Art Neko

And the suflowers is cut out

with spelbinder dies.

The sentiment is stamped on

the leaves of the flower and embossed

with gold embossing powder.

 Have a creative day!

TJ Gradient Sponging Coffee

The Gradient Sponging technique

is the Technique of the Week

over at the Technique Junkies

yahoogroup. It is a tecnique fro

the June/July 2014 newsletter.

Did you know you can also have a

web only subscriprion? Only $ 9,99

for a year and all the tutorials are printer friendly.

For the front of the card I used:

Michael Strong coffee cup stamp

and a sentiment by My Sentiments Exactly

Inside the card I used Club Scrap stamps

for decoration.

Have a creative day!

CS Picnic: Apron

Imade my husband another card too for Father's Day

because he got anew bbq today and we had a real

fun BBQ dinner party with the family.

I made this card with the digital version

of Club Scrap's Picnic kit.

It is also a great card for invitations

for a BBQ party, here my template for you

so you can make this card too.

The card measures 4 inch by 8 inch folded in half.

The pocket measures 4,5 inch by 2,25 inch incl. the 

glue parts, that are folded around the front of the card.

I printed the blue scare paper from the digitalkit

to cut out a smaller size of the apron to use

for decorating the front.

The glove and the utensils also come as clipart

in this digital kit.You can make themany size you need.

The text is printed and made into a tag

to put into the pocket.

BTW you can also add a recipe inside the card.

As a gift you can hang the apron

around the neck of a bottle.

The pocket is decorated with a 

technique from the latest 

Technique Junkies

newsletter called: Gradient Markers.

Have a creative day!

Father's Day

My all male Sunday Scrap page is about an outing

of my grandson with his dad and uncles.

Happy Father's Day, Frank!!

I used Club Scrap Picnic Papers

(Yes, they have finally arrived!)

and Michael Strong alphabet and house stamp.

Happy (Grand)Father's Day, Mike!

And this card I made for my DH

with a Hero Art car background stamp

and a Technique Junkies background technique.

The technique is called Faux Tiles and can be found

in the June/July nesletter of 2011.

Happy Father's Day,Ray!

And don't you think google is adorable today?

to all your wonderful dad's out there!

Pimping cards

My cards for today are a combination of ready made cards and 

stamped images by Michael Strong.

While i was trying to clean my workspace,

I noticed I had quite a few Michael Strong

stampedimageson my table and put them in apile.

Then I found these cards. They come in an envelop

with a letterasking for a donation to a good cause.

I never seem to use these cards, because I make my own.

I loved the colors and the scenes and for

each of them I found a matching stamp

and added a Michael Strong sentiment.

Now that I have personalized the cards, they are

ready to be send out.

For this card I used the Cloisonné elephant set.

Stamped and embossed the stamps and cut out.

Here I stamped the Snow Pals with black ink

and colored the image with markers.

For the last card I used one of the 

cloisonné cameos. Stamped and embossed

on dark paper with copper and colored with pencil.

Hope I have given you some ideas to use 

your stamps in another way.

Have a creative day!

TJ and CS for Football

The next three weeks it is football

on tv. The world cup in Brazil.

Tonight it is The Netherlands against Spain

and you know me...I have to make a card

for the occasion.

I used some Club Scrap stamps and 

a technique from the latest

Technique Junkies Newsletter:

Patchwork Distress

which is the online bonus technique.

The star is in the TJ Ombre Frames technique

(also from the latest newsletter.

The globe is from CS Bookshelves

and the sentiment is from CS Up, Up & Away.

So,let's play ball!

Have  a creative day!