Monochromatic

Wow, that has been a long time ago! If you follow me on Instagram, you have probably seen that I am still spending time creating cards and other things, although I often lost my mojo concerning cardmaking. However, I haven't been very active in blogland. I was doubting about continuing my blog, but what I really like about having a blog is that it creates a kind of archive. It definitely shows your development. So I will post new pictures, but maybe not at a very regular basis...

Today's card is a monochromatic card. I saw a nice idea somewhere on the Internet of a special folding of the card, see the pictures below. That was my starting point. I knew that I wanted to use vellum, distress ink and I jumped in the current craze: Tonic's Nuvodrops. I started with colouring the cardstock with tattered roses distress ink and stamped some polkadots with the same ink. I thought that the stampset Floral Sketches from Papertrey Ink would be perfect with this card. I die cut some flowers, coloured them with the same distress ink and stamped the flowers with a darker colour of distress ink. I made a bunch of them and I adhered some pink nuvo drops, which I prepared some days ago, at the heart of the flowers. With nuvo drops Morning Dew I adhered some drops directly onto the card. After punching a hole at the top to get the two sides of the card together, I finished the card with a sentiment on a craft banner, a vellum banner and some twine. 

I made this card for Rhodé who is celebrating her birthday today. I added two colours of Nuvo drops to this card, hope she likes them as much as I do ;)
Thanks for hopping by and have a lovely weekend! 

Guest designer Els Brigé Design

Last week I was guest designer at Els Brige's blog and of course I have to show my cards here as well.

I created two cards. The first one is made with a wood texture paper of simple stories, leaves made with dies from MFT (a birthday present from Rhodé, thanks!) and circle dies with a stitched line (also from MFT). For the sentiment I used the "'t Is je verjaardag" set.

I am a fan of Papertrey Ink. Lovely designs and good quality. Howerver, the sentiments are in English and not every Dutch person loves English sentiments on a card. So, I am very happy with Els' stamps with their beautiful fonts.The next card is made with Papertrey Ink's 'Floral Sketches'. For the sentiment I used the "'t Is je verjaardag" set. I also used "warme wensen", which actually is a christmas set, but also usable for other occasion.  I stamped a background with two stamps for the latter set. 

 

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Butterflies

Last week Rhodé came over for a card making date. She brought the SU Watercolor Wings set. What a great set it is. I made a bunch of cards with the set in blues and one grey colour. I used a sentiment from Papertrey Ink.

And finally I made one in reds. With the red one I'd like to participate in the current k&k challenge - one layer card

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Floral sketches

I have made two cards with PTI's Floral Sketches recently. The first one is lacking a stamped heart. I hadn't discovered the flowerheart stamps back then. Still, I like the card for its colours. I used a strip of Lawn Fawn plaid paper.

 

 

For the second card I used paper from Crate Paper, the birthday die is from Avery Elle and the 'wishes' from a PTI set, stamped on some vellum.

 

 

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Wedding card

No idea that I still could create such "sweet" cards... Hopefully it is not too sweet...
Today is Miranda's wedding day and of course I made her a card. I wanted to use my new Papertrey Ink set 'Floral Sketches' and some new inks. Turned out to be quite a romantic style, but in a way I liked it. I still have meters of ribbon. Don't use it anymore, but for this card is seemed to be perfect.  Maybe I should use it more often. The sentiment stamps are from Els Brigé and are actually from a Christmas and New Year set, but when the set was released I saw a perfect stamps for wedding cards. The gingham paper is from MFT stamps.

That's it for now. Thanks for hopping by and see you soon somewhere in blogland!

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!

Hello!

A very busy and tiresome period has been finished! The schoolyear is over and I took my last test for my studies for this schoolyear last week. That means holiday time! Although I have to do lots of stuff for my studies (I'm a bit behind schedule) it will be mainly a period of relaxing time! 
Today's card is made with PTI's Morning by Morning' and a MFT Hello die. Quick and easy, but I love the outcome of it.

                                        

I don't know when I will blog again as we will soon leave for a holiday. Hopefully I can hop by and visit your blogs every now and then. 

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Let's fly away!

