Time Flying Past

Hello all,

You wonder what happened to my Tuesday (P)Inspirational Post? Yeah, me too, seems time has played tricks on me and make me forget things. Currently in beautiful Padua, Italy, attending a work conference and with all the preparations and flights totally forgot about my post! Well, better late than never, eh? 

So, without further ado, the inspirational pic for the coming two (well, 1.5 now) weeks is:

Lovely colours, flowers, dots. stripes, a lot of potential here! This is my take:

I have had the background paper in my stash for quite some time and really wanted to finally use it forever but wanted to do it 'justice'. So pretty! So to showcase it, I used the full sheet as my starting point. I love the outcome and so another beautiful paper finally goes into my album! This LO is about me turning 40, the photo was taken on my birthday too.

Challenges:

* Lasting Memories (Polka Dots) 30/9

* Kreative Inkauf (Anything but a Card) 14/9

* Sparkles Challenge (Birthday) 14/9

* Moving Along with the Times (Add a Number) 13/9

* Making Memories (AG or Use the Mood Board) 30/9

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Kitchen Love

Good morning everyone!

This is my last LO I am sharing as a GDT for Lasting Memories, I have had a lot of fun making these 4 layouts! Thank you to Karen and Michele and the rest of the girls for giving me this opportunity, it's been great and I will definitely be back for the challenges! This week's challenge is inspired by a photo:

I've used the colour scheme and theme to scrap pictures of my daughter playing in her play kitchen, a Christmas gift from her Granny and Grandad. She is not yet 'cooking', but loves to play with the oven door (open, closed, open, closed, open.....) and dragging bits of the kitchen throughout the house. Oh well, every chef had to start somewhere, right? ;)

I hope this has inspired you to submit your own project to the challenge,
you have about a week to do so!

Challenges:

If You Give a Crafter a Cookie (Inspirational Cookie, I've used the colour scheme (red, black, white) and the heart/love theme)
My Time to Craft (Anything But a Card)
Alphabet Challenge (You Choose)

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The Cutest Easter Bunny

Hello all,

Can you feel that? It's Christmas that is approaching! Oh lord, give me strength......let's just say I am not the fondest of the holiday season, but now that we have a little sweet pea it's actually getting more and more fun. It's just so stressful, this time before we have our time off, everything needs to happen at the last moment of course. However, on the up-side.....lounging in my jammies all day! Now that is a holiday tradition I can get behind ;)

Our challenge this week at Pinspirational Challenges focuses on this picture:

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Ow, how adorable and lovely Christmassy! So guess what I did with it:

Funny how different the project looks from the inspiration picture, but I assure you I started out with the colour scheme in mind and went through my stash. I was hoping to find some tartan paper in either blue, green of red, but couldn't find any, so selected the red floral background instead. I don't know about you, but flowers are not really what I associate with Christmas (bar the Christmas roses of course). So I decided to keep using the colour scheme, but veer towards a more spring-like topic, like.....yeah, like Easter of course. Bear with me, people....That meant I had to soften the colours a little bit to match the theme, I added a little pink and a splash of yellow to make it match elements in the photos and hey presto: a project was completed, Let's call it artistic licence ;)

So perhaps you will be able to stick to the photo more, or perhaps you also like to make a cross-over project. Regardless, come and share and tell your story behind your work! Sponsor this time around is the Cutting Cafe, a great reason to play along. Hope to see you sharing your work with us!

Challenges:
* Crafty Cardmakers (Anything but a Card)
* Paper Nest Dolls (Anything Goes)
* Use Your Stuff (Layers, using papers, enamel dots, (letter) stickers and chipboard to layer)
* Creates and Makes (Anything Goes, optional Red, Green and Gold)

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Winter Wonderland

Hello everyone!

Just two more sleeps until the big guy in the red suit arrives, how exciting! We are celebrating this year with the in-laws but decided to buy all the presents there so we don't have to drag them along with us on the way there. It sounds like a great idea now, but I really hope it has worked out because I can't imagine anything worse that having just a few days before Christmas and realising the presents you wanted to buy are nowhere to be found in the shops! Nothing like a good last-minute Christmas panic ;)

Just before we start celebrating, I want to share Ooh La La's last challenge for this year with you. The theme is "Winter Wonderland". I am sure that, like me, you have been working on snowy or icy projects (and perhaps still working? I hope it's not Christmas cards, poor you!) that you can share with us in the challenge. I've used an image from my fave OLL CD, Yesterday's Memories, I really can't get enough of this CD.

