Together forever

The challenge on 'A Passion for Papertrey' is to provide your own inspiration piece and make a card based upon it. I had to design a card for a newly wed couple, so what 's easier than looking for a bridal bouquet? I found a beautiful one with summer colours and found matching colours in my ink stash. To symbolise the bridal veil I used vellum for embossing the sentiment on (from Clearly Besotted Stamps). The flowers are stamped with PTI's Ruby Rose. Papers are from American Craft. The background grid is stamped with WMS Off Beat.

I'm very happy with the result! 

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Bitty banners

Last week Marit offered some stamps for sale on her weblog, also WMS Bitty Banners. And I had to mail her immediately :) But as I told you in my previous post, I didn't have much inspiration this week, so I just stamped a banner because I had to play with this set. Well, the result isn't that bad, is it? 

I was playing a bit with photo editing. I really love all the beautiful, light pictures on blogs, but even when the sun is shining I get dark and a bit gloomy pictures. So I edited the picture a bit in Picasa and well, the colors now make me happy! There is a world to explore in photo editing and I don't want to dive in very deep because of the time, but having tools is great!

Going to finish my chorus list for today swiftly as we leave later this afternoon for a family visit till tomorrow!

Have a nice weekend!

Candy shops & a baby card

As I told you we have visited Cambridge. And there were lovely shops! One of them was a real candy shop. To be honest, I really don't have a sweet tooth, but the view of all those candies was stunning.

Many other shops seemed like candy shops, because of all the beautiful stuff which was sold overthere. Off course we visited the Cath Kidston Store. I bought this beautiful wallet:

 The shops were in lovely streets with a lot of suprises.

And as card lovers, we love postboxes, don't we? And this is a much better one than our Dutch one's, isn't it?



I didn't see any papercraft shop, but I have bought some ribbon in CallyCo to use for cards. So I made a baby card with this ribbon. The background is stamped with WMS Off Beat and the paper is by Jillibean. The sentiment is by Eline Pellinkhof.

Hm, the colors are in fact more bright. But you've got an idea!

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New stock

I'm back home from Cambridge, UK. We had a very nice week in a beautiful city! And it was a very useful week for the language study! For this week I have totally dived into the books for the tests this week and next week. But there are some small gaps for relaxing in on my 'atelier' with all the paper stuff and so on! It is my plan to make some cards to have in stock. Today's cards is (again!) made with Emma's shoppe. The background is stamped with WMS - Off beat in sunflower yellow. I don't have a stamp to frame the label nr 4, so I made my own by using a stamp from the PTI Vintage labels 1.

The sentiment stamp is part of a set by Artemio and I have bought it at Crafts and Things in Antwerpen, Belgium. I love this set, because of the nice font and the Dutch sentiments (congratulations). I don't like most of the Dutch sentiment, because of the font. So if anyone can design something in a WMS or PTI style in Dutch, I will be your first client!

Back to work for today! Thanks for coming by! 

I made some cards!

Life seems almost normal after a week in Romania. Laundry is done, the mess is away and the students who were with us last week in Romania for the exhange program gave us a very good mark for the organisation! That gives a good feeling! And time to make some cards!

The first card is a 'get well' card! I stamped a background with 'text it' from Waltzingmouse Stamps and antique linen ink and I used a flower from the stampset 'up, up and away' from PTI. I stitched with the sewing machine without a thread. So you get just some holes, but it gives a nice detail to the card.

The post stamps are from PTI. Unfortunatly I don't have this set, but Marit offered me to have swap. Thanks a lot, Marit!! It is a pity that dispatching from PTI (the USA) is so expensive. PTI has so many beautiful stamp sets. So if you know someone who could arrange something, let me know :)

The other one is a 'with sympathy' card. I used again the doily stamps from MME. I love this set. I stamped again a background with 'text it' and stamped the doily with Paris Dusk from Memento.



Have a nice weekend!

WMS Sketch Challenge # 36

Hooray hooray, finally the sun is shining here after many grey days!! Spring is coming! So I made a card for the WMS Challenge #36  with some spring colours! This is the sketch for this week:

Two weeks ago I get the flower die by Marianne Design. It is a set from 5 different sizes and I used it for many times till now. I die cut the flowers with Basic grey Hopscotch.

 I stamped the background with the WMS Off beat background in Pear green. The sentiment from Teeny trees is stamped on the smallest of Labels 1 by Spellbinders. The frame for labels 1 is stamped with the PTI set.

I think I'll send this card to my sister who lives and works in Brazil!! Thanks for visiting and hopefully you can enjoy sunshine as well for today! 



again hot air balloons

Like I wrote yesterday I wasn't satisfied about the invitation cards with the hot air balloons. Tomorrow a friend celebrates his birtday so I made him a card with the up, up and away stampset with the thoughts I had yesterday.

I used the Offbeat background stampset from WMS, some stitching and the Swiss dots stencil for the circle.

And a final detail a red-white twine. I bought many meters of this twine in a shop for kitchen stuff and I love to use it. Scrap paper is from 'the girls' paperie'.

This stampset has so much possibilities in it and I think this card is one of the many ideas I have. So in the near future I suppose I will make more cards with it!



Thinking of you

I really like the stamp set of Teeny Trees! When I combine it with outher papers, shape and colours, it seems to be a whole new card. For this card I used paper from October Afternoon, stamps from Papertrey Ink (vintage labels, sentiment from up, up and away). The background is from WMS Text it.

Hip hip hooray! WMSC #33

I made a card this afternoon for the Papertrey Ink contest. Unfortunately I am too late for it! The contest is closed already. The airplane and the die with hip hip hooray -stamp are from Papertrey Ink.
With a little bit of fantasy I used for this card Waltzingmouse sketch challenge #33!

 I used for the background the Off beat background stamp and Text it .

rescue remedies

Saturday I made these two cards with Rescue Remedies and Off beat backgrounds from Waltzingmouse stamps. I'm always struggling with making a nice ribbon bow, but fortunately this time it worked out very well!

The red one gives me a feeling of being in an old kitchen with redblocked towels and the smell of a fresh baked cake! It smells good!

Birthday in the air

So, stress is over! Yesterday I finished my tests for this term. Last september I started with an part-time education to get a degree in English. It's really fun to do, but this week was a little bit stressfull. Actually, it is not really finished, because next Thursday I will have an oral test and a listening test. But for these tests I can't learn, it's just about acquired skills so there will be time for other activities!!

In a week full of learning you need some relaxation and of course I made some cards. Today I like to show this one.

I used the Teeny trees from Waltzingmouse stamps and Up, Up & Away from Papertrey Ink.
Paper is from Jillibean and Sassafras Lass.

Cards without a sentiment

Sometimes people ask me to make a card without a sentiment, so you can use it for any occasion. Yesterday evening I made these two cards with butterflies. Same idea for both, but with different papers and background stamps. It gives me a feeling of spring! But unfortunately, it is still very dark and rainy outside...

New stamps from Waltzingmouse

Last friday I received my order from Waltzingmouse stamps. I ordered 4 sets and I like them all! You can imagine what I did this weekend! This card is made with Teeny Trees and Text it. Last week I learnt via youtube how to work with distress ink. On this card I used antique linen from Ranger in combination with Drew Drops purple and petal pink. Love the effect!