Winter 2011

I've been very busy today, making a second layout. And again I used a sketch by Pagemaps.

I had some Bo Bunny leftovers from last year, which I used for this layout.

Golf clinic

 I still had this picture with my girl on it, doing a golf clinic. Shame on me that I hadn't scrapped it yet!

This weekend I took the time to make a layout about it.

The paper I used is Oxford by Basic Grey. The flowers are coloured with distress ink.
And of course I used a sketch by Pagemaps.

Purple snowy tag

This tag is made for a bottle of wine we're giving this afternoon.
Inspired by some blogs I started with embossing powder and distress ink. The snowflakes were embossed, but after inking I removed the embossing layer. So just the with was left on the tag.

With a bottle cap and an old creditcard I gave the tag some white circles and black stripes.

At least I've put Tilda and the black-and-white stripes on the tag.


With this tag I'm entering the challenges of:
Tomic : snowflake symphony in purple
Luzifi : Tag
Simply magnolia : Christmas challenge

X-mas challenges

And here is another Magnolia card with al lot of distress inks. This time I choose the colours red, yellow and a bit orange to give the card a warm look.

With this card I'm entering the following challenges:

Alles met en over kleuren met derwents: Kerst

Stempelstudio: Kerst/winter

Magnolia-licious challengeblog: Stars

Kate Crane & Magnolia

For these two cards I got inspired by Kate Crane, there was a great article of her in the Craft Stamper.

It became a totally explosion of colours.

Trying some more

Today I bought the new CraftStamper and There was anothet idea for mixing with my Magnolia stamps.

Frozen water

Last week our daughter Aurora had her birthdayparty and we decided to go iceskating with her and her friends.
Of course I had to skate to, so there I went with our son Danylo.

I love this picture, so I made this layout for the contest of The Craftorij. Subject of the contest: Water.
This time it is frozen water.

I used paterned paper by Authentique, some cardstock, leftover flowers and some punched snowflakes.

One-layer Magnolia card

Today I made another one-layer Magnolia card.

This time for several challenges:

Magnolia stamp lovers - Red & white

The dutch Magnolia chickies - Kerstkaart

Totally tilda - Masking

Masking is not that very difficult, but very fun to do.
First you have to stamp your image on a plain white card, and another one on masking paper or a post-it. Than cut out the last one and stick it on your first stamp. Because I wanted some more white on my card I cut a strip of a post-it an stuck that also on my card.
After that I gave my card some colour with Distress ink and a blending tool. Give it as much colour as you want to. You can even mix several colours.

Enough colour? Now you can remove al your maskings, and start colouring the image.

Christmas without red, green or blue

Another challenge on the WWW, make a christmas card without using the colours red, green or blue. So why   not a christmas card in blak and white?

This card is made for the following challenges:

totally tilda
magnolia stamp lovers

Three blog-challenges

Today I combined three blog-challenges: sports, blue and favorite Magnolia stamp. That last challenge was the hardest, I don't have a favorite Magnolia stamp. I just love them all.

This card is for de following blog challenges:

Alles met en over kleuren met derwents

Magnolia-licious challenge blog

The dutch magnolia chickies

This card is for my daughters best friend who is getting her third swimming degree very soon.

Purple X-mas card

 Here is another card with the one-layer technique. For the ones who don't know what that is.......it's just a card and a lot of ink. So no glue included.

First I stamped Tilda on a plein white card. Then I stamped her again on a piece of masking paper. After masking Tilda, I took a Post-it and cut about 5 cm off to cover a part of the card. When all the masking was done I took my blending tool and started adding some purple (distress ink) and black acrylic paint spetters to the card.
When the card was dried, I coloured Tilda with Derwent coloursoft.

It's an easy technique, but so fun to do. It gives a whole different dimension to the Magnolia stamps.

With this card I'm entering the challenges of:


It's a magnolia challenge
luzifi

Mix and match Magnolia

Like I wrote before, I love making inky backgrounds. Now I also made a combination with several Magnolia stamps, mixing and matching them from various collections.

