Saturday sketch card: Magical

Today I have two cards for you:

one for Christmas

and one for Hanukkah.

Both Holidays are around the corner.

Tonight we will light the first candle for Hanukkah

and will light one more for another 7 days following.

I used the Freshly Made Sketch for my card.

First with this card i want to wih you all a very

Magical Christmas!

Hope you all have a wonderful time with your family and friends.

This card is made with 

Michael Strong's Christmas tree stamp

Revers Confetti Unicorn stamp

and the sentiment is made up with the computer.

I made these layers on top of each other with foam tape.

First a square of blue, than the trees and the unicorn

(colored with markers), another piece of snow and then the

printed sentiment. The back panel is embossed and the 

snow flake paper is a piece of design paper.

With this card I want to wish all my Jewish friends

a wonderful and Happy Hanukkah.

For this card I used:

Michael Strong's digital freebie Chanukiah

Revers Confetti Unicorn stamp

dreidl and star stamps from old SU! sets

dreidl paper punch

sentiment made up with the computer

Here you see the close up of the middle panel.

I colord the chanukiah with photoshop. You can grab

this digital freebie here. The unicorn is colored with markers

and the backgroudis stamped with different colors of blue.

The layeres of paper are on top of ech other with foam tape.

Thank you so very much for looking

and hope you all have some

Magical Creative Day's!

Michael Strong Hanukkah digital image

As Hanukkah is also nearly there

(Christmas and Hanukkah are overlapping this year)

here is a tip for a quick card.

Michael Strong has this wonderful digital Chanukkiah 

on his blog HERE.

 You can download the image to your own computer

and can use it however large you want.

That is the advantage of digital images.

First I made the background of the card

by making the image real small and a lot of them

on a sheet. I printed this on of white paper

and used this for a background panel.

Next I printed the coloured image.

A piece of gold paper behind the image a 

sentiment stamped and a ribbon and

this is a quick card, especially if you need

to make more. The first one always takes

a little figuring out.

Thanks for looking

and have a creative day.

Happy Winter

As today is the first day of winter, 

I had to make this card with my new papers

and stamps from Club Scrap.

This month the kit is called

Shades of Winter.

I have seen this kind of snowman around

and never tried it. It is very easy to do

after cutting 3 different size of circles.

The hat is a bunch from SU! and the face is

made with an old stamp from SU!

I love the snowflake stickers that kame with the

Shades of Winter kit and you will see more

of those when you stop by on out

monthly blog hop after the Holidays.

Thanks for looking

and have a creative day!

Club Scrap Dec card sketch: Hanukkah

On the Club Scrap Forum there are many challenges

and the monthly card scketch is one of them.

This is the sketch for December

and a wonderful easy sketch.

As my kit only just arrived and I quickly

had to cut my stamps, they are waiting to be

used for more cards, I started with making this one.

As Hanukkah is this year starting at the same time as Christmas

i need to make some Hanukkah cards. The sketch is perfect for 

y card. i got out some of the old Club Scrap stamps for

Hanukkah and stamped them on the Shades of Winter

paper background. Then cut them into 1 inch strips and

rounding of the corners. The other papers are from the 

Boardwalk kit. Wanted to keep my December Shades of Winter 

papers for later. On the candles i added some sticky gemstones, 

you just hardly see them on the picture.

Thanks for looking

and have a creative day!

Coffee Blog Hop aftermath

Now that the blog hop is over, I am left with some project,

I just had no time to add anymore, but do want to share with you.

This is not a card, have no idea how to call this,

so if you have an idea, let me know in the comment box.

I used Tim Hotz coffee cup die and Stampin'Up!

Cookie-Cutter Christmas stampset and matching paper punch.

This blog holds the paper card. I have it for ages

and when I got the Christmas stuff out, I found it again 

and suddenly had the idea for this "card".

I cut out the rectangular shape in the sleeve added

vellum paper and stamped the sentiment on it.

Inside the cups I added the gingerbread men.

When it is dark I put the light on.

There were a lot of freebies along the 

blog hop and i hardly had time to use them all.

Here is the Marshmallow Snowman

from Jessicalynn Original.

