Amaryllis Christmas

While a lot of my stamping friends are celebrating

Thanksgiving (I hope you all have a great one),

I am getting ready for a Club Scrap blog hop on Saturday

November 26 with the Christmas Thyme digital images.

With this card I hope to wet your appetite, so you will

come back tomorrow and see what the Club Scrap

Artist Team and some of the members have come 

up with for you.

As I also do the color challenge on 

The Daily Marker Blog

I colored the amaryllis image with pencil.

Thank you for looking

and see you on Saturday!

Creative greetings,

Espresso Day

As you know by now my love for coffee is endless.

i just learned today is National Espresso Day in the USA.

How can I pass on that!

So here is a quick card! I was inspired by (a totally different) 

card on pinterest. Just a piece of lovely paper, an open die cut

and a sentiment. All by Stampin'Up!, unfortunately retires sets

and papers. So I am happy I still have some papers and loving the sets.

As the above card did not have any coloring done

for The Daily Marker Blog color challenge

on day 23

I had to make another card that does.

For this card I used a stamp by Verve Stamps 

and the sentiment by Stampin'Up!.

I stamped the cups with brown ink and colored

with faber Castel pencils.

Thanks for looking

and have a latte creative day!

17th Wedding Anniversary

Today is our 17th wedding anniversary

and because it is Tuesday, we have the grandkids,

but tonight we go out to dinner for a little celebration.

Of course I had to make a card and I used

the Foxy Friends from Stampin'Up! with the 

matching punch for the cute foxes and the sentiment

is from the set Number of Years, also by Stampin'Up!

The bacjground is done with the Woodland embossing

folder. The tiny hearts are from the owl builder punch.

I made the little foxes wobble, just like before

with the snowman.

Here you see the contruction of the wire behind

the foxes.

Special LOVE coffee for DH this morning to start the day.

And another card that is also for the color challenge of

The Daily Marker,

were you also find all the information.

 I colored with Stampin'Up! markers. The image is a color

page i found on pinterest. Here is it for sharing with

my coffee friends:

Just save it to your computer with the right mouse button trick.

Here you see the finished card.

What you don't see well, is the cup is 3d. i colored and

extra cup and added this with foam tape to the image.

Little gemstones to make the card real blingy.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!

Grateful for you

Day 21 of the color challenge is a leave card.

I used a Stampin'Up! set called  Lighthearted Leaves

and matching sizzix dies.

I started with stamping the leave with versamark

and embossed the leave with gold embossing powder.

Then I take my markers and color the leave.

For the background I used the tree embossing folder.

On top of the leave I added a few gemstones.

You find all information of the color challenge

on The Daily Marker Blog.

Thanks for looking

and have a creative day!

Sunday Scrap Page: Sinterklaas

Today i share a page with you about a Dutch tradition

called Sinterklaas. You can read about it here.

It is very much a children's happening

And now with the grandchildren it is very much a fact.

Sinterklaas has arrived from Spain with a boat in 

The Netherlands and children all over put their shoe

out, sing special songs and the next morning find

some candy or a little present in their shoe.

Sinterklaas has helpers called "Piet". They come through

the chimney to deliver the presents, so that is why they

 have these black spots on their faces. Children love 

to dress up as Piet. So that is why I decided to color 

Piet for my scrap page. The head of Piet is from a 

children's color book and his color is made 

with a Michael Strong stamp.

I used the Cloisonné Nonagon stamp. With versamark

 and black embossing powder I stamped it on white

paper and colored all the images with watercolor.

With the head of Piet and the collar from the nonagon stamp

I made 3 figures (Owen and the twin) for the scrap page.

The boys look just too cute! Thanks to my DD for the

lovely pictures.

I also made this page for the color challlenge on

The Daily Marker, 

where you find all the information.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day.

Thankful leaves FMS263

Here is my card for day 19 of the

Color challenge on

The Daily Marker Blog.

You find all the details there.

But this card is also a scketch challenge from the

Freshley Made Sketches Blog.

The color inspriation is from outside in my garden.

The beautiful yellow tree and

all the leaves on the ground.

So I started my card with stamping 

Michael Strong's pumpkin stamps and embossed 

them with Orient Express embossing powder.

The next step is cutting some leave shapes out of the 

pumpkin with thinlits from Stampin'Up!

Here are all the leaves for my card.

So I took my distress markers and colored

all the leaves.

For the finished card I added tiny yellow and green

gemstones. You see also leaves on the background.

Thoose are embossed on the card and colored

with brown distress ink.

For the bottom of the card I used this lined design paper

and had the idea of writing the word thankful on

those lines with a black pen.

And this is the result on the card. 

The sentiment is from Tim Holtz.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!

Club Scrap Artist Team Challenge

Here we are with another team challenge

from the Club Scrap Artist Team.

This time we were given two rubber stamp sets

and some bling gemstones to create cards,

lay outs or a project with.

I hope you arrived here from 

Pam's Blog

and seen her wonderful artwork.

First I show you the stamps:

This is the Girlfriends set and you find it HERE.

and the other set:

Enchanted Forest, which is HERE.

We were also given some wonderful

sticky gemstones.

Only the stamps took a VERY LONG time to

arrive here to play with , so Club Scrap send me 

the digital Enchanted Forest images

and I started to play with the quick layout.

This was a learning experience for me, for I had no idea how

to add the picture. Luckily I found a patient colleague at

work, who explained to me how to do this and it worked!

The page is with a picture with my DD and GS, when we

were visiting Fairyland in April. You see Red Riding Hood

and Sleeping Beauty. Perfect for this page.

Then suddenly my pizzabox arrived (when you read this

it is Friday and I got my box on Thursday). So quickly 

I cut the stamps an made 3 cards to share with you.

For the two outside cards I used this month

technique challenge: stamping with an acrylic block.

I can tell you, it is a perfect technique for quick cards.

Take an acrylic block, some stamp pads, cardstock

and a spray bottle with water.

Add the ink of the pads direct to the acrylic block

and spray it lightly 

Now you stamp the block to the cardstock

and this is the result.

On top of the colors I stamped thes flowers from the

Girlfriends set.

Here is the first finished card.

I added the sentiment and colored it

with pencil in the same colors as the ink/

The card is finished of with some of the 

gemstones in the hearts of the flowers,

For the 2nd card I colored the flowers 

a little more with pencils. The are aquarel pencils

so after coloring I added a little water to it.

And here is the finished card. Love the flowers,

they are great for note cards.

The last card is made with the Enchanted Forrest

stamps and the sentiment is from Gnome for The Holidays

from 2013. Here I share how I made the background:

In the middle you see the finished background.

I used copy paper and circle dies to make thes masks.

I started with the paper with the smallest circle and

yellow ink. Then covered the small circle and used the

larger circle template to color with orange ink. The largest

circle covers the yellow and the orange and now with blue 

ink I cover all of the background. The spots are made 

with drops of water. The background is ready for stamping.

Now this was it for today,

but this month we have many more inspiration for you.

On Saturday Nov 26 we have a Christmas inspiration 

Blog Hop for you.

On November 30 ther is the monthly kit Blog Hop.

Now for more stamping inspiration go to

Jennifer's Blog.

If you happen to loose your way, you can always go back

to the Club Scrap Blog.

Thank you very much for looking

and have a creative day!