zaterdag 25 februari 2023
Vlieg met me mee...
woensdag 22 februari 2023
Jongetje in zwart-wit
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A card in black and white is something completely different from what I 'normally' make, but it's fun to do! At the new challenge from http://thesisterhoodofcrafters.blogspot.com the challenge is to make a card with dots and stripes and I was 'messing around' in my box of snippets of patterned paper when I happened to come across this black and white paper. I keep all paper leftovers sorted by color and was actually looking for something else. But when I saw this I immediately knew it was nice to use for the challenge. I only used die-cut figures from Leane Creatief, except for the 'tree' which is actually a branch with a bird on it. This die is from Marianne Design.
zondag 19 februari 2023
Christmas Joy
vrijdag 17 februari 2023
Let spring begin!
Look at those three little gnomes standing there! They can't wait for spring to begin (look at the text of the one in the middle) and that's exactly my idea. I'm not a 'winter person' at all, especially when there are as many gloomy days of rain as we've had. But luckily in the garden the tulips and daffodils are already a little above the ground and the crocuses are already blooming.
Once I got the pictures of the gnomes and glued I them on a background that I first treated with green and blue Distress Oxide. Then stenciled the green motifs using a Stampin' Up! stencil and the dark gray twigs using another stencil. The 'scribble figures' are from a stamp from Leane Creatief and the washi tape with music is also from LC. The lace is old and is from Marianne Design You can't see it very well, but the basket of the middle gnome is filled with white pearlpaint dots from Dovecraft.
And ofcourse a warm welcome to Tee (THe Paper Layer) and Janja: they are new followers and I am happy with that!
Sieh dir diese drei kleinen Gnome an, die da stehen! Sie können den Frühling kaum erwarten (siehe den Text beim Gnome in der Mitte!) und genau das ist meine Idee. Ich bin überhaupt kein „Wintermensch“, besonders wenn es so viele düstere Regentage gibt wie bei uns. Aber zum Glück stehen im Garten die Tulpen und Narzissen schon etwas über dem Boden und die Krokusse blühen schon.
woensdag 15 februari 2023
Blauw-groen
This card is for a very good friend who likes it 'simple'. So this time I just used a stamp and a butterfly. The background was created with Distress Ink and the large image was stamped with VersaMark and embossed with WOW Gold embossing powder. I edited the butterfly with green Distress Ink and decorated it with two rhinestones. I actually think the result is quite nice and do you think it is simple enough?
maandag 13 februari 2023
Fietsen langs de gracht
You won't find any canals in our area, but here and there a ditch can still be found outside our Brabant village. We like to cycle there and especially the transition between flat meadows and ditches and then suddenly a forest: I think that's the beauty of the region where we live. So cycling past Dutch houses like on my card, that won't happen often! I made the card with materials from Leane Creatief and I made the canal myself with Distress Ink and a sponge dauber.
I noticed, that VineArts (I don't see your 'real 'name) likes to follow my blog. Welcome and have fun!
In userer Gegend gibt es überhaupt keine Kanäle, aber hier und da ist doch ein Graben außerhalb unseres Brabanter Dorfes zu finden. Wir radeln dort gerne und besonders der Übergang zwischen flachen Wiesen und Gräben und dann plötzlich ein Wald: Ich finde, das ist das Schöne an der Region, in der wir leben. Also vorbei an holländischen Häusern radeln, wie auf meiner Karte, das wird so schnell nicht passieren!zaterdag 11 februari 2023
Silhouetjes
woensdag 8 februari 2023
Love is in the air
zondag 5 februari 2023
Scandinavisch
vrijdag 3 februari 2023
Harten
Der Februar ist der Monat der Liebe und der Valentinstag wird gefeiert. Das interessiert mich nicht so sehr, aber eine Karte mit einem (oder mehreren!) Herzen ist immer praktisch für jemanden, der für mich wichtig ist!
woensdag 1 februari 2023
Drie bij een hekje
After a few months break, the monthly challenges are starting again at http://scrapping4funchallenges.blogspot.com and that's why I made this card. The theme is: Everything is allowed, so that's a piece of cake this time! I used all dies from the new collection of 2023 from Leane Creatief and don't you think they're super cute? Those three animals behind the fence are already looking ahead to spring (me too!). I diecut them out of white cardstock and colored them with markers. Only from the sheep I have diecut the body out of a cotton pad, so that it has become really 'woolly'. The stamped tree comes from a somewhat older collection, but it fits well with the scene!
maandag 30 januari 2023
Skivakantie
February 13 is our Joyce's birthday and I made this card for her, because she has loved to ski since she was 4 years old. Every year it is great fun to go to Austria and at the end of February they will be going there again. She has married Ramon who also loves skiing since childhood and Chloë and Melle, their two children, have been participating just as hard since they were 4 years old!
zaterdag 28 januari 2023
Winter
donderdag 26 januari 2023
Kerstster
woensdag 25 januari 2023
Koud!