I colored the image with photoshop and printed

it twice. The sentiment is from Create with TLC.

After cutting the image with an oval die, I cut out the

cup and the snowman and added it with foamtape

to the cup, to add some dimention. Do you notice the

image on the cup? Yes! Brentwood is there!

Another freebie is the sentiment from Create with TLC

and I love it, so I cut another cup with the die

of Tim and and images from the SU! stampset.

The background paper is also from Create with TLC.

Some more freebies were there that I haven't used yet

and hope to share with you another time.

Thanks for looking

and have a latte creative day!

Sunday scrap page: boys & toys

Welcome to another scrap page Sunday.

We took the grandkids to a wonderful car museum 

on our babysit day. It was so large and there was so much to 

see, even DH forgot to take pictures!

The museum is called the Louwman Museum and

all the info about it can be found HERE.

For this page I used Club Scrap Literature papers

and Michael Strong alphabeth stamps.

The border on this pocket (with the museum folder inside)

is made with Michael Strong circle from the

nonagon stamp. It does look like a wheel from a car.

Thank you for looking 

and have a creative day!

Saturday sketch card: Christmas trees

Happy Saturday!

Her is my sketch card for today.

I used the sketch from 

CAS(E) this sketch! Blog

and you find all the details here.

For my card I used the smallest of

Michael Strongs Christmas tree stamps.

I started with stamping the tree with versamark

and embossing the trees with white embossing powder.

Next I punched out a moon of post it paper

and then i colored the background in two shades

of blue. At the bottom there is a piece of post it note

to leave a border of white.

It was so much fun making this sketch, I made two cards.

On both cards you find sentiments from Stampin'Up!.

On both cards I splashed some white distress ink

and layered them on silver paper. it is a pity

you cannot see that well on the pictures.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!

Final Day Coffeelovers Hop: From my cup to yours

For the last day I am playing with some of the 

freebies for the Coffeelovers Hop. Here you find the one

from Verve Stamps, but on Flickr I have some more 

cards with other images.

I colored the image in Photoshop and printed out the image

3 times. Forst the complete image on the card with

design paper background. Next only the cups cut out and

the 3rd layer is the red cup and the holly. All added

with foam tape to make a higher layer.

Here the inside of the card. I used the left over

blue cup inside.

Hope you can see all the layers here.

You still have all day to add your card to the 

Coffeelovers Blog Hop

and have a chance to win one of the fabulous prizes.

Thank you for looking 

and have a latte creative day!

Day 7 Coffee Lovers Hop: Club Scrap technique challenge

Goodmorning on day 7 of the Coffeelovers Blog Hop

and also the Club Scrap Technique Challenge.

Well not really a technique. We were to make a non traditional

Christmas card, so I used my coffee filled mind to come 

up with an idea.

For the card I used:

                       Club Scrap Literature kit papers, 

 Club Scrap mocha java remix stamps

Tim Holtz thinlitz dies

sentiment is from Club Scrap A very Groovy Christmas

a piece of gold thread

scented embossing powder

and 2 sticky pearls.

Yes, i used coffee scented embossing powder for this 

sentiment, so the card really smells of coffee when

you get it out of the envelop.

There is still time to add your card to the linky party of the

Coffeelovers Blog Hop. Go there and see what wonderful

prizes you can win.

Thank you for looking 

and have a latte creative day!

Day 6 Coffeelovers Hop: Coffee Carousel

For day 6 of the Coffeelovers Blog hop

I found this fun carousel at a Dutch store called Flying Tigers.

You can add pictures in each frame and I was thinking

of making a lot of fun atc's.

But then I looked at the pictures again and they were fun.

How about just adding all kinds of  coffee cups?

So that is what I did today. One can always take 

these pictures out and add other ones.

For all the cards I used cups from

Create a Smile and Lawn Fawn.

The sentiment is by Verve Stamps.

All the images are colored with markers.

Please do not forget to visit the  main site of

the CoffeeLovers Blog Hop and see

all the other wonderful cards for inspiration.

If you link your card, there are amazing prizes to win.

Thanks for looking

and have a latte creative day!