Matchy-Matchy

Hi all,

Finally, some rain around here! I never thought I'd be so happy with a heavy shower :) It was pretty heavy though, we still had our windows and door open and that resulted in some local flooding but nothing that couldn't be fixed with a towel or two ;) It's still pretty warm and humid though, I hope that will go away soon too.

Anyway, on to this week's challenge @ Fab 'n Funky: "Make it a Set". Basically, we are asking you to make two or more projects that belong together: it could be a group of cards, a card & matching envelope or as in my case a Christmas card with a matching tag. I used the same colours, DPs and techniques on both elements to link them together.

We are sponsored by Digital Delights, Doodle Pantry and Stamp Art by Katherine, have a look at the challenge blog to find out more about their digis and much more.

Materials:
* Digital Delights Caroling Petey and Circular Christmoose sentiment, coloured with Promarkers & Spectrum Noirs
* Marianne Design Old-Fashioned Christmas, Basic Grey Jovial & Dovecraft Noel DPs
* Eline's Vintage Christmas stamps
* Victorian Velvet & Distress Ink
* Flower stem & Scalloped Circle punches
* Gems from stash

Challenges:
* Sweet Stampin' (Christmas in July)
* Digi Darla (Christmas in July)
* Sentimental Sundays (Christmas in July)
* Robin's Fetish (Christmas in July)
* Stamps & Fun (Christmas in Summer)
* Flourishes (Christmas in July)
* Pinspirational Challenge (Photo Inspiration) I've used the Christmas theme, red & green colours
* Shelly's Images (Christmas in July)
* Get Inky (Christmas/Birthdays)
* Lexi's Creations (Christmas in July)

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Gingerbread Buttons

Hi everyone,

I had some lovely extra days off, we didn't do much as I still had my cold but is was nice to just be hanging around. I still did a little work, as I am falling a little bit behind after our holiday but I still got to sleep in and do a little crafting too.  But, today I'm back on my daily commute to work, coinciding with the new CCAYR Challenge for this month, the theme this time is "Use a Gingerbread image on your project, together with ribbon and at least 3 buttons". A little more complicated theme this month, but I am sure you will be able to create a project for it!

I had a little difficulty finding a ginger bread image in my stash, but in the end found one in a decoupage magazine, meant as part of a small gift tag. So I decided to use a tag on my card to fill out the front of the card a little more; I think it works but am curious to what you think.

Materials:
* Studio Light Decoupage image
* Dovecraft Noel & Let it Snow DPs
* K&Co Christmas Cheer Tag Pad
* Peacock Feather Distress Ink
* Dovecraft Back to Basics Christmas Vintage Buttons
* Dark Cocoa Sew Easy Floss
* Eline's Winterhuis sentiment stamp
* Ribbon from stash

Challenges:
* Charisma Cardz (Polka Dots)
* Southern Girls (Buttons, Badges or Flair)
* Crafts 4 Eternity (At least 3 patterned papers)
* Crafty Ribbons (Anything Goes with Ribbon)
* Crimbo Crackers (Anything Goes)
* Robin's Fetish (Spots or Stripes)
* Cutie Pie (Lots of Layers)
* Celebrate the Occasion (Anything Goes)
* Bearly Mine (Anything Goes)
* LEJ Designs (Anything Goes)

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An Easter Gift

Back again :)

PCD's challenge is also starting today, themed "Anything but a Card with an Easter theme". I decided to make a tag, I am planning to add it to a bag of chocolate Easter eggs for a gift but haven't gotten around to buying the eggs yet.

Here's my tag, hope you like it. Do you have any Easter projects that aren't cards? Then why not link up with us!

