Welcome, little Esther

I hardly believe that it has already been December! Time is flying at the moment and I'm quite busy with work and studies. And less busy with craft related activities... It's a pity. I sometimes creates a card or work on some other projects. If you follow me on Instagram, you can see some activities now and then. However, I'm sure, better times will be ahead :)

Our friends in Singapore got a little girl, Esther. Of course I had to make her a card.

 I asked a friend to embroider a onesie in the Dutch colours on her embroidery machine. Isn't it cute?

I'm always a bit nervous when shipping abroad, but luckily the card, onesie and some other presents arrived safely.

I sent this card to her grandparents. 

I didn't have time for taking photos with my camera, so these are taken with my phone, hence the quality.

For now I am working on a project for the Adventskalender bloghop by Alexandra Renke's team. Hop over to Alexandra's blogpost for more information. Each day of this time of Advent a new project will be shown with materials from Alexandra. Alexandra and Ellis started off the bloghop last Thursday. So glad I can participate in this bloghop. And I can assure you that the materials are wonderful!

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CAS baby card

I've got a CAS baby card for you today. Made with a MFT Elephant die (from Jungle friends) and a Concord and 9th stamp set. Some twine and a gingham piece of paper for the finishing touch and that is it.

 

 

Challenge: Addicted to Stamps and More (Anything goes)

 

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Gingham elephant?

Have you ever seen gingham elephants? I was invited to be guestdesigner at the City Crafter blog. This week's theme is 'Did I make you up?'. You have to use something which doesn't really exist. I came up with a row of gingham elephant. Sure, they don't exist! Both die and papers are from MFT. The ABC stamp is from Concord and 9th.  I've send this card to a little baby boy.
You can still participate in the challenge. Head over to the blog for more information.

Hope you'll have a lovely weekend!

Special delivery in London

More baby cards have been made in my craftroom. One of my colleagues of our English department in school became father. Last year I won a gift certicficate of MFT stamps and I picked the London Sklyline die among other things. So far, I didn't create anything with it as the ideas I had in mind didn't work out the way I thought it would be nice. However, this morning, the idea of today's card turned out great! A perfect way of matching this die with Avery Elle's special delivery! I used some dark blue cardstock for the skyline, although it seems to be black in the photo.

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Hey baby!

I love square cards and especially the 10x10 cm ones. I am always a bit nervous when sending them in the post as the cards are so tiny, but so far, all cards have reached their destination. Hopefully it is the same with this card. I coloured the rabbit of Avery Elle's Woodland Wonders and used some papers from Crate Paper's Little One. I added some foam tape on the front paper in order to get some dimension into the card. The sentiment is from Avery Elle's Special Delivery. The little banners are made with a punch from SU.

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baby elephant

Long time no see! We have been home for more than a week after our holiday, but still not really in a cardmaking mood... However, I had to make a baby card and I did it in a CAS style! I used the Jungle Friends set from MFTstamps in combination with the matching paper pad. The sentiment is from PTI and it is stamped onto vellum which was wrapped around the card over a piece of striped patterned paper. I was inspired by latest Make-it-Monday video: sentiment strip grounding.

I'd like to participate in the current Addicted to Stamps challenge: anything goes as well!

I've got one week left before school starts again. Hopefully I'll find some inspiration as I only have a few cards in stock...

Hopefully you all have had a wonderful summer so far! Enjoy it!

Sophisticated Script

I've got several Alphabet Stamps, but Sophisticated Script from Concord and 9th was a really must have. I don't have a neat handwriting and I can't do any calligraphy so this set is perfect for me.

I created this very CAS baby card. I used a strip of Crate Paper. The little heart is from a Lawn Fawn set. It is quite a classical card and as I was in a hurry, it kept me busy for only a few minutes.

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Special delivery

I received some happy mail yesterday! I ordered some stamp sets and coordinating dies which were released on the previous CHA by Avery Elle. With the set 'Special Delivery' I created two cards.
Love that stork!

 

Have you seen this tutorial by Jennifer McGuire about stamping solid clear stamps? I used it for these cards and it worked quite well! It gives a nice and even image of the banner stamp. The banner on the first is stamped with aqua mist from Papertrey Ink. Unfortunately, I can't get the colour right on this picture.

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little one

It has been a long time ago that I created a card without any stamping at all. However, with Crate Paper's new baby line there is no need to stamp. In the paper pad are some small journaling cards which can be used in stead of sentiment stamps. These papers are from the 'boys' line. The background with dots is from Simple Stories.

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Oh deer!

I couldn't resist this cute deer! Perfect for baby cards.

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Twin brothers

I made a card for newborn twin brothers. I thought that these stamps from Mama Elephant's Sunday Stroll would be appropriate although they are not really about babies and so on. I don't have a specific sentiment for twins and I had not enough space on my card to add a sentiment, so I decided to leave the card without one and to just write a message inside.

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shake it!

