Prettige Kerstdagen

It is almost Christmas. Everyone here is busy, preparing for Christmas. Making plans, shopping for presents. With us it's the same. And more: Our niece is visiting the Netherlands and will stay at our place for a week. I am excited and so looking forward to it! Haven't seen her in 3 years!
And now a card made in Cricut Craft Room, with a snowflake background stamp by Hero Arts.


Recently I found some fun dutch sentiments. "Prettige Kerstdagen" will say "Merry Christmas".
Finally I can't resist to show you a photo made in our nearby little forest "Loetbos".



I really loved the sphere. A little mystic... Hope you see what I mean :)
Thats it for now.
Happy weekend!
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Christmas in the city

Today I want to share a fun Christmas card. The image is cut out with my Cricut Machine using Cricut Craft Room. This was a "free cut of the week" in Cricut Craft Room.


The houses you see in the background are stamped with a stamp by Hero Arts.
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Joy to the World

Recently I found this paper by Fancy Pants, "Snow Village".
It has lovely paterns and some sweet tags.
The poinsettia is a stamp by "Clearly Besotted". Great to work with!


Stamped the poinsettia once on vellum and once on music paper and glued it onto each other, with the music tag behind it. Love the title is going wonderful with the houses on the paper!
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Christmas Cards

Finally I started making my Christmas cards. Two weeks ago I found some wonderful inspiration on Hero Arts blog. During that week they worked together with "Silhouette", a brand of cutting machines. It was all about die cutting some elements and add stamping on one card. Now, I am not an owner of a Silhouette, but I have a "Cricut" cutting machine, and why not give it a try?!
First I admired a card of the talented Lisa Spangler.
I always love her style of cardmaking!
You can find it here:
http://heroarts.com/blogs/club/2013/11/06/sending-love/
I made a similar card, using a free image in Cricut Craft Room. Than added some pattern paper behind it. Paper with the name: "Aspen Frost", by Basic Grey. And than added stickles and sequins for some shine.


The second card I liked very much was a card made by Lucy wich can be found here:
http://heroarts.com/blogs/club/2013/11/05/winter-trees/
I really love the shine she achieved on the trees and the shape of the trees
is adorable. They made me think of the trees on the "Don Juan" cartridge wich went with my Cricut machine when I bought it years ago. So, I started and here is the finished result. I am satisfied with it. Lucy told us how to receive the shiny layer on the trees and I can say: The shine just turned out as Lucy told us!



I feel thankfull for all the inspiration wich comes from Hero Arts blog. Thank you so much Lisa and Lucy!
This "project" was so much fun.
Thank you, everyone who is visiting!
Hope you enjoyed your visit.

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Autumn Vacation

Last week we had Autumn vacation here in the Netherlands. That means a week off, a visit of the forrest in the middle of the country, and a pancake afterwards. Thats a tradition in our family, and I think in more family's.
I like to share some lovely things we saw around "Het Doornse Gat", a beautiful area for a long walk.















And finally I like to share a card I made especially for a challenge at "Die Cut Diva's." Arlene invited me already several times to insert one of my cards to their challenge, so I thought now was the time to make a card just only for their challenge of this month: "Animal and Autumn".



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Honorable mention

Again I got an Honorable mention at CAS-ology Blog. I am very very happy with it! The challenge was to make a card with a pumpkin on it.
Here is my card.


The items on this card are cut with my Cricut machine. I always love to play with it! Gave it a little bit of shading with Copic markers. And the sentiment is Hero Arts.
You can find CAS-ology blog here:
http://casology.blogspot.nl/

And here is the badge:








Thanks for visiting!
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Moxie Fab World

Moxie Fab World: a great place to be! So much inspiration!
I reccomment a visit overthere.
The challenges are wonderful. Here a card I made for the "General Craft Supplies" challenge.
I took some little pom pom's and used them as flower hearts.


The pom pom's are from a general craft store, the stamps are Hero Arts, the flowers are from Prima Marketing and the ribbon is from Marianne Design.
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