Freshly made sketches challenge #200: a celebration

Freshly made sketches challenge #200: a celebration.

Congratulations ladies for a fabulous blog and 200 awesome challenges! 200 people...onwards to 2000..lol

I think in cardmaking when you start double guessing yourself, that's when things end up in the projectsbin and never finished...
I started with the marbled sea and boat card.
I made the marble patterned paper with shavingfoam and re-inkers.
the boat is watercolor paper diecut with Joy Crafts! die and the sentiment is also fron Joy Crafts!

I liked it, but then doubt crept in..is it clean and fresh enough?
I don't know...
So made anther with the snowflakes on linnen paper.
attached the two color together with tape, then die cut snowflakes out of them and diecut extra snowflakes so I could offset the colors. then inlaid them and added the sentiment from Joy Crafts! the snowflakes are from Marianne design.

then the internet shut down and revisiting both this morning I wasn't sure why I was doubting myself lol...
Still entering the snowflakes one for the challenge as it's more like the sketch.
For more information on the Freshly made sketches challenge, see this

Collaboration with Maikreations

The wonderful Maike from Maikreations sent me some items to work with, I sent her some stuff as well.
We decided to use at least one background and one image and this is what I came up with.
At first I had real troubles choosing and because her bakcgrounds are so wonderful I didnt want to cover them, making this task even more difficult, I made it more difficult for myself íf I weren't such a softy lol.

In the end I used the little elephant from W+9 Maike stamped on watercolor paper for me. I fussy cut him/her out and colored it with Peerless Watercolors.

I diecut some paper smooches balloons  on watercolorpaper and colored those too, then covered them with Wink of Stella.

Maike made the background with  Simon Says Stamp grunge letter and fog ink  also SSS and Soft granite from Hero Arts.
I just plonked the elephant on top with foamdots.
The Happy birthday sentiment is also from Simon Says Stamp (birthday balloons)

Please visit Maikreations to see what Maike made with my items.

We will do more collaborations, so stay tuned











I made this photo a bit darker, so you can see the setail in the awesome background.

Simon Say Stamp Monday Challenge: twisted citron

Simon Say Stamp Monday Challenge: twisted citron.

All thing citrus:
Took inspiration from the picture below, I found it with Google, so not sure who to credit,  I see, lemons, limes, oranges, grapefruits, pink grapefruits and bloodoranges, I miss a clementine though lol...
Anyway I used Distress reinkers as watercolors (twisted citron, squeezed lemonade, festive berries, spiced marmalade,  ripe persimmon and picked raspberries).
Damped the watercolor paper and started dotting the ink with a brush, when I was happy with the coverage I sprayed some more water to get the color flowing, sadly the twisted citron went a bit muddy in the process :-(.
Made a panel of vellum and stamped the sentiment from Simon Says Stamp's birthday balloons and white embossed it.
Some home made enamel dots that match, voilá

For more information on the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge, see this

Same colors sponged on vellum, completely different look

Doesn't my cat have the best taste in cardboard boxes? ;-) Doesn't matter how small it is, he will make it fit lol...his sister wasn't impressed

Fresly made sketches #199

Fresly  made sketches #199

I've Used the Congratulations Stamoset from Simon Says Stamp and coordinating paper from the May cardkit.
Pearla and a cardboard rose (actually a cupcake topper but don't tell anyone) and golden twine to tie in the the foiled patterned paper, that gives the feeling of the banner from the sketch I think.

For emore information on the Fresly  made sketches challenge, see this

AAA cards Challenge #46: maskerade

AAA cards Challenge #46: maskerade.

I masked off a strip on the cardfront and with my mini Distress blendingtools I've sponged on Twisted citron, mermaid lagoon and blueprint sketch in a gradient.

I've diecut the Hoera from cardstock onto which I stuk some doublesided adhesive prior to cutting.
Peeled off the backing and exposed the adhesive then "masking" certain parts off I could do a rainbow glitter gradient.
burnished it well and glued it to the cardfront.
Cas but fun!

I had a different idea at first and that was to cover the strip with black stamped butterflies and then use one white diecut one, but browsing through my dies I came upon this die and decided to do a custom glitter effect ;-) 


might still make the other one though lol, but somehow the butterflies didn't sound CAS to me anymore...

for more information on the AAA cards Challenge, see this

Less is More Challenge #237: Congratulations

Less is More Challenge #237: Congratulations.

I made a "his and hers" feather and two sentiments, one on the inside, which I usually don't do, but it would have been too crammed  on the front and I really wanted to use the tying the knot  one.

The sentiments are from Simon Says Stamp (congratulations) and are gold embossed for a bit of luxury on this wedding card.

The feathers were diecut from the frontpanel and are also from Simon Says Stamp (feathers) and I've inked the cardbase in Distress inks (hers: picked raspberry, squeezed lemonade, spiced marmalade; for his: peacock feathers, cracked pistachio and mermaid lagoon).

I made a start yesterday, but as I was out all day with a friend visiting Delft I was way too tired and not able to concentrate, so I messed up two cardfronts and bases with inky fingers or even an inky distress lid or two, normally I would cover them up with enamel dots or something alike, but I wanted this to be as CAS as possible so I haven't even raised the frontpanel on foam tape I usually do. So this monring I started a fresh and I'm really pleased with the outcome.


For more information on the Less is More Challenge #237, see this

The Friday Mashup! Challenge #231: Field of flowers

The Friday Mashup! Challenge #231: Field of flowers.

I've made a card on watercolor paper and stamped the sentiment from Joy Crafts! cherry blossom tree and the flowers are from Penny Black- Fresh.

I've used Seedless preserve, mustard seed and peeled paint from Distress inks to match the colors of the challenge, as I don't have any Stampin'up inks.
Mixed the  yellow and red to get a darker yellow and also splattered the colors on the background.
Some iridescerent medium to dilute the paint instead of water and to give it a nice shimmer.

For more information on the The Firday Mashup! Challenge #231, see this

update 21 august 2015: