summer break

Finally, summer break has arrived! Last Wednesday I had my final test for this schoolyear, yesterday I handed in my last assigment and today was our last schoolday. It was quite a busy time, but I have survived! Before leaving blogland for a while I've got one card for you. And that's all I did in the previous weeks. It is made with Mama Elephant's Sunday Stroll. Such a lovely set.

I wish you all a lovely summer period and see you back somewhere in August!

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...
Enjoy your weekend!  

more design papers...

I promised you more cards made with desing papers. Last week I dug in my stash of papers and found the paperline form October Afternoon. I think it is one of four years ago. When I bought the paper pad and some 30x30 papers I didn't use it too much. Too afraid of finishing the papers too quickly. The result is that I still have many leftovers of this line. So, I've made two cards.

 With the papers sent by Cornelie I made another card:

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Lift challenge #87

When I saw the current liftchallenge I knew that I wanted to lift this card for a special occassion. Last week Marit gave birth to a little girl. Of course I had to make her a special card. I used some papers from Fancy Pants (see this post). The stamps with the hedgehog and umbrella are from Mama Elephant. I stamped the name with Lawn Fawn Milo's ABC. As you can see I adjusted the card a little. I started with a background and used the sketch of the lift card. However, the little hedgehog is looking to the right. I didn't like that little guy standing on the right side of the card looking somewhere far away. That is why I decided to put the cluster of banners, squares, buttons and stamps to the left side and stamp the name on the right side.

The post did a good job and deliverd the card today, Marit wrote me! Always a bit afraid that a card will get lost somewhere in that huge pile of cards, letters and packages...

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Cats!

A stampset with cats had been on my wishlist for a very long time, but I couldn't find one I really liked or it was only available in the USA . When MFT released their cats I tried to get my hand on them, but they were sold out so quickly. A couple of weeks ago I found a webshop in the UK where many American brands are sold. The shipping is very reasonable and they had a nice cat set from Newton's Nook. And here are two cards with adorable cats! The first one made with a watercolour smooshing technique. The sentiment is from Lawn Fawn. The second card is made with distress inks and some masking.

 

I've made these cards a couple of weeks ago. This week I am quite busy with design papers!

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Thank you, Cornelie!

While driving home from school I promised myself some crafting time before starting chores and writing an essay. I was really looking forward to it, although I didn't have anything specific in mind to create. To my surprise a big envelop waited on our dinner table. I expected nothing and I didn't order anything. So, after putting my bag down opening this envelop was the first thing I did . What do you say: Curious! I?!
Look what was inside:

A beautiful card and a bunch of gorgeous papers of Fancy Pants' Happy Go Lucky, sent by Cornelie. Wow! I fell in love with them at once. I knew Fancy Pants by name, but I hadn't seen any of their products before. It is such a pity that we don't have a good shop here in this area. Most of the time you'll find great paper pads in a real shop, not online. I'm quite jealous of Cornelie who lives close to Oma Dee.

Now you probably wonder why she sent me these papers. Nope, it wasn't my birthday and I haven't won a challenge or so. I will explain it. Last Saturday Cornelie showed some cards on her blog. I really liked them. While looking at the second one I wondered why I don't use design papers more often. If you have followed my blog for a longer period you know that I worked quite a lot with design papers before. But the last one and a half year I switched to a more CAS style, quite unconsciously, although there is more than enough paper in my stash. So, I wrote Cornelie a comment and told her that I should work more with design papers. According to her writing she sent me an e-mail, but unfortunately I haven't received it. As I understand from the card, Cornelie challenged me and I guess it was something like creating a card with design papers. Am I right, Cornelie? To make the challenge more fun, she sent me this bunch of papers. What a great start of the weekend!

So, I could do two things: send an email to Cornelie, ask her to send the challenge again and wait for her reply or make a card at once. I couldn't resist the second thought, too excited about these papers. I hurried to my craft room, looked up the sketch she has used and started. And this is the result:

It was like a throwing a little party in my craft room and I wondered a bit more: why haven't I created cards like this one for such a long time?! Maybe I should use sketches more often when I don't have any inspiration... Anyway, I used a stamp of Papertrey Ink (Birthday Tags) and distressed the edges of the papers with Tea Dye.

Looking at the picture, there is actually one thing missing what is typical me. Do you know what?!

Of course I am going to send Cornelie an email and take up the challenge she gave me. So I will be back with another card made with these great papers!

 Cornelie, thank you so much for the papers, your card and the inspiration you gave me! Isn't it wonderful to meet people online who feel like creative friends?

Thanks for hopping by and enjoy your weekend!

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.

Enjoy your weekend!

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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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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