Materials:
* Ooh La La Snow Scene image, inside sentiment and DP from the Yesterday's Memories CD
* Dovecraft Noel DP
* Chipped Sapphire Distress Ink
* Joy Crafts Flower punch
* Eline's Winterhuis Christmas stamp set
* Pearls from stash

As I'm not sure if I will make it back on the blog before the 25th, I would like to wish you all a very merry Christmas and a crafty new year ! May your crafty stash be abundant and your crafty mojo always on :)

Challenges:
* Pattie's Creations (Snowy Scene within the Image)
* Songbird (Merry Christmas Everybody)
* Creatieve Zebra (Kerst)
* Ladybug (Christmas/Winter)
* Oldie but a Goodie (Winter)
* Cards Galore (Christmas)
* A Little Bit Crazy (Christmas Cheer)
* Shelly's Images (Welcome Winter & Snowflakes)
* Card & Scrap (Christmas)
* Crafty Calendar (Cold and Frosty)

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An Apple a Day......

Hi all,

This week at Delightful Challenges, the challenge theme is "Red, White & Blue", no doubt linking up with the 4th of July. As we don't celebrate that here in the Netherlands, I decided to make a Get Well Soon card using the lovely apple image. You know, an apple a day keeps the doctor away ;) The tear-shaped dew drops looked a bit like apple seeds to me, so I added it on there, even though the apple isn't cut in half.

I had to be in the city for a graduation ceremony of some of my students and on the way back I popped into a craft store. I bought this lovely set of stencils and had a play with one of them (the honeycomb) straight away on this card. I like the look and think I will be using it quite a few times! The set also includes handwriting, paint splashes and a brick wall stencil.

Materials:
* Digital Delights Apple digi, coloured with Promarkers & Spectrum Noirs
* Co'ordinations Vintage Collection Retro Mod Squad CS
* Panduro Design Stencil, using Chipped Sapphire Distress Ink
* Recollections Washi Tape
* Tear Dew Drops from Robin's Nest
* Personal Impressions Sentiment Stamp
* Red Glitter from stash

We are being sponsored by 

Offering a 25 dollar store certificate to the challenge winner! Now that's a nice prize :)

Challenges:
* ABC Challenge (Red, White & Blue)
* Creative Card Crew (No Designer Paper)
* Paper Playtime (Red, White & Blue)
* Created with Love Challenge (4th of July or Red, White & Blue)
* Oozak (Anything Goes with a Sentiment)
* My Heart Pieces (Use a Digi)
* Simply Create Too (Use the Colours in Your Flag)
* Get Inky (Red, White & Blue)
* Hobbycutz (Anything with H) Honeycomb pattern stencil
* Creative Inspirations Paint (Red, White and Blue)

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Red All Over

Hi Everyone!

Yesterday, it was Mother's Day here in the Netherlands, so today I can share my mother's day card with you that I made for my mum. Again, I used Ooh La La's Yesterday's Memories CD, the images are just so beautiful, I love the vintage feel. Our challenge this week @ Ooh La La is to "Use Red", I think I managed that, don't you? ;) If you are making any red creations this week, why not enter our challenge and share your creativity, it will be great to see them!

Materials:
* Ooh La La Red Anemone from the Yesterday's Memories CD (image & DP)
* DP scraps from my scrappy shoe box
* MS Doily Lace Border Punch & rounded corner punch
* Cosmic Shimmer Red Fire Twinkles
* Eline Vintage sentiment stamp set
* Pearls from stash

Challenges:
* Mema's Challenge (Anything Goes with optional Mother's Day & May Flowers)
* As You Like It (Favourite Punch or Die)  I love my Doily Lace border punch, it's the first border punch I bought and I still use it very regularly.
* The Squirrel and the Fox (Mother's Day)
* Crafty Calendar (Blooms & Blossoms)
* Chocolate, Coffee & Cards (Mother's Day/For Mum)
* Go Fish (Mother's Day)
* By the Cute and Girly (Flowers)
* Shopping Our Stash (Mother's Day or Pink)
* Crafty Sentiments (Use a Sentiment)
* Tuesday Throwndown (My Mother, My Friend)

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It's Not that Black & White

Back again :)

This time with my card for PCD Challenges, with the theme "Black & White plus One Other Colour". In my case I used red as my additional colour. I love the Oriental theme of this card, it's my first one ever. I'd love to see what you can do with this challenge!

