Chocolate is the answer...

........who cares what the question is

I know this quote is true for many persons. So, with this in mind I made some chocolate holders for my fellow sewers on my sewing group to give as a birthday treat. I used the envelope punch board, some papers from Pebbles Inc, a sentiment from PTI and some twine. I took off the paper from the bar and wrote on the silver foil what kind of chocolate it is.

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Flowers

Today two cards with a flower stamp set from the SU Sale-a-Bration folder, What I love. A beautiful set which helps you to create three-step-flowers (is that a word?!). The first card is made with the Dutch Card Lovers challenge In mind where they like to see 'flowers'(so, both cards are fitting in that theme...). I stamped this set in two blues and used my blender pen to add a bit more colour to the leaves. As you can see, I've used the same sketch and sentiment as in my previous post. I needed more 'get well' cards and I love the sketch with the cluster in the upper left corner.

The second card has the same sketch, but instead of matting on patterned paper I used a striped strip on the front of my card. The code word at the Addicted to CAS  blog is 'Red'. In this time of year it is a clear reference to Valentine's Day, but I'm not really a person who celebrates that day, so hopefully a get well card with red as focal point is possible as well!

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Awesomely artistic

Thanks to Marit I now possess the SU Awesomely Artistic set after Rhodé and I used the offer to buy the starterskit during the Sale-a-Bration. I fell in love with the bigger flower stamp and the little splashes in this set. I love the card which is published in the annual catalogue and although it is a set which is a little out of the box for me I really wanted to give it a try. For my first card with this set I CASEd the card in the catalogue. I stamped the flowers in red, the splashes in pinks, cut a piece of SU-design paper and added a strip of silver (it looks black in the photo...) and some silver thread. The get well sentiment is stamped with the Alphabet roller stamp.

Thanks again, Marit!

Daisies

Daisies on a card mid-january seems a bit odd. However, I have seen many daisies lately, due to warm temperatures of course. So, I thougt I can use the daisy stamps for the Lawn Fawn Gleeful Gardens for a birthday card in wintertime. The papers are from SU.
This card is made for Miranda who celebrated her birthday last Sunday and is a frequent Lawn Fawn user besides her washi tape addiction. I was a little too late at the post box, so it arrived too late. Hopefully she has got the card by now. If not, Miranda, it is on its way to you!

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Simply Graphic

Quite often people leave me a comment telling me that they always recognize my style of cards. However I always wonder what my style is. I still don't know. If I look at my Pinterest board I see a mishmash of cards.  I love colourful and bold patterns, I love the cute stamps from Lawn Fawn, Mama Elephant and Avery Elle. Papertrey Ink and Stampin Up have got great sets which I use on a regular base. I admire international card makers like Betsy Veldman and Dawn McVey, who both are using bright colours, Elena with her beautiful colouring but also Andrea with her CAS-creations and natural colours. And there are also many Dutch cardmakers who inspire me a lot like Stella, Judith, Marike , Sanne, Ellen and many more. They all offer me a bunch of inspiration with all kinds of different styles. Sometimes I create cards with rainbow colours and lots of design papers, the next one can be sober, CAS and with only a few die cuts. I can't stick to one style. So, maybe that is my style: a mix of different influences.

Today a few CAS creations. During the Christmas break I discovered a French brand of stamps and dies, Simply Graphic. They offer great materials for CAS cards and I ordered some dies and two small stamp sets, one with chevrons (see second card) and the other one is a grunge set (see third card). The sentiments one all three cards are from Papertrey Ink. The circles on the third card are from MFT.

Well, this is definitely my CAS-style I guess :)
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Blue flowers

I really like cards with a background made with a cover plate. Unfortunately most cover plates are bigger that our usual card size in the Netherlands. But it still fits in an common envelope, so I gave it a try. I've got one cover plate with hexagons from Papertrey Ink and I used it in combination with the PTI stamp set 'Morning by Morning'. I stamped the flowers with blue ink which gives a fresh look. I splashed some ink on the base card. The sentiment is from Papertrey too.

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Travel the world

Today's card is made for a birthday boy. I used an older paperpad from Simple Stories with a travel theme. The sentiment is from Els Brigé and the little star from Papertrey Ink.

Back to my studybooks. Later today I've got some lectures and I have to prepare a bit more...
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Hello January

The year has started beautifully with lots of sunshine which gives me energy to start at school next Monday. I really love the Christmas break, but going back to 'regular' life is good also. Today I will do my preparations for next week's lessons and in between tasks I hope to create a card as well. In the last few days I cleaned my craft room and decluttered it (which was really necessary...) and I made some cards as well.
Today one of the birthday cards I created. I used some Studio Calico papers, a leaves die from Maggie Holmes and a birthday set by PTI.

Have a lovely weekend and thanks for coming by!