This card is for the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: monochrome. And the Wednesday Challenge: Mask it. For my card I masked off a strip on my cardfront with Post-it tape and then covered the rest of the cardfront with scrappaper. Then I sponged Distress inks in orange hues into the opening (ripe persimmon, spiced marmalade and wildhoney). I also sponged the colors on some scrap paper and punched them out in different sizes. I stamped the images and sentiment from the Simon Says Stamp set Friendship blooms in Versafine black ink. I used Wink of Stella clear on the circles/dots placed tem on the card with gluedots and then covered them in Ranger glossy accents to make flat but shiny enamel dots. For more information on the Monday Challenge, see this For more information on the Wednesday Challenge, see this
Hello and thank you for joining me on this milestone. I know it's only a small number but I cherish each and everyone. I am paying for the gift vouchers myself, I am not sponsored, I just like to give gifts. I've decided on three $10 vouchers from Simon Says Stamp as they send world wide. Dutch companies I like and contacted have either no digital vouchers or non at all. So how can you win? 1: Be a subscriber to my Youtube Channel and leave a comment on apropriate video. 2: Add your creation via the linky tool below for an extra entry, the theme is : "congratulations" not birthday. 3: Follow this blog and leave a comment. For extra chances to win, you can also become a follower on Pinterest and or Facebook. I will choose the coolest/nicest/funniest comment from Youtube for 1 voucher. I will choose the coolest/nicest/prettiest card you added to the link up for 1 voucher I will choose one person at random for the last voucher from Pinterest, Facebook, this blog and or Youtube and or the person to send me an actual card! I wish I could give out bigger prices, but my budget is small and as I make no money from Youtube and or this blog adverts I can't spend it on you guys....But I make them because I like to do so. I'm also saving up for a new computer, so editing videos will be faster and I can use better software and hopefully make more video per week with better sound ;-) If you know my work, you know the kind of cards I love, so be sure to fit my taste ;-) Thank you all for following me and subscribing and thumbs upping (if that's the way to say it). If you send me your personal address I will send you a thank you card...no matter where you live. Max10 cards I will draw winners from those who want one of my cards! send me and email requesting a card maaike.uijthoven (at) ziggo.nl
The giveaway will run the whole month of June 2016. I will choose the winners in the first week of July.
Not sure what you call this technique in English, not embroiderd... I made it for the CAS Colours & Sketches Challenge #175 and the Less is More Challenge #278 The sentiment in Dutch means something like heartfelt get well, or get well from the heart...so that's why I chose the heart shape. Also the shape in the LIM sketch. I traced a heart shaped die and pierced it with a needle, then erased the pencil. I used red and white bakerstwine to fill in the heart, not in any specific order. In the 70's people used to do this with nails on a board, if you can remember ;-) I stamped a few solid hearts from various stampsets as the diagonal. Personally I'm not crazy about those hearts, I think I ruined the card :-( Anyway... tastes vary... Mounted the panel with foamtape on a cardbase. For more information on the Less is More Challenge, see this For more information on the CAS Colours & sketches challenge, see this
The Simon Says Stamp Work it Wednesday Challenge theme for May is: sunshine. For my card I used Crafter's Companion Stamp (Popcorn the bear voor vaderdag). I stamped it with My favorite things hybrid black ink on Schut hotpressed smooth watercolorpaper. I colored the image with Spectrum Noir aqua pens and Distress inks. The card is for father's day, not sure if it's masculine enough though ;-) I've stuck to a minimum number of colors for this reason. It's daddy bear relaxing in the garden after pottering all afternoon, shielding himself from the sun with the newspaper, that's how hot it is and he's probably drinking tea ;-) There is actually also a stamp saying relax, and this for father's day, kind of the reason I bought this set. I mounted the panel with foamtape onthe cardbase. As my watercolor panel is slightly smaller I adhered a strip of striped paper to fill in the gap. For more information on the Work it Wednesday Challenge, see this
The Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge is: anything goes with Technique Tuesday products. For my card I used the Marianne design Eline's brush (ec0161) with Ranger Distress inks in black soot, hickory smoke and weathered wood, I spritzed it with a mini mister I filled with water and Perfect Pearls powder (in the color perfect pearls). I stamped on normal white cardstock as I wanted the cardbase and panel to match, but watercolor paper would also be OK ofcourse, just mine is either greyish or cremeish in color. As I only used a little bit of water it was fine on the 250grams or 110-120lbs cardstock, I usually use 140lbs or 300grams for the cardbase and as the 250grams never gets used, I thought I should, but I think the thicked one might have buckled less, still works though, thanks to a bunch of foamtape ;-). I stamped the thank you from Technique Tuesday (Fabulous by Ali Edwards) with Versamark ink and sprinkled on Wow! black twinkle embossing glitter and heat set it. I placed three enamel dots I made previously with Wow! embossing powders and Wow! melt-it. I used one same black sparkle one a clear sparkle one (cha cha) and a blue sparkle one ( totally teal or pacific wave I can't remember). Adhered them with glue dots. I cut the panel slightly smaller than the cardbase so to get a nice border. Raised the panel with foam tape. The process is the same of all the other colors this one is Distress inks Blueprint sketch. Mermaid lagoon an broken china with Wow! primary lagoon regular embossing powder, Most of the regular ones I used are transparent, the matching background helps the color I think. All of the enamle dots are made with Wow! embossing powders and Wow! melt-it
This one is Distress ink Picked raspberry and spiced marmalade with Wow! Florida sunset embossing glitter. the sentiment is from Sizzix (birthday by Stephanie Barnard)
Distress inks Mermaid lagoon and moved lawn with Wow! Pacific wave embossing glitter
Distress inks Wilted violet and candied apple with Wow! Royal crush embossing glitter.
Wow! embossing powder metallic copper regular for the sentiment, the background is Zing gold embossing powder,
Distress inks: candied apple, carved pumpkin and mustard seed. Wow! embossing podwer primary apple red regular. Technique Tuesday Sentiment (fabulous by Ali Edwards).
Distress inks Picked raspberry and ripe persimmon, too samey in my opinion. Wow! embossing powder is Heart throb embossing glitter.
The Lawnscaping Challenge #130 is : Sparkle it up!!!. For my card I made a scene of a cove with watercolors I diluted down with Perfect Pearl to give shimmer to the sea, sky and forest. Let that dry. Meanwhile I stamped the boat and bigfoot from Lawn Fawn's Loveable legends onto Neenah solar white cardstock with Memento black ink, then colored them with Spectrum Noir markers and cut them out. Went around the edges with the Memento marker. Diecut the Simon Says Stamp birthday wishes frame and cut out the sentiment to get the Polaroid photo feel. placed Bigfoot as if he's jumping infront of the camera. Diecut the Simon says stamp painted hello from black glitterpaper. I stuck Stick-it on the back first so it's easier to stick down. Three glittery enamel dots I made with the Wow melt it and their embossing powders. I hope the camera picks up all the shimmer. For more information on the Lawnscaping Challenge, see this
Another entry to the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: make a wish. I used the Simon Says Stamp birthday wishes frame die to build the shaker. I adhered Ken Oliver's Stick-it onto a panel of white cardstock and green foam. I chose green for the pop of color and because the fillings to the shaker will be mostlygreen tones. After diecutting hte panel I took off the protective film on the stick it and plaved a piece of acetate for the shaker window, then placed the foam. Now foam sometimes gets squised in the diecutting process, and I had to do a little foam surgery to make it fit. But it's still easier than foamtape, especially on this thin frame. I filled the shaker with loads of small confetti I got at Action, a Dutch chain of cheap stores, they have lots of craft supplies as well, but never the same all the time, so if yousee it, grab it,it might be gone the next time. I grabbed three packs of small glass bottles with star confetti, pearl beads ( I think they're called) and glitter, added gold stars and green and gold sequins to bulk it up. I used the same color bright green as the backing ot the shaker. Was contemplating wether to do a green back or a white, but chose green, because it was so bright and fun! Used tape gun to adhere the shaker pocket to the card at an angle. For more information on the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge, see this