Materials:
* PCD Easter Egg set, coloured with Promarkers
* K&C Roam Tag Pad
* Posh Impressions Musical Score stamp
* Pumice Stone & Chipped Sapphire Distress Ink
* Gems & Ribbon from stash

Challenges:
* Live & Love Crafts (Easter)
* Digi Haven (Easter)
* Simply Create Too (Easter or Bunnies)
* Craft Us Crazy (Anything but a Card)
* Avadares (Easter or Spring)
* Southern Girls (Tag, You're It)
* Paperminutes (Tag It)
* My Sheri Crafts (Easter)
* Sweet Stampin' (Easter)
* A Gem of a Challenge (Easter/Spring)

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Tag, You're It

Hi everyone!

This March, if all goes well, my parents will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary, married for half an age! Unbelievable, I can't imagine being married for 50 years and since I married quite late (only just celebrated our 2nd anniversary), the chance of us celebrating this anniversary is fairly small. But you never know, just keep breathing right? ;) I've made a little gift tag to celebrate the occasion, I'm not sure yet how I will use it but I'm sure I will find a fun way :)

 Materials:
* Digital Delights Tiered Cake digi, coloured with Promarkers & Spectrum Noirs
* K&Co Roam Tag Pad
* DP scraps from my scrappy shoebox
* Star border punch
* Eline Vintage Sentiment Stamp Set
* Tumbled Glass Distress Ink
* Pearls and ribbon from my stash

The Delightful Challenge for this week is themed "Tag, You're It", so using a tag in your project. You can make any type of paper craft to participate, so let's get creative!

We will be sponsored by 

offering a 15 dollar gift certificate to spend at their store!

Challenges
* Emergency Crafters (Use Something that's more than 1 year old) Pearls
* Cards Galore (Anything Goes)
* Sarah Hurley (Celebrate)
* Natalie & Amy (Things You Love) Pearls
* One Crazy Stamper (Anything Goes)
* Oozak (Anything Goes with Pink & Bling)
* Live & Love Crafts (Something Old)
* Emerald Fairies (Celebrations)
* Ladybug Crafts (Anything but a Card)
* Inky Chicks (Anything Goes)

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A Christmassy Thank You

Good morning all!

Thanksgiving is coming up for our US crafty friends, so the challenge theme this week @ Delightful Challenges is "Giving Thanks". We don't celebrate Thanksgiving in the Netherlands, so I decided to use this theme to create a Thank You tag with a Christmas theme.

Materials:
* Delightful Challenges Christmas Accessories Set
* K&Co Christmas Cheer Tag Pad
* Basic Grey Jovial & K&Co Earth Tones Solid Mat Pad DP scraps
* Stardust Glitter pen
* Quick Sand Sew Easy Floss
* Ribbon, pearls and button from stash

We are sponsored this week by

Hope to see you there!

Challenges:
* Oozak (Winter Vibes)
* Southern Girls (Christmas)
* Whimsy Stamps (Traditional Christmas Colouring)
* Aud Sentiments (Use Sentiment with Thanks in it)
* Crafty Bloggers Network (Christmas Anything Goes)
* Craft Us Crazy (Favourite Colour or Holiday theme)
* Avadares (Christmas Anything Goes)
* Mema's Craft (Anything Goes with a Winter/Holiday Theme)
* DigiStamps4Joy (Giving Thanks)
* St. Luke's Challenge (Traditional Christmas)

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Let's Get Spooky!

Happy Monday everyone!

Well, we just had a lovely couple of days out, just lovely weather and great scenery! We rented a couple of bikes and explored the whole island, even dipped our toes in the North Sea. And on top of that, my post for Thursday published as scheduled, what more could a girl want eh? ;) Just one more week until it's back full force at work, can't say I'm looking forward to that right now but I guess I will be getting in the swing of things soon enough :)

Today I am sharing with you my first creation for the Platypus Creek Digitals DT, the challenge is "LET'S GET SPOOKY" this time around. I've decided to make a Halloween tag:

Materials:
* K&Co Roam Tag Pad, distress with TH Distress tool and inked with green and gold ink
* Platypus Creek Digital Halloween Cat & Cast a Spell digis, coloured with Spectrum Noirs & Promarkers
* Scalloped circle punch
* Purple and green ribbon, star-shaped and flower gems and green glitter from stash

I hope you can join us, you don't have to use a PCD image, but we'd love to see what you can do with them! The winner of the challenge will receive a free digi file of their choice. There's not only digis by the way, PCD also stocks digi papers and cutting files. If you'd like to see more, check our the shop website!

