Happy Mother's Day - CfC Challenge #18

Both our mothers will get a basket with a hydrangea tomorrow. And of course a card!
Using flowers on a Mother's Day card is always perfect and the inspiration photo of the Crazy for Cas Challenge helped me for sure! As I don't possess a hydrangea stamp nor a ranunculus, I've chosen the Rosie Posie set of Papertrey Ink. The sentiment is from Clearly Besotted Stamps. I embossed the background with the hexagon impression plate to give the card a little more dimension.

 

So, this was the last post in my holiday. I don't think I can post in this pace for the coming weeks, but I will do my best! Enjoy your saturday and thanks for coming by!

Hello there!

Today a card which I've made with some left overs from the Basic Grey "Olivia" line. Perfect match with PTI's Mini Blooms. Dots and flowers, I both love them. Some stitching and a lovely sentiment for the finishing touch.

Have you already decided what you are going to use instead of google reader? Anyone any experiences with bloglovin? It would be very easy if you can transfer the blogs into a new programme. Do they offer a service like Google Friend Connect?

That's it for today! Back to work. This afternoon is booked for studying. Tonight we have the annual barbecue of our church. Hopefully the weather will be okay...

Enjoy your birthday

One of the advantages of having holiday is that I get "permission" to go to my craft room and make a card! So this week a few more blogposts than you are used to. Let's say to compensate my absence in previous weeks.

This card is made with PTI's Mini Blooms. Love that set! And the 'birthday' die gives the card just that bit extra. The challenge on the Passion for Papetrey blog is about stamping backgrounds. Perfect background isn't it?

Thanks for stopping by! Hope to see you soon!

Happy Hexagons

Here I am again. Last week I attended a study week in Broadstairs, UK. I'm looking back on a wonderful week with a great group of fellow students, good teachers, a lovely host family and lots of sunhine (not a drop of rain at all!). This week was part of my Teachers Trainings Course. Little by little I get my credits done.

I'm one of the lucky teachers in secondary education who have got another week of holiday. This week will be busy with studying for my tests in June, household chorus, a little sunbathing and crafty time.

My parents have visitors from the States and they brought me some PTI goodies! Lucky me!
These cards are made with PTI's Happy Hexagons stamps and die and the sentiments are from Mini Blooms .

I'd like to link these cards to this week's challenge 'Hexagon' at the CASology blog.
Thanks for coming by!

Queen's Day Badge

I am ready for Queen's Day! This badge is really quick and easy to make. Just cut a few circles roughly in different sizes with your pinking shears. Stitch them together. Take a few ribbons and sew them on the circles. Die cut a flower of felt, add a button and glue it onto the circles and ribbons. At the back a safety pin and that's it!

Enjoy your day!

Garden Variety

Only a very quick post with a birthday card today For this card I used PTI's Garden Variety and papers from MME Nostalgia. I love the set! And by using other papers you can make a totally different card each time you use this set,even when it is the same sketch. The border with hearts is from MFT Homespun Hearts.

 

Thanks for coming by! 

Owl Family

No cardstock, stamps or inks these days, but felt, yarn, ribbon, fabric and Marianne Design's Owl Collectables . May I introduce you to the Owl Family?

Be warned, the family is still growing!

By the way, this is not the project I was talking about in a previous post! 

Enjoy your weekend!

DCL #180 Backgrounds

This week's challenge at the DCL blog wasn't that difficult: create your own background.
And so I did. The text was first stamped on a scrap of paper before stamping on the card which gives a softer printing. I did the same with the roses. By accident I got structure in the roses. I stamped on a scrap with linen structure and this also appeared onto the stamped images. I added some leaves to give it a fresher look. The birthday tags are pierced with a eyelets and hold in place with twine.

 

Have a nice day!

Lack of inspiration...

I struggle with lack of inspiration. Can you imagine? I've got loads of papers, stamps, inks, dies and so on and still no inspiration. Yesterday I cleaned my craft room and brought order into the mess and hopefully it will help me to do more in that little craft room...
I had to make a card for a little newborn girl. It took me much longer than usually, but at a certain point I got an idea. I hang out the name of the girl with the stampset from PTI. The alphabet I used is  from cuttlekids. Papers from Summer Fresh by Simple Stories. I stitched the strips of design paper on vellum which I laid over the stamped image. On the picture it looks like it is unclear, but it actually turned out really nice (okay, that's my opinion). The owl I showed you in the previous post was for this little girl as well. I saw this polka dot background and I had to make a new photo ;)

Enjoy your weekend and thanks for hopping over to my blog!

Hoot!

Today a little owl for you! I saw a lovely 'hairclip-owl' somewhere on Pinterest and gave it a try with the collectable from Marianne Design. Cute, isn't it? You can't see it but the ribbon is much longer so many hairclips can be clipped onto the ribbon.

Maybe this little owl is the start of a bigger project...
Thanks for coming by!