Tuesday Trigger

Today I made a card for the "Tuesday Trigger" challenge on Moxie Fab World blog. As soon as I saw the inspirational foto, I knew that I would make a card.
Love the blue white combo. Made me thinking of the sea, a summer vacation at the beach.
Here is the inspirational photo.


And here is the place where you can read all about it:
http://www.moxiefabworld.com/2013/08/tuesday-trigger-im-craving-navy.html
This is my card.



The cardbase is stamped with sea shells stamps of a stampset by Impression Obsession CL132 Nautical.The circle, chair, sea gulls and flip flops and letters are cut with my Cricut. Used "Life is a Beach" cartridge.
The little words are stamped with Technique Tuesday stamps.
The stripes in the circle are stamped with a stamp by Hero Arts "Canvas Stripes" CG196.
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Trendy Triangles

Like to show one more card with triangles. Made it for the challenge at Moxie Fab World: Trendy Triangles Challenge.
You can read all about it here:
http://www.moxiefabworld.com/2013/07/the-trendy-triangles-challenge.html
For the triangles I used the banners from the Hero Arts/ Studio Callico stampset : Hooray!


And there is one more card with triangles on my flickr stream, in orange!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/26213001@N03/9514118253/
Hope you like it!
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Triangles

Last week I was playing with the Hero Arts/Studio Callico stampset: "Hooray".
This stampset has some fun banners, to make festive cards. But the banners can also be used in another way. That you can see here.


Than I tried a more graffic card. But I am not good in such cards so I was struggling to get it to a good result. And than I read an article in a magazine about combining different styles. Thats what I can do, I thought, so I added a flower and a butterfly. And thats what you can see here.


Hope to be back later this week to show two other cards with triangles.
I will insert these cards in a Challenge at Moxie Fab World: The Trendy Triangles Challenge.
You can read all about it here:
http://www.moxiefabworld.com/2013/07/the-trendy-triangles-challenge.html

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Buttons

I saw that this weeks Challenge at CAS-ual Fridays is to make a card with buttons. You can read all about it here:
http://cas-ualfridays.blogspot.nl/
And than I got this idea, to make a jar with buttons. I had to think of that box with old buttons I have, and I mean very old. My children played with it when they were much younger.


Now, these blue buttons are not that old! They are from V&D, a dutch store. And the orange button is Hero Arts from some years ago. It has the same look as the blue ones.
The jar is a stamp by Hero Arts and the sentiment is from a stampset by Simon Says Stamp.
My favorite color is orange, thats why :)
Thank you for visiting my blog.

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More inspiration

As I promised, I like to show you some more inspirational photo's from our journey to Italy.
First up some houses at lake Garda. The houses there are beautiful decorated. For example with painted borders like you can see here.





And I really love the flowers on the balcony's as you can see here.


And finally for today some "art" I found on the streets of Bezecca, at Lago di Ledro.


Isn't it fun!
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Italy

At first I like to say something about my new bloghead.
For ages I had want to put those flowers at the top of my blog, because I think it expresses the name of my blog very well.
The flowers of the Bougainvillea look like blotting paper to me! Am I right?
And I really love the look of blotting paper AND I love Bougainvillea!
So , thats why!

Last weekend we came back from our summer vacation in Italy. We had a wonderful time and I want to share some things with you!
At first I show you where we were, a little lake in northern Italy, with the name : "Lago di Ledro".



We rented an appartment at Pieve di Ledro.
I can't tell you how blue the water is.



A great lake to sail at and to swim in!
When we there I thought it would be fun to share some photo's wich could be inspirational for crafting/cardmaking.
So, here is the first one.


I loved the vintage painting on the wall!
And here is another one.


I loved this chandelier made of glass.
And than there is something I found in the streets of Pieve di Ledro.


I think this is made by local people, and ins't it fun!
Be sure to be back later this week, because I want to show you more!

And finally I like to share with you the card I made as a thank you card for the owners of the appartement we rented, because they were so friendly to us!
It has everything on it what we did and liked overthere, such as flip flops we used and saw everywhere, the museum we visited, and not to forget the walk in the mountains.


Thanks for stopping by, hope you enjoyed your visit.

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Tuesday Trigger in Tangerine

When I saw the latest Tuesday Trigger at Moxie Fab World I just knew I would make a card for it. The reason? these are just my colors!
You can see it here:
http://www.moxiefabworld.com/2013/06/tuesday-trigger-scene-in-tangerine.html
And here is my card using the Tangerine color combination.



And this time I like to show another photo of the same card using a more orange background :)



It is always hard to choose a good background.
Stamps are by Simon Says Stamp.
The orange Ink I used is Vivid Ink and the green Ink is Hero Arts Ink
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