Dutch Flag

Example for the Dutch "flying colors"

I made this card for the Less is More challenge "your nation's flag"

Supplies used:

Off-white cardstock,

Encaustic pieces glossy cardstock,

Spellbinders oval,

Memento Tangelo,

Stazon Blazing Red,

Embossing folder,

Orange stitched ribbon,

Corner rounder. 

2 baby cards

Just 2 baby cards i've made lately...

I'm curious about your opinion, so please post a comment.
You can see the cards enlarged when you click on the picture.

I want to enter the cards in the following challanges:

Crafts and me Challenges - anything goes

Cute card Thursday - no designer paper

Craft your passion challenges - anything goes

Fun for challenges - anything goes

Gingersnap Creations - babes and tots

Orange slices

Another card for the Less is More challenge "Fruity"

Supplies used:

Round cardstock,

StampinUp DP,

Distrezz-it-all,

Distress tool,
Distress ink Spiced Marmelade,
Copic Markers YR15 and Y17,
Marvy Puffy marker White,
Fiskars scallop borderpunch.

Orange parts

Another card for the Less is More challenge "Fruity"

Supplies used:

Hero Arts Hues cardstock,

Club Scrap rubberstamp,

Scrap paper,

Versafine toffee ink,

Distress ink Spiced Marmelade,

Distress tool.

Citrus frame

I made this card for the Less is More challenge "fruity"

Supplies used:

White cardstock,

Club Scrap rubberstamp,

StampinUp More Mustard, Pumpkin Pie, Only Orange, YoYo Yellow ink, 

Memento  New Sprout ink,

Distress tool,

Ribbon scraps. 

Ribbon Sunflowers

I made this card with a lot of ribbons and 2 buttons, for the Less is More challenge

Sorry for the bad picture, but it's pretty complicated to get a good picture because of the glitter, the curled leaves of the big sunflower, and the "grass"...

Supplies used:
White cardstock,

Green ribbon,

Yellow ribbon,

Brown ribbon,

Glimmermist Sunflower and Coral,

Nellie Snellen leaf punch and emboss,

Dark green scappers floss,
A lighter (to "melt" the ribbons of the big flowerhead),

Clear buttons,

Embossing powder from Joanna Sheen.

Ribbons and Buttons

My entry for the Less is More challenge for this week;
Button or Ribbon, and I chose both.

Supplies used:

White cardstock,

Ribbon scraps,

Spellbinders Classic Diamonds,

Buttons from my stash,

Scrappers floss,

Fiskars border punch.

Circles 4 (oh my)

I'm horrible, I know, but I just LOVE round, so everything with dots, circles etc.

So yeah, my 4th and last entry for the Less is More challenge

Supplies used:

Round pearl creme cardstock,

2 Multicolor pigment inkpads,

Memento and Versacolor inkpads,

Quickutz Cookiecutter set,
Circle punch,
Clear embossing powder,
Viva Decor transparent and eis weiss pearl pen,
Liquid pearls Lavender Lace,
Brilliance Pearlescent Lavender ink to edge it.

Circles 3

I couldn't help myself.
I just had to make another one for the Less is More Challenge...

And enought white space (if wanted to use) for a sentiment.

Supplies used:

White cardstock,

Multicolor pigment inkpad (versacolor),

Quickutz cookiecutter die set,

Circle punch,

Viva Decor transparent and eis weiss pearl pen,

Distress tool.

Embossing fun

I just played around with my "legs" rubber stamp and embossing powder, everything is heat embossed exept the ribbon. Even the circle in the middle is heat embossed. When I know a fitting text to put on it (ideas anyone?), i'll put it onto the circle, and if needed, i'll heat emboss that too. 

Supplies used:
Different colors of Brilliance and VersaColor inks,
Clear embossing powder,
StampinUp Pear Pizzazz ink,
Ribbon.

Circles 2

This is the second card I made for the Less is More challenge "circles"
With empty white space, ready for a sentiment to be added...

Close Up

Supplies Used:

Pearl white cardstock,

JudiKins Cube stamp,

StampinUp Soft Sky, Sage Shadow and Barely Banana,

Making Memories pearl paint,

Viva Decor Ice Weiss and Transparent pearl pens,

Empty toilet roll.