With the first card I'm entering the challenge of:

Simply Magnolia
The Dutch Magnolia chickies

Girly pirate card

I love playing with distress inks, and combining it with my Magnolia stamps.
This time I mixed Spiced Marmelade and Worn lipstick on my craftsheet. Than I put a plain white card into the ink (three times).
With an old creditcard I stamped black stripes and a bottle cap gave me some white circles.
The black spetters are made with a Tim Holtz stamp.
Of course I finished with A Magnolia stamp which is coloured with Derwent coloursoft.

Birthday cards

Today it is again a rainy day. So after doing the groceries and the laundry I ended up at the table.........crafting. I'm totally fond of Distress inks. Mixing and matching several colours. Playing with the craft sheet and water.

So much fun

Octobre should be cold and rainy, but this time the Octobre started totally different................24 degrees. So we took a walk to the Rhine and made some fun splashing around in the water. At the and the kids were sooked up till their armpits.

AJ: I don't like cats!

It's a common subject this month.........halloween. But I have totally nothing with halloween. So I turned it into this page.

I started with a distres ink base (colour Milled Lavender). Than I cut out a circle out of a piece of paper to use it as a template en create a moon. After that I took distress ink Dusty Concord for the dark sky.
All the black is done with regular black paint.
On the internet I found this pic of the creepy black cat.

ATC circles

Another challenge on another forum on the www. This time an ATC for Scrapfever..............subject: circles.
I started covering a plein white card with distres ink (mustard seed. Than I cut out a circle out of some paper and used it as a template. With the distres ink spiced marmelade I nade a big circle on the atc. With a template form The Crafters Workshop I made the smaller circles in the colours spices marmelade and fired brick.
With an old card and some black ink a made a few stripes end a bottlecap and white ink helped me with the circles.
Some stamps and.........tadaaaaaa!

Finished!!!

ATC worldcities

This ATC was made for the forum of The Craftorij with the subject 'World cities'.

I've put some distress ink (worn lipstick an spiced marmelade) on my craftsheet and sprayed some water over it. Than I've put a regular white card in it. I repeated this two more times.

Than I took a stamp by Katzelcraft, they've got many great stamps.

I finished this ATC with some glimmermist and a plain black card.

For my very best friend

My very best friend is struggling with live, especially with the health of her son. Since spring 2011 they know the name of his desease, something with a difficult name. But knowing that doesn't make things easier.
So now and then she's writing a blog on the internet. Because she wanted to turn it into some kind of book to give it to her son later, I decided to make a start for her. I copied the text and the foto from her blog and made this page for her.
I really surprised her!

Tag

For the anniversary of The Craftij I made a tag foor a bottle of wine.
I used a regular tag. For the background I've put some distress inks (Tea dye and Broken China) on my craft sheet, sprayed water on it and put the tag in it. I did that several times.
After that I stamped the girl (Gorjuss) and coloured her with Derwent coloursoft.

Kiss my.....

Because not everything is going like I want it to, I made this page in my Art Journal. I found a great link to some free pictures. One of these pictures gave me this inspiration, so I used it.

The background is made with several colours distress ink.

On a rainy sunday morning

Today it was very rainy in the morning, so my daughter and I started crafting at the dinnertable.
This layout started with a sketch by Pagemaps (February 2011) which was also a challenge on my favorite forum. The picture was taken by a good friend, we did a fotoshoot this summer. Just because I don't have much pictures of myself.
The designpaper is from www.authentiquepaper.com . I'm usualy not fond of the colour yellow, but this combination with grey and black is great.

2 pages in my Art Journal

Last week I made 2 new pages in my Art Journal. I still have to find my own style in art journaling.
Because of the reorganisation and the knowledge that there's gonna be a difficult and hard time I'm having a lot of questions. I'm also kind of frustrated, so......