Challenges:
* Sweet Stampin' (Out of the Frame)
* Allsorts (It's a Gift)
* One Stitch at a Time (Use a Digi)
* Robyn's Fetish (Anything but a Card)
* Paper Crafting Journey (Anything Goes)
* Hiding in My Craftroom (Share a Challenge: Out of the Frame)
* QKR Stampede Challenge (Anything Goes)
* Pile It On (Something beginning with P: purple, Platypus Creek digi)
* Challenges for Everybody (Anything Goes)
* Great Impressions (Animals)

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Patrick's Green

UPDATE 8th of March ---------
Unfortunately, when I posted this message I didn't yet know that Friendship's Garden is closing its doors. This challenge won't be opened and no new challenges will start. You can read our head Garden Girl Becky's farewell message here. On a personal note, I want to thank all of you who have participated in the challenges or commented on my DT cards for Friendship's Garden. It's a shame to see it go, but as Becky says: Nothing lasts Forever. Thank you all.
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Hi Everyone,

Yet another challenge at Friendship's Garden is starting today, the theme is "ST. PATRICK's DAY"! We don't celebrate that in the Netherlands (funny how a lot of holidays aren't really celebrated here, I can assure you we are not all work and no play!), so I decided to go with a Green & Lucky theme. I thought a tag would be just the ticket for a colleague leaving or someone moving away, so that's what I did. Here's the tag:

Materials:
* K&Co Roam Tag Pad, edges distressed with my new TH tool and inked with green ink
* Studio Light Clover image
* Sentiment and horseshoes from Word Clip Art
* Ribbon and gems from my stash

Challenges:
* My Grafico (St Patrick's Day)
* Paper Pretties (Going Green)
* Incy Wincy (Something Old, Something New; Old = All of it, but especially my ribbon and gems, New = My Tim Holtz Distress Tool that I bought on Monday!)
* Creative Mondays (Anything Goes)
* Craft Your Passion (Anything Goes)
* There She Goes (Tag It)
* Stamps & Fun = Creativity (One Bow)
* Catered Crop (Ribbon)
* Paper SUndaes (Green or Good Luck)
* The Hybrid Chick (Lucky & Green)

I hope you can join us once again at Friendship's Garden, hope to see you there!

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Bookmark

Good Morning everyone,

I have not been posting for the last week, I was busy working on a card that I will be showing you on Friday for the new CMM Challenge, but today I can already share a little side project I made as well. It's a bookmark for my husband, we will celebrate our first anniversary next week and since this is traditionally a paper anniversary, I thought I would give him a little home made gift along that theme. I am actually pretty happy with the way it turned out, I'd never done it before but this one was SOOOOO easy! There's a little candle holder behind it to prop it up for the picture, the bookmark itself is the tag.



Materials used:
* Orange card stock from my stash to strenghten it and the greens gems, both from my stash.
* Silver peeloff letters
* Baker's twine and green ribbon from Making Memories (Trims cool)
* Green tag from K&Company Hopskotch Girl Tag Pad
* Brown tag from SEI Christmas Mint chiplets

Funny how you can use things that are meant to use for certain cards in other ways that work as well! Girly paper en Christmas Chipboard for a male project, who would have thunk it ;)

I've left the back completely plain, I didn't want to inflict any more bling on him, he has to use it in public places after all :) It's simple, but I still like it.

Well, that's it from me for today, I will be back on Friday with my card.  I will be trying a little blofsurfing later on!

Ciska

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