Happy St. Patrick's Day

With this card I want to wish you all a very 

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

I made my card for the 

Coffee Loving Cardmakers Blog.

This picture is the inspiration.

And I made it for the monochrome challenge on

the Die Cut Diva's Blog.

On the coffee cup (dies from Stampin'Up!) I added

this clover, that is made with the mini heart stamps

from Michael Strong and in the middle a sticky gemstone.

The sentiment is made up of stickers by Tim Holtz.

The cirl is a stamp by Love Cynthia from the 

Coffee Addict stamp set. The image is colored

with my zig markers.

Here a close up on the ribbon.  It is one from Tim Holtz's

ideology serie and is colored with a green marker on

the outside of the ribbon.

Thank you very much for looking

and have a creative day!

Cupcake inspirations #441

Here is my card for the challenge on the

Cupcake Inspirations Blog.

For my card I used the mini cats and dogs stamps

by Tim Holtz stamped on craft paper.

Embossed with white and colored with pencil.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!

Lucky cat for Limited Runs stamps challenge

Here is my card for the progressive challenge

from Limited Runs Digital Stamps.

You find the image HERE, and if you play

you get a freebie to play the next challenge.

I printed the image twice and colored the cat with

my zig markers. Next cutting out the full cat and just 

the head of the other one. I contstructed a wobble

like I did before HERE and so the head can move.

The background is made with a paw embossingfolder

with some walnut stain distress ink. The ribbon is

the one I colored yesterday with the left over ink from

the direct to paper technique.

The clover is a paper punch and the word lucky is

cut out with a thinlit from a Tim Holtz word set.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!

Green for CAS(E) this Sketch #262

Hello!

Here my card for the sketch on

the CAS(E) this sketch blog here.

I started  with making the background with these

3 colors of oxide ink with the direct to paper technique.

The left over ink I used to color a ribbon, I will use 

this week for another card.

Then I used some drops of water 

and a stencil with evergreen bough 

distress ink.

The backgroun now looks like this.

The clover is made with  a heart die from the serie

movers and shapers, distressed and after wrapping the 

Tim Holtz stripes a paper string around the card, 

glued on top of the string.

The sentiments are new quote chips by Tim Holtz.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day! 

CAS(E) this sketch #93

While waiting for some real stamps and papers to arrive

from Club Scrap's March kit, I used the Daffodils hybrid kit

to make this card.

I used the sketch from the 

CAS(E) this Sketch! Blog.

I printed the background with the border I made

in photoshop. The daffodils I printed extra to make

the 3d flower on top of the border. I aslo added

a few sticky dots in yellow and green.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!

Club Scrap March kit: Daffodils

A new month, a new Club Scrap kit. 

This month the kit is called: Daffodils.

I love bulbs and this time of the year I always

buy little pots of these for inside and plant them later

in the garden in Autumn, so I have more and more bulbs

every year. They make it feel like Spring is on the way.

My scrap page is made with photoshop. As you can read from the 

journaling, iIam still not well. I had the flue for a long time,

I thought I was better and now I have this throat infection.

Outside it is very cold and and inside it is nice and warm,

sipping my tea with honey to get better soon!

You find the Club Scrap Daffodils hybrid kit HERE

for only $ 4,95!

All these images come with the hybrit kit.

Great for cards and scrapbooking.

Even if you are not handy with programs like 

photoshop, you can print, color and cut all the

images and make uo your own cards.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!

Club Scrap Steamworks linky party

This week I received the perfect picture to make a scrap page

for the linky party of Febuary's Club Scrap Steamworks images.

I used the digital Steamworks kit and photoshop to make this page. 

My grandson was in a museum with his other grandparents.

We share pictures in a family group and when I saw this,

I knew I had found the right picture for this month.

I am getting better using layers in Photoshop, now I need to learn

more about effects. I learned to color the background, but

would love to have a more gradient border. Step by step it is

getting better, but not as good as some I see around.......one day!

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!

Happy Birthday, Zora!

Happy Birthday to my youngest daughter Zora!

We had a wonderful celebration at her house yesterday.

Wishing you a wonderful year full of love, great work, happiness

and wonderful party's!

As my daughter has two very sweet cats, I dug out some

old Maryse Carier stamps, perfect for this occasion.

Stamped and embossed in black and colored with my zig markers.

Inside the card I made acute envelope to hide the money.

Made the envelope with the envelope punch board.

Have a great birthday, Zora!

Thanks for looking

and have a creative day!

Cupcake Inspirations #440

Happy Sunday!

Today my card is for a white color challenge.

As I have been having the flu for over a week

and not touched any coffee, I could resist making 

a coffee card.

My card is for this color challenge on the

Cupcake Inspiration Blog.

For my card I started out making the background

with 2 embossing folders. On top of the panel I used

the coffee bean folder. The words you see are stickers

out of a Tim Holtz sticker book.

At the bottom of the card I used the new Sizzix

coffee ring folder. The ribbon is from my favorite

DL.ART store from my friend Diana Larson.

The cup is cut out of white paper with thinlits

from Stampin'Up! and decorated with paper flowers

and a button in the heart of the flower.

I used a little fossilized amber oxide distress in

around the back panel and the cup, kind of

cake color.

Thanks for looking

and have a creative day!

Year of the Dog

The Chinese New Year has started and this time it is the Year of the Dog.

As I do not have many people to send cards to, I decided to make a

birthday card for dog lovers and I enter my card for the challenge on the

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge Blog.

And Simon says:

Add a die.

See all the samples HERE.

For my card I used a FREE dog image, that you can find on the

blog of Michael Strong HERE. For the background I 

used several washi tapes on a scrap piece of paper 

and cut it out with a circle die. Then I used the matching

scallop die for the black circle. Before adding the circle

to the card I adde the pendant washi tape to the card 

and matched up the circle.

When the circle was on the card I stamped the dog bones,

the food bowl and sentiment (all by Tim Holtz).

The dog and the bowl are colored with pencil

and the bones are colored with a white gel pen.

Thank you so much for looking

and have a creative New Year!

Valentine's

Besidews making a card for my wonderful husband,

I also make cards for my 2 daughters.

Here is the first one for my eldest.

Lately we share a love for coffee and so I made

her this coffee card.

I also want to enter this card for the Paper Players

color challenge.

Background made with direct to paper technique and

a stencil. The cup is a die from Stampin'Up! as well

as the paper I used for the sleeve of the cup.

The heart is covered with glossy accent.

Do you see the cute little silver spoon next to the cup?

I composed the sentiment with Tim Holtz stickers

a stamp for the & and a Verve die for coffee.

Here the inside of the card with a leftover

strip from the front panel, some hearts

and a sentiment (both Tim Holtz)

and my favorite Club Scrap coffee ring stamp.

The second card is for my youngest daughter

and made with Club Scrap Valentine's stamps (2008).

On top of the card I did the faux postage technique

and the hearts are colored with a red marker and

on top glossy accent (I seem to use this a lot lately!).

I also made some cards with my grandson yesterday.

He made his kisses so colorful

and even added the names of his brothers.

Colorful closing of the envelop.

In The Netherlands we had free postage on Valentine cards

if you add  a lipstick kiss. So here you see Owen

kissing the enveloppes and make them ready for sending.

And here they go!

Hope you all have a wonderful Valentine's Day

and thanks for looking!