A boy in our church is severly ill. I wanted to send a card which hopefully makes him smile. I used the same idea as this card I made previously. For the boy is used the airplane from the Fly away set from Papertrey Ink. The papers are from SU. This boy has got a younger brother and I thought it would be nice to send him a card as well. Same idea, but different colours. I didn't add a sentiment, just because I don't know what kind of sentiment would be appropriate. I wrote a message inside and invited the boys to become the pilot of these airplanes. Hopefully they love these cards!

It was really hard to film and get the airplane moving at the same time.  Other times the airplane flew quite smoothly...

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Watercolouring

I have tried some water colouring recently. I heat embossed stamps from the SU What I love set and coloured them with distress inks. This is the result. I used a birthday die from Avery Elle and a wishes stamp from Papertrey Ink. I splashed some ink as the final touch.

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Flowers and texts

Last week a couple from our church got married. I attended the church service and saw a beautiful wreath with flowers on the front page of the order of service. It was also on their wedding card. That was the inspiration for the card! I stamped the bible text which the sermon was about on a card with the SU alphabet roller stamp, stamped flowers and branches with PTI's  Twig Wreath and adhered this front panel onto one of the plaid designs from Lawn Fawn.

I also needed a card for a 25th wedding anniversary. Same idea with a different text.

And as the Twig Wreath set was still on my desk I also stamped a very quick congrats card with a  Els Brigé stamp.

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Flowers and a wreath

I made this card for Judith. She has recently celebrated her birthday, but I couldn't make it in time to send her a card. So, I created a card with a more neutral sentiment, which I think she will appreciate. Hopefully she has received the card by now! All used materials are from Papertrey Ink.

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Oh deer!

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

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Delicate

I used the partial embossing technique on this card as well. It just gives some extra dimension and detail to a card. I kept the card clean and simple and used some scraps of Crate Paper. The die is from Simply Graphic and the sentiment from Papertrey Ink.The current challenge at Addicted to Cas is 'Delicate'. I think this card fits into that challenge because of the embossed background and the delicate branches.

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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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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.

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roses are blue?!

When making cards your fantasy can go everywhere. I don't know if there are blue roses, but on my cards it is possible! I stamped a background with the roses and leaves stamps from SU Painted Petals. The sentiment (Papertrey Ink)  is heat embossed on black cardstock. Some metal thread and some gems are the finishing touch.

Maybe a little too sweet is the next one. Same idea, but now in pinks...

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A bunch of cards - Blue & Green

I've got a bunch of cards for you today! And they have one common theme, namely blue and green. I am a lover of blue and I've got some new ink cubes from PTI with blue tones. Love them! So, here we go!

I have been a fan of Els Brigé for a long time. I love her versatile style, the soft colours she uses and the many techniques she performs. The last couple of weeks I couldn't catch up with reading blogs, so I totally missed the launch of her stamp sets. When I discovered them last week, I was over the moon! Finally, some Dutch sentiment stamps which I really, really like! So, I immediately ordered two sets ('t Is je verjaardag - warme wensen) and received them very fast. Today I show you some cards with the Birthday set.
For the first card I used Avery Elle's balloons and stamped them in blues and green/aqua. With this card I like to participate in the current Addicted to Stamps challenge.

For the next card I used a SU set. I have some troubles with this set. I have seen many card with it, which are beautiful, but when I ink the stamps and try to do something with it... well, it doesn't work that well. However, I'm quite satisfied with this one. Just some flower stamping and one bold sentiment. I distressed the edges with a paper distresser tool.

In my previous post I showed you some card made with Papertrey Ink's Twig Wreath. Well, this set works perfectly well with Els Brigé's stamps.

And finally, two more wreaths, but now with a sentiment from PTI and the other one made with a Lawn Fawn's ABC.

That's it! Thanks for coming by!

Twig wreath

My father has visited friends in the USA recently. I asked him to spare some space in his suitcases, which he was willing to do! So, I ordered some stuff at Papertrey Ink. One of the stampsets I ordered was Twig Wreath. This morning I inked this set for the very first time. I kept it quite simpel by stamping the wreath twice and then added flowers and leaves. I added a strip of the autumn line of Simple stories to the bottom and so I had two cards very quickly finished. Of course some twine to finish it off.

Hope to share some cards made with my new sets very soon!
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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 :)