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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Birthday shaker

I made this card for Rhodé´s birthday which was a couple of weeks ago, but I forgot to show it here...
It´s made with a Crate Paper´s paper pad and the birthday die from Mama Elephant is one I borrowed.from Rhodé.

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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!

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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one sketch, two cards

I have recently played with some paper pads from crate paper. I didn't use a specific sketch, but I came up with this one just by trying some things. I first created the brown card ( a get well card) and copied that one in a more colourful scheme (birthday).

 

 

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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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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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Make your mark

This week is my final holiday week and I try to spend as much time as possible in my craft room. Next week school starts again and in two weeks time the lectures for my Master course will start. I'm not sure if it will leave me any time to craft. It is also a week that I have a bit more time for challenges. So, today I'd like to participate in the challenge over at the Addicted to stamps blog.  Its theme is: 'Make your mark'. I created a card with some dp from Crate Paper. I left some marks by stitching the scraps, stamping some hearts and splashing with glimmer mist. The Hello Die is from Lawn Fawn (again in gold!) and the wooden embellishment from Studio Calico.

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Vintage

After having spent a wonderful time in France and Italy, we are back home! And it is good to be at home. The last days of our holiday my craft room was calling! So, after unpacking and washing I sprinted to my little studio and made this vintage card for a birthday of a person who loves vintage (at least I think she loves it). It was a bit hard to catch the colours on the photo. Anyway, you get the idea I suppose.

As a teacher I am spoiled with three more weeks of holiday. I ordered a new pack of cardstock and I've got a few stamp sets waiting, so I guess you will find some more posts in the coming weeks!

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Three cards

I've got three cards to show today! The first two are made with Crate Paper's Poolside 6x6 paperpad.

The next card is made with Newton's Nook stamps for a couple who celebrate their first anniversary. They have been the proud owners of a cat since a couple of weeks, so I thought that these stamps would fit perfectly. Don't you love that little mouse?

I'm lagging behind with reading your blogs. Hopefully I can catch up with it in the coming week. Summerbreak is winking, but the last weeks before it really starts off will be quite tough as always...
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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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Hip hip hooray!

I've got two cards for you today. Both made with Crate Paper's Craft market. The thirst one is quite simple. Punch some circles, glue these onto the card base, add a sentiment and some thread and that's it! Still, I like this lay-out! With the first card I'd like to participate in the current challenge at City Crafter . They offer a moodboard with greens, browns, whites and some beautiful pictures. I think that the papers I used fit in this challenge.

 The second one is a 10x10 cm card. Love that size! I stamped a line of dots with gold ink which I also used for the sentiment. I die cut the butterflies and addes some silver thread as well.

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Shaker card

Happy King's Day! Before heading off to some King's Day activities I've got a card for you.
Yesterday our niece turned 14! She becomes a real lady, so I made her a ladylike shaker card with a shabby-chic touch. I used Crate Paper's Craft Market dp and the flower die from the Confetti line, also Crate paper. To add some extra dimension to the flower I used silver thread and gold sequins. Between the layers of the flower I used foam tape. The leaves are from vellum. The shaker part is filled with silver and gold sequins. I personalized the card by stamping her name into the shaker part.

 

 

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Retro

I used to create several cards a week, but I hardly remember that time. In the previous month I worked on one card. Here it is, made with Crate Paper and really an easy lay-out. The flower is a vellum one. It looks a bit retro.

However, I worked on some other projects as well. I am knitting a skirt for our niece. It was my Christmas holiday project, but I haven't finished it yet.

For our birthdays we have treated ourselves with a new photo camera and as a teacher I could buy a set with Adobe's Lightroom, Photoshop and some other programmes for a very reasonable price (read: very cheap) at a special company. It is one big experiment of taking pictures and editing. Love it!

And of course our cats have been our photo models many times. This is Pien:

You may wonder what I am doing in the remaining time. Well, most of my spare time I spend on studying. Not the most creative activity unfortunately...
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CFC #61 Splashes

A new challenge has been launched at Crazy for CAS: splashes. As I don't own a stamp with splashes or something similar I messed around with glimmer mist. I used some papers from Crate Paper, a die from Clearly Besotted Stamps, a star punch and some thread.

I should be honest, it wasn't my first card for this challenge. I doubted a little bit if I would show the first card to you, but well, here it is. For this one I used water colour paper, a dauber and ink from SU and for the splashes I mixed some drops of the same ink with perfect pearls for a bit of glimmer. The die is from Lawn Fawn and I stitched it on the card. However, in my opinion this one is a bit boring...

Head over to the CFC blog for more details and a link up. You have time until 10 January
The Design Team of Crazy for CAS is going to take a break. The next challenge will be at 28 March. Hopefully we'll see you back then!
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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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An apron and more shaker cards

After making shaker cards for the Lift Challenge blog (click) I made some more. I used the same design, but instead of using patterned papers I used the stamps from Lawn Fawn's 'Home Sweet Home' and created a little scenery. The background is coloured with distress ink and a water brush.

 

Coming Sunday our niece turns 5. Lidewij, a woman of my sewing club, designed a beautiful apron for a girl. I asked her to make one for our niece as well. I have chosen some nice fabrics and the apron turned out beautifully. Perfect for little girls in the kitchen. Anita, also part of our sewing club, embroidered the name onto the apron. I'm in love with it. Hopefully she will enjoy it as well!

I made her a shaker card as well. I used Crate Paper's 'Oh, darling' and Lawn Fawn's 'Home Sweet Home' and 'Claire's ABC' for the sentiment.

That's it for today. I wish you a very nice weekend. Thanks for hopping by.