Serenity

Hello,
I have an unusual card to share, that is for myself I mean.
I saw this video from Becca Feeken where she makes these frugal embellishment flowers with buttons. I have tried them before, but never really used them. So I thought it was time to get out my hot glue gun and make a button flower. I used Papertrey buttons that I won a while ago from Andrea.

Simple, but beautiful in its own right with just a stamped sentiment from TCP Studio. All other items are made with Spellbinder dies.

The inside of the card is covered with the same paper from making Memories.

Baby shower gift and card

Hello,
I just want to share with you the gift I made for my colleague's baby. It is a baby bouquet made out of baby clothing and silk flowers. I rolled all the little clothes and wrapped them with floral tape on to wooden dowels.

 When I bought all the stuff, I didn't know if it was going to be boy or girl. It's a girl and I am pleased with the colour scheme.

The items are: a velvet jumpsuit with a little hat, 4 pairs of socks, 1 pant, 1 long-sleeved onesie and 1 bib.

The card I made when the baby was born. I used a Sizzix Hello Kitty die with October Afternoon paper.
The flower is from Prima with Glimmer Mist and faux stitching with a Making Memories eyelet and Doodlebug velvet brad.

 The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink and the trim from Making Memeories. The card is cut with my Gypsy and using Accent Essentials.

I used Glossy accents for the eyes and nose and coloured with Copics.

Stampavie card 2: Wonderful friend

Hello and Happy Birthday to my darling mother. Love you, sweetheart, looking forward to our holiday together.

I am on a roll and in the mood for colouring with my Caran d'Ache pencils.
So good to have YouTube at hand. Thanks to all the people sharing their gifts with others, because I am good at stealing with my eyes... Not sure if I would ever make a YouTube upload, but I appreciate every bit of it.
I have used another of my long-time-ago-purchased Stampavie stamps, never inked this one before.

At first I was thinking of making a baby card with this one, but not many newborns in the neighbourhood. Although 2 colleagues have announced their pregnancy, but are not due until October and December. I am not going to start on their cards yet...

 I love colouring on Kraft card, such a happy medium. If you have never tried it, please do, you 'll be surprised at what effects you can achieve on this cardstock. It is much easier for me to work with pencils and get shadowing and layering than with Copics.

The DP is 5th Avenue from Melissa Frances with some inking on the edges, Ribbon, lace and 2 little lace flowers give this card a soft feel. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink and die-cut with Nestabilities tags.
Something else; you probably have heard of Adele, singer/songwriter? I love this song of hers and dedicate it to the love of my life. "These words are for you, mannetje, 'cause I love you.".

Thanks for looking and all your kind comments.

Live, Laugh, Love

Hi there,
Another card with Tilda from Magnolia as it is such a sweet little image with her little spring lamb.
The DP is from Doodlebug and is flocked, so very nice that I didn't have to do this. I have Doodlebug flock, but find it so dusty and it makes me sneeze.

 The cardstock is from Papermania and I coloured it with Copics to match the blue from the image.

The flowers are EK Success punches with Basic Grey and Doodlebug brads. The tag and photocorner are from Spellbinders and the border is from Martha Stewart. The sentiment used is from Papertrey Ink from the set I won.
Thanks for visiting and hope you like my card.

Birthday wishes

Hello,
Finally another card. The weather and work have been tying me down. At least we have a summer and it is getting to be a hot one too. Sizzles!
It had to be another Magnolia card. My! I love the way you can dress up these images, the more frillies, the better it is.
On with the card and I have used Basic Grey Kioshi paper. Lovely stuff.

Two main colors or three: lilac, peach and white. I love the discovery of the Viva pearl pen as you can see.

I even dug up one of my old roses border punch, not as good as Martha Stewart, because they will only punch through lightweight paper, but still very pretty.

Colored my white ribbon with Copics to match. The sentiment is from Papertrey ink, love the font.

Also couldn't live without my dear little Cuttlebug and Spellbinders dies.

Really if you ask me what my 3 favourite craft tools are; the Cuttlebug, the Cricut and my heat gun...

Favourite products? Lets see... BG paper, but then there are others, Crafty Secrets stamps, Copics for sure, all the Spellbinders products, Just Rite stamps, Stickles Star Dust, Viva pearls, rub-ons from everyone as I collect them,... I used to collect stickers as a child and still have tons.

What's your favourite?

Tilda with birdcage

Hello blog friends,

I haven't posted much lately.

My holiday is over now and mom went back to Belgium last Saturday. She had a wonderful time and was feeling much better. She is still recovering from her ordeal of last January. She 's still very skinny and wobbly, but we did manage to get out to do some shopping and we also managed a short walk in the New Forest around the Knightwood Oak. I think she loved every bit of it. The weather was good to us too, it was actually hot all week.

Yes, my mom is so much smaller than me, and now my DH took this picture, which I find hilarious. I 'm standing on this tree trunk and mom is behind me looking up into the trees, making her look like a little hobbit, LOL.

This is the card I made, my take on shabby chic. The card is cut with the Wild Card cartridge of the Cricut, such a wonderful cut to work with, I think.

I decorated all 4 sides of the card, clear embossing the back and the front of the card.

I colored the image with Copics and made my own pearls with Viva pearl pen. The papers and flower dies are from Marianne Design Eline's Vintage. Check out Eline Pellinkhof 's blog, it's fabulous and sweet.

I used a Papertrey sentiment and the Spellbinders label tags.

I used a bit of Silver Ice Stickles on the flowers and Martha Stewart butterflies. The note stamp is from Papermania Boutique. The silver pearls are made with Ranger 's Liquid Pearls and do not work as well as the Viva pearl pen.

The front and back of the card are stamped and embossed with Papermania stamps. I used Old Paper Distress Ink to stain the edges.

Hope you like this card, I had lots of fun making it.

With Gratitude

Hello and with a very big thank you to Andrea Matthew for sending me the blog candy.

I now have my very first Papertrey stamps; 2 lovely sets.

I couldn't wait to try them and made a little card last night. Just adding some Basic Grey Euphoria paper and red pearls on the MS Butterflies.

I created a background paper with one of the tin type background basics stamps and embossed the little dots on them. I cut out the frame and put 3D foam behind it so it would level up with the ripe avocado saddle stitch ribbon. The center stamp is cut out out and adhered with a pop dot.

I really love these sets, especially all the lovely sentiments. There is so much to combine and mix up, I 'll be trying a few things.