Happy Earth Day

 Today is EARTH DAY

and this is the scrap page I made to

celebrate this day.

Want to know more about the origin of

Earth Day? Take a look here.

For this page I used Club Scrap paper

from the Blossom kit.

The cranes are stamps by Michael Strong .

I embossed them with purple embossing powder and 

used my blending tool with green and pink

to color them.

Blossom always makes me think of Japaneese

Cherry Blossom pictures. They are always so beautiful,

so that is why I added the cranes.

Have a creative day!

TSSC 217

 Today I was inspired to make this card when I had seen the

Techno Stampers Sketch 217.

Right away I had this idea.

 For this card I used Michael Strong's

Lily Stamp Set.

On the left side i stamped the background stamp 

with versamark on the silver paper

and embossed it with silver embossing powder.

 The sentiment is by 

Create with TLC 

with a few little gemstones.

 The flower is stamped with versamark and embossed

with black embossing powder. The flower is colored with

purple and orange distress ink with a blending tool.

Have a creative day!

Stamp Present

An  birthday card today

and I show you how I did this.

 What do you nees:

- Michael Strong cloisonné square stamp

- scalloped square spellbinder

- mini flower die Michael Strong

- paper, ribbon and brad

- versamark and embossing powder

 1. Stamp square stamp on a piece of scrap paper

or a self made background with versamark and

emboss with any color you fancy. i used orange today.

2. Cut matching scalloped square and mini

flower die from matching paper.

3. Half way the square add a piece of ribbon.

Stick it to the back with tape. Attache the

cut out flower (being the bow) with a brad.

4. Glue everything to the scalloped square.

 You can make as many presents for your card

as you wish. I choose to make two.

Have a creative day!

Stamp&Doodle

Thursday is technique day

over at the Michael Strong Yahoogroup.

And for the technique of today

I was inspired by a video I found on youtube:

The background of the card is made with distress stains

and just like I showed you in my

Sunday tutorial for the blog hop.

(go HERE)

If you want, you can also print out my background and use 

it for your card.

The stamps I used are the large and small

cloisonné flowers by Michael Strong.

I stamped those with blach Archival ink 

on the background and doodled with

a thin black marker.Because Michael's stamp

also looks doodled, it is hard to see what was the stamp

and what did I doodle.

The pot I stamped on a separete piece of  white 

cardstock and embossed with black embossing powder.

I used rangers blending tools to color the pot with the same 

color of distress ink as I used on the distress stain. 

The pot is cut out and on the back a piece of 

foam tape. Now you may wonder how the flower 

got over the pot, when it was stamped on

the background. I used my exacto knife to

cut the two leaves of the flower, so I could fold it

over the pot to look more real.

 Have a creative day!

TH 12 Tags: April

 

Today my envelop from the

Vagabond promotion on the

Sizzix Blog arrived.

Thank you so much.

You want to know where my Vagabond is?

I am # 215.

Today I had my vagabond out

to use my bird cage die for

the April tag of Tim Holtz

12 tags of 2012.

 Here is my version of the April tag.

It took some thinking of what to do without the

bird on the branch die.

But i do like the April Shower idea, so I got the

ubrella man stamp out.

 The bird is from the birdcage die and colored with 

distress ink. The crown is out of metal with the little

crown die (one of the little shape dies).

 The umbrella man is stamped in archival black on

kraft paper and covered with glossy accent. 

The text is printed on kraft paper with the

computer and colored with distress ink.

I love the use of the embossing folder and the 

mirrored stamp. It gives the background such a great look.

Thanks Tim for another great tutorial.

Have a creative day!

Birthday Girls

 Needed some very little girl's birthday cards.

So here are some very cute ones.

The little princes is a digital stamp by Bugaboo

and the subway art is a FREEBIE by Create with TLC

The little punched out flowers i had left over from my Sunday post.

The number stamp embossed in pink is from

the punch&spell  numbers by Michael Strong.

 This one is with the same princess and I made her skirt

3d and added pink glittery stickles and gemstones on her crown.

The pink embossed hearts are also by Michael Strong.

Have a creative day!

Happy Birthday Paulette

 Surprise!!!

Happy Birthday Paulette!

This is a blog hop for you

from all of us from the Design Team of

Create with TLC

We all made you a birthday 

card with a wonderful image from you.

 Want to know how I did this?

I started with saving (right mouse click) this wonderful

image to my computer.

It was here for 24 hours (now you can buy it in

the Create with TLC digi shop HERE)

 Next  take a few distress stain colors and a non-stick

craft sheet. Put some drops of the stains on the sheet.

Hold the printed side of the paper towards the sheet

and wipe some ink on the paper.

This is how it looks. If some parts are not covered wipe it again.

 

When satisfied, dry it with your heat gun.

Take a brush and use some left over drops to

give the flowers and the leaves some extra color.

With a drop of bleach i colored the dove white.

Also the hearts of the flowers.

 From a piece of cut of some small flowers are punched

for the dove panel in the image. They are added to

the branches with little brads.

The next card you will find on

Carla's blog

at:

http://www.carlasstampingspot.blogspot.com/

 

Have a wonderful and creative day!

Take Ten card

This is what you call a Take Ten card.
This means a card you can make
in 10 minutes (a short time).

Tthe digital background and sentiments are
by Create with TLC.
You download these to your computer.

You print the background,
distress it a little before glueing it to the card
Print and cut the sentiment, add some ribbon
and ready!

Oh, I forgot, I added some red stickles to the "U".

 

This is the blue version.

Oh and......these background papers are

FREE to download here:

 Create with TLC blog.

And the sentiment is called

Simply One Letter.

Hit the link and you are there.

Only $ 2.50

Of course you have some leftovers from cutting the background
and I used them to decorate the inside.
Hope I gave you a fun idea
for some real quick cards.

Have a creative day!