Tons of Valentine inspiration!

Are you getting ready for Valentine

and need some inspiration?

Well I have tons of inspiration for you

with Michael Strong's

cloisoné elephant stamps

and

Create with TLC sentiments

Tons of Valentine wishes

and 

Tons of Love

This is just the first card,I promise you

more is on the way.

The elephant is stamped with versamark and embossed

 with hematite embossing poeder. I coldored the

elephant with a blending tool and ice spruce distress ink.

The hearts are stamped on red paper and embossed with white 

embossing powder and cut out with scissors.

The sentiment is digital and printed by the computer.

The background is a piece op scrapbook paper

 from one of those 6 x 6 inch blocks with various papers.

Here is the inside of the cards.

Another wish printed sentiment and the elephants

and the hearts are stamps with black archival ink.

Have a creative day!

More Create with TLC Simply Words

This new set by Create with TLC

is so versetile,I cannot stop playing with it.

You find the set HERE and is only $ 2.75

For these cards I used a technique

called Ëmboss around the image"

by Technique Junkies.

 If you are a member

you find it in the Newsletter of Oct/Nov 2012.

And of course a coffee card!

The background is embossed with a sizzix

coffee bean embossing folder (see here).

On top I printed the Create with TLC sentiment

and cut it out with a spellbinder die.

Used the Club Scrap coffee stain stamps

and Michael Strong's coffee cups.

This is the inside of the card  with a sentiment

by Inkadinkado.

The cups are colored with distress markers 

and on top there is glossy accent.

 It is hard to see on the picture. 

Have a creative day!

Journal52 wk3: You make me smile

For the Journal53 project is here my page for week 3.

The theme is: You make me smile

and who else but little Owen makes me smile every week

that he is with me all day!

As on that day he is the center of everything that we do,

I placed himin the center of my page.

After covering my page with gesso, I used my gelatos

to give my page this bright colors.

After the coloring I used my water spritzer and used

my fingers on the page thomingle the colors

and added extra water to make the dripped lines.

On top of the gelatos I used several stecils and

ditress paint. Alot of heating in between.

The sentiment stampis one by Club Scrap (2009).

For the stars I used a stencil and a babywipe.

This took away the color and the white stars are seen.

A black marker made the contour of the star.

The spots on the paper are made  with

 white spray from Dylusions.

Have a creative day!

Create with TLC Simply Word Set

Create with TLC has a wonderful new wordset.

If you like it too, you can find it HERE.

Today I share the cards with"big wish"

with you in combination with the elephant

 stamps by Michael Strong. 

For both these cards I first printed the sentiment

on white cardstock. Then cut the paper to the size

of the panel I want to use before placing the stamp.

The elephant is tamped with versamark and embossed

with black embossing powder. I also stamped the

elephant on a piece of scrap paper and cut out the elephant.

I used a ged gelatos stick to color the elephant.

I also decorated the panel with a few pieces

of washi tape.

On this card the elephants are stamped with versamark and

silver embossing powder. I did not color the elephants,

I very much like the card like this. I only used a few pieces

of silver glitter tape.

More cards soon! (one tomorrow for the Technique Junkies)

Have a creative day!

Club Scrap weekly chronicles wk2: Winter

It took me some time to come up with an idea

for my winter themed page for 

Club Scrap's Weekly Chronicles.

Why you may ask......well winter in the Netherlands

is very mild until now and pictures just

look like an autumn day. So what to do?

How about some typical Dutch winter food?

I found a nice vegetarian recipe for typical Dutch

split pea soup. You can find an original recipe

and some more info here.

Of course there are many different recipies and

you can google on peasoup recipe (vegetarian if

you like).

For journaling I made a kind of clipboard out of

paper.On topmy journaling for this week and underneath

I have added the recipe (so I won't loose it).

The papers i used for this page is Club Scrap's Bon Appetit

(June 2012). Here Iused some of the stickers and cut outs.

Here you see the ingredients of the soup.

Also you see the typical sausage peaple eat with

the soup. We had a beef sausage for the last 

evening we had the soup.

Thank you for looking.

Have a creative day!

Gelatos Fun

Today I have for you a card

made with Michael Strongs seahorse stamp

and a technique tutorial with gelatos ( or gel sticks).

I show you a background technique

and how you can use the gelatos for coloring

the stamped image.

Let's start with the background. You need a peace of water

color paper and an embossing folder and a embossing

machine of your liking. Run the paper through with the sandwich

needed for this machine.

When finished your paper looks like this.

Because I want to make a water ackground I choose

2 blue sticks and a green one. With each stick you 

go over the raised images in a color choice of

your liking.

When finished coloring you take a watercolor pen,

or a water spritzer and  a brush.

Make the color wet and brush it out over the paper.

When you are finished dry the paper with a heatgun

and then cut tothe desired size. Lay aside

while you are going to make the image for

the front of the card.

You need your stamp,white embossing powder,

versamark ink,gelatos and white cardstock.

Start with stamping your image with versamarg

and add white embossing powder on top.

Use your heatgun.

Next take the desired colors of gelatos and rub on

top of the image.When done, take your finger 

to rub over image and really make sure there is

 color everywhere.

Take a paper towel to rub over the white lines

and make sure the are clean and white again.

Now you can cut out the image and use on your card.

If you click on the picture you can even see a more 

close up of the card. The sentiment is by

my frien Joanne.

Nothing is left, even the part that I cut of the

background is used to decorate the inside.

Have a creative day!

Create with TLC Blog Hop soon

Make a note in your craft diary:

Create with TLC 

blog hop soon

and you know what this means:

Lots and lots of freebies

and inspiration!

Have a creative day!

Journal52 - 2: Somewhere, a Simple Place

Here is my second page for my Art Journal.

The theme is "Somewhere, a Simple Place..."

There are many places where I like to be,but the best

place is home:home where he is and

home were my art is.

I started this page by laying down some stencils

and spraying a few colors of dylusion spray ink.

The page just grew by adding stamps,doodeling and 

words. It is a journey tomake a page and I like that a lot.

The stamps I used are the home and the coffee cups

(left over from the cover) by Michael Strong

and the leaves are from the Dylusion Stamps

by Ranger.

The words have been handwritten with some 

doodling around them.The works have been colored with 

a white gelpen.

The clouds heve been made with a stencil. I first applied

a layer of gessoand let it dry. Then I used the stencil again

to aplly blue distress ink (stormy sky) and used a black

pen to doodle around the clouds.

Thanks for looking.

Have a creative day!