maandag 23 januari 2023
It's always tea time
Het is altijd tijd voor thee...maar ik lust ook wel graag een bakje koffie hoor! Op mijn 10e verjaardag kreeg ik het boek van Alice in Wonderland en ik vond het zo leuk, dat ik het heel vaak heb gelezen. Ik heb het nog steeds en het ziet er nu wel een beetje gehavend uit zoals je hieronder ziet. Maar het sprookje blijft leuk en ook de 'ouderwetse' plaatjes vind ik leuk. Ik ben geabonneerd op een Engels tijdschrift over kaarten maken en een paar jaren geleden zaten daar gratis een paar uitdruk- en knipvellen en stempels van Alice bij en die heb ik bewaard. Nu kwamen ze goed van pas om er deze kaart mee te maken. Ik kreeg het idee omdat ik de challenge van Dutch Card Lovers zag waarbij je een kopje of beker moet gebruiken.
It's always time for tea...but I also like a cup of coffee! On my 10th birthday I got the book 'Alice in Wonderland' and I liked it so much that I read it many times. I still have it and it does look a bit battered now as you see above. But the story about Alice remains fun and I also like the 'old-fashioned' pictures. I have a subscription to an English craftmagazine about card making and a few years ago it included a few free gifts, like cutting sheets and stamps from Alice and I kept them. Now they came in handy to make this card. I got the idea because I saw the Dutch Card Lovers challenge where you have to use a cup or mug. For the background I added diluted Distress Ink to white cardstock and stamped a wood motif from Stampin' Up! I applied the diamonds with a template from Tim Holtz, the watches are free gift stamps from the magazine and the stamped playing cards are from Leane Creatief.
zaterdag 21 januari 2023
So happy together....
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woensdag 18 januari 2023
Vlinders en bloemen

zondag 15 januari 2023
Vogeltjes
zaterdag 14 januari 2023
Sneeuw!
vrijdag 13 januari 2023
Een nieuw huis
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What could be better than having a new home on the horizon? Friends of ours can't wait now that they've heard that they will be able to 'downsize' and live in a smaller house in a while, because they have heard that they are lucky ones to get a new (appartment) house to be built. So a few months of patience, but they like being able to really follow everything of the building process from the beginning. So that's worth congratulations with a bouquet of flowers and this tag that I made with materials from Leane Creatief. Everything comes from the last collection of 2022. The house and trees are diecuts, the mouse, key and latern are stamped and I made the green spots with a stencil. LC's new collection also has been released this week, so I can get started with that too, because I am a carddesigner for her company. There are a lot of fun things in it, so I don't have to get bored for a long time!
woensdag 11 januari 2023
Happy new year!
maandag 9 januari 2023
Gefeliciteerd
Bij een feestelijke gelegenheid feliciteer je iemand natuurlijk met een kaart! Ik had nog heel mooi dessinpapier liggen, dat ik voor deze kaart heb gebruikt. Ik heb het al een paar jaren in mijn voorraad en omdat het een beetje Oosters aandoet past de stempel van het Japanse meisje er mooi bij. Ik heb hem ingekleurd met markers en met een tag stans van Stampin'Up! uitgestanst. Het randje bovenaan is een stans van Crealies en het merk van de vlinderstans weet ik niet meer. Deze heb ik uit wit karton gestanst en met roze en groene markers gekleurd. De bloem is eigenlijk een poinsettia, maar hij is in paars ook heel mooi op andere kaarten dan kerstkaarten te gebruiken!
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On a festive occasion you can send congratulations to someone by a card ofcourse! I still had some very nice patterned paper that I used for this card. I've had it in my stash for a few years now and because it has a bit of an oriental feel to it, the stamp of the Japanese girl fits in nicely. I colored it in with markers and diecut it with a tagdie from Stampin' Up!. The edge at the top is a Crealies die and I don't remember the brand of the butterfly die. I have cut this one out of white cardstock and colored it with pink and green markers. The flower is actually a poinsettia, but it can also be used as a purple flower on cards other than Christmas cards!Zu einem feierlichen Anlass gratuliert man natürlich jemandem mit einer Karte! Ich hatte noch schönes gemustertes Papier, das ich für diese Karte verwendet habe. Ich habe es jetzt seit ein paar Jahren in meinem Vorrat und weil es ein bisschen orientalisch anmutet, passt der Stempel der Japanerin gut dazu. Koloriert habe ich es mit Markern und mit einem Anhänger stanzen von Stampin' Up! ausgestanzt. Der Rand oben ist ein Crealies Stanzmotiv und ich erinnere mich nicht an die Marke des Schmetterlings-Stanzen. Ich habe es aus weißem Cardstock ausgestanzt und mit rosa und grünen Markern coloriert. Die Blume ist eigentlich ein Weihnachtsstern, aber in Lila kann sie kann auch gerne auf anderen Karten als Weihnachtskarten verwendet werden!