Just a short post today! I've made a shaker card for a newborn girl. I used some papers from Simple Stories. The name is stamped with a Hema alphabet and heat embossed. A couple of months ago I bought this red filling at Xenos. Unfortunately, the jar was so full that after opening the red stuff was scattered all over my workspace. What a mess! Luckily there is more than enough left. And it is perfect filling material as is shakes very well.

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Still alive and kicking

Yep, I'm still alive and kicking! First few weeks back at school were hard. So many things to do, so little time. I sometimes find my way to my craft room. However, I keep it quite simple and create cards based on earlier creations. Also this card. Still like the use of vellum. It has been a long time ago since I used PTI's Hanging Out, but it is such a perfect set for baby cards.The quality of the picture is bad. I took it with my iPad and lost somewhere on the way to this blog some pixels...

Next card is made with PTI's Garden Variety.

I sometimes take a look in blogland and visit pinterest, I try to create a card, I do some stitches and I'm so looking forward to a time where I will have a little more time :)

summer break

Finally, summer break has arrived! Last Wednesday I had my final test for this schoolyear, yesterday I handed in my last assigment and today was our last schoolday. It was quite a busy time, but I have survived! Before leaving blogland for a while I've got one card for you. And that's all I did in the previous weeks. It is made with Mama Elephant's Sunday Stroll. Such a lovely set.

I wish you all a lovely summer period and see you back somewhere in August!

Lift challenge #87

When I saw the current liftchallenge I knew that I wanted to lift this card for a special occassion. Last week Marit gave birth to a little girl. Of course I had to make her a special card. I used some papers from Fancy Pants (see this post). The stamps with the hedgehog and umbrella are from Mama Elephant. I stamped the name with Lawn Fawn Milo's ABC. As you can see I adjusted the card a little. I started with a background and used the sketch of the lift card. However, the little hedgehog is looking to the right. I didn't like that little guy standing on the right side of the card looking somewhere far away. That is why I decided to put the cluster of banners, squares, buttons and stamps to the left side and stamp the name on the right side.

The post did a good job and deliverd the card today, Marit wrote me! Always a bit afraid that a card will get lost somewhere in that huge pile of cards, letters and packages...

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Quilt

I haven't produced many cards lately due to study and work. But also because of another huge project I started last autumn: a quilt for our nephew Luuk! He was born last week and the quilt was finished just in time. Today I'd like to show this project to you. The quilt is patched and quilted by hand which took many hours, but I loved doing it. Of course I made him a card as well and I made a quick card with some instructions for cleaning the quilt and a nice quote about quilts: Families are like quilts, stitched together one piece at a time. 

Do you remember the owl banner I made two years ago? They were for Luuk's big brother. The banner is still very popular at Pinterest. The owls are now waiting to being used by Luuk and I think Tim will use the quilt as well.

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Story book

Between studying and some chores I made two cards with Avery Elle's Story book. The sentiment on the first card is from Papertrey Ink. The alphabet I used for the name on the second card is from Lawn Fawn. Background papers from Echo Park. Unfortunately, I can't get the colours right at the moment, but I distressed the white paper with antique linen and tea dye to give it a warmer and softer look.

I'd like to participate in the current CAS-challenge at Addicted to Stamps and More.

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Oh Darling!

With some goodies from the 'Oh Darling!'line by Crate Paper I made two cards. One for a baby girl and a small square card for a birthday girl.

I've been a student again since last week. I have started a Master English. It will be time consuming, but I hope to find some time for card making as well! During an intake which I had with one of the lecturers I got one advice: "Make time for one hobby, otherwise you won't manage. It helps to relax!"
Of course, I will follow that advice!

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A challenge and a few other cards

I've got a few cards to share with you today!

The first card is created for the Cas-ology challenge, theme: letter. Well, you can think of a 'letter' send to someone, but I thought of a letter of the Alphabet. I needed a baby card as well, so why not combining these two things? I like a personal baby card with the name of the newborn on it. At the moment Avery Elle's Storybook is my favourite stampset for babycards (yep, I know, in my previous post I used the same stamp set... sorry!). So I coloured the deer and used the balloons for creating the name of the boy (which is a typically Dutch one!). The Alphabet stamp is Lawn Fawn's Claire.
 For the background I used a subtile stripe instead of neutral cardstock. In my opinion it is still CAS, isn't it? 

Next card is made with an older stampset, Off Beat Background from WMS. I hadn't used it for ages, before thinking of stamping a background in combination with masking. The outcome was a congrats card for a newly wed couple.

Last but not least a card I made a couple of weeks ago. I used papers from Crate Paper's Close Knit. Sentiment is from Lawn Fawn and flower+leave from Marianne Design.

Wow, three absolutely different cards!
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welcome little one

Last week I created a card with stamps from Avery Elle's Storybook and a night sky background made with distress inks and a few drops of water. The stars are heat embossed with gold embossingpowder. I kept the card quite simple by adding a strip of SU paper with a sentiment from the same stamp set.

Little by little I'm preparing for next schoolyear, although I still spend some time in my craftroom. I have to say with such rainy weather I don't mind going back to work...
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