Lantern

Last weeks I was busy making Christmas cards. One of them I will share here.
The little lantern is a die by “Simply Graphic”. I was searching for lanterns for ages. And finally found these. I also bought some greenery dies at “Simply Graphic” and they are just the right size and so elegant and stylish.

Added a Hero Arts sentiment, a little snowflake on the lantern, and some “snow” on the leaves and berries.

The Pine Branch in the background is a Impression Obsession stamp.

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Green

This thinking of you card was so fun to make. Loved it to color all the swirls and dots of the background stamp by Hero Arts, CG330,  with shades of green, blue and silver.
The little flowers are cut with my Cricut machine. The sentiment is Simon Says Stamp. 

Used Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers for the coloring.

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Delfs blauw

When we visited Amsterdam a while ago I saw this.
These are tiles in blue and white. They are attached to a wall at half high up. I saw it through  a window and sneeky took a photo. Don’t worry, it wasn’t a livingroom, I think  it was a hall.

This photo was the inspiration for this card.

The stampset used here is “Center cut hexagon Floral”. SSS 102097. The sentiment says Sending Love in dutch. The woorden shoe stamp is from a dutch stamp set by Aurelie. AUSC1023.

I used several shades of Distress Inks. Doing so I tryed to reach a “Delfts blue” look. 

I glued a piece of dark blue paper behind the tiles to make it more stand out. And a silver lining at the bottom to give the card a bit of elegance.
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Beautiful day

We have a beautiful sunny day today. Blue sky, big white clouds. Just perfect! 

In our garden you see so much flowers. Now and than I pick some for inside the house and that was inspiring for this card.

First used a stencil to put some pink color on white paper. Than used a die  to give it some texture. SSS111856.

Put a Altenew sentiment on top and a Altenew image, from a garden stampset: Garden Grow. I had so much fun with this particular stampset. Colored with Copics and Pencils.

Thank you Virgina Lu for your constant inspiration! I have seen you done this again and again: using a cover plate die over a stamped background. Wonderful!

And that’s it for now!

Birthday Wishes

Not so long ago I saw a video of Yana Smakula, were she showed a coloring technique wich spoke to me. So I wanted to try that myself.
Instead of blending the Copic Marker coloring, you see each color used in a certain area without trying to blend it.

Yana explains it here.

Could not stop with one card. Had to try more, you see here.

Recommend this technique, it’s so much fun!

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You are amazing

Speaking about amazing: I recently came by Stacy’s blog with the name Tattered Nest Designs. I came there via Debby Hughes “Lime Doodle blog”. The card I saw on Stacy’s blog was amazing! Super beautiful! And there was a perfect lesson on how she made it.

Watch it here:

I had to try this myself, with my own supplies.

Stamped the Hero Arts “Friendship” background stamp with TeaDye Distress Ink on watercolor paper. Inked the back of the flower stencil (Prima Marketing, #922139) with Weathered Wood Distress Ink. Pushed in on the background. Than cleaned it and layed it again on the background and added red Distress Inks in the openings. Stamped some flowers hearts in Aged Mahogany.
Used a stencil with dots to add some glittery paste. And a sentiment and a string. And Done!

LOVE the technique and the result!

Give it a try yourself. So much fun!

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Sympathy card

Made a sympathy card today because I needed one.
For this card I used a Penny Black stamp.  “Butterfly dance”. Simply stamped it on a light blue/gray paper. Found the exact same color ribbon by Sostrene Grenes. And added some sequins.

Done!

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