Happy Flag Day

 

Today I learned it is FLAG DAY in the USA.

This is the celebration of the day that the United States 

adopted the stars and stripes flag that is still used today.

As I am still not stamping I thought this page and 

this card is very appropriate to share with you today.

Used papers: Club Scrap

Stamps: Stars by Michael Strong

Sentiment and digital image by Create with TLC

 

Happy Flag Day!

Acryl Block stamping

Hello Stampers,

Hetty here and even though I still cannot stamp,

I can share my cards for "try that technique"over

at the Technique Junkies. I made some for

the TJ newsletter before I broke my arm.

 Here are my samples:

Hope they inspire you to try this easy technique that

you find in the June 2012 TJ newsletter.

And before you ask:

my arm is getting better every day. I have to do

excercises and use it to get the movement going.

It still hurt, but it is getting better. I cannot lift it, but typing

is much easier now that I can use two hands.

No prepressing and lifting and time will

do most of the healing. So I hope in a week or two

I will be back with some new artwork.

Have a creative day!

 

Craft for Kids

(save and print and color)

Ok, so you know I have this broken arm 

and for this I cannot stamp or scrap.

But.......

I can type with one finger

and let you know I have another blog with fun ideas

for teachers, mom's and grandma's

full of crafting ideas.

This blog I can keep up,

so I was hoping you might go over there and

take a look:

http://craftchaos4kidz.blogspot.nl/

Have a creative day!

May tag Tim Holtz

As I am with my arm in a sling

and I am pretty sure I will not get

a tag done this month, so I like to submit my

Mother's Day tag for this month.

I cannot wait to try the flowers in 

my melting pot. It looks absolutely beautiful.

Thank you
Tim for the fabulous idea.

Yeah, my graduation apron arrived this week.

It will stay clean for a while.

Hope it will not be to far away befote I can use it.

Have a creative day!

Goodbye Robin Gibb

Thank you, Robin Gibb for

all your wonderful hours of music.

 

Now that I cannot stamp or scrap, I give

the digital way a try. 

This is paper and sentiment by Create with Tlc,

yesterdays freebie. 

 Ribbon by Club Scrap.

Border found on internet.

 Be creative, keep on dancing!

 

No stampin and scapping

Hello everyone,

I have some sad news. I have brokken my

upper left arm yesterday and no I  cannot

stamp or scrap for a while.

 Here are some pictures from the hospital.

As my arm is broken just under the shoulder,

they cannot use plaster, but I have to keep my 

arm in a sling.

You may wonder what happened:

  I wanted to step of a boat and got tangled in the ropes.

Someone helped me off and this way my arm got twisted 

and I heard the snap of the bone breaking. 

Hopefully it will not take too long,

but in the meantime I will enjoy looking

at everyone elses artwork and

be inspired to write down my own ideas.

Have a creative day!

TSSC 221

My new stamps from Michael Strong

have arrived. Of course I had to play

with them. It is a set of four stamps,

Two large stamps and two smaller stamps.

The set is called:

The little House set by Michael Strong

I also used the stamps for my 

Techno Stamper's Sketch card.

The centre stamp is one of the smal stamps.

Stamped in Versamark and embossed

with white embossing powder.

The bird is punched out with a punch

from Stampin'Up! and decorated with

Michael Strong's Paisley stamp.

Have a creative day!

String Art

This month it is all about strings

in the Technique Challenge

at the Club Scrap forum.

Every month I choose a technique to explore for a month.

This month I was inspired by Kay Williamson's

blog with her String Art boat

and wonderful technique explanation

at Kay's Keepsakes Blog.

 For my samples I used some of the Club Scrap

wooden stamps from a older kit called Rhapsody.

Perfect for punching holes and using some string

to make art.

For this one i used a circle of holes to embroider

some string in and out of the card and punched out some

butterflies on top.

 Here another card with a little more bling bling.

This time I used a stamp from

the Gratitude kit.

The embroidery thread I used is a lot thinner

than on the first card. It is a kind of silvery blue.

 Adding some beads to the string gives a wonderful

elegant look to the card. In the heart a brad with a gemstone.

 

This is the other corner ad the card with a kind

of spirograph way of adding my thread. I remember

doing this with a pen and some cirles when I was young.

 

Hope you give this technique a try too!

Have a creative day!

Scrapping Mother's Day

 Here is my scrappage about Mothers Day.

It is made with the new Club Scrap kit

"Wild Flowers

which is absolutely beautiful

and so right for scrapping about the mom's.

 Here are some of the details of the page.

The flower is the mini cloiconné flower

by Michael Strong.

 Some cross stitches with baker's twine.

 I make this page for the ongoing challenge

of Weekly Chronicles at the Club Scrap forum.

The letters are done with the cloisonné alphabet

stamps by Michael Strong.

 

Have a creative day!