Smooshing with watercolours MiM #204

Sometimes I can't show you anything, because there is no production in studio Saar & Pien. Now, two posts in two days! I'm definitely in a cardmaking flow. Yesterday I showed you a card with a technique Betsy Veldman demonstrated in the Make-it-Monday video at the PTI blog. I wasn't quite satisfied about that one and wanted to give it a second try. Now I used some grey inks and I added some Perfect Pearls to the water which gives a shine to the card. I wanted to create a shakercard with a heart and some glimmer. I used a sentiment from the PTI's Mini Blooms set. I love the CAS-effect!

Hopefully see you soon!

MiM #196 Colourful Card Corners

Inspired by PTI's Make it Monday I made this card. I used PTI's Natural beauties. The flowers are two-step-stamps. I inked the leaves stamp first with a lighter green and the edges were softly pressed in a darker green. I used a text stamp for some filling and I used distress ink and a drop of water for the water colour look. The sentiment is from PTI's mini blooms.

Enjoy your weekend!

Lovely, beautiful, darling

I'm so happy. I've just found out I have been selected randomly as the winner of the Papertrey ink's 'Make it Monday challenge' of last week. I couldn't believe my eyes. I've never seen a winner outside the USA (or I missed it) and now a 'Dutchie' got the price! Woohoo! Actually I've got lucky for a second time. I entered two cards into the challenge and the second one was highlighted on Facebook as a featured project!
The  challenge for this week seems to be a nice one as well. The example is made with the Rosie Posie set. This set is such a beautiful one! I saw it is out of stock again like a couple of weeks ago. I had to wait for this set as well. It is definitely one of the best sellers of PTI.

For today I've got a card to show which I made last week. As you will understand the last days I didn't stay regularly in my craft room. The weather outside is too beautiful. But sitting in the sun for hours don't work for me, so that 's why I'm inside for a while and do some things on the laptop (actually, I have to work on an assignment, but looking for some nice things on the www is much more interesting. LOL! In special when you find out something like the message of PTI)

I purchased the MME's Follow your heart - be happy and was looking for a way to work with the bigger patterns on some papers. I looked for the seizes and found that one of these designs could be used on a square card (13/13 cm). I matched it with three other patterned papers from the same series and punched out one border and cut two strips. Some stitching gave it a better look. The stars in the left upper corner are stamped and match perfectly with the stars which printed. The sentiment tag is from PTI 2012 Birthday tags (the stars as well). The seam binding, button and twine made the finishing touch. All edges were inked with vintage photo.

Later today a barbecue together with our family is on the programme ! The first one for this year and hopefully not the last one! Enjoy your day and the beautiful weather!

Thank you for your visit!

DCL #139 & Make it Monday #67

For today two challenges in one card! The team of DCL  has given a sketch as a challenge for this week. You can find the sketch here. Betsy Veldman of the Papertrey Ink team explained in a video how to mix patterned papers. The regular visitors of my blog know that I love mixing and matching, although I mostly mix and match with papers of the same brand. But lucky me, this was also allowed for the 'Make it Monday'-challenge of this week. If you struggle with mixing and matching you definitely have to go Nichole's blog and watch the video.

For this card I mixed the different papers of My Mind's Eye - Be Happy. It offers polka dots, gingham, hexagons, stripes and drawings. I mixed them all up and tried to find little drawings (like a bird and rose) for the small squares of the sketch in combination with less designed papers. I tried to find some contrast as well between the squares. For the border I mixed a gingham with a grid in the same colour scheme. Unfortunately the pattern of the square at the right upper side  is hardly visible, but it is a hexagon pattern in a very soft pink color.

The sentiment is from the 2012 Birthday Tags of PTI stamped with Tsukineko Brilliance Pearlescent Poppy. I did some stitching and inked the edges a bit with distress ink Vintage Photo. The ribbon is a nice addition to complete the card.

Thanks for stopping by and have a lovely day!

Papertrey's Make it Monday #60

The technique used by Ashley Cannon-Newell for the Make it Monday #60 isn't new to me and I like this technique. It is called generational stamping and in fact it is a perfect technique for Dutch people ;-). The stamp is inked and after the first stamping you stamp again without inking the stamp over. See this post for a tutorial.

I made a card with the PTI set 'Botanical Silhouettes' and for the background I used 'A little Argyle'. The sentiment is from the 'Up, up and away' set.

And this is the result!

It is nice seeing you here! I wish you a very nice Easter weekend!