Materials:
* Platypus Creek Digitals Hana digi, coloured with Promarkers & Spectrum Noirs
* Romak Pretty Papers Oriental 2 DPs & Making Memories Rouge & Mocha assorted scraps
* Dovecraft Back to Basics Christmas Vintage Buttons
* Starform peel offs
* Personal Impressions Sentiment Stamp
* Ribbon from stash

Challenges:
* Gingerloft (Red)
* Forever Friends (Anything Goes)
* Deep Ocean (The Letter B) Buttons, Best Wishes, Black
* Scrapbooking Queen (Anything Goes)
* My Grafico (Anything Goes)
* Crafty Bloggers Network (Anything Goes)
* By the Cute and Girly (Roses are Red) Using Red as one of my main colours
* Pretty Little Ribbon Shop (Anything Goes)
* Charisma Cardz (Anything Goes)
* Crafty Ribbons (Button Up)

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Indoors Decoration

Good morning everyone!

It has been very quiet on my blog this week and I haven't been able to visit all the other blogs I love as I have been struck down with the flu :( Thankfully I am feeling much better again now, as a new challenge is starting today at Fab 'n Funky themed "WHAT'S INSIDE", one of my teamie Beccy's ideas, meaning that we want you to decorate the inside of your card. I always do that anyway, a great way of using up scraps of paper, but thought I would make a bit more of an effort this time around. I got to play with my new purchase, Card Candi, which I really enjoyed, so versatile but it doesn't add much in terms of weight to your card (very important if you want to mail your cards, which I usually will).

Here is my Christmas-themed card, both inside and out!

We are sponsored by Stampfairy this week, it would be great if you could come and play along with us!

Materials:
* Stampfairy Gingerbread Babies Hoola Hoop, coloured with Promarkers & Spectrum Noirs
* Red Glitter
* Helz Cuppleditch Pepper's Christmas Party DPs + some scraps
* Forest Moss Distress Ink & Silver Ink
* Vintage Berries Candi
* Dovecraft Back to Basics Christmas Button
* SEI Christmas Mint Vanilla Icing Accents
* Joycraft Snowflake punch
* Eline's Winterhuis Christmas Sentiment Stamps
* Pearls from stash

Challenges:
* Sparkles Forum Christmas Challenge (Anything Goes)
* Mayzy Art (Anything Goes)
* Challenges 4 Everybody (Anything Goes)
* Use it Tuesdays (Fasteners) Hoarded items are the SEI Accents & Red Glitter
* Natalie & Amy (Something Old & Something New) Old: SEI Accents & Glitter, New: Candi
* One Stitch at a Time (Anything Goes)
* Tuesday Throwdown (Anything Goes)
* Craft Room Challenges (Make Your Own Embellishments) Rosettes
* Forever Friends (Anything Goes)
* Oozak (Anything Goes with Your Favourite Colours) For Christmas, it has to be Green & Red

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Christmas with a Heart

Hi everyone!

Already one month has passed in the new year, it all went by in a flash! But it really is February and time for another CCAYR challenge! For this month, the challenge theme is "RED & WHITE, FLOWERS & HEARTS". Yes, another Red & White project for me :) You have the whole month of February to participate, just make sure you adhere to the theme and make it a Christmas project! I've used up another couple of decoupage images that were waiting on my desk being left over from last-minute Christmas card making. They were perfect for the red & white theme!