Circles

I made this card for the Less is More challenge "circles"

Supplies used:

JudiKins cube stamp,

Viva Decor pearl pen (weiss),

StampinUp Almost Amethyst, Bashful Blue and Lavender Lace,

Distrezz-it-all.

Butterfly birthday

This will be a birthday card, and I know the picture is pretty bad and the paper doesn't really look neat, but in real life it is. The top butterfly is heat embossed, there are 3 layers of the butterfly in total.

Supplies used:

Colorbox pigment ink (silver),

Clear embossing powder,

Quickutz 4x4 butterfly

Quickutz frame die (cookiecutter set),

Cheery Lynnn frame die,

Stickles.

Legs

I made this card to enter the Less is More challenge

"one layer, and something with legs".

Supplies used:
Rubber stamp (unknown),
Distress inks,
Colorbox pigment inks,
Blending tools,
Embossing powder,
Masks.

Because...

A "Just Because" card for my hubby

Close Up from the glittery heart I made

I'll enter this card into the Less is More challenge too, which is "Shades of Blue"

Watermelon and colors

Half this plate was my breakfast... yumm...
But when I saw this pic after I posted it on facebook, I thought "hm, pretty colors... maybe I can make a card with those colors..."
So if I succeed, i'll post that pic later on here.
But next to that, I dare YOU to use those colors and make something with it.
Please post a comment with your link and I'll pick one of you, and send you a little something for joining my dare... Have Fun!!
(btw, this is a pic made with my cellphone, just so you know)

Why I haven't blogged in a while...

I'm very sorry I've been "gone" for so long, but many medical things are going on here, and that's keeping me very busy at the moment. The waiting the hardest part, but well, if  you wanna know what's going on, you have no choice what so ever.



Plus something is really wrong with my mother again (she had agressive hormonal breastcancer a couple years ago, and some things are not going so well now...
and we're afraid it's back and spread).

I will keep making art and doing my thing, and i'll post as soon as time lets me. And I will be back and try to fill this blog almost daily with my things...
(when the medical stuff gets more stable)

As soon as I have news...
I'll let you know.

Vagabond machine en soorten dies en materialen...

Hier het filmpje van Tim Holtz® over de Vagabond machine, en het gebruik met alle soorten dies (incl. Spellbinders), embossing folders en materialen

in deze machine.

Veel plezier ermee.

Distressed birthday card

This card is for our nephew Kevin, he became 11 years old today.
He is very into "army" stuff, so this style fits, I thought. How about you??

Supplies;
HeroArts Hues cardbase,
Distressed stripes embossing folder,
Inks from Colorbox and studioG,
The "helicopter" is made with my Slice Elite with the "big kids" design card,
Distrezz-it-all.

Slice Elite, wat een pech...

Voor mijn verjaardag heb ik een Slice Elite gekregen, maar ondertussen is nummer 3 terug naar de winkel. Erg balen. Nummer 1 deed ineens niets meer (maakte wel geluid, en er bewogen onderdelen, maar hij sneed niet, en ook wilde hij niet meer "centeren"), nummer 2 kreeg na een korte tijd hetzelfde probleem. Contact gehad met Making Memories en Kars (het Nederlandse distributie centrum voor Making Memories) en de machine ging weer terug, en ik kreeg nummer 3. Deze deed het prima. Tot van de week...ineens deed hij niets meer... Na telefonisch contact te hebben gehad met Kars is me duidelijk geworden dat er een hele zending is geweest met mechanische problemen met oa printplaatje (1 van de 3 laat zomaar ineens los bijv.) enz. En als je zo'n machine hebt, vroeg of laat doet ie het dan ineens niet meer... Dus deze gister weer terug gestuurd naar de winkel waar ik hem heb gekocht... In de hoop dat ik snel weer een nieuwe heb, uit een andere zending...  Ik baal er flink van. Het is toch een flink bedrag dat ervoor is uitgegeven, en dan 4x pakketkosten...

Maar ik hou moed... een soort van...