Blue with love

The upper and lower border are created with 3 different colours of chalk inks. The frame (WMS) was embossed with white powder.

First Frost

First Christmas card this year...stamped a blue card with versamark, embossed with clear and sponged with white ink...makes a neat background! The white felt snowflake was die cut and finaly a 'happy holidays' tags was attached with some twine and a button.

Hugs&Hearts

A little 'support card'...PTI fancy flourishes and butterfly stamps. The butterflies have been coloured with copic markers.

Argyle

A little argyle goes a long way! Both in embossing (cuttlebug) and stamping (PTI).

Halloween Birtday Party Invitations

What you didn't see in the previous post is the layout of the card we made at the workshop. It's a fold-open-inside-message kinda card.

So when I sat down, thinking about the Bday party invitations i was going to make...I knew I wanted them to be this layout and since the party takes place on the 31st of october...wel you can guess the type off stamps that were used!

Started with black cardstock for the basic card, added some spiced-marmelade distressed white cardstock stamped with black versafine and spiced marmelade WMS halloween images and finished with the inside invitation, also from WMS.

Turned out pretty great, no?

Hero Art Clings II

The same hero arts Clings but different 'filling' technique. This was made during a workshop Elke gave. She has amazing idea's and every workshop I take, I leave with new skills!! So if you live near Antwerp, Belgium and you are in to paper crafting...you realy should take a class with her!

Poppy field

Stole this idea from a card Elke made (http://elke-verschooten.blogspot.com/). It's a Hero Arts clings stamp (poppy). This stamp creates the background and leaves the image blank. This is one way of using this stamp: stamped in frayed burlap distress ink (this colour is perfect in combo with kraft cardstock!!) and coloured the poppy's with copic marker.

Added a sentiment from WMS and embossed a dotted line with a cuttlebug embossing folder.

Musical Tag

LOOOOOOOOVE the musical background clear stamp set from WMS!!

Started with white cardstock and applied dusty concord and tea die distress ink, stamped the notes. For the sentiment I thought 'just a note' would be a nice touch! ;) So I stamped it in dusty versafine black on a dusty concord distressed piece of cardstock. The frame is also from WMS. The nestabilities die and ink are from Crafts'nThings.

TH inspired Tags

Finally got to making some Tim Holtz inspired tags. I used peeled paint, shabby shutters, mustard seed, aged mahogany, victorian velvet, spun sugar, tea dye distress inks. I sprayed them, dapped them on, used them with the applicator…the works. Really amazed with the result and I will definitely try making some more.
Also..first Christmas related craft thingy…jeej, it’s coming closer! :D

(Grand) Mothers day 02

Grandmother card nr2 features three roses that were created in the same way as the Tim Holtz's grunge flowers. I first designed a simple flower drawing in Illustrator, printed it on white cardstock and cut them out (I didn't have a punch or die, so I went 'old school' ;) ). I coloured the cardstock with a combination of Spun Sugar, Victorina Velvet and Tea Dye with some bronze perfect pearls also in the mix. I then made the flowers.
Added some green Tim Holtz alterations flourishes, ran the background through the swiss dots cuttlebug folder and punched a hole for the 'grandma' sentiment (WMS).

I hope both grandmothers like their card...now I just have to think of a layout for my mom.