Materials:
* Studio Light Decoupage images
* Echo Park A Walk in the Park DP
* DCWV The Glitter Cardstock Brights CS
* Fiskars Star Border Punch
* Joy Craft Flower Punch
* Ribbon, Heart gem, Border Peeloffs and Peel off sentiment from my stash

Challenges:
* Inky Chicks (Bingo) I've used Ribbon, Sentiments, Flowers
* Creative Craft Challenges (Bling It Up)
* Little Miss Muffet (Hearts & Flowers)
* ATCs with Attitude (Ribbon/Lace)
* Whimsy Stamps (Fancy Edges)
* Bunny Zoe (Anything Goes)
* Scrap Cards (Hearts)
* Kaboodle Doodles (Winter)
* Bearly Mine (Hearts Galore)
* Shopping Our Stash (Love, Red, Hearts, Valentine) I've used Red & Hearts

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Red & White

Hi all!

Red and White seem to be the colour combo of the week, as I will sharing two red & white creations with you this week. This is the first, for the Delightful Challenge themed "RED & WHITE". I've used a very old paper pad, one of the first ones I ever bought! I could hardly find it anymore with all my more recent paper pad purchases floating around as well. What can I say, I just love paper pads, they are my weakness :) I love the dark rich red colours here.

I've actually used a white geld pen to try and shade the cup a little, I was curious to know if that would work after I made a little mistake with my pens and picked up the darkest one instead of the lighter colour and proceeded to colour the entire thing before I realised my mistake. It's not as pretty as using markers, but perhaps I just need a little more practice!

Materials:
* Digital Delights Time for Tea Booboo, coloured with Promarkers & Spectrum Noirs
* Making Memories Paperie Rouge & Mocha DPs, edges distressed and
* Studio Light paper & Eline's vintage stamp sentiments
* Gems from stash
* Cosmic Shimmer Red Fire Twinkles

Challenges:
* Bunny Zoe (Anything Goes)
* One Stitch at a Time (Use a Digi)
* Use it Tuedays (Warm it Up)
* Totally Gorjuss (Flowers) On the DP and the digi
* Love to Create (Anything Goes with a Sentiment)
* Happy Campers (Flowers + Digital element)
* Joanna Sheen (3,2,1)
* Paper Pretties (Square Cards)
* Tuesday Alchemy (Anything Goes)
* Crafty Bloggers Network (Flowers)

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I Love You This Much

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Hi All!

We are starting another PCD challenge today and as Valentine's Day is approaching fast, our theme this time is Valentine/Love. I thought I'd make an easel card again, as I hadn't been doing alternative folding techniques for a while now. I hope you can join us this fortnight :)

Materials:
* Platypus Creek Digitals Row of Hearts digi, coloured with Promarkers
* Digital Delights Love is in the Air Sentiment set
* Echo Park A Walk in the Park & Paper Mania Summer Bloom DPs
* Inkssentials Crackle Accents Glaze
* Gloss Glaze
* Red ink & Victorian Velvet Distress Ink
* Brads, Silver border peel offs from my stash

Challenges:
* Avadares (Valentine's Day/Love)
* One Crazy Stamper (Anything Goes)
* Stamp & Create (Love)
* Let's Craft & Create (Anything Goes)
* Diva's by Design (Make it Girlie)
* Paper Creator's Craft (Love it All Around)
* ATC's with Attitude (Add a Tag or Sentiment)
* Glitter 'n Sparkle (Sentimental)
* Card Mania (Oh So Girly)
* One Stitch in Time (Love)

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Being Festively Floral

Good morning all!

Just one more month until Christmas,can you believe it? But first, we are celebrating Sinterklaas on the 5th of December. Although mainly a children's celebration, my hubs and me still make a little occasion out of it, with a lovely meal and some Sinterklaar snacks such as chocolate letters and speculaas. I might do a little baking as well, always fun :) We don't do cards for that occasion though, so I am sharing another Christmas card with you instead. My card ties in beautifully with this week's Delightful Challenge, which is themed 'Festively Floral'. I'm sure that when you think of flowers at Christmas time, the poinsettia comes to mind, but I found these red flowers while I was combing through my stash that I thought might work just as well. I feel it does, but I'll let you be the judge!

Materials:
* Digital Delights Standing Santa & Be Naughty sentiment, coloured with Promarkers & Spectrum Noirs
* Create & Craft CS
* Clear Stardust Glitter Glue
* DPs and Ribbon from the scraps shoebox
* Flora Doodles Jeweled Florettes
* Eline's Winterhuis sentiment stamp
* Chipped Sapphire Distress Ink

Our sponsor this week is

If you have time and crafty mojo, why not play along? We'd love to see your fabulous projects!

