Coffeelovingcardmakers Blog Hop: day 1

Yippee!

Another coffee blog hop:

time to make lot's of coffee cards again.

Hope you come back every day between

September 25 and October 2nd to see my cards

and my giveaways during the week.

You can see lotsof coffee cards from

the main blog:

The Coffee Lovers Blog

and you can even join in the fun by

linking your card there as well and try to

win one of the awsome prizes.

Here is my first card:

For this card I used a background i had lying around.

I made it with the shaving cream technique.

Used stamps: owl by Michael Strong

oak leaves by Tim Holtz

digitalimage by Create with TLC

The owl is stamped with versamark and embossed with

 copper embossing ink.Then cut out by hand. I stamped an extra

wing, to make it more real that the owl is holding a cup.

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And here my giveaway: I used one of these fun coffee

stickers for my card and there is more to the set,  so I offer my card 

and stickers to one of you who leave a comment to my blog. 

The sentiment is a digital sentiment.

This means you get it to your computer

and print it to any size you want it.

You find it for free on the

Create with TLC Blog HERE.

Thank you very much for looking

and be sure to check in again if you

are a coffee lover.

Have a creative day!

Club Scrap Artist Challenge: a sketch

A sketch challenge for the Club Scrap Artist Team, yeah!

I love sketches as you know

and here is my double scrap page made with the

wonderful Club Scrap September kit called Transformations.

This is the sketch we got.I wasn't into all the tiny squares, so 

I just put them all together as one big oneleaving

much more space for stamping and adding text.

First a little about the page: you see pictures from 

a birthday celebration of my MIL. She does not want to

know her age,but shhhhh it is her 90th birthday!

On these pages you see the grandchildren performing for her.

The large sentiment is from Botanicals.

On this page I also used the technique of the month: bleach.

The stones worked great on the darker paper and when you get

that age,you really rock!

The second sentiment is from a very old Club Scrap kit

called Bistro, but fitting here.

On the green squares I used a flower stamp from the 

April Botanical;s kit with bleach and it gave a 

great effect.

The stones are stamped with black ink on the silver paper 

that came with the kit and are easy to cut in little piles too.

Here the right pageof the lay out:lots of rocks!

The sentiments are typed and printed with the computer.

I used the Painted free font,that you can download HERE.

The rocks are stamped with versamark and embossed with 

black embossing powder. Then colored with pencil.

More ideas on the sketch can be seen at the Club Scrap Blog

and from there you are linked to the other Team members

and their awesome work.

Have a creative day!

Sunday Scrap page: Smooshing and spiders

Last week i shared a picture I made of a spider on Facebook.

I got so many comments, I could not believe it.

It gave me the idea tomake my Sunday page about the spiders!

(Click on the photo for an even larger view)

The technique for the background of this page is the same as my card

from yesterday and it is called "smooshing technique".

It is not invented by me,but has been around on internet.

It is a kind of direct to paper technique, but a little different.

You need:

acrylic sheet

water spritzer

ink: this can be inkpad,marker, ink refil, distress stain

paper towel

heat gun

I used distress stains this time.

Put a few drops of distress stain on the

acrylic sheet,turn it over and press to your paper.

Clean the sheet with a paper towel.

Dry the 1st color with a heat gun.

Put a second color on the acrylic sheet

and press to the paper.

Clean the sheet and dry the second color.

This way the colors down run trough

and you see theme more clearly.

And with the 3rd color you do the same and this is the result.

You see a lot of dotted colors.

If you want it more spread out,you add a few drops of

water to the color on the acrylic sheetbefore

turning it over to the paper.

The rest is the same.

Here you see the difference clearly.

A. color on paper without water

B. color on paper with water

It just depends on what kind of background

you are looking for.

For mys scrap page I used the one with water.

Papers are fro the Club Scrap Cantina Kit.

The Spiderweb is from a Tim Holtz Halloween set

and the leaves are from the new  Michael Strong

Pumpkin Harvest set.

Here you see some details of the finished page.

I colored the leaves with pencil. Stamped some extra 

leaves and cut them out and used double sided foam

tape to add themtothe page. This time I used tiny

golden holographic sticky  circles on the dots

of the design.

The sentiment is printed by computer.

 and decorated with stamps and ink.

Some leaves on the corner of the photo  for decoration.

Thank you for looking!

Have a creative day!

Pumpkin Harvest

Yippee! Michael Strong's new Pumpkin Harvest

stamps have arrived at my doorstep.

So, I just had to play!

These are the new stamps.

A package come with 4 wonderful stamps.

You find the Pumpkin Harvest stamps HERE.

I started with a piece of background paper

i had made before.It was perfect to stamp the leaves

on and emboss with blackembossing powder.

I stamped some extra leaves for cutting.

Colored them with a pine needles marker.

Then cut out the leaves.

Here you see the finished card with

the cut out leaves

added to the sentiment.

I love the dots that Michael Strong adds

to his images.Perfectto add little sticky gemstones.

The sentiment is a digital sentiment

by Create with TLC.

Thank you for looking!

Have a creative day!

Club Scrap Artist Team challenge: Bleach

Every month the Club Scrap Artist Team

has  a technique challenge and this

month it is 

~stamping with bleach~

You can find out about the technique on the 

Club Scrap Blog.

I have two cards for you to share.

I have been trying with bleach on my papers,

but did not get a great result. Not every paper

works with the bleach. Then I remembered 

I did a technique called "Batik Bleach"

(click on the words and you have a printable tutorial)

and that is what I want to share with you here:

I put some papers in a box and took two spray

inks that fitted the papers of the

September "Transformations"- kit: blue and green.

You can use any spray ink you have.

I guess you know why the paper is in a box, because

you don't want ink everywhere on your desk!

After spraying let the ink dry or use your

heat gun if you are in a hurry.

Prepare a tray with a few layers of paper towel

and add some (cheap) bleach.

Take your stamp and use the bleach pad for

stamping. You will notice it takes a little while

to react completely.

These are the two backgrounds I made with some

of the rubber stamps from the

"Transformations"- kit.

Now the pannels are ready to use on a card.

This kit came with some beautiful sentiments

that are great to stamp on this background and

emboss with black embossing powder. The stones

are stamped on black paper and embossed with silver.

As i used only half of the stone pile on the front of the card, 

I used the other half on the inside for decoration.

The second card is with the ginko stamp.

As our neigbours have such a tree in front of their house,

I have many pictures and see that the eaves are starting to fall now.

Besides the bleached background, I also stamped the

leaves on shrink plastic for decoration on top

of the card as falling leaves, to go with the sentiment.

I glued them on the card with glossy accent and added 

also glossy accent on top of the leves to make them shine.

The little strip i had left over i stamped with gold

ink and the leave for decoration inside the card.

Thank you for looking!

Have a creative day!