Happy Birthday with stars

Hi everyone,

Tomorrow is my friend Paula's birthday and I wanted to make a beautiful card for her. Yesterday, I received the new Bo Bunny Snowfall stamps. I had to use them for this card! As inspiration for this card, I used two challenges: Simon Says Stamp and Show and ColorQ.
The challenge of Simon Says Stamp and Show this time is, show some stars. And ColorQ's color palette this week is gorgeous:




The result:

The materials:

• Distress Ink: faded jeans, broken china, tumbled glass, ice spruce
• Perfect pearls: pearl perfect
• Embossing Powder: Clear, silver bells
• Stamps: Tim Holtz, Bo Bunny
• Split pins
• Ribbon
• Charms

Thanks so much for stopping  by, hope to see you next time!
Sandra

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O Christmas tree - OCC

Hi everyone,

Today I'm playing along with Our Creative Corner challenge. This time the theme is O Christmas tree. The design team makes beautiful things everytime, and this time I was inspired by what Jennifer Rzasa had made. Such a pretty piece. My Christmas color theme are lime green, black, and silver. These are also the main colors of my interior, along with dark brown. Anyway, I got very inspired by her art and this is the result:





It seems very simple to make that tree of words, but it took me a while. I've made ​​a PDF of this tree and  if you want to use for your Christmas cards or whatever, feel free to download it here. If you have Adobe Illustrator, you can customize it. It contains 4 trees made ​​with 4 different fonts.

The materials I used for this card:

• Merry christmas tree
• Ribbon and Fiber
• Stamp: Studio G
• Rhinestones

Thanks so much for stopping by. Hope to see you next time.
Sandra

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Happy Thanksgiving card

Hi everyone,

I'm a little behind on Thanksgiving ... That was two days ago, but I still wanted to make a card. Hope that you, my American friends, had a wonderful Thanksgiving!

With this card, I'm playing along with the following three challenges:

Freshly Made Sketches


ColorQ


Use it Tuesday

Use it Tuesday's theme is: Giving Thanks. And I used vinyl from my stash. I have lots of it! And hardly use it!

The turkey is a picture of lettering delights  Noteworthy Friends. I changed the colors to the colors of ColorQ on the computer before I printed it.

Here is the result:

The materials and tools I used:

• Distress Ink: aged mahogany
• White vinyl
• Die: Mini scallop (Tim Holtz)
• Embossing folders: Tim Holtz Cuttlebug and
• Vagabond
• eCraft
• Turkey images: Lettering Delights

Thanks for stopping by!
Sandra

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Grungy Monday 28 & SSS&S some tickets

Hi everyone,

It's Monday again and that means Grungy Monday and Simon Says Stamp and Show. For Grungy Monday we have to use metal tape and alcohol inks for the technique Tim Holtz used in the Ranger Ink Great Pumpkin Challenge . Unfortunately I have neither, so I worked with alternatives, aluminum foil and paint dabber. Hopefully, that's not a problem. And if so, I certainly had much fun making this tag. It's so grungy looking with the old metal look, and I'm very pleased with the result.

The theme for Simon Says Stamp and Show is show some tickets. And luckily I had Tim Holtz tickets in my stash and the other day I recieved more tickets that I could use as well.

 

Here is the result:





The materials I used:

  

• Distress Ink: vintage photo, walnut stain, paint peeled
• Embossing powder: copper, black soot
• Grunge paper die cut gears
• Spinner
• Gear
• Clock
• Hinge clip
• Mesh
• Paint dabber: Pitch Black
• Alumimium foil
• Tickets: Tim Holtz
• Stamps: Tim Holtz
• Flower: Prima Marketing

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Sandra

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Another SSS&S: some women only!

Hi everyone,

Last Thursday, Lein and me were crafting at my place and when she asked me why I hadn't used my logo for the challenge Simon Says Stamp and Show: some women only!? Well I could not answer that, except that I just hadn't thought of it. That's a bit strange because in my craftroom is full with it. So I decided to join in again. This time I chose a black (very dark gray) / white theme. And I used my new edge die and  embossing folder from Tim Holtz. Behind the holes of the die cut, I put bits of white paper, so the border will stand out better against the background.

 Here is the result:

 The materials

  

•  Distress Ink: ice spruce
•  Archival Ink: Jet Black
•  Die: Tim Holtz
•  Embossing folder: Tim Holtz
•  Stamp: Tim Holtz
•  Ribbon
•  Perfect pearls missing: Perfect Pearl
•  Logo: screen-printed on fabric with acrylic paint and textile medium

Thanks so much for stopping by!
Sandra

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Holiday card bootcamp day 10

Hi everyone,

It's already the last day of the holiday card bootcamp. I've learned so much and had so much fun making these cards. Unfortunately I spent to much money on supplies, haha. But knowing myself, I would have done that anyway, LOL. I've made good use of the student discount codes we got. So that makes it almost alright, hihi.

Here my card for day 10:




The materials:

• Distress Ink: tumbled glass, festive berries, pink tattered, broken china, worn lipstick
• StazOn: Jet Black
• Stamps: Recollection, Studio G
• Ribbon
• Embossing folder: Cuttle bug - swiss dots

Thanks so much for stopping by!
Sandra

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Holiday card bootcamp day 9

Hi everyone,

It's almost the end of de holiday card bootcamp. It's day 9, and it is about gift cards.Currently I don't have a scoring board, so I chose the easy card, LOL.

Here's the card I made for day 9:

The materials:

• Hero Arts stamp + + Sizzix embossing folder Holly Background
• Distress Ink: Spruce ice, tumbled glass, festive berries, broken china
• StazOn: Jet Black
• Ribbon
• Template: the Crafter's Workshop - mini swiss dots
• Perfect medium
• Perfect pearls: Pewter
• Stamp: Recollection, Studio G

Thanks so much for stopping by!
Sandra

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