Challenges:
* AnMaCreatief (Christmas)
* Crafty Bloggers Network (Christmas)
* Whimsy (Traditional Christmas Colouring)
* Desert Island (Use 3 items from the list) I've used Christmas, Flowers, Sparkle
* Little Claire's (Christmas)
* Sweet Stampin' (Flowers)
* Allsorts (Bring on the Bling)
* St Luke's Challenge (Traditional Christmas)
* One Crazy Stamper (Anything Goes)
* Paper Creator's Crafts (All about Christmas)

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Traditional Christmas Nutcracker

Hi all!

Another week, another Christmas card, although I've used a slightly different image than I usually do. I like Nutcracker images, but to me they don't really associate with Christmas very much. So I've never really used them for Crimbo cards. But now that I have I might start using them a lot more, the image is just so cute and works well with whatever colour scheme you can throw at it. This project uses the most traditional colour scheme for Christmas in my eyes: Red and Green.

Materials:
* Digital Delights Mr Nutcracker & Winter Tickets Sentiment set, coloured with Promarkers & Spectrum Noirs
* Dovecraft Jolly Happy Christmas DPs
* Red and Green ink
* Joy Craft Flower punch
* Eline's Winterhuis stamp set
* Ribbon, gem from stash

And what a coincidence, that's exactly what the Delightful Challenge has as its theme! With Christmas on its way, I am sure you have a couple of Red & Green projects kicking about, why not enter them?

Our sponsor this week is

Hope to see you there!

Challenges:
* Card & Scrap (Christmas)
* Whimsy Stamps (Traditional Christmas Colours)
* SJ Crafts (Christmas with optional Mix those Alphas)
* Natalie & Amy (Colour me Happy) My favourite Christmas colour combo is still red & green!
* Mema's Craft (Anything Goes or Winter/Holiday themed)
* Little Claire's (Christmas)
* Crafty Hazelnut (Something older than 6 months) Just about everything on the card!
* Let's Craft & Create (Getting Ready For Christmas)
* Paper Creator's Crafts (Christmas)
* Challenges 4 Everybody (Anything Goes)

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Red & White

Good morning all!

It's time for another challenge @ Platypus Creek and it might be a more difficult theme than usual: "Christmas Using only Red & White"! Oh, that can be hard, it was for me anyway. It's so easy to slip in a little bit of a different colour, but I managed to follow the challenge to the letter for once ;)

Here's my card, using a new PCD image:

Materials:
* PCD Candy Canes, coloured with Promarkers
* DP scraps from my scrap shoebox
* Clear Stardust Glitter Glue
* Studio Light
* Snow Flake brads
* Eline's Winterhuis stamp (Scandinavian horses inside)

Come on and join us, we'd love to see your red & white beauties! :)

Challenges:
* Anything Goes Challenge (Anything Goes)
* Creative Craft Challenge 2 (Any Special Occasion but not Birthday)
* Creative Inspirations (Let's Celebrate)
* Card & Scrap (Christmas card)
* DYSU (Brads)
* St. Luke's Charity cards (Last Challenge - Traditional Christmas)
* Ladybug Crafts (Monochrome/Tonal)
* Crafts & Me (Bling It Up)
* Divas by Design (Feeling Festive)
* Whimsy Stamps (All Things Sparkly)

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Another Christmas Card

Hi all,

Only 10 days until Christmas, can you believe it? It has really snuck up on me this year, we don't even have the tree up, not all cards are on their way and I still have to start baking and cooking for a great idea for a Christmas present (even if I do say myself). If I will have time to take some pictures I will post them. However, now I have another Christmas card to share with you. We at Friendship's Garden are challenging you to make a Christmas card without using stamps! Check out the challenge blog for more details, we'd love to see your makes!

I probably will not be posting much until the New Year, need to get all the pressies shopped and wrapped and focus on the cooking for now. So if I don't see you before then, have a great Christmas and a very happy 2012!


