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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Hopping bunny

My sister in law asked me to make a 'thinking of you' card with Avery Elle's Woodland Wonders. I saw a great card from Vera Rhuhay and I lifted that idea. I used a paper pad from Lawn Fawn for the hill side. The frame is from Mama Elephant and the sentiment from Papertrey Ink.

 

 

 

 

I'd like to participate in the current challenge at addicted to Stamps and More challenge - anything goes

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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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Birthday post!

Our niece celebrates her 7th birthday today. I made her a tag and will attach it to her birthday present.
A couple of weeks ago Rhodé borrowed a few stamp sets, among them the Sunday Stroll set from Mama Elephant. She made this interactive card with the set and I left her a comment that I was going to copy that idea! So, here it is. The papers are from Crate Paper, the tag and text dies are from Avery Elle.

 

I am quite sure our niece will like this tag!
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P.s. The Dutch Card Lovers challenged us to lift a card from a designer. I didn't create this tag on purpose for this challenge, but I think it will fit. I have known Rhodé for a year or so. She is a very talented card maker and has developed her own style in a very short time. And the best thing: she lives in my town! It is definitely inspiring when you have someone near by with whom you can share materials and ideas! After I created this card and wrote this blog post I visited her blog for the link to the card. There I saw that she lifted my card. Isn't that funny?! And that is why I thought: let's link this card to the DCL challenge. OK, that was quite a long p.s... I quit for now!

Elephants

Have you already seen the Jungle Friends from MFT stamps? The die set was released in a kit a couple of months ago, but now you can buy the kit items separately. I think the animal dies are perfect, as you can make cards quickly without any colouring or time consuming techniques. Today, I've got two cards with the elephants from this set. There are two different elephants, a small one and a bigger one. Both are adorable! For the first card, I only die cut a few pieces from the set and combined them with the sun die and a balloon from an Avery Elle set. I didn't use a sentiment, so the card is suitable for different occasions. For the second card I masked a circle and coloured it with distress ink, splashed some water, add some dimension behind the elephant and the balloon and adhere the sentiment die from Avery Elle and stamped with a birthday stamp from Papertrey Ink.

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Daisies

Sometimes I buy a mini stamp set, just because the price is so good. Quite often a set like that disappears in my stampboxes without being used. With Altenew's mini set 'Daisy' that isn't the case at all. Lovely set, very versatile. If you use different colours your card is totally different from the one you made before with the same set.
For today, I've got three cards with this set. I used the same sketch, but with different details. The first one got a sentiment die from Avery Elle and the 'wishes' stamp is from PTI. I added a strip of vellum and splashed a few drops of inks over the card. The second is in the same colour scheme , altough one daisy has gone. I stamped a sentiment from Els Brigé onto the vellum strip and I used some twine. Finally, a blue card. Again same idea!

I'd like to play along in the following challenges:

Addicted to CAS - Petals 

CAS-ual Fridays- Florals

Addicted to Stamps and More - anything goes

Casology - CAS (they celebrate challenge #200!)

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Woodland wonders

After wo weeks of holiday and a studytrip to England, this week will be quite a normal week. Although today is a day off as well. Hopefully I still remember how to teach :). I couldn't craft a lot either, so today I show a card which I made a few weeks earlier. It is made with Avery Elle's Woodland Wonders. A set which was released last January and it was high on my wishlist. Love the trees and the critters.

 

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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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London Mice parade

These London Mice from MFT stamps are joining  the parade singing a birthday song for our niece!
For this card I was inspired by Laura's spinner card tutorial . Aren't they adorable?

 

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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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Vellum

As I wrote yesterday I've got time to participate in challenges this week. Today I like to show the card I made for the CAS on Sunday challenge 'Vellum'. I stamped some balloons from Avery Elle onto white cardstock. I cut a part of vellum, same seize as the base and adhered it with stitches at the top of the card. With a Hema Alphabet (Thanks, Rhodé!) I stamped 'hip hip hooray' using StazOn ink. Finally, I added a bow of twine. On the second photo you can see the effect of vellum. I stamped the balloons in the same colour using the same cardstock I used for the base. I like the soft look the vellum gives to a card. I stamped the balloons also in brown and pink for a more feminine look and I did also some stitching on the bottom of the card.

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Precious

The theme of this week's challenge at the Casology blog is 'precious'. Many cards I make will be sent to precious people. Persons who I love and appreciate. For this challenge I used some precious materials. Well, of course, they aren't, but they give a feeling of being precious. I used some silver thread and gems. The leaves and flower stamps are from Avery Elle's Faboulous Flowers, the sentiments are from Papertrey Ink.

Now I am off the to beach to spend some time with some of our nephews and niece.
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Ella and her friends

Next Monday we have our annual family day. I promised one of my cousins to bring some cards for sale. That's why I'm quite busy in my craftroom at the moment to get a stock of cards. For now I've got two cards for you made with Mama Elephant's Ella and Friends set and Crate Paper's Poolside 6x6 pad. The sentiment on the first card is from Papertrey Ink. The card is 12,5 x 12,5. The balloons on the second one from Avery Elle. This card is 10x10.

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Sunshine

I've got two cards for you today, both with a background of sunrays. I love the effect of it! I used the Bright Days stamp set of Avery Elle. The first card is inspired by this one made by Chunyuan. I used the PTI Birthday Tags and I added some gems.

The second one is actually spam, don't you think so? I haven't counted how many cards I made with this deer... I'm so in love with it! I used Lawn Fawn dies for the hill and ther reactangle. The DP is from Echo Park.

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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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Let's play

My sister asked me to create a card for her friend's daughter who turns two. I pulled out my new set from Lawn Fawn Let's Play, some Echo Park papers and started to build a nice scene. I used foam tape to add some dimension to the card. My sisters request was to use the name of the little one as well.The little dots of the ï were a bit of a problem considering the foam tape. So I added a piece of foam tape to the paper and ran it through my cuttlebug. Problem solved!

The next card is my mass production card at the moment. I stamped these balloons in all kind of colours depending on the receiver. Pinks, red, yellows and oranges for female cards and blues, greens and greys for male cards. Quick and easy! It is a 10x10 card. Love that size!

Last week I was in the UK with a group of students. It was a great week! However, I'm a little bit behind (read: far behind) household chorus and study things. I'm going to use this day off at the best!

Wish you all a blessed Easter!
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Mishmash

Today I've got a bunch of cards for you which seems at first a mishmash of ingredients. However, they do have certain things in common: kraft for the card base and a square shape.

I couldn't resist the new Lawn Fawn set, gleeful gardens. I received the set last Tuesday. I just played with it this afternoon and hopefully I will have some time to create a bit more with it this weekend.

For the second card I used again some Lawn Fawn materials.

I've got a bit of mixed feelings with the next card. I tried the technique Betsy Veldman showed on the PTI blog, but I'm not quite satisfied with the effect. I think I used some blue colours which were too dark. The flowers are from Avery Elle, the sentiment from Lawn Fawn.

The last card for today was made just before bedtime. I pulled out a stamp set from PTI which I have possessed for long time and it is still such an elegant set.  

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Masking

Last week I did some masking with post-its! Very easy to do and with a great effect. I used some Papertrey Ink stamps. The card was a bit boring, so I added a kraft border and a strip of gingham paper to it.

 

For a newborn boy I made this square card. The background is made with a aquamarker, an acrylic block which I uses as a kind of ruler and distress ink mixed with perfect pearls. Still in love with this deer :)

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