Hanukkah

Tonight we light the first candle for Hanukkah.

We will do so for 8 days: every day one candle more.

But there are 9......?

Number 9 is the helper candle. This one lights the other candles.

You want to know more about this Jewish Holiday?

Take a look HERE.

This first card is made with rubber stamps by

Zum Gali  Gali rubber stamps.

For the background I  stamped the dreidel in versamark

and clear embossingpowder. Next I colored the paper with

broken china distress oxide ink and stamped the Hebrew letters.

This is called a resist technique.

The image and sentiment are embossed with black embossing

powder and colored a little with a blue marker.

For the second card I used a combination of the 

Zum Gali Gali window/ dreidel stamp, Tim Holtz stencils

and the Stampin Up sentiment.No special technique here.

And this card is made with only Tim Holtz stencils

and a Stampin Up sentiment. 

Every year I hope that Tim will have something

I can use for Hanukkah, like a candle, or a 

6 pointed star or at least Happy Hanukkah.

Not that i have not asked him...but no result so far :-(

I made the candles out of the stencil THS102

by covering it with post-it notes.

The stars are first done with markers and stencil

Falling stars THS 115   and then with fossilized amber and

a blending tool to make the stars glitter.

The background is done with the 

latticework THS 019 and vintage

oxide ink.

Thank you so much for looking

and have a wonderful Hanukkah!

Brew-ti-ful Christmas

Today I made two Christmas cards with the Club Scrap

Coffeehouse kit. This first one is made with the 

Hybrid Coffeehouse kit (only $ 4,95) and photoshop.

Then i wanted to try if I could make the same kind

of card with real rubber stamps.

And here is the result. You find the Coffeehouse rubber stamps HERE.

I wanted to share with you how I made the coffee cup in

two colors, so the Christmas tree comes out (much easier in 

photoshop!).

For this i used my Tim Holtz Stamparatus.

I started by stamping the image on a piece of 

post-it.

Next I cut out the inside of the cup

and added the inside to the paper.

Then I stamped the cup and after the inside post-it note

was removed, this is what is left.

Now to add the outside of the cup over the stamped

image and stamp the inside with green ink.

Here the rsult of the stamping.

I finished the tree with tiny sticky pearls and gemstones.

On top a little wooden star.

I created the sentiment with part of a Coffeehouse stamp

and part of a Tim Holtz stam. They fit nicely together.

Hope my cards give you a latte inspiration.

Thanks for looking

and have a creative day!

A Brew-ti-ful Year

Inspired by the Club Scrap Coffeehouse Card Kit 

instruction, I made these brew-ti-ful calendar cards.

I also used parts of the Hybrid Coffeehouse kit 

for these cards and the sentiment I made up with the computer.

For this card you also need a tiny calendar.

I bought them in a package of 10 in the hobbyshop,

but there are also online calendars you can cut up and glue together.

So what do you need to make this card:

a piece of cardstock of 4.25"x 11"for the base

and a piece of  3" x 5.50 for the front

and all the decorations you want to use.

Of course I used Club Scrap Coffeehouse images.

All the exact instructions come with the cardkit

when you order it (making 12 cards and also

has an instruction video).

When you finish the card, you can flatten it for sending.

With the hybrid kit it is easy to mirror images for

use, like i did here with the cups.

Printing out the tiny tag and addiing some red cardstock

to it and a tiny eyelet that came with the card kit.

Her for you the sentiment to save to your computer

and frint if you decide to make a card like this.

Cheers to the New Year!

And make it a fun one!!

Here the tag is added to the baker's twine

that was added behind the brown panel.

Thank you for looking

and have a latte creative day!

Simon Says: Stars

This card is for the Star Challenge on the

Simon Says Monday Blog.

You find all the details HERE.

For my card I used the large and small

rubber star stamp by Michael Strong.

I started stamping the background with

walnut stain distress oxide ink. I also sprayed some

white ink on it, but that is not very visable on the photo.

The large star is embossed in gold on kraft paper

and cut out with scissors. Next a circle die cut

and the star glued on top.

 The sentiment is a Tim Holtz sticker.

Thank you very much for looking

and have a creative day!

Gnomes in the Coffeehouse

Today I combined the new Club Scrap Coffeehouse hybrid kit

with the 2013 Gnome for the Holidays.

So I startedwith stamping the gnomes

and coloring them with zig markers.

After coloring the gnomes were cut out for

further use.

Card #1

For this card I made the coffeering background 

with photoshop and the Coffeehouse hybrid kit.

the other images I printed and cut out to use for this card.

The tag is added with bakers twine to the cup

and for extra dimention sticky pearls are added.

Even gnomes need coffee, right?!

Card #2

For this card the sentiment is also from the

Gnome rubber stampset (unfortunately not available anymore).

For this card I used the same coffeering background.

This gnome is having a warm coffee bath.

It looks like he is enjoying warm feet.

So there are two gnomes left for

more cards. See you soon!

Thanks for looking

and have a latte creative day!

Club Scrap Coffeehouse

Yippee!!

Club Scrap has done it again.

Yes another coffee themed kit:

digital and real paper.

I LOVE it!!

Take a look here:

While waiting for the papers to arrive,

I downloaded the Digital Kit to play with.

You find the Hybrid Coffee House images HERE.

And it is only $ 4,95.

So here my first two cards. I made the cards first in photoshop

and saved them as jpg. Next I printed the images twice to make

real cards with it.

Card #1

For this card I used a piece of dotted scrap paper

in the background. I cut the border of cups off the 

2nd print and added it with foam tape to the card.

For some more dimention I added a little gemstone

on top and on the bottom of the card in the center

of the devider image.

Card #2

Here I added some more color on the middle panel

of the card by using the same mustard color as the card.

Here you can see the layering of the card. I used foam tape.

Also here some extra dimention with sticky gemstones.

More to come soon ;-)

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!

Limited Runs Christmas Challenge

Hereby my contribution for the challenge on Facebook

of Limited Runs Digital Stamps.

It is to make a Christmas or winter card.

I made this cute litte tag to go with this 

hyacint gift.

I loved the lightning on the pot!!

Here you see the tag close up.

it is made out of two images:

The santa and the coffee cup.

The sentiment I made with the computer.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!