Materials:
* Scalloped white base card
* Marianne Design Scandinavian Christmas DPs
* Studio Light image
* Gems and silver peel offs from stash

Challenges
* Crafting for All Seasons (Christmas)
* Divas by Design (Christmas)
* Joanna Sheen Challenge Blog (Christmas Wishes)
* Little Darlings (Christmas)
* For Fun Challenges (Christmas)
* Papertake Weekly (Christmas)
* Christmas Crafting (Santa Claus is coming to Town)
* Crafty Hazelnut (Traditional Christmas)
* Winter Wonderland (Let it Snow)
* By the Cute and Girly (Let it Snow)

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Winter Robin

Hi everyone, 


Long time no see, it has been a little quiet at my end here, I have a number of projects I am working on but nothing finished so far. Thankfully I finally managed to finish this Christmas card, as inspiration for our Christmas Cards All Year Round August challenge. We are challenging you to use 4 or more the following items: 

Chipboard
Hand Stitching
Ribbon
Inking
Stamping
Textured paper (embossed is good!)
Metal embelishments
Alphabet stickers or rubons for the sentiment
Stripes


Here is my card, I've used Chipboard, Inking, Metal Embellishments and Stripes. You have until the end of the month to come and play along with us, so plenty of time still for some more lovely creations!

Materials used:
* White base card
* Image and sentiment inside Studio Light
* Basic Grey Jovial DPs
* Crafters Companion embossing board
* Vintage Photo Distress Ink
* SEI Christmas Mint Chiplets
* Brad and peeloff stickers from stash

Challenges:
* Sparkles Christmas Forum (Robins)
* Bling it On (ABC, Animal, Brad, Christmas Scene)
* Heart Song Inspirations (Animal image or use Pleated Ribbon)
* OLLCB (Christmas)
* Paper Playtime (Anything Goes)
* Aud Sentiments (Merry Christmas)
* Christmas Card Challenges (Christmas)
* Ellephantastic Challenges (Add Layers; image is in 3D)
* Fab 'n Funky (Christmas)
* Cute Daisy May (Anything Goes)

Hope you like the card, I will be back on Friday with my Card Makin' Mamas DT card! It's going to be an excellent challenge, so stay tuned :)

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Red, White and Blue

Hello everyone!


How has your week been? It's so busy at my end right now; I had a work conference in the beginning of the week and my students are now scrambling to finish their thesis on time so that means a lot of paper grading! Oh well, in a few weeks we will be on holiday, I'm just holding on to that thought :)


It's time for another challenge over at Card Makin' Mams. So many beautiful entries again for last challenge, so if you have a suitable card please join the fun! 


Our challenge this time around is "RED, WHITE AND BLUE"


We are sponsored by Robyn's Fetish, they are offering the winner either 5 digital stamps or 4 digital stamps and 1 paper set. Have a look at their website to see the collection: http://robynsfetish.com/shop/. They also provided us with some images to give you some inspiration, I used SS Hoppity, great name huh? It was such an easy image to colour as well, as some of the shading is already indicated, so you know where to colour in a bit darker. Great help for a colouring/shading newbie like me!

Materials used:
* White A6 base card
* Robyn's Fetish SS Hoppity image, coloured with Promarkers
* Studio Light DPs & borders inside (It's usually used with more traditional/vintage images, but I think it works great here as well)
* Create and Craft white ribbon
* Scalloped circle punch
* Sentiment, red gems from stash

I am submitting to these challenges:
* Craft Us Crazy (Red,White and Blue/Summer)
* A Spoonful of Sugar (Use Ribbon and at least one Bow)
* DieCutDreams (Red, White and Blue)
* I Love Promarkers (Anything Goes)
* Ladybug Crafts (Use Red)
* Passion for Promarkers (Park Life)
* Scrapbook Sisters (Anything Goes)
* Southern Girls Challenge (Anything Goes)
* Hooked on Craft (Anything Goes)
* Polka Doodles (Stashbox stamps & colour theme)

Right, that's it from me, one last day of work at it's the weekend! Woohoo! I am planning to spend much of it sleeping and catching up my buddies' blogs :) Enjoy your weekend as well, whatever you will be doing!

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"Easy" as 1-2-3

Hello everyone!

Hurray, Blogger is back in working order! Let's hope it stays that way, I had withdrawal symptoms ;)

This time, our challenge at Card Makin' Mamas is 1-2-3: 1 image, 2 different backing papers and 3 types of embellishments. I planned to make a card for our nephew who is turning 15 at the end of the month. The image selection was easy enough, but of course then I couldn't find two matchting backing papers in the colours that I wanted and after that I couldn't for the life of me come up with 3 embellishments that would suit a boy card. But finally I managed it:

The image is 3D, using 3D glue for the first time. Man, that stuff stinks! I might have to switch brands, I've heard really good things about Pinflair glue, might have to give that a go. Nevertheless, I'm pretty happy with the end result, as I think boy cards are the most difficult to make. And, a first for me, I managed to make myself tear backing paper! Granted, it wasn't the fancy stuff, but a girl has to start somewhere right? ;)

Materials used:

* Cars backing paper (free @ Printable Heaven: http://www.printableheaven.com/index.php)

* Artstamps "Big Sentiments" stamp (inside)

* Peel off numbers, striped backing paper, button, ribbon and black square embellishments from stash

I am submitting to these challenges:

* Pollycraft (Boyz to Men)

* The Ribbon Reel (Colour Combo)
* Stamps R Us (For the Men in Our Lives)
* Here Come The Boys (Anything Goes, but needs to be a card for a man)
* Cards For Men (Someone Special)
* Crafty Ann's Challenge Blog (Happy Birthday)
* Sparkles Forum Challenge (2 papers, 1 ribbon or bow, 2 embellishments)
* Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge (Dust off your stash; I've had this image for AAAAAGES!)
* Sentimental Sundays (Anything Goes)

The challenge will run for two weeks, so plenty of time for you to participate if you'd like. We are being sponsored by Some Odd Girl this time. Hope to see you there!

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A Fairy Doodles Christmas

Good Morning all! Hasn't the weather just been great last weekend? We had some great days and went for a little bike ride on Sunday. It was great and lot's of people were about with dogs and kids.

It's been a bit quiet at my end this last week, I didn't really have that much time and inspiration to craft. But eventually I started again and made this Christmas card:



Materials used:
* Basic Grey Jovial Backing paper
* Buzzcraft Fairy Doodle decoupage sheet
* Kars ribbon
* Gems and Merry Christmas stamp from my stash
* Stickles around the fairy image

I am pretty happy with this card, a very satisfying feeling to be able to use up some of my bits and bobs that were lying about on the crafty table!

Submitted to:
* Sparkles Forum Christmas Challenge (Ribbon and Gems)
* Allsorts (Anything but a square)
* Christmas Card Challenge (Bows)
* Crafty Sentiments (Glitter it up)
* Papertake Weekly (Anything Goes)
* The Paper Shelter (Anything Goes)
* Winter Wonderland (Photo inspiration, I've used the colour scheme and the baubles)
Thanks for having a look!

Enjoy your week

Ciska

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Another Christmas Card

Hi all,

Well, when I was saying last week that a lot of work was waiting for me, I wasn't kidding! I've spent all this week trying to catch up, meaning little time for making cards. But I finally have something to show you again, a Christmas card this time.




I haven't even had time to finish decorating the inside yet!

Materials used:
* Studio Light image and red basic backing paper
* Bauble stamp on the red backing paper from Ollie stamp set Christmas
* Music backing paper from Dovecraft Tis the Season
* Red ribbon from stash
* Flora Doodles Primary Colours flowers
* Little peel off gems in the baubles

I know, the flowers aren't that Christmassy, but the colours combine great with traditional Christmas colours.

I am submitting to these challenges:
* Winter Wonderland (Baubles)
* Christmas Stampin' (Make it Yours)
* Crafty Hazelnut (Square card)
* Charizma Cards (Bling & Sparkles, it was so sparkly that I had trouble getting a decent photo, as the photo's above can attest.......)
* Delightful Sketches (Flowers)
* Incy Wincy (Sparkle & Shine)
* Paper Pretties (Bring on the Bling)
* Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge (Christmas in Spring)
* For Fun Challenges (Christmas)

I heard on the news that this Saturday is going to be glorious in the Netherlands, they are promising at least 21 degrees! Woohoo, finally! I think a little picnic is in order.....:) Have a great rest of the week and of course a lovely weekend!

Ciska

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